Senior DevOps Engineer Contracts in England

Senior Development Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer daily rate in England is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 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
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 390 483 543
Rank change year-on-year +93 +60 +19
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 124 106 224
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.40% 0.26% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.28% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 84 161
10th Percentile £513 £513 £519
25th Percentile £544 £525 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £750 £738 £750
90th Percentile £788 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £650 £625 £650
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £74.00 - -
75th Percentile £74.11 - -
90th Percentile £74.31 - -
UK median hourly rate £73.75 - -

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 28,953 37,638 64,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 93.75% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,687 26,172 45,824
10th Percentile £300 £300 £313
25th Percentile £413 £418 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,111 1,422 1,621
10th Percentile £15.10 £15.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.15 £19.25 £16.69
Median hourly rate £41.50 £45.94 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +53.13% +50.00%
75th Percentile £66.61 £65.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £27.73
% change year-on-year -15.56% +62.28% +38.65%

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in England

Senior DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in England

Senior DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps Engineer in England over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior DevOps Engineer in England

Senior DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in England

Senior 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 Senior DevOps Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 31 October 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 +86 86 £695 +6.92% 15
South West +42 18 £625 +19.05% 6
North of England +28 8 £615 +2.50% 5
Midlands +7 6 £550 -18.52% 5
North West +25 5 - - 4
South East +18 4 £625 -13.79% 4
Yorkshire +17 3 £615 +9.33% 1
West Midlands +2 3 £550 -18.52% 4
East Midlands - 3 £750 - 1
Senior DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, Senior 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 Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 124 (100.00%) DevOps
2 85 (68.55%) Terraform
2 85 (68.55%) Kubernetes
3 81 (65.32%) AWS
4 74 (59.68%) CI/CD
5 69 (55.65%) Python
6 68 (54.84%) Docker
7 59 (47.58%) Security Cleared
8 48 (38.71%) SC Cleared
9 45 (36.29%) Jenkins
10 39 (31.45%) Agile
11 38 (30.65%) Infrastructure as Code
12 36 (29.03%) Java
13 33 (26.61%) Ansible
14 32 (25.81%) Git
15 31 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
16 29 (23.39%) Azure
17 28 (22.58%) Amazon S3
18 25 (20.16%) Amazon RDS
18 25 (20.16%) Grafana
18 25 (20.16%) Prometheus
19 24 (19.35%) Finance
19 24 (19.35%) Containerisation
20 22 (17.74%) Serverless
21 21 (16.94%) AWS Lambda
21 21 (16.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
21 21 (16.94%) GitLab
21 21 (16.94%) Banking
21 21 (16.94%) Linux
21 21 (16.94%) Continuous Improvement

