DevOps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 11 7
Rank change year-on-year -5 -4 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 3,962 6,918 11,620
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 9.27% 11.89% 13.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.75% 13.24% 14.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,729 5,063 8,349
10th Percentile £400 £425 £424
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £583 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +1.39% +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £528 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.09% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 106 81
10th Percentile £56.25 £48.63 £35.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £60.91 £44.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £57.18
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +14.55% +27.07%
75th Percentile £77.81 £75.00 £67.00
90th Percentile £87.14 £79.19 £78.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £57.34
% change year-on-year -0.76% +14.23% +18.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

DevOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,868 52,242 79,883
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.23% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,721 36,208 56,080
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,718 1,919
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.22 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -6.98%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Top 18 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the UK over the 6 months to 13 May 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 -3 3,364 £550 -8.33% 1,663
London -2 1,953 £573 -4.58% 676
Work from Home -4 1,538 £550 -4.35% 968
UK excluding London -7 1,493 £528 -4.09% 1,049
South East -4 438 £550 -5.66% 224
North of England -2 404 £523 -5.00% 292
North West -2 236 £525 -4.55% 180
South West -10 232 £550 -8.33% 155
Scotland -14 180 £475 -4.19% 64
Yorkshire +2 154 £495 -17.50% 85
Midlands -15 127 £518 -3.45% 192
East of England -13 97 £534 -2.91% 68
West Midlands -17 90 £513 -10.87% 125
East Midlands -13 31 £463 +8.82% 66
Wales -12 21 £550 -5.90% 36
North East -8 18 £525 -12.50% 27
Northern Ireland +1 5 £550 -8.33% 36
Isle of Man - 2 £388 -

DevOps
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
1 170 (4.29%) Confluence
2 73 (1.84%) SharePoint
3 61 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
4 47 (1.19%) Apache
5 41 (1.03%) Apache Spark
5 41 (1.03%) CMS
5 41 (1.03%) nginx
6 36 (0.91%) IIS
7 34 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
8 18 (0.45%) OpenStack
9 15 (0.38%) JBoss
10 10 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 8 (0.20%) Kentico
11 8 (0.20%) Site Server
12 7 (0.18%) ArcGIS
12 7 (0.18%) Headless CMS
12 7 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 7 (0.18%) WebLogic
13 6 (0.15%) Apache Solr
13 6 (0.15%) Tornado
Applications
1 38 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (0.53%) MS Visio
4 13 (0.33%) Chatbot
5 12 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.23%) Trello
7 5 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 3 (0.076%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.050%) Sketch
10 1 (0.025%) Gliffy
10 1 (0.025%) InVision
10 1 (0.025%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.025%) Simulink
10 1 (0.025%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 66 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (0.68%) Dynamics AX
3 20 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 14 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
6 13 (0.33%) Endur
7 12 (0.30%) NetSuite
8 11 (0.28%) Teamcenter
9 9 (0.23%) Maximo
10 8 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
10 8 (0.20%) Shopify
11 7 (0.18%) Aladdin
11 7 (0.18%) NEC Housing
11 7 (0.18%) SAP Hybris
11 7 (0.18%) SAP PM
12 6 (0.15%) SimCorp Dimension
13 5 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
13 5 (0.13%) Temenos T24
14 4 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
15 3 (0.076%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2,019 (50.96%) Azure
2 1,199 (30.26%) AWS
3 1,191 (30.06%) Azure DevOps
4 355 (8.96%) GCP
5 328 (8.28%) Serverless
6 306 (7.72%) GitHub
7 243 (6.13%) Power Platform
8 166 (4.19%) Amazon S3
9 157 (3.96%) Entra ID
10 155 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
11 145 (3.66%) Dynamics 365
12 144 (3.63%) PaaS
13 139 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
14 137 (3.46%) AWS CloudFormation
15 136 (3.43%) Azure Service Bus
16 133 (3.36%) Azure Monitor
17 127 (3.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 123 (3.10%) OpenShift
19 113 (2.85%) Amazon EKS
19 113 (2.85%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 223 (5.63%) Firewall
2 101 (2.55%) VPN
3 98 (2.47%) DNS
4 71 (1.79%) HTTP
5 62 (1.56%) Network Security
6 52 (1.31%) TCP/IP
7 37 (0.93%) BGP
8 36 (0.91%) DHCP
9 35 (0.88%) Modbus
9 35 (0.88%) RS-422
9 35 (0.88%) RS-485
10 34 (0.86%) Intrusion Detection
11 30 (0.76%) SNMP
12 27 (0.68%) SSL
13 26 (0.66%) HSRP
13 26 (0.66%) MPLS
14 23 (0.58%) IPv4
15 21 (0.53%) Internet
16 18 (0.45%) IPsec
16 18 (0.45%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 405 (10.22%) SQL Server
2 183 (4.62%) Power BI
3 181 (4.57%) PostgreSQL
4 144 (3.63%) NoSQL
5 137 (3.46%) Relational Database
6 136 (3.43%) Data Lake
7 108 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
8 96 (2.42%) MySQL
9 90 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
10 84 (2.12%) Elasticsearch
11 83 (2.09%) Azure SQL Database
12 80 (2.02%) MongoDB
13 68 (1.72%) Big Data
14 48 (1.21%) Oracle Database
15 44 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
16 42 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 40 (1.01%) Apache Cassandra
18 39 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
19 37 (0.93%) Tableau
20 36 (0.91%) Redis
Development Applications
1 509 (12.85%) Git
2 493 (12.44%) Jenkins
3 352 (8.88%) JIRA
4 280 (7.07%) GitLab
5 137 (3.46%) Selenium
6 93 (2.35%) SonarQube
7 78 (1.97%) Visual Studio
8 75 (1.89%) TeamCity
9 61 (1.54%) Cucumber
10 59 (1.49%) SpecFlow
11 58 (1.46%) Artifactory
12 55 (1.39%) Bitbucket
13 46 (1.16%) JUnit
14 42 (1.06%) Postman
15 39 (0.98%) Cypress.io
16 34 (0.86%) Maven
17 29 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
18 28 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
19 27 (0.68%) REST Assured
20 25 (0.63%) WebDriver
General
1 870 (21.96%) Social Skills
2 750 (18.93%) Finance
3 438 (11.06%) Public Sector
4 324 (8.18%) Analytical Skills
5 259 (6.54%) Banking
6 114 (2.88%) Retail
7 91 (2.30%) Front Office
8 75 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
9 68 (1.72%) Telecoms
10 60 (1.51%) Marketing
11 58 (1.46%) Electronics
12 56 (1.41%) Investment Banking
13 51 (1.29%) Back Office
14 47 (1.19%) Law
15 45 (1.14%) Legal
16 44 (1.11%) Manufacturing
17 35 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
18 34 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 29 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
20 27 (0.68%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 819 (20.67%) Developer
2 766 (19.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 516 (13.02%) Senior
4 455 (11.48%) Architect
5 307 (7.75%) Lead
6 238 (6.01%) Azure Engineer
7 224 (5.65%) AWS Engineer
8 205 (5.17%) Analyst
9 189 (4.77%) Senior Developer
10 168 (4.24%) Software Engineer
11 164 (4.14%) AWS DevOps
12 162 (4.09%) Consultant
13 154 (3.89%) Solutions Architect
14 145 (3.66%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 139 (3.51%) .NET Developer
15 139 (3.51%) Data Engineer
16 118 (2.98%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 106 (2.68%) Azure Developer
18 105 (2.65%) Java Developer
19 104 (2.62%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 560 (14.13%) .NET
2 310 (7.82%) React
3 214 (5.40%) REST
3 214 (5.40%) XML
4 198 (5.00%) Kafka
5 175 (4.42%) .NET Core
6 174 (4.39%) Node.js
7 170 (4.29%) AngularJS
8 162 (4.09%) HTML
9 151 (3.81%) CSS
10 149 (3.76%) .NET Framework
11 129 (3.26%) RESTful
12 125 (3.15%) JSON
13 105 (2.65%) ARM Templates
14 100 (2.52%) Spring
15 96 (2.42%) Spring Boot
16 91 (2.30%) YAML
17 85 (2.15%) ASP.NET
18 83 (2.09%) Elastic Stack
18 83 (2.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 245 (6.18%) Product Ownership
2 112 (2.83%) Public Cloud
3 103 (2.60%) Cloud Native
4 81 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
5 79 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
6 65 (1.64%) Data Structures
7 62 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
8 61 (1.54%) Derivative
8 61 (1.54%) Mobile App
8 61 (1.54%) Onboarding
9 56 (1.41%) Management Information System
10 54 (1.36%) Hedge funds
11 52 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 42 (1.06%) Data Centre
13 40 (1.01%) Fixed Income
13 40 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
14 39 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
15 38 (0.96%) PKI
16 37 (0.93%) Clustering
17 35 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 470 (11.86%) Linux
2 347 (8.76%) Windows
3 155 (3.91%) Windows Server
