DevOps Consultant Contracts

Development Operations Consultant
UK

The median Development Operations Consultant daily rate in the UK is £650, 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 512 560 668
Rank change year-on-year +48 +108 +77
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Consultant 8 22 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.051% 0.084%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.054% 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 17 27
10th Percentile £515 £476 £500
25th Percentile £575 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile £725 £750 -
90th Percentile - - £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £700 £665 £540
% change year-on-year +5.26% +23.15% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £78.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

DevOps Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured DevOps Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Consultant in the UK

DevOps Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps Consultant.

Daily rate trend for DevOps Consultant in the UK

DevOps Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Consultant over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Consultant in the UK

DevOps Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps Consultant.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Consultant in the UK

DevOps Consultant
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Consultant within the UK 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
England +43 6 £675 +12.50% 13
Work from Home +35 5 £650 +8.33% 8
London +30 4 £625 +8.70% 12
UK excluding London +58 3 £700 +5.26% 4
Midlands +23 2 £700 +27.27% 1
East Midlands +11 2 £700 +27.27%
Scotland - 1 £500 -

DevOps Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

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

1 8 (100.00%) Azure
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (87.50%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
4 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
4 3 (37.50%) Migration
5 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (25.00%) Data Migration
5 2 (25.00%) AWS
5 2 (25.00%) Software Delivery
5 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (12.50%) Secrets Management
6 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (12.50%) RBAC
6 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
6 1 (12.50%) Observability
6 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
6 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
6 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
6 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
6 1 (12.50%) GCP
6 1 (12.50%) GitLab
6 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
6 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (12.50%) Data Centre

DevOps Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (87.50%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (12.50%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub
4 1 (12.50%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Hive
1 1 (12.50%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) Octopus Deploy
1 1 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (12.50%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) Migration
4 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (25.00%) Data Migration
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Software Delivery
4 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Monitoring
5 1 (12.50%) ITIL
5 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (12.50%) Observability
5 1 (12.50%) Personalization
5 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (12.50%) RBAC
5 1 (12.50%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Bash
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) SCOM
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Cloudera
1 1 (12.50%) Databricks
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) OpenText
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle
1 1 (12.50%) VMware