DevOps Engineer Contracts in Brighton

Development Operations Engineer
East Sussex > Brighton

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Brighton is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 11 13
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 +15
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 5 2 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Brighton 8.20% 3.85% 7.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.20% 3.92% 7.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 5
10th Percentile - - £715
25th Percentile £463 £515 £738
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £530 £800
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% -33.75% +39.13%
75th Percentile £488 £545 £850
90th Percentile - - -
East Sussex median daily rate £475 £530 £788
% change year-on-year -10.38% -32.70% +31.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Brighton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Brighton. 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 Brighton with a recognized job title 49 51 93
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 80.33% 98.08% 98.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 43 60
10th Percentile £316 £306 £247
25th Percentile £435 £325 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +8.37%
75th Percentile £575 £548 £681
90th Percentile £638 £648 £820
East Sussex median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £16.89 - £52.38
25th Percentile £17.75 £23.63 £54.06
Median hourly rate £19.36 £25.25 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year -23.34% -57.02% +167.05%
75th Percentile £20.82 £26.88 £64.06
90th Percentile £21.59 - £66.13
East Sussex median hourly rate £19.36 £25.25 £52.50
% change year-on-year -23.34% -51.90% +138.64%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Brighton

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Brighton

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Brighton

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in Brighton

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Brighton region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 3 (60.00%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (60.00%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (60.00%) E-Commerce
3 3 (60.00%) CloudFront
3 3 (60.00%) Edge Computing
4 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
5 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
5 1 (20.00%) Datadog
5 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (20.00%) Observability
5 1 (20.00%) Node.js
5 1 (20.00%) Route 53
5 1 (20.00%) GitHub
5 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
5 1 (20.00%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (20.00%) Docker
5 1 (20.00%) Change Management
5 1 (20.00%) Migration
5 1 (20.00%) Incident Management

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Brighton 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 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) CloudFront
3 1 (20.00%) Akamai
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (20.00%) Datadog
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 3 (60.00%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (60.00%) E-Commerce
3 3 (60.00%) Edge Computing
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) Change Management
5 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
5 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
5 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
5 1 (20.00%) Migration
5 1 (20.00%) Observability
5 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes