DevOps Contracts in Dorset

DevOps
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Dorset 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 15 27
Rank change year-on-year +2 +12 -7
Contract jobs citing DevOps 8 13 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 9.09% 7.34% 3.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.64% 8.78% 3.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 6
10th Percentile £338 - £409
25th Percentile £363 £525 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% +7.32% +13.89%
75th Percentile £550 £630 £597
90th Percentile - - £634
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 83 148 177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 94.32% 83.62% 84.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 92 104
10th Percentile £194 £175 £200
25th Percentile £313 £175 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £413 £506
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% -18.52% +6.58%
75th Percentile £550 £630 £612
90th Percentile £607 £748 £684
South West median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 35 35
10th Percentile £14.50 £11.87 £17.50
25th Percentile £15.20 £13.69 £37.37
Median hourly rate £15.50 £15.62 £56.29
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% -72.25% +5.28%
75th Percentile £46.25 £56.91 £62.89
90th Percentile £67.50 £63.25 £71.21
South West median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -36.36% -8.33% +23.76%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Dorset

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Dorset

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Dorset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Dorset over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Dorset

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 30 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
Poole - 3 £550 - 4
Bournemouth +3 1 £280 - 171
DevOps
South West

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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 (12.50%) Confluence
1 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Functions
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Logic Apps
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Service Bus
2 3 (37.50%) Serverless
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Digital Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Integration Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Backend Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Software Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Junior
4 1 (12.50%) Junior Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Junior Oracle Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Python Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared Technical Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) .NET
1 3 (37.50%) ARM Templates
1 3 (37.50%) JSON
1 3 (37.50%) Node.js
1 3 (37.50%) XML
2 1 (12.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (12.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) API Design
2 3 (37.50%) API Development
2 3 (37.50%) API Management
2 3 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (12.50%) Anti-Money Laundering
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (12.50%) Impact Assessments
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
4 1 (12.50%) SDLC
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (12.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Bash
2 3 (37.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle