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 £538, 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 155 163 108
Rank change year-on-year +8 -55 0
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 213 269 570
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.67% 1.30% 2.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.81% 1.40% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 200 460
10th Percentile £395 £410 £463
25th Percentile £463 £450 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £619 £598 £675
90th Percentile £675 £650 £725
UK median daily rate £550 £539 £600
% change year-on-year +2.04% -10.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 8
10th Percentile £82.10 £45.88 £49.24
25th Percentile £82.24 £48.41 £52.56
Median hourly rate £82.48 £68.22 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.90% +20.74% +88.33%
75th Percentile £82.72 £74.44 £63.44
90th Percentile £82.86 £75.97 £71.65
UK median hourly rate £82.48 £62.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +33.03% +7.83% +64.29%

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 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 1 May 2025.

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
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 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 +14 89 £525 +2.44% 66
South East +44 49 £550 +4.27% 76
Yorkshire +20 43 £525 +5.00% 22
North West -8 34 £500 -3.61% 40
South West +22 31 £600 +9.09% 37
Midlands +27 22 £575 +9.52% 26
West Midlands +20 17 £575 +15.00% 16
Scotland -13 16 £513 -1.44% 13
North East +12 15 £550 - 6
East of England +30 8 £481 +6.94% 22
East Midlands +9 5 £375 -30.23% 10
DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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.

1 213 (100.00%) DevOps
2 132 (61.97%) Terraform
3 130 (61.03%) CI/CD
4 107 (50.23%) Kubernetes
5 105 (49.30%) AWS
6 92 (43.19%) Security Cleared
7 86 (40.38%) Python
8 83 (38.97%) Infrastructure as Code
9 76 (35.68%) Azure
10 71 (33.33%) Linux
11 68 (31.92%) Ansible
12 64 (30.05%) Jenkins
13 60 (28.17%) SC Cleared
14 59 (27.70%) GitLab
15 56 (26.29%) Docker
16 54 (25.35%) Azure DevOps
17 53 (24.88%) Bash
18 48 (22.54%) Containerisation
19 46 (21.60%) PowerShell
20 43 (20.19%) Public Sector
21 42 (19.72%) Agile
22 36 (16.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
23 35 (16.43%) Prometheus
24 33 (15.49%) Grafana
25 32 (15.02%) Git
26 29 (13.62%) Windows
26 29 (13.62%) Problem-Solving
27 28 (13.15%) Social Skills
27 28 (13.15%) Continuous Integration
28 27 (12.68%) Test Automation

