DevOps Platform Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Platform Engineer - DevOps
UK > Work from Home

The median Platform Engineer - DevOps daily rate in Work from Home is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 15 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
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 333 448 569
Rank change year-on-year +115 +121 -122
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Platform Engineer 6 17 48
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.040% 0.069% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% 0.072% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 16 41
10th Percentile £501 - £413
25th Percentile £566 £550 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £586
Median % change year-on-year - +2.39% -2.33%
75th Percentile £644 £659 £750
90th Percentile £663 £706 £813
UK median daily rate £563 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -

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 13,873 23,568 42,083
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.55% 95.33% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,324 16,647 30,443
10th Percentile £325 £362 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £723
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 539 600
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.68 £25.71 £19.33
Median hourly rate £44.00 £53.35 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.53% +52.43% +44.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.13 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £68.16
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

DevOps Platform Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

DevOps Platform Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps Platform 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 Platform Engineer.

DevOps Platform Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing DevOps Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

DevOps Platform Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 15 May 2024, DevOps Platform 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 Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Python
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Docker
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
1 6 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (50.00%) Bash
3 3 (50.00%) Git
3 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
4 2 (33.33%) Go
4 2 (33.33%) Ansible
4 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
4 2 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (33.33%) Azure
4 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (33.33%) Grafana
4 2 (33.33%) Prometheus

DevOps Platform 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 1 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) Serverless
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Control Tower
4 1 (16.67%) GCP
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
4 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (16.67%) AWS SAM
2 1 (16.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
4 2 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Agile
5 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
5 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
5 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (16.67%) High Availability
5 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (16.67%) Migration
5 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Bash
3 2 (33.33%) Go
4 1 (16.67%) Java
4 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 1 (16.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
1 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
2 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (33.33%) Ansible
3 2 (33.33%) Grafana
3 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Atlassian
1 1 (16.67%) Databricks