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 11 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
11 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 424 511 553
Rank change year-on-year +87 +42 +42
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 94 71 150
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.17% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.18% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 51 125
10th Percentile £478 £513 £520
25th Percentile £525 £556 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £700 £755 £700
90th Percentile £738 £1,000 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £643 £650
% change year-on-year -10.51% -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 27,240 39,893 54,783
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 92.77% 94.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,738 25,957 38,247
10th Percentile £300 £280 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,059 2,674 1,534
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £28.41 £37.34 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.92% -17.02% +88.21%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.30 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.90 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -31.25% -5.88% +112.50%

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 11 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 11 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 +93 67 £635 -2.31% 88
Work from Home +74 60 £635 -0.78% 57
London +43 40 £635 -2.31% 50
UK excluding London +59 25 £575 -10.51% 65
North of England +27 18 £575 -4.17% 11
Yorkshire - 11 £675 - 6
North West +11 5 £575 -4.17% 5
South West +40 3 £675 +35.00% 6
North East - 3 £525 -
South East +42 2 £700 +7.69% 24
Midlands +21 1 - - 7
East of England - 1 £438 - 4
East Midlands - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 11 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 94 (100.00%) DevOps
2 80 (85.11%) Terraform
3 74 (78.72%) Kubernetes
4 73 (77.66%) AWS
5 65 (69.15%) CI/CD
6 61 (64.89%) Python
7 55 (58.51%) Infrastructure as Code
8 47 (50.00%) Jenkins
9 43 (45.74%) Ansible
10 41 (43.62%) Linux
11 40 (42.55%) Security Cleared
11 40 (42.55%) Docker
12 39 (41.49%) GitLab
13 38 (40.43%) SC Cleared
13 38 (40.43%) Bash
14 30 (31.91%) AWS CloudFormation
15 29 (30.85%) Containerisation
16 27 (28.72%) Grafana
16 27 (28.72%) Agile
17 23 (24.47%) Azure
17 23 (24.47%) Prometheus
17 23 (24.47%) Go
18 20 (21.28%) Continuous Integration
19 19 (20.21%) Configuration Management
20 17 (18.09%) Amazon EKS
20 17 (18.09%) Puppet
20 17 (18.09%) Amazon EC2
21 16 (17.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
21 16 (17.02%) GCP
22 15 (15.96%) Amazon RDS

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 4 (4.26%) nginx
1 4 (4.26%) Traefik
2 2 (2.13%) Confluence
2 2 (2.13%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.06%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.06%) MQSeries
Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Notion
1 2 (2.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.13%) SAP IBP
1 2 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.06%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 73 (77.66%) AWS
2 30 (31.91%) AWS CloudFormation
3 23 (24.47%) Azure
4 17 (18.09%) Amazon EC2
4 17 (18.09%) Amazon EKS
5 16 (17.02%) GCP
6 14 (14.89%) GitHub
7 13 (13.83%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (10.64%) Amazon S3
8 10 (10.64%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (10.64%) Serverless
8 10 (10.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 9 (9.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (9.57%) Entra ID
10 8 (8.51%) AWS Fargate
10 8 (8.51%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (7.45%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (5.32%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (5.32%) OpenShift
13 4 (4.26%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (15.96%) DNS
2 14 (14.89%) TCP/IP
3 8 (8.51%) HTTP
4 6 (6.38%) Internet
5 4 (4.26%) Firewall
5 4 (4.26%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (2.13%) Network Security
7 1 (1.06%) DHCP
7 1 (1.06%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (1.06%) SMTP
7 1 (1.06%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (15.96%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (8.51%) Amazon Aurora
2 8 (8.51%) MongoDB
3 5 (5.32%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (4.26%) SAP HANA
5 3 (3.19%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (3.19%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.06%) MySQL
7 1 (1.06%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.06%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 47 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 39 (41.49%) GitLab
3 11 (11.70%) Git
4 8 (8.51%) JIRA
5 4 (4.26%) Artifactory
6 3 (3.19%) Bitbucket
6 3 (3.19%) CircleCI
7 2 (2.13%) Maven
7 2 (2.13%) Selenium
7 2 (2.13%) Subversion
7 2 (2.13%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (2.13%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.06%) Gradle
8 1 (1.06%) Jaeger
General
1 13 (13.83%) Public Sector
2 11 (11.70%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.57%) Banking
3 9 (9.57%) Finance
4 5 (5.32%) Military
5 3 (3.19%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.19%) Front Office
5 3 (3.19%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.13%) Electronics
6 2 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.13%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.13%) Marketing
6 2 (2.13%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.06%) Games
7 1 (1.06%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.96%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (12.77%) cloud-init
3 10 (10.64%) Keycloak
4 9 (9.57%) Kafka
5 5 (5.32%) LDAP
5 5 (5.32%) OAuth
5 5 (5.32%) OpenID
6 4 (4.26%) OAuth2
6 4 (4.26%) SAML
7 2 (2.13%) AWS CDK
7 2 (2.13%) AWS SAM
7 2 (2.13%) pytest
7 2 (2.13%) Spring
8 1 (1.06%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.06%) ARM Templates
8 1 (1.06%) Bazel
8 1 (1.06%) Node.js
8 1 (1.06%) RESTful
8 1 (1.06%) Swagger
8 1 (1.06%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.89%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.38%) PKI
3 5 (5.32%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.13%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.06%) FMCG
6 1 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.06%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 41 (43.62%) Linux
2 16 (17.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 14 (14.89%) Unix
4 12 (12.77%) CentOS
5 5 (5.32%) Windows
6 2 (2.13%) Mac OS
6 2 (2.13%) SUSE
7 1 (1.06%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (1.06%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (100.00%) DevOps
2 65 (69.15%) CI/CD
3 55 (58.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (30.85%) Containerisation
5 27 (28.72%) Agile
6 20 (21.28%) Continuous Integration
7 19 (20.21%) Configuration Management
8 14 (14.89%) Mentoring
8 14 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (13.83%) Deployment Automation
9 13 (13.83%) Observability
10 11 (11.70%) Cloud Security
10 11 (11.70%) High Availability
10 11 (11.70%) Platform Engineering
10 11 (11.70%) Secrets Management
11 10 (10.64%) Infrastructure Automation
11 10 (10.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 9 (9.57%) Computer Science
12 9 (9.57%) Task Automation
13 7 (7.45%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 61 (64.89%) Python
2 38 (40.43%) Bash
3 23 (24.47%) Go
4 11 (11.70%) PowerShell
5 10 (10.64%) Java
6 7 (7.45%) JavaScript
7 4 (4.26%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.19%) SQL
9 1 (1.06%) Bicep
9 1 (1.06%) C#
9 1 (1.06%) Groovy
9 1 (1.06%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 40 (42.55%) Security Cleared
2 38 (40.43%) SC Cleared
3 11 (11.70%) Degree
4 9 (9.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (8.51%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.06%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.38%) NCSC
2 1 (1.06%) QA
System Software
1 40 (42.55%) Docker
2 6 (6.38%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.19%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (2.13%) Lustre
5 1 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 80 (85.11%) Terraform
2 74 (78.72%) Kubernetes
3 43 (45.74%) Ansible
4 27 (28.72%) Grafana
5 23 (24.47%) Prometheus
6 17 (18.09%) Puppet
7 13 (13.83%) Packer
7 13 (13.83%) Progress Chef
8 9 (9.57%) Consul
9 7 (7.45%) Argo
9 7 (7.45%) Istio
9 7 (7.45%) linkerd
9 7 (7.45%) Rancher
10 6 (6.38%) Jamf Pro
10 6 (6.38%) ZABBIX
11 4 (4.26%) HAProxy
11 4 (4.26%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (3.19%) logstash
13 2 (2.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (2.13%) Podman
Vendors
1 14 (14.89%) Red Hat
2 12 (12.77%) Splunk
3 11 (11.70%) SAP
4 6 (6.38%) Dynatrace
4 6 (6.38%) Okta
5 5 (5.32%) Google
6 4 (4.26%) Apple
6 4 (4.26%) ESET
6 4 (4.26%) Oracle
7 2 (2.13%) Confluent
7 2 (2.13%) Microsoft
7 2 (2.13%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.06%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.06%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.06%) MKS
8 1 (1.06%) New Relic
8 1 (1.06%) Perforce
8 1 (1.06%) VMware
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