DevOps Engineer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Development Operations Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £550, 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 88 117 65
Rank change year-on-year +29 -52 -2
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 278 284 912
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.81% 1.85% 3.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.99% 1.98% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 224 743
10th Percentile £413 £405 £463
25th Percentile £475 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £548 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -8.75% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £600 £688
90th Percentile £838 £650 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £539 £600
% change year-on-year +2.04% -10.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £55.13 £53.85
25th Percentile - £55.31 £56.63
Median hourly rate - £56.25 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year - -8.54% +75.71%
75th Percentile - £57.81 £66.63
90th Percentile - £58.38 £69.55
UK median hourly rate £82.48 £62.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +33.03% +7.83% +64.29%

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 Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

DevOps Engineer
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 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 remote working options citing DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 remote working options 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 1 May 2025, 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.

1 278 (100.00%) DevOps
2 221 (79.50%) Terraform
3 199 (71.58%) CI/CD
4 186 (66.91%) Kubernetes
5 175 (62.95%) AWS
6 152 (54.68%) Python
7 127 (45.68%) Docker
8 103 (37.05%) Infrastructure as Code
9 87 (31.29%) Agile
10 86 (30.94%) Security Cleared
11 85 (30.58%) Azure
12 79 (28.42%) Ansible
13 76 (27.34%) SC Cleared
14 75 (26.98%) GitLab
15 70 (25.18%) Linux
16 68 (24.46%) Bash
16 68 (24.46%) Containerisation
17 67 (24.10%) Jenkins
18 60 (21.58%) Serverless
19 57 (20.50%) Finance
20 55 (19.78%) AWS Lambda
21 54 (19.42%) Software Engineering
22 51 (18.35%) Azure DevOps
23 50 (17.99%) Go
24 49 (17.63%) Amazon ECS
24 49 (17.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
25 48 (17.27%) AWS CloudFormation
26 43 (15.47%) Kafka
26 43 (15.47%) Continuous Integration
27 41 (14.75%) Prometheus

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 34 (12.23%) Apache Spark
2 32 (11.51%) Apache
3 30 (10.79%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (3.96%) nginx
5 9 (3.24%) Confluence
6 2 (0.72%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.72%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.72%) Traefik
7 1 (0.36%) IIS
7 1 (0.36%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Notion
1 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.36%) SAP HCM
2 1 (0.36%) SAP IBP
2 1 (0.36%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.36%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 175 (62.95%) AWS
2 85 (30.58%) Azure
3 60 (21.58%) Serverless
4 55 (19.78%) AWS Lambda
5 51 (18.35%) Azure DevOps
6 49 (17.63%) Amazon ECS
7 48 (17.27%) AWS CloudFormation
8 38 (13.67%) OpenShift
9 36 (12.95%) Amazon EKS
9 36 (12.95%) GitHub
10 35 (12.59%) Amazon EC2
11 30 (10.79%) dbt
12 24 (8.63%) GCP
13 21 (7.55%) Amazon S3
13 21 (7.55%) Azure AKS
14 19 (6.83%) GitHub Actions
15 17 (6.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 15 (5.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 13 (4.68%) Amazon SQS
18 11 (3.96%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.83%) DNS
2 18 (6.47%) TCP/IP
3 16 (5.76%) HTTP
4 11 (3.96%) Firewall
5 7 (2.52%) Internet
6 4 (1.44%) Network Security
6 4 (1.44%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (1.44%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.72%) DHCP
7 2 (0.72%) SAN
7 2 (0.72%) SSL
7 2 (0.72%) VPN
8 1 (0.36%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.36%) SMTP
8 1 (0.36%) SNMP
8 1 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (12.23%) Apache Iceberg
2 30 (10.79%) Amazon Athena
2 30 (10.79%) Dremio
3 28 (10.07%) Apache Arrow
3 28 (10.07%) Apache Ignite
4 23 (8.27%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (5.04%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (3.24%) Amazon Aurora
6 9 (3.24%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (2.52%) MongoDB
8 6 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (2.16%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.44%) Apache Hive
9 4 (1.44%) MySQL
9 4 (1.44%) Parquet
9 4 (1.44%) Presto
10 3 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.08%) Redis
10 3 (1.08%) SAP HANA
11 2 (0.72%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 75 (26.98%) GitLab
2 67 (24.10%) Jenkins
3 33 (11.87%) Git
4 32 (11.51%) Artifactory
5 12 (4.32%) JIRA
6 10 (3.60%) SonarQube
7 7 (2.52%) CircleCI
8 5 (1.80%) TeamCity
9 4 (1.44%) Poetry
10 3 (1.08%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.08%) Selenium
10 3 (1.08%) Subversion
10 3 (1.08%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.72%) JMeter
11 2 (0.72%) Spinnaker
11 2 (0.72%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.72%) Vagrant
12 1 (0.36%) Jaeger
12 1 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.36%) Postman
General
1 57 (20.50%) Finance
2 39 (14.03%) Front Office
3 31 (11.15%) Social Skills
4 27 (9.71%) Public Sector
5 16 (5.76%) Banking
6 6 (2.16%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.08%) Games
8 3 (1.08%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.08%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.72%) Electronics
9 2 (0.72%) Marketing
9 2 (0.72%) Retail
10 1 (0.36%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.36%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.36%) Police
10 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.36%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (15.47%) Kafka
2 28 (10.07%) J2EE
2 28 (10.07%) PySpark
3 24 (8.63%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (3.24%) Keycloak
4 9 (3.24%) YAML
5 8 (2.88%) .NET
5 8 (2.88%) ARM Templates
5 8 (2.88%) cloud-init
6 7 (2.52%) OAuth
7 5 (1.80%) OpenID
7 5 (1.80%) React
8 4 (1.44%) AWS CDK
8 4 (1.44%) Dask
8 4 (1.44%) LAPP Stack
8 4 (1.44%) LDAP
8 4 (1.44%) OAuth2
8 4 (1.44%) SAML
9 3 (1.08%) Node.js
9 3 (1.08%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.27%) Cloud Native
2 5 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (1.80%) Public Cloud
3 4 (1.44%) Mainframe
3 4 (1.44%) PKI
3 4 (1.44%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (1.08%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.08%) Replication
5 2 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (0.72%) DataPower
5 2 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (0.72%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.36%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.36%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.36%) FMCG
6 1 (0.36%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.36%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.36%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 70 (25.18%) Linux
2 19 (6.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 13 (4.68%) Unix
4 8 (2.88%) CentOS
4 8 (2.88%) Windows
5 4 (1.44%) SUSE
5 4 (1.44%) VMS
6 3 (1.08%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 278 (100.00%) DevOps
2 199 (71.58%) CI/CD
3 103 (37.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 87 (31.29%) Agile
5 68 (24.46%) Containerisation
6 54 (19.42%) Software Engineering
7 49 (17.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 43 (15.47%) Continuous Integration
9 39 (14.03%) Asset Management
10 33 (11.87%) Configuration Management
10 33 (11.87%) Data Engineering
11 30 (10.79%) Open Source
12 29 (10.43%) Problem-Solving
13 28 (10.07%) Infrastructure Automation
14 24 (8.63%) Platform Engineering
15 22 (7.91%) Deployment Automation
16 21 (7.55%) Task Automation
17 19 (6.83%) Microservices
18 18 (6.47%) Mentoring
18 18 (6.47%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 152 (54.68%) Python
2 68 (24.46%) Bash
3 50 (17.99%) Go
4 36 (12.95%) Java
4 36 (12.95%) PowerShell
5 26 (9.35%) JavaScript
6 15 (5.40%) SQL
7 10 (3.60%) Bicep
8 9 (3.24%) C#
8 9 (3.24%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.80%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.44%) Ruby
11 3 (1.08%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.72%) Groovy
13 1 (0.36%) C++
13 1 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.36%) Perl
13 1 (0.36%) PHP
13 1 (0.36%) VB
Qualifications
1 86 (30.94%) Security Cleared
2 76 (27.34%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.96%) Degree
4 10 (3.60%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.16%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.08%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.36%) RHCA
8 1 (0.36%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.88%) QA
2 4 (1.44%) NCSC
3 2 (0.72%) SLA
4 1 (0.36%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 127 (45.68%) Docker
2 6 (2.16%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.08%) vSphere
5 2 (0.72%) DFS Replication
6 1 (0.36%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 221 (79.50%) Terraform
2 186 (66.91%) Kubernetes
3 79 (28.42%) Ansible
4 41 (14.75%) Grafana
4 41 (14.75%) Prometheus
5 21 (7.55%) Puppet
6 19 (6.83%) Progress Chef
7 14 (5.04%) Argo
8 13 (4.68%) Packer
9 9 (3.24%) Consul
10 6 (2.16%) FortiGate
10 6 (2.16%) Rancher
11 5 (1.80%) Istio
11 5 (1.80%) Kibana
11 5 (1.80%) linkerd
11 5 (1.80%) logstash
11 5 (1.80%) ZABBIX
12 4 (1.44%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 16 (5.76%) Red Hat
2 15 (5.40%) Splunk
3 12 (4.32%) SAP
4 11 (3.96%) Dynatrace
5 8 (2.88%) Microsoft
6 7 (2.52%) VMware
7 5 (1.80%) Google
8 4 (1.44%) Okta
9 3 (1.08%) Confluent
9 3 (1.08%) New Relic
10 2 (0.72%) Apple
10 2 (0.72%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.72%) Broadcom
10 2 (0.72%) Cribl.io
10 2 (0.72%) Databricks
10 2 (0.72%) ESET
10 2 (0.72%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (0.72%) Oracle
10 2 (0.72%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.36%) AppDynamics