Senior DevOps Contracts

Senior Development Operations
UK

The median Senior Development Operations daily rate in the UK is £625 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 459 529 570
Rank change year-on-year +70 +41 -61
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 116 154 279
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.27% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.29% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 121 224
10th Percentile £509 £519 £500
25th Percentile £550 £575 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £738
90th Percentile £775 £738 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +15.38%
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
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps in the UK

Senior DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior DevOps in the UK

Senior DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior DevOps in the UK

Senior DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior DevOps in the UK

Senior DevOps
Top 11 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 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 +53 97 £600 -7.69% 60
London +81 57 £650 - 32
Work from Home +95 56 £631 +1.00% 34
UK excluding London +20 34 £625 -3.85% 34
South East +17 14 £600 -12.73% 4
North West +23 12 £663 +1.92% 7
North of England +16 12 £663 -5.36% 11
South West +2 7 £625 -7.41% 5
Wales - 2 £821 -
Midlands +13 1 - - 5
West Midlands +5 1 - - 4

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

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

1 116 (100.00%) DevOps
2 64 (55.17%) Terraform
3 62 (53.45%) CI/CD
4 57 (49.14%) Kubernetes
5 54 (46.55%) AWS
6 50 (43.10%) Python
7 48 (41.38%) Security Cleared
7 48 (41.38%) Azure
8 35 (30.17%) Ansible
8 35 (30.17%) Docker
9 30 (25.86%) SC Cleared
10 28 (24.14%) Jenkins
11 24 (20.69%) Git
12 23 (19.83%) Bash
12 23 (19.83%) Agile
12 23 (19.83%) Infrastructure as Code
13 22 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
13 22 (18.97%) PowerShell
14 20 (17.24%) Linux
15 18 (15.52%) Azure DevOps
16 17 (14.66%) Product Ownership
16 17 (14.66%) Containerisation
16 17 (14.66%) SDLC
17 16 (13.79%) Test Automation
17 16 (13.79%) Windows
17 16 (13.79%) Banking
17 16 (13.79%) Public Sector
18 15 (12.93%) Configuration Management
18 15 (12.93%) Finance
18 15 (12.93%) DV Cleared

