Senior DevOps Contracts

Senior Development Operations
UK

The median Senior Development Operations daily rate in the UK is £636, 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 409 480 540
Rank change year-on-year +71 +60 +15
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 112 102 178
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.23% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.25% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 77 140
10th Percentile £491 £500 £520
25th Percentile £550 £550 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £636 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +6.04% -7.69% +1.56%
75th Percentile £728 £675 £700
90th Percentile £750 £766 £764
UK excluding London median daily rate £633 £624 £638
% change year-on-year +1.40% -2.16% +6.25%
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
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps in the UK

Senior DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior DevOps in the UK

Senior DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior DevOps in the UK

Senior DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior DevOps in the UK

Senior DevOps
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 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 +55 83 £635 +5.83% 75
Work from Home +64 69 £635 +5.83% 49
London +40 47 £635 +2.63% 36
UK excluding London +62 33 £633 +1.40% 56
North of England +33 26 £590 -10.94% 9
Yorkshire - 13 £688 - 3
North West +12 7 £663 - 6
North East - 7 £570 -
South West +44 3 £675 +19.47% 4
South East +37 2 £700 +16.67% 19
Midlands +20 1 - - 7
East of England - 1 £438 - 7
East Midlands - 1 - - 1

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

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

1 112 (100.00%) DevOps
2 97 (86.61%) Terraform
3 89 (79.46%) AWS
4 87 (77.68%) Kubernetes
5 79 (70.54%) CI/CD
6 76 (67.86%) Python
7 62 (55.36%) Infrastructure as Code
8 57 (50.89%) Jenkins
9 51 (45.54%) Linux
10 50 (44.64%) Security Cleared
10 50 (44.64%) GitLab
11 48 (42.86%) Bash
12 47 (41.96%) Docker
12 47 (41.96%) SC Cleared
13 43 (38.39%) Ansible
14 41 (36.61%) AWS CloudFormation
15 36 (32.14%) Grafana
16 34 (30.36%) Go
17 32 (28.57%) Agile
17 32 (28.57%) Prometheus
18 30 (26.79%) Containerisation
19 28 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
20 26 (23.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
20 26 (23.21%) Azure
21 23 (20.54%) Packer
21 23 (20.54%) Unix
21 23 (20.54%) Amazon ECS
22 22 (19.64%) CentOS
23 21 (18.75%) Amazon EC2
23 21 (18.75%) DNS

