DevOps Specialist Contracts

Development Operations Specialist
UK

The median Development Operations Specialist daily rate in the UK is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 569 678 823
Rank change year-on-year +109 +145 -112
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Specialist 10 6 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.011% 0.021%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.011% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 10
10th Percentile £564 £440 £474
25th Percentile £593 £463 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £500 £591
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% -15.33% +12.48%
75th Percentile £688 £625 £630
90th Percentile - £633 £680
UK excluding London median daily rate £557 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +23.78% -10.00% +8.11%

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 40,001 53,325 83,708
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,880 37,256 59,003
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% +9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,851 1,473 1,957
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.41
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.45 £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 Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Specialist in the UK

DevOps Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Specialist in the UK

DevOps Specialist
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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 +101 10 £675 +35.00% 2
London +105 7 £675 +38.46%
Work from Home +114 6 £675 +22.73%
UK excluding London +50 3 £557 +23.78% 2
Midlands - 3 £557 - 1
West Midlands - 3 £557 - 1
South East - 2 - - 1
South West - 2 - -

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, DevOps Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (90.00%) PowerShell
3 8 (80.00%) Terraform
3 8 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (50.00%) Windows
4 5 (50.00%) Configuration Management
5 4 (40.00%) Red Hat
5 4 (40.00%) Linux
5 4 (40.00%) YAML
5 4 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (40.00%) Law
5 4 (40.00%) Validation
5 4 (40.00%) VMware
5 4 (40.00%) Ansible
5 4 (40.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 4 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (40.00%) SaltStack
5 4 (40.00%) Salt
5 4 (40.00%) Git
5 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (40.00%) Azure
5 4 (40.00%) Bash
5 4 (40.00%) Puppet
5 4 (40.00%) Progress Chef
5 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (30.00%) ARM Templates
6 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
7 1 (10.00%) TypeScript

DevOps Specialist 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 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
1 4 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (40.00%) Law
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) YAML
2 3 (30.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (10.00%) .NET
3 1 (10.00%) Kafka
3 1 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (10.00%) WCF
3 1 (10.00%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
2 4 (40.00%) Linux
2 4 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (50.00%) Configuration Management
4 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 4 (40.00%) Validation
4 4 (40.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 1 (10.00%) Agile
5 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (10.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Migration
5 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 1 (10.00%) SDLC
5 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (40.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) Groovy
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) Terraform
2 4 (40.00%) Ansible
2 4 (40.00%) Progress Chef
2 4 (40.00%) Puppet
2 4 (40.00%) Salt
3 1 (10.00%) Grafana
3 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Red Hat
1 4 (40.00%) SaltStack
1 4 (40.00%) VMware
2 1 (10.00%) Confluent
2 1 (10.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) Informatica
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (10.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) StreamSets