DevOps Contracts in Reading

DevOps
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 7 12
Rank change year-on-year +2 +5 -7
Contract jobs citing DevOps 207 145 124
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 17.50% 13.90% 8.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.90% 15.73% 9.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 116 94
10th Percentile £486 £500 £416
25th Percentile £513 £525 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £669 £638 £636
90th Percentile £688 £694 £675
Berkshire median daily rate £603 £564 £525
% change year-on-year +6.87% +7.38% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 4 0
10th Percentile £56.61 £76.26 -
25th Percentile £56.65 £78.14 -
Median hourly rate £87.46 £79.19 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.44% - -
75th Percentile £87.51 - -
90th Percentile £87.53 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.77 £77.43 £53.00
% change year-on-year +8.18% +46.09% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,040 922 1,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 87.91% 88.40% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 542 600 811
10th Percentile £213 £363 £238
25th Percentile £413 £460 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% +10.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £625 £657 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £650
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 23 9
10th Percentile £14.50 £45.50 £13.15
25th Percentile £52.21 £58.32 £21.25
Median hourly rate £61.60 £66.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +120.00% -15.49%
75th Percentile £80.69 £75.38 £34.89
90th Percentile £87.53 £79.19 £38.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £60.80 £63.00 £21.03
% change year-on-year -3.49% +199.64% -0.12%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Reading

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Reading

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Reading over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Reading

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in Reading

DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in Reading

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps in Reading over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps in Reading

