DevOps Contracts with Work from Home Options

DevOps
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 10 7
Rank change year-on-year -4 -3 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 1,538 3,127 6,243
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.30% 12.41% 14.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.70% 13.84% 15.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,102 2,375 4,647
10th Percentile £400 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £488 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +14.89%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £583 £575
% change year-on-year -5.66% +1.39% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 32 37
10th Percentile £55.75 £40.10 £35.00
25th Percentile £75.00 £58.44 £46.67
Median hourly rate £87.46 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.55% +18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £87.53 £65.75 £75.00
90th Percentile - £69.60 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £57.18
% change year-on-year -0.76% +14.55% +27.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

DevOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,143 22,599 40,333
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.00% 89.72% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,800 15,969 29,287
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 519 542
10th Percentile £14.96 £18.63 £14.28
25th Percentile £25.50 £29.31 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £53.35 £37.39
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +42.69% +52.60%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £71.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

DevOps
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DevOps trend for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps
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.

DevOps daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing DevOps over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

DevOps daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps
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.

DevOps hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing DevOps over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

DevOps hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps
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 85 (5.53%) Confluence
2 37 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (1.69%) SharePoint
4 24 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
5 21 (1.37%) CMS
6 15 (0.98%) Apache
6 15 (0.98%) Apache Spark
6 15 (0.98%) nginx
7 8 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.46%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.39%) Kentico
10 5 (0.33%) Headless CMS
10 5 (0.33%) IIS
10 5 (0.33%) JBoss
10 5 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.33%) WebLogic
11 4 (0.26%) Apache Solr
11 4 (0.26%) Umbraco
12 3 (0.20%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.13%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 11 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.65%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.46%) Chatbot
4 7 (0.46%) Trello
5 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.13%) Sketch
8 1 (0.065%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.065%) Gliffy
8 1 (0.065%) InVision
8 1 (0.065%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 27 (1.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (1.43%) Dynamics AX
3 12 (0.78%) NetSuite
4 10 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
5 9 (0.59%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 7 (0.46%) Oracle EBS R12
7 6 (0.39%) Maximo
7 6 (0.39%) SAP Hybris
8 5 (0.33%) Endur
8 5 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.20%) Shopify
9 3 (0.20%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.20%) Temenos T24
10 2 (0.13%) BusinessWorks
10 2 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
10 2 (0.13%) SAP PM
11 1 (0.065%) NEC Housing
11 1 (0.065%) SAP CX
Cloud Services
1 841 (54.68%) Azure
2 503 (32.70%) Azure DevOps
3 487 (31.66%) AWS
4 132 (8.58%) GCP
5 128 (8.32%) GitHub
6 123 (8.00%) Serverless
7 117 (7.61%) Power Platform
8 83 (5.40%) Dynamics 365
9 74 (4.81%) PaaS
10 67 (4.36%) Entra ID
11 66 (4.29%) SaaS
12 61 (3.97%) PowerApps
13 59 (3.84%) Azure Logic Apps
13 59 (3.84%) Azure Service Bus
14 57 (3.71%) Azure Monitor
14 57 (3.71%) Microsoft 365
