DevOps Engineer Contracts

Development Operations Engineer
UK

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the UK is £538, 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 118 78 72
Rank change year-on-year -40 -6 +2
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 822 1,660 2,907
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.88% 2.99% 3.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.03% 3.16% 3.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 637 1,297 2,169
10th Percentile £405 £462 £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 £622 £694 £675
90th Percentile £688 £788 £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 13 8 2
10th Percentile £47.70 £53.75 £35.63
25th Percentile £56.00 £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 £74.89 £90.00 £51.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.00 £71.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +0.70% +50.53% -20.17%

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 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 12 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 12 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 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 -49 692 £538 -12.07% 234
London -46 393 £550 -12.00% 100
Work from Home -40 306 £525 -12.50% 159
UK excluding London -40 305 £525 -10.64% 148
North of England -17 111 £475 -20.83% 44
South West -21 71 £550 -8.33% 33
North West -15 56 £500 -9.09% 27
South East -43 55 £525 -12.50% 25
Yorkshire +15 50 £475 -24.00% 13
Midlands -1 35 £554 -11.44% 23
Scotland +30 27 £475 -9.52% 8
West Midlands -2 27 £557 -12.97% 16
East Midlands -2 8 £538 -23.21% 7
East of England -19 6 £500 -23.08% 7
North East -9 5 - - 4
Wales +17 2 £821 +68.46% 1

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

For the 6 months to 12 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.

1 822 (100.00%) DevOps
2 482 (58.64%) Terraform
3 460 (55.96%) AWS
4 401 (48.78%) CI/CD
5 381 (46.35%) Kubernetes
6 344 (41.85%) Security Cleared
7 311 (37.83%) Python
8 289 (35.16%) Azure
9 285 (34.67%) Docker
10 244 (29.68%) SC Cleared
11 222 (27.01%) Ansible
12 214 (26.03%) Infrastructure as Code
13 209 (25.43%) Jenkins
14 201 (24.45%) Linux
15 172 (20.92%) Agile
16 151 (18.37%) GitLab
17 149 (18.13%) Bash
18 141 (17.15%) Containerisation
19 137 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
20 134 (16.30%) Git
21 128 (15.57%) PowerShell
22 100 (12.17%) Prometheus
23 99 (12.04%) GitHub
24 94 (11.44%) Social Skills
25 91 (11.07%) Grafana
25 91 (11.07%) Public Sector
26 89 (10.83%) Configuration Management
27 84 (10.22%) DV Cleared
27 84 (10.22%) Problem-Solving
28 79 (9.61%) Serverless

