Senior DevOps Engineer Contracts

Senior Development Operations Engineer
UK

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the UK is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 527 559 593
Rank change year-on-year +32 +34 -109
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 71 160 262
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.27% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.28% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 133 211
10th Percentile £513 £521 £506
25th Percentile £564 £575 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £716 £713 £690
90th Percentile £798 £775 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £643 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -1.15% +8.33% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £73.69 - -
25th Percentile £73.97 - -
Median hourly rate £74.44 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.44 - -

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 40,172 56,583 84,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,161 39,538 59,512
10th Percentile £275 £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 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,585 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.55%

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 27 April 2024.

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 12 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 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 +42 55 £650 - 37
Work from Home +80 32 £646 +3.40% 35
London +49 32 £650 - 18
UK excluding London +37 21 £643 -1.15% 22
North of England +23 8 £600 -11.11% 6
North West +15 8 £600 -6.80% 2
South East +22 4 £663 -1.85% 3
South West +14 4 £500 -25.93% 7
West Midlands +25 2 £350 -50.00% 1
Midlands +17 2 £350 -48.15% 2
Wales - 2 £646 -
Scotland - 1 £618 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 71 (100.00%) DevOps
2 42 (59.15%) Terraform
3 36 (50.70%) Kubernetes
4 35 (49.30%) Python
5 34 (47.89%) CI/CD
6 33 (46.48%) AWS
7 30 (42.25%) Azure
8 26 (36.62%) Security Cleared
9 22 (30.99%) Ansible
9 22 (30.99%) Docker
10 21 (29.58%) SC Cleared
11 18 (25.35%) Jenkins
11 18 (25.35%) Infrastructure as Code
12 17 (23.94%) Banking
13 16 (22.54%) PowerShell
14 14 (19.72%) Bash
15 13 (18.31%) GitHub
15 13 (18.31%) Test Automation
15 13 (18.31%) Agile
15 13 (18.31%) Linux
16 12 (16.90%) Git
16 12 (16.90%) Public Sector
17 11 (15.49%) Azure DevOps
17 11 (15.49%) Grafana
18 10 (14.08%) GitLab
18 10 (14.08%) Investment Banking
18 10 (14.08%) Windows
18 10 (14.08%) Configuration Management
19 9 (12.68%) Finance
19 9 (12.68%) Migration

