DevOps Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Development Operations Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 155 107 109
Rank change year-on-year -48 +2 +1
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 277 549 720
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.37% 2.39% 2.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.48% 2.53% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 446 548
10th Percentile £413 £463 £438
25th Percentile £450 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £590 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.02% +7.27% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £674 £631
90th Percentile £656 £724 £688
UK median daily rate £538 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.42% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 1
10th Percentile £45.88 £48.28 -
25th Percentile £48.41 £53.75 £37.00
Median hourly rate £68.22 £63.75 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.01% +63.46% -25.71%
75th Percentile £74.44 £74.13 £41.00
90th Percentile £75.97 £82.75 -
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £70.50 £37.00
% change year-on-year -12.06% +90.54% -29.52%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,765 21,693 29,110
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 94.29% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,441 15,152 20,402
10th Percentile £213 £225 £204
25th Percentile £363 £393 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,259 1,107 1,452
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

DevOps Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the UK excluding London 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
North of England -34 93 £500 -16.67% 35
South West -36 64 £550 -8.33% 32
South East -30 57 £525 -10.64% 27
North West -32 56 £513 -6.82% 23
Scotland +23 38 £513 -10.87% 8
Yorkshire 0 34 £500 -20.00% 10
Midlands -10 18 £525 -16.00% 17
West Midlands -11 12 £525 -16.00% 10
East of England -15 7 £450 -21.74% 7
East Midlands +2 6 £538 -23.21% 7
North East -11 3 - - 2
Wales +16 2 £821 +68.46% 1
DevOps Engineer
UK

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, 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 UK excluding London region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 277 (100.00%) DevOps
2 155 (55.96%) Terraform
3 141 (50.90%) AWS
4 138 (49.82%) Kubernetes
5 126 (45.49%) CI/CD
6 119 (42.96%) Python
7 115 (41.52%) Security Cleared
8 106 (38.27%) Docker
9 102 (36.82%) Azure
10 94 (33.94%) Ansible
11 92 (33.21%) Linux
12 77 (27.80%) Jenkins
13 71 (25.63%) Infrastructure as Code
14 66 (23.83%) Agile
15 65 (23.47%) SC Cleared
15 65 (23.47%) Containerisation
16 60 (21.66%) GitLab
17 55 (19.86%) PowerShell
18 54 (19.49%) Bash
19 47 (16.97%) DV Cleared
20 43 (15.52%) Prometheus
21 41 (14.80%) Azure DevOps
22 40 (14.44%) Grafana
23 38 (13.72%) Java
24 37 (13.36%) Social Skills
25 36 (13.00%) Git
26 35 (12.64%) Go
26 35 (12.64%) Problem-Solving
27 33 (11.91%) Amazon EC2
28 29 (10.47%) Configuration Management

