DevOps Engineer Contracts in the Thames Valley

Development Operations Engineer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the Thames Valley is £450 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 124 109 88
Rank change year-on-year -15 -21 -2
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 12 43 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.45% 1.48% 2.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 1.57% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 35 65
10th Percentile £408 £470 £438
25th Percentile £419 £509 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £620 £538
Median % change year-on-year -27.42% +15.35% +7.50%
75th Percentile £519 £694 £625
90th Percentile £568 £758 £648
South East median daily rate £528 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.08% +4.35% +15.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,473 2,738 3,376
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.04% 94.48% 95.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,427 1,897 2,306
10th Percentile £206 £313 £190
25th Percentile £370 £409 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £491
% change year-on-year - +1.83% +9.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 77 101
10th Percentile £15.67 £17.11 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £21.00 £13.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £48.40 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% +176.57% -16.86%
75th Percentile £63.09 £66.21 £23.75
90th Percentile £85.45 £79.19 £57.38
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £47.79 £20.00
% change year-on-year -0.61% +138.95% -20.00%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the Thames Valley

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the Thames Valley

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in the Thames Valley

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the Thames Valley

DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
Berkshire -25 8 £513 -14.58% 10
Oxfordshire - 4 £450 - 4
DevOps Engineer
South East

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (66.67%) Azure
3 7 (58.33%) Ansible
3 7 (58.33%) Terraform
3 7 (58.33%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (41.67%) Jenkins
5 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
5 4 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
5 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
6 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
6 3 (25.00%) Agile
6 3 (25.00%) Java
6 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
6 3 (25.00%) Docker
6 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
7 2 (16.67%) YAML
7 2 (16.67%) AWS
7 2 (16.67%) Software Architecture
7 2 (16.67%) Cucumber
7 2 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (16.67%) REST
7 2 (16.67%) Go
7 2 (16.67%) SonarQube
7 2 (16.67%) Law

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (8.33%) Confluence
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 7 (58.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (8.33%) IaaS
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (8.33%) NuGet
4 1 (8.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) DNS
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (16.67%) Cucumber
2 2 (16.67%) REST Assured
2 2 (16.67%) Selenium
2 2 (16.67%) SonarQube
3 1 (8.33%) Git
3 1 (8.33%) GitLab
3 1 (8.33%) JIRA
3 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Java EE
1 2 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (16.67%) REST
1 2 (16.67%) YAML
2 1 (8.33%) .NET
2 1 (8.33%) ARM Templates
2 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (8.33%) JSON
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 4 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 3 (25.00%) Agile
3 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 2 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (16.67%) Release Management
4 2 (16.67%) Software Architecture
4 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Security
5 1 (8.33%) Impact Assessments
5 1 (8.33%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (8.33%) Project Delivery
5 1 (8.33%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Java
1 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (16.67%) Go
2 2 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) C
3 1 (8.33%) C++
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) Rust
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) Degree
4 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Ansible
1 7 (58.33%) Terraform
2 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (8.33%) Rancher
3 1 (8.33%) SCOM
3 1 (8.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (8.33%) VMware