Senior DevOps Engineer Contracts

Senior Development Operations Engineer
UK

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the UK is £650 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 492 550 618
Rank change year-on-year +58 +68 -87
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 83 132 224
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.24% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.25% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 112 179
10th Percentile £513 £525 £510
25th Percentile £566 £597 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £760 £700 £705
90th Percentile £1,000 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £643 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -1.15% +8.33% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £73.50 - -
75th Percentile £74.44 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.44 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 39,969 53,015 83,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,870 37,031 58,844
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,476 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.33
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.13 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK

Senior DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK

Senior DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK

Senior DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK

Senior DevOps Engineer
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior DevOps Engineer 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 +39 67 £650 - 55
London +73 42 £650 - 29
Work from Home +88 40 £643 +2.80% 32
UK excluding London +17 22 £643 -1.15% 32
North West +22 9 £600 -7.69% 7
North of England +15 9 £600 -14.29% 11
South East +12 7 £650 -5.45% 4
South West +2 6 £625 -7.41% 4
Wales - 2 £821 -

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Senior 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 job ads featuring Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 83 (100.00%) DevOps
2 50 (60.24%) Terraform
3 44 (53.01%) Kubernetes
4 43 (51.81%) AWS
5 38 (45.78%) Python
6 37 (44.58%) Security Cleared
6 37 (44.58%) CI/CD
7 33 (39.76%) Azure
8 29 (34.94%) Docker
9 27 (32.53%) SC Cleared
10 26 (31.33%) Ansible
11 20 (24.10%) Infrastructure as Code
11 20 (24.10%) Jenkins
12 18 (21.69%) Bash
13 17 (20.48%) PowerShell
14 16 (19.28%) Git
14 16 (19.28%) Banking
15 15 (18.07%) Linux
16 14 (16.87%) Agile
16 14 (16.87%) GitHub
16 14 (16.87%) Public Sector
17 13 (15.66%) Grafana
18 12 (14.46%) Problem-Solving
18 12 (14.46%) Test Automation
18 12 (14.46%) Configuration Management
18 12 (14.46%) Containerisation
19 11 (13.25%) Windows
19 11 (13.25%) Prometheus
19 11 (13.25%) GitHub Actions
19 11 (13.25%) SDLC

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
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 4 (4.82%) Confluence
2 2 (2.41%) Apache
2 2 (2.41%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.20%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 4 (4.82%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 43 (51.81%) AWS
2 33 (39.76%) Azure
3 14 (16.87%) GitHub
4 11 (13.25%) GitHub Actions
4 11 (13.25%) OpenShift
5 10 (12.05%) AWS CloudFormation
5 10 (12.05%) PaaS
6 9 (10.84%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (7.23%) GCP
7 6 (7.23%) Serverless
8 5 (6.02%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (6.02%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (4.82%) Amazon S3
9 4 (4.82%) Miro
9 4 (4.82%) OCI
9 4 (4.82%) SaaS
10 3 (3.61%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (2.41%) Amazon SageMaker
11 2 (2.41%) Azure Storage
11 2 (2.41%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.82%) Firewall
2 2 (2.41%) Network Security
3 1 (1.20%) DNS
3 1 (1.20%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.64%) Elasticsearch
1 8 (9.64%) SQL Server
2 7 (8.43%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.61%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.41%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.41%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.41%) Redis
5 1 (1.20%) Big Data
5 1 (1.20%) MySQL
5 1 (1.20%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.20%) QGIS
5 1 (1.20%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 20 (24.10%) Jenkins
2 16 (19.28%) Git
3 11 (13.25%) GitLab
4 9 (10.84%) TeamCity
5 5 (6.02%) Artifactory
5 5 (6.02%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.41%) JIRA
6 2 (2.41%) Selenium
6 2 (2.41%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.20%) Apache Continuum
7 1 (1.20%) Burp Suite
7 1 (1.20%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.20%) Jaeger
7 1 (1.20%) Snyk
General
1 16 (19.28%) Banking
2 14 (16.87%) Public Sector
3 10 (12.05%) Investment Banking
4 9 (10.84%) Finance
5 7 (8.43%) Social Skills
6 1 (1.20%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.20%) Electronics
6 1 (1.20%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.20%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.20%) Marketing
6 1 (1.20%) Tech for Good
6 1 (1.20%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.84%) Kafka
2 7 (8.43%) .NET
3 5 (6.02%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (6.02%) WCF
3 5 (6.02%) WinForms
4 4 (4.82%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (3.61%) ARM Templates
5 3 (3.61%) Node.js
6 2 (2.41%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (2.41%) Fluent Bit
6 2 (2.41%) Loki
6 2 (2.41%) pytest
6 2 (2.41%) REST
6 2 (2.41%) YAML
7 1 (1.20%) JSON
7 1 (1.20%) PyTorch
7 1 (1.20%) React
7 1 (1.20%) RESTful
7 1 (1.20%) SailPoint
7 1 (1.20%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.05%) Product Ownership
2 7 (8.43%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (8.43%) Public Cloud
3 5 (6.02%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.61%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.41%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.41%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.20%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.20%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 15 (18.07%) Linux
2 11 (13.25%) Windows
3 8 (9.64%) Unix
4 3 (3.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.41%) Alpine Linux
5 2 (2.41%) Android
5 2 (2.41%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.20%) VMS
6 1 (1.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (100.00%) DevOps
2 37 (44.58%) CI/CD
3 20 (24.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (16.87%) Agile
5 12 (14.46%) Configuration Management
5 12 (14.46%) Containerisation
5 12 (14.46%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (14.46%) Test Automation
6 11 (13.25%) SDLC
7 10 (12.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (12.05%) Open Source
7 10 (12.05%) Roadmaps
8 9 (10.84%) Migration
9 8 (9.64%) Mentoring
9 8 (9.64%) Observability
9 8 (9.64%) Service Catalogue
10 7 (8.43%) Platform Engineering
11 6 (7.23%) Software Engineering
12 5 (6.02%) GitOps
12 5 (6.02%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 38 (45.78%) Python
2 18 (21.69%) Bash
3 17 (20.48%) PowerShell
4 9 (10.84%) Go
4 9 (10.84%) TypeScript
5 8 (9.64%) SQL
6 6 (7.23%) C#
7 3 (3.61%) Java
7 3 (3.61%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.41%) Bicep
8 2 (2.41%) C++
9 1 (1.20%) C
9 1 (1.20%) Groovy
9 1 (1.20%) Perl
9 1 (1.20%) PHP
9 1 (1.20%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 37 (44.58%) Security Cleared
2 27 (32.53%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.43%) Degree
3 7 (8.43%) DV Cleared
4 5 (6.02%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.61%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.20%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.41%) QA
2 1 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.20%) NIST
2 1 (1.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (34.94%) Docker
2 5 (6.02%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.61%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.20%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 50 (60.24%) Terraform
2 44 (53.01%) Kubernetes
3 26 (31.33%) Ansible
4 13 (15.66%) Grafana
5 11 (13.25%) Prometheus
6 4 (4.82%) Argo
6 4 (4.82%) Puppet
7 3 (3.61%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.41%) Kustomize
8 2 (2.41%) Nagios
9 1 (1.20%) Graylog
9 1 (1.20%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (8.43%) Splunk
2 5 (6.02%) Oracle
3 4 (4.82%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.61%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.41%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.41%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.41%) VMware
6 1 (1.20%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.20%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.20%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.20%) Google
6 1 (1.20%) Guidewire
6 1 (1.20%) New Relic
6 1 (1.20%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.20%) SAP
6 1 (1.20%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.20%) Sun
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