DevOps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 11 7
Rank change year-on-year -5 -4 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 3,972 7,006 11,719
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 9.15% 11.86% 13.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.60% 13.20% 14.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,734 5,132 8,451
10th Percentile £400 £425 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £580 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 106 68
10th Percentile £56.25 £49.88 £35.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £60.91 £42.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +19.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £77.50 £74.13 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.18 £78.60 £66.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -0.76% +19.09% +14.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

DevOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,480 53,073 80,381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.37% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,166 36,804 56,457
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,447 1,751 1,910
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Top 18 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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
England -3 3,367 £550 -8.33% 1,693
London -1 1,964 £575 -4.17% 692
Work from Home -3 1,545 £550 -4.35% 950
UK excluding London -7 1,490 £530 -3.64% 1,049
South East -4 435 £558 -3.88% 228
North of England -2 404 £523 -5.00% 284
North West -2 239 £530 -3.64% 181
South West -11 226 £550 -8.33% 161
Scotland -14 179 £475 -5.00% 67
Yorkshire +2 151 £480 -20.00% 83
Midlands -11 128 £475 -11.63% 193
East of England -4 99 £534 +1.71% 71
West Midlands -16 89 £475 -17.39% 130
East Midlands -12 33 £450 -2.17% 62
Wales -9 26 £575 -1.37% 34
North East -8 18 £525 -12.50% 20
Northern Ireland +2 4 £550 -8.33% 29
Isle of Man - 2 £388 -

DevOps
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
1 168 (4.23%) Confluence
2 74 (1.86%) SharePoint
3 59 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
4 42 (1.06%) CMS
5 41 (1.03%) IIS
6 40 (1.01%) nginx
7 39 (0.98%) Apache
8 37 (0.93%) Apache Spark
9 33 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
10 20 (0.50%) OpenStack
11 15 (0.38%) JBoss
12 12 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 10 (0.25%) Site Server
14 8 (0.20%) Kentico
14 8 (0.20%) WebSphere
15 7 (0.18%) ArcGIS
15 7 (0.18%) Headless CMS
15 7 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 7 (0.18%) WebLogic
16 6 (0.15%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 39 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (0.53%) MS Visio
4 13 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (0.25%) Chatbot
6 9 (0.23%) Trello
7 6 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 2 (0.050%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.050%) Sketch
9 1 (0.025%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.025%) InVision
9 1 (0.025%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.025%) Simulink
9 1 (0.025%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 65 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (0.68%) Dynamics AX
3 22 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 14 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
6 13 (0.33%) Endur
7 12 (0.30%) Teamcenter
8 9 (0.23%) Maximo
9 8 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
9 8 (0.20%) Shopify
10 7 (0.18%) Aladdin
10 7 (0.18%) NEC Housing
10 7 (0.18%) SAP Hybris
10 7 (0.18%) SAP PM
11 6 (0.15%) SimCorp Dimension
12 5 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
12 5 (0.13%) Temenos T24
13 4 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
14 3 (0.076%) BusinessWorks
14 3 (0.076%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2,038 (51.31%) Azure
2 1,205 (30.34%) Azure DevOps
3 1,191 (29.98%) AWS
4 346 (8.71%) GCP
5 337 (8.48%) Serverless
6 294 (7.40%) GitHub
7 242 (6.09%) Power Platform
8 176 (4.43%) Amazon S3
9 162 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
10 158 (3.98%) Entra ID
11 149 (3.75%) PaaS
12 142 (3.58%) Amazon EC2
12 142 (3.58%) Dynamics 365
13 138 (3.47%) AWS CloudFormation
13 138 (3.47%) Azure Monitor
14 133 (3.35%) Azure Service Bus
15 126 (3.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 121 (3.05%) OpenShift
17 119 (3.00%) Amazon EKS
18 114 (2.87%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 226 (5.69%) Firewall
