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 £643, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 July 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
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 358 374 431
Rank change year-on-year +16 +57 +82
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Architect 6 13 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.040% 0.064% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.045% 0.069% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 5
10th Percentile £603 £540 -
25th Percentile £606 £550 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £643 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +7.08% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £729
90th Percentile £659 - -
UK median daily rate £638 £650 £500
% change year-on-year -1.92% +30.00% -28.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 13,465 18,815 21,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.63% 92.23% 94.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,290 11,399 14,989
10th Percentile £220 £213 £233
25th Percentile £363 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,134 2,218 1,185
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.88 £13.80
25th Percentile £16.50 £16.30 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £38.35
Median % change year-on-year -37.63% +5.15% +82.62%
75th Percentile £56.44 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £25.30 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -36.75% -5.88% +65.50%

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 17 July 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
South West - 3 £643 - 3
Midlands +2 2 £619 +12.50%
South East +25 1 - - 1
East Midlands +1 1 £638 +15.91%
West Midlands -2 1 £600 -
DevOps Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 July 2025, 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 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
3 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 3 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Terraform
4 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
4 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (16.67%) NCSC
5 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (16.67%) Azure App Service
5 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (16.67%) Azure Blueprints
5 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
5 1 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
5 1 (16.67%) Cost Management
5 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (16.67%) Bicep
5 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (16.67%) Log Analytics
5 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
5 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
5 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
5 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
5 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview

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 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure App Service
2 1 (16.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
General
1 1 (16.67%) Aerospace
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
1 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Coaching
3 1 (16.67%) Cost Management
3 1 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (16.67%) Log Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) SABSA
3 1 (16.67%) Security Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) JSP 440
1 1 (16.67%) NCSC
1 1 (16.67%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft