DevOps Contracts in South Wales

DevOps
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 8 14
Rank change year-on-year -9 +6 -5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 25 71 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 7.37% 13.71% 10.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.19% 15.43% 12.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 44 61
10th Percentile £356 £452 £413
25th Percentile £453 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £583 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% +6.00% +4.76%
75th Percentile £654 £600 £638
90th Percentile £688 £668 £730
Wales median daily rate £575 £583 £550
% change year-on-year -1.37% +6.00% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 272 460 755
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 80.24% 88.80% 83.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 351 560
10th Percentile £160 £190 £256
25th Percentile £352 £330 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £667 £650 £650
Wales median daily rate £495 £475 £487
% change year-on-year +4.21% -2.48% +8.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 23 27
10th Percentile £11.21 £16.37 £14.31
25th Percentile £15.35 £16.98 £19.02
Median hourly rate £22.68 £18.14 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.03% -19.38% +9.76%
75th Percentile £52.31 £22.11 £36.94
90th Percentile £87.62 £49.75 £47.40
Wales median hourly rate £22.50 £18.82 £23.75
% change year-on-year +19.59% -20.78% +23.38%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in South Wales

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in South Wales

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in South Wales over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in South Wales

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in South Wales

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 28 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
Cardiff -9 22 £575 -1.88% 14
Newport +1 3 £600 +20.00% 1
DevOps
Wales

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 3 (12.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.00%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (4.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 25 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (48.00%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (36.00%) AWS
4 7 (28.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (16.00%) GitHub
6 4 (16.00%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (12.00%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (12.00%) Amazon S3
7 3 (12.00%) Azure Pipelines
8 1 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (4.00%) GCP
8 1 (4.00%) OneDrive
8 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
8 1 (4.00%) SaaS
8 1 (4.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.00%) Firewall
1 5 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 5 (20.00%) VPN
2 2 (8.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (32.00%) MySQL
2 5 (20.00%) Oracle Database
2 5 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 4 (16.00%) RDBMS
3 4 (16.00%) Relational Database
4 3 (12.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (12.00%) PowerCenter
5 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
5 1 (4.00%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) JIRA
2 3 (12.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.00%) Burp Suite
3 2 (8.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (8.00%) JMeter
3 2 (8.00%) Selenium
3 2 (8.00%) SonarQube
4 1 (4.00%) AppScan
4 1 (4.00%) Git
4 1 (4.00%) GitLab
4 1 (4.00%) Subversion
4 1 (4.00%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (20.00%) Finance
1 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.00%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) DBA
2 6 (24.00%) Administrator
3 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Azure Administrator
4 3 (12.00%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) MySQL DBA
4 3 (12.00%) Oracle DBA
5 2 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Project Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Senior
5 2 (8.00%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (8.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Test Automation Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (12.00%) Middleware
3 2 (8.00%) .NET
4 1 (4.00%) ADO
4 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (4.00%) Kafka
4 1 (4.00%) Vue
4 1 (4.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.00%) Educational Technology
2 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 11 (44.00%) Windows
2 10 (40.00%) Linux
3 6 (24.00%) Windows Server
4 4 (16.00%) AIX
5 3 (12.00%) Windows 10
6 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) Agile
2 8 (32.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (28.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (24.00%) Change Control
4 6 (24.00%) Project Management
5 5 (20.00%) Project Delivery
6 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (16.00%) Migration
6 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (12.00%) Analytics
7 3 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (12.00%) Decision-Making
7 3 (12.00%) E-business
7 3 (12.00%) High Availability
7 3 (12.00%) IT Strategy
7 3 (12.00%) Project Governance
7 3 (12.00%) Scrum
7 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (12.00%) Test Automation
7 3 (12.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) SQL
2 3 (12.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (8.00%) C#
3 2 (8.00%) Java
4 1 (4.00%) Bash
4 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.00%) PHP
4 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Degree
1 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) DBS Check
2 2 (8.00%) SANS
3 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.00%) ISTQB
3 1 (4.00%) PMI Certification
3 1 (4.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (24.00%) QA
2 3 (12.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 3 (12.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (8.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (8.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (52.00%) Terraform
2 7 (28.00%) Ansible
2 7 (28.00%) Grafana
2 7 (28.00%) Nagios
3 5 (20.00%) Graylog
3 5 (20.00%) Prometheus
4 3 (12.00%) Data Guard
4 3 (12.00%) Kubernetes
4 3 (12.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (4.00%) HP Fortify
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (4.00%) Nessus
5 1 (4.00%) Progress Chef
5 1 (4.00%) Puppet
5 1 (4.00%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 10 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.00%) Oracle
2 5 (20.00%) Splunk
3 3 (12.00%) Cisco
3 3 (12.00%) Informatica
4 2 (8.00%) Checkmarx
5 1 (4.00%) Citrix
5 1 (4.00%) Dynatrace
5 1 (4.00%) EMC
5 1 (4.00%) Palo Alto
5 1 (4.00%) Planview
5 1 (4.00%) Veracode
5 1 (4.00%) Zscaler