Senior DevOps 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 5 (4.31%) Confluence
2 2 (1.72%) Apache
2 2 (1.72%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.86%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 4 (3.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 54 (46.55%) AWS
2 48 (41.38%) Azure
3 18 (15.52%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (12.93%) GitHub
5 14 (12.07%) PaaS
6 12 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (9.48%) AWS CloudFormation
7 11 (9.48%) OpenShift
8 9 (7.76%) GCP
8 9 (7.76%) Serverless
9 7 (6.03%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (6.03%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (5.17%) Amazon S3
11 5 (4.31%) SaaS
12 4 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (3.45%) Entra ID
12 4 (3.45%) Miro
12 4 (3.45%) OCI
13 3 (2.59%) AWS Control Tower
13 3 (2.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.76%) Firewall
2 5 (4.31%) Network Security
3 1 (0.86%) DNS
3 1 (0.86%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.34%) SQL Server
2 9 (7.76%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (6.03%) Relational Database
4 5 (4.31%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.72%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.72%) Redis
7 1 (0.86%) Big Data
7 1 (0.86%) MySQL
7 1 (0.86%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.86%) QGIS
7 1 (0.86%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 28 (24.14%) Jenkins
2 24 (20.69%) Git
3 14 (12.07%) GitLab
4 13 (11.21%) TeamCity
5 10 (8.62%) Artifactory
6 9 (7.76%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.59%) CircleCI
7 3 (2.59%) JIRA
7 3 (2.59%) Selenium
8 2 (1.72%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.72%) Travis CI
9 1 (0.86%) Apache Continuum
9 1 (0.86%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.86%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.86%) Snyk
9 1 (0.86%) Subversion
9 1 (0.86%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.86%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 16 (13.79%) Banking
1 16 (13.79%) Public Sector
2 15 (12.93%) Finance
3 10 (8.62%) Investment Banking
4 9 (7.76%) Social Skills
5 3 (2.59%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.86%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.86%) Electronics
7 1 (0.86%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.86%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.86%) Marketing
7 1 (0.86%) Tech for Good
7 1 (0.86%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.34%) .NET
2 9 (7.76%) Kafka
3 5 (4.31%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (4.31%) Node.js
3 5 (4.31%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (4.31%) WCF
3 5 (4.31%) WinForms
4 4 (3.45%) ARM Templates
4 4 (3.45%) XML
5 3 (2.59%) REST
6 2 (1.72%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.72%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.72%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.72%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (1.72%) AWS SAM
6 2 (1.72%) Fluent Bit
6 2 (1.72%) Loki
6 2 (1.72%) pytest
6 2 (1.72%) YAML
7 1 (0.86%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.66%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.03%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (6.03%) Public Cloud
3 5 (4.31%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.59%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.72%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.72%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.72%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.72%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.86%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.86%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.86%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 20 (17.24%) Linux
2 16 (13.79%) Windows
3 13 (11.21%) Unix
4 6 (5.17%) Android
4 6 (5.17%) Apple iOS
5 3 (2.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.72%) Alpine Linux
6 2 (1.72%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.86%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (100.00%) DevOps
2 62 (53.45%) CI/CD
3 23 (19.83%) Agile
3 23 (19.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (14.66%) Containerisation
5 17 (14.66%) SDLC
6 16 (13.79%) Test Automation
7 15 (12.93%) Configuration Management
8 14 (12.07%) Roadmaps
9 11 (9.48%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (8.62%) Migration
10 10 (8.62%) Open Source
11 9 (7.76%) Mentoring
11 9 (7.76%) Observability
12 8 (6.90%) Platform Engineering
12 8 (6.90%) Service Catalogue
12 8 (6.90%) Software Engineering
13 7 (6.03%) Load Balancing
13 7 (6.03%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 50 (43.10%) Python
2 23 (19.83%) Bash
3 22 (18.97%) PowerShell
4 13 (11.21%) C#
5 10 (8.62%) Go
5 10 (8.62%) SQL
6 9 (7.76%) Java
6 9 (7.76%) TypeScript
7 5 (4.31%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.45%) Bicep
9 3 (2.59%) C++
10 1 (0.86%) C
10 1 (0.86%) Groovy
10 1 (0.86%) Perl
10 1 (0.86%) PHP
10 1 (0.86%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 48 (41.38%) Security Cleared
2 30 (25.86%) SC Cleared
3 15 (12.93%) DV Cleared
4 8 (6.90%) AWS Certification
4 8 (6.90%) Degree
5 5 (4.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (3.45%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.86%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.86%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.31%) QA
2 1 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.86%) NIST
2 1 (0.86%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 35 (30.17%) Docker
2 9 (7.76%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.59%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.86%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 64 (55.17%) Terraform
2 57 (49.14%) Kubernetes
3 35 (30.17%) Ansible
4 14 (12.07%) Grafana
5 11 (9.48%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.45%) Argo
6 4 (3.45%) Puppet
7 3 (2.59%) Kustomize
7 3 (2.59%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.72%) Nagios
9 1 (0.86%) BladeLogic
9 1 (0.86%) Graylog
9 1 (0.86%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.86%) Kibana
9 1 (0.86%) vRealize
Vendors
1 8 (6.90%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.03%) Splunk
3 6 (5.17%) Oracle
4 5 (4.31%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.59%) VMware
6 2 (1.72%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.72%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.72%) Virgin Media
7 1 (0.86%) Altiris
7 1 (0.86%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.86%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.86%) Citrix
7 1 (0.86%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.86%) Google
7 1 (0.86%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.86%) New Relic
7 1 (0.86%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.86%) SAP
7 1 (0.86%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.86%) Sun