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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 11 7
Rank change year-on-year -5 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,012 6,731 11,687
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 9.43% 11.75% 13.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.96% 13.10% 14.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,772 4,911 8,402
10th Percentile £400 £425 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £684
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 102 79
10th Percentile £56.25 £48.53 £35.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £60.91 £44.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +13.91% +27.78%
75th Percentile £77.50 £71.20 £68.50
90th Percentile £87.09 £79.19 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £59.83
% change year-on-year -0.76% +9.49% +15.11%

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 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 3,414 £550 -8.33% 1,931
London -1 1,958 £573 -4.58% 865
Work from Home -4 1,560 £550 -4.35% 1,094
UK excluding London -7 1,533 £525 -4.55% 1,319
South East -2 450 £550 -5.25% 400
North of England +2 423 £515 -6.36% 321
North West -2 241 £525 -2.33% 186
South West -12 236 £550 -8.33% 172
Scotland -14 173 £475 -4.52% 65
Yorkshire +4 168 £495 -17.50% 102
Midlands -13 137 £475 -11.30% 227
East of England -11 97 £534 -2.91% 75
West Midlands -16 91 £518 -10.97% 165
East Midlands -11 40 £450 +5.88% 61
Wales -13 20 £538 -8.04% 44
North East -8 18 £525 -12.50% 33
Northern Ireland +6 12 £588 -2.08% 31
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
1 172 (4.29%) Confluence
2 75 (1.87%) SharePoint
3 63 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
4 50 (1.25%) Apache
5 49 (1.22%) Apache Spark
6 43 (1.07%) CMS
7 42 (1.05%) nginx
8 36 (0.90%) IIS
9 35 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
10 16 (0.40%) OpenStack
11 15 (0.37%) JBoss
12 9 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 9 (0.22%) Site Server
13 8 (0.20%) Kentico
13 8 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 7 (0.17%) ArcGIS
14 7 (0.17%) Headless CMS
14 7 (0.17%) Jupyter
14 7 (0.17%) WebLogic
15 6 (0.15%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 37 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (0.57%) MS Visio
4 13 (0.32%) Chatbot
5 12 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.22%) Trello
7 5 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 4 (0.100%) 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 67 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (0.67%) Dynamics AX
3 20 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 15 (0.37%) Endur
6 14 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
7 12 (0.30%) NetSuite
8 11 (0.27%) Teamcenter
9 9 (0.22%) Maximo
9 9 (0.22%) Shopify
10 8 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
11 7 (0.17%) Aladdin
11 7 (0.17%) NEC Housing
11 7 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
11 7 (0.17%) SAP PM
11 7 (0.17%) SimCorp Dimension
11 7 (0.17%) Temenos T24
12 5 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
13 4 (0.100%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
14 3 (0.075%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2,029 (50.57%) Azure
2 1,216 (30.31%) AWS
3 1,204 (30.01%) Azure DevOps
4 368 (9.17%) GCP
5 328 (8.18%) Serverless
6 317 (7.90%) GitHub
7 248 (6.18%) Power Platform
8 172 (4.29%) Amazon S3
9 159 (3.96%) Entra ID
10 151 (3.76%) AWS Lambda
11 145 (3.61%) Dynamics 365
12 144 (3.59%) PaaS
13 139 (3.46%) Azure Service Bus
14 138 (3.44%) Amazon EC2
15 136 (3.39%) Azure Monitor
16 134 (3.34%) AWS CloudFormation
17 131 (3.27%) OpenShift
18 130 (3.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 113 (2.82%) Azure Data Factory
20 110 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 225 (5.61%) Firewall
2 101 (2.52%) VPN
3 99 (2.47%) DNS
4 74 (1.84%) HTTP
5 59 (1.47%) Network Security
6 51 (1.27%) TCP/IP
7 35 (0.87%) BGP
7 35 (0.87%) DHCP
8 34 (0.85%) Intrusion Detection
8 34 (0.85%) Modbus
8 34 (0.85%) RS-422
8 34 (0.85%) RS-485
9 29 (0.72%) SNMP
9 29 (0.72%) SSL
10 24 (0.60%) HSRP
10 24 (0.60%) Internet
10 24 (0.60%) MPLS
11 21 (0.52%) IPv4
12 18 (0.45%) IPsec
12 18 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 402 (10.02%) SQL Server
2 187 (4.66%) Power BI
3 184 (4.59%) PostgreSQL
4 153 (3.81%) Data Lake
5 151 (3.76%) NoSQL
6 135 (3.36%) Relational Database
7 109 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
8 96 (2.39%) MySQL
9 95 (2.37%) Amazon RDS
10 89 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
11 83 (2.07%) MongoDB
12 82 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
13 78 (1.94%) Big Data
14 50 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
15 47 (1.17%) Oracle Database
16 43 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
17 42 (1.05%) Apache Cassandra
17 42 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 40 (1.00%) Tableau
19 38 (0.95%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 532 (13.26%) Git
2 522 (13.01%) Jenkins
3 358 (8.92%) JIRA
4 286 (7.13%) GitLab
5 138 (3.44%) Selenium
6 93 (2.32%) SonarQube
7 78 (1.94%) Visual Studio
8 73 (1.82%) TeamCity
9 60 (1.50%) Artifactory
10 59 (1.47%) Cucumber
11 58 (1.45%) SpecFlow
12 56 (1.40%) Bitbucket
13 45 (1.12%) JUnit
14 44 (1.10%) Postman
15 39 (0.97%) Cypress.io
16 37 (0.92%) Maven
17 29 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 29 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
18 27 (0.67%) REST Assured
19 24 (0.60%) WebDriver
General
1 874 (21.78%) Social Skills
2 763 (19.02%) Finance
3 434 (10.82%) Public Sector
4 333 (8.30%) Analytical Skills
5 279 (6.95%) Banking
6 114 (2.84%) Retail
7 90 (2.24%) Front Office
8 75 (1.87%) Telecoms
9 70 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
10 63 (1.57%) Marketing
11 57 (1.42%) Electronics
12 56 (1.40%) Investment Banking
13 52 (1.30%) Back Office
14 46 (1.15%) Legal
15 45 (1.12%) Law
16 44 (1.10%) Manufacturing
17 35 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
18 32 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 28 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
20 27 (0.67%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 829 (20.66%) Developer
2 775 (19.32%) DevOps Engineer
3 525 (13.09%) Senior
4 472 (11.76%) Architect
5 307 (7.65%) Lead
6 246 (6.13%) Azure Engineer
7 226 (5.63%) AWS Engineer
8 214 (5.33%) Analyst
9 186 (4.64%) Senior Developer
10 169 (4.21%) Software Engineer
11 168 (4.19%) Solutions Architect
12 167 (4.16%) AWS DevOps
13 159 (3.96%) Consultant
14 149 (3.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 141 (3.51%) Data Engineer
16 133 (3.32%) .NET Developer
17 120 (2.99%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 111 (2.77%) Java Developer
19 109 (2.72%) Senior DevOps
20 106 (2.64%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 560 (13.96%) .NET
2 312 (7.78%) React
3 222 (5.53%) REST
4 215 (5.36%) XML
5 211 (5.26%) Kafka
6 179 (4.46%) .NET Core
7 172 (4.29%) HTML
8 171 (4.26%) Node.js
9 167 (4.16%) AngularJS
10 159 (3.96%) CSS
11 153 (3.81%) .NET Framework
12 129 (3.22%) RESTful
13 124 (3.09%) JSON
14 111 (2.77%) Spring Boot
15 107 (2.67%) ARM Templates
16 105 (2.62%) Spring
17 92 (2.29%) YAML
18 88 (2.19%) Web Services
19 84 (2.09%) ASP.NET
20 83 (2.07%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 246 (6.13%) Product Ownership
2 111 (2.77%) Public Cloud
3 105 (2.62%) Cloud Native
4 81 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
5 77 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
6 67 (1.67%) Data Structures
7 61 (1.52%) Mobile App
7 61 (1.52%) Onboarding
8 60 (1.50%) Derivative
8 60 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
9 57 (1.42%) Management Information System
10 56 (1.40%) Hedge funds
11 52 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 40 (1.00%) Data Centre
12 40 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
13 39 (0.97%) PKI
14 38 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
15 37 (0.92%) Clustering
15 37 (0.92%) Fixed Income
16 35 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 476 (11.86%) Linux
2 337 (8.40%) Windows
3 150 (3.74%) Windows Server
4 108 (2.69%) Unix
5 70 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 52 (1.30%) Android
6 52 (1.30%) Apple iOS
7 25 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
8 24 (0.60%) CentOS
9 23 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
10 15 (0.37%) Ubuntu
11 14 (0.35%) AIX
11 14 (0.35%) VMS
12 13 (0.32%) Solaris
13 11 (0.27%) Windows 10
14 7 (0.17%) Mac OS
15 6 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
16 5 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
17 3 (0.075%) Debian
18 2 (0.050%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,687 (42.05%) Agile
2 1,417 (35.32%) CI/CD
3 534 (13.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 514 (12.81%) Problem-Solving
5 479 (11.94%) Scrum
6 471 (11.74%) Test Automation
7 466 (11.62%) Software Engineering
8 422 (10.52%) Microservices
9 376 (9.37%) Containerisation
10 326 (8.13%) Continuous Integration
11 320 (7.98%) TDD
12 313 (7.80%) Migration
13 267 (6.66%) SDLC
14 255 (6.36%) Continuous Improvement
15 237 (5.91%) Analytics
16 229 (5.71%) Computer Science
17 222 (5.53%) Business Intelligence
18 216 (5.38%) Full Stack Development
19 209 (5.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 203 (5.06%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,040 (25.92%) Python
2 677 (16.87%) C#
3 644 (16.05%) SQL
4 554 (13.81%) Java
5 493 (12.29%) PowerShell
6 403 (10.04%) JavaScript
7 253 (6.31%) TypeScript
8 226 (5.63%) Bash
9 170 (4.24%) Go
10 160 (3.99%) Bicep
11 133 (3.32%) C++
12 120 (2.99%) C
13 90 (2.24%) Shell Script
14 71 (1.77%) Perl
15 68 (1.69%) Scala
16 59 (1.47%) Ruby
17 47 (1.17%) T-SQL
18 34 (0.85%) VBScript
19 30 (0.75%) PHP
20 29 (0.72%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 819 (20.41%) Security Cleared
2 571 (14.23%) SC Cleared
3 337 (8.40%) Degree
4 237 (5.91%) DV Cleared
5 149 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 68 (1.69%) AWS Certification
6 68 (1.69%) Azure Certification
7 53 (1.32%) Master's Degree
8 42 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
9 35 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
10 31 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 28 (0.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 28 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
12 22 (0.55%) PMP
13 21 (0.52%) CCNP
14 19 (0.47%) CISSP
14 19 (0.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 18 (0.45%) PMI Certification
16 17 (0.42%) ISTQB
17 16 (0.40%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 234 (5.83%) QA
2 64 (1.60%) Accessibility
3 54 (1.35%) GDPR
4 48 (1.20%) PCI DSS
5 39 (0.97%) Data Quality
6 38 (0.95%) NIST
7 35 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 30 (0.75%) WCAG
9 28 (0.70%) NCSC
10 24 (0.60%) PMO
10 24 (0.60%) SLA
11 17 (0.42%) HIPAA
12 16 (0.40%) MISRA
13 15 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
14 10 (0.25%) SOC 2
15 7 (0.17%) ISO 9001
16 6 (0.15%) GRC
16 6 (0.15%) ISO 22301
16 6 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 4 (0.100%) PSD2
System Software
1 637 (15.88%) Docker
2 250 (6.23%) Active Directory
3 68 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
3 68 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
5 17 (0.42%) VMware NSX
6 15 (0.37%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 12 (0.30%) Firmware
8 11 (0.27%) Hyper-V
9 9 (0.22%) vCloud
9 9 (0.22%) vSphere
10 8 (0.20%) NFS
11 6 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
12 5 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.075%) LXC
13 3 (0.075%) OpenAM
13 3 (0.075%) OpenIDM
13 3 (0.075%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.050%) HDFS
14 2 (0.050%) KVM
Systems Management
1 891 (22.21%) Terraform
2 873 (21.76%) Kubernetes
3 440 (10.97%) Ansible
4 182 (4.54%) Grafana
4 182 (4.54%) Prometheus
5 97 (2.42%) Puppet
6 81 (2.02%) Progress Chef
7 50 (1.25%) Kibana
8 48 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
9 40 (1.00%) Docker Swarm
10 38 (0.95%) Istio
10 38 (0.95%) SCCM
11 34 (0.85%) Packer
11 34 (0.85%) SCOM
12 31 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
13 30 (0.75%) Consul
14 28 (0.70%) Argo
15 27 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 19 (0.47%) ITRS Geneos
16 19 (0.47%) WSUS
Vendors
1 746 (18.59%) Microsoft
2 264 (6.58%) Oracle
3 136 (3.39%) Google
4 131 (3.27%) Splunk
5 118 (2.94%) Databricks
6 104 (2.59%) VMware
7 100 (2.49%) SAP
8 79 (1.97%) ServiceNow
9 76 (1.89%) Salesforce
10 61 (1.52%) Cisco
11 52 (1.30%) IBM
12 49 (1.22%) Dynatrace
13 43 (1.07%) CyberArk
14 40 (1.00%) Red Hat
15 36 (0.90%) Citrix
16 34 (0.85%) F5
17 30 (0.75%) Palo Alto
18 29 (0.72%) Adobe
19 27 (0.67%) Informatica
20 23 (0.57%) EMC