Senior DevOps Engineer Contracts

Senior Development Operations Engineer
UK

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the UK is £635, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 418 511 559
Rank change year-on-year +93 +48 +46
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 102 71 159
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.16% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.18% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 50 132
10th Percentile £485 £513 £521
25th Percentile £535 £564 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £725 £716 £713
90th Percentile £750 £798 £774
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £643 £650
% change year-on-year -2.72% -1.15% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £74.44 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £74.44 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK

Senior DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK

Senior DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK

Senior DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK

Senior DevOps Engineer
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior DevOps Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 +75 73 £635 -2.31% 66
Work from Home +73 64 £635 -1.74% 44
London +50 44 £635 -2.31% 32
UK excluding London +69 27 £625 -2.72% 51
North of England +31 20 £575 -4.17% 9
Yorkshire - 11 £675 - 3
North West +15 6 £575 -4.17% 6
North East - 4 £538 -
South West +45 3 £675 +35.00% 4
South East +44 2 £700 +5.66% 18
Midlands +21 1 - - 5
East of England - 1 £438 - 5
East Midlands - 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 102 (100.00%) DevOps
2 88 (86.27%) Terraform
3 81 (79.41%) Kubernetes
4 79 (77.45%) AWS
5 72 (70.59%) CI/CD
6 69 (67.65%) Python
7 56 (54.90%) Infrastructure as Code
8 50 (49.02%) Jenkins
9 44 (43.14%) Linux
10 43 (42.16%) Ansible
10 43 (42.16%) Docker
11 42 (41.18%) Bash
11 42 (41.18%) GitLab
11 42 (41.18%) Security Cleared
12 40 (39.22%) SC Cleared
13 36 (35.29%) AWS CloudFormation
14 31 (30.39%) Agile
15 29 (28.43%) Grafana
15 29 (28.43%) Go
16 28 (27.45%) Containerisation
17 25 (24.51%) Prometheus
18 24 (23.53%) Azure
19 23 (22.55%) Continuous Integration
20 20 (19.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
21 18 (17.65%) Amazon ECS
21 18 (17.65%) Amazon EC2
21 18 (17.65%) Configuration Management
21 18 (17.65%) Unix
22 17 (16.67%) DNS
22 17 (16.67%) Packer

Senior 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 7 (6.86%) nginx
1 7 (6.86%) Traefik
2 2 (1.96%) Confluence
2 2 (1.96%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.98%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.98%) MQSeries
Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Notion
1 2 (1.96%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.96%) SAP IBP
1 2 (1.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.98%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 79 (77.45%) AWS
2 36 (35.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 24 (23.53%) Azure
4 18 (17.65%) Amazon EC2
4 18 (17.65%) Amazon ECS
5 16 (15.69%) Amazon EKS
5 16 (15.69%) GCP
6 15 (14.71%) GitHub
7 13 (12.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 13 (12.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 12 (11.76%) Amazon S3
8 12 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (11.76%) Entra ID
8 12 (11.76%) Serverless
9 11 (10.78%) AWS Fargate
10 8 (7.84%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (7.84%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (6.86%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (5.88%) OpenShift
13 4 (3.92%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (16.67%) DNS
2 16 (15.69%) TCP/IP
3 7 (6.86%) HTTP
4 5 (4.90%) Internet
5 4 (3.92%) Firewall
5 4 (3.92%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (1.96%) Network Security
7 1 (0.98%) DHCP
7 1 (0.98%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.98%) SMTP
7 1 (0.98%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (15.69%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (10.78%) MongoDB
3 7 (6.86%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (4.90%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (4.90%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (3.92%) SAP HANA
6 3 (2.94%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.98%) MySQL
8 1 (0.98%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.98%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 50 (49.02%) Jenkins
2 42 (41.18%) GitLab
3 10 (9.80%) Git
4 8 (7.84%) JIRA
5 4 (3.92%) Artifactory
6 3 (2.94%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.94%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.96%) Maven
7 2 (1.96%) Selenium
7 2 (1.96%) Subversion
7 2 (1.96%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (1.96%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.98%) Gradle
8 1 (0.98%) Jaeger
General
1 13 (12.75%) Public Sector
1 13 (12.75%) Social Skills
2 12 (11.76%) Finance
3 10 (9.80%) Banking
4 7 (6.86%) Military
5 5 (4.90%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.90%) Front Office
5 5 (4.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.94%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.96%) Electronics
7 2 (1.96%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.96%) Marketing
7 2 (1.96%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.98%) Games
8 1 (0.98%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (15.69%) cloud-init
2 14 (13.73%) Elastic Stack
3 13 (12.75%) Keycloak
4 12 (11.76%) Kafka
5 5 (4.90%) LDAP
5 5 (4.90%) OAuth
5 5 (4.90%) OpenID
6 4 (3.92%) OAuth2
6 4 (3.92%) SAML
7 2 (1.96%) AWS CDK
7 2 (1.96%) AWS SAM
7 2 (1.96%) Node.js
7 2 (1.96%) pytest
7 2 (1.96%) Spring
8 1 (0.98%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.98%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.98%) Bazel
8 1 (0.98%) RESTful
8 1 (0.98%) Swagger
8 1 (0.98%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.73%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.82%) PKI
3 4 (3.92%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.96%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.98%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.98%) FMCG
6 1 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.98%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 44 (43.14%) Linux
2 20 (19.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 18 (17.65%) Unix
4 16 (15.69%) CentOS
5 5 (4.90%) Windows
6 2 (1.96%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.96%) SUSE
7 1 (0.98%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.98%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (100.00%) DevOps
2 72 (70.59%) CI/CD
3 56 (54.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (30.39%) Agile
5 28 (27.45%) Containerisation
6 23 (22.55%) Continuous Integration
7 18 (17.65%) Configuration Management
8 16 (15.69%) Observability
8 16 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (14.71%) Secrets Management
10 14 (13.73%) Cloud Security
11 13 (12.75%) Mentoring
12 12 (11.76%) Deployment Automation
12 12 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 11 (10.78%) High Availability
13 11 (10.78%) Identity Management
13 11 (10.78%) Platform Engineering
14 10 (9.80%) Infrastructure Automation
15 9 (8.82%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
15 9 (8.82%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 69 (67.65%) Python
2 42 (41.18%) Bash
3 29 (28.43%) Go
4 11 (10.78%) Java
4 11 (10.78%) PowerShell
5 10 (9.80%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.92%) Shell Script
7 3 (2.94%) SQL
8 1 (0.98%) Bicep
8 1 (0.98%) C#
8 1 (0.98%) Groovy
8 1 (0.98%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 42 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 40 (39.22%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.78%) AWS Certification
3 11 (10.78%) Degree
4 9 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.98%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.82%) NCSC
2 1 (0.98%) QA
System Software
1 43 (42.16%) Docker
2 6 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.96%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (1.96%) Lustre
5 1 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 88 (86.27%) Terraform
2 81 (79.41%) Kubernetes
3 43 (42.16%) Ansible
4 29 (28.43%) Grafana
5 25 (24.51%) Prometheus
6 17 (16.67%) Packer
7 16 (15.69%) Puppet
8 12 (11.76%) Consul
8 12 (11.76%) Progress Chef
9 10 (9.80%) Istio
9 10 (9.80%) linkerd
9 10 (9.80%) Rancher
10 9 (8.82%) Jamf Pro
10 9 (8.82%) ZABBIX
11 7 (6.86%) Argo
11 7 (6.86%) HAProxy
12 4 (3.92%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (2.94%) logstash
14 2 (1.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (1.96%) Podman
Vendors
1 16 (15.69%) Splunk
2 13 (12.75%) Red Hat
3 11 (10.78%) SAP
4 9 (8.82%) Okta
5 7 (6.86%) Apple
5 7 (6.86%) ESET
6 6 (5.88%) Dynatrace
7 5 (4.90%) Google
8 4 (3.92%) Oracle
9 2 (1.96%) Confluent
9 2 (1.96%) Databricks
9 2 (1.96%) Microsoft
9 2 (1.96%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.98%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.98%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.98%) MKS
10 1 (0.98%) New Relic
10 1 (0.98%) Perforce
10 1 (0.98%) VMware
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