DevOps Contracts in Devon

DevOps
South West > Devon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Devon 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 21 8
Rank change year-on-year +6 -13 +14
Contract jobs citing DevOps 8 12 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Devon 7.34% 4.86% 15.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.51% 6.22% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 12
10th Percentile £466 £438 £555
25th Percentile £472 £525 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £675
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -18.46% +3.77%
75th Percentile £572 £586 £681
90th Percentile £634 £600 £700
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Devon

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 Devon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 94 193 142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Devon 86.24% 78.14% 82.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 129 99
10th Percentile - £148 £235
25th Percentile £145 £180 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £160 £425 £465
Median % change year-on-year -62.35% -8.60% +12.73%
75th Percentile £494 £500 £600
90th Percentile £600 £600 £678
South West median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 33 8
10th Percentile £25.15 £10.42 £36.90
25th Percentile £27.98 £13.86 £46.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £30.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +108.33% -42.86% +37.60%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £72.25 £72.50 £74.50
South West median hourly rate £35.50 £55.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -35.45% -4.35% +18.61%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Devon

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Devon

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Devon

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Devon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Devon over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Devon

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Devon

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in Devon

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in Devon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Devon region over the 6 months to 29 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
Exeter +10 4 - - 169
Plymouth - 3 £500 - 169
DevOps
South West

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Devon 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 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Azure Pipelines
2 4 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 2 (25.00%) SaaS
4 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) SAN
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 5 (62.50%) Public Sector
2 4 (50.00%) Military
3 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
4 2 (25.00%) Finance
5 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Test Manager
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Linux Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 4 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
2 3 (37.50%) System Integration Testing
2 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
2 3 (37.50%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Bug Management
4 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
4 1 (12.50%) Microservices
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Bash
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) Grafana
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) ESRI
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Rapid7
1 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
1 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
1 1 (12.50%) Splunk
1 1 (12.50%) VMware