Linux DevOps Engineer Contracts

Linux Development Operations Engineer
UK

The median Linux Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the UK is £600 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 562 669 807
Rank change year-on-year +107 +138 -188
Contract jobs requiring a Linux DevOps Engineer 14 15 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.033% 0.026% 0.048%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.028% 0.050%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 32
10th Percentile £515 £407 £466
25th Percentile £560 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -6.38% +9.30%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £650
90th Percentile £691 £712 £729
UK excluding London median daily rate £590 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +24.21% -13.64% +20.55%

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%

Linux DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux DevOps Engineer in the UK

Linux DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Linux DevOps Engineer in the UK

Linux DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Linux DevOps Engineer in the UK

Linux DevOps Engineer
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux DevOps Engineer 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 +113 8 £600 +26.32% 4
UK excluding London +59 8 £590 +24.21% 3
Work from Home +119 7 £625 +13.64% 2
London +105 6 £600 +33.33% 1
Scotland - 6 £650 -
South East - 2 £530 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, Linux 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 Linux DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Linux
1 14 (100.00%) DevOps
2 11 (78.57%) Python
3 9 (64.29%) Finance
4 8 (57.14%) Agile
5 6 (42.86%) Git
5 6 (42.86%) Perl
5 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
5 6 (42.86%) Kubernetes
6 5 (35.71%) Jenkins
6 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
6 5 (35.71%) Shell Script
6 5 (35.71%) AWS
7 4 (28.57%) Management Information System
7 4 (28.57%) Oracle
7 4 (28.57%) DNS
7 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (28.57%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (28.57%) Oracle Database
7 4 (28.57%) OpenShift
7 4 (28.57%) Ansible
7 4 (28.57%) Artifactory
7 4 (28.57%) Microservices
7 4 (28.57%) GitLab
8 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (21.43%) Spring Boot
8 3 (21.43%) SDLC
8 3 (21.43%) Docker
8 3 (21.43%) Bitbucket
8 3 (21.43%) Gradle

Linux 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 3 (21.43%) Apache
2 2 (14.29%) nginx
3 1 (7.14%) JBoss
3 1 (7.14%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) OpenShift
3 3 (21.43%) WhatsApp
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 2 (14.29%) CloudFront
4 2 (14.29%) Datadog
4 2 (14.29%) Fastly
4 2 (14.29%) GitHub
4 2 (14.29%) Route 53
4 2 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (7.14%) Azure
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (7.14%) IaaS
5 1 (7.14%) PaaS
5 1 (7.14%) SaaS
5 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) DNS
2 2 (14.29%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle Database
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Git
2 5 (35.71%) Jenkins
3 4 (28.57%) Artifactory
3 4 (28.57%) GitLab
4 3 (21.43%) Bitbucket
4 3 (21.43%) Gradle
5 1 (7.14%) Ant
5 1 (7.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (7.14%) JIRA
5 1 (7.14%) Maven
5 1 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (64.29%) Finance
2 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Banking
4 2 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Front Office
5 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (7.14%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) Spring
1 3 (21.43%) Spring Boot
1 3 (21.43%) YAML
2 2 (14.29%) Django
2 2 (14.29%) HornetQ
2 2 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (14.29%) VCL
3 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (7.14%) Kafka
3 1 (7.14%) Middleware
3 1 (7.14%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Linux Command Line
1 4 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 2 (14.29%) Virtual Team
3 1 (7.14%) Hedge funds
3 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (21.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (21.43%) Unix
3 2 (14.29%) Debian
4 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (57.14%) Agile
3 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (28.57%) Microservices
5 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (21.43%) Kanban
5 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (21.43%) Scrum
5 3 (21.43%) SDLC
5 3 (21.43%) TDD
6 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
6 2 (14.29%) Server Management
6 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
7 1 (7.14%) Auto-Scaling
7 1 (7.14%) Continuous Delivery
7 1 (7.14%) Continuous Deployment
7 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 1 (7.14%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) Python
2 6 (42.86%) Perl
3 5 (35.71%) Shell Script
4 3 (21.43%) Bash
4 3 (21.43%) Java
5 2 (14.29%) C
6 1 (7.14%) Groovy
6 1 (7.14%) PL/SQL
6 1 (7.14%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Docker
2 2 (14.29%) Varnish
2 2 (14.29%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 4 (28.57%) Ansible
3 3 (21.43%) Terraform
4 2 (14.29%) HAProxy
5 1 (7.14%) Grafana
5 1 (7.14%) Nagios
5 1 (7.14%) Podman
5 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
5 1 (7.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle
2 2 (14.29%) Cisco
2 2 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.14%) Dell
3 1 (7.14%) HP
3 1 (7.14%) Splunk