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 18 (6.50%) Confluence
2 13 (4.69%) Apache
3 11 (3.97%) nginx
4 4 (1.44%) Apache Solr
5 3 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.72%) IIS
6 2 (0.72%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.72%) Traefik
7 1 (0.36%) SAS
7 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 141 (50.90%) AWS
2 102 (36.82%) Azure
3 41 (14.80%) Azure DevOps
4 33 (11.91%) Amazon EC2
5 27 (9.75%) Amazon S3
5 27 (9.75%) OpenShift
6 26 (9.39%) GCP
7 25 (9.03%) AWS CloudFormation
8 24 (8.66%) GitHub
9 23 (8.30%) Serverless
10 20 (7.22%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (5.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (5.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 14 (5.05%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (5.05%) Route 53
13 11 (3.97%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (2.89%) Datadog
15 7 (2.53%) Amazon ELB
16 6 (2.17%) Amazon Cognito
16 6 (2.17%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 20 (7.22%) DNS
2 13 (4.69%) HTTP
2 13 (4.69%) VPN
3 12 (4.33%) TCP/IP
4 10 (3.61%) Firewall
5 7 (2.53%) Network Security
6 4 (1.44%) AMQP
6 4 (1.44%) HTTPS
6 4 (1.44%) IPsec
6 4 (1.44%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (1.44%) SSL
7 2 (0.72%) BIG-IP
7 2 (0.72%) DHCP
7 2 (0.72%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (0.72%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (0.36%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.36%) MQTT
8 1 (0.36%) OpenLDAP
8 1 (0.36%) PPP
8 1 (0.36%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.58%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (5.42%) MySQL
3 14 (5.05%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (3.61%) NoSQL
5 7 (2.53%) InfluxDB
6 6 (2.17%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.81%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.81%) Triplestore
8 4 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.44%) Couchbase
9 3 (1.08%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.08%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.08%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.08%) Redis
10 2 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.36%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.36%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.36%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.36%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 77 (27.80%) Jenkins
2 60 (21.66%) GitLab
3 36 (13.00%) Git
4 21 (7.58%) JIRA
5 17 (6.14%) Artifactory
6 12 (4.33%) SonarQube
7 8 (2.89%) Travis CI
8 7 (2.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 7 (2.53%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.53%) CircleCI
9 5 (1.81%) Spinnaker
10 4 (1.44%) Selenium
10 4 (1.44%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.72%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.72%) Maven
11 2 (0.72%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.72%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.72%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.36%) Liquibase
General
1 37 (13.36%) Social Skills
2 27 (9.75%) Public Sector
3 16 (5.78%) Finance
4 14 (5.05%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (3.61%) Banking
6 9 (3.25%) Legal
7 3 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.72%) Law
8 2 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.72%) Retail
9 1 (0.36%) Electronics
9 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.36%) Marketing
9 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (7.22%) YAML
2 17 (6.14%) REST
3 15 (5.42%) RabbitMQ
4 14 (5.05%) JSON
5 12 (4.33%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (3.97%) Apache NiFi
7 9 (3.25%) AWS CDK
8 8 (2.89%) .NET
8 8 (2.89%) Kafka
9 7 (2.53%) ARM Templates
10 6 (2.17%) Middleware
10 6 (2.17%) XML
11 5 (1.81%) Apache Jena
11 5 (1.81%) CSS
11 5 (1.81%) GraphQL
11 5 (1.81%) HTML
11 5 (1.81%) OAuth
11 5 (1.81%) PostGIS
11 5 (1.81%) RESTful
11 5 (1.81%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.69%) Public Cloud
2 10 (3.61%) Cloud Native
3 8 (2.89%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (2.53%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.17%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.17%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.81%) Private Cloud
6 5 (1.81%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (1.81%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.72%) Clustering
9 2 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.72%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.72%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 92 (33.21%) Linux
2 24 (8.66%) Windows
3 18 (6.50%) Unix
4 16 (5.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (3.97%) CentOS
6 6 (2.17%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.81%) VMS
7 5 (1.81%) Windows Server
8 3 (1.08%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.72%) Alpine Linux
9 2 (0.72%) Debian
10 1 (0.36%) AIX
10 1 (0.36%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 277 (100.00%) DevOps
2 126 (45.49%) CI/CD
3 71 (25.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 66 (23.83%) Agile
5 65 (23.47%) Containerisation
6 35 (12.64%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (10.47%) Configuration Management
8 28 (10.11%) Continuous Integration
9 27 (9.75%) Test Automation
10 25 (9.03%) Software Delivery
11 24 (8.66%) Migration
11 24 (8.66%) Software Engineering
12 20 (7.22%) Computer Science
13 19 (6.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 18 (6.50%) Task Automation
15 16 (5.78%) Scrum
16 15 (5.42%) Observability
16 15 (5.42%) Workflow
17 14 (5.05%) Platform Engineering
18 13 (4.69%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 119 (42.96%) Python
2 55 (19.86%) PowerShell
3 54 (19.49%) Bash
4 38 (13.72%) Java
5 35 (12.64%) Go
6 22 (7.94%) SQL
7 18 (6.50%) Perl
8 14 (5.05%) C
9 12 (4.33%) Ruby
10 11 (3.97%) PHP
11 10 (3.61%) JavaScript
12 9 (3.25%) C++
12 9 (3.25%) Groovy
12 9 (3.25%) Shell Script
13 6 (2.17%) Bicep
13 6 (2.17%) Scala
14 5 (1.81%) SPARQL
15 4 (1.44%) C#
16 3 (1.08%) BeanShell
17 2 (0.72%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 115 (41.52%) Security Cleared
2 65 (23.47%) SC Cleared
3 47 (16.97%) DV Cleared
4 16 (5.78%) Degree
5 15 (5.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.53%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.72%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.36%) GIAC
9 1 (0.36%) MCSE
9 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.36%) RHCE
9 1 (0.36%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.58%) QA
2 8 (2.89%) NIST
3 6 (2.17%) GDPR
3 6 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.44%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.08%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.72%) NCSC
7 1 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 106 (38.27%) Docker
2 14 (5.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (2.89%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.08%) LXC
5 3 (1.08%) OpenAM
5 3 (1.08%) OpenIDM
6 2 (0.72%) Varnish
6 2 (0.72%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.36%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.36%) NFS
7 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 155 (55.96%) Terraform
2 138 (49.82%) Kubernetes
3 94 (33.94%) Ansible
4 43 (15.52%) Prometheus
5 40 (14.44%) Grafana
6 25 (9.03%) Puppet
7 20 (7.22%) Progress Chef
8 16 (5.78%) Docker Swarm
9 12 (4.33%) Istio
10 11 (3.97%) Kibana
11 8 (2.89%) Rancher
12 7 (2.53%) Packer
13 6 (2.17%) logstash
14 5 (1.81%) Argo
15 4 (1.44%) HAProxy
15 4 (1.44%) Nagios
16 3 (1.08%) HP Fortify
16 3 (1.08%) linkerd
17 2 (0.72%) Consul
17 2 (0.72%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 21 (7.58%) VMware
2 18 (6.50%) Splunk
3 15 (5.42%) Oracle
4 10 (3.61%) Microsoft
5 9 (3.25%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.17%) Google
6 6 (2.17%) PagerDuty
7 4 (1.44%) ForgeRock
8 3 (1.08%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.08%) Cisco
8 3 (1.08%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.08%) F5
8 3 (1.08%) New Relic
8 3 (1.08%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.72%) Databricks
9 2 (0.72%) Guidewire
9 2 (0.72%) HP
9 2 (0.72%) Virgin Media
10 1 (0.36%) Checkmarx
10 1 (0.36%) Zscaler