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 5 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
5 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 136 72
Rank change year-on-year +14 -64 -1
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 671 752 1,903
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.31% 1.74% 3.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.50% 1.88% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 526 573 1,482
10th Percentile £406 £405 £475
25th Percentile £470 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -10.42% -
75th Percentile £653 £625 £688
90th Percentile £744 £688 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £534 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +1.67% -12.50% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 10
10th Percentile £82.10 £45.88 £51.76
25th Percentile £82.24 £55.00 £53.00
Median hourly rate £82.48 £62.00 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year +33.03% -2.75% +72.30%
75th Percentile £82.72 £74.44 £74.50
90th Percentile £82.86 £75.05 £85.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £82.48 £68.22 £57.50
% change year-on-year +20.90% +18.64% +47.44%

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 26,887 40,034 55,895
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 92.76% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,565 26,064 39,048
10th Percentile £300 £280 £313
25th Percentile £406 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.97% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £740 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,046 2,665 1,566
10th Percentile £14.08 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.11
Median hourly rate £28.88 £36.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.89% -18.89% +90.68%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.30 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -30.00% -4.76% +115.16%

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 5 May 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 5 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 +25 547 £550 +2.33% 370
London +18 325 £563 +2.27% 174
Work from Home +27 277 £550 +2.23% 247
UK excluding London +12 212 £534 +1.67% 260
North of England +19 89 £525 +5.00% 71
South East +41 50 £550 +4.27% 75
Yorkshire +27 42 £525 +5.00% 22
North West -8 35 £500 -2.44% 44
South West +8 30 £600 +9.09% 44
Midlands +25 22 £575 +9.52% 30
West Midlands +25 17 £575 +15.00% 20
North East +9 15 £550 - 6
Scotland -12 15 £525 +1.69% 9
East of England +31 8 £481 +6.94% 16
East Midlands +13 5 £375 -30.23% 10

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 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.

1 671 (100.00%) DevOps
2 474 (70.64%) Terraform
3 454 (67.66%) CI/CD
4 408 (60.80%) Kubernetes
5 405 (60.36%) AWS
6 301 (44.86%) Python
7 248 (36.96%) Infrastructure as Code
8 240 (35.77%) Docker
9 223 (33.23%) Security Cleared
10 213 (31.74%) Azure
11 182 (27.12%) Ansible
12 181 (26.97%) SC Cleared
13 178 (26.53%) Jenkins
14 177 (26.38%) GitLab
15 164 (24.44%) Linux
16 153 (22.80%) Agile
17 146 (21.76%) Bash
18 145 (21.61%) Containerisation
19 134 (19.97%) Azure DevOps
20 121 (18.03%) Finance
21 107 (15.95%) PowerShell
22 96 (14.31%) Java
23 92 (13.71%) Prometheus
24 91 (13.56%) Serverless
24 91 (13.56%) Grafana
25 90 (13.41%) AWS CloudFormation
25 90 (13.41%) Public Sector
26 89 (13.26%) Git
27 88 (13.11%) Go
28 87 (12.97%) 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 (7.60%) Apache Spark
2 50 (7.45%) Apache
3 41 (6.11%) Apache Airflow
4 32 (4.77%) nginx
5 21 (3.13%) Confluence
6 8 (1.19%) Traefik
7 6 (0.89%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.45%) IIS
8 3 (0.45%) JBoss
8 3 (0.45%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.30%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.30%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.15%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.15%) SAS
10 1 (0.15%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Notion
1 2 (0.30%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.30%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.15%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.15%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.15%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 405 (60.36%) AWS
2 213 (31.74%) Azure
3 134 (19.97%) Azure DevOps
4 91 (13.56%) Serverless
5 90 (13.41%) AWS CloudFormation
6 87 (12.97%) Amazon EKS
7 82 (12.22%) AWS Lambda
7 82 (12.22%) GitHub
8 77 (11.48%) Amazon ECS
9 74 (11.03%) Amazon EC2
10 72 (10.73%) Amazon S3
11 71 (10.58%) OpenShift
12 63 (9.39%) GCP
13 46 (6.86%) Azure AKS
14 43 (6.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 40 (5.96%) GitHub Actions
16 34 (5.07%) PaaS
16 34 (5.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 31 (4.62%) dbt
18 23 (3.43%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (6.26%) DNS
2 31 (4.62%) TCP/IP
3 25 (3.73%) Firewall
3 25 (3.73%) HTTP
4 10 (1.49%) DHCP
5 7 (1.04%) Internet
5 7 (1.04%) OpenLDAP
6 6 (0.89%) Network Security
6 6 (0.89%) Reverse Proxy
6 6 (0.89%) SAN
7 5 (0.75%) SSL
7 5 (0.75%) VPN
8 2 (0.30%) SMTP
8 2 (0.30%) 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 43 (6.41%) Amazon RDS
2 35 (5.22%) Apache Iceberg
3 31 (4.62%) Amazon Athena
4 30 (4.47%) Dremio
5 28 (4.17%) Apache Arrow
5 28 (4.17%) Apache Ignite
6 24 (3.58%) MongoDB
7 22 (3.28%) Amazon Redshift
8 20 (2.98%) PostgreSQL
9 19 (2.83%) Elasticsearch
10 15 (2.24%) Big Data
11 13 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
11 13 (1.94%) SQL Server
12 12 (1.79%) Hadoop
13 11 (1.64%) Amazon Aurora
13 11 (1.64%) MySQL
14 8 (1.19%) Apache Hive
14 8 (1.19%) Data Lake
15 7 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
15 7 (1.04%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 178 (26.53%) Jenkins
2 177 (26.38%) GitLab
3 89 (13.26%) Git
4 43 (6.41%) Artifactory
5 35 (5.22%) JIRA
6 21 (3.13%) SonarQube
7 13 (1.94%) Bitbucket
7 13 (1.94%) Selenium
7 13 (1.94%) TeamCity
8 12 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
9 8 (1.19%) Maven
10 7 (1.04%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.75%) Poetry
12 4 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.60%) Gradle
12 4 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
12 4 (0.60%) Terragrunt
13 3 (0.45%) Subversion
13 3 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
13 3 (0.45%) Vagrant
General
1 121 (18.03%) Finance
2 90 (13.41%) Public Sector
3 77 (11.48%) Social Skills
4 42 (6.26%) Front Office
5 33 (4.92%) Banking
6 25 (3.73%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (1.94%) Telecoms
8 11 (1.64%) Manufacturing
9 10 (1.49%) Electronics
9 10 (1.49%) Marketing
10 9 (1.34%) Military
11 7 (1.04%) Investment Banking
12 6 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (0.75%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.75%) Law
14 4 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.60%) Retail
15 3 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.45%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (9.39%) Kafka
2 42 (6.26%) Elastic Stack
3 34 (5.07%) J2EE
4 29 (4.32%) PySpark
5 26 (3.87%) YAML
6 20 (2.98%) .NET
7 19 (2.83%) cloud-init
8 18 (2.68%) Keycloak
9 17 (2.53%) ARM Templates
10 15 (2.24%) OAuth
11 10 (1.49%) React
12 9 (1.34%) ADO
12 9 (1.34%) AWS CDK
12 9 (1.34%) LDAP
12 9 (1.34%) Spring
13 8 (1.19%) REST
14 7 (1.04%) Node.js
14 7 (1.04%) pytest
15 6 (0.89%) OpenID
16 5 (0.75%) LAPP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 35 (5.22%) Cloud Native
2 18 (2.68%) Public Cloud
3 16 (2.38%) PKI
4 12 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (1.79%) Onboarding
5 6 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (0.89%) Replication
6 5 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (0.75%) Product Ownership
7 4 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (0.60%) Data Centre
7 4 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (0.60%) Mainframe
7 4 (0.60%) Management Information System
7 4 (0.60%) Private Cloud
7 4 (0.60%) Tandem
7 4 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 164 (24.44%) Linux
2 62 (9.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 48 (7.15%) Windows
4 35 (5.22%) Unix
5 26 (3.87%) CentOS
6 17 (2.53%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.89%) VMS
8 5 (0.75%) SUSE
9 3 (0.45%) Android
9 3 (0.45%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.30%) Debian
10 2 (0.30%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.15%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 671 (100.00%) DevOps
2 454 (67.66%) CI/CD
3 248 (36.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 153 (22.80%) Agile
5 145 (21.61%) Containerisation
6 84 (12.52%) Continuous Integration
7 82 (12.22%) Software Engineering
8 78 (11.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 76 (11.33%) Problem-Solving
10 71 (10.58%) Configuration Management
11 68 (10.13%) Infrastructure Automation
12 55 (8.20%) Test Automation
13 53 (7.90%) Deployment Automation
14 49 (7.30%) Microservices
15 47 (7.00%) High Availability
15 47 (7.00%) Observability
16 45 (6.71%) Asset Management
17 43 (6.41%) Data Engineering
18 42 (6.26%) Cloud Security
18 42 (6.26%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 301 (44.86%) Python
2 146 (21.76%) Bash
3 107 (15.95%) PowerShell
4 96 (14.31%) Java
5 88 (13.11%) Go
6 50 (7.45%) SQL
7 41 (6.11%) JavaScript
8 30 (4.47%) C#
9 20 (2.98%) Shell Script
10 19 (2.83%) Bicep
11 14 (2.09%) TypeScript
12 10 (1.49%) Groovy
13 7 (1.04%) Ruby
14 5 (0.75%) Perl
14 5 (0.75%) PHP
15 3 (0.45%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.45%) Rust
16 2 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 1 (0.15%) C++
17 1 (0.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 223 (33.23%) Security Cleared
2 181 (26.97%) SC Cleared
3 33 (4.92%) DV Cleared
4 31 (4.62%) Degree
5 29 (4.32%) AWS Certification
6 20 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (2.09%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 6 (0.89%) RHCA
9 6 (0.89%) RHCE
10 5 (0.75%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.45%) CCNP
12 3 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.45%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.45%) OCA
13 2 (0.30%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.58%) QA
2 11 (1.64%) NCSC
3 5 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.45%) NIST
5 2 (0.30%) GDPR
5 2 (0.30%) SLA
6 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 240 (35.77%) Docker
2 15 (2.24%) Active Directory
2 15 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.75%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.60%) Lustre
5 4 (0.60%) vSphere
6 2 (0.30%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.30%) DFS Replication
7 1 (0.15%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 474 (70.64%) Terraform
2 408 (60.80%) Kubernetes
3 182 (27.12%) Ansible
4 92 (13.71%) Prometheus
5 91 (13.56%) Grafana
6 50 (7.45%) Puppet
7 36 (5.37%) Packer
8 33 (4.92%) Progress Chef
9 22 (3.28%) Argo
10 21 (3.13%) Consul
11 20 (2.98%) Istio
12 14 (2.09%) Kibana
12 14 (2.09%) Rancher
13 13 (1.94%) HAProxy
14 12 (1.79%) linkerd
14 12 (1.79%) ZABBIX
15 10 (1.49%) Jamf Pro
16 9 (1.34%) FortiGate
17 8 (1.19%) logstash
17 8 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (6.41%) Splunk
2 38 (5.66%) Red Hat
3 28 (4.17%) VMware
4 24 (3.58%) Microsoft
5 22 (3.28%) SAP
6 21 (3.13%) Google
7 20 (2.98%) Dynatrace
8 19 (2.83%) Databricks
9 11 (1.64%) Oracle
10 10 (1.49%) Okta
11 9 (1.34%) AppDynamics
11 9 (1.34%) Cloudera
11 9 (1.34%) Virgin Media
12 8 (1.19%) Apple
12 8 (1.19%) ESET
13 7 (1.04%) Cisco
14 6 (0.89%) Atlassian
14 6 (0.89%) ServiceNow
15 4 (0.60%) New Relic
16 3 (0.45%) Confluent
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