DevOps Contracts in Berkshire

DevOps
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 7 10 18
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 -10
Contract jobs citing DevOps 267 196 218
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.55% 10.79% 9.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.25% 11.90% 10.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 146 169
10th Percentile £490 £425 £413
25th Percentile £506 £500 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £675 £627 £619
90th Percentile £688 £688 £659
South East median daily rate £575 £581 £531
% change year-on-year -0.95% +9.37% +8.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 3 2
10th Percentile £56.65 - £55.95
25th Percentile £61.60 - £60.38
Median hourly rate £83.77 £79.19 £69.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.78% +14.77% -
75th Percentile £87.46 - £78.88
90th Percentile £87.53 - £84.05
South East median hourly rate £83.77 £67.35 £35.00
% change year-on-year +24.38% +92.41% -6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,751 1,647 2,164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.88% 90.69% 90.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 910 1,060 1,377
10th Percentile £213 £345 £270
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% +5.00% +8.40%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £676 £707 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.89% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 48 43
10th Percentile £20.17 £19.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.75 £25.72 £17.25
Median hourly rate £61.60 £57.82 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% +174.67% -2.09%
75th Percentile £72.18 £73.69 £33.75
90th Percentile £87.41 £79.51 £68.10
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -15.89%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Berkshire

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Berkshire

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Berkshire

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in Berkshire

DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps in Berkshire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps in Berkshire

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Berkshire 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
Reading +3 203 £605 +7.56% 24
Wokingham -1 18 £500 -4.76% 1
Windsor +2 14 £675 - 1
Bracknell -10 8 £500 -25.93%
Maidenhead - 3 £550 - 1
Newbury -3 1 £575 +35.29%
Thatcham - 1 £625 -
DevOps
South East

