Senior DevOps Contracts in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations daily rate in England is £614, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 423 445 515
Rank change year-on-year +22 +70 +34
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 57 93 135
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.24% 0.26% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.28% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 71 109
10th Percentile £500 £500 £519
25th Percentile £525 £550 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £614 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £745 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £614 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -1.72% -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £74.44 -
UK median hourly rate - £74.44 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 22,000 33,716 45,324
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.29% 92.79% 94.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,637 22,379 32,182
10th Percentile £290 £283 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £640 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.33% -2.82% +2.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 882 2,449 1,335
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.51
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £29.07 £37.18 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.81% -17.38% +95.65%
75th Percentile £61.09 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.90 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% -18.89% +88.21%

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Senior DevOps in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps in England

Senior DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior DevOps in England.

Daily rate trend for Senior DevOps in England

Senior DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior DevOps in England

Senior DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior DevOps in England.

Hourly rate trend for Senior DevOps in England

Senior DevOps
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior DevOps within the England region over the 6 months to 23 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +39 34 £630 -3.08% 88
North of England +18 15 £563 -15.09% 69
Yorkshire - 7 £575 - 28
North West +2 6 £663 - 34
North East - 3 £550 - 7
South East +38 1 - - 117
South West +32 1 £675 +8.00% 45
Midlands +17 1 - - 59
East Midlands - 1 - - 21
East of England - 1 £438 - 58
Senior DevOps
UK

Senior DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 23 May 2025, Senior DevOps contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Senior DevOps in the job title.

1 57 (100.00%) DevOps
2 51 (89.47%) AWS
3 50 (87.72%) Terraform
4 40 (70.18%) Kubernetes
5 38 (66.67%) CI/CD
6 36 (63.16%) Infrastructure as Code
7 32 (56.14%) Security Cleared
7 32 (56.14%) Python
8 30 (52.63%) SC Cleared
8 30 (52.63%) Jenkins
9 25 (43.86%) Ansible
9 25 (43.86%) Docker
10 23 (40.35%) Linux
11 22 (38.60%) GitLab
11 22 (38.60%) Grafana
12 19 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
12 19 (33.33%) Bash
12 19 (33.33%) Containerisation
13 18 (31.58%) Continuous Integration
13 18 (31.58%) Agile
13 18 (31.58%) Prometheus
14 16 (28.07%) Azure
15 15 (26.32%) Amazon EC2
15 15 (26.32%) Configuration Management
16 13 (22.81%) Puppet
16 13 (22.81%) Elastic Stack
16 13 (22.81%) Amazon RDS
17 12 (21.05%) Go
17 12 (21.05%) Amazon EKS
17 12 (21.05%) DNS

