DevOps Contracts in Berkshire

DevOps
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 7 17
Rank change year-on-year 0 +10 -9
Contract jobs citing DevOps 265 213 195
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.67% 12.19% 8.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.38% 13.52% 9.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 160 148
10th Percentile £480 £474 £412
25th Percentile £501 £507 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £561 £521
Median % change year-on-year +6.95% +7.68% +4.20%
75th Percentile £675 £633 £617
90th Percentile £688 £700 £656
South East median daily rate £550 £582 £525
% change year-on-year -5.50% +10.86% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 3 1
10th Percentile £56.65 - -
25th Percentile £61.60 - -
Median hourly rate £83.77 £79.19 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.78% +49.42% -
75th Percentile £87.46 - -
90th Percentile £87.53 - -
South East median hourly rate £83.77 £79.19 £35.00
% change year-on-year +5.78% +126.26% -33.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,723 1,575 2,108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.91% 90.15% 90.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 905 1,014 1,334
10th Percentile £213 £350 £275
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% +5.00% +7.41%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £675 £701 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.86% +2.00% +9.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 48 40
10th Percentile £18.50 £19.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.25 £25.72 £17.00
Median hourly rate £61.00 £57.82 £21.03
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% +174.99% -0.12%
75th Percentile £71.75 £73.69 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.51 £69.46
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £49.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -4.04% +130.23% -19.63%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Berkshire

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Berkshire

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Berkshire over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Berkshire

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in Berkshire

DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps in Berkshire over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps in Berkshire

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
Reading +1 199 £605 +6.14% 28
Wokingham -2 21 £500 -4.76% 3
Windsor +2 14 £675 -
Bracknell -11 6 £500 -25.93%
Maidenhead - 3 £550 - 1
Newbury -4 1 £575 +35.29%
Thatcham - 1 £625 -
DevOps
South East

