DevOps Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Development Operations Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Development Operations Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 376 436 502
Rank change year-on-year +60 +66 -92
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Architect 14 7 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.068% 0.030% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.074% 0.032% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 4
10th Percentile £543 - -
25th Percentile £550 £525 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £644
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -2.91% +7.29%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £726
90th Percentile - £693 £756
UK median daily rate £638 £500 £713
% change year-on-year +27.50% -29.82% +14.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,948 22,031 29,122
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 94.29% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,552 15,391 20,383
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,261 1,134 1,448
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +112.16% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.16
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.27%

DevOps Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured DevOps Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Architect in the UK excluding London

DevOps Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps Architect in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for DevOps Architect in the UK excluding London

DevOps Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 May 2024. 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
South East +25 10 £600 +9.09%
Midlands +31 3 £550 - 1
West Midlands +17 2 - - 1
East of England - 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £550 -
DevOps Architect
UK

DevOps Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, DevOps Architect 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 UK excluding London region featuring DevOps Architect in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) DevOps
2 10 (71.43%) Security Cleared
3 8 (57.14%) CI/CD
4 7 (50.00%) DV Cleared
5 6 (42.86%) SDLC
6 4 (28.57%) Translating Business Requirements
6 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (28.57%) Product Ownership
6 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
6 4 (28.57%) QA
6 4 (28.57%) Project Management
6 4 (28.57%) Java
6 4 (28.57%) GAP Analysis
6 4 (28.57%) Business Analysis
7 3 (21.43%) Scrum
8 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (14.29%) Azure
8 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
8 2 (14.29%) Agile
8 2 (14.29%) Finance
8 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
8 2 (14.29%) Design Patterns
8 2 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (14.29%) Public Cloud
9 1 (7.14%) Identity Access Management
9 1 (7.14%) GitLab

DevOps Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) GitLab
General
1 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) LDAP
1 1 (7.14%) OAuth
1 1 (7.14%) OpenID
1 1 (7.14%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 2 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) CentOS
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 6 (42.86%) SDLC
4 4 (28.57%) Business Analysis
4 4 (28.57%) GAP Analysis
4 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (28.57%) Project Management
4 4 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (28.57%) Translating Business Requirements
5 3 (21.43%) Scrum
6 2 (14.29%) Agile
6 2 (14.29%) Design Patterns
6 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
6 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (7.14%) Configuration Management
7 1 (7.14%) Identity Access Management
7 1 (7.14%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Java
2 1 (7.14%) Bash
Qualifications
1 10 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 7 (50.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Ansible
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
1 1 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) ForgeRock
2 1 (7.14%) Splunk