Lead DevOps Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Lead Development Operations Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 338 462 583
Rank change year-on-year +124 +121 -124
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps Engineer 10 14 39
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.066% 0.055% 0.087%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.071% 0.058% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 25
10th Percentile £505 £550 £515
25th Percentile £559 £594 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £650 £774 £750
90th Percentile £678 £831 £765
UK median daily rate £650 £700 £650
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +8.33%

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 14,165 24,342 42,704
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.49% 95.31% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,495 17,179 30,870
10th Percentile £325 £358 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £718
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 559 605
10th Percentile £14.33 £17.68 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.29 £25.71 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% +54.29% +42.86%
75th Percentile £62.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%

Lead DevOps Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Lead DevOps Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead DevOps 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 Lead DevOps Engineer.

Lead DevOps Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Lead DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

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

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Lead DevOps 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 Lead DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (90.00%) Terraform
2 9 (90.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (90.00%) AWS
3 7 (70.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
4 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
5 5 (50.00%) Python
5 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
5 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
6 4 (40.00%) GitLab
6 4 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (40.00%) Docker
6 4 (40.00%) Git
6 4 (40.00%) Bash
7 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (30.00%) Platform Engineering
8 2 (20.00%) AWS Direct Connect
8 2 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (20.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
8 2 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
8 2 (20.00%) Prometheus
8 2 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
8 2 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
8 2 (20.00%) Grafana
8 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
8 2 (20.00%) Elastic Stack

Lead DevOps 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Direct Connect
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub
3 2 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Control Tower
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (10.00%) Azure
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Service Fabric
4 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (10.00%) PaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) VPN
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
1 4 (40.00%) GitLab
2 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (10.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (10.00%) AWS SAM
2 1 (10.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (10.00%) SailPoint
2 1 (10.00%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (90.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (70.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (30.00%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
6 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (20.00%) Migration
7 1 (10.00%) Agile
7 1 (10.00%) B2C
7 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security
7 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
7 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (10.00%) High Availability
7 1 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
7 1 (10.00%) Microservices
7 1 (10.00%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) Go
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (90.00%) Terraform
2 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (20.00%) Ansible
3 2 (20.00%) Grafana
3 2 (20.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (10.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft