DevOps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 11 7
Rank change year-on-year -5 -4 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 3,924 7,114 11,714
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 9.06% 11.89% 13.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.50% 13.23% 14.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,699 5,217 8,443
10th Percentile £400 £425 £420
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £580 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% +10.05%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £533 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.14% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 105 72
10th Percentile £56.25 £51.08 £35.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £60.91 £42.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £52.55
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +24.66% +16.77%
75th Percentile £80.95 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.37 £78.00 £66.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £52.80
% change year-on-year -0.76% +24.06% +17.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

DevOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

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 27 April 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 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Top 18 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 27 April 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 -3 3,320 £550 -8.33% 1,635
London -1 1,922 £575 -4.17% 673
Work from Home -7 1,531 £550 -4.35% 919
UK excluding London -7 1,498 £533 -3.14% 1,041
South East -5 428 £575 -1.37% 218
North of England -1 419 £525 -4.55% 294
North West -2 250 £533 -3.09% 187
South West -13 215 £550 -8.33% 162
Scotland -10 191 £475 -5.00% 77
Yorkshire +3 155 £475 -20.83% 87
Midlands -15 128 £524 -2.19% 172
East of England -3 99 £525 - 88
West Midlands -13 89 £475 -14.61% 108
East Midlands -12 32 £450 -2.17% 64
Wales -11 26 £575 -1.37% 28
North East -4 18 £525 -12.50% 22
Northern Ireland +3 3 £550 -8.33% 29
Isle of Man - 2 £388 - 1

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
1 163 (4.15%) Confluence
2 78 (1.99%) SharePoint
3 55 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
4 43 (1.10%) IIS
5 42 (1.07%) CMS
6 39 (0.99%) Apache
7 35 (0.89%) Apache Spark
8 34 (0.87%) nginx
9 30 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
10 20 (0.51%) OpenStack
11 13 (0.33%) JBoss
12 12 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 11 (0.28%) Site Server
14 8 (0.20%) Kentico
14 8 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 7 (0.18%) Apache Solr
15 7 (0.18%) ArcGIS
15 7 (0.18%) Headless CMS
15 7 (0.18%) WebLogic
15 7 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 39 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (0.56%) MS Visio
4 13 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.23%) Trello
6 6 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.10%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.051%) Sketch
9 1 (0.025%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.025%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.025%) InVision
9 1 (0.025%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.025%) Simulink
9 1 (0.025%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 62 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (0.79%) Dynamics AX
3 23 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 13 (0.33%) Endur
6 12 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
6 12 (0.31%) Teamcenter
7 9 (0.23%) Maximo
8 8 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
8 8 (0.20%) SAP Hybris
8 8 (0.20%) Shopify
9 7 (0.18%) NEC Housing
9 7 (0.18%) SAP PM
10 6 (0.15%) Aladdin
11 5 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
11 5 (0.13%) SimCorp Dimension
11 5 (0.13%) Temenos T24
12 4 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
13 3 (0.076%) BusinessWorks
13 3 (0.076%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2,028 (51.68%) Azure
2 1,209 (30.81%) Azure DevOps
3 1,184 (30.17%) AWS
4 345 (8.79%) GCP
4 345 (8.79%) Serverless
5 289 (7.36%) GitHub
6 232 (5.91%) Power Platform
7 174 (4.43%) Amazon S3
8 165 (4.20%) AWS Lambda
9 148 (3.77%) Entra ID
9 148 (3.77%) PaaS
10 143 (3.64%) Dynamics 365
11 139 (3.54%) Azure Monitor
12 138 (3.52%) Amazon EC2
13 131 (3.34%) AWS CloudFormation
14 128 (3.26%) Azure Service Bus
15 120 (3.06%) Amazon EKS
16 119 (3.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 119 (3.03%) OpenShift
17 110 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 225 (5.73%) Firewall
2 104 (2.65%) DNS
3 99 (2.52%) VPN
4 69 (1.76%) Network Security
5 62 (1.58%) HTTP
6 52 (1.33%) TCP/IP
7 46 (1.17%) BGP
8 36 (0.92%) DHCP
8 36 (0.92%) Modbus
8 36 (0.92%) RS-422
8 36 (0.92%) RS-485
9 35 (0.89%) Intrusion Detection
9 35 (0.89%) MPLS
10 33 (0.84%) SNMP
11 31 (0.79%) SSL
12 29 (0.74%) HSRP
13 25 (0.64%) IPv4
14 22 (0.56%) RSVP
15 19 (0.48%) Internet
15 19 (0.48%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 397 (10.12%) SQL Server
2 202 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
3 175 (4.46%) Power BI
4 143 (3.64%) NoSQL
5 132 (3.36%) Relational Database
6 127 (3.24%) Data Lake
7 105 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
8 93 (2.37%) MySQL
9 88 (2.24%) Amazon RDS
10 84 (2.14%) MongoDB
11 79 (2.01%) Azure SQL Database
11 79 (2.01%) Elasticsearch
12 55 (1.40%) Big Data
13 52 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 49 (1.25%) Oracle Database
15 40 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
15 40 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
16 39 (0.99%) Apache Cassandra
17 38 (0.97%) DynamoDB
18 36 (0.92%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 503 (12.82%) Git
2 493 (12.56%) Jenkins
3 358 (9.12%) JIRA
4 278 (7.08%) GitLab
5 130 (3.31%) Selenium
6 89 (2.27%) SonarQube
7 74 (1.89%) TeamCity
8 67 (1.71%) Visual Studio
9 60 (1.53%) Cucumber
10 57 (1.45%) SpecFlow
11 53 (1.35%) Artifactory
12 52 (1.33%) Bitbucket
13 49 (1.25%) Postman
14 48 (1.22%) JUnit
15 45 (1.15%) Maven
16 39 (0.99%) Cypress.io
17 28 (0.71%) REST Assured
18 27 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
19 25 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
20 24 (0.61%) WebDriver
General
1 863 (21.99%) Social Skills
2 738 (18.81%) Finance
3 462 (11.77%) Public Sector
4 316 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
5 256 (6.52%) Banking
6 105 (2.68%) Retail
7 88 (2.24%) Front Office
8 75 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
9 62 (1.58%) Investment Banking
10 61 (1.55%) Electronics
11 60 (1.53%) Marketing
11 60 (1.53%) Telecoms
12 50 (1.27%) Back Office
13 49 (1.25%) Law
14 48 (1.22%) Manufacturing
15 46 (1.17%) Legal
16 38 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
17 35 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
18 34 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 27 (0.69%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 814 (20.74%) Developer
2 735 (18.73%) DevOps Engineer
3 498 (12.69%) Senior
4 447 (11.39%) Architect
5 312 (7.95%) Lead
6 250 (6.37%) Azure Engineer
7 215 (5.48%) AWS Engineer
8 194 (4.94%) Analyst
9 177 (4.51%) Senior Developer
10 160 (4.08%) Software Engineer
11 157 (4.00%) AWS DevOps
12 149 (3.80%) Consultant
13 146 (3.72%) Solutions Architect
14 138 (3.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 137 (3.49%) .NET Developer
16 130 (3.31%) Data Engineer
17 127 (3.24%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 113 (2.88%) Cloud Engineer
18 113 (2.88%) Java Developer
19 110 (2.80%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 529 (13.48%) .NET
2 307 (7.82%) React
3 220 (5.61%) REST
4 207 (5.28%) XML
5 191 (4.87%) Node.js
6 182 (4.64%) Kafka
7 181 (4.61%) AngularJS
8 165 (4.20%) .NET Core
9 156 (3.98%) HTML
10 145 (3.70%) .NET Framework
11 143 (3.64%) CSS
12 138 (3.52%) JSON
13 128 (3.26%) RESTful
14 111 (2.83%) ARM Templates
15 109 (2.78%) Spring
16 99 (2.52%) Spring Boot
17 88 (2.24%) YAML
18 81 (2.06%) ASP.NET
19 80 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
20 71 (1.81%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 231 (5.89%) Product Ownership
2 120 (3.06%) Public Cloud
3 107 (2.73%) Cloud Native
4 79 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
5 78 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
6 63 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
7 61 (1.55%) Derivative
8 60 (1.53%) Data Structures
8 60 (1.53%) Onboarding
9 56 (1.43%) Mobile App
10 54 (1.38%) Management Information System
11 48 (1.22%) Data Centre
11 48 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 48 (1.22%) Hedge funds
12 44 (1.12%) Fixed Income
13 39 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
14 38 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
15 37 (0.94%) PKI
16 35 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
17 34 (0.87%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 462 (11.77%) Linux
2 356 (9.07%) Windows
3 158 (4.03%) Windows Server
4 109 (2.78%) Unix
