DevOps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 11 7
Rank change year-on-year -5 -4 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,009 6,707 11,565
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 9.42% 11.78% 13.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.93% 13.12% 14.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,765 4,896 8,312
10th Percentile £400 £425 £423
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% +1.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 102 79
10th Percentile £56.25 £48.53 £35.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £60.91 £44.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +13.91% +27.78%
75th Percentile £77.50 £71.20 £66.38
90th Percentile £87.05 £79.19 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £59.83
% change year-on-year -0.76% +9.49% +16.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Top 18 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the UK over the 6 months to 18 May 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
England -3 3,411 £550 -8.33% 1,748
London -1 1,959 £573 -4.58% 754
Work from Home -4 1,555 £550 -4.35% 1,058
UK excluding London -7 1,528 £525 -4.55% 1,188
South East -1 448 £550 -5.50% 335
North of England +1 422 £515 -6.36% 295
North West -2 241 £525 -2.78% 172
South West -12 233 £550 -8.33% 157
Scotland -13 173 £475 -4.52% 65
Yorkshire +3 167 £491 -18.13% 95
Midlands -10 138 £475 -11.38% 208
East of England -13 98 £534 -2.91% 72
West Midlands -14 92 £518 -11.91% 153
East Midlands -13 40 £450 +5.88% 54
Wales -13 20 £538 -8.04% 43
North East -8 18 £525 -12.50% 28
Northern Ireland +6 11 £575 -4.17% 29
Isle of Man - 2 £388 -

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 174 (4.34%) Confluence
2 74 (1.85%) SharePoint
3 61 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
4 50 (1.25%) Apache
5 49 (1.22%) Apache Spark
6 43 (1.07%) CMS
7 42 (1.05%) nginx
8 36 (0.90%) IIS
9 35 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
10 16 (0.40%) OpenStack
11 15 (0.37%) JBoss
12 9 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 8 (0.20%) Kentico
13 8 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 8 (0.20%) Site Server
14 7 (0.17%) ArcGIS
14 7 (0.17%) Headless CMS
14 7 (0.17%) Jupyter
14 7 (0.17%) WebLogic
15 6 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 37 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (0.57%) MS Visio
4 13 (0.32%) Chatbot
5 12 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.22%) Trello
7 5 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 4 (0.100%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.050%) Sketch
10 1 (0.025%) Gliffy
10 1 (0.025%) InVision
10 1 (0.025%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.025%) Simulink
10 1 (0.025%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 67 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (0.67%) Dynamics AX
3 20 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 15 (0.37%) Endur
6 14 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
7 12 (0.30%) NetSuite
8 11 (0.27%) Teamcenter
9 9 (0.22%) Maximo
9 9 (0.22%) Shopify
10 8 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
11 7 (0.17%) NEC Housing
11 7 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
11 7 (0.17%) SAP PM
11 7 (0.17%) Temenos T24
12 6 (0.15%) Aladdin
12 6 (0.15%) SimCorp Dimension
13 5 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
14 4 (0.100%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
15 3 (0.075%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2,032 (50.69%) Azure
2 1,215 (30.31%) AWS
3 1,201 (29.96%) Azure DevOps
4 367 (9.15%) GCP
5 328 (8.18%) Serverless
6 315 (7.86%) GitHub
7 246 (6.14%) Power Platform
8 170 (4.24%) Amazon S3
9 160 (3.99%) Entra ID
10 151 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
11 145 (3.62%) Dynamics 365
12 144 (3.59%) PaaS
13 139 (3.47%) Azure Service Bus
14 137 (3.42%) Amazon EC2
15 136 (3.39%) Azure Monitor
16 134 (3.34%) AWS CloudFormation
17 130 (3.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 130 (3.24%) OpenShift
18 113 (2.82%) Azure Data Factory
19 110 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 225 (5.61%) Firewall
2 101 (2.52%) VPN
3 99 (2.47%) DNS
4 74 (1.85%) HTTP
5 59 (1.47%) Network Security
6 51 (1.27%) TCP/IP
7 37 (0.92%) BGP
8 35 (0.87%) DHCP
8 35 (0.87%) Modbus
8 35 (0.87%) RS-422
8 35 (0.87%) RS-485
