DevOps Contracts in the East of England

DevOps
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 26 21
Rank change year-on-year -5 -5 -5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 99 144 218
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 5.21% 6.97% 8.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.05% 8.00% 9.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 80 159
10th Percentile £403 £411 £413
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £595
Median % change year-on-year - -11.76% +19.00%
75th Percentile £586 £650 £639
90th Percentile £671 £700 £740
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 23 5
10th Percentile - £50.25 £54.25
25th Percentile £61.25 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% +25.00%
75th Percentile - £65.75 -
90th Percentile £65.75 - £58.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £54.00
% change year-on-year -0.76% +21.30% +7.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 the East of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,637 1,801 2,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 86.16% 87.13% 87.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 706 1,065 1,275
10th Percentile £207 £201 £185
25th Percentile £336 £313 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 601 340 385
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.39 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £24.62 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.47% +58.84% -13.58%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £39.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £70.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the East of England

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for DevOps in the East of England

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the East of England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the East of England

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in the East of England

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the East of England region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
Hertfordshire -6 46 £425 -30.61% 29
Essex +9 33 £534 -11.95% 13
Cambridgeshire -19 9 £550 +15.79% 26
Bedfordshire -7 7 £466 -15.23% 6
Suffolk -4 3 £625 -10.71% 6
Norfolk +5 1 £400 -17.95% 4
DevOps
England

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 10 (10.10%) IIS
2 3 (3.03%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.01%) Apache
3 1 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.01%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 27 (27.27%) Azure
2 24 (24.24%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (9.09%) GCP
4 5 (5.05%) AWS
4 5 (5.05%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (4.04%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.02%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.02%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.02%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (2.02%) CloudFront
6 2 (2.02%) Serverless
7 1 (1.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.01%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.01%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (1.01%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
7 1 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.01%) GitHub
7 1 (1.01%) Route 53
7 1 (1.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 36 (36.36%) Modbus
1 36 (36.36%) RS-422
1 36 (36.36%) RS-485
2 15 (15.15%) Firewall
3 14 (14.14%) VPN
4 3 (3.03%) TCP/IP
4 3 (3.03%) Wireshark
5 1 (1.01%) HTTP
5 1 (1.01%) MQTT
5 1 (1.01%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.04%) Power BI
2 2 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.01%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (1.01%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.01%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.01%) MySQL
3 1 (1.01%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.01%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.01%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.01%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.01%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (4.04%) GitLab
2 3 (3.03%) Fiddler
2 3 (3.03%) Git
3 2 (2.02%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.02%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.01%) Rational DOORS
General
1 39 (39.39%) Social Skills
2 36 (36.36%) Electronics
3 11 (11.11%) Finance
4 10 (10.10%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.06%) Banking
6 3 (3.03%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.02%) Automotive
7 2 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.02%) Legal
8 1 (1.01%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.01%) Games
8 1 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.01%) Marketing
8 1 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.01%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 42 (42.42%) Software Engineer
2 29 (29.29%) C++ Software Engineer
3 9 (9.09%) Developer
3 9 (9.09%) Full Stack Engineer
4 8 (8.08%) Architect
4 8 (8.08%) C Software Engineer
4 8 (8.08%) C/C++ Software Engineer
4 8 (8.08%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (8.08%) Java Engineer
4 8 (8.08%) Senior
5 7 (7.07%) Web Engineer
6 6 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (6.06%) Senior Java Engineer
6 6 (6.06%) Systems Engineer
7 5 (5.05%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 5 (5.05%) Principal Engineer
7 5 (5.05%) Principal Systems Engineer
7 5 (5.05%) Senior Full Stack Engineer
7 5 (5.05%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (4.04%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (16.16%) React
2 15 (15.15%) CSS
2 15 (15.15%) HTML
3 14 (14.14%) .NET
4 4 (4.04%) .NET Framework
5 3 (3.03%) SAML
6 2 (2.02%) Kafka
6 2 (2.02%) MFC
6 2 (2.02%) WinForms
6 2 (2.02%) WPF
7 1 (1.01%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.01%) Akka
7 1 (1.01%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.01%) ASP.NET
7 1 (1.01%) GraphQL
7 1 (1.01%) Node.js
7 1 (1.01%) React Native
7 1 (1.01%) REST
7 1 (1.01%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 28 (28.28%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (7.07%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.02%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.01%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.01%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.01%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.01%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.07%) Windows
2 4 (4.04%) Linux
3 2 (2.02%) CentOS
3 2 (2.02%) Ubuntu
3 2 (2.02%) Windows 10
3 2 (2.02%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (66.67%) Agile
2 52 (52.53%) Software Engineering
3 41 (41.41%) Customer Requirements
4 39 (39.39%) Continuous Integration
5 38 (38.38%) TDD
6 37 (37.37%) Pair Programming
7 36 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
7 36 (36.36%) Software Testing
7 36 (36.36%) Unit Testing
8 26 (26.26%) CI/CD
9 23 (23.23%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (21.21%) Load Balancing
11 18 (18.18%) Identity Management
12 14 (14.14%) Full Stack Development
13 9 (9.09%) Scrum
14 7 (7.07%) Computer Science
14 7 (7.07%) Technical Leadership
15 6 (6.06%) Data Science
15 6 (6.06%) Fintech
15 6 (6.06%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 43 (43.43%) C#
2 40 (40.40%) C++
3 36 (36.36%) C
4 22 (22.22%) Java
5 15 (15.15%) TypeScript
6 11 (11.11%) Python
7 6 (6.06%) PowerShell
8 5 (5.05%) SQL
9 4 (4.04%) Bash
10 2 (2.02%) C++/CLI
10 2 (2.02%) JavaScript
11 1 (1.01%) Bicep
11 1 (1.01%) Groovy
11 1 (1.01%) PHP
11 1 (1.01%) R
11 1 (1.01%) Scala
11 1 (1.01%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (8.08%) Degree
2 7 (7.07%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.01%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.01%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.01%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.01%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.02%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (7.07%) Docker
2 5 (5.05%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.02%) LXC
Systems Management
1 9 (9.09%) SCOM
2 6 (6.06%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.06%) SCCM
3 3 (3.03%) Ansible
3 3 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (3.03%) Terraform
4 2 (2.02%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.02%) Proxmox
5 1 (1.01%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.01%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (10.10%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.06%) Google
3 5 (5.05%) F5
4 2 (2.02%) Alteryx
4 2 (2.02%) Liquidlogic
4 2 (2.02%) Splunk
5 1 (1.01%) Avaya
5 1 (1.01%) Computacenter
5 1 (1.01%) Genesys
5 1 (1.01%) SAP
5 1 (1.01%) Typelevel
5 1 (1.01%) Workday