Lead DevOps Contracts

Lead Development Operations
UK

The median Lead Development Operations daily rate in the UK is £650, 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 524 619 635
Rank change year-on-year +95 +16 -70
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 60 78 215
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.14% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.15% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 53 167
10th Percentile £518 £553 £506
25th Percentile £575 £600 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £663
Median % change year-on-year - -1.89% +10.42%
75th Percentile £700 £756 £750
90th Percentile £750 £818 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £623 £675 £600
% change year-on-year -7.78% +12.50% +9.09%

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%

Lead DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps in the UK

Lead DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Lead DevOps in the UK

Lead DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Lead DevOps in the UK

Lead DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead DevOps in the UK

Lead DevOps
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 Lead DevOps 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 +70 51 £650 - 25
London +88 39 £650 - 5
Work from Home +117 27 £650 - 17
UK excluding London +7 9 £623 -7.78% 20
Yorkshire +11 3 £625 -7.41% 5
North of England +10 3 £625 -7.41% 8
West Midlands +15 2 £425 -22.73% 4
Midlands +13 2 £425 -22.73% 7
South East +6 2 £635 -4.15% 3
South West +2 2 £550 -28.46% 1

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

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

1 60 (100.00%) DevOps
2 40 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 29 (48.33%) Kubernetes
4 27 (45.00%) Terraform
4 27 (45.00%) Python
5 25 (41.67%) AWS
6 23 (38.33%) Finance
7 22 (36.67%) Azure
8 19 (31.67%) Agile
8 19 (31.67%) Linux
8 19 (31.67%) Ansible
9 18 (30.00%) Docker
10 16 (26.67%) Containerisation
11 15 (25.00%) Jenkins
12 13 (21.67%) Infrastructure as Code
13 12 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (18.33%) Bash
14 11 (18.33%) Test Automation
15 10 (16.67%) Git
16 9 (15.00%) Bitbucket
16 9 (15.00%) SQL
16 9 (15.00%) Elastic Stack
16 9 (15.00%) Microservices
16 9 (15.00%) Serverless
17 8 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
17 8 (13.33%) Unix
17 8 (13.33%) Security Cleared
18 7 (11.67%) Groovy
18 7 (11.67%) SC Cleared
18 7 (11.67%) Kafka

Lead DevOps 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 4 (6.67%) Apache
1 4 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (6.67%) Confluence
2 2 (3.33%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.67%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.67%) JBoss
3 1 (1.67%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 25 (41.67%) AWS
2 22 (36.67%) Azure
3 12 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (15.00%) Serverless
5 6 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (10.00%) PaaS
6 5 (8.33%) GitHub
6 5 (8.33%) OpenShift
6 5 (8.33%) SaaS
7 4 (6.67%) Amazon EventBridge
7 4 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (6.67%) Azure AKS
7 4 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (5.00%) Amazon S3
8 3 (5.00%) AWS Step Functions
8 3 (5.00%) Snowflake
8 3 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.33%) Firewall
2 3 (5.00%) VPN
3 2 (3.33%) SSL
4 1 (1.67%) DNS
4 1 (1.67%) IPv4
4 1 (1.67%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.67%) OSPF
4 1 (1.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (6.67%) Apache Cassandra
2 4 (6.67%) DataStax
2 4 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (3.33%) BigQuery
4 2 (3.33%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.67%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 15 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 10 (16.67%) Git
3 9 (15.00%) Bitbucket
4 6 (10.00%) Artifactory
4 6 (10.00%) GitLab
5 5 (8.33%) JIRA
5 5 (8.33%) TeamCity
6 2 (3.33%) CircleCI
6 2 (3.33%) Terragrunt
7 1 (1.67%) Ant
7 1 (1.67%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.67%) GoCD
7 1 (1.67%) JMeter
7 1 (1.67%) Maven
7 1 (1.67%) Selenium
7 1 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.67%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.67%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 23 (38.33%) Finance
2 6 (10.00%) Banking
2 6 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.33%) Investment Banking
3 2 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (3.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.00%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (11.67%) Kafka
3 4 (6.67%) Node.js
4 3 (5.00%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (3.33%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.67%) .NET
6 1 (1.67%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.67%) ADO
6 1 (1.67%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.67%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (1.67%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.67%) AWS SAM
6 1 (1.67%) Middleware
6 1 (1.67%) Next.js
6 1 (1.67%) React
6 1 (1.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.00%) Derivative
2 3 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.67%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.67%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.67%) Machine to Machine
4 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.67%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.67%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 19 (31.67%) Linux
2 8 (13.33%) Unix
3 4 (6.67%) Android
3 4 (6.67%) Apple iOS
3 4 (6.67%) Windows
4 3 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.67%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (100.00%) DevOps
2 40 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 19 (31.67%) Agile
4 16 (26.67%) Containerisation
5 13 (21.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (18.33%) Test Automation
7 9 (15.00%) Microservices
8 8 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (11.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (11.67%) DevSecOps
10 6 (10.00%) Configuration Management
11 5 (8.33%) Continuous Delivery
11 5 (8.33%) Continuous Deployment
11 5 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
11 5 (8.33%) ETL
11 5 (8.33%) Load Balancing
11 5 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
11 5 (8.33%) Roadmaps
11 5 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 4 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 27 (45.00%) Python
2 11 (18.33%) Bash
3 9 (15.00%) SQL
4 7 (11.67%) Groovy
5 6 (10.00%) Java
6 5 (8.33%) Go
7 4 (6.67%) JavaScript
8 3 (5.00%) Shell Script
8 3 (5.00%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.67%) C#
9 1 (1.67%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 7 (11.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.33%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.67%) Degree
4 1 (1.67%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.67%) GIAC
4 1 (1.67%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.00%) QA
2 1 (1.67%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.67%) PMO
System Software
1 18 (30.00%) Docker
2 2 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.67%) Ceph
3 1 (1.67%) NFS
3 1 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (48.33%) Kubernetes
2 27 (45.00%) Terraform
3 19 (31.67%) Ansible
4 7 (11.67%) Grafana
4 7 (11.67%) Prometheus
4 7 (11.67%) Puppet
5 2 (3.33%) Argo
5 2 (3.33%) Karpenter
5 2 (3.33%) logstash
6 1 (1.67%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (1.67%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (1.67%) Kibana
6 1 (1.67%) Mesos
6 1 (1.67%) Packer
6 1 (1.67%) Podman
6 1 (1.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (8.33%) Confluent
2 4 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.00%) Red Hat
3 3 (5.00%) Splunk
4 2 (3.33%) Google
4 2 (3.33%) Oracle
5 1 (1.67%) Amdocs
5 1 (1.67%) Virgin Media
5 1 (1.67%) VMware