DevOps Contracts in England

DevOps
UK > England

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 12 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 3,479 5,413 9,290
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 9.42% 11.34% 13.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.00% 12.60% 14.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,418 3,963 6,718
10th Percentile £400 £425 £425
25th Percentile £467 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £750 £785 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £587 £580
% change year-on-year -6.30% +1.21% +10.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 99 67
10th Percentile £56.50 £53.75 £35.00
25th Percentile £61.34 £60.91 £44.00
Median hourly rate £65.50 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - +0.77% +18.18%
75th Percentile £77.50 £75.84 £75.00
90th Percentile £87.05 £79.60 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.50 £65.50 £63.60
% change year-on-year - +2.99% +32.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,636 42,957 64,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.67% 89.97% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,638 30,177 45,793
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £444 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,325 1,518 1,713
10th Percentile £12.85 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.66 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.41
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in England

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in England

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in England

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in England

DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps in England

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the England region over the 6 months to 2 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
London -1 2,005 £575 -4.17% 776
South East -4 457 £568 -2.99% 214
North of England +1 433 £513 -6.82% 272
South West -9 248 £550 -8.33% 142
North West -1 234 £525 - 164
Yorkshire +6 183 £495 -17.50% 77
Midlands -5 148 £525 -1.41% 177
West Midlands -14 102 £525 -8.70% 131
East of England -13 97 £534 -7.13% 67
East Midlands -15 39 £450 +5.88% 46
North East -7 20 £525 -12.50% 31
DevOps
UK

