Senior DevOps Engineer Contracts

Senior Development Operations Engineer
UK

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the UK is £650 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 502 540 610
Rank change year-on-year +38 +70 -118
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 74 144 244
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.25% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.27% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 120 193
10th Percentile £513 £520 £503
25th Percentile £564 £586 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £758 £700 £700
90th Percentile £1,000 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £73.69 - -
25th Percentile £73.97 - -
Median hourly rate £74.44 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.44 - -

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%

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK

Senior DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK

Senior DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK

Senior DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK

Senior DevOps Engineer
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior 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 +47 58 £650 - 39
Work from Home +80 34 £631 +1.00% 38
London +66 33 £650 - 17
UK excluding London +31 22 £625 -3.85% 27
North West +17 8 £600 -6.80% 6
North of England +15 8 £600 -11.11% 8
South East +14 7 £650 -5.45% 2
South West +6 6 £625 -7.41% 5
Wales - 2 £821 -
West Midlands +20 1 £350 -50.00% 5
Midlands +20 1 £350 -48.15% 5

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

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

1 74 (100.00%) DevOps
2 43 (58.11%) Terraform
3 41 (55.41%) Kubernetes
4 37 (50.00%) Python
5 36 (48.65%) AWS
6 35 (47.30%) CI/CD
7 34 (45.95%) Azure
8 26 (35.14%) Security Cleared
8 26 (35.14%) Docker
9 25 (33.78%) Ansible
10 21 (28.38%) Jenkins
11 19 (25.68%) SC Cleared
12 18 (24.32%) PowerShell
12 18 (24.32%) Infrastructure as Code
13 16 (21.62%) Bash
13 16 (21.62%) Linux
13 16 (21.62%) Banking
14 15 (20.27%) Git
15 14 (18.92%) Public Sector
16 13 (17.57%) Grafana
16 13 (17.57%) Test Automation
16 13 (17.57%) GitHub
16 13 (17.57%) Agile
17 12 (16.22%) Configuration Management
17 12 (16.22%) Windows
18 11 (14.86%) PaaS
18 11 (14.86%) OpenShift
18 11 (14.86%) Prometheus
19 10 (13.51%) Azure DevOps
19 10 (13.51%) Problem-Solving

