DevOps Contracts

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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 11 7
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,081 6,414 11,574
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 9.48% 11.44% 13.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.09% 12.76% 14.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,827 4,670 8,285
10th Percentile £400 £425 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £587 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.30% +2.09% +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £688
90th Percentile £739 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 106 74
10th Percentile £56.35 £51.85 £35.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £60.91 £44.00
Median hourly rate £65.50 £65.50 £63.60
Median % change year-on-year - +2.99% +38.26%
75th Percentile £76.25 £75.50 £73.94
90th Percentile £86.46 £79.35 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.50 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year - +0.77% +23.81%

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 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 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
England -3 3,478 £550 -8.33% 1,617
London -1 2,005 £575 -4.17% 714
UK excluding London -6 1,564 £525 -4.55% 974
Work from Home -4 1,558 £550 -4.35% 934
South East -4 457 £568 -2.99% 205
North of England -1 433 £513 -6.82% 268
South West -10 247 £550 -8.33% 137
North West -3 234 £525 - 159
Yorkshire +6 183 £495 -17.50% 79
Scotland -12 176 £475 -5.00% 82
Midlands -8 148 £525 -0.94% 174
West Midlands -14 102 £525 -8.70% 129
East of England -13 97 £534 -7.13% 67
East Midlands -15 39 £450 +5.88% 45
North East -6 20 £525 -12.50% 30
Wales -14 20 £538 -8.28% 25
Northern Ireland +7 13 £575 -4.17% 27
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
1 162 (3.97%) Confluence
2 73 (1.79%) SharePoint
3 68 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
4 52 (1.27%) Apache Spark
5 51 (1.25%) Apache
6 43 (1.05%) CMS
7 39 (0.96%) nginx
8 38 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
9 36 (0.88%) IIS
10 15 (0.37%) JBoss
11 12 (0.29%) OpenStack
12 9 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 8 (0.20%) ArcGIS
13 8 (0.20%) Jupyter
13 8 (0.20%) Kentico
13 8 (0.20%) Site Server
14 7 (0.17%) Headless CMS
14 7 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 7 (0.17%) WebLogic
15 6 (0.15%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 37 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (0.56%) MS Visio
4 13 (0.32%) Chatbot
5 11 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.22%) Trello
7 5 (0.12%) CPLEX
7 5 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 2 (0.049%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.025%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.025%) Simulink
9 1 (0.025%) Sketch
9 1 (0.025%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 67 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (0.66%) Dynamics AX
3 19 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 15 (0.37%) Endur
6 14 (0.34%) Maximo
6 14 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
7 12 (0.29%) NetSuite
8 11 (0.27%) Teamcenter
9 9 (0.22%) Shopify
10 8 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
11 7 (0.17%) Aladdin
11 7 (0.17%) NEC Housing
11 7 (0.17%) SimCorp Dimension
11 7 (0.17%) Temenos T24
12 6 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
12 6 (0.15%) SAP PM
13 5 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
14 4 (0.098%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
15 3 (0.074%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2,036 (49.89%) Azure
2 1,223 (29.97%) AWS
3 1,216 (29.80%) Azure DevOps
4 372 (9.12%) GCP
5 330 (8.09%) GitHub
6 316 (7.74%) Serverless
7 244 (5.98%) Power Platform
8 175 (4.29%) Amazon S3
9 173 (4.24%) Entra ID
10 151 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
11 148 (3.63%) AWS Lambda
12 140 (3.43%) Azure Monitor
13 139 (3.41%) PaaS
14 138 (3.38%) AWS CloudFormation
15 137 (3.36%) Amazon EC2
15 137 (3.36%) OpenShift
16 134 (3.28%) Azure Service Bus
17 120 (2.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 114 (2.79%) Microsoft 365
19 105 (2.57%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 227 (5.56%) Firewall
2 96 (2.35%) VPN
3 85 (2.08%) DNS
4 73 (1.79%) HTTP
5 54 (1.32%) Network Security
6 44 (1.08%) TCP/IP
7 34 (0.83%) DHCP
7 34 (0.83%) Intrusion Detection
