Lead DevOps Engineer Contracts

Lead Development Operations Engineer
UK

The median Lead Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the UK is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 561 667 743
Rank change year-on-year +106 +76 -91
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps Engineer 26 39 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.061% 0.068% 0.100%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.066% 0.071% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 26 57
10th Percentile £513 £550 £529
25th Percentile £561 £625 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £694 £755 £738
90th Percentile £840 £806 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £715 £600
% change year-on-year -23.08% +19.17% +6.19%

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 39,586 54,569 84,106
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.66% 95.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,744 38,105 59,089
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.01%
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 2,669 1,523 2,070
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.02 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in the UK

Lead DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in the UK

Lead DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead DevOps Engineer in the UK

Lead DevOps Engineer
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead DevOps Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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 +107 24 £650 -7.14% 19
London +85 18 £650 -6.31% 6
Work from Home +112 8 £575 -18.73% 14
UK excluding London +50 2 £550 -23.08% 11
North of England +21 1 - - 8
Yorkshire +17 1 - - 4
South West +9 1 £550 -28.46%

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, Lead 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 Lead DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 26 (100.00%) DevOps
2 22 (84.62%) CI/CD
3 20 (76.92%) AWS
4 17 (65.38%) Terraform
5 14 (53.85%) Kubernetes
6 13 (50.00%) Python
7 12 (46.15%) Linux
7 12 (46.15%) Containerisation
8 11 (42.31%) Docker
9 10 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (38.46%) Bash
10 9 (34.62%) Security Cleared
11 8 (30.77%) SC Cleared
12 7 (26.92%) Ansible
13 6 (23.08%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (23.08%) Finance
14 5 (19.23%) Git
14 5 (19.23%) Azure
14 5 (19.23%) Configuration Management
14 5 (19.23%) Agile
15 4 (15.38%) SaaS
15 4 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
15 4 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
15 4 (15.38%) Public Sector
15 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 4 (15.38%) Continuous Deployment
15 4 (15.38%) Elastic Stack
15 4 (15.38%) GitHub
15 4 (15.38%) Jenkins
15 4 (15.38%) Microservices

Lead 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 1 (3.85%) Apache
1 1 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.85%) Confluence
1 1 (3.85%) JBoss
1 1 (3.85%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 20 (76.92%) AWS
2 6 (23.08%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (19.23%) Azure
4 4 (15.38%) Amazon EventBridge
4 4 (15.38%) GitHub
4 4 (15.38%) SaaS
5 3 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (11.54%) Serverless
6 2 (7.69%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (7.69%) Azure AKS
6 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (7.69%) OpenShift
6 2 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.85%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 1 (3.85%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (3.85%) AWS KMS
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Service Fabric
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) VPN
2 1 (3.85%) Firewall
2 1 (3.85%) IPv4
2 1 (3.85%) Kerberos
2 1 (3.85%) OSPF
2 1 (3.85%) SSL
2 1 (3.85%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (3.85%) DataStax
1 1 (3.85%) DynamoDB
1 1 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database
1 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Git
2 4 (15.38%) GitLab
2 4 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 2 (7.69%) JIRA
4 1 (3.85%) Ant
4 1 (3.85%) Artifactory
4 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket
4 1 (3.85%) CircleCI
4 1 (3.85%) Cypress.io
4 1 (3.85%) JMeter
4 1 (3.85%) Maven
4 1 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (23.08%) Finance
2 4 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (11.54%) Kafka
3 2 (7.69%) YAML
4 1 (3.85%) ARM Templates
4 1 (3.85%) AWS CDK
4 1 (3.85%) AWS SAM
4 1 (3.85%) Entity Framework
4 1 (3.85%) Middleware
4 1 (3.85%) Node.js
4 1 (3.85%) React
4 1 (3.85%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Blockchain
1 2 (7.69%) Sports Betting
2 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.85%) Derivative
2 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (3.85%) Machine to Machine
2 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (46.15%) Linux
2 3 (11.54%) Unix
3 2 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) DevOps
2 22 (84.62%) CI/CD
3 12 (46.15%) Containerisation
4 10 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (19.23%) Agile
5 5 (19.23%) Configuration Management
6 4 (15.38%) Cloud Security
6 4 (15.38%) Continuous Deployment
6 4 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (15.38%) DevSecOps
6 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (15.38%) Microservices
6 4 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (11.54%) Mentoring
7 3 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (7.69%) Continuous Delivery
8 2 (7.69%) Deployment Automation
8 2 (7.69%) Migration
8 2 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (50.00%) Python
2 10 (38.46%) Bash
3 2 (7.69%) Go
3 2 (7.69%) Groovy
3 2 (7.69%) JavaScript
3 2 (7.69%) SQL
4 1 (3.85%) Java
4 1 (3.85%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (34.62%) Security Cleared
2 8 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
3 2 (7.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) GIAC
4 1 (3.85%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (42.31%) Docker
2 2 (7.69%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (65.38%) Terraform
2 14 (53.85%) Kubernetes
3 7 (26.92%) Ansible
4 3 (11.54%) Argo
4 3 (11.54%) Grafana
4 3 (11.54%) Prometheus
4 3 (11.54%) Puppet
5 1 (3.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (3.85%) Packer
5 1 (3.85%) Podman
5 1 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (7.69%) Confluent
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle
1 2 (7.69%) Red Hat
2 1 (3.85%) VMware