Senior DevOps Engineer Contracts

Senior Development Operations Engineer
UK

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the UK is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 503 546 633
Rank change year-on-year +43 +87 -107
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 87 133 226
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.24% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.25% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 113 180
10th Percentile £513 £521 £511
25th Percentile £563 £588 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £760 £700 £714
90th Percentile £1,000 £738 £764
UK excluding London median daily rate £643 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -1.15% +8.33% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £73.50 - -
75th Percentile £74.44 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.44 - -

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 40,303 52,860 84,187
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,003 36,915 59,359
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% +7.14%
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 2,874 1,471 1,974
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.51
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.70%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK

Senior DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK

Senior DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK

Senior DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK

Senior DevOps Engineer
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior DevOps Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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 +42 71 £650 - 56
London +70 44 £650 - 29
Work from Home +79 40 £643 +1.78% 32
UK excluding London +22 24 £643 -1.15% 35
North West +15 9 £600 -7.69% 9
North of England +14 9 £600 -14.29% 13
South East +16 7 £650 -10.34% 3
South West +4 6 £625 -7.41% 7
Midlands +10 2 - - 7
East Midlands +9 2 - - 3
Wales - 2 £821 -

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

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

1 87 (100.00%) DevOps
2 53 (60.92%) Terraform
3 47 (54.02%) AWS
4 44 (50.57%) Kubernetes
5 41 (47.13%) Python
5 41 (47.13%) CI/CD
6 37 (42.53%) Security Cleared
7 34 (39.08%) Azure
8 31 (35.63%) Docker
9 28 (32.18%) Ansible
10 27 (31.03%) SC Cleared
11 22 (25.29%) Jenkins
12 21 (24.14%) Infrastructure as Code
13 18 (20.69%) Git
13 18 (20.69%) Bash
14 17 (19.54%) PowerShell
14 17 (19.54%) Linux
15 16 (18.39%) Banking
16 15 (17.24%) Agile
17 14 (16.09%) GitHub
17 14 (16.09%) Public Sector
17 14 (16.09%) Containerisation
18 13 (14.94%) Problem-Solving
18 13 (14.94%) Grafana
19 12 (13.79%) Configuration Management
19 12 (13.79%) Test Automation
20 11 (12.64%) PaaS
20 11 (12.64%) Windows
20 11 (12.64%) SDLC
20 11 (12.64%) Prometheus

