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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 1,582 2,331 3,186
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.50% 10.26% 10.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.05% 11.52% 11.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,088 1,727 2,254
10th Percentile £377 £413 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.42%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £625
90th Percentile £688 £713 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £586 £575
% change year-on-year -6.14% +1.91% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 91 60
10th Percentile £56.65 £53.75 £35.00
25th Percentile £61.60 £60.91 £43.50
Median hourly rate £65.50 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - +0.77% +18.18%
75th Percentile £75.63 £75.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £86.86 £78.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.50 £65.50 £64.30
% change year-on-year - +1.87% +29.90%

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 17,473 20,238 27,294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.84% 89.10% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,285 13,877 19,070
10th Percentile £250 £260 £245
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £585
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 2,170 1,255 1,342
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.68 £12.48
25th Percentile £15.40 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.54 £74.92 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -2 454 £555 -5.53% 189
North of England 0 446 £507 -7.82% 265
South West -7 252 £550 -8.33% 130
North West -3 238 £525 - 156
Yorkshire +7 191 £488 -18.75% 78
Scotland -14 172 £472 -5.55% 71
Midlands -10 158 £525 -1.96% 163
West Midlands -10 110 £525 -10.64% 111
East of England -18 94 £534 -2.91% 51
East Midlands -12 41 £450 +5.88% 52
North East -5 22 £525 -12.50% 31
Wales -16 20 £538 -8.04% 30
Northern Ireland +8 13 £575 -8.00% 25
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 67 (4.24%) Confluence
2 32 (2.02%) SharePoint
3 30 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (1.39%) Apache
5 20 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
6 19 (1.20%) Apache Spark
7 11 (0.70%) nginx
8 10 (0.63%) IIS
9 9 (0.57%) CMS
10 8 (0.51%) JBoss
11 6 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 5 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 4 (0.25%) Apache Solr
13 4 (0.25%) ArcGIS
13 4 (0.25%) GeoServer
13 4 (0.25%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.19%) Drupal
14 3 (0.19%) Kentico
14 3 (0.19%) OpenStack
14 3 (0.19%) Umbraco
Applications
1 18 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.70%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.063%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.063%) Simulink
6 1 (0.063%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.063%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (1.07%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 13 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
4 12 (0.76%) Maximo
5 11 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
6 10 (0.63%) NetSuite
6 10 (0.63%) Teamcenter
7 8 (0.51%) Oracle EBS R12
8 6 (0.38%) SAP Hybris
8 6 (0.38%) SAP PM
8 6 (0.38%) Temenos T24
9 4 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 2 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
11 1 (0.063%) Oracle ERP
11 1 (0.063%) Oracle Payroll
11 1 (0.063%) Remedy ITSM
11 1 (0.063%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 719 (45.45%) Azure
2 400 (25.28%) Azure DevOps
3 389 (24.59%) AWS
4 117 (7.40%) Serverless
5 98 (6.19%) GitHub
6 89 (5.63%) GCP
6 89 (5.63%) OpenShift
7 75 (4.74%) Power Platform
8 65 (4.11%) Amazon S3
9 62 (3.92%) Azure Monitor
10 58 (3.67%) Entra ID
11 54 (3.41%) AWS CloudFormation
12 53 (3.35%) Amazon EC2
13 50 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
14 43 (2.72%) Azure Functions
14 43 (2.72%) Microsoft 365
15 39 (2.47%) Dynamics 365
15 39 (2.47%) PaaS
16 38 (2.40%) Azure Data Factory
17 32 (2.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 147 (9.29%) Firewall
2 75 (4.74%) VPN
3 46 (2.91%) DNS
4 34 (2.15%) Modbus
4 34 (2.15%) RS-422
4 34 (2.15%) RS-485
5 30 (1.90%) Intrusion Detection
6 24 (1.52%) Network Security
6 24 (1.52%) TCP/IP
7 23 (1.45%) HTTP
8 20 (1.26%) DHCP
9 18 (1.14%) SSL
10 17 (1.07%) IPsec
11 14 (0.88%) OSPF
12 13 (0.82%) SNMP
13 12 (0.76%) BGP
13 12 (0.76%) Cisco ASA
13 12 (0.76%) EIGRP
13 12 (0.76%) HSRP
13 12 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (5.31%) PostgreSQL
2 82 (5.18%) SQL Server
3 62 (3.92%) NoSQL
4 59 (3.73%) Relational Database
5 50 (3.16%) Elasticsearch
6 49 (3.10%) Power BI
7 44 (2.78%) Data Lake
8 36 (2.28%) MySQL
9 33 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
10 31 (1.96%) MongoDB
11 29 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
12 24 (1.52%) Big Data
13 20 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
14 18 (1.14%) RDBMS
15 17 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
16 16 (1.01%) BigQuery
16 16 (1.01%) GIS
16 16 (1.01%) Hadoop
16 16 (1.01%) Oracle Database
17 14 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 233 (14.73%) Jenkins
2 210 (13.27%) Git
3 191 (12.07%) JIRA
4 112 (7.08%) GitLab
5 75 (4.74%) Selenium
6 56 (3.54%) SonarQube
7 36 (2.28%) Visual Studio
8 33 (2.09%) Cucumber
9 25 (1.58%) Artifactory
10 24 (1.52%) REST Assured
11 23 (1.45%) GoogleTest
12 21 (1.33%) Bitbucket
13 17 (1.07%) Maven
14 16 (1.01%) JUnit
14 16 (1.01%) Postman
15 15 (0.95%) TeamCity
16 13 (0.82%) Cypress.io
16 13 (0.82%) Travis CI
17 12 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
18 11 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 310 (19.60%) Social Skills
2 179 (11.31%) Public Sector
3 170 (10.75%) Finance
4 160 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
5 67 (4.24%) Banking
6 41 (2.59%) Electronics
7 31 (1.96%) Retail
8 27 (1.71%) Law
9 25 (1.58%) Legal
10 22 (1.39%) Manufacturing
11 21 (1.33%) Telecoms
12 18 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (1.01%) Marketing
13 16 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
14 15 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 13 (0.82%) Police
16 10 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
16 10 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
17 8 (0.51%) Automotive
18 5 (0.32%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 293 (18.52%) DevOps Engineer
2 278 (17.57%) Developer
3 232 (14.66%) Architect
4 139 (8.79%) Senior
5 114 (7.21%) Lead
6 94 (5.94%) Software Engineer
7 89 (5.63%) Analyst
8 68 (4.30%) Solutions Architect
9 62 (3.92%) AWS Engineer
10 59 (3.73%) Azure Engineer
11 53 (3.35%) Java Developer
12 52 (3.29%) AWS DevOps
13 50 (3.16%) Java Engineer
14 48 (3.03%) Consultant
15 45 (2.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 45 (2.84%) Full Stack Developer
15 45 (2.84%) Technical Architect
16 41 (2.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 40 (2.53%) C++ Software Engineer
18 38 (2.40%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (8.60%) .NET
2 116 (7.33%) REST
3 104 (6.57%) React
4 76 (4.80%) Kafka
5 69 (4.36%) Node.js
6 63 (3.98%) Spring Boot
7 59 (3.73%) CSS
7 59 (3.73%) HTML
8 54 (3.41%) Spring
9 51 (3.22%) ARM Templates
10 46 (2.91%) XML
11 42 (2.65%) AngularJS
12 41 (2.59%) JSON
13 39 (2.47%) Elastic Stack
14 38 (2.40%) .NET Framework
15 36 (2.28%) RESTful
16 35 (2.21%) YAML
17 28 (1.77%) Web Services
18 27 (1.71%) .NET Core
18 27 (1.71%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 90 (5.69%) Product Ownership
2 71 (4.49%) Public Cloud
3 62 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
4 49 (3.10%) Cloud Native
5 33 (2.09%) Linux Command Line
6 27 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 27 (1.71%) PKI
7 26 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
8 25 (1.58%) Mobile App
9 20 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
9 20 (1.26%) Management Information System
10 18 (1.14%) Client/Server
10 18 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
11 17 (1.07%) Data Structures
12 15 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
12 15 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
14 12 (0.76%) Onboarding
14 12 (0.76%) Robotics
15 10 (0.63%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 231 (14.60%) Linux
2 177 (11.19%) Windows
3 92 (5.82%) Windows Server
4 52 (3.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 40 (2.53%) Apple iOS
