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 3 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
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 268 281 383
Rank change year-on-year +13 +102 +103
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 42 54 55
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.41% 0.41% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.44% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 42 49
10th Percentile £500 £526 £525
25th Percentile £503 £566 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% -3.70% +3.89%
75th Percentile £653 £688 £700
90th Percentile £685 £760 £750
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% +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 9,575 12,320 21,234
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.84% 93.57% 94.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,354 8,296 14,964
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -1.41% -0.93%
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 297 385 512
10th Percentile £12.85 £16.64 £16.98
25th Percentile £16.50 £27.84 £24.74
Median hourly rate £34.48 £45.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.38% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.61 £66.00
90th Percentile £70.60 £75.00 £78.10
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.75
% change year-on-year -41.51% +0.58% +66.47%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 42 (100.00%) DevOps
2 37 (88.10%) Kubernetes
3 36 (85.71%) Terraform
4 32 (76.19%) Ansible
5 31 (73.81%) AWS
6 29 (69.05%) Infrastructure as Code
7 26 (61.90%) CI/CD
8 24 (57.14%) Containerisation
9 22 (52.38%) Docker
10 21 (50.00%) Jenkins
11 20 (47.62%) Python
12 18 (42.86%) Linux
12 18 (42.86%) SC Cleared
12 18 (42.86%) Security Cleared
12 18 (42.86%) Grafana
12 18 (42.86%) Prometheus
13 16 (38.10%) Amazon EKS
13 16 (38.10%) AWS CloudFormation
14 15 (35.71%) Bash
14 15 (35.71%) Configuration Management
15 14 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
15 14 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
15 14 (33.33%) Progress Chef
15 14 (33.33%) GitLab
16 13 (30.95%) Red Hat
17 12 (28.57%) Puppet
17 12 (28.57%) Deployment Automation
18 11 (26.19%) Amazon Aurora
18 11 (26.19%) Continuous Integration
18 11 (26.19%) HTTP

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 (2.38%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Notion
1 1 (2.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) SAP HCM
1 1 (2.38%) SAP IBP
1 1 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 31 (73.81%) AWS
2 16 (38.10%) Amazon EKS
2 16 (38.10%) AWS CloudFormation
3 14 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
4 10 (23.81%) Azure
5 9 (21.43%) GitHub
6 7 (16.67%) GCP
7 6 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (7.14%) Entra ID
8 3 (7.14%) Serverless
9 2 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (2.38%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (2.38%) Datadog
10 1 (2.38%) OpenShift
10 1 (2.38%) Pulumi
10 1 (2.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (26.19%) DNS
1 11 (26.19%) HTTP
1 11 (26.19%) TCP/IP
2 9 (21.43%) Internet
3 4 (9.52%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (2.38%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (26.19%) Amazon Aurora
1 11 (26.19%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (7.14%) SAP HANA
3 1 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.38%) MySQL
3 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 14 (33.33%) GitLab
3 5 (11.90%) Git
4 3 (7.14%) CircleCI
5 2 (4.76%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (2.38%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.38%) JIRA
6 1 (2.38%) Subversion
General
1 8 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.38%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (11.90%) OAuth
2 5 (11.90%) OpenID
3 4 (9.52%) Keycloak
3 4 (9.52%) LDAP
3 4 (9.52%) OAuth2
3 4 (9.52%) SAML
4 1 (2.38%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 9 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (4.76%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (42.86%) Linux
2 2 (4.76%) SUSE
3 1 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (100.00%) DevOps
2 29 (69.05%) Infrastructure as Code
3 26 (61.90%) CI/CD
4 24 (57.14%) Containerisation
5 15 (35.71%) Configuration Management
6 12 (28.57%) Deployment Automation
7 11 (26.19%) Continuous Integration
8 10 (23.81%) Mentoring
9 9 (21.43%) Cost Management
10 8 (19.05%) Agile
11 7 (16.67%) GitOps
11 7 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
11 7 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (14.29%) Cloud Security
13 5 (11.90%) High Availability
13 5 (11.90%) Platform Engineering
13 5 (11.90%) Secrets Management
13 5 (11.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 4 (9.52%) Computer Science
14 4 (9.52%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (47.62%) Python
2 15 (35.71%) Bash
3 5 (11.90%) Go
4 4 (9.52%) PowerShell
4 4 (9.52%) SQL
5 2 (4.76%) PromQL
6 1 (2.38%) Ruby
6 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 18 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (9.52%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 22 (52.38%) Docker
2 5 (11.90%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.38%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (88.10%) Kubernetes
2 36 (85.71%) Terraform
3 32 (76.19%) Ansible
4 18 (42.86%) Grafana
4 18 (42.86%) Prometheus
5 14 (33.33%) Progress Chef
6 12 (28.57%) Puppet
7 6 (14.29%) Argo
8 4 (9.52%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (4.76%) Consul
10 1 (2.38%) Istio
10 1 (2.38%) linkerd
10 1 (2.38%) logstash
Vendors
1 13 (30.95%) Red Hat
2 7 (16.67%) SAP
3 4 (9.52%) Splunk
4 3 (7.14%) Dynatrace
5 2 (4.76%) Google
6 1 (2.38%) Confluent
6 1 (2.38%) New Relic
6 1 (2.38%) Okta
6 1 (2.38%) OneLogin