DevOps Contracts in the UK excluding London

DevOps
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 19 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 1,565 2,366 3,184
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.51% 10.32% 10.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.02% 11.58% 11.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,081 1,744 2,246
10th Percentile £381 £413 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £625
90th Percentile £688 £701 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £587 £580
% change year-on-year -6.30% +1.21% +10.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 91 61
10th Percentile £56.61 £53.75 £35.00
25th Percentile £61.51 £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 £75.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £87.14 £78.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.50 £65.50 £63.60
% change year-on-year - +2.99% +32.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,354 20,436 27,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.24% 89.17% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,295 14,024 19,087
10th Percentile £250 £260 £240
25th Percentile £375 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £579
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,139 1,241 1,336
10th Percentile £12.47 £10.63 £12.43
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £62.38
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the UK excluding London

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for DevOps in the UK excluding London

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the UK excluding London

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in the UK excluding London

DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps in the UK excluding London

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
South East -4 457 £568 -2.99% 215
North of England +1 433 £513 -6.82% 277
South West -9 248 £550 -8.33% 146
North West -1 234 £525 - 166
Yorkshire +6 183 £495 -17.50% 80
Scotland -12 176 £475 -5.00% 85
Midlands -5 148 £525 -1.41% 180
West Midlands -14 102 £525 -8.70% 131
East of England -13 97 £534 -7.13% 68
East Midlands -15 39 £450 +5.88% 49
North East -7 20 £525 -12.50% 31
Wales -14 20 £538 -8.28% 28
Northern Ireland +8 13 £575 -4.17% 28
Isle of Man - 2 £388 -
DevOps
UK

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 63 (4.03%) Confluence
2 31 (1.98%) SharePoint
3 30 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (1.41%) Apache
5 20 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
6 16 (1.02%) Apache Spark
7 12 (0.77%) nginx
8 10 (0.64%) IIS
9 9 (0.58%) CMS
10 8 (0.51%) JBoss
11 6 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 5 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 4 (0.26%) Apache Solr
13 4 (0.26%) ArcGIS
13 4 (0.26%) GeoServer
13 4 (0.26%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.19%) Drupal
14 3 (0.19%) Kentico
14 3 (0.19%) OpenStack
14 3 (0.19%) Umbraco
Applications
1 18 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.70%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.064%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.064%) Simulink
6 1 (0.064%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.064%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (1.09%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 13 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
4 12 (0.77%) Maximo
5 10 (0.64%) NetSuite
5 10 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
5 10 (0.64%) Teamcenter
6 8 (0.51%) Oracle EBS R12
7 6 (0.38%) SAP Hybris
7 6 (0.38%) SAP PM
7 6 (0.38%) Temenos T24
8 4 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 2 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
10 1 (0.064%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.064%) Oracle Payroll
10 1 (0.064%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.064%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 719 (45.94%) Azure
2 400 (25.56%) Azure DevOps
3 384 (24.54%) AWS
4 116 (7.41%) Serverless
5 95 (6.07%) GitHub
6 90 (5.75%) GCP
7 88 (5.62%) OpenShift
8 73 (4.66%) Power Platform
9 65 (4.15%) Amazon S3
10 63 (4.03%) Azure Monitor
11 58 (3.71%) Entra ID
12 55 (3.51%) AWS CloudFormation
13 54 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
14 49 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
15 43 (2.75%) Azure Functions
15 43 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
16 42 (2.68%) PaaS
17 39 (2.49%) Dynamics 365
18 37 (2.36%) Azure Data Factory
19 32 (2.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 147 (9.39%) Firewall
2 75 (4.79%) VPN
3 49 (3.13%) DNS
4 34 (2.17%) Modbus
4 34 (2.17%) RS-422
4 34 (2.17%) RS-485
5 30 (1.92%) Intrusion Detection
6 25 (1.60%) Network Security
6 25 (1.60%) TCP/IP
7 23 (1.47%) HTTP
8 21 (1.34%) DHCP
9 18 (1.15%) SSL
10 17 (1.09%) IPsec
11 14 (0.89%) OSPF
12 13 (0.83%) SNMP
13 12 (0.77%) BGP
13 12 (0.77%) Cisco ASA
13 12 (0.77%) EIGRP
13 12 (0.77%) HSRP
13 12 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (5.62%) PostgreSQL
2 81 (5.18%) SQL Server
3 63 (4.03%) NoSQL
4 59 (3.77%) Relational Database
5 49 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
6 47 (3.00%) Power BI
7 43 (2.75%) Data Lake
8 38 (2.43%) MySQL
9 33 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
9 33 (2.11%) MongoDB
10 29 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
11 22 (1.41%) Big Data
12 19 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
12 19 (1.21%) RDBMS
13 17 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
13 17 (1.09%) Oracle Database
14 16 (1.02%) GIS
15 15 (0.96%) BigQuery
16 14 (0.89%) Hadoop
16 14 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 219 (13.99%) Jenkins
2 208 (13.29%) Git
3 179 (11.44%) JIRA
4 112 (7.16%) GitLab
5 75 (4.79%) Selenium
6 55 (3.51%) SonarQube
7 36 (2.30%) Visual Studio
8 33 (2.11%) Cucumber
9 24 (1.53%) Artifactory
9 24 (1.53%) REST Assured
10 19 (1.21%) Bitbucket
11 17 (1.09%) GoogleTest
12 16 (1.02%) JUnit
12 16 (1.02%) Postman
13 15 (0.96%) TeamCity
14 14 (0.89%) Maven
15 13 (0.83%) Cypress.io
15 13 (0.83%) Travis CI
16 12 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
17 11 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 305 (19.49%) Social Skills
2 179 (11.44%) Public Sector
3 168 (10.73%) Finance
4 154 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
5 66 (4.22%) Banking
6 41 (2.62%) Electronics
7 30 (1.92%) Retail
8 27 (1.73%) Law
9 25 (1.60%) Legal
10 21 (1.34%) Manufacturing
11 20 (1.28%) Telecoms
12 18 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (1.02%) Marketing
14 14 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 14 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
15 13 (0.83%) Police
16 11 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
17 7 (0.45%) Automotive
17 7 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
18 5 (0.32%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 284 (18.15%) Developer
2 282 (18.02%) DevOps Engineer
3 232 (14.82%) Architect
4 136 (8.69%) Senior
5 111 (7.09%) Lead
6 90 (5.75%) Software Engineer
7 87 (5.56%) Analyst
8 67 (4.28%) Solutions Architect
9 60 (3.83%) Azure Engineer
10 55 (3.51%) AWS Engineer
11 51 (3.26%) Full Stack Developer
12 49 (3.13%) Java Developer
13 48 (3.07%) Consultant
14 46 (2.94%) Java Engineer
15 45 (2.88%) AWS DevOps
15 45 (2.88%) Technical Architect
16 41 (2.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 38 (2.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 38 (2.43%) C++ Software Engineer
17 38 (2.43%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (8.95%) .NET
2 117 (7.48%) REST
3 108 (6.90%) React
4 74 (4.73%) Kafka
5 68 (4.35%) Node.js
6 61 (3.90%) Spring Boot
7 60 (3.83%) CSS
7 60 (3.83%) HTML
8 59 (3.77%) Spring
9 50 (3.19%) ARM Templates
10 48 (3.07%) AngularJS
11 46 (2.94%) XML
12 42 (2.68%) JSON
13 38 (2.43%) .NET Framework
13 38 (2.43%) Elastic Stack
14 36 (2.30%) RESTful
15 35 (2.24%) YAML
