DevOps Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

DevOps
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 14 10
Rank change year-on-year +2 -4 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 1,156 1,546 3,205
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.68% 10.13% 12.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.82% 11.53% 13.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 880 1,103 2,422
10th Percentile £380 £400 £413
25th Percentile £450 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.36% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £650 £649 £675
90th Percentile £788 £713 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £582
% change year-on-year -2.27% -5.50% +1.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 16 33
10th Percentile £66.38 £55.63 £40.60
25th Percentile £66.56 £75.00 £53.75
Median hourly rate £68.75 £87.46 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.39% +34.55% +30.65%
75th Percentile £71.56 £87.53 £65.75
90th Percentile £72.13 - £69.20
UK median hourly rate £71.61 £65.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year +10.17% -0.76% +21.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,020 13,413 23,039
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.13% 87.92% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,197 8,959 16,290
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 580 529
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £25.38 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.00 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.50 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.58 £36.00
% change year-on-year -18.48% -1.18% +44.00%

DevOps
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DevOps trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

DevOps
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.

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 remote working options citing DevOps over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

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 remote working options citing DevOps.

DevOps hourly rate 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 51 (4.41%) Apache Spark
2 47 (4.07%) Apache
3 46 (3.98%) Confluence
4 33 (2.85%) Apache Airflow
5 29 (2.51%) SharePoint
6 19 (1.64%) nginx
7 13 (1.12%) Oracle Coherence
8 10 (0.87%) CMS
8 10 (0.87%) OpenStack
9 8 (0.69%) GemFire
9 8 (0.69%) WordPress
10 7 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.43%) Traefik
12 4 (0.35%) Camunda
12 4 (0.35%) IIS
12 4 (0.35%) JBoss
13 3 (0.26%) Headless CMS
13 3 (0.26%) Umbraco
14 2 (0.17%) Anypoint
14 2 (0.17%) GeoServer
Applications
1 13 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.78%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.69%) Trello
4 7 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
5 5 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.087%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.087%) InVision
6 1 (0.087%) Notion
6 1 (0.087%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 13 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.35%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.35%) Unit4 Business World
4 3 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.26%) SAP FSCM
4 3 (0.26%) Unica
5 2 (0.17%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.17%) Endur
5 2 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.087%) BusinessWorks
6 1 (0.087%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.087%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.087%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.087%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.087%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.087%) SAP R/3
6 1 (0.087%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 564 (48.79%) Azure
2 431 (37.28%) AWS
3 354 (30.62%) Azure DevOps
4 162 (14.01%) Serverless
5 117 (10.12%) GitHub
6 106 (9.17%) GCP
7 103 (8.91%) AWS Lambda
8 82 (7.09%) AWS CloudFormation
8 82 (7.09%) Power Platform
9 64 (5.54%) Dynamics 365
10 61 (5.28%) Amazon ECS
11 60 (5.19%) Amazon S3
12 58 (5.02%) GitHub Actions
13 55 (4.76%) OpenShift
14 49 (4.24%) Amazon EC2
15 43 (3.72%) Amazon EKS
16 41 (3.55%) PowerApps
17 39 (3.37%) Azure AKS
18 38 (3.29%) Entra ID
18 38 (3.29%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 49 (4.24%) DNS
2 42 (3.63%) Firewall
3 38 (3.29%) HTTP
4 35 (3.03%) TCP/IP
5 18 (1.56%) SSL
6 14 (1.21%) VPN
7 13 (1.12%) DHCP
7 13 (1.12%) Network Security
8 8 (0.69%) Internet
9 7 (0.61%) SMTP
10 5 (0.43%) FTP
10 5 (0.43%) HTTPS
11 4 (0.35%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.35%) OpenLDAP
11 4 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
12 3 (0.26%) IPsec
12 3 (0.26%) SAN
12 3 (0.26%) Software-Defined Networking
13 2 (0.17%) 4G
13 2 (0.17%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (5.62%) PostgreSQL
1 65 (5.62%) Relational Database
2 52 (4.50%) SQL Server
3 44 (3.81%) Power BI
4 43 (3.72%) Amazon Athena
5 41 (3.55%) Amazon RDS
5 41 (3.55%) MongoDB
6 38 (3.29%) NoSQL
7 35 (3.03%) Apache Iceberg
8 34 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
9 30 (2.60%) Dremio
10 28 (2.42%) Apache Arrow
10 28 (2.42%) Apache Ignite
11 27 (2.34%) MySQL
12 24 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
13 23 (1.99%) Big Data
14 22 (1.90%) Oracle Database
15 21 (1.82%) Data Lake
16 20 (1.73%) Redis
17 19 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 196 (16.96%) Jenkins
2 130 (11.25%) Git
3 126 (10.90%) GitLab
4 123 (10.64%) JIRA
5 34 (2.94%) Selenium
6 32 (2.77%) Artifactory
7 29 (2.51%) Cypress.io
8 27 (2.34%) Postman
9 25 (2.16%) JMeter
9 25 (2.16%) SonarQube
10 21 (1.82%) Bitbucket
11 17 (1.47%) JUnit
12 16 (1.38%) Maven
13 14 (1.21%) Cucumber
13 14 (1.21%) Visual Studio
14 13 (1.12%) REST Assured
14 13 (1.12%) TeamCity
15 12 (1.04%) CircleCI
15 12 (1.04%) Mockito
16 11 (0.95%) Gradle
General
1 281 (24.31%) Social Skills
2 225 (19.46%) Finance
3 147 (12.72%) Public Sector
4 138 (11.94%) Analytical Skills
5 94 (8.13%) Banking
6 51 (4.41%) Front Office
7 49 (4.24%) Investment Banking
8 30 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
9 24 (2.08%) Marketing
9 24 (2.08%) Retail
10 21 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 21 (1.82%) Telecoms
11 19 (1.64%) Manufacturing
12 16 (1.38%) Back Office
12 16 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
13 12 (1.04%) Law
14 11 (0.95%) Electronics
15 9 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
16 8 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (0.52%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 279 (24.13%) DevOps Engineer
2 276 (23.88%) Developer
3 172 (14.88%) Senior
4 112 (9.69%) AWS Engineer
5 105 (9.08%) Architect
6 102 (8.82%) Lead
7 93 (8.04%) AWS DevOps
8 87 (7.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 71 (6.14%) Azure Engineer
10 69 (5.97%) Senior DevOps
11 64 (5.54%) Data Engineer
11 64 (5.54%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 51 (4.41%) Analyst
12 51 (4.41%) Python Engineer
13 44 (3.81%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 41 (3.55%) .NET Developer
15 40 (3.46%) Consultant
16 39 (3.37%) Senior Developer
17 38 (3.29%) Java Developer
18 36 (3.11%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (13.58%) .NET
2 119 (10.29%) Kafka
3 85 (7.35%) REST
4 82 (7.09%) React
5 53 (4.58%) .NET Core
6 46 (3.98%) ASP.NET
7 45 (3.89%) PySpark
8 43 (3.72%) AngularJS
8 43 (3.72%) Web Services
9 42 (3.63%) OAuth
10 40 (3.46%) Node.js
10 40 (3.46%) RESTful
11 38 (3.29%) Elastic Stack
12 37 (3.20%) Spring Boot
13 35 (3.03%) Spring
14 34 (2.94%) CSS
15 33 (2.85%) HTML
16 31 (2.68%) J2EE
16 31 (2.68%) JSON
16 31 (2.68%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 75 (6.49%) Cloud Native
2 57 (4.93%) Product Ownership
3 26 (2.25%) Legacy Applications
4 22 (1.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 21 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
5 21 (1.82%) Onboarding
6 20 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
7 16 (1.38%) Public Cloud
8 15 (1.30%) Algorithms
8 15 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
11 12 (1.04%) PKI
12 11 (0.95%) Data Centre
13 10 (0.87%) Mainframe
13 10 (0.87%) Management Information System
13 10 (0.87%) Mobile App
14 9 (0.78%) Data Structures
14 9 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
15 8 (0.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 141 (12.20%) Linux
2 59 (5.10%) Windows
3 38 (3.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 37 (3.20%) Unix
5 22 (1.90%) Windows Server
6 12 (1.04%) CentOS
7 11 (0.95%) VMS
8 4 (0.35%) Android
8 4 (0.35%) SUSE
9 3 (0.26%) Solaris
9 3 (0.26%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.26%) zOS
10 1 (0.087%) AIX
10 1 (0.087%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.087%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.087%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.087%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.087%) VxWorks
10 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 554 (47.92%) CI/CD
2 524 (45.33%) Agile
3 225 (19.46%) Problem-Solving
4 211 (18.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 177 (15.31%) Containerisation
6 136 (11.76%) Microservices
7 133 (11.51%) Test Automation
8 127 (10.99%) Software Engineering
9 118 (10.21%) Migration
10 115 (9.95%) Continuous Integration
11 105 (9.08%) Analytics
12 104 (9.00%) Scrum
13 84 (7.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 82 (7.09%) Continuous Improvement
15 79 (6.83%) TDD
16 77 (6.66%) Artificial Intelligence
17 76 (6.57%) Stakeholder Management
18 73 (6.31%) Mentoring
19 66 (5.71%) High Availability
20 65 (5.62%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 378 (32.70%) Python
2 222 (19.20%) SQL
3 201 (17.39%) Java
4 187 (16.18%) C#
5 127 (10.99%) JavaScript
6 124 (10.73%) PowerShell
7 108 (9.34%) Bash
8 88 (7.61%) TypeScript
9 64 (5.54%) Go
10 35 (3.03%) Bicep
11 28 (2.42%) C++
12 27 (2.34%) Shell Script
13 20 (1.73%) PL/SQL
14 16 (1.38%) Ruby
15 15 (1.30%) Scala
16 14 (1.21%) PHP
17 12 (1.04%) T-SQL
18 10 (0.87%) Groovy
18 10 (0.87%) Perl
19 8 (0.69%) VB
Qualifications
1 258 (22.32%) Security Cleared
2 235 (20.33%) SC Cleared
3 89 (7.70%) Degree
4 44 (3.81%) AWS Certification
5 37 (3.20%) Azure Certification
6 36 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (1.38%) Numerate Degree
8 15 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
9 14 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (1.12%) DV Cleared
11 12 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 12 (1.04%) CISSP
12 11 (0.95%) Master's Degree
13 8 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
14 7 (0.61%) Oracle Certification
15 6 (0.52%) OCP
16 5 (0.43%) CEH
16 5 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
16 5 (0.43%) CISM
16 5 (0.43%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (6.23%) QA
2 29 (2.51%) Accessibility
2 29 (2.51%) GDPR
3 16 (1.38%) NIST
4 15 (1.30%) Data Quality
5 12 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.04%) PCI DSS
6 8 (0.69%) NCSC
7 6 (0.52%) HIPAA
7 6 (0.52%) PMO
7 6 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (0.52%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.35%) SLA
8 4 (0.35%) WCAG
9 3 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.17%) EMIR
10 2 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.17%) MiFID
10 2 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 293 (25.35%) Docker
2 42 (3.63%) Active Directory
3 24 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.69%) GridGain
6 4 (0.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 4 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.26%) RACF
7 3 (0.26%) vSphere
8 2 (0.17%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.17%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.087%) KVM
9 1 (0.087%) LXC
9 1 (0.087%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.087%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.087%) OpenIDM
9 1 (0.087%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.087%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (0.087%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 365 (31.57%) Terraform
2 353 (30.54%) Kubernetes
3 151 (13.06%) Ansible
4 70 (6.06%) Grafana
5 61 (5.28%) Prometheus
6 32 (2.77%) Progress Chef
7 30 (2.60%) Puppet
8 21 (1.82%) Packer
9 17 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
10 14 (1.21%) Argo
10 14 (1.21%) Istio
11 12 (1.04%) Consul
12 11 (0.95%) Rancher
13 10 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
14 9 (0.78%) Kibana
15 8 (0.69%) linkerd
15 8 (0.69%) ZABBIX
16 7 (0.61%) FortiGate
16 7 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
17 6 (0.52%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 159 (13.75%) Microsoft
2 94 (8.13%) Oracle
3 43 (3.72%) Databricks
4 38 (3.29%) SAP
5 37 (3.20%) Splunk
6 35 (3.03%) Google
7 31 (2.68%) Red Hat
8 23 (1.99%) ServiceNow
9 22 (1.90%) Dynatrace
9 22 (1.90%) VMware
10 16 (1.38%) Salesforce
11 13 (1.12%) IBM
12 11 (0.95%) Atlassian
13 8 (0.69%) AppDynamics
13 8 (0.69%) MuleSoft
13 8 (0.69%) Okta
14 7 (0.61%) Cisco
14 7 (0.61%) Citrix
14 7 (0.61%) New Relic
15 5 (0.43%) Murex