Junior DevOps Engineer Contracts in England

Junior Development Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Junior Development Operations Engineer daily rate in England is £325, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 540 633 786
Rank change year-on-year +93 +153 -129
Contract jobs requiring a Junior DevOps Engineer 10 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.027% 0.006% 0.001%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.029% 0.007% 0.001%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 1
10th Percentile - £265 -
25th Percentile £288 £269 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £300 £300
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -33.33%
75th Percentile £400 £339 £325
90th Percentile £426 £347 -
UK median daily rate £300 £318 £300
% change year-on-year -5.51% +5.83% -29.41%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 34,808 44,443 66,953
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.49% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,757 31,614 47,944
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,654 1,321 1,753
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.80
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £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% +16.28%

Junior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior DevOps Engineer in England

Junior DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Junior DevOps Engineer in England

Junior DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Junior DevOps Engineer in England

Junior 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 Junior DevOps Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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
North of England +21 5 £300 -10.45%
Yorkshire - 5 £300 -
London +85 4 £363 +20.83%
South West +2 1 £425 +54.55% 1
Junior DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Junior 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 Junior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (90.00%) Terraform
2 9 (90.00%) Python
3 8 (80.00%) AWS
3 8 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
4 7 (70.00%) SC Cleared
4 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
5 6 (60.00%) Docker
5 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
6 5 (50.00%) AWS Certification
6 5 (50.00%) Bash
6 5 (50.00%) High Availability
6 5 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (50.00%) Configuration Management
6 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
6 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 5 (50.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (40.00%) Azure
7 4 (40.00%) PowerShell
8 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
8 3 (30.00%) GitLab
8 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (20.00%) ARM Templates
9 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
10 1 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
10 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
10 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
10 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch

Junior 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 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (40.00%) Azure
4 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (10.00%) OneDrive
5 1 (10.00%) Route 53
5 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) GitLab
1 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) ARM Templates
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 5 (50.00%) High Availability
3 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (10.00%) Problem Management
4 1 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (10.00%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Python
2 5 (50.00%) Bash
3 4 (40.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 5 (50.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (90.00%) Terraform
2 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (10.00%) Ansible
3 1 (10.00%) Grafana
3 1 (10.00%) Prometheus