DevOps Consultant Contracts in England

Development Operations Consultant
UK > England

The median Development Operations Consultant daily rate in England is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 536 600 709
Rank change year-on-year +64 +109 -134
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Consultant 15 37 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.041% 0.078% 0.096%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.082% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 16 53
10th Percentile £485 £463 £513
25th Percentile £519 £519 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £638
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% +15.91%
75th Percentile £690 - £725
90th Percentile £750 £663 £773
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £625
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £78.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £78.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,226 44,888 67,264
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,546 31,942 48,134
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,576 1,314 1,782
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.51
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.57 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

DevOps Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured DevOps Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Consultant in England

DevOps Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps Consultant in England.

Daily rate trend for DevOps Consultant in England

DevOps Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Consultant in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Consultant in England

DevOps Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps Consultant in England.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Consultant in England

DevOps Consultant
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Consultant within the England region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +76 9 £575 -4.17% 5
North of England +23 4 £700 +34.55%
North West +20 3 £700 +34.55%
South West +4 1 £630 -3.08% 1
Yorkshire - 1 £425 -
East Midlands - 1 £550 -
Midlands - 1 £550 -
DevOps Consultant
UK

DevOps Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, DevOps Consultant 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 job ads across the England region featuring DevOps Consultant in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (60.00%) Azure
3 7 (46.67%) Terraform
4 6 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (40.00%) AWS
5 5 (33.33%) Agile
5 5 (33.33%) Git
5 5 (33.33%) Kubernetes
5 5 (33.33%) Docker
6 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
6 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (20.00%) Power Platform
7 3 (20.00%) Power Automate
7 3 (20.00%) Data Lake
7 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 3 (20.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (20.00%) Python
7 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
7 3 (20.00%) Finance
7 3 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
7 3 (20.00%) AWS Certification
7 3 (20.00%) Bash
7 3 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (20.00%) Network Security
8 2 (13.33%) Kanban
8 2 (13.33%) Data Migration
8 2 (13.33%) Degree
8 2 (13.33%) JSON
8 2 (13.33%) Visual Studio Team System

DevOps Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) Azure
2 6 (40.00%) AWS
2 6 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (20.00%) Power Automate
3 3 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (13.33%) Azure API Management
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Batch
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Functions
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Storage
4 2 (13.33%) PowerApps
4 2 (13.33%) Serverless
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (6.67%) GitHub
5 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
2 3 (20.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (13.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (13.33%) Big Data
3 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (13.33%) OLTP
4 1 (6.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (13.33%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) .NET
1 2 (13.33%) ARM Templates
1 2 (13.33%) JSON
1 2 (13.33%) Web Services
1 2 (13.33%) XML
2 1 (6.67%) LDAP
2 1 (6.67%) OAuth
2 1 (6.67%) OpenID
2 1 (6.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Clustering
1 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (33.33%) Agile
4 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (13.33%) API Management
6 2 (13.33%) Architectural Patterns
6 2 (13.33%) BDD
6 2 (13.33%) Data Migration
6 2 (13.33%) Kanban
6 2 (13.33%) Migration
6 2 (13.33%) OWASP
6 2 (13.33%) Scrum
6 2 (13.33%) Service Design
6 2 (13.33%) SOA
6 2 (13.33%) TDD
6 2 (13.33%) Technology Transformation
6 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) Bash
1 3 (20.00%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) C#
2 2 (13.33%) Java
2 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (20.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Degree
3 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (46.67%) Terraform
2 5 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (13.33%) Ansible
4 1 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (6.67%) vRealize
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Virgin Media
3 1 (6.67%) EMC
3 1 (6.67%) ForgeRock
3 1 (6.67%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.67%) VMware