DevOps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 11 7
Rank change year-on-year -5 -4 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 3,972 6,885 11,488
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 9.22% 11.87% 13.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.69% 13.21% 14.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,737 5,046 8,289
10th Percentile £400 £425 £424
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £580 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 105 67
10th Percentile £56.25 £49.65 £35.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £60.91 £42.90
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +19.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £78.44 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.23 £79.19 £66.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -0.76% +19.09% +14.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,140 52,105 79,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.25% 89.83% 90.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,924 36,124 55,482
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,724 1,874
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.17 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Top 18 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the UK over the 6 months to 9 May 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 -3 3,371 £550 -8.33% 1,550
London -2 1,962 £575 -4.17% 616
Work from Home -4 1,542 £550 -4.35% 886
UK excluding London -7 1,491 £525 -4.55% 995
South East -6 432 £551 -5.09% 205
North of England -2 407 £520 -5.45% 269
North West 0 240 £525 -4.55% 170
South West -12 229 £550 -8.33% 155
Scotland -14 178 £475 -5.00% 66
Yorkshire +2 153 £488 -18.75% 79
Midlands -11 130 £500 -6.98% 179
East of England -11 98 £534 -2.91% 68
West Midlands -17 91 £513 -10.87% 118
East Midlands -12 33 £450 - 60
Wales -9 23 £538 -7.80% 34
North East -9 18 £525 -12.50% 20
Northern Ireland 0 5 £550 -8.33% 37
Isle of Man - 2 £388 -

DevOps
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
1 168 (4.23%) Confluence
2 74 (1.86%) SharePoint
3 59 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
4 41 (1.03%) CMS
5 40 (1.01%) Apache
5 40 (1.01%) IIS
5 40 (1.01%) nginx
6 39 (0.98%) Apache Spark
7 34 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
8 17 (0.43%) OpenStack
9 15 (0.38%) JBoss
10 11 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 9 (0.23%) Site Server
12 8 (0.20%) Kentico
13 7 (0.18%) ArcGIS
13 7 (0.18%) Headless CMS
13 7 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 7 (0.18%) WebLogic
13 7 (0.18%) WebSphere
14 6 (0.15%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 39 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (0.53%) MS Visio
4 13 (0.33%) Chatbot
5 12 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.23%) Trello
7 6 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 3 (0.076%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.050%) Sketch
10 1 (0.025%) Gliffy
10 1 (0.025%) InVision
10 1 (0.025%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.025%) Simulink
10 1 (0.025%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 65 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (0.68%) Dynamics AX
3 22 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 14 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
6 13 (0.33%) Endur
7 12 (0.30%) NetSuite
8 11 (0.28%) Teamcenter
9 9 (0.23%) Maximo
10 8 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
10 8 (0.20%) Shopify
11 7 (0.18%) Aladdin
11 7 (0.18%) NEC Housing
11 7 (0.18%) SAP Hybris
11 7 (0.18%) SAP PM
12 6 (0.15%) SimCorp Dimension
13 5 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
13 5 (0.13%) Temenos T24
14 4 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
15 3 (0.076%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2,030 (51.11%) Azure
2 1,208 (30.41%) Azure DevOps
3 1,186 (29.86%) AWS
4 353 (8.89%) GCP
5 332 (8.36%) Serverless
6 297 (7.48%) GitHub
7 240 (6.04%) Power Platform
8 169 (4.25%) Amazon S3
9 165 (4.15%) Entra ID
10 157 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
11 145 (3.65%) PaaS
12 143 (3.60%) Dynamics 365
13 139 (3.50%) Amazon EC2
14 138 (3.47%) AWS CloudFormation
14 138 (3.47%) Azure Monitor
15 136 (3.42%) Azure Service Bus
16 126 (3.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 117 (2.95%) OpenShift
18 116 (2.92%) Azure Data Factory
19 114 (2.87%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 225 (5.66%) Firewall
