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 £533 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 66 69
Rank change year-on-year -42 +3 -10
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 302 806 1,651
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.06% 3.34% 3.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.21% 3.51% 3.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 675 1,279
10th Percentile £405 £463 £440
25th Percentile £472 £513 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.17% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £674
90th Percentile £651 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.42% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Median hourly rate £55.00 £71.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.54% +102.86% -33.33%
UK median hourly rate £73.50 £72.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +2.08% +105.71% -33.33%

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 13,691 22,958 42,210
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.26% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,251 16,282 30,640
10th Percentile £325 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £444 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £539 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% +2.67% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 531 565
10th Percentile £14.26 £16.98 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.84 £25.00 £19.50
Median hourly rate £44.87 £52.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +43.84% +57.26%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.72 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £77.50 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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.

1 302 (100.00%) DevOps
2 197 (65.23%) Terraform
3 193 (63.91%) AWS
4 143 (47.35%) CI/CD
5 139 (46.03%) Kubernetes
6 129 (42.72%) Python
7 120 (39.74%) Security Cleared
8 108 (35.76%) Azure
9 100 (33.11%) SC Cleared
9 100 (33.11%) Docker
10 99 (32.78%) Infrastructure as Code
11 81 (26.82%) Jenkins
12 80 (26.49%) Ansible
13 76 (25.17%) Agile
14 73 (24.17%) Linux
15 60 (19.87%) Git
16 59 (19.54%) Bash
17 56 (18.54%) GitLab
18 53 (17.55%) Containerisation
19 52 (17.22%) Public Sector
20 47 (15.56%) Social Skills
20 47 (15.56%) GitHub
21 43 (14.24%) Azure DevOps
22 42 (13.91%) Prometheus
23 41 (13.58%) PowerShell
24 38 (12.58%) Grafana
25 37 (12.25%) Problem-Solving
26 36 (11.92%) AWS CloudFormation
27 35 (11.59%) Test Automation
28 34 (11.26%) Amazon EKS

