Senior DevOps Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Senior Development Operations
East of England > Hertfordshire

The median Senior Development Operations daily rate in Hertfordshire is £549, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.62% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £480 - -
25th Percentile £506 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 - -
75th Percentile £700 - -
90th Percentile £790 - -
East of England median daily rate £600 £438 -
% change year-on-year +37.06% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Hertfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Hertfordshire. 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 Hertfordshire with a recognized job title 749 297 766
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 85.84% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 140 308
10th Percentile £202 £244 £236
25th Percentile £413 £425 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £527 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +23.88% -15.00%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £675 £650
East of England median daily rate £500 £490 £442
% change year-on-year +2.04% +10.86% -6.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 298 78 294
10th Percentile £16.35 £20.64 £38.40
25th Percentile £20.09 £37.31 £43.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £62.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% +24.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £74.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £82.78 £75.25
East of England median hourly rate £34.91 £42.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -17.87% -1.16% +19.36%

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior DevOps' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Senior DevOps job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Senior DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior DevOps job vacancies in Hertfordshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior DevOps job vacancies in Hertfordshire

Senior DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Senior DevOps in Hertfordshire

Senior DevOps
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 12 June 2026. 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
Hatfield - 3 £549 -
Welwyn Garden City - 1 £850 - 1
Senior DevOps
East of England

Senior DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire

For the 6 months to 12 June 2026, Senior DevOps contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Hertfordshire region featuring Senior DevOps in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (80.00%) Argo
2 4 (80.00%) GCP
2 4 (80.00%) GitHub
2 4 (80.00%) GitHub Actions
2 4 (80.00%) GitOps
2 4 (80.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Secrets Management
2 4 (80.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) VPN
2 4 (80.00%) Zero Trust
3 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (60.00%) Runbook
3 3 (60.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (40.00%) Workshop Facilitation
5 1 (20.00%) Agile
5 1 (20.00%) AI
5 1 (20.00%) API Design
5 1 (20.00%) Application Security
5 1 (20.00%) Azure
5 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
5 1 (20.00%) Celery
5 1 (20.00%) Code Quality

Senior DevOps Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) GCP
1 4 (80.00%) GitHub
1 4 (80.00%) GitHub Actions
1 4 (80.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Redis
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Celery
1 1 (20.00%) Django
1 1 (20.00%) JWT
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth
1 1 (20.00%) React
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (80.00%) Private Cloud
3 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) GitOps
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Secrets Management
2 4 (80.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Zero Trust
3 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (60.00%) Runbook
3 3 (60.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (40.00%) Workshop Facilitation
5 1 (20.00%) API Design
5 1 (20.00%) Application Security
5 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Strategy
5 1 (20.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
5 1 (20.00%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (80.00%) Argo
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) VMware