DevOps Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Development Operations Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £538 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 66 66
Rank change year-on-year -46 0 -8
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 291 887 1,738
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.91% 3.47% 3.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.04% 3.64% 4.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 731 1,369
10th Percentile £405 £463 £446
25th Percentile £463 £513 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.33% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £660
90th Percentile £650 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.42% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £55.13 - -
25th Percentile £55.31 £70.50 -
Median hourly rate £56.25 £71.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.77% +102.86% -28.21%
75th Percentile £57.81 £71.50 -
90th Percentile £58.38 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £63.75 £37.00
% change year-on-year -2.75% +72.30% -29.52%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 14,235 24,337 42,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.50% 95.31% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,550 17,175 30,867
10th Percentile £325 £358 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 577 560 606
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.70 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.25 £25.71 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £54.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.10% +55.71% +42.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

DevOps Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DevOps Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DevOps Engineer.

DevOps Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

DevOps Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DevOps Engineer.

DevOps Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, DevOps Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 291 (100.00%) DevOps
2 189 (64.95%) Terraform
3 179 (61.51%) AWS
4 145 (49.83%) CI/CD
5 134 (46.05%) Kubernetes
6 130 (44.67%) Python
7 113 (38.83%) Azure
8 108 (37.11%) Security Cleared
9 99 (34.02%) Infrastructure as Code
10 92 (31.62%) SC Cleared
11 91 (31.27%) Docker
12 78 (26.80%) Jenkins
13 77 (26.46%) Agile
14 76 (26.12%) Ansible
15 71 (24.40%) Linux
16 60 (20.62%) Bash
17 58 (19.93%) Git
18 52 (17.87%) GitLab
19 50 (17.18%) Azure DevOps
20 45 (15.46%) GitHub
21 44 (15.12%) Social Skills
22 43 (14.78%) Public Sector
23 42 (14.43%) PowerShell
23 42 (14.43%) Containerisation
24 38 (13.06%) Test Automation
25 37 (12.71%) Prometheus
26 36 (12.37%) Amazon EKS
27 35 (12.03%) Problem-Solving
28 33 (11.34%) Grafana
29 32 (11.00%) GCP

