DevOps Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Development Operations Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £538 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 108 63 66
Rank change year-on-year -45 +3 -8
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 299 858 1,679
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.02% 3.48% 3.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.16% 3.65% 3.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 712 1,312
10th Percentile £405 £463 £447
25th Percentile £463 £513 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £663
90th Percentile £650 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.42% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £55.13 - -
25th Percentile £55.31 £70.50 -
Median hourly rate £56.25 £71.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.77% +102.86% -33.33%
75th Percentile £57.81 £71.50 -
90th Percentile £58.38 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £70.50 £37.00
% change year-on-year -12.06% +90.54% -29.52%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 13,848 23,488 42,066
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.30% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,306 16,603 30,429
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 558 537 595
10th Percentile £14.26 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.64 £25.71 £19.30
Median hourly rate £44.37 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.83% +54.29% +44.33%
75th Percentile £64.88 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £68.55
UK median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%

DevOps Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

DevOps Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps Engineer
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 Engineer.

DevOps Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

DevOps Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

DevOps Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 299 (100.00%) DevOps
2 190 (63.55%) AWS
3 189 (63.21%) Terraform
4 149 (49.83%) CI/CD
5 141 (47.16%) Kubernetes
6 132 (44.15%) Python
7 117 (39.13%) Azure
8 115 (38.46%) Security Cleared
9 100 (33.44%) Docker
9 100 (33.44%) Infrastructure as Code
10 95 (31.77%) SC Cleared
11 85 (28.43%) Jenkins
12 80 (26.76%) Linux
13 79 (26.42%) Agile
13 79 (26.42%) Ansible
14 64 (21.40%) Git
15 60 (20.07%) Bash
16 54 (18.06%) GitLab
17 50 (16.72%) Public Sector
17 50 (16.72%) Containerisation
18 47 (15.72%) Azure DevOps
19 46 (15.38%) Social Skills
19 46 (15.38%) GitHub
20 43 (14.38%) PowerShell
21 42 (14.05%) Prometheus
22 37 (12.37%) Grafana
22 37 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
22 37 (12.37%) Test Automation
23 36 (12.04%) Amazon EKS
24 34 (11.37%) GCP

DevOps Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 20 (6.69%) Confluence
2 12 (4.01%) nginx
3 7 (2.34%) Apache
4 4 (1.34%) Apache Solr
4 4 (1.34%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.67%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.33%) IIS
6 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (2.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 190 (63.55%) AWS
2 117 (39.13%) Azure
3 47 (15.72%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (15.38%) GitHub
5 36 (12.04%) Amazon EKS
6 34 (11.37%) GCP
7 32 (10.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 31 (10.37%) Serverless
9 28 (9.36%) Amazon ECS
10 27 (9.03%) Amazon S3
10 27 (9.03%) AWS Lambda
11 25 (8.36%) Amazon EC2
11 25 (8.36%) OpenShift
12 24 (8.03%) PaaS
13 21 (7.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 21 (7.02%) Route 53
13 21 (7.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 20 (6.69%) GitHub Actions
15 13 (4.35%) SaaS
16 9 (3.01%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 28 (9.36%) Firewall
2 17 (5.69%) DNS
3 10 (3.34%) Network Security
4 9 (3.01%) VPN
5 8 (2.68%) HTTP
5 8 (2.68%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.34%) HTTPS
6 4 (1.34%) IPsec
7 3 (1.00%) DHCP
7 3 (1.00%) LAN
7 3 (1.00%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (1.00%) WLAN
8 2 (0.67%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.67%) SSL
9 1 (0.33%) BIG-IP
9 1 (0.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 1 (0.33%) Internet
9 1 (0.33%) IPv4
9 1 (0.33%) MQTT
9 1 (0.33%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (3.34%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (3.34%) MySQL
4 7 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (2.34%) NoSQL
4 7 (2.34%) Relational Database
4 7 (2.34%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.01%) Oracle Database
6 5 (1.67%) Couchbase
7 4 (1.34%) Redis
8 3 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.00%) InfluxDB
8 3 (1.00%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.00%) Power BI
8 3 (1.00%) Triplestore
9 2 (0.67%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.67%) Flink
9 2 (0.67%) GIS
Development Applications
1 85 (28.43%) Jenkins
2 64 (21.40%) Git
3 54 (18.06%) GitLab
4 27 (9.03%) JIRA
5 11 (3.68%) Artifactory
5 11 (3.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 9 (3.01%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.01%) TeamCity
7 7 (2.34%) Gradle
7 7 (2.34%) Maven
8 5 (1.67%) Travis CI
9 4 (1.34%) CircleCI
9 4 (1.34%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.34%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (1.00%) Selenium
10 3 (1.00%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.67%) Postman
11 2 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.33%) gulp
12 1 (0.33%) Spinnaker
General
1 50 (16.72%) Public Sector
2 46 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 27 (9.03%) Finance
4 11 (3.68%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (3.34%) Law
6 8 (2.68%) Banking
7 6 (2.01%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.67%) Marketing
9 4 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.34%) Legal
10 3 (1.00%) Electronics
10 3 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.00%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.00%) Retail
10 3 (1.00%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.33%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.33%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.33%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (7.69%) YAML
2 17 (5.69%) JSON
3 15 (5.02%) Elastic Stack
4 14 (4.68%) .NET
5 13 (4.35%) ARM Templates
6 10 (3.34%) RabbitMQ
6 10 (3.34%) REST
7 9 (3.01%) AWS CDK
8 8 (2.68%) Kafka
9 7 (2.34%) RESTful
10 6 (2.01%) Middleware
10 6 (2.01%) Node.js
11 5 (1.67%) Apache NiFi
11 5 (1.67%) XML
12 4 (1.34%) AWS SAM
12 4 (1.34%) LDAP
12 4 (1.34%) LEMP Stack
12 4 (1.34%) WinForms
13 3 (1.00%) GraphQL
13 3 (1.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.69%) Greenfield Project
2 10 (3.34%) Data Centre
3 9 (3.01%) Private Cloud
3 9 (3.01%) Public Cloud
4 6 (2.01%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.01%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (1.67%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.34%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.00%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.00%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.67%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.67%) PKI
8 2 (0.67%) Tandem
9 1 (0.33%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.33%) Life Science
9 1 (0.33%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 80 (26.76%) Linux
2 26 (8.70%) Windows
3 12 (4.01%) Unix
4 9 (3.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.67%) CentOS
5 5 (1.67%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.34%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.00%) VMS
8 2 (0.67%) Alpine Linux
8 2 (0.67%) Android
8 2 (0.67%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 299 (100.00%) DevOps
2 149 (49.83%) CI/CD
3 100 (33.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 79 (26.42%) Agile
5 50 (16.72%) Containerisation
6 37 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (12.37%) Test Automation
7 33 (11.04%) Configuration Management
8 24 (8.03%) Task Automation
9 20 (6.69%) Computer Science
9 20 (6.69%) SDLC
10 19 (6.35%) Continuous Integration
10 19 (6.35%) Migration
11 18 (6.02%) Software Delivery
12 16 (5.35%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (5.35%) Mentoring
12 16 (5.35%) Scrum
13 15 (5.02%) Observability
14 14 (4.68%) Kanban
14 14 (4.68%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 132 (44.15%) Python
2 60 (20.07%) Bash
3 43 (14.38%) PowerShell
4 30 (10.03%) Java
5 26 (8.70%) Go
6 22 (7.36%) SQL
7 20 (6.69%) Perl
8 19 (6.35%) JavaScript
9 11 (3.68%) Ruby
9 11 (3.68%) Shell Script
9 11 (3.68%) TypeScript
10 10 (3.34%) C#
11 9 (3.01%) C
12 8 (2.68%) C++
13 7 (2.34%) Bicep
13 7 (2.34%) PHP
14 6 (2.01%) Groovy
15 4 (1.34%) Scala
16 3 (1.00%) SPARQL
17 2 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 115 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 95 (31.77%) SC Cleared
3 28 (9.36%) Degree
4 17 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (4.35%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.68%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.01%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.35%) QA
2 7 (2.34%) NIST
3 6 (2.01%) GDPR
3 6 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.34%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.67%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 100 (33.44%) Docker
2 10 (3.34%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (3.01%) Active Directory
4 7 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.67%) vCloud
5 2 (0.67%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.67%) vSphere
6 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.33%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.33%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.33%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 189 (63.21%) Terraform
2 141 (47.16%) Kubernetes
3 79 (26.42%) Ansible
4 42 (14.05%) Prometheus
5 37 (12.37%) Grafana
6 23 (7.69%) Progress Chef
6 23 (7.69%) Puppet
7 11 (3.68%) Kibana
8 7 (2.34%) Nagios
8 7 (2.34%) Packer
9 5 (1.67%) Argo
9 5 (1.67%) Consul
9 5 (1.67%) logstash
10 4 (1.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.00%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (1.00%) Istio
12 2 (0.67%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.67%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.67%) Salt
Vendors
1 29 (9.70%) Microsoft
2 25 (8.36%) Splunk
3 17 (5.69%) Oracle
3 17 (5.69%) VMware
4 13 (4.35%) Dynatrace
5 11 (3.68%) Google
6 8 (2.68%) SAP
7 5 (1.67%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.34%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.34%) Databricks
9 3 (1.00%) New Relic
9 3 (1.00%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.67%) BMC
10 2 (0.67%) Commvault
10 2 (0.67%) ESRI
10 2 (0.67%) F5
10 2 (0.67%) ForgeRock
10 2 (0.67%) Mercator
10 2 (0.67%) Remedy
10 2 (0.67%) TOWER Software