DevOps Developer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Development Operations Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Development Operations Developer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 311 378 525
Rank change year-on-year +67 +147 +29
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Developer 11 21 63
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.091% 0.11% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.097% 0.12% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 15 39
10th Percentile £393 £505 £508
25th Percentile £453 £550 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £590
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +10.17% +7.27%
75th Percentile £650 £687 £750
90th Percentile £658 £716 £850
UK median daily rate £625 £601 £615
% change year-on-year +3.99% -2.28% +8.13%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 11,313 17,773 36,914
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.20% 94.50% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,133 12,477 26,633
10th Percentile £325 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £645 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 389 527
10th Percentile £19.39 £16.93 £15.15
25th Percentile £25.52 £24.97 £25.00
Median hourly rate £41.53 £50.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.94% - +101.61%
75th Percentile £66.00 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £27.73
% change year-on-year -15.56% +62.28% +38.65%

DevOps Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured DevOps Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DevOps Developer trend for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps Developer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DevOps Developer.

DevOps Developer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps Developer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing DevOps Developer over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

DevOps Developer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, DevOps Developer 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring DevOps Developer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (54.55%) Azure
3 4 (36.36%) Python
3 4 (36.36%) .NET
3 4 (36.36%) Terraform
4 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
4 3 (27.27%) Agile
4 3 (27.27%) QA
4 3 (27.27%) C#
5 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) AWS
5 2 (18.18%) Puppet
5 2 (18.18%) Java
5 2 (18.18%) SQL
5 2 (18.18%) Telecoms
5 2 (18.18%) Finance
5 2 (18.18%) Docker
5 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
5 2 (18.18%) AngularJS
6 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
6 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
6 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
6 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (9.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (9.09%) logstash
6 1 (9.09%) Ansible
6 1 (9.09%) Unit Testing
6 1 (9.09%) Git

DevOps Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) AWS
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
1 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
1 2 (18.18%) Telecoms
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) .NET
2 2 (18.18%) AngularJS
3 1 (9.09%) CSS
3 1 (9.09%) HTML
3 1 (9.09%) Node.js
3 1 (9.09%) REST
3 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Credit Derivative
2 1 (9.09%) Derivative
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) Agile
2 3 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) API Development
4 1 (9.09%) Change Management
4 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
4 1 (9.09%) ITIL
4 1 (9.09%) Microservices
4 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (9.09%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) C#
3 2 (18.18%) Java
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
4 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.09%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) QA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Terraform
2 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
3 2 (18.18%) Puppet
4 1 (9.09%) Ansible
4 1 (9.09%) logstash
4 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
1 1 (9.09%) SAP