DevOps Engineer 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 18 (6.19%) Confluence
2 11 (3.78%) nginx
3 4 (1.37%) Apache Solr
3 4 (1.37%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.03%) Apache
5 2 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.34%) IIS
6 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (2.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 179 (61.51%) AWS
2 113 (38.83%) Azure
3 50 (17.18%) Azure DevOps
4 45 (15.46%) GitHub
5 36 (12.37%) Amazon EKS
6 32 (11.00%) GCP
6 32 (11.00%) Serverless
7 31 (10.65%) AWS CloudFormation
8 28 (9.62%) Amazon ECS
8 28 (9.62%) Amazon S3
8 28 (9.62%) AWS Lambda
9 25 (8.59%) Amazon EC2
10 22 (7.56%) PaaS
11 21 (7.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 21 (7.22%) OpenShift
11 21 (7.22%) Route 53
11 21 (7.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 20 (6.87%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (4.47%) SaaS
14 9 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 27 (9.28%) Firewall
2 16 (5.50%) DNS
3 10 (3.44%) Network Security
4 8 (2.75%) TCP/IP
4 8 (2.75%) VPN
5 5 (1.72%) HTTP
6 4 (1.37%) HTTPS
6 4 (1.37%) IPsec
7 3 (1.03%) DHCP
7 3 (1.03%) LAN
7 3 (1.03%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (1.03%) WLAN
8 2 (0.69%) SSL
9 1 (0.34%) Internet
9 1 (0.34%) IPv4
9 1 (0.34%) MQTT
9 1 (0.34%) PPP
9 1 (0.34%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.34%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.25%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (3.78%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (3.44%) MySQL
4 9 (3.09%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (2.75%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.41%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (2.41%) NoSQL
6 7 (2.41%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.06%) Oracle Database
8 5 (1.72%) Couchbase
9 4 (1.37%) Redis
10 3 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.03%) InfluxDB
10 3 (1.03%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.03%) Power BI
11 2 (0.69%) BusinessObjects
11 2 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.69%) GIS
12 1 (0.34%) Big Data
12 1 (0.34%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 78 (26.80%) Jenkins
2 58 (19.93%) Git
3 52 (17.87%) GitLab
4 25 (8.59%) JIRA
5 11 (3.78%) Artifactory
6 10 (3.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 10 (3.44%) TeamCity
7 9 (3.09%) Bitbucket
7 9 (3.09%) Gradle
7 9 (3.09%) Maven
8 6 (2.06%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.37%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.37%) Travis CI
10 3 (1.03%) CircleCI
10 3 (1.03%) Selenium
10 3 (1.03%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.34%) Burp Suite
12 1 (0.34%) gulp
12 1 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 44 (15.12%) Social Skills
2 43 (14.78%) Public Sector
3 28 (9.62%) Finance
4 12 (4.12%) Law
5 10 (3.44%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.75%) Banking
7 6 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.72%) Marketing
8 5 (1.72%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.37%) Legal
9 4 (1.37%) Retail
10 3 (1.03%) Electronics
10 3 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.03%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.03%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.34%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.34%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.34%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (7.56%) YAML
2 17 (5.84%) JSON
3 14 (4.81%) .NET
3 14 (4.81%) ARM Templates
4 13 (4.47%) Elastic Stack
5 10 (3.44%) RabbitMQ
6 9 (3.09%) AWS CDK
7 7 (2.41%) REST
7 7 (2.41%) RESTful
8 6 (2.06%) Middleware
8 6 (2.06%) Node.js
9 5 (1.72%) Kafka
10 4 (1.37%) AWS SAM
10 4 (1.37%) LDAP
10 4 (1.37%) LEMP Stack
10 4 (1.37%) WinForms
10 4 (1.37%) XML
11 3 (1.03%) React
11 3 (1.03%) Spring
11 3 (1.03%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.22%) Greenfield Project
2 10 (3.44%) Data Centre
3 9 (3.09%) Private Cloud
3 9 (3.09%) Public Cloud
4 6 (2.06%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.06%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (1.72%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.37%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.03%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.03%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.69%) Life Science
8 2 (0.69%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.69%) PKI
8 2 (0.69%) Tandem
9 1 (0.34%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.34%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.34%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 71 (24.40%) Linux
2 24 (8.25%) Windows
3 10 (3.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (3.44%) Unix
4 5 (1.72%) CentOS
4 5 (1.72%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.37%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.03%) VMS
7 2 (0.69%) Alpine Linux
7 2 (0.69%) Android
7 2 (0.69%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.69%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 291 (100.00%) DevOps
2 145 (49.83%) CI/CD
3 99 (34.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 77 (26.46%) Agile
5 42 (14.43%) Containerisation
6 38 (13.06%) Test Automation
7 35 (12.03%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (10.65%) Configuration Management
9 23 (7.90%) Task Automation
10 19 (6.53%) Migration
11 18 (6.19%) Computer Science
11 18 (6.19%) Mentoring
11 18 (6.19%) Software Delivery
12 17 (5.84%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (5.84%) Continuous Integration
13 16 (5.50%) Scrum
14 15 (5.15%) SDLC
15 14 (4.81%) Kanban
15 14 (4.81%) Observability
15 14 (4.81%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 130 (44.67%) Python
2 60 (20.62%) Bash
3 42 (14.43%) PowerShell
4 29 (9.97%) Java
5 25 (8.59%) Go
6 21 (7.22%) Perl
7 20 (6.87%) SQL
8 15 (5.15%) JavaScript
9 11 (3.78%) TypeScript
10 10 (3.44%) C#
10 10 (3.44%) Shell Script
11 9 (3.09%) Ruby
12 8 (2.75%) C
12 8 (2.75%) C++
13 7 (2.41%) PHP
14 6 (2.06%) Bicep
14 6 (2.06%) Groovy
15 3 (1.03%) Scala
16 2 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
16 2 (0.69%) R
Qualifications
1 108 (37.11%) Security Cleared
2 92 (31.62%) SC Cleared
3 28 (9.62%) Degree
4 15 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.44%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.75%) AWS Certification
7 7 (2.41%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.34%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.78%) QA
2 7 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (2.41%) NIST
3 6 (2.06%) GDPR
4 4 (1.37%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.69%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 91 (31.27%) Docker
2 10 (3.44%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (3.09%) Active Directory
4 7 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.69%) vCloud
5 2 (0.69%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.69%) vSphere
6 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.34%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.34%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 189 (64.95%) Terraform
2 134 (46.05%) Kubernetes
3 76 (26.12%) Ansible
4 37 (12.71%) Prometheus
5 33 (11.34%) Grafana
6 22 (7.56%) Progress Chef
6 22 (7.56%) Puppet
7 10 (3.44%) Kibana
8 6 (2.06%) Nagios
8 6 (2.06%) Packer
9 5 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (1.37%) Consul
10 4 (1.37%) logstash
11 3 (1.03%) Argo
11 3 (1.03%) Istio
12 2 (0.69%) Autotask
12 2 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.69%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.69%) Salt
Vendors
1 29 (9.97%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.22%) Splunk
3 18 (6.19%) VMware
4 16 (5.50%) Oracle
5 12 (4.12%) Dynatrace
6 11 (3.78%) Google
7 8 (2.75%) SAP
8 5 (1.72%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.37%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.37%) Databricks
10 3 (1.03%) New Relic
10 3 (1.03%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.69%) Arista
11 2 (0.69%) BMC
11 2 (0.69%) Commvault
11 2 (0.69%) ForgeRock
11 2 (0.69%) Mercator
11 2 (0.69%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.69%) Remedy
11 2 (0.69%) TOWER Software