DevOps Engineer Contracts

Development Operations Engineer
UK

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the UK is £538 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 78 71
Rank change year-on-year -47 -7 +2
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 808 1,670 2,933
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.87% 3.00% 3.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.01% 3.17% 3.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 624 1,301 2,187
10th Percentile £405 £463 £463
25th Percentile £463 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £625 £695 £675
90th Percentile £688 £798 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -10.64% +6.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 2
10th Percentile £46.79 £53.75 £35.63
25th Percentile £55.75 £65.94 £36.56
Median hourly rate £73.50 £72.00 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% +74.55% -37.97%
75th Percentile £74.44 £86.25 £49.06
90th Percentile £74.94 £90.00 £51.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £71.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -2.10% +50.53% -20.17%

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 40,208 52,661 84,090
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.53% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,884 36,729 59,270
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 2,897 1,486 1,961
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.60
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% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.75 £65.75 £49.75
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% +6.20%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the UK

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the UK

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in the UK

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the UK

DevOps Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in the UK

DevOps Engineer
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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 -51 681 £538 -12.24% 241
London -46 392 £550 -12.00% 102
Work from Home -40 301 £529 -11.83% 161
UK excluding London -41 293 £525 -10.64% 152
North of England -15 109 £495 -17.50% 40
South West -17 68 £550 -8.33% 32
North West -18 58 £500 -8.26% 24
South East -47 54 £525 -12.50% 26
Yorkshire +13 46 £475 -24.00% 13
Midlands -2 31 £550 -12.00% 30
Scotland +18 26 £475 -13.08% 8
West Midlands -14 23 £550 -14.06% 20
East Midlands +2 8 £538 -23.21% 10
North East -6 5 - - 3
East of England -18 5 £450 -33.33% 7
Wales +13 2 £821 +68.46% 2

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

For the 6 months to 8 June 2024, 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 DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 808 (100.00%) DevOps
2 478 (59.16%) Terraform
3 460 (56.93%) AWS
4 394 (48.76%) CI/CD
5 378 (46.78%) Kubernetes
6 338 (41.83%) Security Cleared
7 310 (38.37%) Python
8 281 (34.78%) Docker
9 278 (34.41%) Azure
10 243 (30.07%) SC Cleared
11 215 (26.61%) Ansible
12 208 (25.74%) Infrastructure as Code
13 204 (25.25%) Jenkins
14 201 (24.88%) Linux
15 173 (21.41%) Agile
16 149 (18.44%) GitLab
17 148 (18.32%) Bash
18 139 (17.20%) Containerisation
19 133 (16.46%) Git
20 131 (16.21%) Azure DevOps
21 124 (15.35%) PowerShell
22 99 (12.25%) Prometheus
23 98 (12.13%) GitHub
24 93 (11.51%) Social Skills
25 92 (11.39%) Public Sector
26 91 (11.26%) Grafana
27 86 (10.64%) Configuration Management
27 86 (10.64%) Problem-Solving
28 81 (10.02%) Serverless
29 79 (9.78%) DV Cleared

