Senior DevOps Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior Development Operations
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Development Operations daily rate in the UK excluding London is £633, 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 303 365 402
Rank change year-on-year +62 +37 +69
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 33 34 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.16% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.18% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 26 43
10th Percentile £469 £513 £520
25th Percentile £528 £550 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £633 £624 £638
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% -2.16% +6.25%
75th Percentile £734 £675 £699
90th Percentile £750 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £636 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +6.04% -7.69% +1.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £74.44 -
UK median hourly rate - £74.44 -

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%

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps in the UK excluding London

Senior DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior DevOps in the UK excluding London

Senior DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior DevOps in the UK excluding London

Senior DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior DevOps in the UK excluding London

Senior 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 Senior DevOps 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 +33 26 £590 -10.94% 11
Yorkshire - 13 £688 - 5
North West +12 7 £663 - 6
North East - 7 £570 -
South West +44 3 £675 +19.47% 5
South East +37 2 £700 +16.67% 20
Midlands +20 1 - - 7
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
East of England - 1 £438 - 9
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior DevOps 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 in the job title.

1 33 (100.00%) DevOps
2 27 (81.82%) Terraform
3 26 (78.79%) AWS
4 25 (75.76%) Python
4 25 (75.76%) CI/CD
5 24 (72.73%) GitLab
6 23 (69.70%) Linux
7 21 (63.64%) Security Cleared
7 21 (63.64%) Bash
7 21 (63.64%) Infrastructure as Code
8 20 (60.61%) Jenkins
8 20 (60.61%) Kubernetes
9 19 (57.58%) SC Cleared
10 16 (48.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 16 (48.48%) Packer
10 16 (48.48%) Public Sector
11 15 (45.45%) cloud-init
11 15 (45.45%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (45.45%) Go
11 15 (45.45%) CentOS
11 15 (45.45%) Unix
12 13 (39.39%) Continuous Integration
12 13 (39.39%) Grafana
12 13 (39.39%) Prometheus
13 10 (30.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (30.30%) Agile
14 9 (27.27%) Docker
14 9 (27.27%) Azure
14 9 (27.27%) MongoDB
14 9 (27.27%) Amazon ECS

Senior DevOps 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 8 (24.24%) nginx
2 6 (18.18%) Traefik
3 1 (3.03%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 26 (78.79%) AWS
2 15 (45.45%) AWS CloudFormation
3 10 (30.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 9 (27.27%) Amazon ECS
4 9 (27.27%) Azure
5 8 (24.24%) AWS Fargate
5 8 (24.24%) Entra ID
5 8 (24.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (15.15%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (6.06%) Amazon S3
8 2 (6.06%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (3.03%) Amazon ELB
9 1 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (3.03%) GCP
9 1 (3.03%) GitHub
9 1 (3.03%) PaaS
9 1 (3.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (24.24%) DNS
1 8 (24.24%) TCP/IP
2 2 (6.06%) SSL
3 1 (3.03%) Firewall
3 1 (3.03%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (27.27%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (72.73%) GitLab
2 20 (60.61%) Jenkins
3 4 (12.12%) Git
4 2 (6.06%) JIRA
4 2 (6.06%) Selenium
5 1 (3.03%) Maven
5 1 (3.03%) Subversion
5 1 (3.03%) TeamCity
General
1 16 (48.48%) Public Sector
2 4 (12.12%) Finance
2 4 (12.12%) Military
3 2 (6.06%) Electronics
3 2 (6.06%) Manufacturing
3 2 (6.06%) Marketing
3 2 (6.06%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.03%) Banking
4 1 (3.03%) Games
4 1 (3.03%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (45.45%) cloud-init
2 8 (24.24%) Kafka
2 8 (24.24%) Keycloak
3 2 (6.06%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (6.06%) pytest
3 2 (6.06%) REST
3 2 (6.06%) SOAP
4 1 (3.03%) ARM Templates
4 1 (3.03%) Node.js
4 1 (3.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (24.24%) PKI
2 1 (3.03%) FMCG
2 1 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.03%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 23 (69.70%) Linux
2 16 (48.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (45.45%) CentOS
3 15 (45.45%) Unix
4 4 (12.12%) Windows
5 1 (3.03%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (3.03%) Mac OS
5 1 (3.03%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (100.00%) DevOps
2 25 (75.76%) CI/CD
3 21 (63.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (39.39%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (30.30%) Agile
6 8 (24.24%) Cloud Security
6 8 (24.24%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 8 (24.24%) Identity Management
6 8 (24.24%) Observability
6 8 (24.24%) Secrets Management
6 8 (24.24%) Static Application Security Testing
7 6 (18.18%) Mobile Device Management
8 4 (12.12%) Test Automation
9 3 (9.09%) Microservices
9 3 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
9 3 (9.09%) Software Delivery
10 2 (6.06%) Containerisation
10 2 (6.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 2 (6.06%) Strategic Thinking
10 2 (6.06%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 25 (75.76%) Python
2 21 (63.64%) Bash
3 15 (45.45%) Go
4 5 (15.15%) PowerShell
5 2 (6.06%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.03%) Bicep
6 1 (3.03%) C#
6 1 (3.03%) Java
Qualifications
1 21 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 19 (57.58%) SC Cleared
3 8 (24.24%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (24.24%) NCSC
2 1 (3.03%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 9 (27.27%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (81.82%) Terraform
2 20 (60.61%) Kubernetes
3 16 (48.48%) Packer
4 13 (39.39%) Grafana
4 13 (39.39%) Prometheus
5 8 (24.24%) Consul
5 8 (24.24%) Istio
5 8 (24.24%) Jamf Pro
5 8 (24.24%) linkerd
5 8 (24.24%) Rancher
5 8 (24.24%) ZABBIX
6 7 (21.21%) Ansible
7 6 (18.18%) HAProxy
8 4 (12.12%) Puppet
9 1 (3.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (3.03%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (3.03%) Graylog
Vendors
1 8 (24.24%) Okta
1 8 (24.24%) Splunk
2 6 (18.18%) Apple
2 6 (18.18%) ESET
3 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.06%) SAP
4 1 (3.03%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.03%) Oracle
4 1 (3.03%) Perforce
4 1 (3.03%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.03%) VMware