2 101 (2.54%) DNS
3 97 (2.44%) VPN
4 68 (1.71%) Network Security
5 63 (1.59%) HTTP
6 50 (1.26%) TCP/IP
7 41 (1.03%) BGP
8 36 (0.91%) DHCP
9 35 (0.88%) Modbus
9 35 (0.88%) RS-422
9 35 (0.88%) RS-485
10 34 (0.86%) Intrusion Detection
11 32 (0.81%) SNMP
12 30 (0.76%) MPLS
12 30 (0.76%) SSL
13 28 (0.70%) HSRP
14 25 (0.63%) IPv4
15 20 (0.50%) RSVP
16 19 (0.48%) Internet
17 18 (0.45%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 408 (10.27%) SQL Server
2 184 (4.63%) PostgreSQL
3 181 (4.56%) Power BI
4 147 (3.70%) NoSQL
5 136 (3.42%) Relational Database
6 135 (3.40%) Data Lake
7 107 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
8 95 (2.39%) MySQL
9 90 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
10 83 (2.09%) Azure SQL Database
11 82 (2.06%) MongoDB
12 81 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
13 64 (1.61%) Big Data
14 50 (1.26%) Oracle Database
15 44 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 42 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
17 40 (1.01%) Apache Cassandra
18 38 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
19 37 (0.93%) Tableau
20 36 (0.91%) Redis
Development Applications
1 511 (12.87%) Git
2 489 (12.31%) Jenkins
3 352 (8.86%) JIRA
4 277 (6.97%) GitLab
5 136 (3.42%) Selenium
6 92 (2.32%) SonarQube
7 77 (1.94%) Visual Studio
8 73 (1.84%) TeamCity
9 62 (1.56%) Cucumber
10 58 (1.46%) SpecFlow
11 56 (1.41%) Artifactory
12 55 (1.38%) Bitbucket
13 47 (1.18%) JUnit
14 43 (1.08%) Postman
15 39 (0.98%) Cypress.io
16 37 (0.93%) Maven
17 28 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
18 27 (0.68%) REST Assured
19 26 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
20 25 (0.63%) WebDriver
General
1 871 (21.93%) Social Skills
2 750 (18.88%) Finance
3 439 (11.05%) Public Sector
4 320 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
5 258 (6.50%) Banking
6 116 (2.92%) Retail
7 91 (2.29%) Front Office
8 75 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
9 70 (1.76%) Telecoms
10 62 (1.56%) Marketing
11 60 (1.51%) Electronics
12 58 (1.46%) Investment Banking
13 51 (1.28%) Back Office
14 47 (1.18%) Law
15 46 (1.16%) Manufacturing
16 45 (1.13%) Legal
17 34 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 34 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
18 33 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
19 27 (0.68%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 828 (20.85%) Developer
2 756 (19.03%) DevOps Engineer
3 513 (12.92%) Senior
4 454 (11.43%) Architect
5 312 (7.85%) Lead
6 245 (6.17%) Azure Engineer
7 223 (5.61%) AWS Engineer
8 204 (5.14%) Analyst
9 189 (4.76%) Senior Developer
10 166 (4.18%) Software Engineer
11 164 (4.13%) AWS DevOps
12 162 (4.08%) Consultant
13 154 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
14 145 (3.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 143 (3.60%) .NET Developer
16 141 (3.55%) Data Engineer
17 122 (3.07%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 108 (2.72%) Azure Developer
19 106 (2.67%) Full Stack Developer
19 106 (2.67%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 563 (14.17%) .NET
2 317 (7.98%) React
3 213 (5.36%) XML
4 211 (5.31%) REST
5 193 (4.86%) Kafka
6 175 (4.41%) .NET Core
6 175 (4.41%) AngularJS
6 175 (4.41%) Node.js
7 157 (3.95%) HTML
8 152 (3.83%) .NET Framework
9 145 (3.65%) CSS
10 129 (3.25%) RESTful
11 126 (3.17%) JSON
12 111 (2.79%) ARM Templates
13 102 (2.57%) Spring
14 95 (2.39%) Spring Boot
15 93 (2.34%) YAML
16 87 (2.19%) ASP.NET
17 83 (2.09%) Web Services
18 80 (2.01%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 244 (6.14%) Product Ownership
2 113 (2.84%) Public Cloud
3 105 (2.64%) Cloud Native
4 81 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
5 80 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
6 64 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
7 63 (1.59%) Data Structures
8 62 (1.56%) Onboarding
9 61 (1.54%) Derivative
10 60 (1.51%) Mobile App
11 56 (1.41%) Management Information System
12 52 (1.31%) Hedge funds
13 51 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 43 (1.08%) Data Centre
15 42 (1.06%) Fixed Income
15 42 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
16 40 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
17 38 (0.96%) PKI
18 35 (0.88%) Clustering
18 35 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 463 (11.66%) Linux
2 354 (8.91%) Windows
3 156 (3.93%) Windows Server
4 102 (2.57%) Unix
5 76 (1.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 51 (1.28%) Android
