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 £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 August 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
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 317 402
Rank change year-on-year +14 +85 +102
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 12 24 28
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.18% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.19% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 21 18
10th Percentile £382 £563 £559
25th Percentile £450 £600 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £538 £700 £763
90th Percentile £644 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £650 £628
% change year-on-year -21.15% +3.46% -6.93%

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 9,509 12,350 21,193
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.84% 93.55% 94.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,318 8,294 14,941
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -0.94% -1.40%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 385 506
10th Percentile £12.77 £16.64 £16.98
25th Percentile £16.25 £27.84 £24.81
Median hourly rate £34.48 £45.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.38% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.61 £66.56
90th Percentile £70.81 £75.00 £78.46
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -41.51% - +67.45%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
2 7 (58.33%) Terraform
3 6 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 6 (50.00%) Azure
3 6 (50.00%) AWS
4 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
4 5 (41.67%) GitLab
5 4 (33.33%) Mentoring
5 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
5 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
6 3 (25.00%) Observability
6 3 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (25.00%) AWS Certification
6 3 (25.00%) Microservices
6 3 (25.00%) Ansible
6 3 (25.00%) GitHub
6 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
6 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 3 (25.00%) Java
6 3 (25.00%) Python
6 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
6 3 (25.00%) Agile
6 3 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
7 2 (16.67%) Incident Response
7 2 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect

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 1 (8.33%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
1 6 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (25.00%) GitHub
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon Macie
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (8.33%) AWS KMS
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (8.33%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) Network Security
2 1 (8.33%) SSL
2 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (8.33%) DynamoDB
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) GitLab
2 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (16.67%) JIRA
3 2 (16.67%) JMeter
4 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
4 1 (8.33%) Cucumber
4 1 (8.33%) Git
4 1 (8.33%) IntelliJ
General
1 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) .NET
1 2 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) Playwright
2 1 (8.33%) Spring
2 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (8.33%) Web Services
2 1 (8.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
1 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
3 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 3 (25.00%) Agile
4 3 (25.00%) Microservices
4 3 (25.00%) Observability
4 3 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
5 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 2 (16.67%) Incident Response
5 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (16.67%) ITIL
5 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) Service Management
5 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
6 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Java
1 3 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) Bash
3 1 (8.33%) Bicep
3 1 (8.33%) PL/SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (25.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) SOC 2
2 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (8.33%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (8.33%) NIST
2 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (8.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Terraform
2 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 3 (25.00%) Ansible
4 2 (16.67%) Grafana
4 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
4 2 (16.67%) Puppet
5 1 (8.33%) Argo
5 1 (8.33%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) InterSystems
2 2 (16.67%) Splunk
3 1 (8.33%) Dynatrace