Senior DevOps Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior Development Operations Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 August 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
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 341 371
Rank change year-on-year -24 +30 +103
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 8 30 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.052% 0.16% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% 0.18% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 18 45
10th Percentile £421 £493 £516
25th Percentile £475 £531 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £646 £675
Median % change year-on-year -22.63% -4.26% +3.85%
75th Percentile £575 £684 £738
90th Percentile £643 £790 £788
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £74.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £73.75 -

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 13,822 17,041 21,101
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.38% 92.08% 94.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,467 10,446 14,301
10th Percentile £215 £219 £230
25th Percentile £363 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £680 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,205 1,801 1,170
10th Percentile £13.41 £13.86 £13.95
25th Percentile £16.50 £18.27 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £39.03
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +10.19% +85.83%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +65.50%

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior 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 Senior DevOps Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 August 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 -9 6 £500 -23.08% 12
Yorkshire - 4 £500 - 4
South East +17 2 - - 9
North West -9 1 £390 -40.00% 8
North East - 1 £550 -
Senior DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 August 2025, Senior 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 Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (75.00%) Terraform
2 6 (75.00%) AWS
3 5 (62.50%) Ansible
3 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
4 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
5 3 (37.50%) Python
5 3 (37.50%) Agile
5 3 (37.50%) Docker
5 3 (37.50%) Git
5 3 (37.50%) Azure
5 3 (37.50%) GitHub
5 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
5 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
6 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
6 2 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (25.00%) Grafana
6 2 (25.00%) Serverless
6 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
6 2 (25.00%) Validation
6 2 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (12.50%) High Availability
7 1 (12.50%) Splunk
7 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement

Senior 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 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) GitHub
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Serverless
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) Network Security
1 1 (12.50%) SSL
1 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
2 1 (12.50%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (37.50%) Git
3 1 (12.50%) GitLab
3 1 (12.50%) Subversion
General
1 1 (12.50%) Banking
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
1 1 (12.50%) JSON
1 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) VMS
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Validation
5 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
5 1 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps
5 1 (12.50%) Generative AI
5 1 (12.50%) Information Security
5 1 (12.50%) Migration
5 1 (12.50%) Observability
5 1 (12.50%) OCR
5 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Task Automation
5 1 (12.50%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Bash
2 1 (12.50%) Bicep
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Terraform
2 5 (62.50%) Ansible
3 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
4 2 (25.00%) Grafana
4 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (12.50%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (12.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Dynatrace
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
2 1 (12.50%) Splunk
2 1 (12.50%) UiPath