DevOps Developer Contracts

Development Operations Developer
UK

The median Development Operations Developer daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 558 622 697
Rank change year-on-year +64 +75 -150
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Developer 21 78 163
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.13% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.052% 0.14% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 52 97
10th Percentile - £450 £440
25th Percentile - £574 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -4.00% +22.55%
75th Percentile £526 £744 £800
90th Percentile £565 £775 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £513 £455
% change year-on-year +7.26% +12.69% +10.30%

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 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £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 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

DevOps Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Developer in the UK

DevOps Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Developer in the UK

DevOps Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Developer over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Developer in the UK

DevOps Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Developer in the UK

DevOps Developer
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 Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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 +75 14 £518 -21.89% 5
Work from Home +98 11 £500 -16.67% 6
London +86 11 £509 -27.32% 3
UK excluding London +50 3 £550 +7.26% 2
South East +23 2 £550 +0.55%
North of England +24 1 £500 -25.93% 1
North West +17 1 £500 -25.93%

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, DevOps Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) DevOps
2 16 (76.19%) Azure DevOps
2 16 (76.19%) Azure
3 11 (52.38%) Agile
4 10 (47.62%) CI/CD
5 8 (38.10%) PowerShell
5 8 (38.10%) Git
5 8 (38.10%) C#
5 8 (38.10%) SQL Server
6 7 (33.33%) JavaScript
7 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
7 6 (28.57%) Scrum
7 6 (28.57%) .NET
7 6 (28.57%) XML
8 5 (23.81%) DOM
8 5 (23.81%) HTML
8 5 (23.81%) CSS
8 5 (23.81%) CMS
8 5 (23.81%) Kentico
8 5 (23.81%) GatsbyJS
8 5 (23.81%) Front End Development
8 5 (23.81%) Headless CMS
8 5 (23.81%) React
8 5 (23.81%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (23.81%) GraphQL
8 5 (23.81%) Product Ownership
9 4 (19.05%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (19.05%) Entra ID
9 4 (19.05%) AWS
9 4 (19.05%) Active Directory

DevOps Developer 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 5 (23.81%) CMS
1 5 (23.81%) Headless CMS
1 5 (23.81%) Kentico
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 16 (76.19%) Azure
1 16 (76.19%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (19.05%) AWS
2 4 (19.05%) Entra ID
3 3 (14.29%) Serverless
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon S3
4 2 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (9.52%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (4.76%) Azure API Management
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Batch
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Functions
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Storage
5 1 (4.76%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (38.10%) SQL Server
2 4 (19.05%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (9.52%) MongoDB
5 1 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (4.76%) Big Data
5 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
5 1 (4.76%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 8 (38.10%) Git
2 5 (23.81%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (9.52%) GitLab
3 2 (9.52%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (9.52%) SonarQube
3 2 (9.52%) TeamCity
4 1 (4.76%) SpecFlow
4 1 (4.76%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Danish Language
2 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (28.57%) .NET
1 6 (28.57%) XML
2 5 (23.81%) CSS
2 5 (23.81%) DOM
2 5 (23.81%) GatsbyJS
2 5 (23.81%) GraphQL
2 5 (23.81%) HTML
2 5 (23.81%) React
3 3 (14.29%) .NET Framework
4 2 (9.52%) .NET Core
4 2 (9.52%) AngularJS
4 2 (9.52%) Node.js
4 2 (9.52%) RESTful
4 2 (9.52%) SOAP
5 1 (4.76%) ARM Templates
5 1 (4.76%) JSON
5 1 (4.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Product Ownership
2 2 (9.52%) Data Structures
2 2 (9.52%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) DevOps
2 11 (52.38%) Agile
3 10 (47.62%) CI/CD
4 6 (28.57%) Scrum
5 5 (23.81%) Front End Development
6 4 (19.05%) B2C
7 3 (14.29%) TDD
7 3 (14.29%) Test Automation
8 2 (9.52%) Code Quality
8 2 (9.52%) Fintech
8 2 (9.52%) Network Load Balancing
8 2 (9.52%) SDET
8 2 (9.52%) Software Testing
9 1 (4.76%) API Management
9 1 (4.76%) Architectural Patterns
9 1 (4.76%) Computer Science
9 1 (4.76%) Conversational UI
9 1 (4.76%) Deployment Automation
9 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Automation
9 1 (4.76%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) C#
1 8 (38.10%) PowerShell
2 7 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 4 (19.05%) SQL
4 3 (14.29%) Java
4 3 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 2 (9.52%) Bicep
6 1 (4.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
1 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) QA
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle
3 1 (4.76%) OpenAI