Lead DevOps Engineer Contracts

Lead Development Operations Engineer
UK

The median Lead Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the UK is £650 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 554 650 751
Rank change year-on-year +96 +101 -85
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps Engineer 25 34 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.058% 0.060% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.062% 0.064% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 25 56
10th Percentile £511 £550 £528
25th Percentile £566 £625 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 £675
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £697 £756 £750
90th Percentile £855 £810 £806
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £715 £581
% change year-on-year -23.08% +23.01% +5.68%

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%

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in the UK

Lead DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in the UK

Lead DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead DevOps Engineer in the UK

Lead 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 Lead DevOps Engineer 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 +93 22 £650 -8.77% 27
London +101 16 £650 -11.86% 6
Work from Home +108 7 £588 -16.07% 19
UK excluding London +36 2 £550 -23.08% 21
North of England +25 1 - - 9
Yorkshire +17 1 - - 7
South West +9 1 £550 -28.46% 3

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

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

1 25 (100.00%) DevOps
2 21 (84.00%) CI/CD
3 20 (80.00%) AWS
4 17 (68.00%) Terraform
5 13 (52.00%) Kubernetes
5 13 (52.00%) Python
6 12 (48.00%) Linux
6 12 (48.00%) Containerisation
7 10 (40.00%) Docker
7 10 (40.00%) Bash
8 9 (36.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (32.00%) Security Cleared
10 7 (28.00%) SC Cleared
10 7 (28.00%) Ansible
11 6 (24.00%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (24.00%) Finance
12 5 (20.00%) Configuration Management
13 4 (16.00%) Agile
13 4 (16.00%) Git
13 4 (16.00%) GitHub
13 4 (16.00%) Jenkins
13 4 (16.00%) SaaS
13 4 (16.00%) Azure
13 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 4 (16.00%) GitLab
13 4 (16.00%) Elastic Stack
13 4 (16.00%) Amazon EventBridge
13 4 (16.00%) Platform Engineering
13 4 (16.00%) DevSecOps
14 3 (12.00%) Cloud Security

Lead 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 (4.00%) Apache
1 1 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (4.00%) Confluence
1 1 (4.00%) JBoss
1 1 (4.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 20 (80.00%) AWS
2 6 (24.00%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (16.00%) Amazon EventBridge
3 4 (16.00%) Azure
3 4 (16.00%) GitHub
3 4 (16.00%) SaaS
4 3 (12.00%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (12.00%) Serverless
5 2 (8.00%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (8.00%) Azure AKS
5 2 (8.00%) OpenShift
5 2 (8.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 1 (4.00%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (4.00%) AWS KMS
6 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Functions
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) VPN
2 1 (4.00%) Firewall
2 1 (4.00%) IPv4
2 1 (4.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (4.00%) OSPF
2 1 (4.00%) SSL
2 1 (4.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (4.00%) DataStax
1 1 (4.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Git
1 4 (16.00%) GitLab
1 4 (16.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.00%) JIRA
3 1 (4.00%) Ant
3 1 (4.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (4.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.00%) CircleCI
3 1 (4.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (4.00%) JMeter
3 1 (4.00%) Maven
3 1 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (24.00%) Finance
2 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (12.00%) Kafka
3 1 (4.00%) AWS CDK
3 1 (4.00%) AWS SAM
3 1 (4.00%) Middleware
3 1 (4.00%) Node.js
3 1 (4.00%) React
3 1 (4.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.00%) Blockchain
1 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (4.00%) Derivative
1 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (4.00%) Machine to Machine
1 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (4.00%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 12 (48.00%) Linux
2 3 (12.00%) Unix
3 2 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (100.00%) DevOps
2 21 (84.00%) CI/CD
3 12 (48.00%) Containerisation
4 9 (36.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (20.00%) Configuration Management
6 4 (16.00%) Agile
6 4 (16.00%) DevSecOps
6 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (16.00%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (12.00%) Cloud Security
7 3 (12.00%) Continuous Deployment
7 3 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (12.00%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (8.00%) Continuous Delivery
8 2 (8.00%) Deployment Automation
8 2 (8.00%) Mentoring
8 2 (8.00%) Microservices
8 2 (8.00%) Migration
8 2 (8.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (52.00%) Python
2 10 (40.00%) Bash
3 2 (8.00%) Go
3 2 (8.00%) Groovy
3 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.00%) Java
4 1 (4.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (32.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (28.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (8.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) GIAC
4 1 (4.00%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (68.00%) Terraform
2 13 (52.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (28.00%) Ansible
4 3 (12.00%) Grafana
4 3 (12.00%) Prometheus
4 3 (12.00%) Puppet
5 2 (8.00%) Argo
5 2 (8.00%) Karpenter
6 1 (4.00%) Packer
6 1 (4.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 2 (8.00%) Confluent
1 2 (8.00%) Oracle
1 2 (8.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.00%) VMware