DevOps Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

DevOps
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 14 10
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 1,142 1,559 2,851
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.72% 10.63% 11.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.81% 12.19% 13.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 849 1,121 2,191
10th Percentile £367 £400 £413
25th Percentile £440 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £644 £675
90th Percentile £765 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £585
% change year-on-year -4.55% -5.98% +1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 16 26
10th Percentile - £65.00 £39.60
25th Percentile £67.50 £75.94 £55.31
Median hourly rate £70.00 £87.46 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.96% +34.55% +13.04%
75th Percentile £72.50 £87.53 £65.75
90th Percentile - - £68.00
UK median hourly rate £76.00 £67.50 £65.55
% change year-on-year +12.59% +2.97% +0.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,917 12,784 21,360
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.48% 87.14% 89.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,048 8,601 15,167
10th Percentile £325 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.57% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 573 494
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.03 £17.80
25th Percentile £18.29 £24.00 £25.75
Median hourly rate £35.45 £43.00 £52.32
Median % change year-on-year -17.57% -17.81% +24.56%
75th Percentile £65.25 £60.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £74.90 £78.53
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £37.18 £35.00
% change year-on-year -30.69% +6.23% +34.62%

DevOps
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DevOps trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing DevOps.

DevOps daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing DevOps over the 6 months to 16 June 2025.

DevOps daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing DevOps.