5 77 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 52 (1.33%) Android
6 52 (1.33%) Apple iOS
7 26 (0.66%) CentOS
8 22 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
9 21 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
10 20 (0.51%) VMS
11 18 (0.46%) Solaris
12 17 (0.43%) Ubuntu
13 14 (0.36%) AIX
14 12 (0.31%) Windows 10
15 8 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
16 7 (0.18%) Mac OS
17 5 (0.13%) Alpine Linux
18 3 (0.076%) Debian
19 2 (0.051%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,661 (42.33%) Agile
2 1,379 (35.14%) CI/CD
3 534 (13.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 505 (12.87%) Problem-Solving
5 479 (12.21%) Scrum
6 455 (11.60%) Software Engineering
7 446 (11.37%) Test Automation
8 404 (10.30%) Microservices
9 345 (8.79%) Containerisation
10 326 (8.31%) Migration
11 320 (8.15%) TDD
12 314 (8.00%) Continuous Integration
13 265 (6.75%) Continuous Improvement
14 250 (6.37%) SDLC
15 223 (5.68%) Full Stack Development
16 213 (5.43%) Analytics
17 212 (5.40%) Business Intelligence
18 202 (5.15%) Project Management
19 200 (5.10%) Computer Science
20 198 (5.05%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1,003 (25.56%) Python
2 655 (16.69%) SQL
3 651 (16.59%) C#
4 514 (13.10%) Java
5 485 (12.36%) PowerShell
6 395 (10.07%) JavaScript
7 248 (6.32%) TypeScript
8 219 (5.58%) Bash
9 149 (3.80%) Go
10 137 (3.49%) Bicep
11 117 (2.98%) C++
12 114 (2.91%) C
13 85 (2.17%) Shell Script
14 76 (1.94%) Perl
15 66 (1.68%) Ruby
16 64 (1.63%) Scala
17 48 (1.22%) T-SQL
18 34 (0.87%) PHP
19 32 (0.82%) VBScript
20 29 (0.74%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 812 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 578 (14.73%) SC Cleared
3 306 (7.80%) Degree
4 222 (5.66%) DV Cleared
5 121 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 59 (1.50%) AWS Certification
6 59 (1.50%) Azure Certification
7 44 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
8 39 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
8 39 (0.99%) Master's Degree
9 28 (0.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 26 (0.66%) PMP
11 24 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 24 (0.61%) CCNP
12 23 (0.59%) ISTQB
13 21 (0.54%) PMI Certification
14 20 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 17 (0.43%) CISSP
15 17 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
16 16 (0.41%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 235 (5.99%) QA
2 69 (1.76%) Accessibility
3 44 (1.12%) GDPR
4 42 (1.07%) Data Quality
5 41 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 37 (0.94%) NIST
7 33 (0.84%) PCI DSS
8 29 (0.74%) NCSC
9 28 (0.71%) WCAG
10 26 (0.66%) SLA
11 25 (0.64%) PMO
12 17 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
13 9 (0.23%) HIPAA
14 8 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 7 (0.18%) MISRA
16 6 (0.15%) GRC
16 6 (0.15%) ISO 22301
17 5 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 5 (0.13%) ISO 9001
18 4 (0.10%) PSD2
System Software
1 588 (14.98%) Docker
2 233 (5.94%) Active Directory
3 72 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
6 19 (0.48%) VMware NSX
7 15 (0.38%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 12 (0.31%) Firmware
9 10 (0.25%) Hyper-V
9 10 (0.25%) vSphere
10 9 (0.23%) NFS
10 9 (0.23%) vCloud
11 6 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
11 6 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.076%) HDFS
12 3 (0.076%) LXC
12 3 (0.076%) OpenAM
12 3 (0.076%) OpenIDM
12 3 (0.076%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.051%) KVM
Systems Management
1 858 (21.87%) Terraform
2 805 (20.51%) Kubernetes
3 438 (11.16%) Ansible
4 169 (4.31%) Grafana
5 156 (3.98%) Prometheus
6 93 (2.37%) Puppet
7 75 (1.91%) Progress Chef
8 43 (1.10%) Kibana
9 41 (1.04%) SCCM
10 40 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
11 38 (0.97%) Docker Swarm
12 33 (0.84%) Istio
12 33 (0.84%) SCOM
13 29 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
14 26 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 25 (0.64%) Packer
16 22 (0.56%) Argo
17 20 (0.51%) Consul
17 20 (0.51%) ITRS Geneos
18 19 (0.48%) Nagios
Vendors
1 717 (18.27%) Microsoft
2 247 (6.29%) Oracle
3 122 (3.11%) Splunk
4 117 (2.98%) Databricks
5 111 (2.83%) VMware
6 110 (2.80%) SAP
7 106 (2.70%) Google
8 86 (2.19%) ServiceNow
9 73 (1.86%) Salesforce
10 60 (1.53%) Cisco
11 54 (1.38%) IBM
12 47 (1.20%) CyberArk
12 47 (1.20%) Dynatrace
13 43 (1.10%) Red Hat
14 38 (0.97%) Citrix
15 33 (0.84%) F5
16 30 (0.76%) Adobe
16 30 (0.76%) Nokia
17 29 (0.74%) Palo Alto
18 28 (0.71%) Atlassian