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 16 (5.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.87%) Confluence
3 4 (1.50%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.50%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.75%) Apache
4 2 (0.75%) nginx
5 1 (0.37%) Appian
5 1 (0.37%) CMS
5 1 (0.37%) Jadu
5 1 (0.37%) JBoss
5 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 11 (4.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 17 (6.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 8 (3.00%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (3.00%) Oracle EBS R12
2 8 (3.00%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.37%) Maximo
3 1 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.37%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 154 (57.68%) Azure
2 73 (27.34%) Azure DevOps
3 52 (19.48%) AWS
4 46 (17.23%) Azure Monitor
5 32 (11.99%) Entra ID
6 24 (8.99%) Serverless
7 23 (8.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 22 (8.24%) Azure Data Factory
9 20 (7.49%) OpenShift
10 18 (6.74%) Azure Functions
11 16 (5.99%) Microsoft 365
12 15 (5.62%) Azure Storage
13 13 (4.87%) Azure Key Vault
13 13 (4.87%) PaaS
14 9 (3.37%) GCP
15 8 (3.00%) Azure API Management
15 8 (3.00%) Azure Logic Apps
16 7 (2.62%) Power Platform
17 6 (2.25%) Amazon ECS
17 6 (2.25%) Azure Cognitive Search
Communications & Networking
1 50 (18.73%) Firewall
2 30 (11.24%) Intrusion Detection
3 17 (6.37%) DNS
4 15 (5.62%) DHCP
5 7 (2.62%) VSAN
6 4 (1.50%) Network Security
7 3 (1.12%) VPN
8 2 (0.75%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (10.49%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (7.12%) NoSQL
3 17 (6.37%) Oracle Database
3 17 (6.37%) Oracle Database 11g
4 7 (2.62%) Power BI
5 6 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (2.25%) Relational Database
5 6 (2.25%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (1.50%) Big Data
8 3 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.75%) MySQL
9 2 (0.75%) Tableau
10 1 (0.37%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.37%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.37%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.37%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 35 (13.11%) Selenium
2 32 (11.99%) Git
3 31 (11.61%) Jenkins
4 27 (10.11%) JIRA
5 25 (9.36%) Cucumber
5 25 (9.36%) SonarQube
6 24 (8.99%) REST Assured
7 15 (5.62%) GitLab
8 10 (3.75%) Visual Studio
9 7 (2.62%) Oracle Forms
10 5 (1.87%) SpecFlow
11 4 (1.50%) JUnit
11 4 (1.50%) Postman
12 3 (1.12%) Robot Framework
13 1 (0.37%) Android Studio
13 1 (0.37%) Appium
13 1 (0.37%) Bitbucket
13 1 (0.37%) SoapUI
13 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
13 1 (0.37%) webpack
General
1 78 (29.21%) Social Skills
2 60 (22.47%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (10.11%) Public Sector
4 20 (7.49%) Law
5 17 (6.37%) Finance
6 13 (4.87%) Police
7 6 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.75%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.37%) Billing
10 1 (0.37%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.37%) Marketing
10 1 (0.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 75 (28.09%) Developer
2 43 (16.10%) Architect
3 33 (12.36%) Security Architect
4 27 (10.11%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 24 (8.99%) Senior
6 22 (8.24%) Analyst
6 22 (8.24%) Full Stack Developer
7 18 (6.74%) Lead
8 17 (6.37%) Azure Developer
8 17 (6.37%) Java Engineer
9 15 (5.62%) Active Directory Support
9 15 (5.62%) PostgreSQL Developer
10 14 (5.24%) Active Directory Specialist
10 14 (5.24%) Azure Specialist
10 14 (5.24%) Support Specialist
11 13 (4.87%) Administrator
11 13 (4.87%) Systems Administrator
12 11 (4.12%) Senior Systems Administrator
13 10 (3.75%) Consultant
13 10 (3.75%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (13.11%) ARM Templates
2 33 (12.36%) REST
3 25 (9.36%) Java EE
4 19 (7.12%) React
5 15 (5.62%) AngularJS
6 14 (5.24%) .NET
7 13 (4.87%) Itk
7 13 (4.87%) Node.js
8 8 (3.00%) SOAP
9 7 (2.62%) CSS
9 7 (2.62%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (2.62%) HTML
9 7 (2.62%) Kafka
10 6 (2.25%) RESTful
10 6 (2.25%) Web Services
11 5 (1.87%) JSON
11 5 (1.87%) XML
12 4 (1.50%) Spring
12 4 (1.50%) Spring Boot
13 3 (1.12%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.24%) Cloud Native
2 17 (6.37%) Product Ownership
3 15 (5.62%) PKI
3 15 (5.62%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (4.49%) Robotics
5 7 (2.62%) Client/Server
6 5 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.75%) CSOC
8 2 (0.75%) IoT
8 2 (0.75%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.75%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.75%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.37%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.37%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.37%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.37%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.37%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.37%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.37%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 30 (11.24%) Linux
2 29 (10.86%) Windows
2 29 (10.86%) Windows Server
3 21 (7.87%) Windows Server 2016
3 21 (7.87%) Windows Server 2019
4 7 (2.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.37%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (41.20%) Agile
2 73 (27.34%) CI/CD
3 56 (20.97%) Infrastructure as Code
3 56 (20.97%) Software Engineering
4 50 (18.73%) Test Automation
5 45 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
6 41 (15.36%) Technical Leadership
7 33 (12.36%) Continuous Integration
7 33 (12.36%) Cybersecurity
8 32 (11.99%) Unit Testing
9 31 (11.61%) Continuous Improvement
9 31 (11.61%) Microservices
10 29 (10.86%) Containerisation
11 27 (10.11%) Decision-Making
12 26 (9.74%) Release Management
12 26 (9.74%) Stakeholder Management
13 25 (9.36%) Software Architecture
13 25 (9.36%) Software Testing
14 24 (8.99%) Change Management
14 24 (8.99%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 35 (13.11%) C#
1 35 (13.11%) Java
2 33 (12.36%) PowerShell
3 32 (11.99%) Python
4 28 (10.49%) SQL
5 22 (8.24%) VBScript
6 17 (6.37%) PL/SQL
7 16 (5.99%) Bicep
8 15 (5.62%) C
8 15 (5.62%) VB
9 13 (4.87%) JavaScript
10 9 (3.37%) PHP
11 8 (3.00%) C++
12 3 (1.12%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.75%) Bash
13 2 (0.75%) Go
13 2 (0.75%) Ruby
14 1 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 126 (47.19%) Security Cleared
2 75 (28.09%) SC Cleared
3 65 (24.34%) DV Cleared
4 28 (10.49%) Degree
5 15 (5.62%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.75%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.75%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.75%) CBAP
7 2 (0.75%) PMP
8 1 (0.37%) CSPO
8 1 (0.37%) IIBA
8 1 (0.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.49%) QA
2 5 (1.87%) PMO
3 2 (0.75%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.37%) NCSC
4 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (12.73%) Active Directory
2 29 (10.86%) Docker
3 17 (6.37%) Virtual Machines
3 17 (6.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (5.62%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (2.62%) vCloud
5 7 (2.62%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.75%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.37%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 63 (23.60%) Kubernetes
2 34 (12.73%) Ansible
3 29 (10.86%) Terraform
4 16 (5.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 16 (5.99%) SCOM
4 16 (5.99%) WSUS
5 15 (5.62%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (5.62%) SCCM
6 13 (4.87%) Istio
7 12 (4.49%) Docker Swarm
7 12 (4.49%) Podman
8 9 (3.37%) Rancher
9 8 (3.00%) Kibana
10 7 (2.62%) Prometheus
10 7 (2.62%) vCenter Server
11 6 (2.25%) Argo
11 6 (2.25%) Grafana
12 2 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.37%) Puppet
Vendors
1 51 (19.10%) Microsoft
2 37 (13.86%) Oracle
3 18 (6.74%) VMware
4 8 (3.00%) Google
5 4 (1.50%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.12%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.75%) Atmel
7 2 (0.75%) SAP
8 1 (0.37%) Adobe
8 1 (0.37%) BMC
8 1 (0.37%) Checkmarx
8 1 (0.37%) Citrix
8 1 (0.37%) Databricks
8 1 (0.37%) IBM
8 1 (0.37%) Remedy
8 1 (0.37%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.37%) Workday