4 107 (2.70%) Unix
5 75 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 51 (1.29%) Android
6 51 (1.29%) Apple iOS
7 25 (0.63%) CentOS
8 24 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
9 22 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
10 18 (0.45%) Solaris
11 16 (0.40%) Ubuntu
12 14 (0.35%) AIX
12 14 (0.35%) VMS
13 12 (0.30%) Windows 10
14 8 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
15 7 (0.18%) Mac OS
16 5 (0.13%) Alpine Linux
17 3 (0.076%) Debian
18 2 (0.050%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,690 (42.66%) Agile
2 1,404 (35.44%) CI/CD
3 523 (13.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 509 (12.85%) Problem-Solving
5 473 (11.94%) Scrum
6 465 (11.74%) Software Engineering
6 465 (11.74%) Test Automation
7 414 (10.45%) Microservices
8 350 (8.83%) Containerisation
9 325 (8.20%) Continuous Integration
10 321 (8.10%) TDD
11 316 (7.98%) Migration
12 260 (6.56%) SDLC
13 251 (6.34%) Continuous Improvement
14 227 (5.73%) Analytics
15 223 (5.63%) Computer Science
16 219 (5.53%) Business Intelligence
17 214 (5.40%) Full Stack Development
18 203 (5.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 200 (5.05%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1,007 (25.42%) Python
2 674 (17.01%) C#
3 636 (16.05%) SQL
4 524 (13.23%) Java
5 486 (12.27%) PowerShell
6 397 (10.02%) JavaScript
7 259 (6.54%) TypeScript
8 224 (5.65%) Bash
9 163 (4.11%) Go
10 156 (3.94%) Bicep
11 126 (3.18%) C++
12 115 (2.90%) C
13 84 (2.12%) Shell Script
14 72 (1.82%) Perl
15 67 (1.69%) Scala
16 60 (1.51%) Ruby
17 45 (1.14%) T-SQL
18 33 (0.83%) VBScript
19 31 (0.78%) PHP
20 30 (0.76%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 813 (20.52%) Security Cleared
2 578 (14.59%) SC Cleared
3 329 (8.30%) Degree
4 225 (5.68%) DV Cleared
5 143 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 69 (1.74%) Azure Certification
7 65 (1.64%) AWS Certification
8 49 (1.24%) Master's Degree
9 42 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
10 35 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
11 30 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 28 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
13 27 (0.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 22 (0.56%) PMP
15 21 (0.53%) CCNP
16 19 (0.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 19 (0.48%) PMI Certification
17 18 (0.45%) ISTQB
18 17 (0.43%) CISSP
19 16 (0.40%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 237 (5.98%) QA
2 64 (1.62%) Accessibility
3 55 (1.39%) GDPR
4 46 (1.16%) PCI DSS
5 41 (1.03%) Data Quality
6 39 (0.98%) NIST
7 36 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 28 (0.71%) NCSC
8 28 (0.71%) WCAG
9 25 (0.63%) SLA
10 24 (0.61%) PMO
11 16 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
11 16 (0.40%) HIPAA
12 14 (0.35%) MISRA
13 10 (0.25%) SOC 2
14 8 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.15%) GRC
15 6 (0.15%) ISO 22301
15 6 (0.15%) ISO 9001
16 4 (0.10%) PSD2
System Software
1 616 (15.55%) Docker
2 249 (6.28%) Active Directory
3 70 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
6 18 (0.45%) VMware NSX
7 16 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 12 (0.30%) Firmware
9 11 (0.28%) Hyper-V
10 9 (0.23%) vCloud
10 9 (0.23%) vSphere
11 8 (0.20%) NFS
12 6 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
12 6 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.076%) HDFS
13 3 (0.076%) LXC
13 3 (0.076%) OpenAM
13 3 (0.076%) OpenIDM
13 3 (0.076%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.050%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 875 (22.08%) Terraform
2 851 (21.48%) Kubernetes
3 440 (11.11%) Ansible
4 172 (4.34%) Prometheus
5 171 (4.32%) Grafana
6 92 (2.32%) Puppet
7 73 (1.84%) Progress Chef
8 46 (1.16%) Kibana
9 45 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
10 39 (0.98%) Docker Swarm
10 39 (0.98%) SCCM
11 35 (0.88%) Istio
12 34 (0.86%) Packer
12 34 (0.86%) SCOM
13 31 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
14 30 (0.76%) Consul
15 26 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 23 (0.58%) Argo
17 19 (0.48%) ITRS Geneos
17 19 (0.48%) Nagios
Vendors
1 738 (18.63%) Microsoft
2 260 (6.56%) Oracle
3 127 (3.21%) Splunk
4 123 (3.10%) Google
5 119 (3.00%) Databricks
6 108 (2.73%) VMware
7 101 (2.55%) SAP
8 81 (2.04%) ServiceNow
9 73 (1.84%) Salesforce
10 62 (1.56%) Cisco
11 55 (1.39%) IBM
12 49 (1.24%) Dynatrace
13 45 (1.14%) CyberArk
14 40 (1.01%) Red Hat
15 37 (0.93%) Citrix
16 33 (0.83%) F5
17 30 (0.76%) Adobe
18 29 (0.73%) Palo Alto
19 27 (0.68%) Informatica
20 25 (0.63%) EMC