DevOps Specialist Contracts in England

Development Operations Specialist
UK > England

The median Development Operations Specialist daily rate in England is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 532 633 780
Rank change year-on-year +101 +147 -163
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Specialist 10 6 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.027% 0.013% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.029% 0.013% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 9
10th Percentile £564 £440 £473
25th Percentile £593 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% -16.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £688 £625 £626
90th Percentile - £633 £685
UK median daily rate £675 £500 £591
% change year-on-year +35.00% -15.33% +12.48%

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 34,255 45,148 67,437
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,555 32,138 48,275
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 2,585 1,311 1,778
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.54
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% +11.47%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%

DevOps Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Specialist in England

DevOps Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Specialist in England

DevOps Specialist
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 Specialist within the England region over the 6 months to 2 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 +105 7 £675 +38.46%
Midlands - 3 £557 - 1
West Midlands - 3 £557 - 1
South East - 2 - - 1
South West - 2 - -
DevOps Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, DevOps Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (90.00%) PowerShell
3 8 (80.00%) Terraform
3 8 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (50.00%) Windows
4 5 (50.00%) Configuration Management
5 4 (40.00%) Red Hat
5 4 (40.00%) Linux
5 4 (40.00%) YAML
5 4 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (40.00%) Law
5 4 (40.00%) Validation
5 4 (40.00%) VMware
5 4 (40.00%) Ansible
5 4 (40.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 4 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (40.00%) SaltStack
5 4 (40.00%) Salt
5 4 (40.00%) Git
5 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (40.00%) Azure
5 4 (40.00%) Bash
5 4 (40.00%) Puppet
5 4 (40.00%) Progress Chef
5 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (30.00%) ARM Templates
6 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
7 1 (10.00%) TypeScript

DevOps Specialist 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 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
1 4 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (40.00%) Law
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) YAML
2 3 (30.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (10.00%) .NET
3 1 (10.00%) Kafka
3 1 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (10.00%) WCF
3 1 (10.00%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
2 4 (40.00%) Linux
2 4 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (50.00%) Configuration Management
4 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 4 (40.00%) Validation
4 4 (40.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 1 (10.00%) Agile
5 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (10.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Migration
5 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 1 (10.00%) SDLC
5 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (40.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) Groovy
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) Terraform
2 4 (40.00%) Ansible
2 4 (40.00%) Progress Chef
2 4 (40.00%) Puppet
2 4 (40.00%) Salt
3 1 (10.00%) Grafana
3 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Red Hat
1 4 (40.00%) SaltStack
1 4 (40.00%) VMware
2 1 (10.00%) Confluent
2 1 (10.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) Informatica
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (10.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) StreamSets