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 19 (6.29%) Confluence
2 11 (3.64%) nginx
3 6 (1.99%) Apache
4 5 (1.66%) Apache Solr
5 3 (0.99%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.33%) IIS
7 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (2.32%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 193 (63.91%) AWS
2 108 (35.76%) Azure
3 47 (15.56%) GitHub
4 43 (14.24%) Azure DevOps
5 36 (11.92%) AWS CloudFormation
6 34 (11.26%) Amazon EKS
7 33 (10.93%) GCP
8 30 (9.93%) Serverless
9 29 (9.60%) Amazon ECS
10 28 (9.27%) Amazon S3
11 26 (8.61%) AWS Lambda
12 25 (8.28%) Amazon EC2
13 24 (7.95%) OpenShift
14 23 (7.62%) GitHub Actions
15 20 (6.62%) PaaS
15 20 (6.62%) Route 53
15 20 (6.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 19 (6.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 13 (4.30%) SaaS
18 9 (2.98%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 27 (8.94%) Firewall
2 15 (4.97%) DNS
3 10 (3.31%) Network Security
4 8 (2.65%) TCP/IP
5 7 (2.32%) HTTP
5 7 (2.32%) VPN
6 4 (1.32%) HTTPS
6 4 (1.32%) IPsec
7 3 (0.99%) DHCP
7 3 (0.99%) LAN
7 3 (0.99%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (0.99%) WLAN
8 2 (0.66%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.66%) SSL
9 1 (0.33%) BIG-IP
9 1 (0.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 1 (0.33%) IPv4
9 1 (0.33%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.33%) MQTT
9 1 (0.33%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (7.95%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (3.31%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (2.98%) MySQL
4 7 (2.32%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (2.32%) Relational Database
4 7 (2.32%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.99%) NoSQL
5 6 (1.99%) Oracle Database
6 4 (1.32%) Couchbase
6 4 (1.32%) Redis
7 3 (0.99%) InfluxDB
7 3 (0.99%) Power BI
7 3 (0.99%) Triplestore
8 2 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.66%) Big Data
8 2 (0.66%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.66%) Flink
8 2 (0.66%) GIS
Development Applications
1 81 (26.82%) Jenkins
2 60 (19.87%) Git
3 56 (18.54%) GitLab
4 26 (8.61%) JIRA
5 11 (3.64%) Artifactory
5 11 (3.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 9 (2.98%) Bitbucket
7 8 (2.65%) TeamCity
8 5 (1.66%) Gradle
8 5 (1.66%) Maven
9 4 (1.32%) Selenium
9 4 (1.32%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.32%) Travis CI
10 3 (0.99%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.66%) Liquibase
11 2 (0.66%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.33%) Snyk
12 1 (0.33%) Spinnaker
General
1 52 (17.22%) Public Sector
2 47 (15.56%) Social Skills
3 27 (8.94%) Finance
4 11 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (3.64%) Banking
5 10 (3.31%) Law
6 5 (1.66%) Marketing
6 5 (1.66%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.32%) Legal
7 4 (1.32%) Retail
8 3 (0.99%) Electronics
8 3 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (0.99%) Manufacturing
8 3 (0.99%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.33%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.33%) Front Office
9 1 (0.33%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.33%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.33%) Military
9 1 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.62%) YAML
2 17 (5.63%) JSON
3 14 (4.64%) Elastic Stack
4 12 (3.97%) .NET
5 10 (3.31%) ARM Templates
5 10 (3.31%) Kafka
5 10 (3.31%) RabbitMQ
6 9 (2.98%) REST
7 8 (2.65%) AWS CDK
8 7 (2.32%) RESTful
9 6 (1.99%) Node.js
10 5 (1.66%) Apache NiFi
10 5 (1.66%) Middleware
10 5 (1.66%) XML
11 4 (1.32%) AWS SAM
11 4 (1.32%) LDAP
11 4 (1.32%) LEMP Stack
11 4 (1.32%) WinForms
12 3 (0.99%) CSS
12 3 (0.99%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.95%) Greenfield Project
2 10 (3.31%) Private Cloud
3 9 (2.98%) Public Cloud
4 8 (2.65%) Data Centre
5 6 (1.99%) Cloud Native
6 5 (1.66%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (1.66%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.32%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.99%) Data Structures
8 3 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.66%) Life Science
9 2 (0.66%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.66%) Tandem
9 2 (0.66%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.33%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.33%) PKI
10 1 (0.33%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 73 (24.17%) Linux
2 24 (7.95%) Windows
3 12 (3.97%) Unix
4 10 (3.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.32%) CentOS
5 4 (1.32%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.66%) Alpine Linux
6 2 (0.66%) Android
6 2 (0.66%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.66%) VMS
6 2 (0.66%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.66%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (100.00%) DevOps
2 143 (47.35%) CI/CD
3 99 (32.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 76 (25.17%) Agile
5 53 (17.55%) Containerisation
6 37 (12.25%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (11.59%) Test Automation
8 32 (10.60%) Configuration Management
9 22 (7.28%) Task Automation
10 21 (6.95%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (6.95%) SDLC
11 20 (6.62%) Migration
11 20 (6.62%) Observability
12 19 (6.29%) Computer Science
12 19 (6.29%) Continuous Integration
13 18 (5.96%) Software Delivery
14 16 (5.30%) Platform Engineering
14 16 (5.30%) Scrum
15 15 (4.97%) Mentoring
16 13 (4.30%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 129 (42.72%) Python
2 59 (19.54%) Bash
3 41 (13.58%) PowerShell
4 28 (9.27%) Java
5 27 (8.94%) Go
6 18 (5.96%) JavaScript
6 18 (5.96%) SQL
7 17 (5.63%) Perl
8 14 (4.64%) Ruby
9 12 (3.97%) TypeScript
10 9 (2.98%) Shell Script
11 8 (2.65%) C
11 8 (2.65%) C#
11 8 (2.65%) C++
12 7 (2.32%) Bicep
13 6 (1.99%) PHP
14 5 (1.66%) Groovy
14 5 (1.66%) Scala
15 3 (0.99%) SPARQL
16 2 (0.66%) Rust
Qualifications
1 120 (39.74%) Security Cleared
2 100 (33.11%) SC Cleared
3 27 (8.94%) Degree
4 17 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.64%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.65%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.99%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.30%) QA
2 7 (2.32%) NIST
3 6 (1.99%) GDPR
3 6 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.32%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.66%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.66%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 100 (33.11%) Docker
2 9 (2.98%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (2.65%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.66%) vCloud
5 2 (0.66%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.66%) vSphere
6 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.33%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.33%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.33%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 197 (65.23%) Terraform
2 139 (46.03%) Kubernetes
3 80 (26.49%) Ansible
4 42 (13.91%) Prometheus
5 38 (12.58%) Grafana
6 23 (7.62%) Puppet
7 21 (6.95%) Progress Chef
8 9 (2.98%) Kibana
9 8 (2.65%) Packer
10 5 (1.66%) Argo
10 5 (1.66%) Consul
10 5 (1.66%) logstash
10 5 (1.66%) Nagios
11 3 (0.99%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.99%) Istio
12 2 (0.66%) Autotask
12 2 (0.66%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.66%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.66%) Salt
12 2 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (8.28%) Splunk
2 23 (7.62%) Microsoft
3 18 (5.96%) Oracle
4 14 (4.64%) Dynatrace
4 14 (4.64%) VMware
5 11 (3.64%) Google
6 8 (2.65%) SAP
7 5 (1.66%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.32%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.32%) Databricks
9 3 (0.99%) New Relic
9 3 (0.99%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.99%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.66%) Arista
10 2 (0.66%) BMC
10 2 (0.66%) ESRI
10 2 (0.66%) ForgeRock
10 2 (0.66%) Mercator
10 2 (0.66%) Remedy
10 2 (0.66%) TOWER Software