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 £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 June 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
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 339 363 383
Rank change year-on-year +24 +20 +87
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 14 38 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.18% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.19% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 26 46
10th Percentile £422 £519 £520
25th Percentile £475 £550 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £613 £675
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% -9.26% +3.85%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £738
90th Percentile £608 £738 £788
UK median daily rate £578 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -7.60% -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £74.44 -
UK median hourly rate - £73.50 -

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 12,414 19,637 21,543
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.41% 92.44% 94.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,770 11,718 14,908
10th Percentile £220 £213 £231
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 960 2,494 1,118
10th Percentile £13.46 £12.60 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.59 £15.97 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% - +100.00%
75th Percentile £57.52 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.48 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £27.13 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -27.67% -12.79% +68.63%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 +19 10 £550 -12.00% 26
Yorkshire - 6 £575 - 7
North West -4 3 £483 -22.80% 17
South East +35 2 - - 9
North East - 2 £550 - 2
Midlands +7 1 - - 7
East Midlands +4 1 - -
East of England - 1 £438 - 6
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 June 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 14 (100.00%) DevOps
2 12 (85.71%) Terraform
3 11 (78.57%) AWS
4 9 (64.29%) CI/CD
5 8 (57.14%) Kubernetes
5 8 (57.14%) Ansible
5 8 (57.14%) Python
6 7 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (42.86%) Jenkins
7 6 (42.86%) Agile
7 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
7 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
8 5 (35.71%) Git
8 5 (35.71%) Docker
8 5 (35.71%) GitLab
9 4 (28.57%) Bash
9 4 (28.57%) Azure
10 3 (21.43%) Linux
10 3 (21.43%) GitHub
10 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
10 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
10 3 (21.43%) Prometheus
10 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
10 3 (21.43%) Platform Engineering
10 3 (21.43%) Microservices
10 3 (21.43%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (21.43%) Grafana
11 2 (14.29%) The Twelve-Factor App
11 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda

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 2 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (78.57%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) Azure
3 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) GitHub
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (14.29%) Serverless
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) DNS
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
1 1 (7.14%) Network Security
1 1 (7.14%) SSL
1 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (7.14%) DynamoDB
2 1 (7.14%) Metadata
2 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 5 (35.71%) Git
2 5 (35.71%) GitLab
3 1 (7.14%) JIRA
3 1 (7.14%) Maven
3 1 (7.14%) Subversion
3 1 (7.14%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.14%) Banking
2 1 (7.14%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Games
2 1 (7.14%) Military
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
2 1 (7.14%) JSON
2 1 (7.14%) Node.js
2 1 (7.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) FMCG
1 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) VMS
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (64.29%) CI/CD
3 7 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (42.86%) Agile
5 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (21.43%) Microservices
5 3 (21.43%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
6 2 (14.29%) Migration
6 2 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (14.29%) Software Delivery
6 2 (14.29%) TDD
6 2 (14.29%) The Twelve-Factor App
6 2 (14.29%) Validation
7 1 (7.14%) Configuration Management
7 1 (7.14%) Information Security
7 1 (7.14%) ITSM
7 1 (7.14%) Risk Management
7 1 (7.14%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) Python
2 4 (28.57%) Bash
3 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
4 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.14%) Bicep
5 1 (7.14%) C#
5 1 (7.14%) Go
5 1 (7.14%) Java
5 1 (7.14%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (85.71%) Terraform
2 8 (57.14%) Ansible
2 8 (57.14%) Kubernetes
3 3 (21.43%) Grafana
3 3 (21.43%) Prometheus
4 2 (14.29%) Puppet
5 1 (7.14%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (7.14%) Graylog
5 1 (7.14%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Dynatrace
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Perforce
2 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
2 1 (7.14%) Splunk
2 1 (7.14%) UiPath
2 1 (7.14%) VMware