DevOps Engineer Contracts in Reading

Development Operations Engineer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Reading is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 69 62
Rank change year-on-year -24 -7 -20
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 6 20 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.51% 1.94% 2.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 2.02% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 18 36
10th Percentile £430 £483 £431
25th Percentile £456 £557 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £617 £513
Median % change year-on-year -18.90% +20.29% +2.50%
75th Percentile £519 £684 £620
90th Percentile £530 £719 £641
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -14.58% +14.29% +5.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 1,096 988 1,293
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 628 668 882
10th Percentile £213 £363 £177
25th Percentile £413 £460 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £623 £657 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £491
% change year-on-year -2.38% +6.92% +9.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 23 7
10th Percentile £35.00 £45.50 £12.30
25th Percentile £52.90 £53.00 £17.63
Median hourly rate £61.60 £65.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +150.00% -40.23%
75th Percentile £74.66 £74.40 £32.50
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.19 £33.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.65 £56.89 £21.00
% change year-on-year +3.10% +170.88% -0.24%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Reading

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 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 Reading region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Ansible
2 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 2 (33.33%) REST Assured
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (33.33%) SonarQube
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (33.33%) YAML
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Java EE
3 2 (33.33%) Degree
3 2 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) Law
3 2 (33.33%) Selenium
3 2 (33.33%) Software Architecture

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) IaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (16.67%) NuGet
3 1 (16.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (33.33%) REST Assured
1 2 (33.33%) Selenium
1 2 (33.33%) SonarQube
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Java EE
1 2 (33.33%) REST
1 2 (33.33%) YAML
2 1 (16.67%) ARM Templates
2 1 (16.67%) JSON
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 2 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Software Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (16.67%) Dependency Management
4 1 (16.67%) Impact Assessments
4 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) RBAC
4 1 (16.67%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft