Senior DevOps Contracts

Senior Development Operations
UK

The median Senior Development Operations daily rate in the UK is £600 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 497 541 550
Rank change year-on-year +44 +9 -85
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 101 179 315
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.30% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.32% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 141 255
10th Percentile £500 £520 £500
25th Percentile £550 £575 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £640
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +1.56% +11.30%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £725
90th Percentile £768 £775 £823
UK excluding London median daily rate £624 £638 £600
% change year-on-year -2.16% +6.25% +17.36%
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
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 27 April 2024.

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 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 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 +55 84 £600 -7.69% 43
Work from Home +83 45 £600 -4.00% 41
London +56 44 £600 -7.69% 23
UK excluding London +39 34 £624 -2.16% 25
North of England +24 12 £663 +1.92% 6
North West +16 12 £663 +3.92% 3
South East +26 11 £600 -11.11% 3
South West +14 5 £565 -14.72% 8
West Midlands +23 3 £350 -50.00% 1
Midlands +15 3 £350 -48.15% 2
Wales - 2 £646 -
Scotland +33 1 £618 +37.22% 5

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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.

1 101 (100.00%) DevOps
2 55 (54.46%) CI/CD
3 51 (50.50%) Terraform
4 46 (45.54%) Azure
5 45 (44.55%) AWS
6 44 (43.56%) Kubernetes
7 42 (41.58%) Python
8 36 (35.64%) Security Cleared
9 28 (27.72%) Docker
10 27 (26.73%) Ansible
11 23 (22.77%) SC Cleared
12 22 (21.78%) Jenkins
13 21 (20.79%) PowerShell
13 21 (20.79%) Agile
14 20 (19.80%) Bash
14 20 (19.80%) Infrastructure as Code
15 18 (17.82%) Azure DevOps
16 17 (16.83%) Git
16 17 (16.83%) Banking
17 16 (15.84%) Problem-Solving
18 14 (13.86%) Linux
18 14 (13.86%) SDLC
19 13 (12.87%) GitLab
19 13 (12.87%) Test Automation
19 13 (12.87%) GitHub
19 13 (12.87%) C#
19 13 (12.87%) Configuration Management
19 13 (12.87%) Public Sector
20 12 (11.88%) Product Ownership
20 12 (11.88%) .NET