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 13 (6.10%) nginx
2 9 (4.23%) Apache
3 7 (3.29%) Confluence
4 4 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.88%) Traefik
5 3 (1.41%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.41%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.94%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 105 (49.30%) AWS
2 76 (35.68%) Azure
3 54 (25.35%) Azure DevOps
4 26 (12.21%) GitHub
5 25 (11.74%) AWS CloudFormation
6 18 (8.45%) Amazon S3
6 18 (8.45%) OpenShift
7 17 (7.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 15 (7.04%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (6.10%) Amazon EC2
9 13 (6.10%) Amazon EKS
9 13 (6.10%) Azure AKS
9 13 (6.10%) PaaS
10 12 (5.63%) Entra ID
10 12 (5.63%) Serverless
11 11 (5.16%) GCP
11 11 (5.16%) IaaS
12 10 (4.69%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (3.76%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (3.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (9.86%) DNS
2 12 (5.63%) TCP/IP
3 9 (4.23%) DHCP
4 7 (3.29%) Firewall
4 7 (3.29%) HTTP
5 6 (2.82%) SAN
6 4 (1.88%) SSL
7 2 (0.94%) OpenLDAP
7 2 (0.94%) VLAN
8 1 (0.47%) NAS
8 1 (0.47%) Network Security
8 1 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.57%) MongoDB
2 10 (4.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (4.23%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (2.82%) MySQL
4 6 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.35%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.88%) Big Data
6 4 (1.88%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.41%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.41%) MariaDB
7 3 (1.41%) Power BI
7 3 (1.41%) Redis
7 3 (1.41%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.41%) SSDT
8 2 (0.94%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (0.94%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.94%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 64 (30.05%) Jenkins
2 59 (27.70%) GitLab
3 32 (15.02%) Git
4 12 (5.63%) JIRA
5 10 (4.69%) Selenium
6 9 (4.23%) SonarQube
7 6 (2.82%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.88%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.88%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.88%) Maven
8 4 (1.88%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (1.41%) Chocolatey
10 2 (0.94%) Bitbucket Server
10 2 (0.94%) CA Release Automation
10 2 (0.94%) JMeter
11 1 (0.47%) Babel
11 1 (0.47%) PyCharm
11 1 (0.47%) Snyk
11 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 43 (20.19%) Public Sector
2 28 (13.15%) Social Skills
3 20 (9.39%) Finance
4 11 (5.16%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.16%) Manufacturing
5 10 (4.69%) Electronics
5 10 (4.69%) Marketing
5 10 (4.69%) Telecoms
6 5 (2.35%) Military
7 3 (1.41%) Banking
8 2 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.47%) Games
9 1 (0.47%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.47%) Police
9 1 (0.47%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.57%) YAML
2 13 (6.10%) cloud-init
3 12 (5.63%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (5.16%) .NET
5 10 (4.69%) Kafka
6 9 (4.23%) ARM Templates
7 8 (3.76%) ADO
7 8 (3.76%) OAuth
8 7 (3.29%) Keycloak
9 6 (2.82%) pytest
9 6 (2.82%) REST
10 4 (1.88%) SOAP
11 3 (1.41%) JSON
11 3 (1.41%) Node.js
11 3 (1.41%) Spring Boot
12 2 (0.94%) .NET Core
12 2 (0.94%) AWS CDK
12 2 (0.94%) HTML5 Canvas
12 2 (0.94%) LAMP
12 2 (0.94%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.16%) PKI
2 4 (1.88%) Public Cloud
3 3 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (1.41%) Replication
3 3 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (1.41%) Virtual Team
4 2 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (0.94%) Low-Code
4 2 (0.94%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.47%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.47%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.47%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (0.47%) EMC VMAX
5 1 (0.47%) FMCG
5 1 (0.47%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 71 (33.33%) Linux
2 36 (16.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 29 (13.62%) Windows
4 18 (8.45%) CentOS
5 16 (7.51%) Unix
6 11 (5.16%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.41%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.94%) Debian
8 2 (0.94%) VMS
9 1 (0.47%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.47%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (100.00%) DevOps
2 130 (61.03%) CI/CD
3 83 (38.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 48 (22.54%) Containerisation
5 42 (19.72%) Agile
6 29 (13.62%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (13.15%) Continuous Integration
8 27 (12.68%) Test Automation
9 20 (9.39%) Configuration Management
10 19 (8.92%) Infrastructure Automation
10 19 (8.92%) Software Engineering
11 17 (7.98%) Microservices
12 16 (7.51%) Observability
12 16 (7.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 15 (7.04%) High Availability
14 14 (6.57%) Deployment Automation
15 13 (6.10%) Business Intelligence
15 13 (6.10%) Cloud Security
15 13 (6.10%) Identity Management
15 13 (6.10%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 86 (40.38%) Python
2 53 (24.88%) Bash
3 46 (21.60%) PowerShell
4 23 (10.80%) SQL
5 19 (8.92%) Go
6 14 (6.57%) Java
7 11 (5.16%) Bicep
7 11 (5.16%) JavaScript
8 10 (4.69%) C#
9 7 (3.29%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.35%) Groovy
11 3 (1.41%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.41%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.94%) Perl
12 2 (0.94%) PHP
12 2 (0.94%) Ruby
13 1 (0.47%) C++
Qualifications
1 92 (43.19%) Security Cleared
2 60 (28.17%) SC Cleared
3 24 (11.27%) DV Cleared
4 10 (4.69%) AWS Certification
5 8 (3.76%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.82%) Degree
7 4 (1.88%) Oracle Certification
7 4 (1.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.41%) CCNP
8 3 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.41%) OCA
8 3 (1.41%) RHCA
8 3 (1.41%) RHCE
9 2 (0.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.47%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.47%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.23%) QA
2 7 (3.29%) NCSC
3 2 (0.94%) NIST
3 2 (0.94%) SLA
4 1 (0.47%) GDPR
4 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.47%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 56 (26.29%) Docker
2 13 (6.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.82%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.35%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.41%) vSphere
6 2 (0.94%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 132 (61.97%) Terraform
2 107 (50.23%) Kubernetes
3 68 (31.92%) Ansible
4 35 (16.43%) Prometheus
5 33 (15.49%) Grafana
6 23 (10.80%) Puppet
7 19 (8.92%) Packer
8 12 (5.63%) Progress Chef
9 9 (4.23%) Consul
9 9 (4.23%) Istio
10 8 (3.76%) HAProxy
11 7 (3.29%) Kibana
11 7 (3.29%) linkerd
11 7 (3.29%) Rancher
12 6 (2.82%) Jamf Pro
12 6 (2.82%) ZABBIX
13 3 (1.41%) Kustomize
13 3 (1.41%) Nessus
13 3 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (1.41%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 22 (10.33%) VMware
2 15 (7.04%) Red Hat
2 15 (7.04%) Splunk
3 12 (5.63%) Microsoft
4 10 (4.69%) SAP
5 6 (2.82%) AppDynamics
5 6 (2.82%) Cisco
5 6 (2.82%) Okta
6 5 (2.35%) Google
6 5 (2.35%) Oracle
6 5 (2.35%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.88%) Apple
7 4 (1.88%) Databricks
7 4 (1.88%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.88%) ESET
8 3 (1.41%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.41%) UiPath
9 2 (0.94%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (0.94%) Perforce
9 2 (0.94%) Sophos