DevOps Architect Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Development Operations Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Development Operations Architect daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £669, 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 292 328 458
Rank change year-on-year +36 +130 +142
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Architect 12 17 19
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.11% 0.073%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.12% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 15 17
10th Percentile £450 £463 £453
25th Percentile £509 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £669 £650 £595
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% +9.24% -15.00%
75th Percentile £725 £688 £725
90th Percentile £726 £745 £785
UK median daily rate £638 £638 £525
% change year-on-year - +21.43% -25.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

DevOps Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured DevOps Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DevOps Architect trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

DevOps Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing DevOps Architect.

DevOps Architect daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps Architect
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing DevOps Architect over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

DevOps Architect daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, DevOps Architect 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring DevOps Architect in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (75.00%) Azure
3 7 (58.33%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
4 5 (41.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (41.67%) Test Automation
5 4 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (33.33%) Software Delivery
6 3 (25.00%) Terraform
6 3 (25.00%) Java
6 3 (25.00%) AWS
7 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
7 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
7 2 (16.67%) DevSecOps
8 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
8 1 (8.33%) Observability
8 1 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (8.33%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
8 1 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
8 1 (8.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (8.33%) Service-Level Objective
8 1 (8.33%) Bicep
8 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (8.33%) RBAC
8 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
8 1 (8.33%) Containerisation
8 1 (8.33%) Customer Service

DevOps Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) Azure
2 7 (58.33%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (8.33%) Azure API Management
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (8.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) DNS
1 1 (8.33%) Network Security
1 1 (8.33%) VPN
1 1 (8.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Selenium
General
1 5 (41.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
3 5 (41.67%) Test Automation
4 4 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 4 (33.33%) Software Delivery
5 2 (16.67%) DevSecOps
6 1 (8.33%) Agile
6 1 (8.33%) Fintech
6 1 (8.33%) Identity Management
6 1 (8.33%) Microservices
6 1 (8.33%) Network Virtualisation
6 1 (8.33%) Observability
6 1 (8.33%) Privileged Identity Management
6 1 (8.33%) RBAC
6 1 (8.33%) Service-Level Objective
6 1 (8.33%) SOA
6 1 (8.33%) Technical Architecture
6 1 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (8.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) Bicep
2 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft