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 in the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2024.

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

 6 months to
20 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 491 564 627
Rank change year-on-year +73 +63 -95
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 93 133 223
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.24% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.25% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 114 176
10th Percentile £513 £522 £513
25th Percentile £559 £591 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £645
Median % change year-on-year - +0.81% +12.13%
75th Percentile £753 £700 £725
90th Percentile £944 £738 £769
UK excluding London median daily rate £643 £675 £600
% change year-on-year -4.81% +12.50% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £73.50 - -
75th Percentile £74.22 - -
90th Percentile £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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

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 20 June 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 11 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 20 June 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 +47 76 £650 - 49
London +68 47 £650 - 31
Work from Home +92 42 £640 +0.39% 26
UK excluding London +8 25 £643 -4.81% 23
North West +16 9 £600 -7.69% 3
North of England +9 9 £600 -14.29% 5
South East +10 7 £650 -10.34% 2
South West +1 7 £625 -7.41% 7
Midlands +12 2 - - 3
East Midlands +5 2 - - 1
Wales - 2 £821 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 20 June 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 93 (100.00%) DevOps
2 56 (60.22%) Terraform
3 50 (53.76%) AWS
4 47 (50.54%) Kubernetes
5 44 (47.31%) CI/CD
6 43 (46.24%) Python
7 41 (44.09%) Security Cleared
8 36 (38.71%) Azure
9 31 (33.33%) Ansible
9 31 (33.33%) Docker
10 29 (31.18%) SC Cleared
11 24 (25.81%) Jenkins
12 22 (23.66%) Infrastructure as Code
13 19 (20.43%) Bash
14 18 (19.35%) PowerShell
14 18 (19.35%) Git
14 18 (19.35%) Linux
15 17 (18.28%) Agile
16 16 (17.20%) Banking
16 16 (17.20%) GitHub
17 15 (16.13%) Public Sector
18 14 (15.05%) Configuration Management
18 14 (15.05%) Containerisation
19 13 (13.98%) Test Automation
19 13 (13.98%) Problem-Solving
19 13 (13.98%) Grafana
19 13 (13.98%) GitLab
20 12 (12.90%) OpenShift
20 12 (12.90%) TypeScript
20 12 (12.90%) PaaS