Senior DevOps Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.26%) Confluence
1 3 (5.26%) nginx
1 3 (5.26%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 51 (89.47%) AWS
2 19 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 16 (28.07%) Azure
4 15 (26.32%) Amazon EC2
5 12 (21.05%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (17.54%) Amazon ECS
6 10 (17.54%) GCP
7 9 (15.79%) Amazon S3
7 9 (15.79%) GitHub
8 7 (12.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (12.28%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (12.28%) Entra ID
8 7 (12.28%) Serverless
9 6 (10.53%) AWS Fargate
9 6 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (10.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (8.77%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (8.77%) AWS KMS
10 5 (8.77%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (5.26%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (21.05%) DNS
2 11 (19.30%) TCP/IP
3 7 (12.28%) HTTP
4 6 (10.53%) Internet
5 3 (5.26%) Firewall
6 1 (1.75%) DHCP
6 1 (1.75%) Network Security
6 1 (1.75%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (1.75%) SMTP
6 1 (1.75%) SSL
6 1 (1.75%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (22.81%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (12.28%) MongoDB
3 6 (10.53%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.75%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.75%) MySQL
6 1 (1.75%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.75%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 30 (52.63%) Jenkins
2 22 (38.60%) GitLab
3 9 (15.79%) Git
4 6 (10.53%) JIRA
5 3 (5.26%) CircleCI
5 3 (5.26%) Maven
6 2 (3.51%) Artifactory
6 2 (3.51%) Bitbucket
6 2 (3.51%) Gradle
6 2 (3.51%) Subversion
6 2 (3.51%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.75%) Jaeger
7 1 (1.75%) Selenium
7 1 (1.75%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.75%) Terragrunt
General
1 7 (12.28%) Public Sector
2 6 (10.53%) Finance
3 5 (8.77%) Banking
3 5 (8.77%) Military
4 4 (7.02%) Social Skills
5 2 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.51%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Front Office
6 1 (1.75%) Games
6 1 (1.75%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (22.81%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (10.53%) cloud-init
3 5 (8.77%) Kafka
4 4 (7.02%) Keycloak
5 2 (3.51%) AWS CDK
5 2 (3.51%) Spring
6 1 (1.75%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.75%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.75%) AWS SAM
6 1 (1.75%) Bazel
6 1 (1.75%) LDAP
6 1 (1.75%) Node.js
6 1 (1.75%) OAuth
6 1 (1.75%) OpenID
6 1 (1.75%) pytest
6 1 (1.75%) RESTful
6 1 (1.75%) Serverless Framework
6 1 (1.75%) Swagger
6 1 (1.75%) TypeORM
6 1 (1.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.77%) PKI
2 4 (7.02%) Public Cloud
3 3 (5.26%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.51%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.51%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.75%) FMCG
5 1 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 23 (40.35%) Linux
2 7 (12.28%) CentOS
2 7 (12.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (12.28%) Unix
3 4 (7.02%) Windows
4 2 (3.51%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.75%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (100.00%) DevOps
2 38 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 36 (63.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 18 (31.58%) Agile
5 18 (31.58%) Continuous Integration
6 15 (26.32%) Configuration Management
7 11 (19.30%) Observability
8 9 (15.79%) Deployment Automation
9 8 (14.04%) Mentoring
9 8 (14.04%) Microservices
9 8 (14.04%) Platform Engineering
10 7 (12.28%) Cloud Security
10 7 (12.28%) High Availability
10 7 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (10.53%) Cost Management
11 6 (10.53%) Infrastructure Automation
11 6 (10.53%) Secrets Management
11 6 (10.53%) Task Automation
12 5 (8.77%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 32 (56.14%) Python
2 19 (33.33%) Bash
3 12 (21.05%) Go
4 8 (14.04%) Java
5 5 (8.77%) PowerShell
6 4 (7.02%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.51%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.75%) Bicep
8 1 (1.75%) C#
8 1 (1.75%) Perl
8 1 (1.75%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 32 (56.14%) Security Cleared
2 30 (52.63%) SC Cleared
3 7 (12.28%) AWS Certification
4 4 (7.02%) Degree
5 3 (5.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.75%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.02%) NCSC
2 1 (1.75%) GDPR
2 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.75%) QA
System Software
1 25 (43.86%) Docker
2 2 (3.51%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.51%) Lustre
3 1 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 50 (87.72%) Terraform
2 40 (70.18%) Kubernetes
3 25 (43.86%) Ansible
4 22 (38.60%) Grafana
5 18 (31.58%) Prometheus
6 13 (22.81%) Puppet
7 9 (15.79%) Progress Chef
8 8 (14.04%) Packer
9 4 (7.02%) Consul
9 4 (7.02%) Istio
9 4 (7.02%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (7.02%) linkerd
9 4 (7.02%) Rancher
9 4 (7.02%) ZABBIX
10 3 (5.26%) HAProxy
11 2 (3.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (3.51%) Karpenter
11 2 (3.51%) Podman
12 1 (1.75%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (1.75%) Kiali
Vendors
1 11 (19.30%) Red Hat
2 7 (12.28%) Splunk
3 4 (7.02%) Okta
4 3 (5.26%) Apple
4 3 (5.26%) ESET
4 3 (5.26%) Google
4 3 (5.26%) Oracle
5 2 (3.51%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.75%) Black Duck
6 1 (1.75%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.75%) Confluent
6 1 (1.75%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.75%) Perforce
6 1 (1.75%) Rollbar
6 1 (1.75%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.75%) Tenable
6 1 (1.75%) VMware