DevOps Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Development Operations Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 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
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 67 69
Rank change year-on-year -40 +2 -9
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 306 802 1,630
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.07% 3.36% 3.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.22% 3.53% 3.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 675 1,256
10th Percentile £405 £450 £444
25th Percentile £458 £506 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £675
90th Percentile £651 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.42% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Median hourly rate £55.00 £71.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.54% +102.86% -47.17%
UK median hourly rate £73.50 £72.00 £41.25
% change year-on-year +2.08% +74.55% -37.97%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,801 22,740 41,944
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.25% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,306 16,147 30,496
10th Percentile £325 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 528 563
10th Percentile £14.27 £16.98 £14.05
25th Percentile £22.59 £25.00 £19.96
Median hourly rate £43.50 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% +25.00% +70.21%
75th Percentile £63.56 £66.05 £59.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.15 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

DevOps Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DevOps Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DevOps Engineer.

DevOps Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

DevOps Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DevOps Engineer.

DevOps Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 13 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 306 (100.00%) DevOps
2 199 (65.03%) Terraform
3 195 (63.73%) AWS
4 143 (46.73%) CI/CD
5 141 (46.08%) Kubernetes
6 129 (42.16%) Python
7 120 (39.22%) Security Cleared
8 113 (36.93%) Azure
9 100 (32.68%) SC Cleared
9 100 (32.68%) Docker
10 97 (31.70%) Infrastructure as Code
11 83 (27.12%) Ansible
11 83 (27.12%) Jenkins
12 77 (25.16%) Agile
13 71 (23.20%) Linux
14 61 (19.93%) Git
15 59 (19.28%) Bash
16 53 (17.32%) GitLab
16 53 (17.32%) Public Sector
17 52 (16.99%) Containerisation
18 48 (15.69%) GitHub
19 47 (15.36%) Social Skills
19 47 (15.36%) Azure DevOps
20 42 (13.73%) Prometheus
20 42 (13.73%) PowerShell
21 38 (12.42%) Grafana
22 37 (12.09%) Problem-Solving
23 36 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
23 36 (11.76%) Test Automation
24 34 (11.11%) GCP

