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 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 160 107 109
Rank change year-on-year -53 +2 +1
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 275 557 721
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.34% 2.38% 2.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.45% 2.52% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 454 546
10th Percentile £413 £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 £595 £675 £630
90th Percentile £654 £724 £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 18,943 22,066 29,076
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.30% 95.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,549 15,423 20,326
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 £598 £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 2,262 1,138 1,451
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £43.99
90th Percentile £73.98 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.02% +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 10 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 10 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 10 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 93 £500 -16.67% 39
South West -36 61 £550 -8.33% 26
North West -30 57 £506 -8.78% 27
South East -29 56 £525 -11.02% 29
Scotland +25 37 £513 -10.87% 5
Yorkshire +3 33 £500 -20.00% 11
Midlands -9 18 £525 -16.00% 18
West Midlands -17 12 £525 -16.00% 10
East of England -9 8 £450 -21.74% 9
East Midlands +11 6 £538 -23.21% 8
North East -7 3 - - 1
Wales +16 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 10 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.

1 275 (100.00%) DevOps
2 152 (55.27%) Terraform
3 139 (50.55%) AWS
4 133 (48.36%) Kubernetes
5 123 (44.73%) CI/CD
6 115 (41.82%) Python
7 113 (41.09%) Security Cleared
8 103 (37.45%) Azure
9 101 (36.73%) Docker
10 90 (32.73%) Ansible
10 90 (32.73%) Linux
11 72 (26.18%) Jenkins
12 68 (24.73%) Infrastructure as Code
13 66 (24.00%) SC Cleared
13 66 (24.00%) Agile
14 62 (22.55%) Containerisation
15 59 (21.45%) GitLab
16 54 (19.64%) PowerShell
17 52 (18.91%) Bash
18 44 (16.00%) DV Cleared
18 44 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
19 41 (14.91%) Prometheus
20 38 (13.82%) Grafana
21 37 (13.45%) Social Skills
21 37 (13.45%) Java
22 35 (12.73%) Go
23 32 (11.64%) Git
23 32 (11.64%) Amazon EC2
23 32 (11.64%) Problem-Solving
24 28 (10.18%) Continuous Integration

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 18 (6.55%) Confluence
2 11 (4.00%) Apache
2 11 (4.00%) nginx
3 4 (1.45%) Apache Solr
4 3 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.09%) IIS
5 2 (0.73%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.73%) Traefik
6 1 (0.36%) SAS
6 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 139 (50.55%) AWS
2 103 (37.45%) Azure
3 44 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
4 32 (11.64%) Amazon EC2
5 26 (9.45%) Amazon S3
5 26 (9.45%) GCP
6 24 (8.73%) AWS CloudFormation
6 24 (8.73%) GitHub
6 24 (8.73%) OpenShift
7 23 (8.36%) Serverless
8 20 (7.27%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (5.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 16 (5.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 14 (5.09%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (5.09%) Route 53
11 11 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (2.55%) Amazon ELB
12 7 (2.55%) Datadog
13 6 (2.18%) Kong
13 6 (2.18%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 20 (7.27%) DNS
2 13 (4.73%) VPN
3 12 (4.36%) HTTP
3 12 (4.36%) TCP/IP
4 10 (3.64%) Firewall
5 7 (2.55%) Network Security
6 4 (1.45%) AMQP
6 4 (1.45%) HTTPS
6 4 (1.45%) IPsec
6 4 (1.45%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (1.45%) SSL
7 2 (0.73%) BIG-IP
7 2 (0.73%) DHCP
7 2 (0.73%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (0.73%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (0.36%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.36%) MQTT
8 1 (0.36%) OpenLDAP
8 1 (0.36%) RS-232
8 1 (0.36%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.27%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (5.45%) MySQL
3 14 (5.09%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (3.64%) NoSQL
5 7 (2.55%) InfluxDB
6 6 (2.18%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.18%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.45%) Couchbase
8 4 (1.45%) Triplestore
9 3 (1.09%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.09%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.09%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.09%) Redis
10 2 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.36%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.36%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.36%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.36%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 72 (26.18%) Jenkins
2 59 (21.45%) GitLab
3 32 (11.64%) Git
4 22 (8.00%) JIRA
5 17 (6.18%) Artifactory
6 12 (4.36%) SonarQube
7 8 (2.91%) Travis CI
8 7 (2.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 7 (2.55%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.55%) CircleCI
9 5 (1.82%) Spinnaker
10 4 (1.45%) Selenium
11 3 (1.09%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.73%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.73%) Maven
12 2 (0.73%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (0.73%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.73%) Visual Studio
13 1 (0.36%) gulp
General
1 37 (13.45%) Social Skills
2 25 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 16 (5.82%) Finance
4 13 (4.73%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (3.27%) Banking
5 9 (3.27%) Legal
6 3 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (0.73%) Law
7 2 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (0.73%) Retail
8 1 (0.36%) Electronics
8 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.36%) Marketing
8 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (7.27%) YAML
2 15 (5.45%) JSON
2 15 (5.45%) RabbitMQ
2 15 (5.45%) REST
3 11 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (3.27%) .NET
4 9 (3.27%) Apache NiFi
4 9 (3.27%) AWS CDK
5 7 (2.55%) ARM Templates
5 7 (2.55%) Kafka
6 6 (2.18%) Middleware
6 6 (2.18%) XML
7 5 (1.82%) OAuth
7 5 (1.82%) RESTful
7 5 (1.82%) SAML
8 4 (1.45%) CSS
8 4 (1.45%) GraphQL
8 4 (1.45%) HTML
8 4 (1.45%) OpenID
8 4 (1.45%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.73%) Public Cloud
2 10 (3.64%) Cloud Native
3 8 (2.91%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (2.55%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.18%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.18%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.18%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.82%) Private Cloud
6 5 (1.82%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (1.82%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.73%) Clustering
9 2 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.73%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.73%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 90 (32.73%) Linux
2 24 (8.73%) Windows
3 18 (6.55%) Unix
4 16 (5.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (4.00%) CentOS
6 6 (2.18%) Ubuntu
6 6 (2.18%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.82%) VMS
8 3 (1.09%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.73%) Alpine Linux
9 2 (0.73%) Debian
10 1 (0.36%) AIX
10 1 (0.36%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (100.00%) DevOps
2 123 (44.73%) CI/CD
3 68 (24.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 66 (24.00%) Agile
5 62 (22.55%) Containerisation
6 32 (11.64%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (10.18%) Continuous Integration
8 27 (9.82%) Configuration Management
9 26 (9.45%) Test Automation
10 25 (9.09%) Software Delivery
11 24 (8.73%) Migration
12 22 (8.00%) Software Engineering
13 20 (7.27%) Computer Science
14 19 (6.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 16 (5.82%) Scrum
15 16 (5.82%) Task Automation
16 15 (5.45%) Observability
16 15 (5.45%) Workflow
17 14 (5.09%) Platform Engineering
18 13 (4.73%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 115 (41.82%) Python
2 54 (19.64%) PowerShell
3 52 (18.91%) Bash
4 37 (13.45%) Java
5 35 (12.73%) Go
6 22 (8.00%) SQL
7 18 (6.55%) Perl
8 13 (4.73%) C
9 12 (4.36%) Ruby
10 11 (4.00%) PHP
11 9 (3.27%) C++
11 9 (3.27%) Groovy
11 9 (3.27%) JavaScript
12 8 (2.91%) Shell Script
13 6 (2.18%) Bicep
13 6 (2.18%) Scala
14 4 (1.45%) C#
14 4 (1.45%) SPARQL
15 3 (1.09%) BeanShell
16 2 (0.73%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 113 (41.09%) Security Cleared
2 66 (24.00%) SC Cleared
3 44 (16.00%) DV Cleared
4 16 (5.82%) Degree
5 15 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.55%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.73%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.36%) GIAC
9 1 (0.36%) MCSE
9 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.36%) RHCE
9 1 (0.36%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.64%) QA
2 8 (2.91%) NIST
3 6 (2.18%) GDPR
3 6 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.45%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.09%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.73%) NCSC
7 1 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 101 (36.73%) Docker
2 14 (5.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.27%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.09%) LXC
5 3 (1.09%) OpenAM
5 3 (1.09%) OpenIDM
6 2 (0.73%) Varnish
6 2 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.36%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.36%) NFS
7 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 152 (55.27%) Terraform
2 133 (48.36%) Kubernetes
3 90 (32.73%) Ansible
4 41 (14.91%) Prometheus
5 38 (13.82%) Grafana
6 24 (8.73%) Puppet
7 20 (7.27%) Progress Chef
8 16 (5.82%) Docker Swarm
9 12 (4.36%) Istio
10 11 (4.00%) Kibana
11 8 (2.91%) Rancher
12 7 (2.55%) Packer
13 6 (2.18%) logstash
14 4 (1.45%) HAProxy
14 4 (1.45%) Nagios
15 3 (1.09%) Argo
15 3 (1.09%) HP Fortify
15 3 (1.09%) linkerd
15 3 (1.09%) SCOM
16 2 (0.73%) Kiali
Vendors
1 21 (7.64%) VMware
2 18 (6.55%) Splunk
3 14 (5.09%) Oracle
4 10 (3.64%) Microsoft
5 9 (3.27%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.18%) Google
6 6 (2.18%) PagerDuty
7 4 (1.45%) F5
7 4 (1.45%) ForgeRock
8 3 (1.09%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.09%) Cisco
8 3 (1.09%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.09%) New Relic
8 3 (1.09%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.73%) Databricks
9 2 (0.73%) Guidewire
9 2 (0.73%) HP
9 2 (0.73%) Virgin Media
10 1 (0.36%) Dell
10 1 (0.36%) EMC