DevOps Engineer Contracts

Development Operations Engineer
UK

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the UK is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 April 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
30 Apr 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 143 69
Rank change year-on-year +25 -74 +1
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 683 740 1,940
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.34% 1.70% 3.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.52% 1.83% 3.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 534 561 1,505
10th Percentile £406 £405 £475
25th Percentile £470 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £655 £625 £688
90th Percentile £750 £688 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £541 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +3.08% -12.50% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 10
10th Percentile £82.10 £45.88 £51.08
25th Percentile £82.24 £55.00 £52.75
Median hourly rate £82.48 £62.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.03% +7.83% +64.29%
75th Percentile £82.72 £74.44 £71.13
90th Percentile £82.86 £75.05 £76.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £82.48 £68.22 £56.50
% change year-on-year +20.90% +20.74% +88.33%

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 27,050 40,453 56,471
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.79% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,687 26,352 39,474
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £409 £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 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,031 2,658 1,569
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -20.00% +91.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £38.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -25.32% -9.41% +117.95%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the UK

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the UK

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in the UK

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the UK

DevOps Engineer
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +28 558 £550 +0.92% 289
London +20 331 £565 -0.35% 107
Work from Home +34 281 £550 +0.46% 199
UK excluding London +16 218 £541 +3.08% 203
North of England +22 92 £525 +2.44% 62
South East +41 50 £550 +4.27% 37
Yorkshire +27 46 £525 +5.00% 20
North West -14 34 £500 -3.61% 37
South West +22 32 £600 +9.09% 35
Midlands +29 22 £575 +9.52% 25
West Midlands +22 17 £575 +15.00% 15
Scotland -17 16 £513 -1.44% 13
North East +12 15 £550 - 7
East of England +33 8 £481 +6.94% 14
East Midlands +9 5 £375 -30.23% 10

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 2025, DevOps Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 683 (100.00%) DevOps
2 483 (70.72%) Terraform
3 461 (67.50%) CI/CD
4 416 (60.91%) Kubernetes
5 413 (60.47%) AWS
6 307 (44.95%) Python
7 249 (36.46%) Infrastructure as Code
8 243 (35.58%) Docker
9 225 (32.94%) Security Cleared
10 214 (31.33%) Azure
11 185 (27.09%) Ansible
12 182 (26.65%) Jenkins
13 181 (26.50%) GitLab
13 181 (26.50%) SC Cleared
14 166 (24.30%) Linux
15 154 (22.55%) Agile
16 146 (21.38%) Bash
17 145 (21.23%) Containerisation
18 134 (19.62%) Azure DevOps
19 122 (17.86%) Finance
20 107 (15.67%) PowerShell
21 99 (14.49%) Java
22 93 (13.62%) Serverless
23 92 (13.47%) Prometheus
23 92 (13.47%) AWS CloudFormation
24 91 (13.32%) Grafana
24 91 (13.32%) Go
25 89 (13.03%) Git
25 89 (13.03%) Public Sector
26 87 (12.74%) Amazon EKS

DevOps Engineer 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 51 (7.47%) Apache Spark
2 50 (7.32%) Apache
3 41 (6.00%) Apache Airflow
4 32 (4.69%) nginx
5 22 (3.22%) Confluence
6 8 (1.17%) Traefik
7 6 (0.88%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.44%) IIS
8 3 (0.44%) JBoss
8 3 (0.44%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.29%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.29%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.15%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.15%) SAS
10 1 (0.15%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Notion
1 2 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.29%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.15%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.15%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.15%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 413 (60.47%) AWS
2 214 (31.33%) Azure
3 134 (19.62%) Azure DevOps
4 93 (13.62%) Serverless
5 92 (13.47%) AWS CloudFormation
6 87 (12.74%) Amazon EKS
7 84 (12.30%) AWS Lambda
7 84 (12.30%) GitHub
8 79 (11.57%) Amazon ECS
9 76 (11.13%) Amazon EC2
10 74 (10.83%) Amazon S3
11 72 (10.54%) OpenShift
12 66 (9.66%) GCP
13 45 (6.59%) Azure AKS
14 43 (6.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 40 (5.86%) GitHub Actions
16 34 (4.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 33 (4.83%) PaaS
18 31 (4.54%) dbt
19 23 (3.37%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 41 (6.00%) DNS
2 31 (4.54%) TCP/IP
3 25 (3.66%) Firewall
3 25 (3.66%) HTTP
4 10 (1.46%) DHCP
5 7 (1.02%) Internet
5 7 (1.02%) OpenLDAP
6 6 (0.88%) Network Security
6 6 (0.88%) Reverse Proxy
6 6 (0.88%) SAN
7 5 (0.73%) SSL
7 5 (0.73%) VPN
8 2 (0.29%) SMTP
8 2 (0.29%) VLAN
9 1 (0.15%) 3GPP
9 1 (0.15%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.15%) NAS
9 1 (0.15%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.15%) SNMP
9 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (6.59%) Amazon RDS
2 35 (5.12%) Apache Iceberg
3 31 (4.54%) Amazon Athena
4 30 (4.39%) Dremio
5 28 (4.10%) Apache Arrow
5 28 (4.10%) Apache Ignite
6 24 (3.51%) Amazon Redshift
6 24 (3.51%) MongoDB
7 20 (2.93%) PostgreSQL
8 19 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
9 15 (2.20%) Big Data
10 12 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
10 12 (1.76%) Hadoop
10 12 (1.76%) SQL Server
11 11 (1.61%) Amazon Aurora
11 11 (1.61%) MySQL
12 9 (1.32%) Data Lake
13 8 (1.17%) Apache Hive
13 8 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
14 7 (1.02%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 182 (26.65%) Jenkins
2 181 (26.50%) GitLab
3 89 (13.03%) Git
4 44 (6.44%) Artifactory
5 36 (5.27%) JIRA
6 22 (3.22%) SonarQube
7 13 (1.90%) Bitbucket
7 13 (1.90%) Selenium
7 13 (1.90%) Sonatype Nexus
7 13 (1.90%) TeamCity
8 8 (1.17%) Maven
9 7 (1.02%) CircleCI
10 5 (0.73%) Poetry
11 4 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.59%) Gradle
11 4 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
11 4 (0.59%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.44%) Subversion
12 3 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
12 3 (0.44%) Vagrant
General
1 122 (17.86%) Finance
2 89 (13.03%) Public Sector
3 78 (11.42%) Social Skills
4 44 (6.44%) Front Office
5 36 (5.27%) Banking
6 27 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (1.90%) Telecoms
8 11 (1.61%) Electronics
8 11 (1.61%) Manufacturing
9 10 (1.46%) Marketing
10 9 (1.32%) Military
11 7 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.02%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.73%) Financial Institution
12 5 (0.73%) Law
13 4 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.59%) Retail
14 3 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.44%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (9.22%) Kafka
2 42 (6.15%) Elastic Stack
3 35 (5.12%) J2EE
4 29 (4.25%) PySpark
5 26 (3.81%) YAML
6 20 (2.93%) .NET
7 19 (2.78%) cloud-init
8 18 (2.64%) Keycloak
9 17 (2.49%) ARM Templates
10 15 (2.20%) OAuth
11 10 (1.46%) React
12 9 (1.32%) AWS CDK
12 9 (1.32%) LDAP
12 9 (1.32%) Spring
13 8 (1.17%) ADO
13 8 (1.17%) REST
14 7 (1.02%) Node.js
14 7 (1.02%) pytest
15 6 (0.88%) OpenID
16 5 (0.73%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 36 (5.27%) Cloud Native
2 19 (2.78%) Public Cloud
3 16 (2.34%) PKI
