Lead DevOps Contracts

Lead Development Operations
UK

The median Lead Development Operations daily rate in the UK is £638 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 507 599 642
Rank change year-on-year +92 +43 -110
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 69 85 208
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.15% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.16% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 58 163
10th Percentile £505 £550 £507
25th Percentile £552 £600 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £684 £747 £738
90th Percentile £744 £799 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £708 £585
% change year-on-year -11.66% +20.94% +6.36%

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 39,484 53,902 83,447
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.62% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,682 37,660 58,636
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,662 1,503 2,044
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.38 £15.76
Median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.44 £76.20 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Lead DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps in the UK

Lead DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Lead DevOps in the UK

Lead DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead DevOps in the UK

Lead DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead DevOps in the UK

Lead DevOps
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead DevOps within the UK 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
England +102 60 £650 - 19
London +106 41 £650 - 7
Work from Home +117 27 £600 -11.11% 15
UK excluding London +32 10 £625 -11.66% 9
North of England +19 4 £625 -5.66% 5
Yorkshire +11 4 £625 -5.66% 3
South East +9 3 £635 -23.03% 2
South West +10 2 £619 -19.51% 1
West Midlands +22 1 - -
Midlands +21 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, Lead 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 featuring Lead DevOps in the job title.

1 69 (100.00%) DevOps
2 46 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 31 (44.93%) AWS
4 30 (43.48%) Kubernetes
5 29 (42.03%) Terraform
6 28 (40.58%) Python
7 27 (39.13%) Azure
8 24 (34.78%) Finance
9 22 (31.88%) Linux
10 21 (30.43%) Agile
11 19 (27.54%) Ansible
11 19 (27.54%) Docker
12 16 (23.19%) Jenkins
12 16 (23.19%) Containerisation
13 15 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
14 13 (18.84%) Azure DevOps
14 13 (18.84%) Security Cleared
15 12 (17.39%) SC Cleared
15 12 (17.39%) Bash
15 12 (17.39%) DevSecOps
16 11 (15.94%) Microservices
16 11 (15.94%) SQL
17 10 (14.49%) Git
17 10 (14.49%) Serverless
17 10 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
17 10 (14.49%) Social Skills
18 9 (13.04%) Mentoring
18 9 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
19 8 (11.59%) SDLC
19 8 (11.59%) Grafana

Lead DevOps 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 4 (5.80%) Apache
1 4 (5.80%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.90%) Confluence
3 1 (1.45%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.45%) JBoss
3 1 (1.45%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.45%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 31 (44.93%) AWS
2 27 (39.13%) Azure
3 13 (18.84%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (14.49%) Serverless
5 8 (11.59%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (10.14%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (10.14%) GitHub
6 7 (10.14%) PaaS
6 7 (10.14%) SaaS
7 4 (5.80%) Amazon EventBridge
7 4 (5.80%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (5.80%) Azure AKS
7 4 (5.80%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (5.80%) OpenShift
8 3 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (4.35%) Amazon S3
8 3 (4.35%) AWS Step Functions
8 3 (4.35%) GCP
8 3 (4.35%) Snowflake
8 3 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.25%) Firewall
2 3 (4.35%) VPN
3 2 (2.90%) SSL
4 1 (1.45%) DNS
4 1 (1.45%) Internet
4 1 (1.45%) IPv4
4 1 (1.45%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.45%) OSPF
4 1 (1.45%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.25%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.80%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.90%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (2.90%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.90%) DataStax
4 2 (2.90%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.90%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.45%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.45%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (23.19%) Jenkins
2 10 (14.49%) Git
3 7 (10.14%) Bitbucket
3 7 (10.14%) GitLab
4 6 (8.70%) JIRA
5 5 (7.25%) Artifactory
6 4 (5.80%) TeamCity
7 2 (2.90%) CircleCI
7 2 (2.90%) GoCD
7 2 (2.90%) Maven
7 2 (2.90%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (2.90%) Terragrunt
8 1 (1.45%) Ant
8 1 (1.45%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.45%) JMeter
8 1 (1.45%) Selenium
8 1 (1.45%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.45%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.45%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 24 (34.78%) Finance
2 10 (14.49%) Social Skills
3 7 (10.14%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.80%) Banking
5 2 (2.90%) Investment Banking
5 2 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.45%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.45%) Electronics
6 1 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.45%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.45%) Marketing
6 1 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.45%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.14%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (5.80%) Kafka
2 4 (5.80%) Node.js
3 3 (4.35%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (4.35%) ARM Templates
4 2 (2.90%) AWS SAM
4 2 (2.90%) YAML
5 1 (1.45%) .NET
5 1 (1.45%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.45%) ADO
5 1 (1.45%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.45%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (1.45%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.45%) Entity Framework
5 1 (1.45%) Keycloak
5 1 (1.45%) Middleware
5 1 (1.45%) Next.js
5 1 (1.45%) React
5 1 (1.45%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.25%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.80%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.35%) Derivative
3 3 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.90%) Blockchain
4 2 (2.90%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.90%) Sports Betting
5 1 (1.45%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.45%) Machine to Machine
5 1 (1.45%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.45%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.45%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.45%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 22 (31.88%) Linux
2 8 (11.59%) Unix
3 4 (5.80%) Windows
4 3 (4.35%) Android
4 3 (4.35%) Apple iOS
4 3 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.45%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (100.00%) DevOps
2 46 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 21 (30.43%) Agile
4 16 (23.19%) Containerisation
5 15 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (17.39%) DevSecOps
7 11 (15.94%) Microservices
8 10 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (13.04%) Mentoring
10 8 (11.59%) Configuration Management
10 8 (11.59%) SDLC
10 8 (11.59%) Test Automation
11 7 (10.14%) Continuous Integration
12 6 (8.70%) Continuous Delivery
12 6 (8.70%) Continuous Deployment
12 6 (8.70%) Technical Leadership
13 5 (7.25%) ETL
13 5 (7.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 5 (7.25%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 28 (40.58%) Python
2 12 (17.39%) Bash
3 11 (15.94%) SQL
4 6 (8.70%) JavaScript
5 5 (7.25%) Groovy
6 4 (5.80%) Go
6 4 (5.80%) Java
7 3 (4.35%) Shell Script
7 3 (4.35%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.45%) C#
8 1 (1.45%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (18.84%) Security Cleared
2 12 (17.39%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.80%) Degree
4 3 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.90%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.45%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.45%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.45%) GIAC
6 1 (1.45%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.35%) QA
2 1 (1.45%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.45%) PMO
System Software
1 19 (27.54%) Docker
2 3 (4.35%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.90%) NFS
3 2 (2.90%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.45%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 30 (43.48%) Kubernetes
2 29 (42.03%) Terraform
3 19 (27.54%) Ansible
4 8 (11.59%) Grafana
5 7 (10.14%) Prometheus
6 5 (7.25%) Puppet
7 3 (4.35%) Argo
8 1 (1.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.45%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (1.45%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (1.45%) Kibana
8 1 (1.45%) logstash
8 1 (1.45%) Mesos
8 1 (1.45%) Packer
8 1 (1.45%) Podman
8 1 (1.45%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.45%) SCOM
8 1 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.25%) VMware
3 4 (5.80%) Red Hat
4 3 (4.35%) Confluent
4 3 (4.35%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.35%) Splunk
4 3 (4.35%) Teradata
5 2 (2.90%) Google
5 2 (2.90%) Oracle
6 1 (1.45%) Amdocs
6 1 (1.45%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.45%) Citrix
6 1 (1.45%) SAP
6 1 (1.45%) Virgin Media