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 48 (5.94%) Confluence
2 31 (3.84%) nginx
3 18 (2.23%) Apache
4 12 (1.49%) IIS
5 5 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.62%) Apache Solr
5 5 (0.62%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.50%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.25%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.12%) JBoss
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 1 (0.12%) Traefik
8 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (0.87%) Trello
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.12%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 460 (56.93%) AWS
2 278 (34.41%) Azure
3 131 (16.21%) Azure DevOps
4 98 (12.13%) GitHub
5 81 (10.02%) Serverless
6 79 (9.78%) AWS CloudFormation
7 78 (9.65%) Amazon EC2
8 76 (9.41%) GCP
9 74 (9.16%) Amazon S3
10 69 (8.54%) Amazon EKS
11 64 (7.92%) OpenShift
12 62 (7.67%) AWS Lambda
13 51 (6.31%) GitHub Actions
14 46 (5.69%) Amazon ECS
14 46 (5.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 41 (5.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 41 (5.07%) Route 53
16 33 (4.08%) PaaS
17 22 (2.72%) Azure AKS
18 21 (2.60%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 36 (4.46%) Firewall
2 29 (3.59%) DNS
3 19 (2.35%) HTTP
3 19 (2.35%) Network Security
3 19 (2.35%) VPN
4 16 (1.98%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.74%) SSL
6 4 (0.50%) AMQP
6 4 (0.50%) HTTPS
6 4 (0.50%) Internet
6 4 (0.50%) IPsec
6 4 (0.50%) IPv4
6 4 (0.50%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (0.50%) SSH
7 3 (0.37%) DHCP
7 3 (0.37%) LAN
7 3 (0.37%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (0.37%) WLAN
8 2 (0.25%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.25%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (6.93%) Amazon RDS
2 29 (3.59%) SQL Server
3 27 (3.34%) Elasticsearch
4 19 (2.35%) Relational Database
5 17 (2.10%) MySQL
5 17 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (1.73%) Amazon Redshift
7 13 (1.61%) NoSQL
8 7 (0.87%) InfluxDB
8 7 (0.87%) MongoDB
8 7 (0.87%) Oracle Database
8 7 (0.87%) Triplestore
9 6 (0.74%) Power BI
9 6 (0.74%) Redis
10 5 (0.62%) Big Data
10 5 (0.62%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (0.50%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.50%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 204 (25.25%) Jenkins
2 149 (18.44%) GitLab
3 133 (16.46%) Git
4 57 (7.05%) JIRA
5 41 (5.07%) Artifactory
6 32 (3.96%) TeamCity
7 23 (2.85%) Bitbucket
7 23 (2.85%) SonarQube
8 19 (2.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 12 (1.49%) Selenium
10 11 (1.36%) Maven
11 10 (1.24%) CircleCI
12 9 (1.11%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
13 8 (0.99%) Travis CI
14 7 (0.87%) Gradle
14 7 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
15 6 (0.74%) Spinnaker
16 4 (0.50%) Jaeger
16 4 (0.50%) Terragrunt
General
1 93 (11.51%) Social Skills
2 92 (11.39%) Public Sector
3 74 (9.16%) Finance
4 49 (6.06%) Banking
5 23 (2.85%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (2.60%) Investment Banking
7 13 (1.61%) Law
8 10 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.11%) Legal
10 8 (0.99%) Telecoms
11 7 (0.87%) Marketing
12 6 (0.74%) Retail
13 5 (0.62%) Electronics
13 5 (0.62%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.37%) Tech for Good
15 2 (0.25%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.25%) Wearables
16 1 (0.12%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (5.69%) Kafka
2 45 (5.57%) .NET
3 43 (5.32%) YAML
4 31 (3.84%) Elastic Stack
5 30 (3.71%) JSON
6 26 (3.22%) REST
7 24 (2.97%) AWS CDK
7 24 (2.97%) RabbitMQ
8 23 (2.85%) Node.js
9 22 (2.72%) ARM Templates
10 20 (2.48%) React
10 20 (2.48%) WinForms
11 19 (2.35%) WCF
12 15 (1.86%) Apache NiFi
13 12 (1.49%) RESTful
14 9 (1.11%) CSS
14 9 (1.11%) HTML
14 9 (1.11%) XML
15 8 (0.99%) LDAP
16 7 (0.87%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 29 (3.59%) Greenfield Project
2 21 (2.60%) Public Cloud
3 20 (2.48%) Cloud Native
4 16 (1.98%) Linux Command Line
5 15 (1.86%) Product Ownership
6 12 (1.49%) Data Centre
6 12 (1.49%) Private Cloud
7 11 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (0.87%) Data Structures
11 6 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (0.74%) Management Information System
11 6 (0.74%) PKI
11 6 (0.74%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.62%) Blockchain
12 5 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
13 4 (0.50%) Onboarding
13 4 (0.50%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 201 (24.88%) Linux
2 62 (7.67%) Windows
3 44 (5.45%) Unix
4 31 (3.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.49%) CentOS
6 11 (1.36%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.74%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.74%) VMS
8 5 (0.62%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.37%) Android
9 3 (0.37%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.25%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.12%) AIX
11 1 (0.12%) Debian
11 1 (0.12%) Solaris
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 808 (100.00%) DevOps
2 394 (48.76%) CI/CD
3 208 (25.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 173 (21.41%) Agile
5 139 (17.20%) Containerisation
6 86 (10.64%) Configuration Management
6 86 (10.64%) Problem-Solving
7 68 (8.42%) Test Automation
8 64 (7.92%) Migration
9 63 (7.80%) Continuous Integration
10 57 (7.05%) Computer Science
10 57 (7.05%) Software Engineering
11 52 (6.44%) Platform Engineering
12 44 (5.45%) Software Delivery
13 42 (5.20%) Continuous Improvement
13 42 (5.20%) Scrum
14 40 (4.95%) Task Automation
15 39 (4.83%) Microservices
16 38 (4.70%) Observability
17 36 (4.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 310 (38.37%) Python
2 148 (18.32%) Bash
3 124 (15.35%) PowerShell
4 77 (9.53%) Java
5 75 (9.28%) Go
5 75 (9.28%) SQL
6 54 (6.68%) JavaScript
7 48 (5.94%) C#
8 35 (4.33%) Ruby
9 28 (3.47%) TypeScript
10 22 (2.72%) Groovy
10 22 (2.72%) Shell Script
11 21 (2.60%) Perl
12 17 (2.10%) C
13 14 (1.73%) C++
14 11 (1.36%) Bicep
14 11 (1.36%) PHP
15 8 (0.99%) Scala
16 7 (0.87%) SPARQL
17 5 (0.62%) Rust
Qualifications
1 338 (41.83%) Security Cleared
2 243 (30.07%) SC Cleared
3 79 (9.78%) DV Cleared
4 65 (8.04%) Degree
5 45 (5.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (3.96%) AWS Certification
7 19 (2.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 16 (1.98%) Azure Certification
9 7 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.12%) GIAC
12 1 (0.12%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.12%) RHCE
12 1 (0.12%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (4.33%) QA
2 9 (1.11%) NIST
3 6 (0.74%) GDPR
3 6 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.62%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.50%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.25%) NCSC
6 2 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 281 (34.78%) Docker
2 30 (3.71%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.50%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.37%) NFS
6 3 (0.37%) OpenAM
6 3 (0.37%) OpenIDM
6 3 (0.37%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.25%) vCloud
7 2 (0.25%) vSphere
8 1 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.12%) KVM
8 1 (0.12%) LXC
8 1 (0.12%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 478 (59.16%) Terraform
2 378 (46.78%) Kubernetes
3 215 (26.61%) Ansible
4 99 (12.25%) Prometheus
5 91 (11.26%) Grafana
6 52 (6.44%) Puppet
7 42 (5.20%) Progress Chef
8 25 (3.09%) Packer
9 19 (2.35%) Docker Swarm
10 17 (2.10%) Kibana
11 13 (1.61%) Consul
11 13 (1.61%) Istio
11 13 (1.61%) Rancher
12 12 (1.49%) Argo
13 11 (1.36%) logstash
14 7 (0.87%) Nagios
15 6 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
16 5 (0.62%) Salt
17 3 (0.37%) HP Fortify
17 3 (0.37%) SCOM
Vendors
1 54 (6.68%) Microsoft
2 47 (5.82%) Oracle
3 44 (5.45%) Splunk
4 29 (3.59%) VMware
5 21 (2.60%) Dynatrace
6 20 (2.48%) Google
6 20 (2.48%) Red Hat
7 12 (1.49%) SAP
8 11 (1.36%) Atlassian
9 10 (1.24%) Databricks
10 8 (0.99%) ServiceNow
11 7 (0.87%) PagerDuty
12 6 (0.74%) F5
13 5 (0.62%) AppDynamics
13 5 (0.62%) Palo Alto
13 5 (0.62%) Salesforce
14 4 (0.50%) Cisco
14 4 (0.50%) ForgeRock
14 4 (0.50%) Guidewire
14 4 (0.50%) Virgin Media
302 DevOps Engineer jobs Nationwide