DevOps Contracts in Cardiff

DevOps
South Wales > Cardiff

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 6 10
Rank change year-on-year -8 +4 -6
Contract jobs citing DevOps 20 56 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 9.71% 17.34% 12.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.99% 19.58% 15.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 32 44
10th Percentile £356 £513 £368
25th Percentile £419 £556 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £586 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +6.55% +20.55%
75th Percentile £657 £606 £680
90th Percentile £680 £650 £768
South Wales median daily rate £538 £586 £550
% change year-on-year -8.28% +6.55% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 154 286 421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 74.76% 88.54% 81.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 222 318
10th Percentile £188 £191 £263
25th Percentile £381 £366 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £473 £463
Median % change year-on-year +5.82% +2.16% +15.63%
75th Percentile £553 £575 £547
90th Percentile £629 £637 £638
South Wales median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 5
10th Percentile £12.12 - £13.45
25th Percentile £12.68 £13.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £16.04 £16.45 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.49% -12.29% +20.00%
75th Percentile £20.06 £23.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £21.02 £24.50 £24.95
South Wales median hourly rate £21.49 £18.14 £22.50
% change year-on-year +18.44% -19.38% +4.21%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Cardiff

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Cardiff

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Cardiff over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Cardiff

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 3 (15.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.00%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (5.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 19 (95.00%) Azure
2 9 (45.00%) AWS
3 7 (35.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (35.00%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (20.00%) GitHub
6 3 (15.00%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (15.00%) Amazon S3
6 3 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (5.00%) GCP
7 1 (5.00%) OneDrive
7 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (25.00%) Firewall
1 5 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 5 (25.00%) VPN
2 2 (10.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (40.00%) MySQL
2 5 (25.00%) Oracle Database
2 5 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 4 (20.00%) RDBMS
3 4 (20.00%) Relational Database
4 3 (15.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (15.00%) PowerCenter
5 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) JIRA
2 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (10.00%) Burp Suite
3 2 (10.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (10.00%) JMeter
3 2 (10.00%) Selenium
3 2 (10.00%) SonarQube
4 1 (5.00%) AppScan
4 1 (5.00%) Git
4 1 (5.00%) GitLab
4 1 (5.00%) Subversion
4 1 (5.00%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (5.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (25.00%) Finance
2 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) DBA
2 6 (30.00%) Administrator
3 3 (15.00%) Azure Administrator
3 3 (15.00%) MySQL DBA
3 3 (15.00%) Oracle DBA
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Test Automation Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Test Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Network Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Network Project Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Programme Planner
5 1 (5.00%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.00%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (15.00%) Middleware
3 2 (10.00%) .NET
4 1 (5.00%) ADO
4 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (5.00%) Kafka
4 1 (5.00%) Vue
4 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Educational Technology
2 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 11 (55.00%) Windows
2 10 (50.00%) Linux
3 6 (30.00%) Windows Server
4 4 (20.00%) AIX
5 3 (15.00%) Windows 10
6 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Agile
1 6 (30.00%) Change Control
1 6 (30.00%) Project Management
2 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (20.00%) Migration
2 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (15.00%) E-business
3 3 (15.00%) High Availability
3 3 (15.00%) Project Governance
3 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (10.00%) Analytics
4 2 (10.00%) Application Security
4 2 (10.00%) BDD
4 2 (10.00%) Data Analytics
4 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (10.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (10.00%) OWASP
4 2 (10.00%) PRINCE2
4 2 (10.00%) Security Testing
4 2 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) SQL
2 3 (15.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (10.00%) C#
3 2 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (5.00%) Bash
4 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.00%) PHP
4 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
1 2 (10.00%) SANS
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) QA
2 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (40.00%) Terraform
2 7 (35.00%) Ansible
2 7 (35.00%) Grafana
2 7 (35.00%) Nagios
3 5 (25.00%) Graylog
3 5 (25.00%) Prometheus
4 3 (15.00%) Data Guard
4 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
4 3 (15.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (5.00%) HP Fortify
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (5.00%) Nessus
5 1 (5.00%) Progress Chef
5 1 (5.00%) Puppet
5 1 (5.00%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (30.00%) Oracle
3 5 (25.00%) Splunk
4 3 (15.00%) Cisco
4 3 (15.00%) Informatica
5 2 (10.00%) Checkmarx
6 1 (5.00%) Citrix
6 1 (5.00%) EMC
6 1 (5.00%) Palo Alto
6 1 (5.00%) Planview
6 1 (5.00%) Veracode
6 1 (5.00%) Zscaler