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 130 (3.74%) Confluence
2 62 (1.78%) SharePoint
3 48 (1.38%) Apache Spark
4 47 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
5 41 (1.18%) Apache
6 38 (1.09%) CMS
7 36 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
7 36 (1.03%) nginx
8 33 (0.95%) IIS
9 11 (0.32%) JBoss
9 11 (0.32%) OpenStack
10 9 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 8 (0.23%) Site Server
12 7 (0.20%) Jupyter
12 7 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 6 (0.17%) ArcGIS
13 6 (0.17%) WebLogic
14 5 (0.14%) Apache Solr
14 5 (0.14%) Appian
14 5 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 33 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (0.55%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.14%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.086%) Trello
7 2 (0.057%) Gliffy
8 1 (0.029%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.029%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.029%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.029%) Simulink
8 1 (0.029%) Sketch
8 1 (0.029%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 63 (1.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (0.75%) Dynamics AX
3 19 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 15 (0.43%) Endur
6 14 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
7 11 (0.32%) Teamcenter
8 9 (0.26%) Shopify
9 8 (0.23%) NetSuite
9 8 (0.23%) Oracle EBS R12
10 7 (0.20%) Aladdin
10 7 (0.20%) SimCorp Dimension
10 7 (0.20%) Temenos T24
11 6 (0.17%) NEC Housing
11 6 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
11 6 (0.17%) SAP PM
12 4 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
13 3 (0.086%) BusinessWorks
14 2 (0.057%) Advent Geneva
14 2 (0.057%) Front Arena
Cloud Services
1 1,730 (49.73%) Azure
2 1,039 (29.86%) Azure DevOps
3 997 (28.66%) AWS
4 306 (8.80%) GCP
5 277 (7.96%) Serverless
6 250 (7.19%) GitHub
7 215 (6.18%) Power Platform
8 151 (4.34%) Entra ID
9 142 (4.08%) Amazon S3
10 139 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
11 131 (3.77%) Azure Monitor
12 125 (3.59%) Azure Service Bus
13 118 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
14 117 (3.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 114 (3.28%) Amazon EC2
16 106 (3.05%) PaaS
17 101 (2.90%) AWS CloudFormation
18 98 (2.82%) Microsoft 365
19 97 (2.79%) Azure Data Factory
19 97 (2.79%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 215 (6.18%) Firewall
2 91 (2.62%) VPN
3 81 (2.33%) DNS
4 66 (1.90%) HTTP
5 44 (1.26%) Network Security
6 36 (1.03%) TCP/IP
7 34 (0.98%) Intrusion Detection
7 34 (0.98%) Modbus
7 34 (0.98%) RS-422
7 34 (0.98%) RS-485
8 33 (0.95%) DHCP
9 31 (0.89%) BGP
10 26 (0.75%) SNMP
10 26 (0.75%) SSL
11 22 (0.63%) HSRP
11 22 (0.63%) Internet
12 20 (0.57%) MPLS
13 19 (0.55%) IPv4
14 18 (0.52%) IPsec
14 18 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 363 (10.43%) SQL Server
2 155 (4.46%) Power BI
3 146 (4.20%) Data Lake
4 141 (4.05%) NoSQL
5 140 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
6 115 (3.31%) Relational Database
7 90 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
8 83 (2.39%) MySQL
9 81 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
10 71 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
10 71 (2.04%) Big Data
10 71 (2.04%) MongoDB
11 68 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
12 47 (1.35%) Amazon Athena
13 44 (1.26%) Apache Cassandra
14 38 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
14 38 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 36 (1.03%) BigQuery
15 36 (1.03%) Redis
15 36 (1.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 456 (13.11%) Jenkins
2 454 (13.05%) Git
3 281 (8.08%) JIRA
4 261 (7.50%) GitLab
5 134 (3.85%) Selenium
6 79 (2.27%) SonarQube
7 70 (2.01%) Visual Studio
8 63 (1.81%) TeamCity
9 58 (1.67%) SpecFlow
10 54 (1.55%) Cucumber
11 51 (1.47%) Artifactory
12 46 (1.32%) Bitbucket
12 46 (1.32%) JUnit
12 46 (1.32%) Postman
13 34 (0.98%) Cypress.io
14 26 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
15 25 (0.72%) REST Assured
16 22 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 22 (0.63%) JMeter
17 21 (0.60%) Maven
General
1 736 (21.16%) Social Skills
2 682 (19.60%) Finance
3 344 (9.89%) Public Sector
4 305 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
5 255 (7.33%) Banking
6 104 (2.99%) Retail
7 88 (2.53%) Front Office
8 59 (1.70%) Investment Banking
9 54 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
10 53 (1.52%) Telecoms
11 51 (1.47%) Back Office
12 48 (1.38%) Electronics
12 48 (1.38%) Marketing
13 45 (1.29%) Law
14 42 (1.21%) Legal
15 37 (1.06%) Manufacturing
16 30 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 26 (0.75%) General Ledger
18 23 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
19 17 (0.49%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 747 (21.47%) Developer
2 658 (18.91%) DevOps Engineer
3 479 (13.77%) Senior
4 423 (12.16%) Architect
5 263 (7.56%) Lead
6 208 (5.98%) Azure Engineer
7 181 (5.20%) Analyst
8 174 (5.00%) Senior Developer
9 171 (4.92%) AWS Engineer
10 166 (4.77%) Software Engineer
11 142 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
12 134 (3.85%) AWS DevOps
13 130 (3.74%) Consultant
14 117 (3.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 114 (3.28%) .NET Developer
16 110 (3.16%) Data Engineer
17 97 (2.79%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 97 (2.79%) Senior DevOps
18 95 (2.73%) Azure Developer
19 93 (2.67%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 495 (14.23%) .NET
2 281 (8.08%) React
3 205 (5.89%) Kafka
4 201 (5.78%) XML
5 176 (5.06%) REST
6 163 (4.69%) .NET Core
7 158 (4.54%) Node.js
8 154 (4.43%) HTML
9 153 (4.40%) AngularJS
10 145 (4.17%) .NET Framework
11 136 (3.91%) CSS
