DevOps Contracts in the Home Counties

DevOps
South East > Home Counties

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Home Counties 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 8 7
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 -4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 1 1 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Home Counties 12.50% 4.17% 21.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.50% 4.76% 22.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 16
10th Percentile - - £425
25th Percentile £463 - £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -34.38%
75th Percentile £488 - £675
90th Percentile - - £788
South East median daily rate £575 £583 £525
% change year-on-year -1.37% +11.05% +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Home Counties

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 Home Counties with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8 21 128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Home Counties 100.00% 87.50% 94.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 15 89
10th Percentile £473 £418 £413
25th Percentile £489 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £573 £725 £675
90th Percentile £589 £1,100 £775
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +11.11%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the Home Counties

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Home Counties.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the Home Counties

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Home Counties

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the Home Counties.

Daily rate trend for DevOps in the Home Counties

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Home Counties 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Applications Developer
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 1 (100.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft