Senior DevOps Contracts in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations daily rate in England is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 441 503 536
Rank change year-on-year +62 +33 -58
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 90 137 241
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.25% 0.28% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.30% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 110 203
10th Percentile £493 £519 £500
25th Percentile £550 £577 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +18.18%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £738
90th Percentile £753 £738 £850
UK median daily rate £625 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £74.44 - -
UK median hourly rate £74.44 - -

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 33,787 45,579 67,163
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.59% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,417 32,381 47,891
10th Percentile £284 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.36%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,334 1,845
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +6.38%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps in England

Senior DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior DevOps in England

Senior DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior DevOps in England

Senior DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior DevOps in England

Senior 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 Senior DevOps within the England region over the 6 months to 18 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 +76 48 £650 - 28
South East +38 14 £600 -12.73% 8
North of England +23 12 £663 +1.92% 9
North West +20 12 £663 +3.92% 6
South West +3 7 £625 -7.41% 6
West Midlands +15 2 £350 -50.00% 6
Midlands +14 2 £350 -48.15% 6
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior DevOps in the job title.

1 90 (100.00%) DevOps
2 55 (61.11%) CI/CD
3 52 (57.78%) Terraform
4 45 (50.00%) Python
5 43 (47.78%) Kubernetes
6 41 (45.56%) AWS
7 36 (40.00%) Azure
8 31 (34.44%) Security Cleared
9 30 (33.33%) Ansible
10 27 (30.00%) Jenkins
11 24 (26.67%) Docker
12 23 (25.56%) Git
13 22 (24.44%) PowerShell
14 20 (22.22%) Bash
15 18 (20.00%) Linux
15 18 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
16 17 (18.89%) Problem-Solving
16 17 (18.89%) SC Cleared
17 16 (17.78%) Agile
17 16 (17.78%) Azure DevOps
18 15 (16.67%) SDLC
18 15 (16.67%) Configuration Management
18 15 (16.67%) Product Ownership
19 14 (15.56%) Public Sector
19 14 (15.56%) Finance
20 13 (14.44%) Grafana
20 13 (14.44%) C#
21 12 (13.33%) .NET
21 12 (13.33%) Unix
21 12 (13.33%) Windows

Senior 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 4 (4.44%) Confluence
2 2 (2.22%) Apache
2 2 (2.22%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.11%) ArcGIS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 41 (45.56%) AWS
2 36 (40.00%) Azure
3 16 (17.78%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (12.22%) GitHub
5 10 (11.11%) PaaS
6 9 (10.00%) GCP
7 8 (8.89%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (7.78%) Serverless
9 6 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (4.44%) Amazon S3
11 4 (4.44%) Entra ID
11 4 (4.44%) OCI
11 4 (4.44%) OpenShift
12 3 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (3.33%) SaaS
13 2 (2.22%) Slack
13 2 (2.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.89%) Firewall
2 6 (6.67%) Network Security
3 1 (1.11%) DNS
3 1 (1.11%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.22%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (5.56%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.22%) Redis
5 1 (1.11%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.11%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.11%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 27 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 23 (25.56%) Git
3 12 (13.33%) TeamCity
4 11 (12.22%) GitLab
5 9 (10.00%) Artifactory
6 7 (7.78%) Bitbucket
7 3 (3.33%) CircleCI
7 3 (3.33%) JIRA
7 3 (3.33%) Selenium
8 2 (2.22%) Travis CI
9 1 (1.11%) Jaeger
9 1 (1.11%) Snyk
9 1 (1.11%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.11%) Subversion
9 1 (1.11%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 14 (15.56%) Finance
1 14 (15.56%) Public Sector
2 11 (12.22%) Banking
3 10 (11.11%) Investment Banking
4 4 (4.44%) Social Skills
5 2 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.11%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.11%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.11%) Electronics
6 1 (1.11%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.11%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.11%) Marketing
6 1 (1.11%) Tech for Good
6 1 (1.11%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.33%) .NET
2 5 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (5.56%) WCF
2 5 (5.56%) WinForms
3 4 (4.44%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (4.44%) Node.js
3 4 (4.44%) XML
4 2 (2.22%) .NET Core
4 2 (2.22%) .NET Framework
4 2 (2.22%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.22%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (2.22%) AWS SAM
4 2 (2.22%) Fluent Bit
4 2 (2.22%) Kafka
4 2 (2.22%) Loki
4 2 (2.22%) pytest
4 2 (2.22%) REST
4 2 (2.22%) YAML
5 1 (1.11%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.67%) Public Cloud
3 5 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.33%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.33%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (3.33%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.22%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.22%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.11%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.11%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 18 (20.00%) Linux
2 12 (13.33%) Unix
2 12 (13.33%) Windows
3 5 (5.56%) Android
3 5 (5.56%) Apple iOS
4 3 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.22%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (1.11%) VMS
6 1 (1.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (100.00%) DevOps
2 55 (61.11%) CI/CD
3 18 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (18.89%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (17.78%) Agile
6 15 (16.67%) Configuration Management
6 15 (16.67%) SDLC
7 12 (13.33%) Containerisation
8 10 (11.11%) Roadmaps
8 10 (11.11%) Test Automation
9 9 (10.00%) Migration
10 6 (6.67%) Load Balancing
10 6 (6.67%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (6.67%) Scrum
11 5 (5.56%) GitOps
11 5 (5.56%) Infrastructure Management
11 5 (5.56%) Mentoring
11 5 (5.56%) Service Catalogue
11 5 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 5 (5.56%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 45 (50.00%) Python
2 22 (24.44%) PowerShell
3 20 (22.22%) Bash
4 13 (14.44%) C#
5 10 (11.11%) Go
6 9 (10.00%) SQL
7 7 (7.78%) Java
8 6 (6.67%) TypeScript
9 5 (5.56%) Bicep
10 3 (3.33%) C++
10 3 (3.33%) JavaScript
11 1 (1.11%) C
11 1 (1.11%) Groovy
11 1 (1.11%) Perl
11 1 (1.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 31 (34.44%) Security Cleared
2 17 (18.89%) SC Cleared
3 12 (13.33%) DV Cleared
4 8 (8.89%) AWS Certification
5 6 (6.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (4.44%) Degree
7 3 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.11%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (1.11%) MCSE
8 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.44%) QA
2 1 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.11%) NIST
2 1 (1.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (26.67%) Docker
2 9 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.11%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 52 (57.78%) Terraform
2 43 (47.78%) Kubernetes
3 30 (33.33%) Ansible
4 13 (14.44%) Grafana
5 10 (11.11%) Prometheus
6 4 (4.44%) Argo
6 4 (4.44%) Puppet
7 3 (3.33%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.22%) Kustomize
9 1 (1.11%) BladeLogic
9 1 (1.11%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (1.11%) Kibana
9 1 (1.11%) Nagios
9 1 (1.11%) Packer
9 1 (1.11%) vRealize
Vendors
1 5 (5.56%) Microsoft
1 5 (5.56%) Oracle
2 3 (3.33%) Virgin Media
2 3 (3.33%) VMware
3 2 (2.22%) Atlassian
3 2 (2.22%) Citrix
3 2 (2.22%) Red Hat
3 2 (2.22%) Splunk
4 1 (1.11%) Altiris
4 1 (1.11%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.11%) CyberArk
4 1 (1.11%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.11%) Google
4 1 (1.11%) Guidewire
4 1 (1.11%) New Relic
4 1 (1.11%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.11%) SAP