DevOps Contracts in England

DevOps
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 12 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 3,398 5,646 9,184
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 9.34% 11.72% 13.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.81% 13.00% 14.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,360 4,136 6,672
10th Percentile £400 £425 £425
25th Percentile £466 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £583 £575
% change year-on-year -5.66% +1.39% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 99 76
10th Percentile £56.40 £50.70 £36.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £60.91 £45.69
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £60.02
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +9.13% +14.32%
75th Percentile £78.13 £75.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £87.18 £79.19 £79.88
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -0.76% +13.91% +27.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

DevOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,446 43,440 63,865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.42% 90.15% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,588 30,513 45,420
10th Percentile £300 £325 £333
25th Percentile £413 £448 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,245 1,538 1,746
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £16.23 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +7.71%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.00 £49.37
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in England

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in England

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in England

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in England

DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

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

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps in England

DevOps
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 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 -1 1,952 £573 -4.58% 607
South East -4 445 £550 -5.21% 199
North of England 0 422 £515 -6.36% 270
North West -2 241 £525 -3.23% 171
South West -12 232 £550 -8.33% 158
Yorkshire +4 167 £491 -18.13% 77
Midlands -11 136 £475 -11.50% 190
East of England -12 98 £534 -2.91% 58
West Midlands -15 91 £513 -10.87% 124
East Midlands -11 39 £450 +5.88% 65
North East -11 18 £525 -12.50% 22
DevOps
UK

DevOps
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
1 138 (4.06%) Confluence
2 60 (1.77%) SharePoint
3 43 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
3 43 (1.27%) Apache Spark
4 39 (1.15%) Apache
4 39 (1.15%) nginx
5 38 (1.12%) CMS
6 33 (0.97%) IIS
6 33 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
7 15 (0.44%) OpenStack
8 11 (0.32%) JBoss
9 9 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 8 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 8 (0.24%) Site Server
11 7 (0.21%) ArcGIS
12 6 (0.18%) Apache Solr
12 6 (0.18%) Jupyter
12 6 (0.18%) Tornado
12 6 (0.18%) WebLogic
12 6 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 33 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (0.56%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.15%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.088%) Trello
7 1 (0.029%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.029%) Gliffy
7 1 (0.029%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.029%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.029%) Simulink
7 1 (0.029%) Sketch
7 1 (0.029%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 62 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (0.77%) Dynamics AX
3 20 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 14 (0.41%) Endur
5 14 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
6 11 (0.32%) Teamcenter
7 8 (0.24%) NetSuite
7 8 (0.24%) Oracle EBS R12
7 8 (0.24%) Shopify
8 7 (0.21%) SAP Hybris
8 7 (0.21%) SAP PM
8 7 (0.21%) Temenos T24
9 6 (0.18%) Aladdin
9 6 (0.18%) NEC Housing
9 6 (0.18%) SimCorp Dimension
10 4 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 3 (0.088%) BusinessWorks
12 2 (0.059%) Dynamics NAV
12 2 (0.059%) Front Arena
Cloud Services
1 1,722 (50.68%) Azure
2 1,029 (30.28%) Azure DevOps
3 983 (28.93%) AWS
4 299 (8.80%) GCP
5 289 (8.51%) Serverless
6 243 (7.15%) GitHub
7 213 (6.27%) Power Platform
8 139 (4.09%) Amazon S3
9 135 (3.97%) Entra ID
10 133 (3.91%) Dynamics 365
11 128 (3.77%) Azure Service Bus
12 125 (3.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 125 (3.68%) Azure Monitor
13 121 (3.56%) AWS Lambda
14 115 (3.38%) Amazon EC2
15 111 (3.27%) PaaS
16 102 (3.00%) AWS CloudFormation
16 102 (3.00%) Azure Data Factory
16 102 (3.00%) Azure Functions
17 93 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 213 (6.27%) Firewall
2 96 (2.83%) VPN
3 90 (2.65%) DNS
4 66 (1.94%) HTTP
5 49 (1.44%) Network Security
6 42 (1.24%) TCP/IP
7 35 (1.03%) BGP
7 35 (1.03%) Modbus
7 35 (1.03%) RS-422
7 35 (1.03%) RS-485
8 34 (1.00%) Intrusion Detection
9 32 (0.94%) DHCP
10 30 (0.88%) SNMP
11 26 (0.77%) HSRP
12 24 (0.71%) MPLS
12 24 (0.71%) SSL
13 23 (0.68%) Internet
13 23 (0.68%) IPv4
14 18 (0.53%) IPsec
14 18 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 372 (10.95%) SQL Server
2 156 (4.59%) Power BI
3 143 (4.21%) PostgreSQL
4 140 (4.12%) Data Lake
4 140 (4.12%) NoSQL
5 115 (3.38%) Relational Database
6 87 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
7 84 (2.47%) MySQL
8 83 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
9 75 (2.21%) MongoDB
10 71 (2.09%) Azure SQL Database
11 68 (2.00%) Big Data
12 66 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
13 47 (1.38%) Amazon Athena
14 40 (1.18%) Apache Cassandra
14 40 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 37 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
16 36 (1.06%) Redis
17 34 (1.00%) BigQuery
18 32 (0.94%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 445 (13.10%) Git
2 430 (12.65%) Jenkins
3 287 (8.45%) JIRA
4 243 (7.15%) GitLab
5 121 (3.56%) Selenium
6 78 (2.30%) SonarQube
7 71 (2.09%) Visual Studio
8 62 (1.82%) TeamCity
9 57 (1.68%) SpecFlow
10 53 (1.56%) Cucumber
11 48 (1.41%) Artifactory
11 48 (1.41%) Bitbucket
12 44 (1.29%) JUnit
13 38 (1.12%) Postman
14 31 (0.91%) Cypress.io
15 25 (0.74%) REST Assured
16 24 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
17 22 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 22 (0.65%) Maven
18 20 (0.59%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 738 (21.72%) Social Skills
2 675 (19.86%) Finance
3 343 (10.09%) Public Sector
4 293 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
5 234 (6.89%) Banking
6 101 (2.97%) Retail
7 89 (2.62%) Front Office
8 66 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
9 56 (1.65%) Investment Banking
10 54 (1.59%) Telecoms
11 53 (1.56%) Marketing
12 52 (1.53%) Electronics
13 51 (1.50%) Back Office
14 45 (1.32%) Law
15 41 (1.21%) Legal
16 37 (1.09%) Manufacturing
17 30 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 26 (0.77%) General Ledger
19 25 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
20 17 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 729 (21.45%) Developer
2 632 (18.60%) DevOps Engineer
3 474 (13.95%) Senior
4 410 (12.07%) Architect
5 273 (8.03%) Lead
6 209 (6.15%) Azure Engineer
7 180 (5.30%) Analyst
8 172 (5.06%) Senior Developer
9 167 (4.91%) AWS Engineer
10 163 (4.80%) Software Engineer
11 135 (3.97%) Consultant
12 134 (3.94%) Solutions Architect
13 129 (3.80%) AWS DevOps
14 115 (3.38%) .NET Developer
15 112 (3.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 108 (3.18%) Data Engineer
17 96 (2.83%) Azure Developer
18 95 (2.80%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 90 (2.65%) Senior DevOps
20 89 (2.62%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 500 (14.71%) .NET
2 278 (8.18%) React
3 208 (6.12%) XML
4 192 (5.65%) Kafka
5 179 (5.27%) REST
6 167 (4.91%) .NET Core
7 156 (4.59%) Node.js
8 151 (4.44%) AngularJS
9 150 (4.41%) HTML
10 141 (4.15%) .NET Framework
11 135 (3.97%) CSS
12 117 (3.44%) JSON
13 111 (3.27%) RESTful
14 88 (2.59%) ARM Templates
14 88 (2.59%) Spring
