DevOps Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Development Operations Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Development Operations Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £570, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 396 440
Rank change year-on-year +67 +44 +42
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Developer 7 3 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.055% 0.014% 0.091%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.059% 0.016% 0.097%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 8
10th Percentile £391 £505 £439
25th Percentile £516 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% +7.26% +12.69%
75th Percentile £590 £575 £582
90th Percentile £670 - £704
UK median daily rate £590 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +18.00% -16.67% -7.69%

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 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

DevOps Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Developer in the UK excluding London

DevOps Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Developer in the UK excluding London

DevOps Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Developer in the UK excluding London

DevOps Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps Developer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Developer in the UK excluding London

DevOps Developer
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 Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
North of England +22 4 £590 +18.00% 1
Scotland - 2 £525 -
North East - 2 £590 -
North West +17 1 £750 +50.00%
Yorkshire - 1 £550 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £270 -
Midlands - 1 £270 - 1
DevOps Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, DevOps Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) AWS
3 4 (57.14%) Agile
3 4 (57.14%) Terraform
3 4 (57.14%) GitLab
3 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
3 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
3 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
4 3 (42.86%) Python
4 3 (42.86%) SOAP
4 3 (42.86%) Azure
4 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
4 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
4 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
4 3 (42.86%) REST
4 3 (42.86%) Docker
5 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket
5 2 (28.57%) Ansible
5 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
5 2 (28.57%) nginx
5 2 (28.57%) Linux
5 2 (28.57%) Bash
5 2 (28.57%) Java
5 2 (28.57%) SSL
5 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (28.57%) Grafana
5 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
5 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (28.57%) SDLC

DevOps Developer 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 2 (28.57%) nginx
2 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
4 1 (14.29%) PaaS
4 1 (14.29%) SaaS
4 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) GitLab
2 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
3 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket
4 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
4 1 (14.29%) JIRA
4 1 (14.29%) JUnit
4 1 (14.29%) Maven
4 1 (14.29%) Mockito
4 1 (14.29%) Selenium
4 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
4 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) REST
1 3 (42.86%) SOAP
2 1 (14.29%) AWS CDK
2 1 (14.29%) cloud-init
2 1 (14.29%) CSS
2 1 (14.29%) Hibernate
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) Jest
2 1 (14.29%) JPA
2 1 (14.29%) Node.js
2 1 (14.29%) React
2 1 (14.29%) Redux
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) CMDB
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) CentOS
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Unix
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) SDLC
3 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Build Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (14.29%) Customer Service
4 1 (14.29%) Data Sharing
4 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Issue Tracking
4 1 (14.29%) Kanban
4 1 (14.29%) Microservices
4 1 (14.29%) Observability
4 1 (14.29%) Service Catalogue
4 1 (14.29%) Software Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Bash
2 2 (28.57%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) Go
3 1 (14.29%) Groovy
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Grafana
2 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
3 1 (14.29%) Packer
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
1 1 (14.29%) Veracode