DevOps Engineer Contracts

Development Operations Engineer
UK

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the UK is £538 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 123 76 71
Rank change year-on-year -47 -5 +2
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 790 1,709 2,920
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.83% 3.05% 3.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.98% 3.22% 3.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 612 1,332 2,185
10th Percentile £405 £463 £456
25th Percentile £463 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £625 £694 £675
90th Percentile £688 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -10.64% +6.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 1
10th Percentile £45.88 £53.75 -
25th Percentile £55.50 £65.94 -
Median hourly rate £73.50 £72.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% +105.71% -33.33%
75th Percentile £74.44 £86.25 -
90th Percentile £75.00 £90.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £71.50 -
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -

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%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the UK

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the UK

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in the UK

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the UK

DevOps Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in the UK

DevOps Engineer
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 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 -57 658 £538 -11.89% 255
London -47 384 £550 -12.00% 119
Work from Home -42 302 £533 -11.17% 160
UK excluding London -45 282 £525 -10.64% 144
North of England -22 102 £498 -17.08% 45
South West -29 64 £550 -8.33% 27
North West -19 58 £500 -9.09% 24
South East -36 55 £525 -10.64% 26
Yorkshire +11 40 £495 -20.80% 17
Scotland +20 30 £511 -9.99% 10
Midlands -10 24 £550 -12.00% 22
West Midlands -18 18 £550 -12.00% 16
East of England -17 7 £450 -33.33% 8
East Midlands 0 6 £538 -23.21% 6
North East -9 4 - - 4
Wales +15 2 £821 +64.25%

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

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

1 790 (100.00%) DevOps
2 468 (59.24%) Terraform
3 446 (56.46%) AWS
4 387 (48.99%) CI/CD
5 367 (46.46%) Kubernetes
6 328 (41.52%) Security Cleared
7 310 (39.24%) Python
8 274 (34.68%) Azure
9 272 (34.43%) Docker
10 237 (30.00%) SC Cleared
11 207 (26.20%) Ansible
12 205 (25.95%) Infrastructure as Code
13 203 (25.70%) Linux
14 197 (24.94%) Jenkins
15 172 (21.77%) Agile
16 149 (18.86%) GitLab
17 145 (18.35%) Bash
18 133 (16.84%) Containerisation
19 132 (16.71%) Git
20 129 (16.33%) Azure DevOps
21 123 (15.57%) PowerShell
22 102 (12.91%) GitHub
23 99 (12.53%) Prometheus
24 93 (11.77%) Public Sector
24 93 (11.77%) Social Skills
25 90 (11.39%) Grafana
26 84 (10.63%) Problem-Solving
26 84 (10.63%) Configuration Management
27 80 (10.13%) Serverless
28 79 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation

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 45 (5.70%) Confluence
2 32 (4.05%) nginx
3 19 (2.41%) Apache
4 12 (1.52%) IIS
5 5 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.63%) Apache Solr
5 5 (0.63%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.51%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.25%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.25%) Traefik
8 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.13%) JBoss
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 1 (0.13%) SAS
8 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (0.89%) Trello
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.13%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 446 (56.46%) AWS
2 274 (34.68%) Azure
3 129 (16.33%) Azure DevOps
4 102 (12.91%) GitHub
5 80 (10.13%) Serverless
6 79 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
6 79 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 75 (9.49%) Amazon S3
8 74 (9.37%) GCP
9 67 (8.48%) Amazon EKS
10 63 (7.97%) OpenShift
11 61 (7.72%) AWS Lambda
12 50 (6.33%) GitHub Actions
13 49 (6.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 45 (5.70%) Amazon ECS
15 42 (5.32%) Route 53
16 41 (5.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 31 (3.92%) PaaS
18 21 (2.66%) Azure AKS
19 19 (2.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (4.43%) Firewall
2 30 (3.80%) DNS
3 19 (2.41%) HTTP
3 19 (2.41%) Network Security
3 19 (2.41%) VPN
4 17 (2.15%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.76%) SSL
6 4 (0.51%) AMQP
6 4 (0.51%) DHCP
6 4 (0.51%) HTTPS
6 4 (0.51%) Internet
6 4 (0.51%) IPsec
6 4 (0.51%) IPv4
6 4 (0.51%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (0.51%) SSH
7 3 (0.38%) LAN
7 3 (0.38%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (0.38%) WLAN
8 2 (0.25%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.25%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (7.22%) Amazon RDS
2 30 (3.80%) SQL Server
3 26 (3.29%) Elasticsearch
4 19 (2.41%) Relational Database
5 18 (2.28%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (2.15%) MySQL
7 14 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (1.65%) NoSQL
9 7 (0.89%) InfluxDB
9 7 (0.89%) MongoDB
9 7 (0.89%) Oracle Database
9 7 (0.89%) Power BI
9 7 (0.89%) Triplestore
10 6 (0.76%) Redis
11 5 (0.63%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.63%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.51%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (0.51%) Big Data
12 4 (0.51%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 197 (24.94%) Jenkins
2 149 (18.86%) GitLab
3 132 (16.71%) Git
4 54 (6.84%) JIRA
5 38 (4.81%) Artifactory
6 33 (4.18%) TeamCity
7 22 (2.78%) SonarQube
8 21 (2.66%) Bitbucket
9 19 (2.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 12 (1.52%) Selenium
11 10 (1.27%) CircleCI
12 9 (1.14%) Cucumber
12 9 (1.14%) Maven
13 8 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
13 8 (1.01%) Travis CI
14 6 (0.76%) Spinnaker
14 6 (0.76%) Visual Studio Code
15 5 (0.63%) Gradle
15 5 (0.63%) Terragrunt
16 4 (0.51%) Cypress.io
General
1 93 (11.77%) Public Sector
1 93 (11.77%) Social Skills
2 75 (9.49%) Finance
3 51 (6.46%) Banking
4 23 (2.91%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (2.78%) Investment Banking
6 13 (1.65%) Law
7 9 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (1.14%) Legal
8 8 (1.01%) Telecoms
9 7 (0.89%) Marketing
10 6 (0.76%) Retail
11 5 (0.63%) Electronics
11 5 (0.63%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.38%) Tech for Good
13 2 (0.25%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.25%) Wearables
14 1 (0.13%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (5.70%) .NET
2 44 (5.57%) Kafka
3 43 (5.44%) YAML
4 30 (3.80%) Elastic Stack
4 30 (3.80%) JSON
5 26 (3.29%) REST
6 25 (3.16%) RabbitMQ
7 24 (3.04%) AWS CDK
8 22 (2.78%) ARM Templates
8 22 (2.78%) Node.js
9 20 (2.53%) WinForms
10 19 (2.41%) WCF
11 18 (2.28%) React
12 15 (1.90%) Apache NiFi
13 11 (1.39%) RESTful
14 9 (1.14%) CSS
14 9 (1.14%) HTML
14 9 (1.14%) XML
15 8 (1.01%) LDAP
16 7 (0.89%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 29 (3.67%) Greenfield Project
2 21 (2.66%) Public Cloud
3 18 (2.28%) Cloud Native
4 16 (2.03%) Linux Command Line
4 16 (2.03%) Product Ownership
5 12 (1.52%) Private Cloud
6 11 (1.39%) Data Centre
6 11 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.01%) PKI
10 7 (0.89%) Data Structures
10 7 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (0.89%) Management Information System
11 6 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (0.76%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.63%) Blockchain
12 5 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (0.63%) Security Posture
13 4 (0.51%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 203 (25.70%) Linux
2 62 (7.85%) Windows
3 40 (5.06%) Unix
4 31 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (1.65%) CentOS
6 11 (1.39%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.76%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.76%) VMS
8 5 (0.63%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.51%) Android
9 4 (0.51%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.25%) Debian
10 2 (0.25%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.13%) AIX
11 1 (0.13%) Solaris
11 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 790 (100.00%) DevOps
2 387 (48.99%) CI/CD
3 205 (25.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 172 (21.77%) Agile
5 133 (16.84%) Containerisation
6 84 (10.63%) Configuration Management
6 84 (10.63%) Problem-Solving
7 68 (8.61%) Test Automation
8 61 (7.72%) Continuous Integration
8 61 (7.72%) Migration
9 58 (7.34%) Computer Science
10 54 (6.84%) Software Engineering
11 52 (6.58%) Platform Engineering
12 43 (5.44%) Continuous Improvement
12 43 (5.44%) Software Delivery
13 41 (5.19%) Scrum
14 40 (5.06%) Task Automation
15 38 (4.81%) Microservices
15 38 (4.81%) Observability
16 36 (4.56%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 310 (39.24%) Python
2 145 (18.35%) Bash
3 123 (15.57%) PowerShell
4 75 (9.49%) Go
4 75 (9.49%) SQL
5 74 (9.37%) Java
6 52 (6.58%) JavaScript
7 48 (6.08%) C#
8 33 (4.18%) Ruby
9 25 (3.16%) Perl
10 24 (3.04%) Shell Script
10 24 (3.04%) TypeScript
11 18 (2.28%) Groovy
12 17 (2.15%) C
13 14 (1.77%) C++
14 11 (1.39%) Bicep
14 11 (1.39%) PHP
15 8 (1.01%) Scala
16 7 (0.89%) SPARQL
17 5 (0.63%) Rust
Qualifications
1 328 (41.52%) Security Cleared
2 237 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 75 (9.49%) DV Cleared
4 64 (8.10%) Degree
5 44 (5.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (3.29%) AWS Certification
7 16 (2.03%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.13%) GIAC
12 1 (0.13%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.13%) RHCE
12 1 (0.13%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (4.30%) QA
2 9 (1.14%) NIST
3 6 (0.76%) GDPR
3 6 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.63%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.51%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.38%) NCSC
7 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 272 (34.43%) Docker
2 30 (3.80%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.51%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.51%) NFS
6 3 (0.38%) LXC
6 3 (0.38%) OpenAM
6 3 (0.38%) OpenIDM
7 2 (0.25%) vCloud
7 2 (0.25%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.25%) vSphere
8 1 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.13%) KVM
8 1 (0.13%) Postfix
8 1 (0.13%) Varnish
8 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 468 (59.24%) Terraform
2 367 (46.46%) Kubernetes
3 207 (26.20%) Ansible
4 99 (12.53%) Prometheus
5 90 (11.39%) Grafana
6 52 (6.58%) Puppet
7 41 (5.19%) Progress Chef
8 26 (3.29%) Packer
9 18 (2.28%) Docker Swarm
10 16 (2.03%) Kibana
11 14 (1.77%) Consul
12 13 (1.65%) Istio
12 13 (1.65%) Rancher
13 12 (1.52%) Argo
14 10 (1.27%) logstash
15 7 (0.89%) Nagios
15 7 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
16 5 (0.63%) Salt
17 3 (0.38%) HAProxy
17 3 (0.38%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 54 (6.84%) Microsoft
2 47 (5.95%) Oracle
3 44 (5.57%) Splunk
4 29 (3.67%) VMware
5 21 (2.66%) Dynatrace
5 21 (2.66%) Red Hat
6 20 (2.53%) Google
7 12 (1.52%) SAP
8 10 (1.27%) Atlassian
8 10 (1.27%) Databricks
9 8 (1.01%) ServiceNow
10 7 (0.89%) PagerDuty
11 6 (0.76%) F5
12 5 (0.63%) Palo Alto
12 5 (0.63%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.51%) AppDynamics
13 4 (0.51%) Cisco
13 4 (0.51%) ForgeRock
13 4 (0.51%) Guidewire
13 4 (0.51%) New Relic
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