DevOps Architect Contracts

Development Operations Architect
UK

The median Development Operations Architect daily rate in the UK is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 547 643 788
Rank change year-on-year +96 +145 -142
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Architect 37 54 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.085% 0.097% 0.069%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.091% 0.10% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 48 41
10th Percentile £538 £489 £508
25th Percentile £550 - £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £700
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -28.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £763
90th Percentile £710 £725 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £650 £588
% change year-on-year -7.69% +10.64% -5.74%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

DevOps Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Architect in the UK

DevOps Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Architect in the UK

DevOps Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Architect over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Architect in the UK

DevOps Architect
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 DevOps Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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 +72 32 £650 +30.00% 9
London +66 19 £650 +30.00% 6
Work from Home +117 16 £650 +14.04% 5
UK excluding London +36 13 £600 -7.69% 2
South East +22 9 £600 +9.09% 2
Midlands - 3 £550 -
West Midlands - 2 - -
East of England +5 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £550 -

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, DevOps Architect 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 Architect in the job title.

1 37 (100.00%) DevOps
2 23 (62.16%) CI/CD
3 11 (29.73%) Azure
4 10 (27.03%) Security Cleared
5 8 (21.62%) AWS
5 8 (21.62%) Finance
5 8 (21.62%) Salesforce
6 7 (18.92%) Test Automation
6 7 (18.92%) Terraform
6 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (16.22%) Deployment Automation
7 6 (16.22%) Technical Leadership
7 6 (16.22%) SDLC
7 6 (16.22%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (16.22%) Microservices
7 6 (16.22%) DV Cleared
7 6 (16.22%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (16.22%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (16.22%) Scrum
8 5 (13.51%) Agile
8 5 (13.51%) JavaScript
8 5 (13.51%) Confluence
8 5 (13.51%) Kubernetes
8 5 (13.51%) Serverless
8 5 (13.51%) Roadmaps
9 4 (10.81%) Code Quality
9 4 (10.81%) Lightning Web Components
9 4 (10.81%) Social Skills
9 4 (10.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (10.81%) Release Automation

DevOps Architect 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 (13.51%) Confluence
2 1 (2.70%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 11 (29.73%) Azure
2 8 (21.62%) AWS
3 6 (16.22%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (16.22%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (13.51%) Serverless
5 4 (10.81%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (8.11%) AWS Step Functions
6 3 (8.11%) Datadog
6 3 (8.11%) GitHub
6 3 (8.11%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (8.11%) Power Platform
7 2 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (5.41%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (5.41%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (5.41%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (5.41%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (5.41%) GCP
8 1 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.70%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.81%) DNS
2 3 (8.11%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (8.11%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (8.11%) Power BI
3 2 (5.41%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.70%) DB2
4 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 4 (10.81%) Bitbucket
1 4 (10.81%) GitLab
2 3 (8.11%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (8.11%) Terragrunt
General
1 8 (21.62%) Finance
2 4 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (10.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (10.81%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.70%) Law
3 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.81%) Lightning Web Components
2 3 (8.11%) Node.js
3 2 (5.41%) .NET
3 2 (5.41%) .NET Core
3 2 (5.41%) .NET Framework
3 2 (5.41%) ARM Templates
3 2 (5.41%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (5.41%) CSS
3 2 (5.41%) Entity Framework
3 2 (5.41%) jQuery
3 2 (5.41%) React
3 2 (5.41%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 1 (2.70%) JPA
4 1 (2.70%) Kafka
4 1 (2.70%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (2.70%) LDAP
4 1 (2.70%) OAuth
4 1 (2.70%) OpenID
4 1 (2.70%) RESTful
4 1 (2.70%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.11%) Greenfield Project
1 3 (8.11%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (5.41%) N-Tier
2 2 (5.41%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.81%) Linux
2 3 (8.11%) Unix
3 1 (2.70%) CentOS
3 1 (2.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (100.00%) DevOps
2 23 (62.16%) CI/CD
3 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (18.92%) Test Automation
4 6 (16.22%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (16.22%) Deployment Automation
4 6 (16.22%) Microservices
4 6 (16.22%) Scrum
4 6 (16.22%) SDLC
4 6 (16.22%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (13.51%) Agile
5 5 (13.51%) Roadmaps
6 4 (10.81%) B2B
6 4 (10.81%) Code Quality
6 4 (10.81%) Continuous Deployment
6 4 (10.81%) CRM
6 4 (10.81%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (10.81%) Migration
6 4 (10.81%) Release Automation
7 3 (8.11%) Customer-Centricity
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.51%) JavaScript
2 4 (10.81%) Apex Code
2 4 (10.81%) Java
2 4 (10.81%) Python
3 3 (8.11%) TypeScript
4 2 (5.41%) C#
4 2 (5.41%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.41%) SQL
5 1 (2.70%) Bash
5 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (27.03%) Security Cleared
2 6 (16.22%) DV Cleared
3 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.41%) Degree
3 2 (5.41%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (2.70%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (18.92%) Terraform
2 5 (13.51%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.41%) Kustomize
4 1 (2.70%) Ansible
4 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (21.62%) Salesforce
2 4 (10.81%) Splunk
3 3 (8.11%) BigPanda
3 3 (8.11%) Cisco
3 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.11%) Oracle
4 2 (5.41%) SAP
5 1 (2.70%) ForgeRock