DevOps Engineer Contracts in the South West

Development Operations Engineer
England > South West

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the South West is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 62 89
Rank change year-on-year -36 +27 -17
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 54 135 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.71% 3.71% 2.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.83% 4.01% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 119 80
10th Percentile £473 £450 £443
25th Percentile £513 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +7.73% +15.79%
75th Percentile £631 £688 £638
90th Percentile £688 £728 £684
England median daily rate £545 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -9.17% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile £60.95 - -
25th Percentile £68.38 £53.75 -
Median hourly rate £74.44 £57.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +29.46% - -
75th Percentile £75.21 £68.38 -
90th Percentile £76.58 £72.65 -
England median hourly rate £59.75 £57.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +3.91% +173.81% -56.92%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 the South West with a recognized job title 2,957 3,370 3,554
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.37% 92.56% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,895 2,526 2,536
10th Percentile £210 £263 £225
25th Percentile £381 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £588
90th Percentile £700 £713 £661
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 389 273 207
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.17 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £51.25 £17.50
Median hourly rate £53.00 £65.00 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.46% +38.30% +9.30%
75th Percentile £70.66 £75.00 £63.05
90th Percentile £77.60 £85.00 £69.36
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the South West

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the South West.

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the South West

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in the South West

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the South West

DevOps Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in the South West

DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 27 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
Gloucestershire +3 24 £550 -21.43% 14
Bristol +3 16 £525 -6.67% 17
Wiltshire -42 6 £563 +9.76% 2
Dorset +8 4 - -
Somerset -2 2 £475 -24.00% 1
DevOps Engineer
England

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 South West region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 54 (100.00%) DevOps
2 39 (72.22%) Security Cleared
2 39 (72.22%) Terraform
3 32 (59.26%) Kubernetes
4 31 (57.41%) DV Cleared
5 29 (53.70%) Ansible
6 28 (51.85%) AWS
7 27 (50.00%) CI/CD
8 25 (46.30%) Python
9 24 (44.44%) Docker
10 19 (35.19%) PowerShell
10 19 (35.19%) Linux
11 14 (25.93%) Jenkins
11 14 (25.93%) Grafana
11 14 (25.93%) Prometheus
12 13 (24.07%) Infrastructure as Code
12 13 (24.07%) Azure
13 12 (22.22%) Java
14 11 (20.37%) Go
15 10 (18.52%) GCP
15 10 (18.52%) Software Delivery
15 10 (18.52%) Bash
15 10 (18.52%) YAML
15 10 (18.52%) Configuration Management
16 9 (16.67%) Legal
16 9 (16.67%) Migration
16 9 (16.67%) GitLab
16 9 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 9 (16.67%) Cloud Native
17 8 (14.81%) Docker Swarm

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 5 (9.26%) nginx
2 4 (7.41%) Apache
2 4 (7.41%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.85%) IIS
3 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 28 (51.85%) AWS
2 13 (24.07%) Azure
3 10 (18.52%) GCP
4 7 (12.96%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (12.96%) Serverless
5 6 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (11.11%) Amazon S3
5 6 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (11.11%) OpenShift
6 2 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (3.70%) GitHub
6 2 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.70%) PaaS
7 1 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.85%) Apigee
7 1 (1.85%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.85%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.85%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.11%) VPN
2 4 (7.41%) AMQP
2 4 (7.41%) DNS
2 4 (7.41%) HTTPS
2 4 (7.41%) IPsec
2 4 (7.41%) Network Security
2 4 (7.41%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.85%) IPv4
3 1 (1.85%) OSPF
3 1 (1.85%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (7.41%) Couchbase
2 4 (7.41%) InfluxDB
2 4 (7.41%) MySQL
2 4 (7.41%) NoSQL
2 4 (7.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (25.93%) Jenkins
2 9 (16.67%) GitLab
3 8 (14.81%) Artifactory
4 6 (11.11%) SonarQube
5 5 (9.26%) Spinnaker
6 1 (1.85%) JIRA
6 1 (1.85%) Snyk
General
1 9 (16.67%) Legal
2 4 (7.41%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.56%) Finance
4 2 (3.70%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.70%) Retail
5 1 (1.85%) Electronics
5 1 (1.85%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.85%) Marketing
5 1 (1.85%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.52%) YAML
2 8 (14.81%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (7.41%) Apache NiFi
3 4 (7.41%) JSON
3 4 (7.41%) LEMP Stack
3 4 (7.41%) REST
4 2 (3.70%) .NET
4 2 (3.70%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.85%) ADO
5 1 (1.85%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.85%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.85%) Node.js
5 1 (1.85%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 5 (9.26%) Public Cloud
3 4 (7.41%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (7.41%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.85%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 19 (35.19%) Linux
2 7 (12.96%) Windows
3 4 (7.41%) CentOS
4 1 (1.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (100.00%) DevOps
2 27 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 13 (24.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (18.52%) Configuration Management
4 10 (18.52%) Software Delivery
5 9 (16.67%) Migration
5 9 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 8 (14.81%) Agile
6 8 (14.81%) Software Engineering
7 5 (9.26%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (9.26%) Data Protection
7 5 (9.26%) Observability
7 5 (9.26%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (9.26%) Project Delivery
7 5 (9.26%) SDLC
8 4 (7.41%) Cost Reduction
8 4 (7.41%) Event-Driven
8 4 (7.41%) Microservices
8 4 (7.41%) User Experience
8 4 (7.41%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 25 (46.30%) Python
2 19 (35.19%) PowerShell
3 12 (22.22%) Java
4 11 (20.37%) Go
5 10 (18.52%) Bash
6 7 (12.96%) SQL
7 6 (11.11%) C
8 4 (7.41%) PHP
8 4 (7.41%) Shell Script
9 3 (5.56%) Bicep
10 1 (1.85%) C#
10 1 (1.85%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 39 (72.22%) Security Cleared
2 31 (57.41%) DV Cleared
3 8 (14.81%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.85%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.85%) Degree
4 1 (1.85%) GIAC
4 1 (1.85%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.81%) QA
2 5 (9.26%) NIST
3 4 (7.41%) GDPR
3 4 (7.41%) HIPAA
3 4 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 24 (44.44%) Docker
2 1 (1.85%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 39 (72.22%) Terraform
2 32 (59.26%) Kubernetes
3 29 (53.70%) Ansible
4 14 (25.93%) Grafana
4 14 (25.93%) Prometheus
5 8 (14.81%) Docker Swarm
6 6 (11.11%) Istio
7 4 (7.41%) Progress Chef
7 4 (7.41%) Puppet
8 1 (1.85%) Argo
Vendors
1 5 (9.26%) Red Hat
2 4 (7.41%) Google
3 2 (3.70%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.70%) VMware
4 1 (1.85%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.85%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.85%) Oracle
4 1 (1.85%) SAP