Senior DevOps Contracts

Senior Development Operations
UK

The median Senior Development Operations daily rate in the UK is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 May 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
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 461 537 558
Rank change year-on-year +76 +21 -58
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 108 158 284
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.28% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.30% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 122 226
10th Percentile £500 £519 £500
25th Percentile £550 £575 £545
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £734
90th Percentile £775 £737 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +17.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £73.69 - -
25th Percentile £73.97 - -
Median hourly rate £74.44 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.44 - -

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 39,539 53,460 83,539
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.63% 95.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,741 37,320 58,759
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.25%
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% +11.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,737 1,489 2,014
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.90%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.99 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps in the UK

Senior DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior DevOps in the UK

Senior DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior DevOps in the UK

Senior DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior DevOps in the UK

Senior DevOps
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior DevOps within the UK over the 6 months to 24 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 +60 91 £600 -7.69% 64
Work from Home +96 52 £613 -2.00% 57
London +72 50 £650 - 39
UK excluding London +27 34 £625 -3.85% 42
South East +19 14 £600 -12.73% 16
North West +32 11 £675 +3.85% 7
North of England +27 11 £675 -3.57% 10
South West +14 7 £625 -7.41% 5
Midlands +22 2 £350 -48.15% 3
West Midlands +8 2 £350 -50.00% 3
Wales - 2 £821 -

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

For the 6 months to 24 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior DevOps in the job title.

1 108 (100.00%) DevOps
2 61 (56.48%) CI/CD
3 60 (55.56%) Terraform
4 55 (50.93%) Kubernetes
5 50 (46.30%) Python
6 48 (44.44%) Azure
7 47 (43.52%) AWS
8 37 (34.26%) Security Cleared
9 35 (32.41%) Ansible
10 33 (30.56%) Docker
11 29 (26.85%) Jenkins
12 24 (22.22%) Git
13 22 (20.37%) PowerShell
13 22 (20.37%) SC Cleared
13 22 (20.37%) Bash
14 21 (19.44%) Infrastructure as Code
15 20 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
15 20 (18.52%) Linux
16 19 (17.59%) Agile
17 17 (15.74%) Windows
17 17 (15.74%) Azure DevOps
17 17 (15.74%) SDLC
17 17 (15.74%) Product Ownership
18 16 (14.81%) Test Automation
18 16 (14.81%) Banking
19 15 (13.89%) Configuration Management
19 15 (13.89%) Finance
19 15 (13.89%) Containerisation
20 14 (12.96%) Public Sector
20 14 (12.96%) Grafana

Senior 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 5 (4.63%) Confluence
2 2 (1.85%) Apache
2 2 (1.85%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.93%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.70%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 48 (44.44%) Azure
2 47 (43.52%) AWS
3 17 (15.74%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (12.96%) PaaS
5 13 (12.04%) GitHub
6 11 (10.19%) OpenShift
7 10 (9.26%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (8.33%) GCP
8 9 (8.33%) Serverless
9 8 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (6.48%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (6.48%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (6.48%) SaaS
11 6 (5.56%) Amazon S3
12 4 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (3.70%) Entra ID
12 4 (3.70%) Miro
12 4 (3.70%) OCI
13 3 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (2.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.33%) Firewall
2 6 (5.56%) Network Security
3 1 (0.93%) DNS
3 1 (0.93%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 9 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (5.56%) Relational Database
4 5 (4.63%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.85%) Redis
7 1 (0.93%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.93%) MySQL
7 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.93%) QGIS
7 1 (0.93%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 29 (26.85%) Jenkins
2 24 (22.22%) Git
3 13 (12.04%) TeamCity
4 12 (11.11%) GitLab
5 10 (9.26%) Artifactory
6 9 (8.33%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.78%) CircleCI
7 3 (2.78%) JIRA
7 3 (2.78%) Selenium
8 2 (1.85%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.85%) Travis CI
9 1 (0.93%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.93%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.93%) Snyk
9 1 (0.93%) Subversion
9 1 (0.93%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 16 (14.81%) Banking
2 15 (13.89%) Finance
3 14 (12.96%) Public Sector
4 10 (9.26%) Investment Banking
5 8 (7.41%) Social Skills
6 2 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.93%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.93%) Electronics
7 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.93%) Marketing
7 1 (0.93%) Tech for Good
7 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.11%) .NET
2 9 (8.33%) Kafka
3 5 (4.63%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (4.63%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (4.63%) WCF
3 5 (4.63%) WinForms
4 4 (3.70%) Node.js
4 4 (3.70%) XML
5 3 (2.78%) ARM Templates
5 3 (2.78%) YAML
6 2 (1.85%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.85%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.85%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.85%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (1.85%) AWS SAM
6 2 (1.85%) Fluent Bit
6 2 (1.85%) Loki
6 2 (1.85%) pytest
6 2 (1.85%) REST
7 1 (0.93%) React
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.74%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.48%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (6.48%) Public Cloud
3 5 (4.63%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.78%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.85%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.85%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.85%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.85%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.93%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.93%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 20 (18.52%) Linux
2 17 (15.74%) Windows
3 13 (12.04%) Unix
4 6 (5.56%) Android
4 6 (5.56%) Apple iOS
5 3 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.85%) Alpine Linux
6 2 (1.85%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.93%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (100.00%) DevOps
2 61 (56.48%) CI/CD
3 21 (19.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (17.59%) Agile
6 17 (15.74%) SDLC
7 16 (14.81%) Test Automation
8 15 (13.89%) Configuration Management
8 15 (13.89%) Containerisation
9 11 (10.19%) Roadmaps
10 10 (9.26%) Migration
10 10 (9.26%) Open Source
11 8 (7.41%) Platform Engineering
12 7 (6.48%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (6.48%) Load Balancing
12 7 (6.48%) Observability
13 6 (5.56%) Mentoring
13 6 (5.56%) Scrum
13 6 (5.56%) Software Engineering
13 6 (5.56%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 50 (46.30%) Python
2 22 (20.37%) Bash
2 22 (20.37%) PowerShell
3 13 (12.04%) C#
4 10 (9.26%) Go
4 10 (9.26%) SQL
5 7 (6.48%) Java
6 6 (5.56%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.70%) Bicep
8 3 (2.78%) C++
8 3 (2.78%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.93%) C
9 1 (0.93%) Groovy
9 1 (0.93%) Perl
9 1 (0.93%) PHP
9 1 (0.93%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 37 (34.26%) Security Cleared
2 22 (20.37%) SC Cleared
3 13 (12.04%) DV Cleared
4 9 (8.33%) AWS Certification
5 8 (7.41%) Degree
6 6 (5.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.85%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.93%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.93%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.63%) QA
2 1 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.93%) NIST
2 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 33 (30.56%) Docker
2 9 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.93%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 60 (55.56%) Terraform
2 55 (50.93%) Kubernetes
3 35 (32.41%) Ansible
4 14 (12.96%) Grafana
5 11 (10.19%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.70%) Argo
6 4 (3.70%) Progress Chef
6 4 (3.70%) Puppet
7 3 (2.78%) Kustomize
8 2 (1.85%) Nagios
9 1 (0.93%) BladeLogic
9 1 (0.93%) Graylog
9 1 (0.93%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.93%) Kibana
9 1 (0.93%) Packer
9 1 (0.93%) vRealize
Vendors
1 8 (7.41%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.48%) Splunk
3 6 (5.56%) Oracle
4 5 (4.63%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.78%) VMware
6 2 (1.85%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.85%) Citrix
6 2 (1.85%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.85%) Virgin Media
7 1 (0.93%) Altiris
7 1 (0.93%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.93%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.93%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.93%) Google
7 1 (0.93%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.93%) New Relic
7 1 (0.93%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.93%) SAP
7 1 (0.93%) Sun