4 12 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (1.76%) Onboarding
5 8 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (0.88%) Product Ownership
6 6 (0.88%) Replication
7 5 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (0.73%) Tandem
8 4 (0.59%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (0.59%) Data Centre
8 4 (0.59%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (0.59%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (0.59%) Mainframe
8 4 (0.59%) Management Information System
8 4 (0.59%) Private Cloud
8 4 (0.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 166 (24.30%) Linux
2 64 (9.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 47 (6.88%) Windows
4 34 (4.98%) Unix
5 26 (3.81%) CentOS
6 17 (2.49%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.02%) VMS
8 5 (0.73%) SUSE
9 3 (0.44%) Android
9 3 (0.44%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.29%) Debian
10 2 (0.29%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.15%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 683 (100.00%) DevOps
2 461 (67.50%) CI/CD
3 249 (36.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 154 (22.55%) Agile
5 145 (21.23%) Containerisation
6 84 (12.30%) Continuous Integration
6 84 (12.30%) Software Engineering
7 81 (11.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 78 (11.42%) Problem-Solving
9 73 (10.69%) Configuration Management
10 69 (10.10%) Infrastructure Automation
11 55 (8.05%) Deployment Automation
11 55 (8.05%) Test Automation
12 50 (7.32%) Microservices
13 47 (6.88%) Asset Management
13 47 (6.88%) High Availability
13 47 (6.88%) Observability
14 45 (6.59%) Data Engineering
15 43 (6.30%) Task Automation
16 42 (6.15%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 307 (44.95%) Python
2 146 (21.38%) Bash
3 107 (15.67%) PowerShell
4 99 (14.49%) Java
5 91 (13.32%) Go
6 50 (7.32%) SQL
7 42 (6.15%) JavaScript
8 30 (4.39%) C#
9 21 (3.07%) Shell Script
10 18 (2.64%) Bicep
11 14 (2.05%) TypeScript
12 10 (1.46%) Groovy
13 7 (1.02%) Ruby
14 6 (0.88%) PHP
15 5 (0.73%) Perl
16 4 (0.59%) Rust
17 3 (0.44%) Kotlin
18 2 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 1 (0.15%) C++
19 1 (0.15%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 225 (32.94%) Security Cleared
2 181 (26.50%) SC Cleared
3 36 (5.27%) DV Cleared
4 31 (4.54%) Degree
5 29 (4.25%) AWS Certification
6 20 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (2.05%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 6 (0.88%) RHCA
9 6 (0.88%) RHCE
10 5 (0.73%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.44%) CCNP
12 3 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.44%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.44%) OCA
13 2 (0.29%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.51%) QA
2 11 (1.61%) NCSC
3 5 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.44%) NIST
5 2 (0.29%) GDPR
5 2 (0.29%) SLA
6 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 243 (35.58%) Docker
2 16 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.20%) Active Directory
4 11 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.73%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.59%) Lustre
6 4 (0.59%) vSphere
7 2 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.29%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.15%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.15%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 483 (70.72%) Terraform
2 416 (60.91%) Kubernetes
3 185 (27.09%) Ansible
4 92 (13.47%) Prometheus
5 91 (13.32%) Grafana
6 51 (7.47%) Puppet
7 36 (5.27%) Packer
8 33 (4.83%) Progress Chef
9 22 (3.22%) Argo
10 21 (3.07%) Consul
11 20 (2.93%) Istio
12 14 (2.05%) Kibana
12 14 (2.05%) Rancher
13 13 (1.90%) HAProxy
14 12 (1.76%) linkerd
14 12 (1.76%) ZABBIX
15 10 (1.46%) Jamf Pro
16 9 (1.32%) FortiGate
17 8 (1.17%) logstash
17 8 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 44 (6.44%) Splunk
2 38 (5.56%) Red Hat
3 29 (4.25%) VMware
4 24 (3.51%) Microsoft
5 22 (3.22%) Google
5 22 (3.22%) SAP
6 20 (2.93%) Dynatrace
7 19 (2.78%) Databricks
8 12 (1.76%) Oracle
9 10 (1.46%) Okta
10 9 (1.32%) AppDynamics
10 9 (1.32%) Cloudera
10 9 (1.32%) Virgin Media
11 8 (1.17%) Apple
11 8 (1.17%) ESET
12 7 (1.02%) Cisco
13 6 (0.88%) Atlassian
13 6 (0.88%) ServiceNow
14 4 (0.59%) New Relic
15 3 (0.44%) Confluent
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