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 5 (4.95%) Confluence
2 2 (1.98%) Apache
2 2 (1.98%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.99%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.99%) SAS
3 1 (0.99%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.96%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 46 (45.54%) Azure
2 45 (44.55%) AWS
3 18 (17.82%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (12.87%) GitHub
5 10 (9.90%) GCP
6 9 (8.91%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (8.91%) PaaS
7 8 (7.92%) Serverless
8 7 (6.93%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (6.93%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (6.93%) OpenShift
8 7 (6.93%) SaaS
9 6 (5.94%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (4.95%) Amazon S3
11 4 (3.96%) Entra ID
11 4 (3.96%) Miro
11 4 (3.96%) OCI
12 3 (2.97%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (2.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (2.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.94%) Firewall
1 6 (5.94%) Network Security
2 2 (1.98%) DNS
3 1 (0.99%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (0.99%) HTTP
3 1 (0.99%) Internet
3 1 (0.99%) iSCSI
3 1 (0.99%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (0.99%) SSL
3 1 (0.99%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.88%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.93%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (6.93%) Relational Database
3 5 (4.95%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (2.97%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.98%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.98%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.98%) Redis
6 1 (0.99%) MySQL
6 1 (0.99%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.99%) QGIS
6 1 (0.99%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 22 (21.78%) Jenkins
2 17 (16.83%) Git
3 13 (12.87%) GitLab
4 9 (8.91%) TeamCity
5 6 (5.94%) Artifactory
6 5 (4.95%) Bitbucket
7 4 (3.96%) JIRA
8 3 (2.97%) CircleCI
8 3 (2.97%) Selenium
9 2 (1.98%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.98%) Travis CI
10 1 (0.99%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.99%) Jaeger
10 1 (0.99%) Postman
10 1 (0.99%) Snyk
10 1 (0.99%) Subversion
10 1 (0.99%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 17 (16.83%) Banking
2 13 (12.87%) Public Sector
3 11 (10.89%) Finance
4 10 (9.90%) Investment Banking
5 5 (4.95%) Social Skills
6 2 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.98%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.99%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.99%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.99%) Electronics
7 1 (0.99%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.99%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.99%) Marketing
7 1 (0.99%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.88%) .NET
2 7 (6.93%) Kafka
3 5 (4.95%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (4.95%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (4.95%) WCF
3 5 (4.95%) WinForms
4 4 (3.96%) Node.js
4 4 (3.96%) XML
5 3 (2.97%) YAML
6 2 (1.98%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.98%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.98%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.98%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (1.98%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.98%) AWS SAM
6 2 (1.98%) pytest
6 2 (1.98%) REST
7 1 (0.99%) ADO
7 1 (0.99%) LDAP
7 1 (0.99%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.88%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.93%) Public Cloud
3 5 (4.95%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.95%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (3.96%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.97%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.97%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.97%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.97%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.98%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.98%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.99%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.99%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 14 (13.86%) Linux
2 11 (10.89%) Windows
3 9 (8.91%) Unix
4 4 (3.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.97%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.98%) Alpine Linux
6 2 (1.98%) Android
6 2 (1.98%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.99%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (100.00%) DevOps
2 55 (54.46%) CI/CD
3 21 (20.79%) Agile
4 20 (19.80%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (15.84%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (13.86%) SDLC
7 13 (12.87%) Configuration Management
7 13 (12.87%) Test Automation
8 11 (10.89%) Containerisation
9 9 (8.91%) Migration
10 8 (7.92%) Open Source
10 8 (7.92%) Roadmaps
11 7 (6.93%) Scrum
12 6 (5.94%) Mentoring
12 6 (5.94%) Observability
12 6 (5.94%) Platform Engineering
12 6 (5.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 6 (5.94%) Software Engineering
12 6 (5.94%) Technical Leadership
13 5 (4.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 42 (41.58%) Python
2 21 (20.79%) PowerShell
3 20 (19.80%) Bash
4 13 (12.87%) C#
5 11 (10.89%) SQL
6 10 (9.90%) Go
7 8 (7.92%) Java
8 6 (5.94%) TypeScript
9 5 (4.95%) Bicep
10 4 (3.96%) JavaScript
11 3 (2.97%) C++
12 1 (0.99%) C
12 1 (0.99%) Groovy
12 1 (0.99%) Perl
12 1 (0.99%) PHP
12 1 (0.99%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 36 (35.64%) Security Cleared
2 23 (22.77%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.89%) DV Cleared
4 8 (7.92%) AWS Certification
5 7 (6.93%) Degree
6 6 (5.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.99%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.99%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.99%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.99%) MCSE
8 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.99%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.95%) QA
2 1 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.99%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.99%) NIST
2 1 (0.99%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (27.72%) Docker
2 9 (8.91%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.97%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.99%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.99%) NFS
Systems Management
1 51 (50.50%) Terraform
2 44 (43.56%) Kubernetes
3 27 (26.73%) Ansible
4 12 (11.88%) Grafana
5 9 (8.91%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.96%) Progress Chef
6 4 (3.96%) Puppet
7 2 (1.98%) Argo
7 2 (1.98%) Nagios
8 1 (0.99%) BladeLogic
8 1 (0.99%) Graylog
8 1 (0.99%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.99%) Kibana
8 1 (0.99%) Packer
8 1 (0.99%) vRealize
Vendors
1 8 (7.92%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.93%) Splunk
3 5 (4.95%) Dynatrace
3 5 (4.95%) Oracle
4 3 (2.97%) Virgin Media
4 3 (2.97%) VMware
5 2 (1.98%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.98%) Citrix
5 2 (1.98%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.99%) Altiris
6 1 (0.99%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.99%) Cadence
6 1 (0.99%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.99%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.99%) Google
6 1 (0.99%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.99%) New Relic
6 1 (0.99%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.99%) SAP