DevOps
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 21 (10.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.93%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.48%) Apache
3 1 (0.48%) Appian
3 1 (0.48%) Confluence
3 1 (0.48%) Jadu
3 1 (0.48%) JBoss
3 1 (0.48%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 11 (5.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 16 (7.73%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 7 (3.38%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (3.38%) Oracle EBS R12
3 4 (1.93%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.48%) Maximo
4 1 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 140 (67.63%) Azure
2 59 (28.50%) Azure DevOps
3 54 (26.09%) Azure Monitor
4 42 (20.29%) Entra ID
5 35 (16.91%) AWS
6 24 (11.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 24 (11.59%) Azure Data Factory
7 22 (10.63%) Serverless
8 21 (10.14%) Azure Functions
8 21 (10.14%) Microsoft 365
9 20 (9.66%) Azure Storage
10 11 (5.31%) GCP
11 10 (4.83%) Power Platform
12 8 (3.86%) Azure API Management
13 7 (3.38%) Azure Key Vault
13 7 (3.38%) OpenShift
14 6 (2.90%) PaaS
15 4 (1.93%) Azure Logic Apps
15 4 (1.93%) Azure Service Bus
15 4 (1.93%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 47 (22.71%) Firewall
2 23 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
3 22 (10.63%) DNS
4 20 (9.66%) DHCP
5 7 (3.38%) VSAN
6 1 (0.48%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.63%) NoSQL
2 15 (7.25%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (5.80%) Oracle Database
3 12 (5.80%) Oracle Database 11g
4 6 (2.90%) Power BI
5 5 (2.42%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.93%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.93%) SSDT
7 3 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.45%) MySQL
8 2 (0.97%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.97%) Tableau
9 1 (0.48%) Big Data
9 1 (0.48%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 40 (19.32%) Selenium
2 33 (15.94%) Git
3 27 (13.04%) Jenkins
4 26 (12.56%) Cucumber
5 24 (11.59%) REST Assured
5 24 (11.59%) SonarQube
6 19 (9.18%) JIRA
7 13 (6.28%) GitLab
8 6 (2.90%) Oracle Forms
9 5 (2.42%) Visual Studio
10 3 (1.45%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.97%) SpecFlow
12 1 (0.48%) JMeter
12 1 (0.48%) JUnit
12 1 (0.48%) Maven
12 1 (0.48%) MSTest
12 1 (0.48%) SoapUI
12 1 (0.48%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.48%) WebDriver
12 1 (0.48%) Xcode
General
1 82 (39.61%) Social Skills
2 61 (29.47%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (9.66%) Law
4 19 (9.18%) Public Sector
5 13 (6.28%) Finance
5 13 (6.28%) Police
6 6 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.93%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (1.93%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.48%) Billing
9 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.48%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 56 (27.05%) Developer
2 31 (14.98%) Architect
3 26 (12.56%) Security Architect
4 21 (10.14%) Analyst
4 21 (10.14%) Full Stack Developer
4 21 (10.14%) Senior
5 20 (9.66%) Active Directory Support
5 20 (9.66%) Azure Developer
6 19 (9.18%) Cybersecurity Architect
7 17 (8.21%) Java Engineer
8 14 (6.76%) Active Directory Specialist
8 14 (6.76%) Azure Specialist
8 14 (6.76%) Support Specialist
9 12 (5.80%) PostgreSQL Developer
9 12 (5.80%) Test Analyst
10 10 (4.83%) Full Stack Python Developer
10 10 (4.83%) Python Developer
11 9 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (4.35%) Consultant
11 9 (4.35%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (18.36%) ARM Templates
2 27 (13.04%) REST
3 25 (12.08%) Java EE
4 22 (10.63%) React
5 9 (4.35%) Itk
6 7 (3.38%) .NET
6 7 (3.38%) YAML
7 5 (2.42%) AngularJS
7 5 (2.42%) Node.js
8 4 (1.93%) XML
9 3 (1.45%) .NET Framework
9 3 (1.45%) HTML
9 3 (1.45%) JSON
9 3 (1.45%) RESTful
9 3 (1.45%) SOAP
10 2 (0.97%) CSS
10 2 (0.97%) Django
10 2 (0.97%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (0.97%) PyTorch
10 2 (0.97%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.66%) PKI
1 20 (9.66%) Self-Motivation
2 19 (9.18%) Product Ownership
3 9 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 8 (3.86%) Client/Server
5 3 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.97%) CSOC
6 2 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (0.97%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.48%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.48%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.48%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.48%) iPad
7 1 (0.48%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.48%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.48%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 36 (17.39%) Linux
2 30 (14.49%) Windows
2 30 (14.49%) Windows Server
3 22 (10.63%) Windows Server 2016
3 22 (10.63%) Windows Server 2019
4 8 (3.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.48%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (40.10%) Agile
2 73 (35.27%) CI/CD
3 60 (28.99%) Infrastructure as Code
4 48 (23.19%) Test Automation
5 40 (19.32%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (19.32%) Software Engineering
6 39 (18.84%) Technical Leadership
7 30 (14.49%) Continuous Integration
8 29 (14.01%) Release Management
9 28 (13.53%) Unit Testing
10 26 (12.56%) Decision-Making
10 26 (12.56%) Software Architecture
11 24 (11.59%) Analytics
11 24 (11.59%) Containerisation
11 24 (11.59%) SDLC
12 23 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
13 22 (10.63%) Full Stack Development
13 22 (10.63%) Identity Management
13 22 (10.63%) ITIL
13 22 (10.63%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 40 (19.32%) Java
2 37 (17.87%) Python
3 36 (17.39%) PowerShell
4 29 (14.01%) C#
5 28 (13.53%) VBScript
6 21 (10.14%) Bicep
7 20 (9.66%) SQL
7 20 (9.66%) VB
8 12 (5.80%) PL/SQL
9 11 (5.31%) C
10 9 (4.35%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.45%) C++
11 3 (1.45%) PHP
11 3 (1.45%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.97%) Bash
13 1 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.48%) R
Qualifications
1 101 (48.79%) Security Cleared
2 61 (29.47%) DV Cleared
2 61 (29.47%) SC Cleared
3 26 (12.56%) Degree
4 20 (9.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.97%) PMP
6 1 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.83%) QA
2 5 (2.42%) PMO
3 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.48%) GDPR
3 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.48%) NCSC
3 1 (0.48%) NIST
3 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 41 (19.81%) Active Directory
2 23 (11.11%) Docker
3 20 (9.66%) Virtual Desktop
3 20 (9.66%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (7.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (3.38%) vCloud
5 7 (3.38%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.48%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 52 (25.12%) Kubernetes
2 30 (14.49%) Terraform
3 28 (13.53%) Ansible
4 20 (9.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 20 (9.66%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (9.66%) SCCM
4 20 (9.66%) SCOM
4 20 (9.66%) WSUS
5 12 (5.80%) Docker Swarm
5 12 (5.80%) Podman
6 7 (3.38%) Istio
6 7 (3.38%) Rancher
6 7 (3.38%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.48%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.48%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.48%) Puppet
Vendors
1 43 (20.77%) Microsoft
2 32 (15.46%) Oracle
3 15 (7.25%) VMware
4 10 (4.83%) Google
5 2 (0.97%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.48%) ArcSight
6 1 (0.48%) BMC
6 1 (0.48%) Citrix
6 1 (0.48%) Databricks
6 1 (0.48%) IBM
6 1 (0.48%) Remedy
6 1 (0.48%) SAP
6 1 (0.48%) TIBCO
30 DevOps jobs in Berkshire