Senior DevOps Engineer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Senior Development Operations Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £635, 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 240 313 395
Rank change year-on-year +73 +82 +96
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 64 32 82
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.65% 0.21% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 0.22% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 26 68
10th Percentile £488 £494 £543
25th Percentile £550 £550 £580
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £646 £625
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% +3.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £725 £670 £691
90th Percentile £788 £724 £725
UK median daily rate £635 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -2.31% - +4.00%

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%

Senior DevOps Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Senior DevOps Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Senior DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Senior DevOps Engineer.

Senior DevOps Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

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

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

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

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

1 64 (100.00%) DevOps
2 59 (92.19%) Terraform
3 54 (84.38%) Kubernetes
4 50 (78.13%) AWS
5 48 (75.00%) CI/CD
6 41 (64.06%) Python
7 35 (54.69%) Infrastructure as Code
8 33 (51.56%) Ansible
9 31 (48.44%) Docker
9 31 (48.44%) Jenkins
10 28 (43.75%) Linux
11 27 (42.19%) Security Cleared
11 27 (42.19%) AWS CloudFormation
12 26 (40.63%) SC Cleared
12 26 (40.63%) Bash
13 25 (39.06%) GitLab
14 21 (32.81%) Containerisation
15 18 (28.13%) Agile
16 17 (26.56%) Grafana
17 16 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
18 15 (23.44%) Continuous Integration
18 15 (23.44%) Go
18 15 (23.44%) Configuration Management
18 15 (23.44%) Prometheus
19 14 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
19 14 (21.88%) Amazon EKS
19 14 (21.88%) Azure
20 13 (20.31%) Amazon RDS
21 11 (17.19%) Puppet
21 11 (17.19%) Amazon ECS

Senior 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.56%) MQSeries
1 1 (1.56%) nginx
1 1 (1.56%) OpenStack
1 1 (1.56%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Notion
1 1 (1.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) SAP HCM
1 1 (1.56%) SAP IBP
1 1 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 50 (78.13%) AWS
2 27 (42.19%) AWS CloudFormation
3 16 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
4 14 (21.88%) Amazon EKS
4 14 (21.88%) Azure
5 11 (17.19%) Amazon ECS
6 10 (15.63%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (15.63%) GitHub
6 10 (15.63%) Serverless
7 9 (14.06%) GCP
8 7 (10.94%) Amazon SQS
8 7 (10.94%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (9.38%) Amazon S3
9 6 (9.38%) Entra ID
10 5 (7.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (7.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (4.69%) AWS Fargate
11 3 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (3.13%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 2 (3.13%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (15.63%) DNS
1 10 (15.63%) TCP/IP
2 7 (10.94%) HTTP
3 5 (7.81%) Internet
4 4 (6.25%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (3.13%) Firewall
6 1 (1.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (20.31%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (10.94%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (7.81%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (4.69%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.69%) SAP HANA
5 1 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.56%) MySQL
5 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 31 (48.44%) Jenkins
2 25 (39.06%) GitLab
3 6 (9.38%) Git
4 3 (4.69%) CircleCI
5 2 (3.13%) JIRA
5 2 (3.13%) Subversion
5 2 (3.13%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (3.13%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.56%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.56%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.56%) Gradle
6 1 (1.56%) Maven
General
1 11 (17.19%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.81%) Banking
2 5 (7.81%) Finance
2 5 (7.81%) Front Office
2 5 (7.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (7.81%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.56%) Games
4 1 (1.56%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.19%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (10.94%) cloud-init
2 7 (10.94%) Keycloak
3 5 (7.81%) Kafka
3 5 (7.81%) OAuth
3 5 (7.81%) OpenID
4 4 (6.25%) LDAP
4 4 (6.25%) OAuth2
4 4 (6.25%) SAML
5 2 (3.13%) AWS CDK
5 2 (3.13%) AWS SAM
6 1 (1.56%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.19%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.69%) PKI
3 2 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.56%) FMCG
4 1 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 28 (43.75%) Linux
2 9 (14.06%) Unix
3 8 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (10.94%) CentOS
5 2 (3.13%) SUSE
6 1 (1.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (100.00%) DevOps
2 48 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 35 (54.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (32.81%) Containerisation
5 18 (28.13%) Agile
6 15 (23.44%) Configuration Management
6 15 (23.44%) Continuous Integration
7 14 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (15.63%) Deployment Automation
8 10 (15.63%) Mentoring
8 10 (15.63%) Platform Engineering
9 9 (14.06%) Infrastructure Automation
9 9 (14.06%) Secrets Management
9 9 (14.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 8 (12.50%) Software Engineering
11 7 (10.94%) Cloud Security
11 7 (10.94%) GitOps
11 7 (10.94%) High Availability
11 7 (10.94%) Observability
12 6 (9.38%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 41 (64.06%) Python
2 26 (40.63%) Bash
3 15 (23.44%) Go
4 10 (15.63%) JavaScript
5 6 (9.38%) PowerShell
6 4 (6.25%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.13%) SQL
8 1 (1.56%) C#
8 1 (1.56%) Java
8 1 (1.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 27 (42.19%) Security Cleared
2 26 (40.63%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (6.25%) Degree
4 3 (4.69%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.69%) NCSC
2 1 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 31 (48.44%) Docker
2 4 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.56%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 59 (92.19%) Terraform
2 54 (84.38%) Kubernetes
3 33 (51.56%) Ansible
4 17 (26.56%) Grafana
5 15 (23.44%) Prometheus
6 11 (17.19%) Puppet
7 9 (14.06%) Progress Chef
8 7 (10.94%) Packer
9 6 (9.38%) Argo
10 5 (7.81%) Consul
11 4 (6.25%) Istio
11 4 (6.25%) linkerd
11 4 (6.25%) Rancher
11 4 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (4.69%) Jamf Pro
12 3 (4.69%) ZABBIX
13 1 (1.56%) HAProxy
13 1 (1.56%) logstash
Vendors
1 10 (15.63%) Red Hat
2 7 (10.94%) SAP
3 6 (9.38%) Splunk
4 4 (6.25%) Dynatrace
5 3 (4.69%) Okta
6 2 (3.13%) Confluent
6 2 (3.13%) Databricks
6 2 (3.13%) Google
7 1 (1.56%) Apple
7 1 (1.56%) ESET
7 1 (1.56%) MKS
7 1 (1.56%) New Relic
7 1 (1.56%) Perforce
7 1 (1.56%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.56%) VMware