15 55 (3.58%) Amazon EKS
16 54 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
16 54 (3.51%) Power Automate
17 53 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 111 (7.22%) Firewall
2 50 (3.25%) DNS
3 33 (2.15%) VPN
4 27 (1.76%) Network Security
5 26 (1.69%) DHCP
6 25 (1.63%) TCP/IP
7 20 (1.30%) HTTP
8 12 (0.78%) Intrusion Detection
9 11 (0.72%) SAN
10 10 (0.65%) IPsec
11 9 (0.59%) SNMP
12 8 (0.52%) BGP
12 8 (0.52%) Kerberos
12 8 (0.52%) OSPF
12 8 (0.52%) WAN
12 8 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (0.46%) NAS
13 7 (0.46%) VLAN
14 6 (0.39%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (0.39%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (10.14%) SQL Server
2 89 (5.79%) Power BI
3 75 (4.88%) Data Lake
4 72 (4.68%) PostgreSQL
5 53 (3.45%) NoSQL
6 48 (3.12%) MongoDB
6 48 (3.12%) Relational Database
7 44 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
8 42 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
9 37 (2.41%) MySQL
10 34 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
10 34 (2.21%) Oracle Database
11 33 (2.15%) Big Data
11 33 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
12 22 (1.43%) Amazon Athena
13 21 (1.37%) RDBMS
14 17 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
14 17 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 16 (1.04%) Apache Arrow
15 16 (1.04%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 193 (12.55%) Git
2 183 (11.90%) Jenkins
3 162 (10.53%) JIRA
4 108 (7.02%) GitLab
5 46 (2.99%) Selenium
6 34 (2.21%) Visual Studio
7 33 (2.15%) SonarQube
8 31 (2.02%) TeamCity
9 29 (1.89%) Cucumber
10 28 (1.82%) SpecFlow
11 21 (1.37%) Artifactory
12 19 (1.24%) Bitbucket
13 15 (0.98%) Postman
14 14 (0.91%) Cypress.io
14 14 (0.91%) JUnit
14 14 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
15 13 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 13 (0.85%) Maven
15 13 (0.85%) Mockito
16 12 (0.78%) WebDriver
General
1 342 (22.24%) Finance
2 331 (21.52%) Social Skills
3 192 (12.48%) Public Sector
4 111 (7.22%) Analytical Skills
5 92 (5.98%) Banking
6 62 (4.03%) Retail
7 33 (2.15%) Marketing
8 32 (2.08%) Telecoms
9 29 (1.89%) Law
10 27 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
11 25 (1.63%) Manufacturing
12 22 (1.43%) General Ledger
13 19 (1.24%) Front Office
13 19 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 17 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
15 15 (0.98%) Back Office
16 14 (0.91%) Electronics
17 12 (0.78%) Legal
18 11 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
18 11 (0.72%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 318 (20.68%) Developer
2 293 (19.05%) DevOps Engineer
3 209 (13.59%) Senior
4 185 (12.03%) Architect
5 127 (8.26%) AWS Engineer
6 120 (7.80%) Lead
7 99 (6.44%) Consultant
8 87 (5.66%) Azure Engineer
9 80 (5.20%) AWS DevOps
9 80 (5.20%) Senior Developer
10 74 (4.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 72 (4.68%) Analyst
12 68 (4.42%) Solutions Architect
13 59 (3.84%) Azure Developer
14 55 (3.58%) Data Engineer
15 50 (3.25%) .NET Developer
16 48 (3.12%) Cloud Engineer
17 47 (3.06%) Senior DevOps
18 45 (2.93%) C# Developer
19 44 (2.86%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (12.48%) .NET
2 96 (6.24%) XML
3 93 (6.05%) React
4 76 (4.94%) REST
5 75 (4.88%) ARM Templates
6 66 (4.29%) CSS
7 62 (4.03%) Kafka
8 61 (3.97%) HTML
9 57 (3.71%) JSON
10 56 (3.64%) .NET Framework
11 55 (3.58%) .NET Core
12 53 (3.45%) Node.js
13 48 (3.12%) AngularJS
14 45 (2.93%) YAML
15 44 (2.86%) RESTful
16 41 (2.67%) Spring Boot
17 37 (2.41%) Web Services
18 34 (2.21%) GraphQL
19 33 (2.15%) ASP.NET
20 29 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 81 (5.27%) Product Ownership
2 41 (2.67%) Data Structures
3 40 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
4 38 (2.47%) Public Cloud
5 35 (2.28%) Distributed Systems
6 29 (1.89%) Onboarding
7 27 (1.76%) Clustering
8 26 (1.69%) Management Information System
8 26 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
9 25 (1.63%) Cloud Native
9 25 (1.63%) Mobile App
10 23 (1.50%) Data Centre
10 23 (1.50%) PKI
11 22 (1.43%) Hedge funds
12 16 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
13 14 (0.91%) Algorithms
14 13 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
15 12 (0.78%) Credit Derivative
16 11 (0.72%) Contactless
16 11 (0.72%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 187 (12.16%) Linux
2 135 (8.78%) Windows
3 64 (4.16%) Windows Server
4 38 (2.47%) Unix