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 20 (6.54%) Confluence
2 11 (3.59%) nginx
3 6 (1.96%) Apache
4 5 (1.63%) Apache Solr
5 3 (0.98%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.33%) IIS
7 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (2.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 195 (63.73%) AWS
2 113 (36.93%) Azure
3 48 (15.69%) GitHub
4 47 (15.36%) Azure DevOps
5 36 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
6 34 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
6 34 (11.11%) GCP
7 29 (9.48%) Amazon ECS
7 29 (9.48%) Amazon S3
7 29 (9.48%) Serverless
8 25 (8.17%) Amazon EC2
8 25 (8.17%) AWS Lambda
8 25 (8.17%) OpenShift
9 24 (7.84%) GitHub Actions
10 20 (6.54%) PaaS
10 20 (6.54%) Route 53
11 19 (6.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 18 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (3.92%) SaaS
14 9 (2.94%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (8.82%) Firewall
2 15 (4.90%) DNS
3 10 (3.27%) Network Security
4 8 (2.61%) TCP/IP
5 7 (2.29%) HTTP
5 7 (2.29%) VPN
6 4 (1.31%) HTTPS
6 4 (1.31%) IPsec
7 3 (0.98%) DHCP
7 3 (0.98%) LAN
7 3 (0.98%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (0.98%) WLAN
8 2 (0.65%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.65%) SSL
9 1 (0.33%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 1 (0.33%) IPv4
9 1 (0.33%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.33%) MQTT
9 1 (0.33%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (7.84%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (3.27%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (2.94%) MySQL
4 8 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (2.29%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (2.29%) Relational Database
5 7 (2.29%) SQL Server
6 6 (1.96%) NoSQL
6 6 (1.96%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.31%) Couchbase
7 4 (1.31%) Redis
8 3 (0.98%) InfluxDB
8 3 (0.98%) Power BI
8 3 (0.98%) Triplestore
9 2 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.65%) Big Data
9 2 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.65%) Flink
10 1 (0.33%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 83 (27.12%) Jenkins
2 61 (19.93%) Git
3 53 (17.32%) GitLab
4 27 (8.82%) JIRA
5 12 (3.92%) Artifactory
6 11 (3.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 10 (3.27%) Bitbucket
8 8 (2.61%) TeamCity
9 7 (2.29%) Maven
10 6 (1.96%) Gradle
11 5 (1.63%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.63%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (1.31%) Selenium
13 3 (0.98%) CircleCI
13 3 (0.98%) Travis CI
14 2 (0.65%) Liquibase
14 2 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
15 1 (0.33%) Apache Continuum
15 1 (0.33%) Burp Suite
15 1 (0.33%) JUnit
General
1 53 (17.32%) Public Sector
2 47 (15.36%) Social Skills
3 26 (8.50%) Finance
4 12 (3.92%) Banking
5 11 (3.59%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.27%) Law
7 5 (1.63%) Marketing
7 5 (1.63%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.31%) Legal
8 4 (1.31%) Retail
9 3 (0.98%) Electronics
9 3 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.98%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.98%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.33%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.33%) Front Office
10 1 (0.33%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.33%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.33%) Military
10 1 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (6.86%) YAML
2 17 (5.56%) JSON
3 14 (4.58%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (3.59%) .NET
4 11 (3.59%) ARM Templates
4 11 (3.59%) RabbitMQ
5 10 (3.27%) Kafka
6 9 (2.94%) REST
7 8 (2.61%) AWS CDK
8 7 (2.29%) RESTful
9 6 (1.96%) Node.js
10 5 (1.63%) Apache NiFi
10 5 (1.63%) Middleware
10 5 (1.63%) XML
11 4 (1.31%) AWS SAM
11 4 (1.31%) LDAP
11 4 (1.31%) LEMP Stack
11 4 (1.31%) Spring
11 4 (1.31%) Spring Boot
11 4 (1.31%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.86%) Greenfield Project
2 11 (3.59%) Private Cloud
3 9 (2.94%) Public Cloud
4 8 (2.61%) Data Centre
5 6 (1.96%) Cloud Native
6 5 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (1.63%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.31%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.98%) Data Structures
8 3 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.65%) Life Science
9 2 (0.65%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.65%) Tandem
9 2 (0.65%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.33%) Clustering
10 1 (0.33%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.33%) MPEG
10 1 (0.33%) Replication
10 1 (0.33%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 71 (23.20%) Linux
2 23 (7.52%) Windows
3 13 (4.25%) Unix
4 10 (3.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.31%) CentOS
5 4 (1.31%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.65%) Alpine Linux
6 2 (0.65%) Android
6 2 (0.65%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.65%) VMS
6 2 (0.65%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 306 (100.00%) DevOps
2 143 (46.73%) CI/CD
3 97 (31.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 77 (25.16%) Agile
5 52 (16.99%) Containerisation
6 37 (12.09%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (11.76%) Test Automation
8 33 (10.78%) Configuration Management
9 22 (7.19%) Task Automation
10 21 (6.86%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (6.86%) SDLC
11 20 (6.54%) Continuous Integration
11 20 (6.54%) Migration
11 20 (6.54%) Observability
12 18 (5.88%) Computer Science
13 17 (5.56%) Scrum
13 17 (5.56%) Software Delivery
14 16 (5.23%) Platform Engineering
15 15 (4.90%) Mentoring
16 13 (4.25%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 129 (42.16%) Python
2 59 (19.28%) Bash
3 42 (13.73%) PowerShell
4 29 (9.48%) Java
5 27 (8.82%) Go
6 18 (5.88%) JavaScript
7 16 (5.23%) SQL
8 15 (4.90%) Perl
9 14 (4.58%) Ruby
10 13 (4.25%) TypeScript
11 9 (2.94%) Shell Script
12 8 (2.61%) C
12 8 (2.61%) C#
12 8 (2.61%) C++
13 7 (2.29%) Bicep
13 7 (2.29%) Groovy
14 6 (1.96%) PHP
15 5 (1.63%) Scala
16 3 (0.98%) SPARQL
17 2 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 120 (39.22%) Security Cleared
2 100 (32.68%) SC Cleared
3 27 (8.82%) Degree
4 17 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.59%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.96%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.96%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.58%) QA
2 7 (2.29%) NIST
3 6 (1.96%) GDPR
3 6 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.31%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.65%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.65%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 100 (32.68%) Docker
2 8 (2.61%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.61%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.65%) vCloud
4 2 (0.65%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.65%) vSphere
5 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.33%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.33%) OpenIDM
5 1 (0.33%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 199 (65.03%) Terraform
2 141 (46.08%) Kubernetes
3 83 (27.12%) Ansible
4 42 (13.73%) Prometheus
5 38 (12.42%) Grafana
6 23 (7.52%) Puppet
7 21 (6.86%) Progress Chef
8 9 (2.94%) Kibana
8 9 (2.94%) Packer
9 5 (1.63%) Argo
9 5 (1.63%) Consul
9 5 (1.63%) logstash
9 5 (1.63%) Nagios
10 3 (0.98%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.98%) Istio
11 2 (0.65%) Autotask
11 2 (0.65%) Karpenter
11 2 (0.65%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.65%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (8.17%) Splunk
2 23 (7.52%) Microsoft
3 17 (5.56%) Oracle
4 14 (4.58%) Dynatrace
4 14 (4.58%) VMware
5 11 (3.59%) Google
6 6 (1.96%) SAP
7 5 (1.63%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.31%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.31%) Databricks
9 3 (0.98%) New Relic
9 3 (0.98%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.98%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.65%) Arista
10 2 (0.65%) BMC
10 2 (0.65%) F5
10 2 (0.65%) ForgeRock
10 2 (0.65%) Mercator
10 2 (0.65%) Remedy
10 2 (0.65%) TOWER Software