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 (4.30%) Confluence
2 3 (3.23%) Apache
3 2 (2.15%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.08%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 4 (4.30%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 50 (53.76%) AWS
2 36 (38.71%) Azure
3 16 (17.20%) GitHub
4 12 (12.90%) GitHub Actions
4 12 (12.90%) OpenShift
4 12 (12.90%) PaaS
5 11 (11.83%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (10.75%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (9.68%) GCP
8 7 (7.53%) Serverless
9 6 (6.45%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (4.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (4.30%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (4.30%) Miro
10 4 (4.30%) OCI
10 4 (4.30%) SaaS
11 3 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (3.23%) AWS Control Tower
11 3 (3.23%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.30%) Firewall
2 3 (3.23%) DNS
3 2 (2.15%) Network Security
4 1 (1.08%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.08%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.60%) Elasticsearch
1 8 (8.60%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.53%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.15%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.15%) Redis
5 1 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.08%) Big Data
5 1 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.08%) DB2
5 1 (1.08%) MySQL
5 1 (1.08%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.08%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 24 (25.81%) Jenkins
2 18 (19.35%) Git
3 13 (13.98%) GitLab
4 9 (9.68%) TeamCity
5 8 (8.60%) Bitbucket
6 6 (6.45%) Artifactory
7 3 (3.23%) Maven
7 3 (3.23%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.15%) Gradle
8 2 (2.15%) JIRA
8 2 (2.15%) Selenium
9 1 (1.08%) Apache Continuum
9 1 (1.08%) Burp Suite
9 1 (1.08%) CircleCI
9 1 (1.08%) Jaeger
9 1 (1.08%) Snyk
9 1 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (17.20%) Banking
2 15 (16.13%) Public Sector
3 11 (11.83%) Finance
4 10 (10.75%) Investment Banking
5 9 (9.68%) Social Skills
6 1 (1.08%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.08%) Electronics
6 1 (1.08%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.08%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.08%) Marketing
6 1 (1.08%) Tech for Good
6 1 (1.08%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.75%) Kafka
2 7 (7.53%) .NET
3 5 (5.38%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (5.38%) WCF
3 5 (5.38%) WinForms
4 4 (4.30%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (3.23%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (3.23%) ARM Templates
5 3 (3.23%) Node.js
5 3 (3.23%) REST
6 2 (2.15%) Fluent Bit
6 2 (2.15%) Loki
6 2 (2.15%) pytest
6 2 (2.15%) RESTful
6 2 (2.15%) YAML
7 1 (1.08%) JPA
7 1 (1.08%) PyTorch
7 1 (1.08%) React
7 1 (1.08%) SailPoint
7 1 (1.08%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.75%) Product Ownership
2 7 (7.53%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (7.53%) Public Cloud
3 5 (5.38%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (3.23%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.15%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.15%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.08%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.08%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 18 (19.35%) Linux
2 12 (12.90%) Windows
3 10 (10.75%) Unix
4 4 (4.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.15%) Alpine Linux
5 2 (2.15%) Android
5 2 (2.15%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.08%) VMS
6 1 (1.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (100.00%) DevOps
2 44 (47.31%) CI/CD
3 22 (23.66%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (18.28%) Agile
5 14 (15.05%) Configuration Management
5 14 (15.05%) Containerisation
6 13 (13.98%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (13.98%) Test Automation
7 11 (11.83%) SDLC
8 10 (10.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (10.75%) Open Source
8 10 (10.75%) Roadmaps
9 9 (9.68%) Mentoring
9 9 (9.68%) Migration
9 9 (9.68%) Service Catalogue
10 8 (8.60%) Observability
11 7 (7.53%) Platform Engineering
11 7 (7.53%) Software Engineering
12 6 (6.45%) GitOps
13 5 (5.38%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 43 (46.24%) Python
2 19 (20.43%) Bash
3 18 (19.35%) PowerShell
4 12 (12.90%) TypeScript
5 9 (9.68%) Go
6 8 (8.60%) Java
6 8 (8.60%) SQL
7 6 (6.45%) C#
8 5 (5.38%) JavaScript
9 4 (4.30%) Ruby
10 3 (3.23%) Groovy
11 2 (2.15%) Bicep
11 2 (2.15%) C++
12 1 (1.08%) C
12 1 (1.08%) Perl
12 1 (1.08%) PHP
Qualifications
1 41 (44.09%) Security Cleared
2 29 (31.18%) SC Cleared
3 9 (9.68%) DV Cleared
4 7 (7.53%) Degree
5 5 (5.38%) AWS Certification
6 3 (3.23%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.08%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.30%) QA
2 1 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.08%) NIST
2 1 (1.08%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 31 (33.33%) Docker
2 5 (5.38%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.08%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 56 (60.22%) Terraform
2 47 (50.54%) Kubernetes
3 31 (33.33%) Ansible
4 13 (13.98%) Grafana
5 11 (11.83%) Prometheus
6 5 (5.38%) Puppet
7 4 (4.30%) Argo
8 3 (3.23%) Progress Chef
9 2 (2.15%) Kustomize
9 2 (2.15%) Nagios
10 1 (1.08%) Graylog
10 1 (1.08%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (7.53%) Splunk
2 6 (6.45%) Oracle
3 4 (4.30%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.23%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.23%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.15%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.15%) VMware
6 1 (1.08%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.08%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.08%) Cisco
6 1 (1.08%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.08%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.08%) Google
6 1 (1.08%) Guidewire
6 1 (1.08%) New Relic
6 1 (1.08%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.08%) SAP
6 1 (1.08%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.08%) Sun
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