DevOps Contracts in Kent

DevOps
South East > Kent

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 14 23
Rank change year-on-year -4 +9 -8
Contract jobs citing DevOps 11 18 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 5.53% 8.26% 6.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.33% 11.04% 7.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 16
10th Percentile £310 £534 £413
25th Percentile £381 £575 £539
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -38.00% +4.17% +34.83%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £650
90th Percentile £575 £651 £669
South East median daily rate £575 £581 £529
% change year-on-year -1.03% +9.83% +7.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Kent

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 Kent with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 132 163 243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 66.33% 74.77% 85.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 125 216
10th Percentile £205 £122 £181
25th Percentile £224 £205 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £424 £350 £433
Median % change year-on-year +21.07% -19.08% +24.46%
75th Percentile £540 £530 £578
90th Percentile £656 £677 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.91% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 5 8
10th Percentile £11.47 £41.86 £21.28
25th Percentile £15.00 £44.64 £30.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £56.47 £34.39
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% +64.19% -11.63%
75th Percentile £46.87 £57.76 £39.84
90th Percentile £62.96 £63.15 £47.79
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.99
% change year-on-year -5.00% +127.43% -20.05%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Kent

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Kent

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Kent

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Kent over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Kent

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Kent region over the 6 months to 2 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
Maidstone +5 2 - -
DevOps
South East

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 5 (45.45%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) DevOps Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Lead
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Developer
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Data Warehouse Developer
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Active Directory Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (18.18%) Business Strategy
3 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
3 2 (18.18%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Databricks