15 87 (2.56%) Spring Boot
16 81 (2.38%) YAML
17 76 (2.24%) ASP.NET
18 73 (2.15%) Web Services
19 70 (2.06%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 218 (6.42%) Product Ownership
2 99 (2.91%) Public Cloud
3 93 (2.74%) Cloud Native
4 78 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
5 66 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
6 63 (1.85%) Data Structures
7 60 (1.77%) Derivative
8 55 (1.62%) Hedge funds
9 53 (1.56%) Mobile App
10 49 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 48 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
12 41 (1.21%) Onboarding
13 38 (1.12%) Fixed Income
14 37 (1.09%) PKI
15 36 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
16 33 (0.97%) Clustering
16 33 (0.97%) Data Centre
16 33 (0.97%) Management Information System
17 31 (0.91%) Equities
18 29 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 399 (11.74%) Linux
2 284 (8.36%) Windows
3 138 (4.06%) Windows Server
4 81 (2.38%) Unix
5 59 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 50 (1.47%) Apple iOS
7 48 (1.41%) Android
8 23 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
8 23 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
9 22 (0.65%) CentOS
10 11 (0.32%) Solaris
11 9 (0.26%) Ubuntu
11 9 (0.26%) VMS
11 9 (0.26%) Windows 10
12 6 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
13 5 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
14 4 (0.12%) AIX
15 3 (0.088%) Debian
16 2 (0.059%) Mac OS
17 1 (0.029%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,447 (42.58%) Agile
2 1,231 (36.23%) CI/CD
3 445 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
4 438 (12.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 425 (12.51%) Scrum
6 423 (12.45%) Software Engineering
7 374 (11.01%) Microservices
8 366 (10.77%) Test Automation
9 298 (8.77%) Containerisation
9 298 (8.77%) TDD
10 289 (8.51%) Continuous Integration
11 251 (7.39%) Migration
12 239 (7.03%) SDLC
13 224 (6.59%) Continuous Improvement
14 194 (5.71%) Full Stack Development
15 191 (5.62%) Analytics
16 183 (5.39%) Business Intelligence
17 177 (5.21%) Computer Science
18 176 (5.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 175 (5.15%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 861 (25.34%) Python
2 616 (18.13%) C#
3 537 (15.80%) SQL
4 481 (14.16%) Java
5 454 (13.36%) PowerShell
6 349 (10.27%) JavaScript
7 232 (6.83%) TypeScript
8 192 (5.65%) Bash
9 154 (4.53%) Go
10 152 (4.47%) Bicep
11 131 (3.86%) C++
12 116 (3.41%) C
13 68 (2.00%) Shell Script
14 54 (1.59%) Scala
15 47 (1.38%) Ruby
16 44 (1.29%) Perl
17 40 (1.18%) T-SQL
18 32 (0.94%) VBScript
19 27 (0.79%) PL/SQL
20 24 (0.71%) PHP
Qualifications
1 713 (20.98%) Security Cleared
2 497 (14.63%) SC Cleared
3 282 (8.30%) Degree
4 221 (6.50%) DV Cleared
5 118 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 61 (1.80%) AWS Certification
7 53 (1.56%) Azure Certification
8 38 (1.12%) Master's Degree
9 30 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
10 26 (0.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 26 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
11 24 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 21 (0.62%) PMP
13 20 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
14 19 (0.56%) CCNP
14 19 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 17 (0.50%) PMI Certification
16 13 (0.38%) CCNA
17 12 (0.35%) ISEB
17 12 (0.35%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 206 (6.06%) QA
2 47 (1.38%) Accessibility
3 43 (1.27%) GDPR
4 38 (1.12%) PCI DSS
5 36 (1.06%) Data Quality
5 36 (1.06%) NIST
6 32 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 26 (0.77%) WCAG
8 24 (0.71%) SLA
9 17 (0.50%) PMO
10 16 (0.47%) MISRA
11 14 (0.41%) NCSC
12 12 (0.35%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.18%) GRC
13 6 (0.18%) ISO 22301
13 6 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 5 (0.15%) ISO 9001
14 5 (0.15%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.088%) IFRS
15 3 (0.088%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 530 (15.60%) Docker
2 241 (7.09%) Active Directory
3 64 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
4 58 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 23 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (0.44%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 15 (0.44%) VMware NSX
7 12 (0.35%) Firmware
8 11 (0.32%) Hyper-V
9 7 (0.21%) vCloud
9 7 (0.21%) vSphere
10 6 (0.18%) NFS
11 4 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.088%) LXC
12 3 (0.088%) OpenAM
12 3 (0.088%) OpenIDM
13 2 (0.059%) HDFS
13 2 (0.059%) Squid
13 2 (0.059%) Varnish
13 2 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 753 (22.16%) Terraform
2 733 (21.57%) Kubernetes
3 380 (11.18%) Ansible
4 149 (4.38%) Prometheus
5 137 (4.03%) Grafana
6 85 (2.50%) Puppet
7 69 (2.03%) Progress Chef
8 45 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
9 39 (1.15%) Docker Swarm
10 35 (1.03%) Kibana
11 33 (0.97%) Istio
12 31 (0.91%) SCOM
13 30 (0.88%) SCCM
14 27 (0.79%) Consul
15 26 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 26 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
16 25 (0.74%) Packer
17 22 (0.65%) Argo
18 19 (0.56%) ITRS Geneos
18 19 (0.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 658 (19.36%) Microsoft
2 219 (6.44%) Oracle
3 111 (3.27%) Google
4 100 (2.94%) Splunk
5 95 (2.80%) Databricks
6 89 (2.62%) VMware
7 80 (2.35%) SAP
8 66 (1.94%) Salesforce
9 62 (1.82%) ServiceNow
10 52 (1.53%) Cisco
11 47 (1.38%) IBM
12 41 (1.21%) Dynatrace
13 37 (1.09%) Red Hat
14 34 (1.00%) Citrix
15 32 (0.94%) F5
16 31 (0.91%) CyberArk
17 27 (0.79%) Palo Alto
18 25 (0.74%) Adobe
19 23 (0.68%) Nokia
20 22 (0.65%) EMC