DevOps Engineer Contracts

Development Operations Engineer
UK

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the UK is £540 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 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
29 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 143 69 70
Rank change year-on-year -74 +1 -3
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 740 1,940 2,992
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.70% 3.25% 3.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.83% 3.44% 3.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 561 1,505 2,289
10th Percentile £405 £475 £454
25th Percentile £463 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +10.60%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £675
90th Percentile £688 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +11.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 5
10th Percentile £45.88 £51.08 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £52.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £62.00 £57.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.83% +64.29% -33.33%
75th Percentile £74.44 £71.13 £41.00
90th Percentile £75.05 £76.45 £49.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.22 £56.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +20.74% +88.33% -42.86%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,448 56,471 84,729
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,348 39,474 59,497
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,658 1,569 2,098
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.75 £48.94
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -9.41% +117.95% +2.63%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the UK

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the UK

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in the UK

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the UK

DevOps Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in the UK

DevOps Engineer
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 29 April 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
England -79 604 £545 -9.17% 223
London -64 350 £567 -9.28% 88
Work from Home -56 287 £548 -8.75% 135
UK excluding London -56 271 £525 -12.50% 137
North of England -33 94 £513 -14.58% 35
North West -19 59 £519 -6.53% 24
South West -41 55 £550 -6.78% 32
South East -50 52 £528 -12.08% 37
Scotland +27 42 £520 -17.92% 4
Yorkshire +7 32 £500 -20.00% 8
Midlands -7 17 £525 -16.00% 15
West Midlands -7 11 £500 -20.00% 10
East of England -9 8 £450 -25.00% 9
East Midlands +11 6 £538 -23.21% 5
Wales +15 3 £650 +33.33% 1
North East -6 3 - - 3

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 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 featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 740 (100.00%) DevOps
2 436 (58.92%) Terraform
3 407 (55.00%) AWS
4 374 (50.54%) CI/CD
5 334 (45.14%) Kubernetes
6 304 (41.08%) Python
7 291 (39.32%) Security Cleared
8 260 (35.14%) Azure
9 237 (32.03%) Docker
10 217 (29.32%) SC Cleared
11 195 (26.35%) Infrastructure as Code
12 191 (25.81%) Ansible
13 187 (25.27%) Jenkins
13 187 (25.27%) Linux
14 168 (22.70%) Agile
15 142 (19.19%) GitLab
16 135 (18.24%) Azure DevOps
17 129 (17.43%) Bash
18 115 (15.54%) PowerShell
19 109 (14.73%) Git
20 107 (14.46%) Containerisation
21 97 (13.11%) GitHub
22 91 (12.30%) Prometheus
23 88 (11.89%) Social Skills
24 83 (11.22%) Serverless
25 82 (11.08%) Public Sector
26 81 (10.95%) Problem-Solving
27 80 (10.81%) Grafana
27 80 (10.81%) Amazon EC2
27 80 (10.81%) Configuration Management

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 33 (4.46%) Confluence
2 28 (3.78%) nginx
3 12 (1.62%) Apache
3 12 (1.62%) IIS
4 5 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.54%) Apache Solr
5 4 (0.54%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.54%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.41%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.27%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.27%) SAS
7 2 (0.27%) Traefik
8 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.14%) Drupal
8 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (0.95%) Trello
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 407 (55.00%) AWS
2 260 (35.14%) Azure
3 135 (18.24%) Azure DevOps
4 97 (13.11%) GitHub
5 83 (11.22%) Serverless
6 80 (10.81%) Amazon EC2
7 75 (10.14%) Amazon S3
8 70 (9.46%) GCP
9 67 (9.05%) Amazon EKS
10 66 (8.92%) AWS CloudFormation
11 65 (8.78%) AWS Lambda
12 53 (7.16%) OpenShift
13 52 (7.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 46 (6.22%) GitHub Actions
15 44 (5.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 44 (5.95%) Amazon ECS
15 44 (5.95%) Route 53
16 35 (4.73%) PaaS
17 19 (2.57%) Azure AKS
18 18 (2.43%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (5.00%) DNS
2 32 (4.32%) Firewall
3 22 (2.97%) VPN
4 19 (2.57%) Network Security
5 17 (2.30%) TCP/IP
6 16 (2.16%) HTTP
7 6 (0.81%) Internet
8 5 (0.68%) DHCP
8 5 (0.68%) SSH
8 5 (0.68%) SSL
9 4 (0.54%) AMQP
9 4 (0.54%) HTTPS
9 4 (0.54%) IPsec
9 4 (0.54%) IPv4
10 3 (0.41%) Fibre Channel
10 3 (0.41%) LAN
10 3 (0.41%) OpenLDAP
10 3 (0.41%) WLAN
11 2 (0.27%) iSCSI
11 2 (0.27%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (7.57%) Amazon RDS
2 26 (3.51%) SQL Server
3 22 (2.97%) Elasticsearch
4 20 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (2.57%) Relational Database
6 18 (2.43%) MySQL
7 15 (2.03%) NoSQL
8 14 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (1.35%) MongoDB
10 7 (0.95%) InfluxDB
11 6 (0.81%) Amazon QuickSight
11 6 (0.81%) Couchbase
11 6 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (0.81%) Oracle Database
11 6 (0.81%) Redis
12 5 (0.68%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.68%) Power BI
13 4 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.54%) Data Lake
14 3 (0.41%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 187 (25.27%) Jenkins
2 142 (19.19%) GitLab
3 109 (14.73%) Git
4 42 (5.68%) JIRA
5 36 (4.86%) TeamCity
6 35 (4.73%) Artifactory
7 22 (2.97%) Bitbucket
8 20 (2.70%) SonarQube
9 14 (1.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 14 (1.89%) Maven
10 11 (1.49%) Selenium
11 10 (1.35%) Cucumber
11 10 (1.35%) Gradle
11 10 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
12 8 (1.08%) CircleCI
13 6 (0.81%) Spinnaker
13 6 (0.81%) Terragrunt
13 6 (0.81%) Travis CI
14 4 (0.54%) Cypress.io
14 4 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 88 (11.89%) Social Skills
2 82 (11.08%) Public Sector
3 75 (10.14%) Finance
4 48 (6.49%) Banking
5 22 (2.97%) Investment Banking
6 18 (2.43%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (1.89%) Law
8 10 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.22%) Legal
9 9 (1.22%) Telecoms
10 7 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (0.95%) Marketing
10 7 (0.95%) Retail
11 5 (0.68%) Electronics
11 5 (0.68%) Manufacturing
11 5 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.41%) Tech for Good
14 2 (0.27%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (6.89%) .NET
2 42 (5.68%) YAML
3 30 (4.05%) JSON
4 27 (3.65%) Elastic Stack
4 27 (3.65%) Kafka
5 26 (3.51%) ARM Templates
5 26 (3.51%) AWS CDK
6 24 (3.24%) RabbitMQ
7 20 (2.70%) Node.js
7 20 (2.70%) REST
7 20 (2.70%) WCF
7 20 (2.70%) WinForms
8 15 (2.03%) React
9 10 (1.35%) RESTful
10 8 (1.08%) LDAP
10 8 (1.08%) XML
11 7 (0.95%) Spring
12 6 (0.81%) Apache NiFi
12 6 (0.81%) Middleware
12 6 (0.81%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 27 (3.65%) Greenfield Project
2 21 (2.84%) Public Cloud
3 18 (2.43%) Cloud Native
4 17 (2.30%) Product Ownership
5 16 (2.16%) Data Centre
5 16 (2.16%) Linux Command Line
6 12 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (1.49%) Private Cloud
8 10 (1.35%) PKI
9 8 (1.08%) Management Information System
10 7 (0.95%) Data Structures
11 6 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (0.81%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.68%) Blockchain
12 5 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (0.68%) Security Posture
12 5 (0.68%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 187 (25.27%) Linux
2 59 (7.97%) Windows
3 35 (4.73%) Unix
4 31 (4.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (2.03%) CentOS
6 14 (1.89%) Windows Server
7 8 (1.08%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.95%) VMS
9 6 (0.81%) Android
9 6 (0.81%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.68%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.41%) Debian
11 3 (0.41%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.14%) AIX
12 1 (0.14%) Rocky
12 1 (0.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 740 (100.00%) DevOps
2 374 (50.54%) CI/CD
3 195 (26.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 168 (22.70%) Agile
5 107 (14.46%) Containerisation
6 81 (10.95%) Problem-Solving
7 80 (10.81%) Configuration Management
8 72 (9.73%) Test Automation
9 59 (7.97%) Migration
10 58 (7.84%) Continuous Integration
11 47 (6.35%) Platform Engineering
12 45 (6.08%) Computer Science
13 42 (5.68%) Microservices
13 42 (5.68%) Software Delivery
14 41 (5.54%) Software Engineering
15 38 (5.14%) Scrum
15 38 (5.14%) Task Automation
16 36 (4.86%) Continuous Improvement
16 36 (4.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 32 (4.32%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 304 (41.08%) Python
2 129 (17.43%) Bash
3 115 (15.54%) PowerShell
4 78 (10.54%) Java
5 73 (9.86%) Go
5 73 (9.86%) SQL
6 52 (7.03%) C#
7 46 (6.22%) JavaScript
8 30 (4.05%) Perl
9 25 (3.38%) Ruby
10 24 (3.24%) Shell Script
11 19 (2.57%) TypeScript
12 18 (2.43%) Groovy
13 16 (2.16%) C
14 14 (1.89%) C++
15 12 (1.62%) PHP
16 11 (1.49%) Bicep
17 5 (0.68%) Scala
18 4 (0.54%) Rust
19 3 (0.41%) BeanShell
Qualifications
1 291 (39.32%) Security Cleared
2 217 (29.32%) SC Cleared
3 65 (8.78%) DV Cleared
4 50 (6.76%) Degree
5 34 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (3.38%) AWS Certification
7 15 (2.03%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 6 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.14%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.14%) GIAC
11 1 (0.14%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.14%) MCSE
11 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.14%) RHCE
11 1 (0.14%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.65%) QA
2 10 (1.35%) NIST
3 8 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (0.81%) GDPR
5 4 (0.54%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.41%) NCSC
6 3 (0.41%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (0.27%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.14%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 237 (32.03%) Docker
2 29 (3.92%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (2.43%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.81%) NFS
6 5 (0.68%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.54%) vSphere
8 3 (0.41%) LXC
8 3 (0.41%) OpenAM
8 3 (0.41%) OpenIDM
8 3 (0.41%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.27%) Varnish
9 2 (0.27%) vCloud
9 2 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.14%) KVM
10 1 (0.14%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 436 (58.92%) Terraform
2 334 (45.14%) Kubernetes
3 191 (25.81%) Ansible
4 91 (12.30%) Prometheus
5 80 (10.81%) Grafana
6 42 (5.68%) Puppet
7 36 (4.86%) Progress Chef
8 17 (2.30%) Kibana
9 16 (2.16%) Docker Swarm
10 15 (2.03%) Packer
11 13 (1.76%) Istio
12 12 (1.62%) Rancher
13 11 (1.49%) Argo
14 9 (1.22%) Nagios
15 8 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
16 7 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 7 (0.95%) Consul
17 6 (0.81%) logstash
18 5 (0.68%) SCOM
19 4 (0.54%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 55 (7.43%) Microsoft
2 44 (5.95%) Oracle
3 40 (5.41%) Splunk
4 38 (5.14%) VMware
5 21 (2.84%) Google
6 18 (2.43%) Dynatrace
7 17 (2.30%) Red Hat
8 13 (1.76%) SAP
9 9 (1.22%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.08%) Databricks
11 6 (0.81%) Atlassian
11 6 (0.81%) F5
11 6 (0.81%) PagerDuty
12 5 (0.68%) AppDynamics
12 5 (0.68%) New Relic
12 5 (0.68%) Palo Alto
12 5 (0.68%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.54%) ForgeRock
14 3 (0.41%) Cisco
14 3 (0.41%) Virgin Media
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