DevOps Developer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Development Operations Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Development Operations Developer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £775, 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 296 334 444
Rank change year-on-year +38 +110 +139
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Developer 8 11 33
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.081% 0.072% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.086% 0.077% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 23
10th Percentile £457 £480 £430
25th Percentile £594 - £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +55.00% -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £825 - -
90th Percentile - £575 £672
UK median daily rate £590 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +18.00% -16.67% -7.69%

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 Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

DevOps Developer
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 Developer.

DevOps Developer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps Developer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

DevOps Developer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

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

1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) C#
3 4 (50.00%) C++
3 4 (50.00%) .NET
3 4 (50.00%) Oracle
3 4 (50.00%) Web Services
3 4 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 4 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (50.00%) Finance
3 4 (50.00%) WCF
3 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (50.00%) Kafka
3 4 (50.00%) Analytics
3 4 (50.00%) .NET Core
3 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (50.00%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (37.50%) Java
5 2 (25.00%) Python
5 2 (25.00%) SQL
5 2 (25.00%) Maven
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (25.00%) AWS
5 2 (25.00%) Docker
5 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (25.00%) Serverless
6 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (12.50%) Terraform
6 1 (12.50%) Veracode

DevOps Developer 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Confluence
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (25.00%) Serverless
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Maven
2 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) Gradle
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) JUnit
2 1 (12.50%) Mockito
2 1 (12.50%) Selenium
2 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
2 1 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) .NET
1 4 (50.00%) .NET Core
1 4 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (50.00%) Kafka
1 4 (50.00%) WCF
1 4 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (12.50%) AWS CDK
2 1 (12.50%) CSS
2 1 (12.50%) Hibernate
2 1 (12.50%) HTML
2 1 (12.50%) Jest
2 1 (12.50%) JPA
2 1 (12.50%) JSON
2 1 (12.50%) Node.js
2 1 (12.50%) React
2 1 (12.50%) Redux
2 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
2 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 4 (50.00%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
3 4 (50.00%) Analytics
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (12.50%) API Development
5 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
5 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis
5 1 (12.50%) Data Integration
5 1 (12.50%) ETL
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (12.50%) Integration Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Microservices
5 1 (12.50%) OO
5 1 (12.50%) OOP
5 1 (12.50%) SOA
5 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) System Integration Testing
5 1 (12.50%) TDD
5 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
5 1 (12.50%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) C#
2 4 (50.00%) C++
3 3 (37.50%) Java
4 2 (25.00%) Python
4 2 (25.00%) SQL
5 1 (12.50%) Go
5 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Veracode