9 34 (0.85%) Intrusion Detection
10 31 (0.77%) SNMP
11 28 (0.70%) SSL
12 26 (0.65%) HSRP
12 26 (0.65%) MPLS
13 24 (0.60%) Internet
14 23 (0.57%) IPv4
15 18 (0.45%) IPsec
15 18 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 406 (10.13%) SQL Server
2 185 (4.61%) Power BI
3 182 (4.54%) PostgreSQL
4 151 (3.77%) Data Lake
4 151 (3.77%) NoSQL
5 135 (3.37%) Relational Database
6 109 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
7 96 (2.39%) MySQL
8 95 (2.37%) Amazon RDS
9 87 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
10 83 (2.07%) MongoDB
11 82 (2.05%) Azure SQL Database
12 77 (1.92%) Big Data
13 48 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
14 47 (1.17%) Oracle Database
15 43 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
16 42 (1.05%) Apache Cassandra
16 42 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 39 (0.97%) Tableau
18 38 (0.95%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 531 (13.25%) Git
2 518 (12.92%) Jenkins
3 362 (9.03%) JIRA
4 284 (7.08%) GitLab
5 138 (3.44%) Selenium
6 93 (2.32%) SonarQube
7 78 (1.95%) Visual Studio
8 73 (1.82%) TeamCity
9 60 (1.50%) Artifactory
10 59 (1.47%) Cucumber
11 58 (1.45%) SpecFlow
12 56 (1.40%) Bitbucket
13 45 (1.12%) JUnit
14 43 (1.07%) Postman
15 39 (0.97%) Cypress.io
16 36 (0.90%) Maven
17 29 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 29 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
18 27 (0.67%) REST Assured
19 24 (0.60%) WebDriver
General
1 872 (21.75%) Social Skills
2 761 (18.98%) Finance
3 434 (10.83%) Public Sector
4 331 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
5 281 (7.01%) Banking
6 115 (2.87%) Retail
7 90 (2.24%) Front Office
8 74 (1.85%) Telecoms
9 73 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
10 63 (1.57%) Marketing
11 58 (1.45%) Electronics
12 56 (1.40%) Investment Banking
13 52 (1.30%) Back Office
14 46 (1.15%) Manufacturing
15 45 (1.12%) Law
15 45 (1.12%) Legal
16 35 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
17 32 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 28 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
19 27 (0.67%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 828 (20.65%) Developer
2 773 (19.28%) DevOps Engineer
3 524 (13.07%) Senior
4 473 (11.80%) Architect
5 307 (7.66%) Lead
6 245 (6.11%) Azure Engineer
7 222 (5.54%) AWS Engineer
8 212 (5.29%) Analyst
9 186 (4.64%) Senior Developer
10 171 (4.27%) Software Engineer
11 169 (4.22%) Solutions Architect
12 165 (4.12%) AWS DevOps
13 159 (3.97%) Consultant
14 147 (3.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 140 (3.49%) Data Engineer
16 133 (3.32%) .NET Developer
17 120 (2.99%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 110 (2.74%) Java Developer
19 107 (2.67%) Senior DevOps
20 106 (2.64%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 560 (13.97%) .NET
2 315 (7.86%) React
3 220 (5.49%) REST
4 218 (5.44%) XML
5 213 (5.31%) Kafka
6 179 (4.46%) .NET Core
7 174 (4.34%) Node.js
8 172 (4.29%) HTML
9 168 (4.19%) AngularJS
10 159 (3.97%) CSS
11 153 (3.82%) .NET Framework
12 129 (3.22%) RESTful
13 126 (3.14%) JSON
14 110 (2.74%) Spring Boot
15 107 (2.67%) ARM Templates
16 105 (2.62%) Spring
17 92 (2.29%) YAML
18 88 (2.20%) Web Services
19 85 (2.12%) ASP.NET
20 82 (2.05%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 245 (6.11%) Product Ownership
2 109 (2.72%) Public Cloud
3 104 (2.59%) Cloud Native
4 81 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
5 77 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
6 67 (1.67%) Data Structures
7 61 (1.52%) Derivative
7 61 (1.52%) Onboarding
8 60 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
8 60 (1.50%) Mobile App
9 56 (1.40%) Management Information System
10 54 (1.35%) Hedge funds
11 53 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 41 (1.02%) Data Centre
13 40 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
14 39 (0.97%) PKI
15 38 (0.95%) Fixed Income
15 38 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
16 35 (0.87%) Clustering
16 35 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 474 (11.82%) Linux
2 338 (8.43%) Windows
3 150 (3.74%) Windows Server
4 107 (2.67%) Unix
5 69 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 52 (1.30%) Android
6 52 (1.30%) Apple iOS
7 25 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
8 24 (0.60%) CentOS
9 23 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
10 15 (0.37%) Ubuntu
11 14 (0.35%) AIX
11 14 (0.35%) VMS
12 13 (0.32%) Solaris
13 11 (0.27%) Windows 10
14 7 (0.17%) Mac OS
15 6 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
16 5 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
17 3 (0.075%) Debian
18 2 (0.050%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,690 (42.16%) Agile
2 1,417 (35.35%) CI/CD
3 527 (13.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 516 (12.87%) Problem-Solving
5 479 (11.95%) Scrum
6 470 (11.72%) Software Engineering
6 470 (11.72%) Test Automation
7 420 (10.48%) Microservices
8 369 (9.20%) Containerisation
9 327 (8.16%) Continuous Integration
10 323 (8.06%) TDD
11 312 (7.78%) Migration
12 266 (6.64%) SDLC
13 254 (6.34%) Continuous Improvement
14 236 (5.89%) Analytics
15 228 (5.69%) Computer Science
16 220 (5.49%) Business Intelligence
17 216 (5.39%) Full Stack Development
18 206 (5.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 203 (5.06%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,033 (25.77%) Python
2 678 (16.91%) C#
3 644 (16.06%) SQL
4 552 (13.77%) Java
5 489 (12.20%) PowerShell
6 405 (10.10%) JavaScript
7 257 (6.41%) TypeScript
8 225 (5.61%) Bash
9 168 (4.19%) Go
10 160 (3.99%) Bicep
11 134 (3.34%) C++
12 121 (3.02%) C
13 89 (2.22%) Shell Script
14 71 (1.77%) Perl
15 68 (1.70%) Scala
16 59 (1.47%) Ruby
17 47 (1.17%) T-SQL
18 34 (0.85%) VBScript
19 30 (0.75%) PHP
20 29 (0.72%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 819 (20.43%) Security Cleared
2 574 (14.32%) SC Cleared
3 335 (8.36%) Degree
4 236 (5.89%) DV Cleared
5 148 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 70 (1.75%) AWS Certification
7 69 (1.72%) Azure Certification
8 53 (1.32%) Master's Degree
9 42 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
10 35 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
11 31 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 28 (0.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 28 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
13 22 (0.55%) PMP
14 21 (0.52%) CCNP
15 19 (0.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 18 (0.45%) CISSP
16 18 (0.45%) PMI Certification
17 17 (0.42%) ISTQB
18 16 (0.40%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 235 (5.86%) QA
2 64 (1.60%) Accessibility
3 54 (1.35%) GDPR
4 47 (1.17%) PCI DSS
5 39 (0.97%) Data Quality
6 38 (0.95%) NIST
7 35 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 30 (0.75%) WCAG
9 28 (0.70%) NCSC
10 24 (0.60%) PMO
10 24 (0.60%) SLA
11 17 (0.42%) HIPAA
12 16 (0.40%) MISRA
13 15 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
14 10 (0.25%) SOC 2
15 7 (0.17%) ISO 9001
16 6 (0.15%) GRC
16 6 (0.15%) ISO 22301
16 6 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 4 (0.100%) PSD2
System Software
1 633 (15.79%) Docker
2 249 (6.21%) Active Directory
3 68 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
3 68 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
5 17 (0.42%) VMware NSX
6 15 (0.37%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 12 (0.30%) Firmware
8 11 (0.27%) Hyper-V
9 9 (0.22%) vCloud
9 9 (0.22%) vSphere
10 8 (0.20%) NFS
11 6 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
12 5 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.075%) LXC
13 3 (0.075%) OpenAM
13 3 (0.075%) OpenIDM
13 3 (0.075%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.050%) HDFS
14 2 (0.050%) KVM
Systems Management
1 887 (22.13%) Terraform
2 873 (21.78%) Kubernetes
3 438 (10.93%) Ansible
4 178 (4.44%) Grafana
5 176 (4.39%) Prometheus
6 96 (2.39%) Puppet
7 81 (2.02%) Progress Chef
8 48 (1.20%) Kibana
8 48 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
9 40 (1.00%) Docker Swarm
10 38 (0.95%) SCCM
11 37 (0.92%) Istio
12 34 (0.85%) SCOM
13 33 (0.82%) Packer
14 30 (0.75%) Consul
14 30 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
15 27 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 27 (0.67%) Argo
16 19 (0.47%) ITRS Geneos
16 19 (0.47%) WSUS
Vendors
1 745 (18.58%) Microsoft
2 263 (6.56%) Oracle
3 136 (3.39%) Google
4 131 (3.27%) Splunk
5 120 (2.99%) Databricks
6 104 (2.59%) VMware
7 101 (2.52%) SAP
8 78 (1.95%) ServiceNow
9 75 (1.87%) Salesforce
10 62 (1.55%) Cisco
11 53 (1.32%) IBM
12 49 (1.22%) Dynatrace
13 43 (1.07%) CyberArk
14 39 (0.97%) Red Hat
15 36 (0.90%) Citrix
16 34 (0.85%) F5
17 30 (0.75%) Palo Alto
18 29 (0.72%) Adobe
19 27 (0.67%) Informatica
20 23 (0.57%) Nokia