Lead DevOps Contracts

Lead Development Operations
UK

The median Lead Development Operations daily rate in the UK is £625 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 524 601 652
Rank change year-on-year +77 +51 -86
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 66 102 209
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.17% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.18% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 74 161
10th Percentile £505 £516 £507
25th Percentile £550 £600 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +12.55%
75th Percentile £681 £756 £735
90th Percentile £730 £825 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £638 £715 £585
% change year-on-year -10.84% +22.22% +6.36%

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%

Lead DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps in the UK

Lead DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Lead DevOps in the UK

Lead DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Lead DevOps in the UK

Lead DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead DevOps in the UK

Lead DevOps
Top 11 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 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 +97 60 £625 -3.85% 28
London +89 41 £650 - 10
Work from Home +110 25 £600 -9.43% 16
UK excluding London +24 11 £638 -10.84% 16
North of England +21 5 £625 - 10
Yorkshire +17 5 £625 - 3
South West +19 2 £619 -19.51%
South East +6 2 £650 -18.75% 3
Midlands +23 1 - - 3
West Midlands +21 1 - - 1
Wales - 1 £650 -

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

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

1 66 (100.00%) DevOps
2 48 (72.73%) CI/CD
3 33 (50.00%) AWS
4 31 (46.97%) Terraform
5 26 (39.39%) Python
6 24 (36.36%) Kubernetes
7 23 (34.85%) Azure
8 21 (31.82%) Linux
8 21 (31.82%) Finance
8 21 (31.82%) Agile
9 18 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
10 17 (25.76%) Ansible
10 17 (25.76%) Docker
11 16 (24.24%) Containerisation
12 15 (22.73%) Jenkins
12 15 (22.73%) Security Cleared
13 14 (21.21%) SC Cleared
14 12 (18.18%) Bash
14 12 (18.18%) DevSecOps
15 11 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
15 11 (16.67%) Serverless
15 11 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
16 10 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
16 10 (15.15%) Social Skills
17 9 (13.64%) GitHub
17 9 (13.64%) Mentoring
17 9 (13.64%) Microservices
17 9 (13.64%) GitLab
18 8 (12.12%) SDLC
18 8 (12.12%) SQL

Lead DevOps 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 2 (3.03%) Apache
1 2 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (3.03%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.52%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.52%) Confluence
2 1 (1.52%) JBoss
2 1 (1.52%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 33 (50.00%) AWS
2 23 (34.85%) Azure
3 11 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (16.67%) Serverless
4 9 (13.64%) GitHub
5 8 (12.12%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (10.61%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (10.61%) SaaS
7 5 (7.58%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (7.58%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (6.06%) Amazon EventBridge
8 4 (6.06%) PaaS
9 3 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (4.55%) Amazon S3
9 3 (4.55%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (4.55%) Azure AKS
9 3 (4.55%) GCP
9 3 (4.55%) OpenShift
9 3 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (3.03%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.55%) Firewall
1 3 (4.55%) VPN
2 2 (3.03%) SSL
3 1 (1.52%) DNS
3 1 (1.52%) Internet
3 1 (1.52%) IPv4
3 1 (1.52%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.52%) OSPF
3 1 (1.52%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (3.03%) BigQuery
3 2 (3.03%) DynamoDB
3 2 (3.03%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.52%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.52%) DataStax
4 1 (1.52%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (22.73%) Jenkins
2 9 (13.64%) GitLab
3 7 (10.61%) Git
4 5 (7.58%) JIRA
5 4 (6.06%) Bitbucket
6 3 (4.55%) Artifactory
6 3 (4.55%) CircleCI
7 2 (3.03%) GoCD
7 2 (3.03%) Maven
7 2 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (3.03%) TeamCity
7 2 (3.03%) Terragrunt
8 1 (1.52%) Ant
8 1 (1.52%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.52%) JMeter
8 1 (1.52%) Selenium
8 1 (1.52%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.52%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 21 (31.82%) Finance
2 10 (15.15%) Social Skills
3 7 (10.61%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.55%) Banking
5 2 (3.03%) Investment Banking
5 2 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.52%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.52%) Electronics
6 1 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.52%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.52%) Marketing
6 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.61%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (6.06%) Node.js
3 3 (4.55%) ARM Templates
3 3 (4.55%) Kafka
4 2 (3.03%) AWS CDK
4 2 (3.03%) AWS SAM
4 2 (3.03%) YAML
5 1 (1.52%) ADO
5 1 (1.52%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (1.52%) Entity Framework
5 1 (1.52%) Keycloak
5 1 (1.52%) Middleware
5 1 (1.52%) Next.js
5 1 (1.52%) React
5 1 (1.52%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.06%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.55%) Derivative
2 3 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.03%) Blockchain
3 2 (3.03%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.03%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.03%) Sports Betting
4 1 (1.52%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.52%) Machine to Machine
4 1 (1.52%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.52%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.52%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 21 (31.82%) Linux
2 5 (7.58%) Unix
3 4 (6.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.03%) CentOS
4 2 (3.03%) Windows
5 1 (1.52%) Android
5 1 (1.52%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (100.00%) DevOps
2 48 (72.73%) CI/CD
3 21 (31.82%) Agile
4 18 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (24.24%) Containerisation
6 12 (18.18%) DevSecOps
7 11 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (13.64%) Mentoring
9 9 (13.64%) Microservices
10 8 (12.12%) Configuration Management
10 8 (12.12%) SDLC
11 7 (10.61%) Continuous Integration
12 6 (9.09%) Cloud Security
12 6 (9.09%) Continuous Delivery
12 6 (9.09%) Continuous Deployment
13 5 (7.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 5 (7.58%) Observability
13 5 (7.58%) Platform Engineering
13 5 (7.58%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 26 (39.39%) Python
2 12 (18.18%) Bash
3 8 (12.12%) SQL
4 6 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 4 (6.06%) Groovy
5 4 (6.06%) Shell Script
6 3 (4.55%) Go
6 3 (4.55%) Java
6 3 (4.55%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.52%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.52%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 14 (21.21%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.55%) AWS Certification
3 3 (4.55%) Degree
4 2 (3.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (1.52%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.52%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.52%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.52%) GIAC
5 1 (1.52%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.55%) QA
2 1 (1.52%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.52%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.52%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (25.76%) Docker
2 3 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (3.03%) NFS
3 2 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.52%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 31 (46.97%) Terraform
2 24 (36.36%) Kubernetes
3 17 (25.76%) Ansible
4 7 (10.61%) Grafana
5 6 (9.09%) Prometheus
6 4 (6.06%) Puppet
7 3 (4.55%) Argo
8 2 (3.03%) Kibana
8 2 (3.03%) logstash
8 2 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (1.52%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (1.52%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (1.52%) Mesos
9 1 (1.52%) Packer
9 1 (1.52%) Podman
9 1 (1.52%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.52%) SCOM
Vendors
1 5 (7.58%) Microsoft
1 5 (7.58%) Red Hat
1 5 (7.58%) VMware
2 3 (4.55%) ServiceNow
2 3 (4.55%) Teradata
3 2 (3.03%) Amdocs
3 2 (3.03%) Confluent
3 2 (3.03%) Google
3 2 (3.03%) Oracle
4 1 (1.52%) Checkmarx
4 1 (1.52%) Citrix
4 1 (1.52%) SAP
4 1 (1.52%) Splunk
4 1 (1.52%) Virgin Media