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 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 232 298 379
Rank change year-on-year +66 +81 +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% 0.38%
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 £725 £666 £688
90th Percentile £771 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £635 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +5.83% -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 9,280 14,264 24,476
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.76% 93.50% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,354 9,548 17,287
10th Percentile £338 £325 £356
25th Percentile £413 £425 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £774 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 576 563
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.34 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.13 £23.32 £25.98
Median hourly rate £35.13 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £28.88 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% -19.07% +94.45%

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 3 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 3 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 54 (78.26%) AWS
5 52 (75.36%) CI/CD
6 45 (65.22%) Python
7 39 (56.52%) Infrastructure as Code
8 37 (53.62%) Jenkins
9 33 (47.83%) Linux
9 33 (47.83%) Ansible
10 32 (46.38%) Docker
10 32 (46.38%) Security Cleared
11 30 (43.48%) SC Cleared
11 30 (43.48%) Bash
11 30 (43.48%) GitLab
12 29 (42.03%) AWS CloudFormation
13 23 (33.33%) Containerisation
14 22 (31.88%) Grafana
15 20 (28.99%) Prometheus
16 18 (26.09%) Continuous Integration
16 18 (26.09%) Go
16 18 (26.09%) Agile
17 17 (24.64%) Amazon EC2
18 15 (21.74%) Configuration Management
19 14 (20.29%) Azure
19 14 (20.29%) Problem-Solving
19 14 (20.29%) Amazon EKS
20 13 (18.84%) Amazon ECS
20 13 (18.84%) TCP/IP
20 13 (18.84%) DNS

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 54 (78.26%) AWS
2 29 (42.03%) AWS CloudFormation
3 17 (24.64%) Amazon EC2
4 14 (20.29%) Amazon EKS
4 14 (20.29%) Azure
5 13 (18.84%) Amazon ECS
6 10 (14.49%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (14.49%) GitHub
6 10 (14.49%) Serverless
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%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (8.70%) Amazon S3
9 6 (8.70%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (8.70%) AWS Fargate
10 3 (4.35%) AWS KMS
10 3 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (2.90%) AWS Control Tower
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 12 (17.39%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (10.14%) Amazon Aurora
2 7 (10.14%) MongoDB
3 4 (5.80%) 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 37 (53.62%) Jenkins
2 30 (43.48%) GitLab
3 7 (10.14%) 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 6 (8.70%) Public Sector
3 5 (7.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.80%) Banking
4 4 (5.80%) Finance
4 4 (5.80%) Front Office
5 1 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.45%) Games
5 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 39 (56.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (33.33%) 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 11 (15.94%) Mentoring
10 10 (14.49%) Cloud Security
10 10 (14.49%) Deployment Automation
10 10 (14.49%) Observability
10 10 (14.49%) Platform Engineering
11 9 (13.04%) Infrastructure Automation
12 8 (11.59%) Identity Management
12 8 (11.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 8 (11.59%) Software Engineering
13 7 (10.14%) GitOps
13 7 (10.14%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 45 (65.22%) Python
2 30 (43.48%) Bash
3 18 (26.09%) Go
4 9 (13.04%) 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 32 (46.38%) Security Cleared
2 30 (43.48%) 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 22 (31.88%) Grafana
5 20 (28.99%) 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