DevOps Contracts in Buckinghamshire

DevOps
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 39 20
Rank change year-on-year +15 -19 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 14 15 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 5.93% 3.15% 8.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.39% 3.82% 8.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 12 60
10th Percentile £322 £312 £425
25th Percentile £338 £467 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -23.82% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £717 £625 £675
90th Percentile £743 £641 £739
South East median daily rate £550 £575 £583
% change year-on-year -4.35% -1.37% +9.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
South East median hourly rate £60.75 £83.77 £67.35
% change year-on-year -27.48% +24.38% +92.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 219 393 821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 92.80% 82.56% 93.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 271 663
10th Percentile £281 £255 £307
25th Percentile £400 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% -1.04% +1.05%
75th Percentile £588 £580 £575
90th Percentile £646 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 31 1
10th Percentile - £15.85 -
25th Percentile - £18.50 £9.50
Median hourly rate £14.20 £25.00 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.20% +150.00% -7.15%
75th Percentile £39.13 £30.00 £10.50
90th Percentile £62.50 £48.75 -
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Buckinghamshire

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Buckinghamshire

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Buckinghamshire

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in Buckinghamshire

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Milton Keynes +16 13 £418 -24.94% 67
DevOps
South East

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (7.14%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (85.71%) Azure
2 7 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (42.86%) AWS
4 2 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (14.29%) GitHub
5 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) DocumentDB
1 2 (14.29%) MS Access
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (7.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
1 2 (14.29%) QARun
1 2 (14.29%) WinRunner
General
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) Architect
2 4 (28.57%) Principal Architect
2 4 (28.57%) Test Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) .NET Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Test Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Data Migration Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Data Migration Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Junior
4 1 (7.14%) Junior .NET Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Junior Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Migration Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Principal Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) .NET
1 2 (14.29%) .NET Core
1 2 (14.29%) .NET Framework
1 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web API
1 2 (14.29%) Entity Framework
1 2 (14.29%) Middleware
1 2 (14.29%) NHibernate
1 2 (14.29%) REST
1 2 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Agile
2 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (42.86%) Microservices
3 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (35.71%) Validation
4 4 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 4 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
4 4 (28.57%) Integration Testing
4 4 (28.57%) ITIL
4 4 (28.57%) Logistics
4 4 (28.57%) Software Testing
4 4 (28.57%) System Integration Testing
4 4 (28.57%) Technology Strategy
4 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 4 (28.57%) Test Planning
4 4 (28.57%) TOGAF
4 4 (28.57%) Waterfall
4 4 (28.57%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) C#
1 4 (28.57%) SQL
2 2 (14.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) CCNP
2 4 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (28.57%) MCSE
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) NCSC
1 4 (28.57%) NIST
2 2 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Terraform
2 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 4 (28.57%) VMware
2 2 (14.29%) Citrix
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle