DevOps Manager Contracts

Development Operations Manager
UK

The median Development Operations Manager daily rate in the UK is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 578 677 784
Rank change year-on-year +99 +107 -131
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Manager 12 26 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.044% 0.086%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.046% 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 21 52
10th Percentile £466 £450 £430
25th Percentile £517 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +12.50% +7.14%
75th Percentile £656 £750 £706
90th Percentile £725 £775 £799
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -16.30% -4.17% +50.00%

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 40,241 56,070 84,738
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,194 39,189 59,507
10th Percentile £277 £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 2,676 1,567 2,091
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.16 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +91.49% +4.44%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.75 £48.76
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.55 £42.37 £19.52
% change year-on-year -6.64% +117.03% +2.74%

DevOps Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Manager in the UK

DevOps Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Manager in the UK

DevOps Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Manager over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Manager in the UK

DevOps Manager
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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 +112 12 £575 -9.80% 6
London +87 10 £625 -10.71% 5
Work from Home +116 2 £700 +16.67% 4
UK excluding London +52 2 £481 -16.30% 3
South West +18 1 £450 -23.40%
South East +16 1 £513 -14.58%

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, DevOps Manager 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 Manager in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (66.67%) Agile
3 6 (50.00%) C#
3 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (41.67%) iManage
4 5 (41.67%) Case Management
4 5 (41.67%) PowerShell
4 5 (41.67%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (41.67%) ETL
4 5 (41.67%) SLA
4 5 (41.67%) T-SQL
4 5 (41.67%) SQL Server
4 5 (41.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (41.67%) Data Analysis
4 5 (41.67%) Legal
4 5 (41.67%) Cadence
4 5 (41.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (33.33%) Azure
6 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
7 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
7 2 (16.67%) Test Strategy
7 2 (16.67%) Project Management
7 2 (16.67%) Finance
8 1 (8.33%) Automotive
8 1 (8.33%) Firewall
8 1 (8.33%) Unix

DevOps Manager 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 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 5 (41.67%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (33.33%) Azure
4 1 (8.33%) AWS
4 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) SQL Server
1 5 (41.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 5 (41.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Artifactory
1 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
1 1 (8.33%) Selenium
1 1 (8.33%) SpecFlow
1 1 (8.33%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Legal
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
4 1 (8.33%) Automotive
4 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Android
1 1 (8.33%) Apple iOS
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Unix
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (66.67%) Agile
3 6 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (41.67%) Case Management
4 5 (41.67%) Data Analysis
4 5 (41.67%) ETL
4 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (16.67%) Project Management
6 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 2 (16.67%) Test Strategy
7 1 (8.33%) Configuration Management
7 1 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (8.33%) Data Migration
7 1 (8.33%) Facilities Management
7 1 (8.33%) Load Balancing
7 1 (8.33%) Migration
7 1 (8.33%) Software Testing
7 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (8.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) C#
2 5 (41.67%) PowerShell
2 5 (41.67%) T-SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) SLA
2 1 (8.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Ansible
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (41.67%) Cadence
2 5 (41.67%) iManage