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 17 (6.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.51%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.13%) Confluence
4 2 (0.75%) Apache
4 2 (0.75%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.38%) Appian
5 1 (0.38%) CMS
5 1 (0.38%) Jadu
5 1 (0.38%) JBoss
5 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 11 (4.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 17 (6.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 8 (3.02%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (3.02%) Oracle EBS R12
2 8 (3.02%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.38%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.38%) Maximo
3 1 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.38%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 155 (58.49%) Azure
2 71 (26.79%) Azure DevOps
3 48 (18.11%) AWS
4 47 (17.74%) Azure Monitor
5 38 (14.34%) Entra ID
6 25 (9.43%) Azure Data Factory
6 25 (9.43%) Serverless
7 23 (8.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 22 (8.30%) OpenShift
9 21 (7.92%) Azure Functions
10 17 (6.42%) Microsoft 365
11 16 (6.04%) Azure Storage
12 15 (5.66%) PaaS
13 10 (3.77%) Azure API Management
13 10 (3.77%) GCP
14 9 (3.40%) Azure Key Vault
14 9 (3.40%) Azure Logic Apps
15 7 (2.64%) IaaS
15 7 (2.64%) Power Platform
15 7 (2.64%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (19.25%) Firewall
2 30 (11.32%) Intrusion Detection
3 18 (6.79%) DNS
4 16 (6.04%) DHCP
5 7 (2.64%) VSAN
6 5 (1.89%) Network Security
7 4 (1.51%) VPN
8 2 (0.75%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (10.19%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (8.68%) NoSQL
3 15 (5.66%) Oracle Database
3 15 (5.66%) Oracle Database 11g
4 8 (3.02%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (2.64%) Power BI
6 6 (2.26%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (1.89%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.51%) Big Data
9 3 (1.13%) MySQL
9 3 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.75%) Tableau
11 1 (0.38%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.38%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.38%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.38%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.38%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 38 (14.34%) Selenium
2 31 (11.70%) Git
3 29 (10.94%) Jenkins
4 25 (9.43%) Cucumber
4 25 (9.43%) JIRA
4 25 (9.43%) SonarQube
5 24 (9.06%) REST Assured
6 14 (5.28%) GitLab
7 11 (4.15%) Visual Studio
8 7 (2.64%) Oracle Forms
9 5 (1.89%) SpecFlow
10 4 (1.51%) Postman
11 3 (1.13%) Robot Framework
12 2 (0.75%) JUnit
13 1 (0.38%) Android Studio
13 1 (0.38%) Appium
13 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
13 1 (0.38%) MSTest
13 1 (0.38%) SoapUI
13 1 (0.38%) WebDriver
General
1 79 (29.81%) Social Skills
2 59 (22.26%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (9.43%) Public Sector
4 20 (7.55%) Law
5 17 (6.42%) Finance
6 13 (4.91%) Police
7 6 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.13%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.38%) Billing
11 1 (0.38%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.38%) Marketing
11 1 (0.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 77 (29.06%) Developer
2 44 (16.60%) Architect
3 33 (12.45%) Security Architect
4 27 (10.19%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 24 (9.06%) Full Stack Developer
5 24 (9.06%) Senior
6 21 (7.92%) Analyst
7 20 (7.55%) Azure Developer
8 17 (6.42%) Java Engineer
9 16 (6.04%) Active Directory Support
10 14 (5.28%) Active Directory Specialist
10 14 (5.28%) Azure Specialist
10 14 (5.28%) PostgreSQL Developer
10 14 (5.28%) Support Specialist
11 13 (4.91%) Administrator
11 13 (4.91%) Lead
11 13 (4.91%) Systems Administrator
12 12 (4.53%) Site Engineer
12 12 (4.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 11 (4.15%) Senior Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (13.58%) ARM Templates
2 31 (11.70%) REST
3 25 (9.43%) Java EE
4 23 (8.68%) React
5 16 (6.04%) .NET
6 13 (4.91%) Itk
7 9 (3.40%) AngularJS
7 9 (3.40%) Kafka
8 7 (2.64%) Node.js
9 6 (2.26%) SOAP
9 6 (2.26%) XML
10 5 (1.89%) JSON
10 5 (1.89%) Web Services
11 4 (1.51%) CSS
11 4 (1.51%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (1.51%) HTML
11 4 (1.51%) RESTful
12 3 (1.13%) .NET Framework
12 3 (1.13%) OAuth
12 3 (1.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.06%) Cloud Native
2 19 (7.17%) Product Ownership
3 16 (6.04%) PKI
3 16 (6.04%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (4.53%) Robotics
5 7 (2.64%) Client/Server
6 5 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.13%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.75%) CSOC
8 2 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.75%) IoT
8 2 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.75%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.75%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.38%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.38%) iPad
9 1 (0.38%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.38%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.38%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.38%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 31 (11.70%) Linux
2 30 (11.32%) Windows
2 30 (11.32%) Windows Server
3 22 (8.30%) Windows Server 2016
3 22 (8.30%) Windows Server 2019
4 7 (2.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.38%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (40.00%) Agile
2 74 (27.92%) CI/CD
3 56 (21.13%) Infrastructure as Code
3 56 (21.13%) Software Engineering
4 49 (18.49%) Test Automation
5 42 (15.85%) Problem-Solving
6 41 (15.47%) Technical Leadership
7 36 (13.58%) Microservices
8 34 (12.83%) Cybersecurity
9 32 (12.08%) Continuous Integration
10 31 (11.70%) Containerisation
10 31 (11.70%) Continuous Improvement
11 30 (11.32%) Unit Testing
12 29 (10.94%) Change Management
13 27 (10.19%) Decision-Making
14 26 (9.81%) Release Management
15 25 (9.43%) Analytics
15 25 (9.43%) Security Architecture
15 25 (9.43%) Software Architecture
15 25 (9.43%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (14.34%) Java
1 38 (14.34%) Python
2 37 (13.96%) C#
3 34 (12.83%) PowerShell
4 26 (9.81%) SQL
5 23 (8.68%) VBScript
6 17 (6.42%) Bicep
7 16 (6.04%) C
7 16 (6.04%) VB
8 15 (5.66%) PL/SQL
9 9 (3.40%) JavaScript
10 8 (3.02%) C++
11 7 (2.64%) PHP
12 3 (1.13%) Ruby
12 3 (1.13%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.75%) Bash
14 1 (0.38%) Go
14 1 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 125 (47.17%) Security Cleared
2 74 (27.92%) SC Cleared
3 66 (24.91%) DV Cleared
4 29 (10.94%) Degree
5 16 (6.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (1.13%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.75%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.75%) CBAP
7 2 (0.75%) PMP
8 1 (0.38%) CSPO
8 1 (0.38%) IIBA
8 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.53%) QA
2 5 (1.89%) PMO
3 2 (0.75%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.38%) NCSC
4 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 40 (15.09%) Active Directory
2 28 (10.57%) Docker
3 19 (7.17%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (6.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (6.04%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (2.64%) vCloud
6 7 (2.64%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.13%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.38%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 64 (24.15%) Kubernetes
2 31 (11.70%) Ansible
3 28 (10.57%) Terraform
4 17 (6.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 17 (6.42%) SCOM
4 17 (6.42%) WSUS
5 16 (6.04%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (6.04%) SCCM
6 15 (5.66%) Istio
7 12 (4.53%) Docker Swarm
7 12 (4.53%) Podman
8 9 (3.40%) Prometheus
9 8 (3.02%) Argo
9 8 (3.02%) Grafana
9 8 (3.02%) Kibana
9 8 (3.02%) Rancher
10 7 (2.64%) vCenter Server
11 4 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 54 (20.38%) Microsoft
2 36 (13.58%) Oracle
3 18 (6.79%) VMware
4 9 (3.40%) Google
5 3 (1.13%) Red Hat
5 3 (1.13%) SAP
5 3 (1.13%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.75%) Atmel
7 1 (0.38%) Adobe
7 1 (0.38%) BMC
7 1 (0.38%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.38%) Citrix
7 1 (0.38%) Databricks
7 1 (0.38%) IBM
7 1 (0.38%) Remedy
7 1 (0.38%) TIBCO
7 1 (0.38%) Workday