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 49 (5.96%) Confluence
2 31 (3.77%) nginx
3 19 (2.31%) Apache
4 12 (1.46%) IIS
5 5 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.61%) Apache Solr
5 5 (0.61%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.49%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.36%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.24%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.12%) JBoss
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Self-Service HR
9 1 (0.12%) Traefik
9 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (0.85%) Trello
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.12%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 460 (55.96%) AWS
2 289 (35.16%) Azure
3 137 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 99 (12.04%) GitHub
5 79 (9.61%) Serverless
6 78 (9.49%) Amazon EC2
6 78 (9.49%) GCP
7 77 (9.37%) AWS CloudFormation
8 74 (9.00%) Amazon S3
9 66 (8.03%) Amazon EKS
10 65 (7.91%) OpenShift
11 60 (7.30%) AWS Lambda
12 51 (6.20%) GitHub Actions
13 46 (5.60%) Amazon ECS
13 46 (5.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 41 (4.99%) Route 53
15 40 (4.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 33 (4.01%) PaaS
17 26 (3.16%) Azure AKS
18 21 (2.55%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 37 (4.50%) Firewall
2 29 (3.53%) DNS
3 19 (2.31%) HTTP
3 19 (2.31%) Network Security
3 19 (2.31%) VPN
4 16 (1.95%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.73%) SSL
6 4 (0.49%) AMQP
6 4 (0.49%) HTTPS
6 4 (0.49%) Internet
6 4 (0.49%) IPsec
6 4 (0.49%) IPv4
6 4 (0.49%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (0.49%) SSH
7 3 (0.36%) DHCP
7 3 (0.36%) LAN
7 3 (0.36%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (0.36%) WLAN
8 2 (0.24%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.24%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (6.81%) Amazon RDS
2 29 (3.53%) SQL Server
3 27 (3.28%) Elasticsearch
4 19 (2.31%) Relational Database
5 17 (2.07%) MySQL
6 14 (1.70%) Amazon Redshift
6 14 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (1.58%) NoSQL
8 7 (0.85%) InfluxDB
8 7 (0.85%) MongoDB
8 7 (0.85%) Oracle Database
8 7 (0.85%) Triplestore
9 6 (0.73%) Power BI
9 6 (0.73%) Redis
10 5 (0.61%) Big Data
10 5 (0.61%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.49%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.49%) Couchbase
11 4 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.49%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 209 (25.43%) Jenkins
2 151 (18.37%) GitLab
3 134 (16.30%) Git
4 58 (7.06%) JIRA
5 42 (5.11%) Artifactory
6 32 (3.89%) TeamCity
7 24 (2.92%) Bitbucket
7 24 (2.92%) SonarQube
8 19 (2.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 13 (1.58%) Maven
10 12 (1.46%) Selenium
11 10 (1.22%) CircleCI
11 10 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
12 9 (1.09%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.97%) Gradle
14 7 (0.85%) Travis CI
14 7 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
15 6 (0.73%) Spinnaker
16 5 (0.61%) Jaeger
17 4 (0.49%) Terragrunt
General
1 94 (11.44%) Social Skills
2 91 (11.07%) Public Sector
3 77 (9.37%) Finance
4 53 (6.45%) Banking
5 23 (2.80%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (2.80%) Investment Banking
6 13 (1.58%) Law
7 10 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (1.09%) Legal
8 9 (1.09%) Telecoms
9 8 (0.97%) Marketing
10 6 (0.73%) Electronics
10 6 (0.73%) Manufacturing
10 6 (0.73%) Retail
11 3 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.36%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.24%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.24%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.24%) Wearables
13 1 (0.12%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (5.72%) Kafka
2 46 (5.60%) YAML
3 43 (5.23%) .NET
4 31 (3.77%) Elastic Stack
5 30 (3.65%) JSON
6 28 (3.41%) REST
7 25 (3.04%) RabbitMQ
8 24 (2.92%) AWS CDK
9 23 (2.80%) ARM Templates
9 23 (2.80%) Node.js
10 20 (2.43%) React
10 20 (2.43%) WinForms
11 19 (2.31%) WCF
12 16 (1.95%) Apache NiFi
13 12 (1.46%) RESTful
14 9 (1.09%) CSS
14 9 (1.09%) HTML
14 9 (1.09%) XML
15 8 (0.97%) LDAP
15 8 (0.97%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 29 (3.53%) Greenfield Project
