DevOps Manager Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Development Operations Manager
UK > Work from Home

The median Development Operations Manager daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £725, 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 291 343 467
Rank change year-on-year +52 +124 +130
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Manager 13 2 10
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.13% 0.013% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.014% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 6
10th Percentile £485 £635 £466
25th Percentile £618 £650 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £700 £638
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +9.80% +6.25%
75th Percentile £788 £750 £697
90th Percentile - £765 £731
UK median daily rate £725 £575 £688
% change year-on-year +26.09% -16.36% +14.58%

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 Manager
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

DevOps Manager
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 Manager.

DevOps Manager daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps Manager
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

DevOps Manager daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

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

1 13 (100.00%) DevOps
2 11 (84.62%) Agile
3 10 (76.92%) AWS
3 10 (76.92%) CI/CD
4 9 (69.23%) Serverless
4 9 (69.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 9 (69.23%) Amazon ECS
4 9 (69.23%) Amazon SQS
4 9 (69.23%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (69.23%) Amazon S3
4 9 (69.23%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (69.23%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (69.23%) Docker
4 9 (69.23%) AWS CloudFormation
4 9 (69.23%) Kubernetes
4 9 (69.23%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (69.23%) Fintech
4 9 (69.23%) Terraform
4 9 (69.23%) Banking
4 9 (69.23%) Asset Management
4 9 (69.23%) Software Engineering
4 9 (69.23%) Python
4 9 (69.23%) JavaScript
4 9 (69.23%) Front Office
4 9 (69.23%) Finance
5 3 (23.08%) Azure
5 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (15.38%) Scrum
6 2 (15.38%) Data Migration
6 2 (15.38%) Fujitsu

DevOps Manager 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 (7.69%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) AWS
2 9 (69.23%) Amazon EC2
2 9 (69.23%) Amazon ECS
2 9 (69.23%) Amazon S3
2 9 (69.23%) Amazon SQS
2 9 (69.23%) AWS CloudFormation
2 9 (69.23%) AWS Lambda
2 9 (69.23%) Serverless
3 3 (23.08%) Azure
3 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (69.23%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (69.23%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (7.69%) Metadata
2 1 (7.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
1 1 (7.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (69.23%) Banking
1 9 (69.23%) Finance
1 9 (69.23%) Front Office
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Digital Media
1 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) DevOps
2 11 (84.62%) Agile
3 10 (76.92%) CI/CD
4 9 (69.23%) Asset Management
4 9 (69.23%) Fintech
4 9 (69.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 9 (69.23%) Software Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) Data Migration
5 2 (15.38%) Migration
5 2 (15.38%) Scrum
6 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (7.69%) Configuration Management
6 1 (7.69%) Content Management
6 1 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (7.69%) DevSecOps
6 1 (7.69%) Kanban
6 1 (7.69%) Privileged Access Management
6 1 (7.69%) Project Management
6 1 (7.69%) Release Management
6 1 (7.69%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) JavaScript
1 9 (69.23%) Python
System Software
1 9 (69.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (69.23%) Kubernetes
1 9 (69.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Fujitsu
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Salesforce