DevOps Contracts in the UK excluding London

DevOps
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 1,491 2,534 3,078
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.28% 10.80% 10.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.62% 12.06% 11.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,019 1,901 2,181
10th Percentile £375 £413 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £689
UK median daily rate £550 £580 £575
% change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 91 53
10th Percentile £56.50 £52.50 £35.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £60.91 £42.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +19.09% +14.06%
75th Percentile £84.55 £70.30 £63.60
90th Percentile £87.46 £78.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -0.76% +19.09% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

DevOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,297 21,007 27,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.55% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,312 14,549 18,866
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £378 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,055 1,290 1,325
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.22
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.41 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £46.17
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the UK excluding London

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in the UK excluding London

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the UK excluding London

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in the UK excluding London

DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps in the UK excluding London

DevOps
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 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
South East -6 432 £551 -5.09% 214
North of England -2 407 £520 -5.45% 271
North West 0 240 £525 -4.55% 172
South West -12 229 £550 -8.33% 160
Scotland -14 178 £475 -5.00% 70
Yorkshire +2 153 £488 -18.75% 81
Midlands -11 130 £500 -6.98% 179
East of England -11 98 £534 -2.91% 66
West Midlands -17 91 £513 -10.87% 117
East Midlands -12 33 £450 - 61
Wales -9 23 £538 -7.80% 34
North East -9 18 £525 -12.50% 18
Northern Ireland 0 5 £550 -8.33% 37
Isle of Man - 2 £388 -
DevOps
UK

