DevOps Engineer Contracts in England

Development Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in England is £538 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 May 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
16 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 72 71
Rank change year-on-year -63 -1 +8
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 632 1,574 2,369
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.74% 3.27% 3.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.87% 3.45% 3.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 496 1,240 1,820
10th Percentile £425 £475 £463
25th Percentile £463 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £610 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.89% +1.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £675
90th Percentile £681 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.42% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 1
10th Percentile £45.88 £49.37 -
25th Percentile £52.72 £53.75 £37.00
Median hourly rate £59.75 £71.00 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.85% +82.05% -25.71%
75th Percentile £74.44 £80.25 £41.00
90th Percentile £75.36 £87.00 -
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £70.50 £37.00
% change year-on-year -12.06% +90.54% -29.52%

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 33,742 45,591 67,107
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.62% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,367 32,416 47,845
10th Percentile £282 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,431 1,343 1,853
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.39 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.62
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.23
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +93.72% +5.59%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.40 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in England

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in England

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in England

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Engineer in England

DevOps Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps Engineer in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in England

DevOps Engineer
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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 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 -49 369 £550 -12.00% 98
North of England -34 93 £500 -16.67% 39
South West -36 64 £550 -8.33% 31
South East -30 57 £525 -10.64% 26
North West -32 56 £513 -6.82% 24
Yorkshire 0 34 £500 -20.00% 11
Midlands -10 18 £525 -16.00% 18
West Midlands -11 12 £525 -16.00% 11
East of England -15 7 £450 -21.74% 7
East Midlands +2 6 £538 -23.21% 7
North East -11 3 - - 4
DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, 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 job ads across the England region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 632 (100.00%) DevOps
2 385 (60.92%) Terraform
3 361 (57.12%) AWS
4 332 (52.53%) CI/CD
5 296 (46.84%) Kubernetes
6 278 (43.99%) Security Cleared
7 244 (38.61%) Python
8 228 (36.08%) Docker
9 222 (35.13%) Azure
10 200 (31.65%) SC Cleared
11 182 (28.80%) Linux
12 181 (28.64%) Ansible
13 161 (25.47%) Infrastructure as Code
14 157 (24.84%) Jenkins
15 137 (21.68%) Agile
16 126 (19.94%) GitLab
17 112 (17.72%) Bash
18 110 (17.41%) Azure DevOps
19 108 (17.09%) PowerShell
20 101 (15.98%) Containerisation
21 98 (15.51%) Git
22 86 (13.61%) GitHub
23 85 (13.45%) Prometheus
24 78 (12.34%) Public Sector
25 77 (12.18%) Problem-Solving
25 77 (12.18%) Social Skills
26 74 (11.71%) Configuration Management
27 70 (11.08%) Grafana
28 69 (10.92%) Amazon EC2
28 69 (10.92%) Serverless

DevOps Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 36 (5.70%) Confluence
2 33 (5.22%) nginx
3 20 (3.16%) Apache
4 10 (1.58%) IIS
5 4 (0.63%) Apache Solr
5 4 (0.63%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.63%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.47%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.32%) Traefik
7 2 (0.32%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.16%) Drupal
8 1 (0.16%) JBoss
8 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 361 (57.12%) AWS
2 222 (35.13%) Azure
3 110 (17.41%) Azure DevOps
4 86 (13.61%) GitHub
5 69 (10.92%) Amazon EC2
5 69 (10.92%) Serverless
6 63 (9.97%) AWS CloudFormation
7 62 (9.81%) Amazon S3
8 58 (9.18%) GCP
9 51 (8.07%) AWS Lambda
10 43 (6.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 42 (6.65%) Amazon EKS
12 37 (5.85%) OpenShift
12 37 (5.85%) Route 53
13 36 (5.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 35 (5.54%) GitHub Actions
15 30 (4.75%) Amazon ECS
16 29 (4.59%) PaaS
17 20 (3.16%) Azure AKS
18 15 (2.37%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 33 (5.22%) DNS
2 30 (4.75%) Firewall
3 23 (3.64%) HTTP
3 23 (3.64%) VPN
4 18 (2.85%) TCP/IP
5 13 (2.06%) Network Security
6 6 (0.95%) Internet
6 6 (0.95%) SSH
6 6 (0.95%) SSL
7 4 (0.63%) AMQP
7 4 (0.63%) HTTPS
7 4 (0.63%) IPsec
7 4 (0.63%) IPv4
7 4 (0.63%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.47%) DHCP
8 3 (0.47%) LAN
8 3 (0.47%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (0.47%) WLAN
9 2 (0.32%) BIG-IP
9 2 (0.32%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (8.07%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (3.80%) SQL Server
3 15 (2.37%) MySQL
4 14 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
4 14 (2.22%) Relational Database
5 13 (2.06%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (1.74%) NoSQL
8 7 (1.11%) MongoDB
8 7 (1.11%) Triplestore
9 6 (0.95%) Couchbase
9 6 (0.95%) Power BI
10 5 (0.79%) Amazon QuickSight
10 5 (0.79%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.79%) Redis
11 4 (0.63%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.63%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.63%) InfluxDB
11 4 (0.63%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 157 (24.84%) Jenkins
2 126 (19.94%) GitLab
3 98 (15.51%) Git
4 42 (6.65%) JIRA
5 31 (4.91%) Artifactory
5 31 (4.91%) TeamCity
6 19 (3.01%) SonarQube
7 18 (2.85%) Bitbucket
8 13 (2.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 10 (1.58%) Selenium
10 9 (1.42%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.42%) Maven
11 8 (1.27%) CircleCI
11 8 (1.27%) Travis CI
12 7 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
13 6 (0.95%) Gradle
13 6 (0.95%) Spinnaker
14 5 (0.79%) Terragrunt
15 4 (0.63%) Cypress.io
15 4 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 78 (12.34%) Public Sector
2 77 (12.18%) Social Skills
3 67 (10.60%) Finance
4 33 (5.22%) Banking
5 20 (3.16%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (3.16%) Investment Banking
6 13 (2.06%) Law
7 9 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (1.42%) Legal
8 8 (1.27%) Telecoms
9 7 (1.11%) Marketing
10 5 (0.79%) Electronics
10 5 (0.79%) Manufacturing
10 5 (0.79%) Retail
11 4 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.16%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.16%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.16%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (6.96%) .NET
2 38 (6.01%) YAML
3 32 (5.06%) Kafka
4 29 (4.59%) JSON
5 27 (4.27%) Elastic Stack
6 23 (3.64%) REST
7 21 (3.32%) RabbitMQ
8 19 (3.01%) AWS CDK
8 19 (3.01%) WinForms
9 18 (2.85%) WCF
10 17 (2.69%) ARM Templates
11 15 (2.37%) Node.js
11 15 (2.37%) React
12 13 (2.06%) Apache NiFi
13 9 (1.42%) CSS
13 9 (1.42%) HTML
14 8 (1.27%) LDAP
14 8 (1.27%) XML
15 7 (1.11%) Apache Jena
15 7 (1.11%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 21 (3.32%) Public Cloud
2 17 (2.69%) Greenfield Project
3 15 (2.37%) Cloud Native
4 14 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
4 14 (2.22%) Product Ownership
5 12 (1.90%) Data Centre
6 9 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (1.42%) PKI
6 9 (1.42%) Private Cloud
7 8 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.11%) Data Structures
9 6 (0.95%) Blockchain
9 6 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (0.79%) Management Information System
11 4 (0.63%) Security Posture
11 4 (0.63%) Tandem
11 4 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 182 (28.80%) Linux
2 54 (8.54%) Windows
3 34 (5.38%) Unix
4 24 (3.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (2.37%) CentOS
6 9 (1.42%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.79%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.63%) Android
8 4 (0.63%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.63%) VMS
9 3 (0.47%) Debian
9 3 (0.47%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.47%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.16%) AIX
10 1 (0.16%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 632 (100.00%) DevOps
2 332 (52.53%) CI/CD
3 161 (25.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 137 (21.68%) Agile
5 101 (15.98%) Containerisation
6 77 (12.18%) Problem-Solving
7 74 (11.71%) Configuration Management
8 52 (8.23%) Continuous Integration
9 49 (7.75%) Migration
9 49 (7.75%) Test Automation
10 42 (6.65%) Computer Science
11 41 (6.49%) Platform Engineering
12 40 (6.33%) Software Engineering
13 38 (6.01%) Microservices
14 37 (5.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 35 (5.54%) Scrum
16 31 (4.91%) Software Delivery
17 29 (4.59%) SDLC
18 28 (4.43%) Continuous Improvement
18 28 (4.43%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 244 (38.61%) Python
2 112 (17.72%) Bash
3 108 (17.09%) PowerShell
4 63 (9.97%) Go
4 63 (9.97%) Java
5 60 (9.49%) SQL
6 49 (7.75%) C#
7 47 (7.44%) JavaScript
8 24 (3.80%) Shell Script
9 21 (3.32%) Ruby
10 17 (2.69%) TypeScript
11 16 (2.53%) C
12 14 (2.22%) C++
13 13 (2.06%) Groovy
14 11 (1.74%) Bicep
15 10 (1.58%) PHP
16 8 (1.27%) Perl
17 7 (1.11%) SPARQL
18 5 (0.79%) Scala
19 4 (0.63%) Rust
Qualifications
1 278 (43.99%) Security Cleared
2 200 (31.65%) SC Cleared
3 68 (10.76%) DV Cleared
4 42 (6.65%) Degree
5 34 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (3.48%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.74%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.16%) GIAC
11 1 (0.16%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.16%) MCSE
11 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.16%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.11%) QA
2 9 (1.42%) NIST
3 6 (0.95%) GDPR
3 6 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.63%) HIPAA
4 4 (0.63%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.47%) NCSC
6 2 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.16%) SLA
7 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 228 (36.08%) Docker
2 27 (4.27%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.69%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.79%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.63%) NFS
7 3 (0.47%) LXC
7 3 (0.47%) OpenAM
7 3 (0.47%) OpenIDM
8 2 (0.32%) Varnish
8 2 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.16%) KVM
9 1 (0.16%) vSphere
9 1 (0.16%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 385 (60.92%) Terraform
2 296 (46.84%) Kubernetes
3 181 (28.64%) Ansible
4 85 (13.45%) Prometheus
5 70 (11.08%) Grafana
6 43 (6.80%) Puppet
7 31 (4.91%) Progress Chef
8 22 (3.48%) Packer
9 18 (2.85%) Docker Swarm
10 14 (2.22%) Consul
11 12 (1.90%) Istio
12 11 (1.74%) Argo
12 11 (1.74%) Kibana
13 10 (1.58%) Rancher
14 8 (1.27%) logstash
14 8 (1.27%) Nagios
15 7 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
16 4 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 4 (0.63%) HAProxy
16 4 (0.63%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 47 (7.44%) Microsoft
2 38 (6.01%) Oracle
3 33 (5.22%) Splunk
4 23 (3.64%) VMware
5 19 (3.01%) Red Hat
6 18 (2.85%) Google
7 12 (1.90%) Dynatrace
8 11 (1.74%) SAP
9 7 (1.11%) ServiceNow
10 6 (0.95%) Databricks
10 6 (0.95%) F5
10 6 (0.95%) PagerDuty
11 5 (0.79%) Atlassian
12 4 (0.63%) AppDynamics
12 4 (0.63%) ForgeRock
12 4 (0.63%) Guidewire
12 4 (0.63%) New Relic
13 3 (0.47%) CyberArk
13 3 (0.47%) Palo Alto
13 3 (0.47%) Virgin Media
285 DevOps Engineer jobs Nationwide