DevOps Contracts in Cardiff

DevOps
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff 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 24 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 4 9
Rank change year-on-year -11 +5 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 16 57 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 7.11% 20.50% 12.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.06% 22.80% 14.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 33 40
10th Percentile £358 £460 £409
25th Percentile £455 £558 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £586 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.01% +1.91% +26.03%
75th Percentile £667 £625 £700
90th Percentile £687 £650 £779
South Wales median daily rate £563 £586 £570
% change year-on-year -4.01% +2.81% +14.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 159 250 418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 70.67% 89.93% 82.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 193 306
10th Percentile £143 £184 £273
25th Percentile £353 £375 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +18.75%
75th Percentile £553 £586 £563
90th Percentile £626 £646 £644
South Wales median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 7
10th Percentile £13.61 - £14.05
25th Percentile £15.48 £13.00 £15.38
Median hourly rate £18.57 £16.45 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.92% -17.78% +42.55%
75th Percentile £21.67 £23.75 £23.75
90th Percentile - £24.50 £24.55
South Wales median hourly rate £20.24 £18.14 £21.37
% change year-on-year +11.55% -15.11% +1.76%

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 24 June 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 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (6.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 15 (93.75%) Azure
2 8 (50.00%) AWS
3 6 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (25.00%) GitHub
5 3 (18.75%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (18.75%) Amazon S3
6 1 (6.25%) GCP
6 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) Firewall
1 4 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (6.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (43.75%) MySQL
2 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (18.75%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (18.75%) Oracle Database
3 3 (18.75%) PowerCenter
3 3 (18.75%) RDBMS
3 3 (18.75%) Relational Database
4 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) JIRA
2 2 (12.50%) Burp Suite
2 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (12.50%) SonarQube
3 1 (6.25%) AppScan
3 1 (6.25%) Cucumber
3 1 (6.25%) Git
3 1 (6.25%) GitLab
3 1 (6.25%) JMeter
3 1 (6.25%) Selenium
3 1 (6.25%) Subversion
3 1 (6.25%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) DBA
2 5 (31.25%) Administrator
3 3 (18.75%) Azure Administrator
3 3 (18.75%) MySQL DBA
3 3 (18.75%) Oracle DBA
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) .NET Developer
5 1 (6.25%) C# Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Network Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Oracle Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Programme Planner
5 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Software Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (18.75%) Middleware
3 2 (12.50%) .NET
4 1 (6.25%) ADO
4 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET
4 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (6.25%) Kafka
4 1 (6.25%) Vue
4 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Public Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.25%) Educational Technology
2 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.25%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 9 (56.25%) Linux
2 8 (50.00%) Windows
3 4 (25.00%) AIX
3 4 (25.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (6.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Change Control
1 5 (31.25%) Project Management
2 3 (18.75%) Agile
2 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
2 3 (18.75%) E-business
2 3 (18.75%) High Availability
2 3 (18.75%) Migration
2 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (12.50%) Analytics
3 2 (12.50%) Application Security
3 2 (12.50%) Blue-Green Deployment
3 2 (12.50%) Containerisation
3 2 (12.50%) Data Analytics
3 2 (12.50%) Full Stack Development
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (12.50%) OWASP
3 2 (12.50%) Security Testing
3 2 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
3 2 (12.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) Shell Script
2 2 (12.50%) C#
2 2 (12.50%) SQL
3 1 (6.25%) Bash
3 1 (6.25%) Java
3 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.25%) PHP
3 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
1 2 (12.50%) SANS
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.25%) ISTQB
2 1 (6.25%) PMI Certification
2 1 (6.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) QA
2 2 (12.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Terraform
2 6 (37.50%) Ansible
2 6 (37.50%) Grafana
2 6 (37.50%) Nagios
3 5 (31.25%) Graylog
3 5 (31.25%) Prometheus
4 3 (18.75%) Data Guard
4 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
4 3 (18.75%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (6.25%) HP Fortify
5 1 (6.25%) Nessus
5 1 (6.25%) Progress Chef
5 1 (6.25%) Puppet
5 1 (6.25%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 5 (31.25%) Splunk
3 4 (25.00%) Oracle
4 3 (18.75%) Informatica
5 2 (12.50%) Checkmarx
6 1 (6.25%) Cisco
6 1 (6.25%) Citrix
6 1 (6.25%) Planview
6 1 (6.25%) Veracode