DevOps Engineer Contracts in Gloucestershire

Development Operations Engineer
South West > Gloucestershire

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Gloucestershire is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 35 41
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 -7
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 22 26 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 5.26% 5.39% 4.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.77% 5.83% 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 21 20
10th Percentile - £525 £487
25th Percentile £519 £575 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 £550
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +27.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £688 £750 £630
90th Percentile £738 - £670
South West median daily rate £550 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -6.38% +6.82% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £73.00 -
South West median hourly rate £74.44 £65.25 -
% change year-on-year +14.08% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Gloucestershire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Gloucestershire with a recognized job title 381 446 506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.15% 92.53% 95.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 306 411
10th Percentile £300 £325 £179
25th Percentile £425 £452 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £678 £655 £588
90th Percentile £750 £703 £658
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 38 13
10th Percentile £14.90 £35.00 £11.80
25th Percentile £15.75 £50.63 £12.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £71.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.05% +257.50% -60.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £81.98 £37.50
90th Percentile £73.00 £83.40 £57.04
South West median hourly rate £48.29 £65.00 £45.20
% change year-on-year -25.71% +43.81% +6.35%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Gloucestershire

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in Gloucestershire

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in Gloucestershire

DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 23 April 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
Cheltenham +3 12 £581 -16.96% 8
Gloucester +10 2 £425 -28.72%
DevOps Engineer
South West

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Gloucestershire region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 22 (100.00%) DevOps
2 20 (90.91%) Terraform
2 20 (90.91%) DV Cleared
3 19 (86.36%) AWS
4 16 (72.73%) Python
5 14 (63.64%) Docker
6 13 (59.09%) Kubernetes
6 13 (59.09%) Jenkins
7 12 (54.55%) Grafana
7 12 (54.55%) Prometheus
8 11 (50.00%) Go
8 11 (50.00%) Java
9 10 (45.45%) Ansible
10 9 (40.91%) Linux
10 9 (40.91%) CI/CD
11 8 (36.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 7 (31.82%) SQL
12 7 (31.82%) Docker Swarm
13 6 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (27.27%) Serverless
13 6 (27.27%) OpenShift
13 6 (27.27%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (27.27%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (27.27%) Amazon S3
13 6 (27.27%) PowerShell
14 5 (22.73%) C
14 5 (22.73%) Observability
15 4 (18.18%) Event-Driven
15 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 19 (86.36%) AWS
2 6 (27.27%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (27.27%) Amazon S3
2 6 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (27.27%) OpenShift
2 6 (27.27%) Serverless
3 4 (18.18%) Azure
4 2 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.55%) Azure AKS
5 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (4.55%) GCP
5 1 (4.55%) GitHub
5 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.55%) OneDrive
5 1 (4.55%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) AMQP
1 4 (18.18%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (18.18%) InfluxDB
2 4 (18.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (59.09%) Jenkins
2 4 (18.18%) GitLab
3 1 (4.55%) JIRA
3 1 (4.55%) Snyk
3 1 (4.55%) SonarQube
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (9.09%) AWS CDK
3 1 (4.55%) ADO
3 1 (4.55%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 9 (40.91%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (40.91%) CI/CD
3 8 (36.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 5 (22.73%) Observability
5 4 (18.18%) Configuration Management
5 4 (18.18%) Event-Driven
5 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (18.18%) Service Management
6 1 (4.55%) Agile
6 1 (4.55%) Analytics
6 1 (4.55%) GitOps
6 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (4.55%) Interactive Application Security Testing
6 1 (4.55%) Log Analytics
6 1 (4.55%) Platform Engineering
6 1 (4.55%) Problem Management
6 1 (4.55%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (4.55%) Project Management
6 1 (4.55%) Software Engineering
6 1 (4.55%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (72.73%) Python
2 11 (50.00%) Go
2 11 (50.00%) Java
3 7 (31.82%) SQL
4 6 (27.27%) PowerShell
5 5 (22.73%) C
6 4 (18.18%) Shell Script
7 2 (9.09%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 22 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (90.91%) DV Cleared
3 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 14 (63.64%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 20 (90.91%) Terraform
2 13 (59.09%) Kubernetes
3 12 (54.55%) Grafana
3 12 (54.55%) Prometheus
4 10 (45.45%) Ansible
5 7 (31.82%) Docker Swarm
6 4 (18.18%) Progress Chef
7 1 (4.55%) Argo
Vendors
1 1 (4.55%) VMware