12 122 (3.51%) RESTful
13 102 (2.93%) JSON
14 100 (2.87%) Spring Boot
15 93 (2.67%) ARM Templates
15 93 (2.67%) Spring
16 89 (2.56%) YAML
17 74 (2.13%) ASP.NET
18 72 (2.07%) Web Services
19 71 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 228 (6.55%) Product Ownership
2 97 (2.79%) Public Cloud
3 93 (2.67%) Cloud Native
4 86 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
5 65 (1.87%) Data Structures
6 64 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
7 60 (1.72%) Derivative
8 59 (1.70%) Mobile App
9 57 (1.64%) Hedge funds
10 50 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 48 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
12 40 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
12 40 (1.15%) Onboarding
13 37 (1.06%) PKI
14 36 (1.03%) Fixed Income
15 35 (1.01%) Management Information System
16 34 (0.98%) Clustering
17 28 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
17 28 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
17 28 (0.80%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 421 (12.10%) Linux
2 277 (7.96%) Windows
3 135 (3.88%) Windows Server
4 90 (2.59%) Unix
5 76 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 52 (1.49%) Apple iOS
7 49 (1.41%) Android
8 26 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
8 26 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
9 19 (0.55%) CentOS
10 10 (0.29%) Solaris
11 8 (0.23%) VMS
11 8 (0.23%) Windows 10
12 6 (0.17%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.14%) Alpine Linux
13 5 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
14 4 (0.11%) AIX
15 2 (0.057%) Debian
16 1 (0.029%) VxWorks
16 1 (0.029%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,467 (42.17%) Agile
2 1,257 (36.13%) CI/CD
3 482 (13.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 448 (12.88%) Problem-Solving
5 429 (12.33%) Software Engineering
6 424 (12.19%) Scrum
7 400 (11.50%) Microservices
8 377 (10.84%) Test Automation
9 332 (9.54%) Containerisation
10 299 (8.59%) TDD
11 291 (8.36%) Continuous Integration
12 251 (7.21%) Migration
13 239 (6.87%) SDLC
14 235 (6.75%) Continuous Improvement
15 197 (5.66%) Full Stack Development
16 195 (5.61%) Analytics
17 188 (5.40%) Computer Science
18 184 (5.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 182 (5.23%) Roadmaps
19 182 (5.23%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 880 (25.29%) Python
2 607 (17.45%) C#
3 534 (15.35%) SQL
4 515 (14.80%) Java
5 468 (13.45%) PowerShell
6 356 (10.23%) JavaScript
7 232 (6.67%) TypeScript
8 205 (5.89%) Bash
9 166 (4.77%) Go
10 156 (4.48%) Bicep
11 146 (4.20%) C++
12 125 (3.59%) C
13 72 (2.07%) Shell Script
14 57 (1.64%) Scala
15 48 (1.38%) Ruby
16 44 (1.26%) Perl
17 43 (1.24%) T-SQL
18 36 (1.03%) VBScript
19 28 (0.80%) VB
20 27 (0.78%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 757 (21.76%) Security Cleared
2 521 (14.98%) SC Cleared
3 295 (8.48%) Degree
4 233 (6.70%) DV Cleared
5 123 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 61 (1.75%) Azure Certification
7 60 (1.72%) AWS Certification
8 43 (1.24%) Master's Degree
9 29 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
10 26 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 26 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
11 23 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 22 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
13 21 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 19 (0.55%) CCNP
14 19 (0.55%) PMP
15 15 (0.43%) PMI Certification
16 13 (0.37%) CCNA
17 12 (0.34%) CISSP
17 12 (0.34%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 201 (5.78%) QA
2 48 (1.38%) Accessibility
3 44 (1.26%) GDPR
4 41 (1.18%) PCI DSS
5 37 (1.06%) Data Quality
6 36 (1.03%) NIST
7 28 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 27 (0.78%) WCAG
9 23 (0.66%) SLA
10 20 (0.57%) MISRA
11 16 (0.46%) PMO
12 14 (0.40%) NCSC
13 12 (0.34%) HIPAA
14 7 (0.20%) GRC
15 6 (0.17%) ISO 22301
16 5 (0.14%) ISO 9001
16 5 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 5 (0.14%) SOC 2
17 3 (0.086%) COBIT
17 3 (0.086%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 561 (16.13%) Docker
2 249 (7.16%) Active Directory
3 66 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
4 64 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 26 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (0.43%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 14 (0.40%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.34%) Firmware
9 10 (0.29%) Hyper-V
10 7 (0.20%) vCloud
11 6 (0.17%) vSphere
12 4 (0.11%) NFS
12 4 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.086%) LXC
13 3 (0.086%) OpenAM
13 3 (0.086%) OpenIDM
14 2 (0.057%) HDFS
14 2 (0.057%) Squid
15 1 (0.029%) Terminal Services
15 1 (0.029%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 804 (23.11%) Terraform
2 784 (22.54%) Kubernetes
3 400 (11.50%) Ansible
4 155 (4.46%) Prometheus
5 143 (4.11%) Grafana
6 94 (2.70%) Puppet
7 74 (2.13%) Progress Chef
8 46 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
9 39 (1.12%) Docker Swarm
10 37 (1.06%) Kibana
11 36 (1.03%) Istio
12 32 (0.92%) SCOM
13 31 (0.89%) SCCM
14 29 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
14 29 (0.83%) Packer
15 26 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 25 (0.72%) Argo
17 24 (0.69%) Consul
18 22 (0.63%) WSUS
19 21 (0.60%) Rancher
Vendors
1 663 (19.06%) Microsoft
2 216 (6.21%) Oracle
3 121 (3.48%) Google
4 102 (2.93%) Splunk
5 87 (2.50%) Databricks
5 87 (2.50%) VMware
6 71 (2.04%) SAP
7 68 (1.95%) Salesforce
8 59 (1.70%) ServiceNow
9 50 (1.44%) Cisco
10 48 (1.38%) Red Hat
11 46 (1.32%) IBM
12 41 (1.18%) Dynatrace
13 32 (0.92%) F5
14 31 (0.89%) Citrix
15 29 (0.83%) CyberArk
15 29 (0.83%) Palo Alto
16 24 (0.69%) Adobe
17 23 (0.66%) Informatica
18 22 (0.63%) Fortinet