DevOps Engineer Contracts in South Wales

Development Operations Engineer
Wales > South Wales

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in South Wales is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 55 72
Rank change year-on-year +17 +17 -24
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 3 2 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 0.88% 0.39% 0.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% 0.40% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 5
10th Percentile £641 £466 £440
25th Percentile £644 £472 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £488 £488
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% - -9.72%
75th Percentile - £497 £550
90th Percentile - £499 -
Wales median daily rate £650 £488 £488
% change year-on-year +33.33% - -7.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South Wales

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in South Wales. 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 South Wales with a recognized job title 302 494 879
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.09% 95.18% 96.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 383 654
10th Percentile £172 £176 £200
25th Percentile £350 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £563 £569 £575
90th Percentile £644 £650 £638
Wales median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 27 36
10th Percentile £11.75 £12.85 £11.15
25th Percentile £15.20 £16.60 £11.97
Median hourly rate £22.68 £18.14 £19.91
Median % change year-on-year +25.03% -8.89% +10.61%
75th Percentile £53.75 £19.98 £26.06
90th Percentile £87.80 £49.25 £47.14
Wales median hourly rate £19.09 £18.14 £19.91
% change year-on-year +5.21% -8.89% +20.58%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in South Wales

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in South Wales

DevOps Engineer
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 Engineer within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 26 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 - 3 £650 - 1
DevOps Engineer
Wales

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

For the 6 months to 26 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 Wales region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Technology Roadmap
2 2 (66.67%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Technology Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Community of Practice
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) IT Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (66.67%) User Stories
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Line Management
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
3 1 (33.33%) DBS Check
3 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Pipelines
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Burp Suite
1 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Community of Practice
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) IT Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Line Management
2 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (66.67%) Technology Roadmap
2 2 (66.67%) Technology Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) User Stories
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (33.33%) DBS Check
1 1 (33.33%) SANS
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Graylog
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Nagios
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Checkmarx
1 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk