DevOps Contracts in England

DevOps
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 13 8
Rank change year-on-year -2 -5 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 3,524 5,307 9,236
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 9.47% 11.28% 13.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.09% 12.54% 14.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,429 3,884 6,686
10th Percentile £400 £425 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £586 £575
% change year-on-year -6.14% +1.91% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 99 65
10th Percentile £56.55 £53.75 £35.00
25th Percentile £61.60 £60.91 £44.00
Median hourly rate £65.50 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - +0.77% +18.18%
75th Percentile £76.88 £75.84 £75.00
90th Percentile £86.59 £79.60 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.50 £65.50 £64.30
% change year-on-year - +1.87% +29.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

DevOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,789 42,321 64,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.46% 89.92% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,644 29,706 45,695
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,352 1,534 1,708
10th Percentile £12.81 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.73 £15.30
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.63 £49.77
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.35 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in England

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in England

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in England

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in England

DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps in England

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the England region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
London -1 2,030 £575 -4.17% 581
South East -2 454 £555 -5.53% 187
North of England 0 446 £507 -7.82% 265
South West -7 252 £550 -8.33% 128
North West -3 238 £525 - 154
Yorkshire +7 191 £488 -18.75% 81
Midlands -10 158 £525 -1.96% 163
West Midlands -10 110 £525 -10.64% 109
East of England -18 94 £534 -2.91% 48
East Midlands -12 41 £450 +5.88% 54
North East -5 22 £525 -12.50% 30
DevOps
UK

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 137 (3.89%) Confluence
2 63 (1.79%) SharePoint
3 52 (1.48%) Apache Spark
4 47 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
5 41 (1.16%) Apache
6 38 (1.08%) CMS
7 36 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
8 35 (0.99%) nginx
9 33 (0.94%) IIS
10 11 (0.31%) JBoss
11 10 (0.28%) OpenStack
12 9 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 8 (0.23%) Site Server
14 7 (0.20%) Jupyter
14 7 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 6 (0.17%) ArcGIS
15 6 (0.17%) WebLogic
15 6 (0.17%) WebSphere
16 5 (0.14%) Appian
17 4 (0.11%) Drupal
Applications
1 34 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (0.54%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.11%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.085%) Trello
7 2 (0.057%) Gliffy
8 1 (0.028%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.028%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.028%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.028%) Simulink
8 1 (0.028%) Sketch
8 1 (0.028%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 71 (2.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (0.74%) Dynamics AX
3 20 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 16 (0.45%) Endur
6 14 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
7 11 (0.31%) Teamcenter
8 10 (0.28%) Shopify
9 8 (0.23%) NetSuite
9 8 (0.23%) Oracle EBS R12
10 7 (0.20%) Aladdin
10 7 (0.20%) SimCorp Dimension
10 7 (0.20%) Temenos T24
11 6 (0.17%) NEC Housing
11 6 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
11 6 (0.17%) SAP PM
12 4 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
13 3 (0.085%) BusinessWorks
13 3 (0.085%) Distributed Ledger
14 2 (0.057%) Front Arena
Cloud Services
1 1,731 (49.12%) Azure
2 1,041 (29.54%) Azure DevOps
3 1,014 (28.77%) AWS
4 313 (8.88%) GCP
5 278 (7.89%) Serverless
6 254 (7.21%) GitHub
7 213 (6.04%) Power Platform
8 155 (4.40%) Entra ID
9 147 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
10 146 (4.14%) Amazon S3
11 128 (3.63%) Azure Monitor
12 123 (3.49%) Azure Service Bus
13 119 (3.38%) AWS Lambda
14 116 (3.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 115 (3.26%) Amazon EC2
16 107 (3.04%) PaaS
17 103 (2.92%) AWS CloudFormation
18 99 (2.81%) Azure Functions
19 98 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
20 96 (2.72%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 214 (6.07%) Firewall
2 90 (2.55%) VPN
3 81 (2.30%) DNS
4 67 (1.90%) HTTP
5 41 (1.16%) Network Security
6 35 (0.99%) Intrusion Detection
7 34 (0.96%) Modbus
7 34 (0.96%) RS-422
7 34 (0.96%) RS-485
7 34 (0.96%) TCP/IP
8 32 (0.91%) DHCP
9 31 (0.88%) BGP
10 27 (0.77%) SSL
11 26 (0.74%) SNMP
12 22 (0.62%) HSRP
13 21 (0.60%) Internet
14 20 (0.57%) MPLS
15 19 (0.54%) IPv4
16 18 (0.51%) IPsec
17 17 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 370 (10.50%) SQL Server
2 154 (4.37%) Power BI
3 147 (4.17%) Data Lake
4 142 (4.03%) NoSQL
5 138 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
6 116 (3.29%) Relational Database
7 87 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
8 81 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
9 80 (2.27%) MySQL
10 74 (2.10%) MongoDB
11 72 (2.04%) Big Data
12 70 (1.99%) Azure SQL Database
13 69 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
14 48 (1.36%) Amazon Athena
15 44 (1.25%) Apache Cassandra
16 38 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
16 38 (1.08%) BigQuery
16 38 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 37 (1.05%) Tableau
18 35 (0.99%) Redis
Development Applications
1 473 (13.42%) Jenkins
2 457 (12.97%) Git
3 293 (8.31%) JIRA
4 262 (7.43%) GitLab
5 134 (3.80%) Selenium
6 81 (2.30%) SonarQube
7 76 (2.16%) Visual Studio
8 62 (1.76%) TeamCity
9 57 (1.62%) SpecFlow
10 55 (1.56%) Artifactory
11 53 (1.50%) Cucumber
12 47 (1.33%) Bitbucket
12 47 (1.33%) JUnit
13 46 (1.31%) Postman
14 34 (0.96%) Cypress.io
15 26 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
16 25 (0.71%) Maven
16 25 (0.71%) REST Assured
17 24 (0.68%) JMeter
18 23 (0.65%) GoogleTest
General
1 749 (21.25%) Social Skills
2 693 (19.67%) Finance
3 344 (9.76%) Public Sector
4 312 (8.85%) Analytical Skills
5 263 (7.46%) Banking
6 107 (3.04%) Retail
7 87 (2.47%) Front Office
8 59 (1.67%) Investment Banking
9 55 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
10 54 (1.53%) Telecoms
11 51 (1.45%) Back Office
12 48 (1.36%) Electronics
12 48 (1.36%) Marketing
13 45 (1.28%) Law
14 43 (1.22%) Legal
15 39 (1.11%) Manufacturing
16 31 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 26 (0.74%) General Ledger
18 23 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
19 19 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 754 (21.40%) Developer
2 681 (19.32%) DevOps Engineer
3 493 (13.99%) Senior
4 421 (11.95%) Architect
5 271 (7.69%) Lead
6 205 (5.82%) Azure Engineer
7 183 (5.19%) Senior Developer
8 182 (5.16%) Analyst
9 180 (5.11%) AWS Engineer
10 171 (4.85%) Software Engineer
11 143 (4.06%) AWS DevOps
12 142 (4.03%) Solutions Architect
13 129 (3.66%) Consultant
14 127 (3.60%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 113 (3.21%) .NET Developer
16 110 (3.12%) Data Engineer
17 104 (2.95%) Senior DevOps
18 100 (2.84%) Java Developer
19 98 (2.78%) Azure DevOps Engineer
20 93 (2.64%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 500 (14.19%) .NET
2 277 (7.86%) React
3 215 (6.10%) Kafka
4 203 (5.76%) XML
5 176 (4.99%) REST
6 164 (4.65%) HTML
7 159 (4.51%) .NET Core
8 158 (4.48%) Node.js
9 150 (4.26%) .NET Framework
10 144 (4.09%) AngularJS
11 139 (3.94%) CSS
12 126 (3.58%) RESTful
13 105 (2.98%) Spring Boot
14 102 (2.89%) JSON
15 95 (2.70%) ARM Templates
16 90 (2.55%) Spring
17 87 (2.47%) YAML
18 82 (2.33%) ASP.NET
19 73 (2.07%) Web Services
20 71 (2.01%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 225 (6.38%) Product Ownership
2 95 (2.70%) Public Cloud
3 93 (2.64%) Cloud Native
4 88 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
5 68 (1.93%) Data Structures
5 68 (1.93%) Distributed Systems
6 59 (1.67%) Mobile App
7 57 (1.62%) Derivative
8 55 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 55 (1.56%) Hedge funds
9 48 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
10 46 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
11 39 (1.11%) Onboarding
12 35 (0.99%) Management Information System
13 34 (0.96%) Fixed Income
13 34 (0.96%) PKI
14 33 (0.94%) Clustering
15 32 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
16 31 (0.88%) Algorithms
17 29 (0.82%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 429 (12.17%) Linux
2 281 (7.97%) Windows
3 135 (3.83%) Windows Server
4 97 (2.75%) Unix
5 78 (2.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 51 (1.45%) Apple iOS
7 50 (1.42%) Android
8 26 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
8 26 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
9 18 (0.51%) CentOS
10 10 (0.28%) Solaris
11 8 (0.23%) VMS
11 8 (0.23%) Windows 10
12 5 (0.14%) Alpine Linux
12 5 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
12 5 (0.14%) Ubuntu
13 4 (0.11%) AIX
14 1 (0.028%) Debian
14 1 (0.028%) VxWorks
14 1 (0.028%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,469 (41.69%) Agile
2 1,281 (36.35%) CI/CD
3 492 (13.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 446 (12.66%) Problem-Solving
5 444 (12.60%) Software Engineering
6 418 (11.86%) Scrum
7 403 (11.44%) Microservices
8 380 (10.78%) Test Automation
9 342 (9.70%) Containerisation
10 299 (8.48%) TDD
11 293 (8.31%) Continuous Integration
12 255 (7.24%) Migration
13 235 (6.67%) SDLC
14 234 (6.64%) Continuous Improvement
15 196 (5.56%) Full Stack Development
16 194 (5.51%) Analytics
17 193 (5.48%) Computer Science
18 190 (5.39%) Roadmaps
19 185 (5.25%) Unit Testing
20 184 (5.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 891 (25.28%) Python
2 611 (17.34%) C#
3 541 (15.35%) SQL
4 529 (15.01%) Java
5 471 (13.37%) PowerShell
6 357 (10.13%) JavaScript
7 236 (6.70%) TypeScript
8 208 (5.90%) Bash
9 168 (4.77%) Go
10 156 (4.43%) C++
11 155 (4.40%) Bicep
12 124 (3.52%) C
13 71 (2.01%) Shell Script
14 59 (1.67%) Scala
15 49 (1.39%) Ruby
15 49 (1.39%) T-SQL
16 44 (1.25%) Perl
17 36 (1.02%) VBScript
18 30 (0.85%) Groovy
19 29 (0.82%) VB
Qualifications
1 762 (21.62%) Security Cleared
2 521 (14.78%) SC Cleared
3 298 (8.46%) Degree
4 235 (6.67%) DV Cleared
5 127 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 66 (1.87%) AWS Certification
7 61 (1.73%) Azure Certification
8 43 (1.22%) Master's Degree
9 33 (0.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 27 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 25 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
12 23 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
13 21 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 19 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
14 19 (0.54%) PMP
15 16 (0.45%) CCNP
16 15 (0.43%) PMI Certification
17 13 (0.37%) CCNA
18 12 (0.34%) ISEB
19 11 (0.31%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 196 (5.56%) QA
2 50 (1.42%) Accessibility
3 45 (1.28%) GDPR
4 42 (1.19%) PCI DSS
5 38 (1.08%) Data Quality
6 34 (0.96%) NIST
7 29 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 28 (0.79%) WCAG
9 26 (0.74%) MISRA
10 23 (0.65%) SLA
11 16 (0.45%) PMO
12 12 (0.34%) HIPAA
13 10 (0.28%) NCSC
14 7 (0.20%) GRC
15 6 (0.17%) ISO 22301
16 5 (0.14%) ISO 9001
16 5 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 5 (0.14%) SOC 2
17 3 (0.085%) COBIT
17 3 (0.085%) Solvency II
System Software
1 576 (16.35%) Docker
2 249 (7.07%) Active Directory
3 65 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
4 63 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 26 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (0.43%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 14 (0.40%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.34%) Firmware
9 9 (0.26%) Hyper-V
10 7 (0.20%) vCloud
11 6 (0.17%) vSphere
12 4 (0.11%) NFS
12 4 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.085%) OpenAM
13 3 (0.085%) OpenIDM
14 2 (0.057%) HDFS
14 2 (0.057%) Squid
15 1 (0.028%) Ceph
15 1 (0.028%) KVM
15 1 (0.028%) LXC
Systems Management
1 828 (23.50%) Terraform
2 807 (22.90%) Kubernetes
3 408 (11.58%) Ansible
4 157 (4.46%) Prometheus
5 144 (4.09%) Grafana
6 91 (2.58%) Puppet
7 74 (2.10%) Progress Chef
8 47 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
9 40 (1.14%) Docker Swarm
10 38 (1.08%) Kibana
11 36 (1.02%) Istio
12 32 (0.91%) SCOM
13 31 (0.88%) SCCM
14 29 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
14 29 (0.82%) Packer
15 26 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 26 (0.74%) Argo
16 23 (0.65%) Consul
17 22 (0.62%) WSUS
18 21 (0.60%) Rancher
Vendors
1 666 (18.90%) Microsoft
2 216 (6.13%) Oracle
3 131 (3.72%) Google
4 101 (2.87%) Splunk
5 86 (2.44%) Databricks
6 83 (2.36%) VMware
7 72 (2.04%) SAP
8 69 (1.96%) Salesforce
9 59 (1.67%) ServiceNow
10 48 (1.36%) Cisco
10 48 (1.36%) Red Hat
11 45 (1.28%) IBM
12 41 (1.16%) Dynatrace
13 31 (0.88%) Citrix
13 31 (0.88%) F5
14 29 (0.82%) CyberArk
14 29 (0.82%) Palo Alto
15 24 (0.68%) Adobe
15 24 (0.68%) Informatica
16 22 (0.62%) Fortinet