5 26 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (1.17%) Android
7 17 (1.11%) Apple iOS
7 17 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
7 17 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
8 12 (0.78%) Solaris
9 11 (0.72%) CentOS
9 11 (0.72%) Ubuntu
10 8 (0.52%) AIX
11 7 (0.46%) Oracle Linux
12 6 (0.39%) VMS
13 5 (0.33%) Windows 10
14 2 (0.13%) Alpine Linux
14 2 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (0.065%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 602 (39.14%) Agile
2 555 (36.09%) CI/CD
3 240 (15.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 198 (12.87%) Test Automation
5 184 (11.96%) Problem-Solving
6 145 (9.43%) Microservices
7 138 (8.97%) Scrum
8 137 (8.91%) Containerisation
9 134 (8.71%) Migration
10 127 (8.26%) Software Engineering
11 120 (7.80%) Business Intelligence
12 107 (6.96%) SDLC
13 105 (6.83%) Analytics
13 105 (6.83%) Continuous Integration
14 90 (5.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 85 (5.53%) Mentoring
16 81 (5.27%) Full Stack Development
16 81 (5.27%) TDD
17 79 (5.14%) Stakeholder Management
18 78 (5.07%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 369 (23.99%) Python
2 256 (16.64%) SQL
3 245 (15.93%) C#
4 198 (12.87%) Java
5 169 (10.99%) PowerShell
6 151 (9.82%) JavaScript
7 94 (6.11%) Bash
8 84 (5.46%) TypeScript
9 76 (4.94%) Bicep
10 67 (4.36%) Go
11 41 (2.67%) Shell Script
12 37 (2.41%) Perl
13 29 (1.89%) C++
14 22 (1.43%) Ruby
15 21 (1.37%) Scala
16 19 (1.24%) PHP
16 19 (1.24%) PL/SQL
16 19 (1.24%) VB
17 17 (1.11%) VBScript
18 16 (1.04%) C
Qualifications
1 277 (18.01%) Security Cleared
2 226 (14.69%) SC Cleared
3 128 (8.32%) Degree
4 56 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 48 (3.12%) DV Cleared
6 32 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 29 (1.89%) Azure Certification
8 25 (1.63%) AWS Certification
9 16 (1.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 16 (1.04%) Master's Degree
10 15 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 13 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (0.72%) CISSP
12 11 (0.72%) PMP
13 10 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (0.59%) PMI Certification
15 8 (0.52%) CCNP
15 8 (0.52%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.39%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (5.07%) QA
2 30 (1.95%) Accessibility
3 27 (1.76%) GDPR
4 21 (1.37%) NCSC
5 20 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 20 (1.30%) PCI DSS
6 19 (1.24%) NIST
7 14 (0.91%) Data Quality
8 12 (0.78%) SLA
8 12 (0.78%) WCAG
9 9 (0.59%) HIPAA
9 9 (0.59%) PMO
10 7 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.39%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.33%) ISO 9001
13 4 (0.26%) PSD2
14 3 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
15 2 (0.13%) COBIT
15 2 (0.13%) ISO 22301
15 2 (0.13%) RMADS
System Software
1 232 (15.08%) Docker
2 105 (6.83%) Active Directory
3 37 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 18 (1.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.78%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 7 (0.46%) vSphere
8 6 (0.39%) Firmware
8 6 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
8 6 (0.39%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.20%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.13%) Postfix
11 2 (0.13%) Squid
11 2 (0.13%) vCloud
12 1 (0.065%) OpenAM
12 1 (0.065%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 373 (24.25%) Terraform
2 335 (21.78%) Kubernetes
3 166 (10.79%) Ansible
4 80 (5.20%) Prometheus
5 72 (4.68%) Grafana
6 36 (2.34%) Puppet
7 34 (2.21%) Progress Chef
8 22 (1.43%) Kibana
9 21 (1.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 21 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
10 19 (1.24%) SCCM
10 19 (1.24%) SCOM
11 18 (1.17%) Consul
12 16 (1.04%) Docker Swarm
12 16 (1.04%) WSUS
13 14 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
14 9 (0.59%) logstash
14 9 (0.59%) Nagios
14 9 (0.59%) Packer
14 9 (0.59%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 305 (19.83%) Microsoft
2 128 (8.32%) Oracle
3 48 (3.12%) SAP
4 47 (3.06%) Databricks
4 47 (3.06%) Splunk
5 46 (2.99%) Google
6 35 (2.28%) VMware
7 31 (2.02%) ServiceNow
8 29 (1.89%) Cisco
9 28 (1.82%) IBM
10 26 (1.69%) CyberArk
11 23 (1.50%) Salesforce
12 21 (1.37%) Dynatrace
13 19 (1.24%) Informatica
14 15 (0.98%) Atlassian
14 15 (0.98%) HP
14 15 (0.98%) Palo Alto
15 14 (0.91%) Citrix
16 13 (0.85%) Adobe
16 13 (0.85%) EMC