7 34 (0.83%) Modbus
7 34 (0.83%) RS-422
7 34 (0.83%) RS-485
8 33 (0.81%) BGP
9 29 (0.71%) SSL
10 27 (0.66%) SNMP
11 22 (0.54%) HSRP
11 22 (0.54%) Internet
11 22 (0.54%) MPLS
12 19 (0.47%) IPv4
13 18 (0.44%) IPsec
13 18 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 394 (9.65%) SQL Server
2 181 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
3 179 (4.39%) Power BI
4 154 (3.77%) Data Lake
5 151 (3.70%) NoSQL
6 135 (3.31%) Relational Database
7 109 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
8 96 (2.35%) MySQL
9 94 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
10 89 (2.18%) Elasticsearch
11 83 (2.03%) Azure SQL Database
12 81 (1.98%) Big Data
13 78 (1.91%) MongoDB
14 48 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
15 46 (1.13%) Apache Cassandra
15 46 (1.13%) Oracle Database
16 42 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
16 42 (1.03%) BigQuery
17 40 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 40 (0.98%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 538 (13.18%) Git
1 538 (13.18%) Jenkins
2 353 (8.65%) JIRA
3 300 (7.35%) GitLab
4 154 (3.77%) Selenium
5 95 (2.33%) SonarQube
6 77 (1.89%) Visual Studio
7 73 (1.79%) TeamCity
8 62 (1.52%) Artifactory
9 60 (1.47%) Cucumber
9 60 (1.47%) SpecFlow
10 54 (1.32%) Bitbucket
11 50 (1.23%) Postman
12 48 (1.18%) JUnit
13 43 (1.05%) Cypress.io
14 37 (0.91%) Maven
15 30 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
16 29 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 27 (0.66%) REST Assured
18 25 (0.61%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 864 (21.17%) Social Skills
2 762 (18.67%) Finance
3 437 (10.71%) Public Sector
4 341 (8.36%) Analytical Skills
5 304 (7.45%) Banking
6 117 (2.87%) Retail
7 89 (2.18%) Front Office
8 74 (1.81%) Telecoms
9 61 (1.49%) Investment Banking
9 61 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
10 57 (1.40%) Marketing
11 54 (1.32%) Electronics
12 51 (1.25%) Back Office
13 46 (1.13%) Law
13 46 (1.13%) Legal
14 45 (1.10%) Manufacturing
15 33 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
16 32 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 27 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
17 27 (0.66%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 849 (20.80%) Developer
2 790 (19.36%) DevOps Engineer
3 529 (12.96%) Senior
4 484 (11.86%) Architect
5 300 (7.35%) Lead
6 242 (5.93%) Azure Engineer
7 225 (5.51%) AWS Engineer
8 215 (5.27%) Analyst
9 187 (4.58%) Senior Developer
10 176 (4.31%) Software Engineer
11 173 (4.24%) Solutions Architect
12 168 (4.12%) AWS DevOps
13 156 (3.82%) Consultant
14 151 (3.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 145 (3.55%) Data Engineer
16 136 (3.33%) .NET Developer
17 120 (2.94%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 116 (2.84%) Java Developer
18 116 (2.84%) Senior DevOps
19 109 (2.67%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 556 (13.62%) .NET
2 322 (7.89%) React
3 226 (5.54%) Kafka
4 222 (5.44%) REST
5 211 (5.17%) XML
6 179 (4.39%) HTML
7 176 (4.31%) .NET Core
8 175 (4.29%) Node.js
9 170 (4.17%) AngularJS
10 165 (4.04%) CSS
11 159 (3.90%) .NET Framework
12 143 (3.50%) RESTful
13 127 (3.11%) Spring Boot
14 113 (2.77%) ARM Templates
14 113 (2.77%) Spring
15 111 (2.72%) JSON
16 96 (2.35%) YAML
17 90 (2.21%) Web Services
18 85 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
19 83 (2.03%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 255 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 108 (2.65%) Public Cloud
3 101 (2.47%) Cloud Native
4 89 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
5 75 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
6 67 (1.64%) Data Structures
7 65 (1.59%) Mobile App
8 63 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
9 60 (1.47%) Derivative
9 60 (1.47%) Onboarding
10 57 (1.40%) Hedge funds
11 56 (1.37%) Management Information System
12 54 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 42 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
14 40 (0.98%) PKI
15 38 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
16 37 (0.91%) Fixed Income
17 36 (0.88%) Clustering
18 32 (0.78%) Data Centre
18 32 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 491 (12.03%) Linux
2 332 (8.14%) Windows
3 149 (3.65%) Windows Server
4 114 (2.79%) Unix
5 89 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 55 (1.35%) Apple iOS
7 53 (1.30%) Android
8 28 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
