DevOps Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Development Operations Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 169 104 108
Rank change year-on-year -65 +4 +7
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 265 552 723
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.29% 2.35% 2.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.40% 2.49% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 451 547
10th Percentile £411 £463 £438
25th Percentile £450 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +11.11%
75th Percentile £593 £675 £630
90th Percentile £655 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £538 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.42% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 2
10th Percentile £45.88 £48.77 £38.80
25th Percentile £48.41 £53.25 £41.50
Median hourly rate £68.22 £57.50 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.64% +22.34% -10.48%
75th Percentile £74.44 £72.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £75.97 £81.30 £53.60
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £70.00 £39.00
% change year-on-year -11.43% +79.49% -25.71%

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 18,944 22,126 29,093
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.32% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,551 15,489 20,369
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 £595 £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 2,258 1,140 1,432
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.72 £17.86 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £19.67
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +115.78% +3.50%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £43.07
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

DevOps Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

DevOps Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
North of England -31 92 £500 -16.67% 42
North West -26 58 £506 -8.78% 29
South West -41 57 £550 -8.33% 28
South East -27 52 £528 -10.59% 28
Scotland +27 37 £513 -10.87% 5
Yorkshire +2 31 £500 -20.00% 11
Midlands -1 17 £525 -16.00% 18
West Midlands -14 11 £525 -16.00% 11
East of England -16 8 £450 -21.74% 7
East Midlands +13 6 £538 -23.21% 7
North East -10 3 - - 2
Wales +18 2 £821 +72.89% 2
DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, DevOps Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 265 (100.00%) DevOps
2 149 (56.23%) Terraform
3 129 (48.68%) AWS
4 124 (46.79%) Kubernetes
5 117 (44.15%) CI/CD
6 113 (42.64%) Python
7 109 (41.13%) Security Cleared
8 93 (35.09%) Azure
9 90 (33.96%) Docker
10 87 (32.83%) Ansible
11 82 (30.94%) Linux
12 70 (26.42%) Jenkins
13 65 (24.53%) Infrastructure as Code
14 64 (24.15%) Agile
15 62 (23.40%) SC Cleared
16 53 (20.00%) GitLab
17 51 (19.25%) Containerisation
17 51 (19.25%) PowerShell
18 50 (18.87%) Bash
19 44 (16.60%) DV Cleared
20 43 (16.23%) Azure DevOps
21 40 (15.09%) Prometheus
22 38 (14.34%) Java
23 36 (13.58%) Grafana
24 35 (13.21%) Go
25 32 (12.08%) Amazon EC2
26 31 (11.70%) Social Skills
27 30 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
27 30 (11.32%) Git
28 27 (10.19%) Configuration Management