DevOps hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps
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 51 (4.47%) Confluence
2 32 (2.80%) Apache
3 31 (2.71%) Apache Spark
4 25 (2.19%) SharePoint
5 24 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
6 13 (1.14%) Oracle Coherence
7 12 (1.05%) CMS
8 9 (0.79%) WordPress
9 8 (0.70%) GemFire
9 8 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (0.70%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.61%) JBoss
10 7 (0.61%) nginx
11 5 (0.44%) CICS
12 4 (0.35%) Camunda
12 4 (0.35%) Umbraco
13 3 (0.26%) Headless CMS
14 2 (0.18%) Anypoint
14 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
14 2 (0.18%) GeoServer
Applications
1 11 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.70%) MS Visio
2 8 (0.70%) Trello
3 6 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.088%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.088%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.088%) InVision
5 1 (0.088%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.088%) Notion
5 1 (0.088%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 13 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.44%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.35%) Unit4 Business World
5 3 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.26%) SAP FSCM
6 2 (0.18%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.088%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.088%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.088%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.088%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.088%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.088%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.088%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.088%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.088%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.088%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.088%) Summit
7 1 (0.088%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 562 (49.21%) Azure
2 430 (37.65%) AWS
3 352 (30.82%) Azure DevOps
4 151 (13.22%) Serverless
5 146 (12.78%) GitHub
6 100 (8.76%) GCP
7 97 (8.49%) AWS Lambda
8 75 (6.57%) Power Platform
9 69 (6.04%) AWS CloudFormation
10 68 (5.95%) GitHub Actions
11 67 (5.87%) Amazon S3
12 54 (4.73%) Amazon EC2
13 47 (4.12%) Dynamics 365
14 46 (4.03%) OpenShift
15 44 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
16 42 (3.68%) PaaS
17 41 (3.59%) IaaS
17 41 (3.59%) SaaS
18 40 (3.50%) Amazon ECS
18 40 (3.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 43 (3.77%) DNS
2 37 (3.24%) Firewall
3 28 (2.45%) HTTP
4 27 (2.36%) TCP/IP
5 20 (1.75%) SSL
6 15 (1.31%) DHCP
7 13 (1.14%) VPN
8 12 (1.05%) Network Security
9 9 (0.79%) WAN
10 8 (0.70%) HTTPS
10 8 (0.70%) Internet
11 5 (0.44%) FTP
11 5 (0.44%) LAN
11 5 (0.44%) SMTP
11 5 (0.44%) Software-Defined Networking
12 4 (0.35%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.35%) OpenLDAP
12 4 (0.35%) SAN
12 4 (0.35%) SSH
13 3 (0.26%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (6.48%) PostgreSQL
2 59 (5.17%) Relational Database
3 56 (4.90%) SQL Server
4 48 (4.20%) NoSQL
5 44 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
5 44 (3.85%) Power BI
6 36 (3.15%) MongoDB
7 35 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
8 32 (2.80%) MySQL
9 30 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
10 29 (2.54%) Redis
11 25 (2.19%) Amazon Aurora
11 25 (2.19%) Azure SQL Database
12 24 (2.10%) DynamoDB
13 21 (1.84%) Big Data
14 20 (1.75%) Apache Iceberg
15 19 (1.66%) Oracle Database
16 18 (1.58%) Apache Arrow
16 18 (1.58%) Apache Ignite
16 18 (1.58%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 194 (16.99%) Jenkins
2 134 (11.73%) Git
3 126 (11.03%) JIRA
4 114 (9.98%) GitLab
5 34 (2.98%) JUnit
5 34 (2.98%) Selenium
6 32 (2.80%) SonarQube
7 27 (2.36%) Bitbucket
7 27 (2.36%) Cypress.io
8 26 (2.28%) Postman
9 24 (2.10%) Maven
10 22 (1.93%) JMeter
11 21 (1.84%) Mockito
12 20 (1.75%) Artifactory
13 17 (1.49%) Cucumber
14 15 (1.31%) REST Assured
15 13 (1.14%) Gradle
15 13 (1.14%) TeamCity
15 13 (1.14%) Visual Studio Code
16 12 (1.05%) CircleCI
General
1 315 (27.58%) Social Skills
2 206 (18.04%) Finance
3 142 (12.43%) Public Sector
4 135 (11.82%) Analytical Skills
5 87 (7.62%) Banking
6 48 (4.20%) Investment Banking
7 31 (2.71%) Front Office
8 29 (2.54%) Telecoms
9 21 (1.84%) Manufacturing
10 19 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
10 19 (1.66%) Marketing
10 19 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
11 18 (1.58%) Retail
12 16 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 14 (1.23%) Law
14 12 (1.05%) Electronics
15 11 (0.96%) Back Office
15 11 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.61%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.61%) Legal
Job Titles
1 311 (27.23%) Developer
2 231 (20.23%) DevOps Engineer
3 155 (13.57%) Senior
4 117 (10.25%) Architect
4 117 (10.25%) Lead
5 91 (7.97%) AWS Engineer
6 65 (5.69%) Azure Engineer
7 63 (5.52%) AWS DevOps
8 59 (5.17%) Java Developer
9 57 (4.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 56 (4.90%) Analyst
11 52 (4.55%) Senior Developer
12 51 (4.47%) Data Engineer
13 49 (4.29%) Senior DevOps
14 47 (4.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 46 (4.03%) .NET Developer
16 44 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
17 43 (3.77%) Lead Developer
18 38 (3.33%) C# Developer
19 36 (3.15%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (13.22%) .NET
2 102 (8.93%) Kafka
3 90 (7.88%) REST
4 89 (7.79%) React
5 58 (5.08%) .NET Core
6 57 (4.99%) RESTful
7 51 (4.47%) Node.js
8 49 (4.29%) Spring Boot
