DevOps Consultant Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Development Operations Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Development Operations Consultant daily rate in the UK excluding London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 September 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
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 367 358 419
Rank change year-on-year -9 +61 +86
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Consultant 4 9 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.026% 0.050% 0.041%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.029% 0.055% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 6
10th Percentile £576 £480 £450
25th Percentile £578 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -17.65%
75th Percentile £650 £565 £575
90th Percentile £665 £586 -
UK median daily rate £594 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +7.95% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
UK median hourly rate - - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - -17.89%

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 13,780 16,491 20,504
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.87% 92.30% 94.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,473 9,642 13,706
10th Percentile £213 £221 £225
25th Percentile £361 £378 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £652 £680 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,243 1,460 1,195
10th Percentile £13.29 £14.41 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.17 £19.50 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.11% +8.43% +88.64%
75th Percentile £51.65 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.83 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.71% +68.27%

DevOps Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Consultant in the UK excluding London

DevOps Consultant
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Consultant job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Consultant job vacancies in the UK excluding London

DevOps Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for DevOps Consultant job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for DevOps Consultant job vacancies in the UK excluding London

DevOps Consultant
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 Consultant within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 September 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 +22 1 £650 +3.17% 1
Scotland +2 1 £600 +20.00%
Midlands -10 1 £588 +6.82%
Yorkshire -13 1 - -
North of England -13 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £588 -
DevOps Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 September 2025, DevOps Consultant 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 Consultant in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
3 2 (50.00%) GitLab
3 2 (50.00%) Terraform
3 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Azure
4 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Technical Debt
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (25.00%) Databricks
4 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (25.00%) Git
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (25.00%) Windows
4 1 (25.00%) Python
4 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (25.00%) Finance
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) VMware
4 1 (25.00%) Strategic Planning

DevOps Consultant 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Fintech
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Software Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Strategic Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Debt
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk
1 1 (25.00%) VMware