Senior 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 5 (4.03%) SAS
2 4 (3.23%) Apache
3 3 (2.42%) Confluence
4 2 (1.61%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.61%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.81%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 81 (65.32%) AWS
2 31 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 29 (23.39%) Azure
4 28 (22.58%) Amazon S3
5 22 (17.74%) Serverless
6 21 (16.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 21 (16.94%) AWS Lambda
7 20 (16.13%) Amazon EKS
8 18 (14.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 15 (12.10%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (11.29%) Amazon SQS
11 13 (10.48%) GCP
12 12 (9.68%) GitHub
13 11 (8.87%) OpenShift
14 9 (7.26%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (7.26%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (7.26%) Route 53
15 8 (6.45%) Amazon SageMaker
16 7 (5.65%) Amazon MSK
16 7 (5.65%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.26%) Network Security
2 4 (3.23%) DNS
3 3 (2.42%) VPN
4 2 (1.61%) FTP
4 2 (1.61%) HTTP
4 2 (1.61%) SMTP
5 1 (0.81%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.81%) Firewall
5 1 (0.81%) Internet
5 1 (0.81%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (20.16%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (7.26%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (5.65%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (4.84%) Redis
5 5 (4.03%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.42%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.61%) Big Data
7 2 (1.61%) DB2
7 2 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.61%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.81%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.81%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.81%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.81%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.81%) Parquet
8 1 (0.81%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 45 (36.29%) Jenkins
2 32 (25.81%) Git
3 21 (16.94%) GitLab
4 7 (5.65%) Bitbucket
5 5 (4.03%) Maven
6 4 (3.23%) Gradle
6 4 (3.23%) JIRA
6 4 (3.23%) SonarQube
6 4 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (3.23%) Terragrunt
7 3 (2.42%) Artifactory
7 3 (2.42%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.42%) Newman
7 3 (2.42%) Postman
7 3 (2.42%) Vagrant
8 2 (1.61%) IntelliJ
8 2 (1.61%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.81%) Apache Continuum
9 1 (0.81%) Jaeger
General
1 24 (19.35%) Finance
2 21 (16.94%) Banking
3 17 (13.71%) Public Sector
4 16 (12.90%) Social Skills
5 8 (6.45%) Front Office
6 6 (4.84%) Military
7 5 (4.03%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.81%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (0.81%) Games
9 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.81%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (15.32%) Kafka
2 8 (6.45%) RESTful
3 7 (5.65%) OpenTelemetry
4 5 (4.03%) JSON
5 4 (3.23%) Apache NiFi
5 4 (3.23%) REST
6 3 (2.42%) ARM Templates
6 3 (2.42%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (2.42%) FastAPI
6 3 (2.42%) YAML
7 2 (1.61%) Fluent Bit
7 2 (1.61%) JPA
7 2 (1.61%) Loki
7 2 (1.61%) Node.js
8 1 (0.81%) SailPoint
8 1 (0.81%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.84%) Public Cloud
2 4 (3.23%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.23%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.61%) Life Science
3 2 (1.61%) LIMS
3 2 (1.61%) Wiki
4 1 (0.81%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (0.81%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (0.81%) Data Fabric
4 1 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.81%) Private Cloud
4 1 (0.81%) Replication
4 1 (0.81%) Security Posture
4 1 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (16.94%) Linux
2 9 (7.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (6.45%) Windows
4 4 (3.23%) Unix
5 3 (2.42%) VMS
6 2 (1.61%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (100.00%) DevOps
2 74 (59.68%) CI/CD
3 39 (31.45%) Agile
4 38 (30.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (19.35%) Containerisation
6 21 (16.94%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (12.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 13 (10.48%) Observability
9 12 (9.68%) Continuous Integration
9 12 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (9.68%) Test Automation
10 11 (8.87%) Mentoring
10 11 (8.87%) Microservices
10 11 (8.87%) Software Engineering
11 10 (8.06%) Configuration Management
11 10 (8.06%) Infrastructure Automation
11 10 (8.06%) Platform Engineering
11 10 (8.06%) Roadmaps
12 9 (7.26%) Requirements Gathering
12 9 (7.26%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 69 (55.65%) Python
2 36 (29.03%) Java
3 16 (12.90%) Bash
4 15 (12.10%) JavaScript
5 11 (8.87%) PowerShell
5 11 (8.87%) SQL
6 10 (8.06%) Go
7 9 (7.26%) Groovy
8 7 (5.65%) TypeScript
9 6 (4.84%) Ruby
10 3 (2.42%) PHP
10 3 (2.42%) PL/SQL
10 3 (2.42%) Rust
10 3 (2.42%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.81%) Bicep
11 1 (0.81%) C#
Qualifications
1 59 (47.58%) Security Cleared
2 48 (38.71%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.65%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.23%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.42%) Degree
6 2 (1.61%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.81%) CISSP
7 1 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.03%) QA
2 1 (0.81%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.81%) GDPR
2 1 (0.81%) HIPAA
2 1 (0.81%) SOC 2
System Software
1 68 (54.84%) Docker
2 3 (2.42%) VirtualBox
2 3 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.81%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 85 (68.55%) Kubernetes
1 85 (68.55%) Terraform
2 33 (26.61%) Ansible
3 25 (20.16%) Grafana
3 25 (20.16%) Prometheus
4 10 (8.06%) Puppet
5 5 (4.03%) Argo
6 3 (2.42%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 3 (2.42%) Podman
7 2 (1.61%) Kustomize
7 2 (1.61%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.81%) Consul
8 1 (0.81%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.81%) Karpenter
8 1 (0.81%) Kibana
8 1 (0.81%) logstash
8 1 (0.81%) Rancher
Vendors
1 10 (8.06%) Dynatrace
2 8 (6.45%) Confluent
3 7 (5.65%) IBM
3 7 (5.65%) Red Hat
4 6 (4.84%) Splunk
5 5 (4.03%) Oracle
6 3 (2.42%) VMware
7 2 (1.61%) Google
7 2 (1.61%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.61%) YouTube
8 1 (0.81%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.81%) Cisco
8 1 (0.81%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.81%) Databricks
8 1 (0.81%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.81%) MKS
8 1 (0.81%) Perforce
8 1 (0.81%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.81%) Sun