DevOps Contracts

DevOps
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 14 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 -6 -1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 3,756 4,760 10,651
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 9.94% 9.94% 12.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.56% 11.20% 14.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,513 3,484 7,530
10th Percentile £377 £410 £425
25th Percentile £460 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £590
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.54% +7.27%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £685
90th Percentile £737 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - +0.05% +9.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 99 85
10th Percentile £46.18 - £37.10
25th Percentile £65.00 £46.18 £56.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £65.61
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -0.92% +24.96%
75th Percentile £73.50 £77.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.75 £85.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £65.61
% change year-on-year +7.69% -0.92% +9.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,485 42,500 74,612
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.01% 88.78% 90.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,581 28,844 51,955
10th Percentile £308 £313 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,261 1,574 1,700
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £18.93 £16.46
Median hourly rate £40.00 £43.95 £32.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.99% +36.28% +50.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.33 £43.75 £25.00
% change year-on-year -7.83% +75.00% +38.89%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps over the 6 months to 11 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps over the 6 months to 11 October 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the UK over the 6 months to 11 October 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 +1 3,264 £550 -4.35% 1,421
London -1 1,921 £561 -6.46% 657
UK excluding London -4 1,414 £550 - 880
Work from Home -2 1,392 £540 -5.18% 2,146
North of England +3 419 £507 -7.82% 231
South East -6 368 £588 +2.17% 195
South West +1 237 £590 -1.67% 119
Yorkshire +13 206 £500 -12.09% 56
North West -1 189 £525 - 153
Midlands -1 179 £550 +6.64% 134
Scotland -10 151 £450 -10.00% 77
West Midlands -1 139 £575 +9.52% 97
East of England -40 42 £550 +0.92% 47
North East +4 40 £585 +6.36% 23
East Midlands -8 35 £425 -10.05% 37
Wales -11 28 £425 -17.07% 29
Northern Ireland +9 16 £575 - 61

DevOps
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
1 229 (6.10%) Confluence
2 79 (2.10%) Apache Spark
3 67 (1.78%) Apache
3 67 (1.78%) SharePoint
4 42 (1.12%) ArcGIS
5 40 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
6 31 (0.83%) SAS
7 29 (0.77%) nginx
8 28 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
9 25 (0.67%) CMS
10 21 (0.56%) IIS
11 15 (0.40%) JBoss
12 14 (0.37%) OpenStack
12 14 (0.37%) Umbraco
13 9 (0.24%) Camunda
13 9 (0.24%) Jupyter
13 9 (0.24%) Tomcat
14 7 (0.19%) WebSphere
15 6 (0.16%) Anypoint
15 6 (0.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 29 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (0.24%) Chatbot
4 9 (0.24%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.13%) CPLEX
6 5 (0.13%) Trello
7 1 (0.027%) Doxygen
7 1 (0.027%) EngageOne
7 1 (0.027%) Gliffy
7 1 (0.027%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 58 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.32%) NetSuite
3 11 (0.29%) Endur
3 11 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (0.27%) Maximo
4 10 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.21%) Shopify
6 6 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
6 6 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.13%) Misys Opics
7 5 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
7 5 (0.13%) PeopleSoft HCM
8 4 (0.11%) Aladdin
8 4 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.080%) Payment Gateway
9 3 (0.080%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.080%) Siebel CRM
9 3 (0.080%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 2 (0.053%) Oracle Assets
10 2 (0.053%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1,747 (46.51%) Azure
2 1,203 (32.03%) AWS
3 1,004 (26.73%) Azure DevOps
4 356 (9.48%) GCP
5 336 (8.95%) GitHub
6 312 (8.31%) Serverless
7 226 (6.02%) Power Platform
8 172 (4.58%) Amazon S3
9 160 (4.26%) OpenShift
10 147 (3.91%) Amazon EC2
11 145 (3.86%) AWS Lambda
12 141 (3.75%) Entra ID
13 139 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
13 139 (3.70%) PaaS
14 135 (3.59%) Azure Monitor
15 132 (3.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 121 (3.22%) Azure Data Factory
17 117 (3.12%) AWS CloudFormation
18 115 (3.06%) Azure Functions
19 113 (3.01%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 135 (3.59%) Firewall
2 86 (2.29%) DNS
3 67 (1.78%) HTTP
4 50 (1.33%) TCP/IP
5 44 (1.17%) Network Security
6 39 (1.04%) VPN
7 32 (0.85%) DHCP
8 31 (0.83%) Kerberos
8 31 (0.83%) SSL
9 29 (0.77%) Internet
10 19 (0.51%) WAN
11 15 (0.40%) Remote Desktop
12 13 (0.35%) BGP
12 13 (0.35%) HTTPS
12 13 (0.35%) SAN
13 11 (0.29%) Cisco Nexus
14 10 (0.27%) SSH
15 9 (0.24%) CTI
15 9 (0.24%) FTP
15 9 (0.24%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 302 (8.04%) SQL Server
2 174 (4.63%) PostgreSQL
3 154 (4.10%) Power BI
4 140 (3.73%) NoSQL
5 129 (3.43%) Relational Database
6 122 (3.25%) Big Data
7 100 (2.66%) Data Lake
8 90 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
9 89 (2.37%) Azure SQL Database
10 87 (2.32%) Elasticsearch
11 82 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
12 77 (2.05%) Oracle Database
13 73 (1.94%) MongoDB
14 70 (1.86%) MySQL
15 43 (1.14%) Hadoop
16 42 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
17 40 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 37 (0.99%) Redis
19 35 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
20 33 (0.88%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 607 (16.16%) Git
2 573 (15.26%) Jenkins
3 402 (10.70%) JIRA
4 345 (9.19%) GitLab
5 119 (3.17%) Selenium
6 92 (2.45%) Bitbucket
7 83 (2.21%) Visual Studio
8 70 (1.86%) Maven
8 70 (1.86%) TeamCity
9 69 (1.84%) Artifactory
10 63 (1.68%) SonarQube
11 59 (1.57%) JUnit
12 54 (1.44%) SpecFlow
13 49 (1.30%) Postman
14 42 (1.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 39 (1.04%) Android Studio
16 35 (0.93%) Cucumber
17 34 (0.91%) CircleCI
18 33 (0.88%) Team Foundation Server
19 32 (0.85%) GoogleTest
General
1 765 (20.37%) Social Skills
2 681 (18.13%) Finance
3 381 (10.14%) Public Sector
4 327 (8.71%) Banking
5 274 (7.29%) Analytical Skills
6 97 (2.58%) Telecoms
7 82 (2.18%) Retail
8 78 (2.08%) Investment Banking
9 60 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
10 55 (1.46%) Front Office
10 55 (1.46%) Marketing
11 54 (1.44%) Back Office
12 43 (1.14%) Manufacturing
13 40 (1.06%) Financial Institution
14 31 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 29 (0.77%) Military
16 28 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
17 27 (0.72%) Electronics
18 26 (0.69%) Law
18 26 (0.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 861 (22.92%) DevOps Engineer
2 831 (22.12%) Developer
3 477 (12.70%) Senior
4 389 (10.36%) Architect
5 270 (7.19%) Lead
6 234 (6.23%) Azure Engineer
7 218 (5.80%) AWS Engineer
8 167 (4.45%) Senior Developer
9 163 (4.34%) AWS DevOps
10 158 (4.21%) Analyst
11 156 (4.15%) Solutions Architect
12 152 (4.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 144 (3.83%) Senior DevOps
14 135 (3.59%) Java Developer
15 133 (3.54%) Data Engineer
16 131 (3.49%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 127 (3.38%) Software Engineer
18 125 (3.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 120 (3.19%) .NET Developer
20 105 (2.80%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 437 (11.63%) .NET
2 272 (7.24%) React
3 269 (7.16%) Kafka
4 205 (5.46%) REST
5 187 (4.98%) HTML
6 170 (4.53%) CSS
7 167 (4.45%) Spring Boot
8 156 (4.15%) AngularJS
9 155 (4.13%) RESTful
10 153 (4.07%) XML
11 141 (3.75%) Node.js
12 129 (3.43%) Spring
13 122 (3.25%) .NET Core
13 122 (3.25%) .NET Framework
14 113 (3.01%) ASP.NET
15 105 (2.80%) YAML
16 92 (2.45%) Elastic Stack
17 84 (2.24%) Web Services
18 79 (2.10%) ARM Templates
19 64 (1.70%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 238 (6.34%) Product Ownership
2 115 (3.06%) Cloud Native
3 86 (2.29%) Public Cloud
4 83 (2.21%) Mobile App
5 65 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
6 59 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 57 (1.52%) Management Information System
8 53 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
9 51 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
10 49 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
11 47 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
12 46 (1.22%) Onboarding
13 44 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
14 41 (1.09%) Clustering
15 40 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
16 39 (1.04%) Derivative
17 38 (1.01%) Replication
18 37 (0.99%) Algorithms
18 37 (0.99%) Data Centre
19 36 (0.96%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 557 (14.83%) Linux
2 259 (6.90%) Windows
3 160 (4.26%) Unix
4 105 (2.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 73 (1.94%) Android
6 55 (1.46%) Windows Server
7 35 (0.93%) Apple iOS
8 29 (0.77%) Solaris
9 22 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
10 15 (0.40%) VMS
10 15 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
11 11 (0.29%) Ubuntu
12 10 (0.27%) CentOS
12 10 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
13 8 (0.21%) AIX
14 7 (0.19%) Windows 10
15 6 (0.16%) Oracle Linux
16 5 (0.13%) SUSE
17 3 (0.080%) Windows Server 2008
18 2 (0.053%) OS/400
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,478 (39.35%) Agile
2 1,474 (39.24%) CI/CD
3 585 (15.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 524 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
5 457 (12.17%) Microservices
5 457 (12.17%) Test Automation
6 450 (11.98%) Scrum
7 441 (11.74%) Containerisation
8 389 (10.36%) Software Engineering
9 273 (7.27%) Migration
10 255 (6.79%) Analytics
11 253 (6.74%) Roadmaps
12 249 (6.63%) Continuous Integration
13 248 (6.60%) Unit Testing
14 236 (6.28%) SDLC
15 229 (6.10%) Continuous Improvement
15 229 (6.10%) Full-Stack Development
16 208 (5.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 199 (5.30%) Mentoring
18 187 (4.98%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1,041 (27.72%) Python
2 655 (17.44%) SQL
3 608 (16.19%) Java
4 457 (12.17%) C#
5 397 (10.57%) JavaScript
6 383 (10.20%) PowerShell
7 254 (6.76%) Bash
8 218 (5.80%) TypeScript
9 120 (3.19%) Bicep
10 118 (3.14%) Go
11 110 (2.93%) C++
12 93 (2.48%) Ruby
13 89 (2.37%) Shell Script
14 75 (2.00%) T-SQL
15 68 (1.81%) C
16 67 (1.78%) PL/SQL
17 62 (1.65%) Kotlin
18 55 (1.46%) Scala
19 42 (1.12%) Perl
20 39 (1.04%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 873 (23.24%) Security Cleared
2 669 (17.81%) SC Cleared
3 298 (7.93%) Degree
4 246 (6.55%) DV Cleared
5 140 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 97 (2.58%) AWS Certification
6 97 (2.58%) Azure Certification
7 47 (1.25%) Master's Degree
8 43 (1.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 43 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 40 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
10 32 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
11 17 (0.45%) PMI Certification
11 17 (0.45%) PMP
12 15 (0.40%) CISSP
13 13 (0.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 12 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
15 10 (0.27%) ISTQB
16 9 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
17 8 (0.21%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (4.71%) QA
2 61 (1.62%) Accessibility
3 57 (1.52%) Data Quality
4 55 (1.46%) GDPR
5 37 (0.99%) PCI DSS
6 34 (0.91%) MISRA
7 28 (0.75%) NIST
8 18 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 18 (0.48%) WCAG
9 14 (0.37%) PMO
9 14 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 13 (0.35%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.27%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
13 7 (0.19%) GRC
13 7 (0.19%) MiFID
14 6 (0.16%) HL7
14 6 (0.16%) NCSC
15 5 (0.13%) ISO 9001
16 4 (0.11%) SLA
System Software
1 772 (20.55%) Docker
2 208 (5.54%) Active Directory
3 64 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
6 29 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
7 11 (0.29%) VMware NSX
8 8 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 8 (0.21%) SRDF
9 7 (0.19%) NFS
9 7 (0.19%) Veritas File System
9 7 (0.19%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 6 (0.16%) Ceph
11 5 (0.13%) HDFS
11 5 (0.13%) Hyper-V
11 5 (0.13%) XenApp
11 5 (0.13%) XenDesktop
12 4 (0.11%) LXC
12 4 (0.11%) Tivoli Directory Server
13 3 (0.080%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1,025 (27.29%) Kubernetes
2 944 (25.13%) Terraform
3 476 (12.67%) Ansible
4 209 (5.56%) Grafana
5 195 (5.19%) Prometheus
6 127 (3.38%) Puppet
7 98 (2.61%) Progress Chef
8 64 (1.70%) Kibana
9 46 (1.22%) Rancher
10 34 (0.91%) Argo
10 34 (0.91%) logstash
11 32 (0.85%) Packer
11 32 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
12 27 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
13 26 (0.69%) Istio
14 25 (0.67%) SCCM
15 23 (0.61%) Consul
16 21 (0.56%) SCOM
17 18 (0.48%) Tivoli
18 16 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 640 (17.04%) Microsoft
2 240 (6.39%) Oracle
3 173 (4.61%) Google
4 139 (3.70%) Splunk
5 116 (3.09%) Databricks
6 107 (2.85%) Red Hat
7 103 (2.74%) VMware
8 58 (1.54%) SAP
9 55 (1.46%) ServiceNow
10 51 (1.36%) Confluent
11 48 (1.28%) IBM
12 47 (1.25%) Cisco
12 47 (1.25%) Salesforce
13 43 (1.14%) Atlassian
14 40 (1.06%) CyberArk
15 38 (1.01%) Dynatrace
16 24 (0.64%) TOWER Software
17 22 (0.59%) Checkmarx
18 21 (0.56%) Fortinet
18 21 (0.56%) SaltStack