9 26 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
10 21 (0.51%) CentOS
11 14 (0.34%) AIX
12 12 (0.29%) Solaris
12 12 (0.29%) Ubuntu
12 12 (0.29%) VMS
13 10 (0.25%) Windows 10
14 6 (0.15%) Mac OS
15 5 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
15 5 (0.12%) Oracle Linux
16 2 (0.049%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.049%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,704 (41.75%) Agile
2 1,441 (35.31%) CI/CD
3 571 (13.99%) Infrastructure as Code
4 518 (12.69%) Problem-Solving
5 479 (11.74%) Test Automation
6 477 (11.69%) Scrum
7 474 (11.61%) Software Engineering
8 443 (10.86%) Microservices
9 396 (9.70%) Containerisation
10 328 (8.04%) Continuous Integration
10 328 (8.04%) TDD
11 313 (7.67%) Migration
12 263 (6.44%) Continuous Improvement
13 259 (6.35%) SDLC
14 240 (5.88%) Analytics
15 238 (5.83%) Computer Science
16 224 (5.49%) Full Stack Development
17 217 (5.32%) Roadmaps
18 212 (5.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 211 (5.17%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1,042 (25.53%) Python
2 668 (16.37%) C#
3 634 (15.54%) SQL
4 590 (14.46%) Java
5 505 (12.37%) PowerShell
6 415 (10.17%) JavaScript
7 258 (6.32%) TypeScript
8 237 (5.81%) Bash
9 180 (4.41%) Go
10 162 (3.97%) Bicep
11 149 (3.65%) C++
12 128 (3.14%) C
13 91 (2.23%) Shell Script
14 71 (1.74%) Scala
15 66 (1.62%) Perl
16 62 (1.52%) Ruby
17 50 (1.23%) T-SQL
18 38 (0.93%) VBScript
19 33 (0.81%) VB
20 32 (0.78%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 860 (21.07%) Security Cleared
2 598 (14.65%) SC Cleared
3 346 (8.48%) Degree
4 252 (6.17%) DV Cleared
5 153 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 75 (1.84%) Azure Certification
7 69 (1.69%) AWS Certification
8 55 (1.35%) Master's Degree
9 41 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
10 34 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
11 30 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 30 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
12 28 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 21 (0.51%) CCNP
13 21 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 20 (0.49%) PMP
15 19 (0.47%) CISSP
16 16 (0.39%) ISEB
16 16 (0.39%) ISTQB
16 16 (0.39%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 232 (5.68%) QA
2 67 (1.64%) Accessibility
3 55 (1.35%) GDPR
4 50 (1.23%) PCI DSS
5 40 (0.98%) Data Quality
6 38 (0.93%) NIST
7 31 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 30 (0.74%) WCAG
9 27 (0.66%) NCSC
10 23 (0.56%) PMO
10 23 (0.56%) SLA
11 20 (0.49%) MISRA
12 17 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
12 17 (0.42%) HIPAA
13 10 (0.25%) SOC 2
14 7 (0.17%) GRC
14 7 (0.17%) ISO 9001
15 6 (0.15%) ISO 22301
16 5 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 4 (0.098%) PSD2
System Software
1 659 (16.15%) Docker
2 257 (6.30%) Active Directory
3 71 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 70 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
5 27 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
6 16 (0.39%) VMware NSX
7 15 (0.37%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 12 (0.29%) Firmware
9 10 (0.25%) Hyper-V
10 9 (0.22%) vCloud
11 8 (0.20%) vSphere
12 6 (0.15%) NFS
12 6 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
13 5 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
14 3 (0.074%) LXC
14 3 (0.074%) OpenAM
14 3 (0.074%) OpenIDM
15 2 (0.049%) HDFS
15 2 (0.049%) KVM
15 2 (0.049%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 931 (22.81%) Terraform
2 915 (22.42%) Kubernetes
3 459 (11.25%) Ansible
4 186 (4.56%) Grafana
5 181 (4.44%) Prometheus
6 105 (2.57%) Puppet
7 83 (2.03%) Progress Chef
8 50 (1.23%) Kibana
9 48 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
10 40 (0.98%) Docker Swarm
11 39 (0.96%) SCCM
12 38 (0.93%) Istio
13 37 (0.91%) Packer
14 35 (0.86%) SCOM
15 33 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
16 28 (0.69%) Argo
17 27 (0.66%) Consul
18 26 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
19 22 (0.54%) WSUS
20 21 (0.51%) Rancher
Vendors
1 744 (18.23%) Microsoft
2 256 (6.27%) Oracle
3 148 (3.63%) Google
4 134 (3.28%) Splunk
5 111 (2.72%) Databricks
6 99 (2.43%) VMware
7 88 (2.16%) SAP
8 76 (1.86%) Salesforce
9 75 (1.84%) ServiceNow
10 60 (1.47%) Cisco
11 53 (1.30%) IBM
11 53 (1.30%) Red Hat
12 49 (1.20%) Dynatrace
13 41 (1.00%) CyberArk
14 34 (0.83%) Citrix
14 34 (0.83%) F5
15 32 (0.78%) Palo Alto
16 30 (0.74%) Informatica
17 26 (0.64%) Adobe
18 25 (0.61%) Atlassian