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 £563, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 June 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
21 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 338 444
Rank change year-on-year +39 +106 +148
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Architect 8 17 15
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.082% 0.11% 0.063%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.087% 0.12% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 15 14
10th Percentile £469 £548 £445
25th Percentile £494 £625 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £650 £570
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +14.04% -18.57%
75th Percentile £658 £688 £669
90th Percentile £703 £745 £725
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +30.00% -28.57%

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 9,178 13,870 22,661
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.89% 93.64% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,177 9,330 16,078
10th Percentile £325 £325 £356
25th Percentile £413 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £638 £636 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 571 533
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.27 £16.98
25th Percentile £16.38 £22.50 £24.75
Median hourly rate £34.57 £43.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.62% -14.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £65.25 £65.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £27.40 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.93% -16.67% +80.00%

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 21 June 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 21 June 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 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) Azure
3 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 3 (37.50%) Terraform
3 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) Java
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (25.00%) AWS
4 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (25.00%) DevSecOps
4 2 (25.00%) RBAC
5 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
5 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
5 1 (12.50%) Fintech
5 1 (12.50%) Privileged Identity Management
5 1 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
5 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (12.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (12.50%) Service-Level Objective
5 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (12.50%) Observability
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
5 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (12.50%) Bicep
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor

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 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure API Management
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (12.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Network Security
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
1 1 (12.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Selenium
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Spring
1 1 (12.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (25.00%) RBAC
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
4 1 (12.50%) Fintech
4 1 (12.50%) Identity Management
4 1 (12.50%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (12.50%) Microservices
4 1 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (12.50%) Observability
4 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Privileged Identity Management
4 1 (12.50%) Service-Level Objective
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) Bicep
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft