DevOps Consultant Contracts

Development Operations Consultant
UK

The median Development Operations Consultant daily rate in the UK is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 580 668 753
Rank change year-on-year +88 +85 -145
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Consultant 20 48 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.081% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.050% 0.086% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 25 84
10th Percentile £472 £500 £491
25th Percentile £519 £500 £548
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £750 - £688
90th Percentile - £675 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £700 £540 £525
% change year-on-year +29.63% +2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £78.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £78.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,029 55,895 84,701
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,060 39,048 59,505
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,665 1,566 2,078
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.11 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £19.52
% change year-on-year -4.76% +115.16% +2.74%

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 5 May 2024.

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 10 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 5 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
England +104 18 £600 - 10
London +99 11 £588 -2.08% 7
Work from Home +118 10 £600 +10.09% 5
UK excluding London +56 7 £700 +29.63% 4
North of England +33 5 £700 +34.55% 1
North West +27 4 £700 +34.55% 1
South West +22 1 £630 -3.08% 2
Yorkshire - 1 £425 -
East Midlands - 1 £550 -
Midlands - 1 £550 -

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, 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 20 (100.00%) DevOps
2 11 (55.00%) Azure
3 9 (45.00%) AWS
3 9 (45.00%) Terraform
4 8 (40.00%) Kubernetes
4 8 (40.00%) Docker
4 8 (40.00%) CI/CD
5 7 (35.00%) Git
6 6 (30.00%) Agile
6 6 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (25.00%) Python
7 5 (25.00%) Containerisation
8 4 (20.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (20.00%) SQL Server
8 4 (20.00%) Bash
8 4 (20.00%) Network Security
8 4 (20.00%) AWS Certification
9 3 (15.00%) Virgin Media
9 3 (15.00%) Continuous Delivery
9 3 (15.00%) Power Platform
9 3 (15.00%) Data Lake
9 3 (15.00%) Technology Transformation
9 3 (15.00%) Power Automate
9 3 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
9 3 (15.00%) Finance
9 3 (15.00%) .NET
9 3 (15.00%) Onboarding
10 2 (10.00%) Azure Batch

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:

Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (55.00%) Azure
2 9 (45.00%) AWS
3 6 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (15.00%) Power Automate
4 3 (15.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (10.00%) Azure API Management
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Batch
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Functions
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Storage
5 2 (10.00%) GCP
5 2 (10.00%) PowerApps
5 2 (10.00%) Serverless
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (15.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (10.00%) Big Data
3 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (10.00%) OLTP
4 1 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (35.00%) Git
2 2 (10.00%) Visual Studio Team System
3 1 (5.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (15.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) .NET
2 2 (10.00%) ARM Templates
2 2 (10.00%) JSON
2 2 (10.00%) Web Services
2 2 (10.00%) XML
3 1 (5.00%) LDAP
3 1 (5.00%) OAuth
3 1 (5.00%) OpenID
3 1 (5.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (10.00%) Clustering
3 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (30.00%) Agile
4 5 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (15.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (15.00%) Technology Transformation
6 2 (10.00%) BDD
6 2 (10.00%) Data Migration
6 2 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (10.00%) Kanban
6 2 (10.00%) Migration
6 2 (10.00%) OWASP
6 2 (10.00%) Scrum
6 2 (10.00%) SDLC
6 2 (10.00%) Secure Coding
6 2 (10.00%) SOA
6 2 (10.00%) TDD
6 2 (10.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) Python
2 4 (20.00%) Bash
3 2 (10.00%) C#
3 2 (10.00%) Java
3 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 4 (20.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Degree
3 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) ISO 9001
1 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (45.00%) Terraform
2 8 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (10.00%) Ansible
4 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (5.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (15.00%) Virgin Media
2 1 (5.00%) EMC
2 1 (5.00%) ForgeRock
2 1 (5.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (5.00%) Splunk
2 1 (5.00%) VMware