DevOps Engineer Contracts in Cheltenham

Development Operations Engineer
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Cheltenham is £563 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 24 17
Rank change year-on-year +2 -7 +13
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 15 12 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheltenham 7.89% 7.74% 5.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.67% 8.00% 6.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 10 7
10th Percentile - £510 £506
25th Percentile £525 £650 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £700 £638
Median % change year-on-year -19.64% +9.80% +18.60%
75th Percentile £613 £747 £718
90th Percentile £760 £763 £778
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 £688 £550
% change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £90.00 -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate - £81.50 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cheltenham

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Cheltenham. 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 Cheltenham with a recognized job title 173 150 115
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.05% 96.77% 91.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 105 97
10th Percentile £363 £321 £174
25th Percentile £474 £500 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £590 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.93% +15.12% +7.89%
75th Percentile £678 £700 £588
90th Percentile £750 £750 £680
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 2
10th Percentile £53.65 £69.75 £12.08
25th Percentile £70.38 £73.13 £12.19
Median hourly rate £71.00 £85.50 £12.75
Median % change year-on-year -16.96% +570.59% -74.50%
75th Percentile £72.06 £93.38 £13.69
90th Percentile £74.13 £94.05 £14.03
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £40.00 £73.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -45.21% +143.33% -40.00%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Cheltenham

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in Cheltenham

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheltenham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in Cheltenham

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, 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 Cheltenham region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 15 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 15 (100.00%) DevOps
2 13 (86.67%) Terraform
3 12 (80.00%) Docker
4 10 (66.67%) AWS
5 9 (60.00%) Linux
5 9 (60.00%) Python
6 8 (53.33%) Grafana
6 8 (53.33%) Kubernetes
6 8 (53.33%) Ansible
6 8 (53.33%) Prometheus
6 8 (53.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 7 (46.67%) Docker Swarm
7 7 (46.67%) SQL
7 7 (46.67%) C
8 6 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (40.00%) Amazon S3
8 6 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (40.00%) OpenShift
8 6 (40.00%) Serverless
9 5 (33.33%) Observability
9 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
9 5 (33.33%) Jenkins
9 5 (33.33%) Configuration Management
10 4 (26.67%) Service Management
10 4 (26.67%) Java
10 4 (26.67%) Shell Script
10 4 (26.67%) AMQP

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 10 (66.67%) AWS
2 6 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (40.00%) Amazon S3
2 6 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (40.00%) OpenShift
2 6 (40.00%) Serverless
3 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (13.33%) Azure
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) AMQP
1 4 (26.67%) Network Security
2 1 (6.67%) IPv4
2 1 (6.67%) OSPF
2 1 (6.67%) VLAN
2 1 (6.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (26.67%) InfluxDB
2 4 (26.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Jenkins
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (13.33%) AWS CDK
3 1 (6.67%) ADO
3 1 (6.67%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 9 (60.00%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Unix
2 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (53.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 5 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 5 (33.33%) Observability
4 4 (26.67%) Event-Driven
4 4 (26.67%) Service Management
5 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (6.67%) Agile
6 1 (6.67%) Analytics
6 1 (6.67%) Containerisation
6 1 (6.67%) Log Analytics
6 1 (6.67%) Software Testing
6 1 (6.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) Python
2 7 (46.67%) C
2 7 (46.67%) SQL
3 4 (26.67%) Go
3 4 (26.67%) Java
3 4 (26.67%) Shell Script
4 3 (20.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (6.67%) Bash
5 1 (6.67%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 15 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 15 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) GIAC
2 1 (6.67%) RHCE
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 12 (80.00%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (86.67%) Terraform
2 8 (53.33%) Ansible
2 8 (53.33%) Grafana
2 8 (53.33%) Kubernetes
2 8 (53.33%) Prometheus
3 7 (46.67%) Docker Swarm
4 4 (26.67%) Progress Chef
5 1 (6.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle
1 1 (6.67%) Red Hat
1 1 (6.67%) VMware