Lead DevOps Contracts with Work from Home Options

Lead Development Operations
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Development Operations daily rate in Work from Home is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 313 431 515
Rank change year-on-year +118 +84 -87
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 26 28 101
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.18% 0.12% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.12% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 22 76
10th Percentile £511 £550 £507
25th Percentile £600 £572 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £684 £708 £725
90th Percentile £745 £759 £778
UK median daily rate £650 £650 £663
% change year-on-year - -1.89% +10.42%

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 13,615 22,900 42,544
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.27% 95.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,190 16,242 30,898
10th Percentile £325 £360 £359
25th Percentile £425 £444 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +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% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 564 529 572
10th Percentile £14.26 £16.98 £13.53
25th Percentile £22.60 £25.00 £19.50
Median hourly rate £44.74 £52.50 £38.83
Median % change year-on-year -14.78% +35.21% +67.29%
75th Percentile £63.75 £66.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.70 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.70%

Lead DevOps
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Lead DevOps trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead DevOps
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 Lead DevOps.

Lead DevOps daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Lead DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Lead DevOps over the 6 months to 4 June 2024.

Lead DevOps daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 4 June 2024, Lead DevOps 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 Lead DevOps in the job title.

1 26 (100.00%) DevOps
2 18 (69.23%) CI/CD
3 17 (65.38%) Kubernetes
4 16 (61.54%) Python
5 15 (57.69%) Terraform
6 12 (46.15%) Ansible
7 11 (42.31%) Finance
8 9 (34.62%) Agile
8 9 (34.62%) Azure
8 9 (34.62%) Docker
8 9 (34.62%) Jenkins
9 8 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (30.77%) AWS
9 8 (30.77%) Git
9 8 (30.77%) Test Automation
9 8 (30.77%) Bitbucket
10 7 (26.92%) Bash
10 7 (26.92%) SQL
10 7 (26.92%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (26.92%) Containerisation
11 5 (19.23%) Prometheus
11 5 (19.23%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (19.23%) Grafana
11 5 (19.23%) Unix
11 5 (19.23%) Linux
11 5 (19.23%) ETL
11 5 (19.23%) Firewall
11 5 (19.23%) Artifactory
11 5 (19.23%) TeamCity
11 5 (19.23%) Groovy

Lead DevOps 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 3 (11.54%) Apache
1 3 (11.54%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (11.54%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (34.62%) Azure
2 8 (30.77%) AWS
3 7 (26.92%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (15.38%) PaaS
5 3 (11.54%) OpenShift
5 3 (11.54%) Snowflake
6 2 (7.69%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (7.69%) CloudBees
6 2 (7.69%) GCP
6 2 (7.69%) Google Compute Engine
6 2 (7.69%) Serverless
6 2 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (3.85%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.85%) Azure App Service
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Functions
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (3.85%) GitHub
7 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (19.23%) Firewall
2 2 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) Apache Cassandra
1 3 (11.54%) DataStax
1 3 (11.54%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (7.69%) BigQuery
2 2 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 9 (34.62%) Jenkins
2 8 (30.77%) Bitbucket
2 8 (30.77%) Git
3 5 (19.23%) Artifactory
3 5 (19.23%) TeamCity
4 3 (11.54%) GitLab
4 3 (11.54%) JIRA
5 1 (3.85%) Selenium
5 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 11 (42.31%) Finance
2 4 (15.38%) Banking
3 2 (7.69%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.85%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (11.54%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (11.54%) Kafka
3 2 (7.69%) ARM Templates
4 1 (3.85%) AWS SAM
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (19.23%) Linux
1 5 (19.23%) Unix
2 4 (15.38%) Android
2 4 (15.38%) Apple iOS
2 4 (15.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) DevOps
2 18 (69.23%) CI/CD
3 9 (34.62%) Agile
4 8 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (30.77%) Test Automation
5 7 (26.92%) Containerisation
6 5 (19.23%) ETL
6 5 (19.23%) Roadmaps
7 4 (15.38%) Load Balancing
8 3 (11.54%) Configuration Management
8 3 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (11.54%) Migration
8 3 (11.54%) Platform Engineering
8 3 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (11.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 2 (7.69%) BDD
9 2 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
9 2 (7.69%) Deployment Automation
9 2 (7.69%) Mentoring
9 2 (7.69%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 16 (61.54%) Python
2 7 (26.92%) Bash
2 7 (26.92%) SQL
3 5 (19.23%) Groovy
4 4 (15.38%) Go
5 3 (11.54%) Java
6 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 2 (7.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (34.62%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (65.38%) Kubernetes
2 15 (57.69%) Terraform
3 12 (46.15%) Ansible
4 5 (19.23%) Grafana
4 5 (19.23%) Prometheus
5 3 (11.54%) Puppet
6 2 (7.69%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Confluent
1 3 (11.54%) Splunk
2 2 (7.69%) Google
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.85%) Virgin Media