9 46 (4.03%) OAuth
9 46 (4.03%) Spring
10 44 (3.85%) ASP.NET
11 42 (3.68%) AngularJS
11 42 (3.68%) Web Services
12 37 (3.24%) CSS
13 36 (3.15%) HTML
14 35 (3.06%) SOAP
15 34 (2.98%) PySpark
16 33 (2.89%) Elastic Stack
17 32 (2.80%) JSON
18 30 (2.63%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 89 (7.79%) Cloud Native
2 68 (5.95%) Product Ownership
3 30 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 25 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
5 22 (1.93%) Onboarding
6 20 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
7 19 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
7 19 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (1.49%) Mobile App
9 15 (1.31%) Algorithms
10 13 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
10 13 (1.14%) Public Cloud
11 12 (1.05%) Management Information System
11 12 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (0.96%) Data Centre
12 11 (0.96%) Data Structures
12 11 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
13 10 (0.88%) Replication
13 10 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 134 (11.73%) Linux
2 59 (5.17%) Windows
3 22 (1.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 22 (1.93%) Unix
4 19 (1.66%) Windows Server
5 14 (1.23%) Android
6 11 (0.96%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.96%) VMS
7 4 (0.35%) SUSE
8 3 (0.26%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.26%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.26%) zOS
9 2 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.18%) Solaris
10 1 (0.088%) AIX
10 1 (0.088%) CentOS
10 1 (0.088%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.088%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 556 (48.69%) CI/CD
2 510 (44.66%) Agile
3 241 (21.10%) Problem-Solving
4 235 (20.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 207 (18.13%) Containerisation
6 157 (13.75%) Microservices
7 140 (12.26%) Test Automation
8 123 (10.77%) Scrum
9 120 (10.51%) Migration
10 106 (9.28%) Continuous Integration
11 105 (9.19%) Software Engineering
12 102 (8.93%) Mentoring
13 101 (8.84%) Analytics
14 99 (8.67%) TDD
15 84 (7.36%) Continuous Improvement
16 78 (6.83%) Artificial Intelligence
17 76 (6.65%) Stakeholder Management
18 68 (5.95%) Full-Stack Development
19 65 (5.69%) Business Intelligence
19 65 (5.69%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 345 (30.21%) Python
2 219 (19.18%) SQL
3 213 (18.65%) Java
4 166 (14.54%) C#
5 125 (10.95%) PowerShell
6 119 (10.42%) JavaScript
7 105 (9.19%) Bash
8 83 (7.27%) TypeScript
9 44 (3.85%) Go
10 38 (3.33%) Bicep
11 20 (1.75%) Scala
12 19 (1.66%) C++
12 19 (1.66%) Shell Script
13 17 (1.49%) Ruby
14 14 (1.23%) PHP
15 13 (1.14%) PL/SQL
16 12 (1.05%) Perl
17 8 (0.70%) Groovy
17 8 (0.70%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.70%) VB
Qualifications
1 245 (21.45%) Security Cleared
2 227 (19.88%) SC Cleared
3 90 (7.88%) Degree
4 41 (3.59%) AWS Certification
5 37 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (3.15%) Azure Certification
7 20 (1.75%) Numerate Degree
8 15 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 15 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (1.05%) CISSP
10 12 (1.05%) DV Cleared
11 9 (0.79%) Master's Degree
12 7 (0.61%) CISM
12 7 (0.61%) ISTQB
13 6 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (0.53%) OCP
13 6 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
14 4 (0.35%) PMI Certification
15 3 (0.26%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (7.53%) QA
2 38 (3.33%) GDPR
3 35 (3.06%) Accessibility
4 22 (1.93%) Data Quality
5 17 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (1.40%) NIST
7 12 (1.05%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.70%) HIPAA
9 7 (0.61%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.53%) SLA
11 5 (0.44%) PMO
11 5 (0.44%) WCAG
12 4 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.26%) EMIR
13 3 (0.26%) HL7
13 3 (0.26%) NCSC
13 3 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
14 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.18%) Disclosure Scotland
14 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 267 (23.38%) Docker
2 41 (3.59%) Active Directory
3 26 (2.28%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.96%) vSphere
6 8 (0.70%) GridGain
7 6 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 3 (0.26%) DFS Replication
9 3 (0.26%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.26%) Postfix
9 3 (0.26%) RACF
9 3 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.088%) KVM
10 1 (0.088%) OpenAM
10 1 (0.088%) OpenDJ
10 1 (0.088%) OpenIDM
10 1 (0.088%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 350 (30.65%) Terraform
2 311 (27.23%) Kubernetes
3 151 (13.22%) Ansible
4 67 (5.87%) Grafana
5 60 (5.25%) Prometheus
6 35 (3.06%) Puppet
7 33 (2.89%) Progress Chef
8 18 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
9 16 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
10 15 (1.31%) Argo
11 12 (1.05%) Packer
12 8 (0.70%) FortiGate
12 8 (0.70%) Istio
12 8 (0.70%) Kibana
13 6 (0.53%) Podman
13 6 (0.53%) WSUS
14 5 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
14 5 (0.44%) HP ALM
14 5 (0.44%) SCCM
15 4 (0.35%) MIIS
Vendors
1 166 (14.54%) Microsoft
2 83 (7.27%) Oracle
3 43 (3.77%) Databricks
4 41 (3.59%) SAP
5 35 (3.06%) Google
6 32 (2.80%) Red Hat
7 31 (2.71%) Splunk
8 22 (1.93%) VMware
9 20 (1.75%) Salesforce
9 20 (1.75%) ServiceNow
10 18 (1.58%) Dynatrace
11 16 (1.40%) Atlassian
12 13 (1.14%) Cisco
13 12 (1.05%) MuleSoft
14 9 (0.79%) Citrix
14 9 (0.79%) IBM
15 7 (0.61%) New Relic
16 6 (0.53%) HP
17 5 (0.44%) Pega
17 5 (0.44%) Progress
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