DevOps Contracts with Work from Home Options

DevOps
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 10 7
Rank change year-on-year -4 -3 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 1,559 2,995 6,236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.64% 12.26% 14.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.10% 13.67% 15.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,125 2,279 4,621
10th Percentile £400 £415 £413
25th Percentile £463 £492 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +11.65%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £586 £575
% change year-on-year -6.14% +1.91% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 33 38
10th Percentile £65.00 £39.60 £35.00
25th Percentile £75.94 £53.75 £46.67
Median hourly rate £87.46 £65.00 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year +34.55% +17.65% +22.78%
75th Percentile £87.53 £65.75 £75.00
90th Percentile - £69.20 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -0.76% +13.91% +27.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,882 21,904 40,173
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.65% 91.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,678 15,514 29,175
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +3.81% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 570 507 533
10th Percentile £14.83 £18.58 £14.30
25th Percentile £24.06 £26.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +37.60% +58.98%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%

DevOps
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DevOps trend for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DevOps.

DevOps daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing DevOps over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

DevOps daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DevOps.

DevOps hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing DevOps over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

DevOps hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 85 (5.45%) Confluence
2 43 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 26 (1.67%) SharePoint
4 21 (1.35%) Apache Spark
4 21 (1.35%) CMS
5 18 (1.15%) Apache
6 15 (0.96%) nginx
7 8 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.38%) Kentico
8 6 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.32%) Headless CMS
9 5 (0.32%) IIS
9 5 (0.32%) JBoss
9 5 (0.32%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.32%) WebLogic
10 4 (0.26%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.26%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.19%) Mule
11 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (0.71%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.45%) Chatbot
4 7 (0.45%) Trello
5 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.13%) Sketch
8 1 (0.064%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.064%) Gliffy
8 1 (0.064%) InVision
8 1 (0.064%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 27 (1.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (1.41%) Dynamics AX
3 12 (0.77%) NetSuite
4 10 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
5 9 (0.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 7 (0.45%) Oracle EBS R12
7 6 (0.38%) Maximo
7 6 (0.38%) SAP Hybris
8 5 (0.32%) Endur
8 5 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.26%) Shopify
9 4 (0.26%) Temenos T24
10 3 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
10 3 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.19%) Teamcenter
11 2 (0.13%) BusinessWorks
11 2 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
11 2 (0.13%) SAP PM
12 1 (0.064%) NEC Housing
12 1 (0.064%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 842 (54.01%) Azure
2 509 (32.65%) Azure DevOps
3 486 (31.17%) AWS
4 141 (9.04%) GitHub
5 138 (8.85%) GCP
6 121 (7.76%) Serverless
7 116 (7.44%) Power Platform
8 83 (5.32%) Dynamics 365
9 70 (4.49%) PaaS
10 69 (4.43%) Entra ID
11 62 (3.98%) SaaS
12 61 (3.91%) Azure Logic Apps
13 60 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
13 60 (3.85%) PowerApps
14 59 (3.78%) Azure Monitor
15 57 (3.66%) Azure Service Bus
16 54 (3.46%) Amazon S3
16 54 (3.46%) AWS Lambda
17 53 (3.40%) Azure Data Factory
17 53 (3.40%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 113 (7.25%) Firewall
2 50 (3.21%) DNS
3 30 (1.92%) VPN
4 27 (1.73%) DHCP
4 27 (1.73%) Network Security
5 23 (1.48%) TCP/IP
6 19 (1.22%) HTTP
7 11 (0.71%) Intrusion Detection
8 10 (0.64%) IPsec
8 10 (0.64%) SAN
8 10 (0.64%) SNMP
9 8 (0.51%) BGP
9 8 (0.51%) Kerberos
9 8 (0.51%) OSPF
9 8 (0.51%) WAN
9 8 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (0.45%) Cisco Nexus
11 6 (0.38%) HSRP
11 6 (0.38%) NetScaler
11 6 (0.38%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (9.88%) SQL Server
2 89 (5.71%) Power BI
3 82 (5.26%) Data Lake
4 76 (4.87%) PostgreSQL
5 55 (3.53%) NoSQL
6 47 (3.01%) MongoDB
6 47 (3.01%) Relational Database
7 44 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
8 43 (2.76%) Big Data
9 41 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
10 37 (2.37%) Amazon RDS
11 35 (2.25%) MySQL
12 34 (2.18%) Elasticsearch
12 34 (2.18%) Oracle Database
13 27 (1.73%) Amazon Athena
14 21 (1.35%) BigQuery
15 20 (1.28%) RDBMS
16 18 (1.15%) Apache Arrow
16 18 (1.15%) Dremio
17 17 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 197 (12.64%) Git
2 192 (12.32%) Jenkins
3 161 (10.33%) JIRA
4 112 (7.18%) GitLab
5 48 (3.08%) Selenium
6 34 (2.18%) SonarQube
7 33 (2.12%) Visual Studio
8 32 (2.05%) TeamCity
9 28 (1.80%) Cucumber
10 25 (1.60%) SpecFlow
11 24 (1.54%) Artifactory
12 23 (1.48%) Bitbucket
13 17 (1.09%) Maven
14 16 (1.03%) Postman
15 15 (0.96%) Cypress.io
15 15 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
16 14 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
17 13 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 13 (0.83%) JUnit
18 12 (0.77%) Mockito
General
1 344 (22.07%) Finance
2 336 (21.55%) Social Skills
3 195 (12.51%) Public Sector
4 114 (7.31%) Analytical Skills
5 103 (6.61%) Banking
6 61 (3.91%) Retail
7 36 (2.31%) Marketing
8 32 (2.05%) Telecoms
9 29 (1.86%) Law
10 25 (1.60%) Manufacturing
11 24 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
12 22 (1.41%) General Ledger
13 18 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 17 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
14 17 (1.09%) Front Office
15 15 (0.96%) Back Office
16 14 (0.90%) Electronics
17 12 (0.77%) Legal
18 10 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
18 10 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 327 (20.97%) Developer
2 294 (18.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 213 (13.66%) Senior
4 186 (11.93%) Architect
5 128 (8.21%) AWS Engineer
6 119 (7.63%) Lead
7 98 (6.29%) Consultant
8 89 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
9 81 (5.20%) AWS DevOps
10 76 (4.87%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 76 (4.87%) Senior Developer
11 74 (4.75%) Analyst
12 71 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
13 61 (3.91%) Data Engineer
14 57 (3.66%) Azure Developer
15 52 (3.34%) Senior DevOps
16 49 (3.14%) .NET Developer
17 48 (3.08%) Full Stack Developer
18 47 (3.01%) Cloud Engineer
19 44 (2.82%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (12.19%) .NET
2 102 (6.54%) React
3 96 (6.16%) XML
4 85 (5.45%) REST
5 75 (4.81%) ARM Templates
6 72 (4.62%) CSS
6 72 (4.62%) Kafka
7 66 (4.23%) HTML
8 58 (3.72%) .NET Framework
8 58 (3.72%) Node.js
9 57 (3.66%) .NET Core
9 57 (3.66%) JSON
10 54 (3.46%) Spring Boot
11 47 (3.01%) RESTful
12 46 (2.95%) AngularJS
13 40 (2.57%) YAML
14 39 (2.50%) Web Services
15 35 (2.25%) GraphQL
16 32 (2.05%) ASP.NET
17 31 (1.99%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 88 (5.64%) Product Ownership
2 40 (2.57%) Data Structures
3 38 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
4 37 (2.37%) Public Cloud
5 35 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
6 28 (1.80%) Clustering
6 28 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
7 27 (1.73%) Mobile App
7 27 (1.73%) Onboarding
8 26 (1.67%) Management Information System
9 25 (1.60%) Cloud Native
9 25 (1.60%) PKI
10 24 (1.54%) Hedge funds
11 19 (1.22%) Data Centre
12 15 (0.96%) Algorithms
13 14 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
14 13 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
15 12 (0.77%) Credit Derivative
16 11 (0.71%) Contactless
17 10 (0.64%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 185 (11.87%) Linux
2 129 (8.27%) Windows
3 61 (3.91%) Windows Server
4 37 (2.37%) Unix