Senior 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 13 (11.61%) nginx
2 11 (9.82%) Traefik
3 2 (1.79%) Confluence
3 2 (1.79%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.89%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.89%) MQSeries
Applications
1 2 (1.79%) Notion
1 2 (1.79%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.79%) SAP IBP
1 2 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.89%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 89 (79.46%) AWS
2 41 (36.61%) AWS CloudFormation
3 26 (23.21%) Azure
4 23 (20.54%) Amazon ECS
5 21 (18.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 21 (18.75%) Amazon EC2
6 18 (16.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 16 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
7 16 (14.29%) Entra ID
7 16 (14.29%) GCP
7 16 (14.29%) GitHub
8 15 (13.39%) AWS Fargate
9 14 (12.50%) Amazon S3
9 14 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (12.50%) Serverless
10 9 (8.04%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
11 8 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (5.36%) OpenShift
13 5 (4.46%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (18.75%) DNS
2 20 (17.86%) TCP/IP
3 8 (7.14%) HTTP
4 5 (4.46%) Internet
5 4 (3.57%) Firewall
5 4 (3.57%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (1.79%) Network Security
6 2 (1.79%) SSL
7 1 (0.89%) DHCP
7 1 (0.89%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.89%) SMTP
7 1 (0.89%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (15.18%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 7 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (4.46%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (4.46%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (3.57%) SAP HANA
6 3 (2.68%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.79%) MySQL
8 1 (0.89%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 57 (50.89%) Jenkins
2 50 (44.64%) GitLab
3 10 (8.93%) Git
4 8 (7.14%) JIRA
5 4 (3.57%) Artifactory
6 3 (2.68%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.68%) CircleCI
6 3 (2.68%) Maven
7 2 (1.79%) Gradle
7 2 (1.79%) Selenium
7 2 (1.79%) Subversion
7 2 (1.79%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (1.79%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.89%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.89%) SonarQube
General
1 17 (15.18%) Public Sector
2 13 (11.61%) Finance
2 13 (11.61%) Social Skills
3 10 (8.93%) Banking
4 7 (6.25%) Military
5 5 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.46%) Front Office
5 5 (4.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.68%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.79%) Electronics
7 2 (1.79%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.79%) Marketing
7 2 (1.79%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.89%) Games
8 1 (0.89%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (18.75%) cloud-init
2 17 (15.18%) Keycloak
3 16 (14.29%) Kafka
4 15 (13.39%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (4.46%) LDAP
5 5 (4.46%) OAuth
5 5 (4.46%) OpenID
6 4 (3.57%) OAuth2
6 4 (3.57%) SAML
7 2 (1.79%) AWS CDK
7 2 (1.79%) AWS SAM
7 2 (1.79%) Node.js
7 2 (1.79%) pytest
7 2 (1.79%) REST
7 2 (1.79%) SOAP
7 2 (1.79%) Spring
8 1 (0.89%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.89%) Bazel
8 1 (0.89%) RESTful
8 1 (0.89%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 13 (11.61%) PKI
3 4 (3.57%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.79%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.89%) FMCG
6 1 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.89%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 51 (45.54%) Linux
2 26 (23.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 23 (20.54%) Unix
4 22 (19.64%) CentOS
5 5 (4.46%) Windows
6 2 (1.79%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.79%) SUSE
7 1 (0.89%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.89%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (100.00%) DevOps
2 79 (70.54%) CI/CD
3 62 (55.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 32 (28.57%) Agile
5 30 (26.79%) Containerisation
6 28 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
7 20 (17.86%) Observability
7 20 (17.86%) Secrets Management
8 18 (16.07%) Cloud Security
8 18 (16.07%) Configuration Management
9 16 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (13.39%) Identity Management
11 13 (11.61%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
11 13 (11.61%) Mentoring
11 13 (11.61%) Static Application Security Testing
12 12 (10.71%) Deployment Automation
12 12 (10.71%) High Availability
12 12 (10.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 11 (9.82%) Mobile Device Management
13 11 (9.82%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 76 (67.86%) Python
2 48 (42.86%) Bash
3 34 (30.36%) Go
4 12 (10.71%) Java
5 11 (9.82%) PowerShell
6 10 (8.93%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.57%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.68%) SQL
9 1 (0.89%) Bicep
9 1 (0.89%) C#
9 1 (0.89%) Groovy
9 1 (0.89%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 50 (44.64%) Security Cleared
2 47 (41.96%) SC Cleared
3 16 (14.29%) AWS Certification
4 11 (9.82%) Degree
5 9 (8.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.89%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.61%) NCSC
2 1 (0.89%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (0.89%) GDPR
2 1 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.89%) QA
System Software
1 47 (41.96%) Docker
2 6 (5.36%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.68%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.79%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (1.79%) Lustre
5 1 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 97 (86.61%) Terraform
2 87 (77.68%) Kubernetes
3 43 (38.39%) Ansible
4 36 (32.14%) Grafana
5 32 (28.57%) Prometheus
6 23 (20.54%) Packer
7 17 (15.18%) Puppet
8 16 (14.29%) Consul
9 14 (12.50%) Istio
9 14 (12.50%) linkerd
9 14 (12.50%) Rancher
10 13 (11.61%) Jamf Pro
10 13 (11.61%) ZABBIX
11 12 (10.71%) Progress Chef
12 11 (9.82%) HAProxy
13 7 (6.25%) Argo
14 4 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
15 3 (2.68%) logstash
16 2 (1.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 2 (1.79%) Podman
Vendors
1 20 (17.86%) Splunk
2 13 (11.61%) Okta
2 13 (11.61%) Red Hat
3 11 (9.82%) Apple
3 11 (9.82%) ESET
3 11 (9.82%) SAP
4 6 (5.36%) Dynatrace
5 5 (4.46%) Google
6 4 (3.57%) Oracle
7 2 (1.79%) Confluent
7 2 (1.79%) Databricks
7 2 (1.79%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.79%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.89%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.89%) Black Duck
8 1 (0.89%) Checkmarx
8 1 (0.89%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.89%) New Relic
8 1 (0.89%) Rollbar
8 1 (0.89%) Tenable