DevOps Engineer 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 16 (6.04%) Confluence
2 11 (4.15%) nginx
3 7 (2.64%) Apache
4 4 (1.51%) Apache Solr
5 3 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.13%) IIS
6 2 (0.75%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.75%) Traefik
7 1 (0.38%) SAS
7 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 129 (48.68%) AWS
2 93 (35.09%) Azure
3 43 (16.23%) Azure DevOps
4 32 (12.08%) Amazon EC2
5 26 (9.81%) Amazon S3
6 25 (9.43%) GCP
7 24 (9.06%) AWS CloudFormation
8 23 (8.68%) Serverless
9 20 (7.55%) AWS Lambda
9 20 (7.55%) OpenShift
10 18 (6.79%) GitHub
11 16 (6.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (6.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 14 (5.28%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (5.28%) Route 53
13 11 (4.15%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (3.02%) Datadog
15 7 (2.64%) Amazon ELB
16 6 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
16 6 (2.26%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.79%) DNS
2 11 (4.15%) VPN
3 10 (3.77%) TCP/IP
4 8 (3.02%) Firewall
5 7 (2.64%) Network Security
6 6 (2.26%) HTTP
7 4 (1.51%) AMQP
7 4 (1.51%) HTTPS
7 4 (1.51%) IPsec
8 2 (0.75%) DHCP
8 2 (0.75%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (0.75%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.75%) SSL
9 1 (0.38%) IPv4
9 1 (0.38%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.38%) OpenLDAP
9 1 (0.38%) OSPF
9 1 (0.38%) PPP
9 1 (0.38%) SAN
9 1 (0.38%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.55%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (5.66%) MySQL
3 12 (4.53%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (4.15%) NoSQL
5 7 (2.64%) InfluxDB
6 6 (2.26%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.89%) SQL Server
8 4 (1.51%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.51%) Couchbase
9 3 (1.13%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.13%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.13%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.13%) Redis
10 2 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.38%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.38%) ClickHouse
11 1 (0.38%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.38%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.38%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 70 (26.42%) Jenkins
2 53 (20.00%) GitLab
3 30 (11.32%) Git
4 20 (7.55%) JIRA
5 16 (6.04%) Artifactory
6 12 (4.53%) SonarQube
7 7 (2.64%) Bitbucket
8 6 (2.26%) Travis CI
9 5 (1.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (1.89%) CircleCI
9 5 (1.89%) Spinnaker
10 4 (1.51%) Selenium
11 3 (1.13%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.13%) Maven
12 2 (0.75%) Gradle
12 2 (0.75%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.75%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.75%) Visual Studio
13 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 31 (11.70%) Social Skills
2 22 (8.30%) Public Sector
3 15 (5.66%) Finance
4 11 (4.15%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (3.40%) Banking
5 9 (3.40%) Legal
6 3 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.13%) Retail
7 2 (0.75%) Law
7 2 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.38%) Electronics
8 1 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.38%) Marketing
8 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.79%) YAML
2 15 (5.66%) RabbitMQ
3 13 (4.91%) JSON
4 12 (4.53%) REST
5 9 (3.40%) .NET
5 9 (3.40%) AWS CDK
5 9 (3.40%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (2.64%) ARM Templates
7 6 (2.26%) Middleware
8 5 (1.89%) Apache NiFi
8 5 (1.89%) OAuth
8 5 (1.89%) RESTful
8 5 (1.89%) SAML
9 4 (1.51%) Kafka
9 4 (1.51%) LEMP Stack
9 4 (1.51%) OpenID
9 4 (1.51%) XML
10 3 (1.13%) OAuth2
11 2 (0.75%) HornetQ
11 2 (0.75%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.91%) Public Cloud
2 10 (3.77%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.02%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (2.64%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (2.64%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.26%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.89%) Private Cloud
6 5 (1.89%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (1.89%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.51%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.75%) Clustering
9 2 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.75%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.75%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 82 (30.94%) Linux
2 23 (8.68%) Windows
3 16 (6.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (5.28%) Unix
5 11 (4.15%) CentOS
6 6 (2.26%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.89%) VMS
7 5 (1.89%) Windows Server
8 3 (1.13%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.75%) Alpine Linux
9 2 (0.75%) Debian
10 1 (0.38%) AIX
10 1 (0.38%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (100.00%) DevOps
2 117 (44.15%) CI/CD
3 65 (24.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (24.15%) Agile
5 51 (19.25%) Containerisation
6 30 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (10.19%) Configuration Management
8 26 (9.81%) Continuous Integration
9 25 (9.43%) Software Delivery
9 25 (9.43%) Test Automation
10 24 (9.06%) Migration
11 22 (8.30%) Software Engineering
12 19 (7.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 16 (6.04%) Computer Science
14 15 (5.66%) Observability
15 14 (5.28%) Platform Engineering
15 14 (5.28%) Task Automation
16 13 (4.91%) Scrum
16 13 (4.91%) Workflow
17 12 (4.53%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 113 (42.64%) Python
2 51 (19.25%) PowerShell
3 50 (18.87%) Bash
4 38 (14.34%) Java
5 35 (13.21%) Go
6 22 (8.30%) SQL
7 18 (6.79%) Perl
8 13 (4.91%) C
9 12 (4.53%) Ruby
10 11 (4.15%) PHP
11 9 (3.40%) C++
11 9 (3.40%) Groovy
12 8 (3.02%) Shell Script
13 6 (2.26%) Bicep
13 6 (2.26%) Scala
14 5 (1.89%) JavaScript
15 4 (1.51%) C#
16 3 (1.13%) BeanShell
17 2 (0.75%) TypeScript
18 1 (0.38%) C++/CLI
Qualifications
1 109 (41.13%) Security Cleared
2 62 (23.40%) SC Cleared
3 44 (16.60%) DV Cleared
4 12 (4.53%) Degree
5 11 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.64%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.75%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.38%) GIAC
9 1 (0.38%) MCSE
9 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.38%) RHCE
9 1 (0.38%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.17%) QA
2 8 (3.02%) NIST
3 6 (2.26%) GDPR
3 6 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.51%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.13%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.75%) NCSC
7 1 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 90 (33.96%) Docker
2 14 (5.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.40%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.13%) LXC
5 3 (1.13%) OpenAM
5 3 (1.13%) OpenIDM
6 2 (0.75%) Varnish
6 2 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.38%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.38%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.38%) NFS
7 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 149 (56.23%) Terraform
2 124 (46.79%) Kubernetes
3 87 (32.83%) Ansible
4 40 (15.09%) Prometheus
5 36 (13.58%) Grafana
6 21 (7.92%) Puppet
7 17 (6.42%) Progress Chef
8 14 (5.28%) Docker Swarm
9 12 (4.53%) Istio
10 9 (3.40%) Kibana
11 7 (2.64%) Packer
11 7 (2.64%) Rancher
12 4 (1.51%) HAProxy
12 4 (1.51%) logstash
12 4 (1.51%) Nagios
13 3 (1.13%) Argo
13 3 (1.13%) HP Fortify
13 3 (1.13%) linkerd
13 3 (1.13%) SCOM
14 2 (0.75%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 20 (7.55%) VMware
2 16 (6.04%) Splunk
3 14 (5.28%) Oracle
4 9 (3.40%) Microsoft
4 9 (3.40%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.26%) Google
5 6 (2.26%) PagerDuty
6 4 (1.51%) ForgeRock
6 4 (1.51%) New Relic
7 3 (1.13%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.13%) Cisco
7 3 (1.13%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.13%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.75%) Databricks
8 2 (0.75%) F5
8 2 (0.75%) HP
8 2 (0.75%) Virgin Media
9 1 (0.38%) Confluent
9 1 (0.38%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.38%) Zscaler
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