Senior DevOps Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Senior Development Operations
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Development Operations 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 235 299 385
Rank change year-on-year +64 +86 +88
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 69 46 92
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.70% 0.30% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.32% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 39 73
10th Percentile £489 £475 £514
25th Percentile £550 £519 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year +5.83% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £728 £666 £688
90th Percentile £784 £750 £723
UK median daily rate £636 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +6.04% -7.69% +1.56%

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
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Senior 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 Senior DevOps.

Senior DevOps daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Senior DevOps daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior DevOps 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 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 in the job title.

1 69 (100.00%) DevOps
2 64 (92.75%) Terraform
3 57 (82.61%) Kubernetes
4 55 (79.71%) AWS
5 52 (75.36%) CI/CD
6 45 (65.22%) Python
7 38 (55.07%) Infrastructure as Code
8 36 (52.17%) Jenkins
9 33 (47.83%) Linux
9 33 (47.83%) Ansible
10 32 (46.38%) Docker
11 31 (44.93%) Security Cleared
12 30 (43.48%) AWS CloudFormation
13 29 (42.03%) GitLab
13 29 (42.03%) SC Cleared
13 29 (42.03%) Bash
14 22 (31.88%) Containerisation
15 21 (30.43%) Grafana
16 19 (27.54%) Prometheus
17 18 (26.09%) Amazon EC2
17 18 (26.09%) Continuous Integration
17 18 (26.09%) Go
17 18 (26.09%) Agile
18 15 (21.74%) Configuration Management
19 14 (20.29%) Azure
19 14 (20.29%) Problem-Solving
19 14 (20.29%) Amazon EKS
19 14 (20.29%) Amazon ECS
20 13 (18.84%) Amazon RDS
20 13 (18.84%) TCP/IP

Senior 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 4 (5.80%) nginx
1 4 (5.80%) Traefik
2 1 (1.45%) MQSeries
2 1 (1.45%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Notion
1 1 (1.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) SAP HCM
1 1 (1.45%) SAP IBP
1 1 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 55 (79.71%) AWS
2 30 (43.48%) AWS CloudFormation
3 18 (26.09%) Amazon EC2
4 14 (20.29%) Amazon ECS
4 14 (20.29%) Amazon EKS
4 14 (20.29%) Azure
5 11 (15.94%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (15.94%) Serverless
6 10 (14.49%) GitHub
7 9 (13.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (13.04%) Entra ID
7 9 (13.04%) GCP
7 9 (13.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 7 (10.14%) Amazon S3
8 7 (10.14%) Amazon SQS
8 7 (10.14%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (8.70%) AWS Fargate
10 3 (4.35%) AWS KMS
10 3 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (2.90%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 13 (18.84%) DNS
1 13 (18.84%) TCP/IP
2 8 (11.59%) HTTP
3 5 (7.25%) Internet
4 4 (5.80%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (2.90%) Firewall
6 1 (1.45%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (18.84%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (10.14%) Amazon Aurora
2 7 (10.14%) MongoDB
3 5 (7.25%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (4.35%) SAP HANA
5 2 (2.90%) MySQL
6 1 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.45%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 36 (52.17%) Jenkins
2 29 (42.03%) GitLab
3 6 (8.70%) Git
4 3 (4.35%) CircleCI
5 2 (2.90%) Gradle
5 2 (2.90%) JIRA
5 2 (2.90%) Maven
5 2 (2.90%) Subversion
5 2 (2.90%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (2.90%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.45%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.45%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.45%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (15.94%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.25%) Banking
2 5 (7.25%) Finance
2 5 (7.25%) Front Office
2 5 (7.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (7.25%) Public Sector
3 4 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.45%) Games
4 1 (1.45%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (17.39%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (14.49%) cloud-init
2 10 (14.49%) Keycloak
3 8 (11.59%) Kafka
4 5 (7.25%) OAuth
4 5 (7.25%) OpenID
5 4 (5.80%) LDAP
5 4 (5.80%) OAuth2
5 4 (5.80%) SAML
6 2 (2.90%) AWS CDK
6 2 (2.90%) AWS SAM
7 1 (1.45%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.94%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.70%) PKI
3 2 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.90%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.45%) FMCG
4 1 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.45%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 33 (47.83%) Linux
2 12 (17.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 12 (17.39%) Unix
3 11 (15.94%) CentOS
4 2 (2.90%) SUSE
5 1 (1.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (100.00%) DevOps
2 52 (75.36%) CI/CD
3 38 (55.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (31.88%) Containerisation
5 18 (26.09%) Agile
5 18 (26.09%) Continuous Integration
6 15 (21.74%) Configuration Management
7 14 (20.29%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (17.39%) Secrets Management
9 10 (14.49%) Cloud Security
9 10 (14.49%) Deployment Automation
9 10 (14.49%) Mentoring
9 10 (14.49%) Observability
9 10 (14.49%) Platform Engineering
10 9 (13.04%) Infrastructure Automation
10 9 (13.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 9 (13.04%) Software Engineering
11 8 (11.59%) Identity Management
12 7 (10.14%) GitOps
12 7 (10.14%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 45 (65.22%) Python
2 29 (42.03%) Bash
3 18 (26.09%) Go
4 10 (14.49%) JavaScript
5 6 (8.70%) PowerShell
6 4 (5.80%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.90%) Java
7 2 (2.90%) SQL
8 1 (1.45%) C#
8 1 (1.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 31 (44.93%) Security Cleared
2 29 (42.03%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.70%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.80%) Degree
5 1 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.70%) NCSC
2 1 (1.45%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.45%) QA
System Software
1 32 (46.38%) Docker
2 4 (5.80%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.45%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 64 (92.75%) Terraform
2 57 (82.61%) Kubernetes
3 33 (47.83%) Ansible
4 21 (30.43%) Grafana
5 19 (27.54%) Prometheus
6 12 (17.39%) Puppet
7 11 (15.94%) Packer
8 9 (13.04%) Progress Chef
9 8 (11.59%) Consul
10 7 (10.14%) Istio
10 7 (10.14%) linkerd
10 7 (10.14%) Rancher
11 6 (8.70%) Argo
11 6 (8.70%) Jamf Pro
11 6 (8.70%) ZABBIX
12 4 (5.80%) HAProxy
12 4 (5.80%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (1.45%) logstash
Vendors
1 10 (14.49%) Red Hat
2 9 (13.04%) Splunk
3 7 (10.14%) SAP
4 6 (8.70%) Okta
5 4 (5.80%) Apple
5 4 (5.80%) Dynatrace
5 4 (5.80%) ESET
6 2 (2.90%) Confluent
6 2 (2.90%) Databricks
6 2 (2.90%) Google
7 1 (1.45%) Black Duck
7 1 (1.45%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.45%) MKS
7 1 (1.45%) New Relic
7 1 (1.45%) Perforce
7 1 (1.45%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.45%) Tenable
7 1 (1.45%) VMware