DevOps
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 64 (4.29%) Confluence
2 32 (2.15%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (1.14%) Apache
6 13 (0.87%) nginx
7 11 (0.74%) IIS
8 9 (0.60%) CMS
9 8 (0.54%) JBoss
10 7 (0.47%) Apache Spark
11 6 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 5 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 4 (0.27%) Apache Solr
13 4 (0.27%) Drupal
13 4 (0.27%) GeoServer
13 4 (0.27%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.20%) ArcGIS
14 3 (0.20%) Kentico
14 3 (0.20%) OpenStack
14 3 (0.20%) Umbraco
Applications
1 19 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
3 9 (0.60%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.067%) PlantUML
5 1 (0.067%) Simulink
5 1 (0.067%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.067%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (1.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 13 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
3 13 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (0.67%) NetSuite
4 10 (0.67%) Teamcenter
5 8 (0.54%) Oracle EBS R12
6 7 (0.47%) Maximo
6 7 (0.47%) SAP PM
7 6 (0.40%) SAP Hybris
8 4 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.27%) Temenos T24
9 2 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
9 2 (0.13%) SAP Retail
10 1 (0.067%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.067%) Oracle Payroll
10 1 (0.067%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.067%) SAP EHS
10 1 (0.067%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 697 (46.75%) Azure
2 411 (27.57%) Azure DevOps
3 350 (23.47%) AWS
4 120 (8.05%) Serverless
5 77 (5.16%) GCP
6 75 (5.03%) GitHub
7 74 (4.96%) OpenShift
8 71 (4.76%) Power Platform
9 58 (3.89%) Amazon S3
10 57 (3.82%) Amazon EC2
11 55 (3.69%) AWS CloudFormation
12 54 (3.62%) Azure Monitor
13 52 (3.49%) AWS Lambda
14 45 (3.02%) Azure Data Factory
14 45 (3.02%) Azure Functions
14 45 (3.02%) Entra ID
15 41 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
16 40 (2.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 40 (2.68%) Dynamics 365
17 38 (2.55%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 141 (9.46%) Firewall
2 72 (4.83%) VPN
3 46 (3.09%) DNS
4 35 (2.35%) Modbus
4 35 (2.35%) RS-422
4 35 (2.35%) RS-485
5 30 (2.01%) Intrusion Detection
6 26 (1.74%) Network Security
7 23 (1.54%) TCP/IP
8 19 (1.27%) DHCP
9 17 (1.14%) IPsec
10 15 (1.01%) HTTP
10 15 (1.01%) SSL
11 14 (0.94%) OSPF
12 13 (0.87%) SNMP
13 12 (0.80%) BGP
13 12 (0.80%) Cisco ASA
13 12 (0.80%) EIGRP
13 12 (0.80%) NetScaler
13 12 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (6.30%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (5.97%) SQL Server
3 67 (4.49%) NoSQL
4 61 (4.09%) Relational Database
5 50 (3.35%) Power BI
6 39 (2.62%) Elasticsearch
6 39 (2.62%) MySQL
7 36 (2.41%) MongoDB
8 28 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
8 28 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
9 26 (1.74%) Data Lake
10 22 (1.48%) Oracle Database
10 22 (1.48%) RDBMS
11 21 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
12 17 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 16 (1.07%) GIS
13 16 (1.07%) Oracle Database 11g
14 15 (1.01%) Big Data
15 14 (0.94%) Amazon Aurora
16 12 (0.80%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 188 (12.61%) Jenkins
2 182 (12.21%) Git
3 166 (11.13%) JIRA
4 99 (6.64%) GitLab
5 71 (4.76%) Selenium
6 56 (3.76%) SonarQube
7 37 (2.48%) Visual Studio
8 33 (2.21%) Cucumber
9 24 (1.61%) REST Assured
10 22 (1.48%) Artifactory
11 20 (1.34%) Bitbucket
12 18 (1.21%) JUnit
13 16 (1.07%) Postman
14 13 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
14 13 (0.87%) TeamCity
15 12 (0.80%) Cypress.io
16 11 (0.74%) NUnit
16 11 (0.74%) Travis CI
17 10 (0.67%) Maven
17 10 (0.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 300 (20.12%) Social Skills
2 183 (12.27%) Finance
3 167 (11.20%) Public Sector
4 145 (9.73%) Analytical Skills
5 50 (3.35%) Banking
6 44 (2.95%) Electronics
7 30 (2.01%) Retail
8 26 (1.74%) Law
9 24 (1.61%) Legal
10 20 (1.34%) Manufacturing
10 20 (1.34%) Marketing
11 19 (1.27%) Telecoms
12 18 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
13 15 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
14 14 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
15 13 (0.87%) Police
16 12 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 7 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
18 6 (0.40%) Automotive
19 5 (0.34%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 278 (18.65%) Developer
2 265 (17.77%) DevOps Engineer
3 195 (13.08%) Architect
4 140 (9.39%) Senior
5 110 (7.38%) Lead
6 83 (5.57%) Software Engineer
7 82 (5.50%) Analyst
8 61 (4.09%) Azure Engineer
9 58 (3.89%) AWS Engineer
10 48 (3.22%) Consultant
10 48 (3.22%) Full Stack Developer
11 45 (3.02%) AWS DevOps
12 44 (2.95%) Solutions Architect
12 44 (2.95%) Technical Architect
13 42 (2.82%) Java Developer
14 41 (2.75%) Java Engineer
15 40 (2.68%) .NET Developer
16 39 (2.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 38 (2.55%) Azure Developer
17 38 (2.55%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (9.73%) .NET
2 106 (7.11%) React
3 105 (7.04%) REST
4 66 (4.43%) Node.js
5 57 (3.82%) Kafka
6 54 (3.62%) AngularJS
6 54 (3.62%) HTML
7 53 (3.55%) Spring
8 51 (3.42%) CSS
9 46 (3.09%) ARM Templates
9 46 (3.09%) JSON
10 44 (2.95%) XML
11 42 (2.82%) Spring Boot
12 34 (2.28%) RESTful
13 33 (2.21%) .NET Framework
14 31 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
15 28 (1.88%) .NET Core
16 27 (1.81%) YAML
17 26 (1.74%) Java EE
17 26 (1.74%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 89 (5.97%) Product Ownership
2 76 (5.10%) Public Cloud
3 58 (3.89%) Self-Motivation
4 50 (3.35%) Cloud Native
5 25 (1.68%) Mobile App
6 24 (1.61%) PKI
7 23 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
8 22 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
8 22 (1.48%) Management Information System
9 20 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
9 20 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
10 19 (1.27%) Client/Server
11 15 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
12 14 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
13 13 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 13 (0.87%) Virtual Team
14 12 (0.80%) Data Centre
14 12 (0.80%) Data Structures
14 12 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
14 12 (0.80%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 203 (13.62%) Linux
2 176 (11.80%) Windows
3 89 (5.97%) Windows Server
4 44 (2.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 39 (2.62%) Android
5 39 (2.62%) Apple iOS
6 32 (2.15%) Unix
7 23 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
8 22 (1.48%) Windows Server 2019
9 13 (0.87%) CentOS
10 10 (0.67%) Windows 10
11 9 (0.60%) Ubuntu
12 7 (0.47%) Mac OS
13 6 (0.40%) AIX
13 6 (0.40%) VMS
14 2 (0.13%) Alpine Linux
14 2 (0.13%) Debian
14 2 (0.13%) Solaris
15 1 (0.067%) Data ONTAP
15 1 (0.067%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 665 (44.60%) Agile
2 484 (32.46%) CI/CD
3 212 (14.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 209 (14.02%) Problem-Solving
5 204 (13.68%) Software Engineering
6 181 (12.14%) Test Automation
7 165 (11.07%) Continuous Integration
8 151 (10.13%) Microservices
9 147 (9.86%) Containerisation
10 145 (9.73%) Scrum
11 119 (7.98%) Migration
12 115 (7.71%) Unit Testing
13 111 (7.44%) Continuous Improvement
14 106 (7.11%) Software Testing
15 99 (6.64%) Project Management
16 93 (6.24%) Full Stack Development
17 92 (6.17%) Stakeholder Management
18 91 (6.10%) SDLC
19 88 (5.90%) Change Management
20 83 (5.57%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 355 (23.81%) Python
2 208 (13.95%) Java
3 199 (13.35%) C#
4 182 (12.21%) SQL
5 141 (9.46%) PowerShell
6 100 (6.71%) C
7 95 (6.37%) JavaScript
8 87 (5.84%) Bash
9 80 (5.37%) C++
10 64 (4.29%) TypeScript
11 50 (3.35%) Go
12 45 (3.02%) Perl
13 36 (2.41%) Bicep
14 33 (2.21%) VBScript
15 27 (1.81%) Scala
16 25 (1.68%) Ruby
17 24 (1.61%) Shell Script
18 20 (1.34%) PHP
18 20 (1.34%) VB
19 17 (1.14%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 433 (29.04%) Security Cleared
2 260 (17.44%) SC Cleared
3 183 (12.27%) DV Cleared
4 117 (7.85%) Degree
5 41 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (1.41%) AWS Certification
7 17 (1.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 16 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
9 15 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 15 (1.01%) ISTQB
10 14 (0.94%) CCNP
11 12 (0.80%) Azure Certification
11 12 (0.80%) CCNA
11 12 (0.80%) ISEB
12 11 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (0.60%) Master's Degree
14 7 (0.47%) CBAP
15 6 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
15 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
15 6 (0.40%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (7.38%) QA
2 21 (1.41%) Accessibility
3 19 (1.27%) PMO
4 16 (1.07%) Disclosure Scotland
5 13 (0.87%) GDPR
5 13 (0.87%) NCSC
5 13 (0.87%) NIST
6 12 (0.80%) Data Quality
6 12 (0.80%) MISRA
7 10 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.40%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.34%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.27%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.20%) ISO 22301
11 3 (0.20%) WCAG
12 2 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.13%) RMADS
12 2 (0.13%) SLA
13 1 (0.067%) HL7
13 1 (0.067%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 232 (15.56%) Docker
2 73 (4.90%) Active Directory
3 52 (3.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (1.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (1.01%) VMware NSX
7 12 (0.80%) Firmware
8 7 (0.47%) vCloud
9 6 (0.40%) Hyper-V
10 5 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 3 (0.20%) HDFS
12 3 (0.20%) LXC
12 3 (0.20%) NFS
12 3 (0.20%) OpenAM
12 3 (0.20%) OpenIDM
12 3 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.13%) Varnish
13 2 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 300 (20.12%) Kubernetes
2 286 (19.18%) Terraform
3 205 (13.75%) Ansible
4 73 (4.90%) Grafana
5 64 (4.29%) Prometheus
6 38 (2.55%) Puppet
7 37 (2.48%) Progress Chef
8 32 (2.15%) SCCM
9 30 (2.01%) Kibana
10 29 (1.95%) Istio
11 28 (1.88%) Docker Swarm
12 27 (1.81%) SCOM
13 22 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
14 21 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
15 18 (1.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 17 (1.14%) WSUS
17 14 (0.94%) Podman
17 14 (0.94%) Rancher
18 13 (0.87%) Argo
19 12 (0.80%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 214 (14.35%) Microsoft
2 109 (7.31%) Oracle
3 72 (4.83%) VMware
4 54 (3.62%) Splunk
5 46 (3.09%) Google
6 43 (2.88%) SAP
7 30 (2.01%) Databricks
8 21 (1.41%) Red Hat
9 20 (1.34%) Citrix
9 20 (1.34%) ServiceNow
10 19 (1.27%) Salesforce
11 18 (1.21%) Cisco
12 17 (1.14%) EMC
13 15 (1.01%) Palo Alto
14 13 (0.87%) Atlassian
14 13 (0.87%) IBM
15 12 (0.80%) SolarWinds
16 11 (0.74%) F5
17 9 (0.60%) Adobe
18 8 (0.54%) HP