16 29 (1.85%) .NET Core
17 28 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
17 28 (1.79%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 90 (5.75%) Product Ownership
2 74 (4.73%) Public Cloud
3 62 (3.96%) Self-Motivation
4 50 (3.19%) Cloud Native
5 28 (1.79%) PKI
6 27 (1.73%) Linux Command Line
7 25 (1.60%) Mobile App
8 24 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
9 21 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 20 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
10 20 (1.28%) Management Information System
11 19 (1.21%) Client/Server
12 18 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
13 17 (1.09%) Data Structures
13 17 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
14 15 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
15 13 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
15 13 (0.83%) Onboarding
16 12 (0.77%) Robotics
17 10 (0.64%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 229 (14.63%) Linux
2 176 (11.25%) Windows
3 93 (5.94%) Windows Server
4 54 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 40 (2.56%) Apple iOS
6 39 (2.49%) Android
7 34 (2.17%) Unix
8 26 (1.66%) Windows Server 2016
8 26 (1.66%) Windows Server 2019
9 13 (0.83%) CentOS
10 8 (0.51%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.38%) AIX
11 6 (0.38%) Mac OS
11 6 (0.38%) VMS
11 6 (0.38%) Windows 10
12 3 (0.19%) Solaris
13 2 (0.13%) Alpine Linux
14 1 (0.064%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.064%) Debian
14 1 (0.064%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 669 (42.75%) Agile
2 515 (32.91%) CI/CD
3 246 (15.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 218 (13.93%) Problem-Solving
5 216 (13.80%) Software Engineering
6 186 (11.88%) Containerisation
7 180 (11.50%) Test Automation
8 164 (10.48%) Continuous Integration
9 160 (10.22%) Microservices
10 152 (9.71%) Scrum
11 115 (7.35%) Continuous Improvement
11 115 (7.35%) Migration
12 112 (7.16%) Unit Testing
13 104 (6.65%) Software Testing
14 99 (6.33%) Project Management
14 99 (6.33%) Stakeholder Management
15 98 (6.26%) Full Stack Development
16 96 (6.13%) SDLC
17 89 (5.69%) Change Management
17 89 (5.69%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 383 (24.47%) Python
2 252 (16.10%) Java
3 194 (12.40%) C#
4 173 (11.05%) SQL
5 161 (10.29%) PowerShell
6 109 (6.96%) C
7 105 (6.71%) JavaScript
8 98 (6.26%) C++
9 95 (6.07%) Bash
10 63 (4.03%) TypeScript
11 49 (3.13%) Go
12 42 (2.68%) Bicep
13 39 (2.49%) Perl
14 38 (2.43%) VBScript
15 26 (1.66%) Shell Script
16 24 (1.53%) Scala
16 24 (1.53%) VB
17 23 (1.47%) Ruby
18 17 (1.09%) PHP
19 16 (1.02%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 473 (30.22%) Security Cleared
2 279 (17.83%) SC Cleared
3 206 (13.16%) DV Cleared
4 129 (8.24%) Degree
5 49 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (1.28%) AWS Certification
6 20 (1.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 16 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (0.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 14 (0.89%) CCNP
10 13 (0.83%) ISTQB
11 12 (0.77%) Azure Certification
11 12 (0.77%) CCNA
11 12 (0.77%) ISEB
12 11 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (0.51%) Master's Degree
14 7 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
15 6 (0.38%) PMP
16 5 (0.32%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (7.22%) QA
2 20 (1.28%) Accessibility
2 20 (1.28%) MISRA
3 18 (1.15%) PMO
4 17 (1.09%) Disclosure Scotland
5 14 (0.89%) GDPR
5 14 (0.89%) NIST
6 13 (0.83%) NCSC
7 11 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (0.58%) Data Quality
9 6 (0.38%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.32%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.26%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.19%) ISO 22301
13 2 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.13%) GRC
13 2 (0.13%) RMADS
13 2 (0.13%) SLA
13 2 (0.13%) WCAG
14 1 (0.064%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 262 (16.74%) Docker
2 82 (5.24%) Active Directory
3 54 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (2.43%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (1.53%) Virtual Desktop
6 14 (0.89%) VMware NSX
7 12 (0.77%) Firmware
8 7 (0.45%) vCloud
9 6 (0.38%) Hyper-V
10 5 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.19%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 3 (0.19%) LXC
11 3 (0.19%) OpenAM
11 3 (0.19%) OpenIDM
11 3 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.13%) HDFS
12 2 (0.13%) NFS
13 1 (0.064%) GPFS
13 1 (0.064%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.064%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 333 (21.28%) Kubernetes
2 315 (20.13%) Terraform
3 209 (13.35%) Ansible
4 81 (5.18%) Grafana
5 71 (4.54%) Prometheus
6 49 (3.13%) Progress Chef
7 44 (2.81%) Puppet
8 39 (2.49%) Kibana
9 33 (2.11%) SCCM
10 32 (2.04%) Istio
11 31 (1.98%) Docker Swarm
12 29 (1.85%) SCOM
13 24 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
13 24 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
14 22 (1.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 21 (1.34%) WSUS
16 19 (1.21%) Rancher
17 18 (1.15%) Argo
18 14 (0.89%) Podman
19 13 (0.83%) logstash
Vendors
1 234 (14.95%) Microsoft
2 105 (6.71%) Oracle
3 72 (4.60%) VMware
4 62 (3.96%) Google
5 57 (3.64%) Splunk
6 37 (2.36%) SAP
7 31 (1.98%) Red Hat
8 23 (1.47%) Databricks
9 21 (1.34%) ServiceNow
10 19 (1.21%) Salesforce
11 18 (1.15%) Citrix
12 16 (1.02%) EMC
12 16 (1.02%) IBM
13 15 (0.96%) Cisco
14 14 (0.89%) F5
14 14 (0.89%) Palo Alto
15 13 (0.83%) Atlassian
15 13 (0.83%) SolarWinds
16 8 (0.51%) Adobe
16 8 (0.51%) Informatica