2 21 (2.55%) Public Cloud
3 20 (2.43%) Cloud Native
4 16 (1.95%) Linux Command Line
5 15 (1.82%) Product Ownership
6 13 (1.58%) Private Cloud
7 12 (1.46%) Data Centre
8 11 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (0.85%) Data Structures
10 7 (0.85%) Management Information System
11 6 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (0.73%) PKI
11 6 (0.73%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.61%) Blockchain
13 4 (0.49%) Onboarding
13 4 (0.49%) Security Posture
13 4 (0.49%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 201 (24.45%) Linux
2 63 (7.66%) Windows
3 44 (5.35%) Unix
4 31 (3.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.46%) CentOS
6 11 (1.34%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.73%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.73%) VMS
8 5 (0.61%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.36%) Android
9 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.24%) 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
1 822 (100.00%) DevOps
2 401 (48.78%) CI/CD
3 214 (26.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 172 (20.92%) Agile
5 141 (17.15%) Containerisation
6 89 (10.83%) Configuration Management
7 84 (10.22%) Problem-Solving
8 69 (8.39%) Test Automation
9 64 (7.79%) Migration
10 63 (7.66%) Continuous Integration
11 59 (7.18%) Software Engineering
12 57 (6.93%) Computer Science
13 52 (6.33%) Platform Engineering
14 44 (5.35%) Software Delivery
15 43 (5.23%) Scrum
16 42 (5.11%) Continuous Improvement
17 40 (4.87%) Microservices
17 40 (4.87%) Task Automation
18 38 (4.62%) Observability
19 35 (4.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 311 (37.83%) Python
2 149 (18.13%) Bash
3 128 (15.57%) PowerShell
4 78 (9.49%) Java
5 75 (9.12%) Go
6 73 (8.88%) SQL
7 54 (6.57%) JavaScript
8 48 (5.84%) C#
9 36 (4.38%) Ruby
10 28 (3.41%) TypeScript
11 24 (2.92%) Groovy
12 22 (2.68%) Shell Script
13 21 (2.55%) Perl
14 17 (2.07%) C
15 14 (1.70%) C++
16 11 (1.34%) Bicep
16 11 (1.34%) PHP
17 8 (0.97%) Scala
18 7 (0.85%) SPARQL
19 5 (0.61%) Rust
Qualifications
1 344 (41.85%) Security Cleared
2 244 (29.68%) SC Cleared
3 84 (10.22%) DV Cleared
4 65 (7.91%) Degree
5 45 (5.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 30 (3.65%) AWS Certification
7 21 (2.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 16 (1.95%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.12%) GIAC
11 1 (0.12%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.12%) RHCE
11 1 (0.12%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (4.50%) QA
2 9 (1.09%) NIST
3 6 (0.73%) GDPR
3 6 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.61%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.49%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.24%) NCSC
6 2 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 285 (34.67%) Docker
2 30 (3.65%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.49%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.36%) NFS
6 3 (0.36%) OpenAM
6 3 (0.36%) OpenIDM
6 3 (0.36%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.24%) vCloud
7 2 (0.24%) vSphere
8 1 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.12%) KVM
8 1 (0.12%) LXC
8 1 (0.12%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 482 (58.64%) Terraform
2 381 (46.35%) Kubernetes
3 222 (27.01%) Ansible
4 100 (12.17%) Prometheus
5 91 (11.07%) Grafana
6 54 (6.57%) Puppet
7 43 (5.23%) Progress Chef
8 26 (3.16%) Packer
9 19 (2.31%) Docker Swarm
10 17 (2.07%) Kibana
11 13 (1.58%) Consul
11 13 (1.58%) Istio
11 13 (1.58%) Rancher
12 12 (1.46%) Argo
13 11 (1.34%) logstash
14 7 (0.85%) Nagios
15 6 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
16 5 (0.61%) Salt
17 4 (0.49%) Kiali
18 3 (0.36%) Podman
Vendors
1 53 (6.45%) Microsoft
2 45 (5.47%) Oracle
2 45 (5.47%) Splunk
3 30 (3.65%) VMware
4 21 (2.55%) Dynatrace
4 21 (2.55%) Red Hat
5 20 (2.43%) Google
6 11 (1.34%) Atlassian
7 10 (1.22%) Databricks
7 10 (1.22%) SAP
8 8 (0.97%) ServiceNow
9 7 (0.85%) PagerDuty
10 6 (0.73%) AppDynamics
10 6 (0.73%) F5
11 5 (0.61%) Cisco
11 5 (0.61%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.61%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.49%) ForgeRock
12 4 (0.49%) Guidewire
12 4 (0.49%) Virgin Media
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