Lead DevOps Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Lead Development Operations
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Development Operations daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 293 320 436
Rank change year-on-year +27 +116 +101
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 11 25 41
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.16% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.17% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 21 33
10th Percentile £540 £500 £500
25th Percentile £550 £525 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £688 £650 £723
90th Percentile £700 £688 £820
UK median daily rate £575 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -8.00% -3.85% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Lead DevOps
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Lead DevOps in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Lead DevOps trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Lead 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 Lead DevOps.

Lead DevOps daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Lead DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Lead DevOps over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Lead DevOps daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Lead DevOps 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 in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (72.73%) Terraform
2 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
3 7 (63.64%) Kubernetes
4 6 (54.55%) Azure
5 5 (45.45%) AWS
5 5 (45.45%) GitLab
5 5 (45.45%) Python
5 5 (45.45%) Identity Management
6 4 (36.36%) Linux
7 3 (27.27%) Agile
7 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
7 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
7 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
7 3 (27.27%) Microservices
7 3 (27.27%) Docker
7 3 (27.27%) Bash
7 3 (27.27%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
7 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (27.27%) Entra ID
8 2 (18.18%) SDLC
8 2 (18.18%) Data Engineering
8 2 (18.18%) Change Management
8 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (18.18%) Matrix Organization
8 2 (18.18%) The Twelve-Factor App
8 2 (18.18%) Databricks
8 2 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (18.18%) Data Science

Lead DevOps 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 2 (18.18%) nginx
2 1 (9.09%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) AWS
3 3 (27.27%) Entra ID
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (18.18%) Azure AI
4 2 (18.18%) Azure API Management
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (9.09%) Kong
5 1 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) DNS
1 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) GitLab
2 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 1 (9.09%) Git
3 1 (9.09%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (9.09%) Spinnaker
3 1 (9.09%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) OAuth
2 1 (9.09%) cloud-init
2 1 (9.09%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) Keycloak
2 1 (9.09%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) PKI
1 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) CentOS
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
3 5 (45.45%) Identity Management
4 3 (27.27%) Agile
4 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
4 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (27.27%) Microservices
4 3 (27.27%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Application Security
5 2 (18.18%) Cost Optimisation
5 2 (18.18%) Data Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Data Science
5 2 (18.18%) FinOps
5 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Matrix Organization
5 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (18.18%) RBAC
5 2 (18.18%) SDLC
5 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (18.18%) The Twelve-Factor App
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) Bash
2 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
3 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.09%) Go
4 1 (9.09%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Certification
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Terraform
2 7 (63.64%) Kubernetes
3 1 (9.09%) Consul
3 1 (9.09%) Grafana
3 1 (9.09%) HAProxy
3 1 (9.09%) Istio
3 1 (9.09%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (9.09%) linkerd
3 1 (9.09%) Packer
3 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
3 1 (9.09%) Rancher
3 1 (9.09%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Databricks
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Apple
2 1 (9.09%) ESET
2 1 (9.09%) Okta
2 1 (9.09%) Splunk