DevOps Developer Contracts

Development Operations Developer
UK

The median Development Operations Developer daily rate in the UK is £590, 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 504 561 641
Rank change year-on-year +57 +80 +56
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Developer 16 21 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.055% 0.048% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.059% 0.052% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 13 51
10th Percentile £460 - £450
25th Percentile £525 - £573
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +18.00% -16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £800 £526 £746
90th Percentile £825 £565 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £570 £550 £513
% change year-on-year +3.64% +7.26% +12.69%

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 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 1 May 2025.

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 11 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 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 +56 13 £625 +20.77% 7
Work from Home +38 8 £775 +55.00% 5
UK excluding London +67 7 £570 +3.64% 4
London +33 6 £800 +57.25% 4
North of England +22 4 £590 +18.00% 1
Scotland - 2 £525 -
North East - 2 £590 -
North West +17 1 £750 +50.00%
Yorkshire - 1 £550 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £270 -
Midlands - 1 £270 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 16 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (50.00%) Agile
3 7 (43.75%) AWS
4 6 (37.50%) C#
5 5 (31.25%) Python
5 5 (31.25%) Azure
5 5 (31.25%) Docker
5 5 (31.25%) REST
5 5 (31.25%) Terraform
5 5 (31.25%) Public Sector
5 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
6 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
6 4 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (25.00%) .NET Core
6 4 (25.00%) Serverless
6 4 (25.00%) Kafka
6 4 (25.00%) Analytics
6 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (25.00%) Jenkins
6 4 (25.00%) GitLab
6 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
6 4 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (25.00%) WCF
6 4 (25.00%) Finance
6 4 (25.00%) C++
6 4 (25.00%) Java
6 4 (25.00%) .NET
6 4 (25.00%) Oracle
6 4 (25.00%) ASP.NET
6 4 (25.00%) SOAP

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 2 (12.50%) nginx
2 1 (6.25%) Confluence
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) AWS
2 5 (31.25%) Azure
3 4 (25.00%) Serverless
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon S3
5 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Functions
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (6.25%) GitHub
6 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
6 1 (6.25%) PaaS
6 1 (6.25%) Power Automate
6 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
6 1 (6.25%) PowerApps
6 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Power BI
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) GitLab
1 4 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 2 (12.50%) Maven
3 1 (6.25%) Cucumber
3 1 (6.25%) Gradle
3 1 (6.25%) JIRA
3 1 (6.25%) JUnit
3 1 (6.25%) Mockito
3 1 (6.25%) Selenium
3 1 (6.25%) SonarQube
3 1 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (31.25%) Public Sector
2 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) REST
2 4 (25.00%) .NET
2 4 (25.00%) .NET Core
2 4 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 4 (25.00%) Kafka
2 4 (25.00%) SOAP
2 4 (25.00%) WCF
2 4 (25.00%) Web Services
3 2 (12.50%) AWS CDK
4 1 (6.25%) cloud-init
4 1 (6.25%) CSS
4 1 (6.25%) Hibernate
4 1 (6.25%) HTML
4 1 (6.25%) Jest
4 1 (6.25%) JPA
4 1 (6.25%) JSON
4 1 (6.25%) Node.js
4 1 (6.25%) Redux
4 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
4 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 4 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (12.50%) CMDB
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) CentOS
2 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Unix
2 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (50.00%) Agile
3 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
4 4 (25.00%) Analytics
5 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (18.75%) SDLC
6 2 (12.50%) Change Management
6 2 (12.50%) Containerisation
6 2 (12.50%) Customer Service
6 2 (12.50%) Data Sharing
6 2 (12.50%) ITIL
6 2 (12.50%) ITSM
6 2 (12.50%) Operations Management
6 2 (12.50%) Service Catalogue
6 2 (12.50%) Service Delivery
6 2 (12.50%) Service Management
6 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
7 1 (6.25%) Data Modelling
7 1 (6.25%) ETL
7 1 (6.25%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) C#
2 5 (31.25%) Python
3 4 (25.00%) C++
3 4 (25.00%) Java
4 3 (18.75%) SQL
5 2 (12.50%) Bash
5 2 (12.50%) Go
6 1 (6.25%) Groovy
6 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
6 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Terraform
2 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (12.50%) Ansible
3 2 (12.50%) Grafana
3 2 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 1 (6.25%) Packer
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Oracle
2 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.25%) Veracode