DevOps Consultant Contracts

Development Operations Consultant
UK

The median Development Operations Consultant daily rate in the UK is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 565 650 754
Rank change year-on-year +85 +104 -123
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Consultant 19 47 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.085% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.047% 0.090% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 24 73
10th Percentile £472 £465 £500
25th Percentile £519 £509 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £750 - £700
90th Percentile £829 £668 £760
UK excluding London median daily rate £630 £545 £525
% change year-on-year +15.60% +3.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £78.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £78.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

DevOps Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Consultant in the UK

DevOps Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Consultant in the UK

DevOps Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Consultant over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Consultant in the UK

DevOps Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Consultant in the UK

DevOps Consultant
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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 +64 16 £600 - 12
London +64 11 £600 - 8
Work from Home +110 10 £600 +10.09% 1
UK excluding London +25 5 £630 +15.60% 2
North of England +17 3 £700 +29.63%
North West +14 2 £700 +29.63%
South West 0 1 £630 -3.08% 2
Yorkshire - 1 £425 -
East Midlands - 1 £550 -
Midlands - 1 £550 -

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, DevOps Consultant 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 Consultant in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) DevOps
2 13 (68.42%) Azure
3 8 (42.11%) AWS
3 8 (42.11%) Docker
3 8 (42.11%) Kubernetes
4 6 (31.58%) Terraform
4 6 (31.58%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (31.58%) CI/CD
5 5 (26.32%) Agile
6 4 (21.05%) Finance
6 4 (21.05%) SQL Server
6 4 (21.05%) Python
6 4 (21.05%) Git
6 4 (21.05%) Ansible
7 3 (15.79%) Continuous Delivery
7 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (15.79%) Data Lake
7 3 (15.79%) Azure AKS
7 3 (15.79%) Containerisation
7 3 (15.79%) Power Automate
7 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (15.79%) Power Platform
7 3 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
7 3 (15.79%) VMware
7 3 (15.79%) .NET
8 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (10.53%) OLTP
8 2 (10.53%) Clustering
8 2 (10.53%) Migration

DevOps Consultant 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 2 (10.53%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (68.42%) Azure
2 8 (42.11%) AWS
3 6 (31.58%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (15.79%) Azure AKS
4 3 (15.79%) Power Automate
4 3 (15.79%) Power Platform
5 2 (10.53%) Azure API Management
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Batch
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Functions
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Storage
5 2 (10.53%) PowerApps
5 2 (10.53%) Serverless
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (5.26%) GCP
6 1 (5.26%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) SQL Server
2 3 (15.79%) Data Lake
3 2 (10.53%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (10.53%) Big Data
3 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (10.53%) OLTP
4 1 (5.26%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Git
2 2 (10.53%) Visual Studio Team System
3 1 (5.26%) GitLab
General
1 4 (21.05%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Banking
3 1 (5.26%) Electronics
3 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.26%) Marketing
3 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) .NET
2 2 (10.53%) ARM Templates
2 2 (10.53%) JSON
2 2 (10.53%) REST
2 2 (10.53%) Web Services
2 2 (10.53%) XML
3 1 (5.26%) LDAP
3 1 (5.26%) OAuth
3 1 (5.26%) OpenID
3 1 (5.26%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Clustering
1 2 (10.53%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (31.58%) CI/CD
3 5 (26.32%) Agile
4 3 (15.79%) Containerisation
4 3 (15.79%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (10.53%) API Management
5 2 (10.53%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (10.53%) Data Migration
5 2 (10.53%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (10.53%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (10.53%) Kanban
5 2 (10.53%) OWASP
5 2 (10.53%) SDLC
5 2 (10.53%) Secure Coding
5 2 (10.53%) Service Design
5 2 (10.53%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) Python
2 2 (10.53%) Bash
2 2 (10.53%) C#
2 2 (10.53%) Java
2 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
2 2 (10.53%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) AWS Certification
1 2 (10.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
2 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) ISO 9001
1 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (42.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) Kubernetes
2 6 (31.58%) Terraform
3 4 (21.05%) Ansible
4 1 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (5.26%) vRealize
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
1 3 (15.79%) VMware
2 2 (10.53%) Virgin Media
3 1 (5.26%) EMC
3 1 (5.26%) ForgeRock
3 1 (5.26%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.26%) SAP