Junior DevOps Engineer Contracts

Junior Development Operations Engineer
UK

The median Junior Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the UK is £350 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 576 685 849
Rank change year-on-year +109 +164 -132
Contract jobs requiring a Junior DevOps Engineer 11 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.026% 0.007% 0.002%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.028% 0.008% 0.002%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 1
10th Percentile £175 £266 -
25th Percentile £288 £272 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £318 £300
Median % change year-on-year +10.24% +5.83% -29.41%
75th Percentile £400 £354 £325
90th Percentile £428 £358 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £300 £305 £300
% change year-on-year -1.64% +1.67% -17.81%

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 39,794 53,311 84,183
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.84% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,730 37,248 59,348
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.64%
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% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,844 1,473 1,970
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.46
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.97% +12.51%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.37
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% +6.20%

Junior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior DevOps Engineer in the UK

Junior DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Junior DevOps Engineer in the UK

Junior DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Junior DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Junior DevOps Engineer in the UK

Junior DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Junior DevOps Engineer in the UK

Junior DevOps Engineer
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Junior DevOps Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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 +95 7 £350 +16.67% 3
Work from Home +125 5 £200 -37.01% 5
London +101 4 £363 +20.83%
UK excluding London +49 3 £300 -1.64% 4
North of England +28 2 £300 -10.45%
Yorkshire - 2 £300 -
South West +9 1 £425 +54.55% 1

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

For the 6 months to 3 June 2024, Junior 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 Junior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (81.82%) AWS
3 8 (72.73%) SC Cleared
3 8 (72.73%) Security Cleared
3 8 (72.73%) Python
4 6 (54.55%) Terraform
5 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
6 4 (36.36%) Azure
6 4 (36.36%) PowerShell
6 4 (36.36%) Bash
6 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
7 3 (27.27%) GitLab
7 3 (27.27%) Docker
7 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
7 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
8 2 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
8 2 (18.18%) ARM Templates
8 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
8 2 (18.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
8 2 (18.18%) High Availability
8 2 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
9 1 (9.09%) Java
9 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
9 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (9.09%) JIRA

Junior 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 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) Azure
3 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
5 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (9.09%) OneDrive
5 1 (9.09%) Route 53
5 1 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) GitLab
1 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) ARM Templates
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
3 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
3 2 (18.18%) High Availability
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (9.09%) Problem Management
4 1 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (9.09%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) Bash
2 4 (36.36%) PowerShell
3 1 (9.09%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) SC Cleared
1 8 (72.73%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Terraform
2 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
3 1 (9.09%) Ansible
3 1 (9.09%) Grafana
3 1 (9.09%) Prometheus