DevOps Specialist Contracts with Work from Home Options

Development Operations Specialist
UK > Work from Home

The median Development Operations Specialist daily rate in Work from Home is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 327 466 614
Rank change year-on-year +139 +148 -139
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Specialist 10 1 11
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.066% 0.004% 0.025%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.071% 0.004% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 6
10th Percentile £610 - £490
25th Percentile £653 £463 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £475 £591
Median % change year-on-year +42.11% -19.56% +12.48%
75th Percentile £688 £488 £648
90th Percentile - - £778
UK median daily rate £675 £475 £591
% change year-on-year +42.11% -19.56% +11.94%

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 14,162 24,375 42,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 95.31% 95.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,491 17,215 30,853
10th Percentile £325 £358 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £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 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 559 603
10th Percentile £14.33 £17.97 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.29 £25.75 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.60%
75th Percentile £62.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

DevOps Specialist
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

DevOps Specialist trend for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps Specialist
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 Specialist.

DevOps Specialist daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, DevOps Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (60.00%) Terraform
3 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (50.00%) Bash
3 5 (50.00%) Azure
3 5 (50.00%) PowerShell
4 4 (40.00%) Law
4 4 (40.00%) SAP
5 3 (30.00%) ARM Templates
6 2 (20.00%) Python
6 2 (20.00%) Java
6 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
6 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
6 2 (20.00%) Groovy
6 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (20.00%) Agile
6 2 (20.00%) AWS
6 2 (20.00%) Docker
6 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
7 1 (10.00%) User Stories
7 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
7 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
7 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
7 1 (10.00%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (10.00%) C#
7 1 (10.00%) Apache Hive
7 1 (10.00%) MongoDB

DevOps Specialist 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 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
1 5 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Pipelines
3 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (40.00%) Law
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) Kafka
2 1 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (10.00%) SAPUI5
2 1 (10.00%) WCF
2 1 (10.00%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
5 1 (10.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (10.00%) IT Strategy
5 1 (10.00%) Line Management
5 1 (10.00%) Migration
5 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
5 1 (10.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 1 (10.00%) Scrum
5 1 (10.00%) SDLC
5 1 (10.00%) Strategic Roadmap
5 1 (10.00%) Technology Roadmap
5 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (10.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Bash
1 5 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (20.00%) Groovy
2 2 (20.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) DBS Check
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Grafana
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) SAP
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Ariba
3 1 (10.00%) Confluent
3 1 (10.00%) IBM
3 1 (10.00%) ICL
3 1 (10.00%) Informatica
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (10.00%) StreamSets