Senior 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 4 (4.60%) Confluence
2 2 (2.30%) Apache
2 2 (2.30%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.15%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.15%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 4 (4.60%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 47 (54.02%) AWS
2 34 (39.08%) Azure
3 14 (16.09%) GitHub
4 11 (12.64%) GitHub Actions
4 11 (12.64%) OpenShift
4 11 (12.64%) PaaS
5 10 (11.49%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (9.20%) Serverless
8 7 (8.05%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (8.05%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (8.05%) GCP
9 4 (4.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (4.60%) Amazon S3
9 4 (4.60%) Miro
9 4 (4.60%) OCI
9 4 (4.60%) SaaS
10 3 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (2.30%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.60%) Firewall
2 2 (2.30%) DNS
2 2 (2.30%) Network Security
3 1 (1.15%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.20%) Elasticsearch
1 8 (9.20%) SQL Server
2 7 (8.05%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.30%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.30%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.30%) Redis
5 1 (1.15%) Big Data
5 1 (1.15%) DB2
5 1 (1.15%) MySQL
5 1 (1.15%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.15%) QGIS
5 1 (1.15%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 22 (25.29%) Jenkins
2 18 (20.69%) Git
3 11 (12.64%) GitLab
4 9 (10.34%) TeamCity
5 7 (8.05%) Bitbucket
6 5 (5.75%) Artifactory
7 2 (2.30%) Gradle
7 2 (2.30%) JIRA
7 2 (2.30%) Maven
7 2 (2.30%) Selenium
7 2 (2.30%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.15%) Apache Continuum
8 1 (1.15%) Burp Suite
8 1 (1.15%) CircleCI
8 1 (1.15%) Jaeger
8 1 (1.15%) Snyk
General
1 16 (18.39%) Banking
2 14 (16.09%) Public Sector
3 10 (11.49%) Investment Banking
4 9 (10.34%) Finance
4 9 (10.34%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.15%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.15%) Electronics
5 1 (1.15%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.15%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.15%) Marketing
5 1 (1.15%) Tech for Good
5 1 (1.15%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.49%) Kafka
2 7 (8.05%) .NET
3 5 (5.75%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (5.75%) WCF
3 5 (5.75%) WinForms
4 4 (4.60%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (3.45%) ARM Templates
5 3 (3.45%) Node.js
6 2 (2.30%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (2.30%) Fluent Bit
6 2 (2.30%) Loki
6 2 (2.30%) pytest
6 2 (2.30%) REST
6 2 (2.30%) RESTful
6 2 (2.30%) YAML
7 1 (1.15%) AWS SAM
7 1 (1.15%) PyTorch
7 1 (1.15%) React
7 1 (1.15%) SailPoint
7 1 (1.15%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.49%) Product Ownership
2 7 (8.05%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (8.05%) Public Cloud
3 5 (5.75%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.30%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.30%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.15%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.15%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.15%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 17 (19.54%) Linux
2 11 (12.64%) Windows
3 9 (10.34%) Unix
4 3 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.30%) Alpine Linux
5 2 (2.30%) Android
5 2 (2.30%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.15%) VMS
6 1 (1.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (100.00%) DevOps
2 41 (47.13%) CI/CD
3 21 (24.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (17.24%) Agile
5 14 (16.09%) Containerisation
6 13 (14.94%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (13.79%) Configuration Management
7 12 (13.79%) Test Automation
8 11 (12.64%) SDLC
9 10 (11.49%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (11.49%) Open Source
9 10 (11.49%) Roadmaps
10 9 (10.34%) Migration
11 8 (9.20%) Mentoring
11 8 (9.20%) Observability
11 8 (9.20%) Service Catalogue
12 7 (8.05%) Platform Engineering
13 6 (6.90%) Software Engineering
14 5 (5.75%) GitOps
14 5 (5.75%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 41 (47.13%) Python
2 18 (20.69%) Bash
3 17 (19.54%) PowerShell
4 10 (11.49%) TypeScript
5 9 (10.34%) Go
6 8 (9.20%) SQL
7 7 (8.05%) Java
8 6 (6.90%) C#
9 4 (4.60%) JavaScript
10 3 (3.45%) Groovy
11 2 (2.30%) Bicep
11 2 (2.30%) C++
11 2 (2.30%) Ruby
12 1 (1.15%) C
12 1 (1.15%) Perl
12 1 (1.15%) PHP
Qualifications
1 37 (42.53%) Security Cleared
2 27 (31.03%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.05%) Degree
3 7 (8.05%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.75%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.45%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.15%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.30%) QA
2 1 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.15%) NIST
2 1 (1.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 31 (35.63%) Docker
2 5 (5.75%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.15%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 53 (60.92%) Terraform
2 44 (50.57%) Kubernetes
3 28 (32.18%) Ansible
4 13 (14.94%) Grafana
5 11 (12.64%) Prometheus
6 4 (4.60%) Argo
6 4 (4.60%) Puppet
7 3 (3.45%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.30%) Kustomize
8 2 (2.30%) Nagios
9 1 (1.15%) Graylog
9 1 (1.15%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (8.05%) Splunk
2 5 (5.75%) Oracle
3 4 (4.60%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.45%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.30%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.30%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.30%) VMware
6 1 (1.15%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.15%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.15%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.15%) Google
6 1 (1.15%) Guidewire
6 1 (1.15%) New Relic
6 1 (1.15%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.15%) SAP
6 1 (1.15%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.15%) Sun
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