5 21 (1.35%) Android
5 21 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (1.22%) Apple iOS
6 19 (1.22%) Windows Server 2016
6 19 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
7 10 (0.64%) Ubuntu
8 9 (0.58%) CentOS
9 8 (0.51%) AIX
9 8 (0.51%) Solaris
10 6 (0.38%) Oracle Linux
11 5 (0.32%) Windows 10
12 3 (0.19%) VMS
13 2 (0.13%) Alpine Linux
13 2 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.064%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 600 (38.49%) Agile
2 556 (35.66%) CI/CD
3 246 (15.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 199 (12.76%) Test Automation
5 187 (11.99%) Problem-Solving
6 149 (9.56%) Containerisation
7 146 (9.36%) Microservices
8 139 (8.92%) Scrum
9 134 (8.60%) Software Engineering
10 131 (8.40%) Migration
11 118 (7.57%) Business Intelligence
12 112 (7.18%) SDLC
13 111 (7.12%) Analytics
14 107 (6.86%) Continuous Integration
15 93 (5.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 85 (5.45%) Full Stack Development
17 82 (5.26%) Mentoring
18 80 (5.13%) Computer Science
18 80 (5.13%) TDD
19 78 (5.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 382 (24.50%) Python
2 263 (16.87%) SQL
3 241 (15.46%) C#
4 221 (14.18%) Java
5 170 (10.90%) PowerShell
6 158 (10.13%) JavaScript
7 94 (6.03%) Bash
8 83 (5.32%) TypeScript
9 80 (5.13%) Bicep
10 74 (4.75%) Go
11 42 (2.69%) Shell Script
12 34 (2.18%) Perl
13 33 (2.12%) C++
14 22 (1.41%) Scala
15 21 (1.35%) VB
16 19 (1.22%) C
16 19 (1.22%) PL/SQL
16 19 (1.22%) Ruby
16 19 (1.22%) VBScript
17 18 (1.15%) PHP
Qualifications
1 281 (18.02%) Security Cleared
2 220 (14.11%) SC Cleared
3 132 (8.47%) Degree
4 60 (3.85%) DV Cleared
5 58 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
7 30 (1.92%) Azure Certification
8 26 (1.67%) AWS Certification
9 18 (1.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 18 (1.15%) Master's Degree
10 15 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 13 (0.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 11 (0.71%) CISSP
13 11 (0.71%) PMP
14 10 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
15 9 (0.58%) PMI Certification
16 8 (0.51%) CCNP
16 8 (0.51%) ISTQB
17 6 (0.38%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (4.87%) QA
2 29 (1.86%) Accessibility
3 27 (1.73%) GDPR
4 22 (1.41%) PCI DSS
5 21 (1.35%) NCSC
6 18 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (1.15%) NIST
7 15 (0.96%) Data Quality
8 12 (0.77%) SLA
9 11 (0.71%) WCAG
10 10 (0.64%) HIPAA
11 9 (0.58%) PMO
12 6 (0.38%) ISO 9001
12 6 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.38%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.26%) PSD2
14 2 (0.13%) COBIT
14 2 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
14 2 (0.13%) GxP
14 2 (0.13%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 240 (15.39%) Docker
2 106 (6.80%) Active Directory
3 38 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
5 19 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
6 12 (0.77%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 7 (0.45%) vSphere
8 6 (0.38%) Firmware
8 6 (0.38%) Oracle RAC
8 6 (0.38%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.19%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.13%) Postfix
11 2 (0.13%) Squid
11 2 (0.13%) vCloud
12 1 (0.064%) OpenAM
12 1 (0.064%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 385 (24.70%) Terraform
2 344 (22.07%) Kubernetes
3 166 (10.65%) Ansible
4 85 (5.45%) Prometheus
5 78 (5.00%) Grafana
6 36 (2.31%) Puppet
7 32 (2.05%) Progress Chef
8 23 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
9 21 (1.35%) SCCM
9 21 (1.35%) SCOM
10 20 (1.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 20 (1.28%) Kibana
11 18 (1.15%) Consul
11 18 (1.15%) WSUS
12 16 (1.03%) Docker Swarm
13 13 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
14 10 (0.64%) Argo
15 9 (0.58%) Packer
16 8 (0.51%) Istio
16 8 (0.51%) Podman
Vendors
1 307 (19.69%) Microsoft
2 129 (8.27%) Oracle
3 54 (3.46%) Google
4 50 (3.21%) Databricks
5 49 (3.14%) Splunk
6 46 (2.95%) SAP
7 31 (1.99%) VMware
8 30 (1.92%) Cisco
8 30 (1.92%) ServiceNow
9 26 (1.67%) IBM
10 25 (1.60%) CyberArk
10 25 (1.60%) Salesforce
11 21 (1.35%) Dynatrace
12 19 (1.22%) Informatica
13 16 (1.03%) Palo Alto
14 14 (0.90%) Adobe
14 14 (0.90%) Citrix
15 13 (0.83%) Atlassian
15 13 (0.83%) Genesys
15 13 (0.83%) HP