2 103 (2.59%) DNS
3 98 (2.47%) VPN
4 70 (1.76%) Network Security
5 62 (1.56%) HTTP
6 51 (1.28%) TCP/IP
7 47 (1.18%) BGP
8 36 (0.91%) DHCP
8 36 (0.91%) Modbus
8 36 (0.91%) MPLS
8 36 (0.91%) RS-422
8 36 (0.91%) RS-485
9 34 (0.86%) Intrusion Detection
10 33 (0.83%) SNMP
11 31 (0.78%) SSL
12 29 (0.73%) HSRP
13 25 (0.63%) IPv4
14 23 (0.58%) RSVP
15 19 (0.48%) Internet
15 19 (0.48%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 409 (10.30%) SQL Server
2 195 (4.91%) PostgreSQL
3 183 (4.61%) Power BI
4 143 (3.60%) NoSQL
5 134 (3.37%) Data Lake
5 134 (3.37%) Relational Database
6 107 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
7 93 (2.34%) MySQL
8 89 (2.24%) Amazon RDS
9 81 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
9 81 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
9 81 (2.04%) MongoDB
10 64 (1.61%) Big Data
11 51 (1.28%) Oracle Database
12 46 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 42 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
14 39 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
14 39 (0.98%) Apache Cassandra
15 37 (0.93%) Tableau
16 35 (0.88%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 510 (12.84%) Git
2 494 (12.44%) Jenkins
3 357 (8.99%) JIRA
4 275 (6.92%) GitLab
5 131 (3.30%) Selenium
6 92 (2.32%) SonarQube
7 74 (1.86%) TeamCity
8 70 (1.76%) Visual Studio
9 62 (1.56%) Cucumber
10 60 (1.51%) SpecFlow
11 55 (1.38%) Artifactory
11 55 (1.38%) Bitbucket
12 48 (1.21%) JUnit
13 44 (1.11%) Postman
14 42 (1.06%) Cypress.io
15 40 (1.01%) Maven
16 30 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
17 27 (0.68%) REST Assured
18 25 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 25 (0.63%) WebDriver
General
1 873 (21.98%) Social Skills
2 746 (18.78%) Finance
3 449 (11.30%) Public Sector
4 320 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
5 258 (6.50%) Banking
6 112 (2.82%) Retail
7 91 (2.29%) Front Office
8 77 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
9 67 (1.69%) Telecoms
10 62 (1.56%) Marketing
11 61 (1.54%) Electronics
12 59 (1.49%) Investment Banking
13 51 (1.28%) Back Office
14 49 (1.23%) Law
15 46 (1.16%) Legal
15 46 (1.16%) Manufacturing
16 36 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
16 36 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 33 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
18 27 (0.68%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 824 (20.75%) Developer
2 755 (19.01%) DevOps Engineer
3 514 (12.94%) Senior
4 447 (11.25%) Architect
5 315 (7.93%) Lead
6 247 (6.22%) Azure Engineer
7 221 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
8 202 (5.09%) Analyst
9 188 (4.73%) Senior Developer
10 166 (4.18%) Software Engineer
11 160 (4.03%) AWS DevOps
12 152 (3.83%) Consultant
13 147 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
14 142 (3.58%) .NET Developer
14 142 (3.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 139 (3.50%) Data Engineer
16 125 (3.15%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 112 (2.82%) Full Stack Developer
18 110 (2.77%) Java Developer
19 106 (2.67%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 552 (13.90%) .NET
2 318 (8.01%) React
3 215 (5.41%) XML
4 213 (5.36%) REST
5 187 (4.71%) Kafka
6 183 (4.61%) Node.js
7 182 (4.58%) AngularJS
8 173 (4.36%) .NET Core
9 164 (4.13%) HTML
10 152 (3.83%) CSS
11 149 (3.75%) .NET Framework
12 134 (3.37%) JSON
13 128 (3.22%) RESTful
14 112 (2.82%) ARM Templates
15 110 (2.77%) Spring
16 101 (2.54%) Spring Boot
17 93 (2.34%) YAML
18 86 (2.17%) ASP.NET
19 83 (2.09%) Elastic Stack
20 79 (1.99%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 238 (5.99%) Product Ownership
2 115 (2.90%) Public Cloud
3 108 (2.72%) Cloud Native
4 81 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
5 79 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
6 67 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
7 62 (1.56%) Derivative
8 61 (1.54%) Data Structures
9 60 (1.51%) Onboarding
10 58 (1.46%) Mobile App
11 56 (1.41%) Management Information System
12 53 (1.33%) Hedge funds
13 50 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 44 (1.11%) Data Centre
15 43 (1.08%) Fixed Income
16 42 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
17 39 (0.98%) PKI
18 36 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
19 35 (0.88%) Equities
19 35 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 459 (11.56%) Linux
2 349 (8.79%) Windows
3 159 (4.00%) Windows Server
4 104 (2.62%) Unix
5 78 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 53 (1.33%) Android
7 52 (1.31%) Apple iOS
8 26 (0.65%) CentOS
9 24 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
10 23 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
11 20 (0.50%) VMS
12 18 (0.45%) Solaris
13 16 (0.40%) Ubuntu
14 14 (0.35%) AIX
15 12 (0.30%) Windows 10
16 8 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
17 7 (0.18%) Mac OS
18 5 (0.13%) Alpine Linux
19 3 (0.076%) Debian
20 2 (0.050%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,694 (42.65%) Agile
2 1,394 (35.10%) CI/CD
3 534 (13.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 500 (12.59%) Problem-Solving
5 477 (12.01%) Scrum
6 463 (11.66%) Software Engineering
7 462 (11.63%) Test Automation
8 418 (10.52%) Microservices
9 333 (8.38%) Containerisation
10 326 (8.21%) Migration
11 323 (8.13%) TDD
12 317 (7.98%) Continuous Integration
13 256 (6.45%) Continuous Improvement
14 248 (6.24%) SDLC
15 226 (5.69%) Full Stack Development
16 224 (5.64%) Analytics
17 220 (5.54%) Business Intelligence
18 211 (5.31%) Computer Science
19 206 (5.19%) Project Management
19 206 (5.19%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1,013 (25.50%) Python
2 678 (17.07%) C#
3 650 (16.36%) SQL
4 524 (13.19%) Java
5 494 (12.44%) PowerShell
6 406 (10.22%) JavaScript
7 261 (6.57%) TypeScript
8 221 (5.56%) Bash
9 158 (3.98%) Go
10 155 (3.90%) Bicep
11 120 (3.02%) C++
12 113 (2.84%) C
13 85 (2.14%) Shell Script
14 74 (1.86%) Perl
15 66 (1.66%) Scala
16 63 (1.59%) Ruby
17 46 (1.16%) T-SQL
18 35 (0.88%) PHP
19 33 (0.83%) VBScript
20 31 (0.78%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 818 (20.59%) Security Cleared
2 581 (14.63%) SC Cleared
3 319 (8.03%) Degree
4 227 (5.72%) DV Cleared
5 131 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 64 (1.61%) Azure Certification
7 62 (1.56%) AWS Certification
8 45 (1.13%) Master's Degree
9 44 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
10 39 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
11 28 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 27 (0.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 26 (0.65%) PMP
14 24 (0.60%) CCNP
14 24 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
15 21 (0.53%) PMI Certification
16 19 (0.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 18 (0.45%) ISTQB
18 17 (0.43%) CISSP
19 16 (0.40%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 233 (5.87%) QA
2 68 (1.71%) Accessibility
3 52 (1.31%) GDPR
4 44 (1.11%) Data Quality
5 43 (1.08%) PCI DSS
6 39 (0.98%) NIST
7 38 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 28 (0.70%) NCSC
9 27 (0.68%) WCAG
10 26 (0.65%) SLA
11 24 (0.60%) PMO
12 17 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
13 13 (0.33%) HIPAA
14 10 (0.25%) MISRA
15 8 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 7 (0.18%) SOC 2
17 6 (0.15%) GRC
17 6 (0.15%) ISO 22301
17 6 (0.15%) ISO 9001
18 4 (0.10%) PSD2
System Software
1 601 (15.13%) Docker
2 248 (6.24%) Active Directory
3 70 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
6 19 (0.48%) VMware NSX
7 15 (0.38%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 12 (0.30%) Firmware
9 11 (0.28%) Hyper-V
10 10 (0.25%) vSphere
11 9 (0.23%) NFS
11 9 (0.23%) vCloud
12 6 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
12 6 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.076%) HDFS
13 3 (0.076%) LXC
13 3 (0.076%) OpenAM
13 3 (0.076%) OpenIDM
13 3 (0.076%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.050%) KVM
Systems Management
1 875 (22.03%) Terraform
2 830 (20.90%) Kubernetes
3 439 (11.05%) Ansible
4 168 (4.23%) Grafana
5 164 (4.13%) Prometheus
6 89 (2.24%) Puppet
7 70 (1.76%) Progress Chef
8 46 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
9 43 (1.08%) Kibana
10 42 (1.06%) SCCM
11 37 (0.93%) Docker Swarm
12 34 (0.86%) Istio
12 34 (0.86%) SCOM
13 33 (0.83%) Packer
14 31 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
15 28 (0.70%) Consul
16 27 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 23 (0.58%) Argo
18 19 (0.48%) ITRS Geneos
19 18 (0.45%) Nagios
Vendors
1 731 (18.40%) Microsoft
2 249 (6.27%) Oracle
3 123 (3.10%) Splunk
4 122 (3.07%) Databricks
5 113 (2.84%) Google
6 107 (2.69%) VMware
7 106 (2.67%) SAP
8 83 (2.09%) ServiceNow
9 73 (1.84%) Salesforce
10 68 (1.71%) Cisco
11 53 (1.33%) IBM
12 48 (1.21%) Dynatrace
13 44 (1.11%) CyberArk
13 44 (1.11%) Red Hat
14 37 (0.93%) Citrix
15 32 (0.81%) F5
16 31 (0.78%) Nokia
16 31 (0.78%) Palo Alto
17 30 (0.76%) Adobe
18 26 (0.65%) EMC