6 39 (2.47%) Android
7 36 (2.28%) Unix
8 26 (1.64%) Windows Server 2016
8 26 (1.64%) Windows Server 2019
9 12 (0.76%) 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 (0.063%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 671 (42.41%) Agile
2 528 (33.38%) CI/CD
3 253 (15.99%) Infrastructure as Code
4 225 (14.22%) Software Engineering
5 214 (13.53%) Problem-Solving
6 195 (12.33%) Containerisation
7 180 (11.38%) Test Automation
8 162 (10.24%) Continuous Integration
9 157 (9.92%) Microservices
10 150 (9.48%) Scrum
11 118 (7.46%) Continuous Improvement
12 116 (7.33%) Migration
13 104 (6.57%) Unit Testing
14 102 (6.45%) Software Testing
15 99 (6.26%) Stakeholder Management
16 93 (5.88%) Project Management
17 92 (5.82%) Full Stack Development
18 91 (5.75%) SDLC
18 91 (5.75%) Technical Leadership
19 87 (5.50%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 387 (24.46%) Python
2 257 (16.25%) Java
3 191 (12.07%) C#
4 173 (10.94%) SQL
5 161 (10.18%) PowerShell
6 107 (6.76%) C
6 107 (6.76%) C++
7 100 (6.32%) JavaScript
8 97 (6.13%) Bash
9 64 (4.05%) TypeScript
10 47 (2.97%) Go
11 42 (2.65%) Bicep
12 38 (2.40%) VBScript
13 34 (2.15%) Perl
14 25 (1.58%) Scala
14 25 (1.58%) Shell Script
15 24 (1.52%) VB
16 23 (1.45%) Ruby
17 19 (1.20%) Groovy
18 17 (1.07%) PHP
Qualifications
1 475 (30.03%) Security Cleared
2 277 (17.51%) SC Cleared
3 208 (13.15%) DV Cleared
4 132 (8.34%) Degree
5 53 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (1.64%) AWS Certification
7 21 (1.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 20 (1.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 13 (0.82%) ISTQB
10 12 (0.76%) Azure Certification
10 12 (0.76%) CCNA
10 12 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (0.76%) ISEB
11 11 (0.70%) CCNP
12 8 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 8 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
13 7 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (0.44%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.38%) PMP
15 5 (0.32%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (6.76%) QA
2 26 (1.64%) MISRA
3 21 (1.33%) Accessibility
4 18 (1.14%) PMO
5 17 (1.07%) Disclosure Scotland
6 15 (0.95%) GDPR
7 12 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.76%) NIST
8 9 (0.57%) Data Quality
8 9 (0.57%) NCSC
9 6 (0.38%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.32%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.25%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.19%) ISO 22301
12 3 (0.19%) WCAG
13 2 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.13%) GRC
13 2 (0.13%) RMADS
13 2 (0.13%) SLA
14 1 (0.063%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 273 (17.26%) Docker
2 84 (5.31%) Active Directory
3 52 (3.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (0.82%) VMware NSX
7 12 (0.76%) Firmware
8 7 (0.44%) vCloud
9 5 (0.32%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.19%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 3 (0.19%) OpenAM
10 3 (0.19%) OpenIDM
10 3 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.13%) HDFS
12 1 (0.063%) KVM
12 1 (0.063%) LXC
12 1 (0.063%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.063%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.063%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 345 (21.81%) Kubernetes
2 330 (20.86%) Terraform
3 213 (13.46%) Ansible
4 81 (5.12%) Grafana
5 71 (4.49%) Prometheus
6 50 (3.16%) Progress Chef
7 43 (2.72%) Puppet
8 40 (2.53%) Kibana
9 33 (2.09%) SCCM
10 32 (2.02%) Docker Swarm
10 32 (2.02%) Istio
11 29 (1.83%) SCOM
12 24 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
12 24 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
13 22 (1.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 21 (1.33%) WSUS
15 20 (1.26%) Rancher
16 18 (1.14%) Argo
17 14 (0.88%) logstash
17 14 (0.88%) Podman
Vendors
1 233 (14.73%) Microsoft
2 102 (6.45%) Oracle
3 69 (4.36%) Google
4 67 (4.24%) VMware
5 56 (3.54%) Splunk
6 38 (2.40%) SAP
7 30 (1.90%) Red Hat
8 24 (1.52%) Databricks
9 21 (1.33%) ServiceNow
10 19 (1.20%) Salesforce
11 18 (1.14%) Citrix
12 15 (0.95%) EMC
12 15 (0.95%) IBM
13 14 (0.88%) Atlassian
13 14 (0.88%) Cisco
13 14 (0.88%) F5
13 14 (0.88%) Palo Alto
13 14 (0.88%) SolarWinds
14 8 (0.51%) Adobe
14 8 (0.51%) Informatica