Senior 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 5 (6.76%) Confluence
2 2 (2.70%) Apache
2 2 (2.70%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.35%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.41%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 36 (48.65%) AWS
2 34 (45.95%) Azure
3 13 (17.57%) GitHub
4 11 (14.86%) OpenShift
4 11 (14.86%) PaaS
5 10 (13.51%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (12.16%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (9.46%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (9.46%) GCP
8 6 (8.11%) Serverless
9 5 (6.76%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (6.76%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (5.41%) Amazon S3
10 4 (5.41%) Miro
10 4 (5.41%) OCI
10 4 (5.41%) SaaS
11 3 (4.05%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (2.70%) Amazon SageMaker
12 2 (2.70%) Azure Storage
12 2 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.76%) Firewall
2 2 (2.70%) DNS
2 2 (2.70%) Network Security
3 1 (1.35%) HTTP
3 1 (1.35%) Internet
3 1 (1.35%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (1.35%) SSL
3 1 (1.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.81%) Elasticsearch
1 8 (10.81%) SQL Server
2 6 (8.11%) Relational Database
3 3 (4.05%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.70%) Redis
5 1 (1.35%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.35%) MySQL
5 1 (1.35%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.35%) QGIS
5 1 (1.35%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 21 (28.38%) Jenkins
2 15 (20.27%) Git
3 9 (12.16%) GitLab
3 9 (12.16%) TeamCity
4 5 (6.76%) Artifactory
4 5 (6.76%) Bitbucket
5 3 (4.05%) JIRA
6 2 (2.70%) Selenium
6 2 (2.70%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.35%) Burp Suite
7 1 (1.35%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.35%) Jaeger
7 1 (1.35%) Postman
7 1 (1.35%) Snyk
General
1 16 (21.62%) Banking
2 14 (18.92%) Public Sector
3 10 (13.51%) Investment Banking
4 9 (12.16%) Finance
5 4 (5.41%) Social Skills
6 2 (2.70%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.35%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.35%) Electronics
7 1 (1.35%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.35%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.35%) Marketing
7 1 (1.35%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.16%) Kafka
2 7 (9.46%) .NET
3 5 (6.76%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (6.76%) WCF
3 5 (6.76%) WinForms
4 4 (5.41%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (4.05%) YAML
6 2 (2.70%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (2.70%) ARM Templates
6 2 (2.70%) Fluent Bit
6 2 (2.70%) Loki
6 2 (2.70%) Node.js
6 2 (2.70%) pytest
6 2 (2.70%) REST
7 1 (1.35%) ADO
7 1 (1.35%) AWS SAM
7 1 (1.35%) PyTorch
7 1 (1.35%) React
7 1 (1.35%) RESTful
7 1 (1.35%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.16%) Product Ownership
2 7 (9.46%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (9.46%) Public Cloud
3 5 (6.76%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.05%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.05%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (4.05%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.70%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.35%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.35%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 16 (21.62%) Linux
2 12 (16.22%) Windows
3 8 (10.81%) Unix
4 3 (4.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.70%) Alpine Linux
5 2 (2.70%) Android
5 2 (2.70%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.35%) VMS
6 1 (1.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (100.00%) DevOps
2 35 (47.30%) CI/CD
3 18 (24.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (17.57%) Agile
4 13 (17.57%) Test Automation
5 12 (16.22%) Configuration Management
6 10 (13.51%) Open Source
6 10 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (13.51%) SDLC
7 9 (12.16%) Migration
8 8 (10.81%) Containerisation
9 7 (9.46%) Roadmaps
10 6 (8.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 5 (6.76%) GitOps
11 5 (6.76%) Mentoring
11 5 (6.76%) Platform Engineering
11 5 (6.76%) Service Catalogue
12 4 (5.41%) Infrastructure Automation
12 4 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 4 (5.41%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 37 (50.00%) Python
2 18 (24.32%) PowerShell
3 16 (21.62%) Bash
4 9 (12.16%) Go
5 8 (10.81%) SQL
6 6 (8.11%) C#
6 6 (8.11%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.05%) Bicep
7 3 (4.05%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.70%) C++
8 2 (2.70%) Java
9 1 (1.35%) C
9 1 (1.35%) Groovy
9 1 (1.35%) Perl
9 1 (1.35%) PHP
9 1 (1.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 26 (35.14%) Security Cleared
2 19 (25.68%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.46%) Degree
4 5 (6.76%) AWS Certification
4 5 (6.76%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.35%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.35%) MCSE
6 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.35%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.05%) QA
2 1 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.35%) NIST
2 1 (1.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 26 (35.14%) Docker
2 5 (6.76%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.05%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.35%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 43 (58.11%) Terraform
2 41 (55.41%) Kubernetes
3 25 (33.78%) Ansible
4 13 (17.57%) Grafana
5 11 (14.86%) Prometheus
6 4 (5.41%) Argo
6 4 (5.41%) Progress Chef
6 4 (5.41%) Puppet
7 2 (2.70%) Kustomize
7 2 (2.70%) Nagios
8 1 (1.35%) Graylog
8 1 (1.35%) Kibana
8 1 (1.35%) Packer
Vendors
1 7 (9.46%) Splunk
2 5 (6.76%) Oracle
3 4 (5.41%) Dynatrace
4 3 (4.05%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.70%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.70%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.70%) VMware
6 1 (1.35%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.35%) Cadence
6 1 (1.35%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.35%) Citrix
6 1 (1.35%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.35%) Google
6 1 (1.35%) Guidewire
6 1 (1.35%) New Relic
6 1 (1.35%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.35%) SAP
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