Lead DevOps Contracts in England

Lead Development Operations
UK > England

The median Lead Development Operations daily rate in England is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 473 572 585
Rank change year-on-year +99 +13 -55
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 60 68 189
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.14% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.15% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 46 147
10th Percentile £504 £550 £506
25th Percentile £538 £600 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £684 £755 £738
90th Percentile £750 £828 £830
UK median daily rate £638 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -1.92% - +8.33%

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 33,765 45,858 67,296
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.60% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,417 32,568 47,999
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% +7.14%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,442 1,343 1,842
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.92 £45.00 £23.03
Median % change year-on-year -17.97% +95.42% +5.92%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.98
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

Lead DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps in England

Lead DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Lead DevOps in England

Lead DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps in England over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead DevOps in England

Lead DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead DevOps in England

Lead 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 Lead DevOps within the England region over the 6 months to 19 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 +100 41 £650 - 11
North of England +24 4 £625 -7.41% 11
Yorkshire +16 4 £625 -7.41% 6
South East +18 3 £635 -23.03% 5
South West +12 2 £619 -19.51% 2
West Midlands +20 1 - - 1
Midlands +17 1 - - 2
Lead DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 May 2024, Lead DevOps 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 Lead DevOps in the job title.

1 60 (100.00%) DevOps
2 44 (73.33%) CI/CD
3 29 (48.33%) AWS
4 26 (43.33%) Terraform
5 24 (40.00%) Python
5 24 (40.00%) Finance
6 23 (38.33%) Kubernetes
7 21 (35.00%) Agile
7 21 (35.00%) Linux
7 21 (35.00%) Azure
8 19 (31.67%) Ansible
9 17 (28.33%) Docker
10 15 (25.00%) Jenkins
10 15 (25.00%) Containerisation
11 14 (23.33%) Infrastructure as Code
12 12 (20.00%) DevSecOps
12 12 (20.00%) Security Cleared
13 11 (18.33%) SC Cleared
13 11 (18.33%) Bash
14 9 (15.00%) Social Skills
14 9 (15.00%) Microservices
14 9 (15.00%) Mentoring
14 9 (15.00%) Serverless
14 9 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
14 9 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
15 8 (13.33%) Git
15 8 (13.33%) Unix
15 8 (13.33%) Configuration Management
15 8 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (13.33%) SDLC

Lead DevOps 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 2 (3.33%) Confluence
2 1 (1.67%) Apache
2 1 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.67%) JBoss
2 1 (1.67%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.67%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 29 (48.33%) AWS
2 21 (35.00%) Azure
3 9 (15.00%) Serverless
4 8 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (11.67%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (11.67%) SaaS
6 6 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (10.00%) PaaS
7 5 (8.33%) GitHub
8 4 (6.67%) Amazon EventBridge
8 4 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (6.67%) OpenShift
9 3 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (5.00%) Amazon S3
9 3 (5.00%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (5.00%) GCP
9 3 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (3.33%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.33%) Firewall
2 3 (5.00%) VPN
3 2 (3.33%) SSL
4 1 (1.67%) DNS
4 1 (1.67%) Internet
4 1 (1.67%) IPv4
4 1 (1.67%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.67%) OSPF
4 1 (1.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (3.33%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (3.33%) BigQuery
3 2 (3.33%) DataStax
3 2 (3.33%) DynamoDB
3 2 (3.33%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.67%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (13.33%) Git
3 7 (11.67%) Bitbucket
3 7 (11.67%) GitLab
4 5 (8.33%) Artifactory
4 5 (8.33%) JIRA
5 4 (6.67%) TeamCity
6 2 (3.33%) CircleCI
6 2 (3.33%) GoCD
6 2 (3.33%) Maven
6 2 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (3.33%) Terragrunt
7 1 (1.67%) Ant
7 1 (1.67%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.67%) JMeter
7 1 (1.67%) Selenium
7 1 (1.67%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.67%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 24 (40.00%) Finance
2 9 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (11.67%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.67%) Banking
5 2 (3.33%) Investment Banking
5 2 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Electronics
6 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.67%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.67%) Marketing
6 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (6.67%) Kafka
2 4 (6.67%) Node.js
3 2 (3.33%) ARM Templates
3 2 (3.33%) AWS SAM
3 2 (3.33%) YAML
4 1 (1.67%) ADO
4 1 (1.67%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.67%) Entity Framework
4 1 (1.67%) Keycloak
4 1 (1.67%) Middleware
4 1 (1.67%) Next.js
4 1 (1.67%) React
4 1 (1.67%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.67%) Cloud Native
1 4 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.00%) Derivative
2 3 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.33%) Blockchain
3 2 (3.33%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.33%) Sports Betting
4 1 (1.67%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.67%) Machine to Machine
4 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.67%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.67%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.67%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 21 (35.00%) Linux
2 8 (13.33%) Unix
3 4 (6.67%) Windows
4 3 (5.00%) Android
4 3 (5.00%) Apple iOS
4 3 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.67%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (100.00%) DevOps
2 44 (73.33%) CI/CD
3 21 (35.00%) Agile
4 15 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 14 (23.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (20.00%) DevSecOps
7 9 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (15.00%) Mentoring
7 9 (15.00%) Microservices
7 9 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (13.33%) Configuration Management
8 8 (13.33%) SDLC
9 7 (11.67%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (11.67%) Test Automation
10 6 (10.00%) Continuous Delivery
10 6 (10.00%) Continuous Deployment
11 5 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 5 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
12 4 (6.67%) Load Balancing
12 4 (6.67%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (40.00%) Python
2 11 (18.33%) Bash
3 6 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (10.00%) SQL
4 5 (8.33%) Groovy
5 4 (6.67%) Go
5 4 (6.67%) Java
6 3 (5.00%) Shell Script
6 3 (5.00%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.67%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (18.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.67%) Degree
4 3 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.67%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.67%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.67%) GIAC
6 1 (1.67%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.00%) QA
2 1 (1.67%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.67%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (28.33%) Docker
2 3 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.33%) NFS
3 2 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.67%) Ceph
4 1 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (43.33%) Terraform
2 23 (38.33%) Kubernetes
3 19 (31.67%) Ansible
4 5 (8.33%) Puppet
5 4 (6.67%) Grafana
6 3 (5.00%) Argo
6 3 (5.00%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.67%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (1.67%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (1.67%) Karpenter
7 1 (1.67%) Kibana
7 1 (1.67%) logstash
7 1 (1.67%) Mesos
7 1 (1.67%) Packer
7 1 (1.67%) Podman
7 1 (1.67%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.67%) SCOM
7 1 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 5 (8.33%) VMware
2 4 (6.67%) Red Hat
3 3 (5.00%) Confluent
3 3 (5.00%) ServiceNow
3 3 (5.00%) Teradata
4 2 (3.33%) Google
4 2 (3.33%) Oracle
5 1 (1.67%) Amdocs
5 1 (1.67%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.67%) Citrix
5 1 (1.67%) SAP
5 1 (1.67%) Virgin Media