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 5 (7.04%) Confluence
2 2 (2.82%) Apache
2 2 (2.82%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.41%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.41%) SAS
3 1 (1.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.63%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 33 (46.48%) AWS
2 30 (42.25%) Azure
3 13 (18.31%) GitHub
4 11 (15.49%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (12.68%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (12.68%) PaaS
6 7 (9.86%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (9.86%) GCP
6 7 (9.86%) OpenShift
7 6 (8.45%) Serverless
8 5 (7.04%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (7.04%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (5.63%) Amazon S3
9 4 (5.63%) Miro
9 4 (5.63%) OCI
9 4 (5.63%) SaaS
10 3 (4.23%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (2.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (2.82%) Amazon SageMaker
11 2 (2.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.04%) Firewall
2 2 (2.82%) DNS
2 2 (2.82%) Network Security
3 1 (1.41%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (1.41%) HTTP
3 1 (1.41%) Internet
3 1 (1.41%) iSCSI
3 1 (1.41%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (1.41%) SSL
3 1 (1.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.27%) SQL Server
2 7 (9.86%) Relational Database
3 6 (8.45%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (4.23%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.82%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.82%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.82%) Redis
6 1 (1.41%) MySQL
6 1 (1.41%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.41%) QGIS
6 1 (1.41%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (25.35%) Jenkins
2 12 (16.90%) Git
3 10 (14.08%) GitLab
4 9 (12.68%) TeamCity
5 5 (7.04%) Artifactory
5 5 (7.04%) Bitbucket
6 3 (4.23%) JIRA
7 2 (2.82%) Selenium
7 2 (2.82%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.41%) Burp Suite
8 1 (1.41%) CircleCI
8 1 (1.41%) Jaeger
8 1 (1.41%) Postman
8 1 (1.41%) Snyk
General
1 17 (23.94%) Banking
2 12 (16.90%) Public Sector
3 10 (14.08%) Investment Banking
4 9 (12.68%) Finance
5 4 (5.63%) Social Skills
6 2 (2.82%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.41%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.41%) Electronics
7 1 (1.41%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.41%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.41%) Marketing
7 1 (1.41%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.86%) .NET
1 7 (9.86%) Kafka
2 5 (7.04%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (7.04%) WCF
2 5 (7.04%) WinForms
3 4 (5.63%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (4.23%) YAML
5 2 (2.82%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (2.82%) ARM Templates
5 2 (2.82%) Node.js
5 2 (2.82%) pytest
5 2 (2.82%) REST
6 1 (1.41%) ADO
6 1 (1.41%) AWS SAM
6 1 (1.41%) Flash
6 1 (1.41%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.41%) React
6 1 (1.41%) RESTful
6 1 (1.41%) SAML
6 1 (1.41%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.68%) Product Ownership
2 7 (9.86%) Public Cloud
3 5 (7.04%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (7.04%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (4.23%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (4.23%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.82%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.41%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.41%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 13 (18.31%) Linux
2 10 (14.08%) Windows
3 8 (11.27%) Unix
4 4 (5.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.82%) Alpine Linux
5 2 (2.82%) Android
5 2 (2.82%) Apple iOS
5 2 (2.82%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (100.00%) DevOps
2 34 (47.89%) CI/CD
3 18 (25.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (18.31%) Agile
4 13 (18.31%) Test Automation
5 10 (14.08%) Configuration Management
6 9 (12.68%) Migration
7 8 (11.27%) Open Source
7 8 (11.27%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (11.27%) Roadmaps
7 8 (11.27%) SDLC
8 6 (8.45%) Containerisation
8 6 (8.45%) Mentoring
8 6 (8.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 5 (7.04%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (7.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 5 (7.04%) Observability
9 5 (7.04%) Platform Engineering
9 5 (7.04%) Service Catalogue
9 5 (7.04%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 35 (49.30%) Python
2 16 (22.54%) PowerShell
3 14 (19.72%) Bash
4 9 (12.68%) Go
4 9 (12.68%) SQL
5 6 (8.45%) C#
5 6 (8.45%) TypeScript
6 3 (4.23%) Bicep
6 3 (4.23%) Java
6 3 (4.23%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.82%) C++
8 1 (1.41%) C
8 1 (1.41%) Groovy
8 1 (1.41%) Perl
8 1 (1.41%) PHP
8 1 (1.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 26 (36.62%) Security Cleared
2 21 (29.58%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.45%) Degree
4 4 (5.63%) AWS Certification
5 3 (4.23%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.41%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.41%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.41%) MCSE
7 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.41%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.23%) QA
2 1 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.41%) NIST
2 1 (1.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (30.99%) Docker
2 5 (7.04%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.23%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.41%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.41%) NFS
Systems Management
1 42 (59.15%) Terraform
2 36 (50.70%) Kubernetes
3 22 (30.99%) Ansible
4 11 (15.49%) Grafana
5 9 (12.68%) Prometheus
6 4 (5.63%) Progress Chef
6 4 (5.63%) Puppet
7 2 (2.82%) Argo
7 2 (2.82%) Nagios
8 1 (1.41%) Graylog
8 1 (1.41%) Kibana
8 1 (1.41%) Packer
Vendors
1 7 (9.86%) Splunk
2 5 (7.04%) Oracle
3 4 (5.63%) Dynatrace
4 3 (4.23%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.82%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.82%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.82%) VMware
6 1 (1.41%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.41%) Cadence
6 1 (1.41%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.41%) Citrix
6 1 (1.41%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.41%) Google
6 1 (1.41%) Guidewire
6 1 (1.41%) New Relic
6 1 (1.41%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.41%) SAP
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