7 50 (1.26%) Apple iOS
8 25 (0.63%) CentOS
9 24 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
10 23 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
11 19 (0.48%) VMS
12 17 (0.43%) Solaris
13 16 (0.40%) Ubuntu
14 14 (0.35%) AIX
15 12 (0.30%) Windows 10
16 8 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
17 7 (0.18%) Mac OS
18 5 (0.13%) Alpine Linux
19 3 (0.076%) Debian
20 2 (0.050%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,691 (42.57%) Agile
2 1,403 (35.32%) CI/CD
3 526 (13.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 506 (12.74%) Problem-Solving
5 471 (11.86%) Scrum
6 466 (11.73%) Software Engineering
7 465 (11.71%) Test Automation
8 418 (10.52%) Microservices
9 339 (8.53%) Containerisation
10 323 (8.13%) TDD
11 322 (8.11%) Continuous Integration
12 320 (8.06%) Migration
13 257 (6.47%) SDLC
14 253 (6.37%) Continuous Improvement
15 228 (5.74%) Analytics
16 219 (5.51%) Business Intelligence
16 219 (5.51%) Computer Science
17 218 (5.49%) Full Stack Development
18 202 (5.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 201 (5.06%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1,006 (25.33%) Python
2 684 (17.22%) C#
3 646 (16.26%) SQL
4 520 (13.09%) Java
5 492 (12.39%) PowerShell
6 394 (9.92%) JavaScript
7 260 (6.55%) TypeScript
8 224 (5.64%) Bash
9 161 (4.05%) Go
10 157 (3.95%) Bicep
11 122 (3.07%) C++
12 112 (2.82%) C
13 85 (2.14%) Shell Script
14 73 (1.84%) Perl
15 67 (1.69%) Scala
16 62 (1.56%) Ruby
17 45 (1.13%) T-SQL
18 33 (0.83%) VBScript
19 32 (0.81%) PHP
20 30 (0.76%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 811 (20.42%) Security Cleared
2 577 (14.53%) SC Cleared
3 324 (8.16%) Degree
4 226 (5.69%) DV Cleared
5 139 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 68 (1.71%) Azure Certification
7 66 (1.66%) AWS Certification
8 49 (1.23%) Master's Degree
9 41 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
10 35 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
11 31 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 28 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
13 27 (0.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 24 (0.60%) PMP
15 21 (0.53%) CCNP
16 19 (0.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 19 (0.48%) PMI Certification
17 18 (0.45%) ISTQB
18 16 (0.40%) CISSP
18 16 (0.40%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 237 (5.97%) QA
2 64 (1.61%) Accessibility
3 55 (1.38%) GDPR
4 46 (1.16%) PCI DSS
5 41 (1.03%) Data Quality
6 39 (0.98%) NIST
7 36 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 28 (0.70%) NCSC
8 28 (0.70%) WCAG
9 25 (0.63%) SLA
10 24 (0.60%) PMO
11 16 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
11 16 (0.40%) HIPAA
12 12 (0.30%) MISRA
13 10 (0.25%) SOC 2
14 8 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.15%) GRC
15 6 (0.15%) ISO 22301
15 6 (0.15%) ISO 9001
16 4 (0.10%) PSD2
System Software
1 605 (15.23%) Docker
2 253 (6.37%) Active Directory
3 69 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
6 18 (0.45%) VMware NSX
7 16 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 12 (0.30%) Firmware
9 11 (0.28%) Hyper-V
10 9 (0.23%) vCloud
10 9 (0.23%) vSphere
11 8 (0.20%) NFS
12 6 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
12 6 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.076%) HDFS
13 3 (0.076%) LXC
13 3 (0.076%) OpenAM
13 3 (0.076%) OpenIDM
13 3 (0.076%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.050%) KVM
Systems Management
1 874 (22.00%) Terraform
2 840 (21.15%) Kubernetes
3 436 (10.98%) Ansible
4 169 (4.25%) Grafana
4 169 (4.25%) Prometheus
5 89 (2.24%) Puppet
6 70 (1.76%) Progress Chef
7 46 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
8 43 (1.08%) Kibana
9 42 (1.06%) SCCM
10 37 (0.93%) Docker Swarm
11 35 (0.88%) Istio
12 34 (0.86%) SCOM
13 33 (0.83%) Packer
14 31 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
15 29 (0.73%) Consul
16 26 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 23 (0.58%) Argo
18 19 (0.48%) ITRS Geneos
18 19 (0.48%) Nagios
Vendors
1 733 (18.45%) Microsoft
2 263 (6.62%) Oracle
3 125 (3.15%) Splunk
4 121 (3.05%) Databricks
5 120 (3.02%) Google
6 105 (2.64%) SAP
6 105 (2.64%) VMware
7 82 (2.06%) ServiceNow
8 73 (1.84%) Salesforce
9 66 (1.66%) Cisco
10 55 (1.38%) IBM
11 49 (1.23%) Dynatrace
12 45 (1.13%) CyberArk
13 42 (1.06%) Red Hat
14 37 (0.93%) Citrix
15 31 (0.78%) Adobe
16 30 (0.76%) F5
17 29 (0.73%) Palo Alto
18 26 (0.65%) EMC
19 25 (0.63%) Nokia