DevOps Contracts in East Sussex

DevOps
South East > East Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in East Sussex 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 13 7
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 -1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 15 5 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East Sussex 13.16% 5.88% 15.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.89% 6.67% 17.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 5 15
10th Percentile - £386 £525
25th Percentile £463 £515 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £530 £650
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% -18.46% +8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £820
90th Percentile £648 £665 £840
South East median daily rate £550 £575 £583
% change year-on-year -4.35% -1.37% +9.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Sussex

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 East Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 108 75 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex 94.74% 88.24% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 58 75
10th Percentile £319 £304 £201
25th Percentile £413 £385 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -17.39% +15.00%
75th Percentile £638 £628 £700
90th Percentile £656 £743 £820
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 4
10th Percentile £16.89 £11.00 £27.28
25th Percentile £17.75 £15.38 £42.69
Median hourly rate £19.36 £25.25 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year -23.34% -53.02% -
75th Percentile £20.82 £26.88 £60.00
90th Percentile £21.59 £51.50 £64.50
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in East Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in East Sussex

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in East Sussex

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in East Sussex

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in East Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in East Sussex over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in East Sussex

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in East Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 1 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
Brighton +5 13 £475 -10.38% 54
DevOps
South East

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East Sussex 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 2 (13.33%) Umbraco
2 1 (6.67%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) Azure
2 6 (40.00%) AWS
3 3 (20.00%) CloudFront
3 3 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (13.33%) GitHub
4 2 (13.33%) IaaS
4 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (13.33%) PaaS
5 1 (6.67%) Akamai
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (6.67%) Datadog
5 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (6.67%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (6.67%) Power BI
2 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) .NET Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Azure Data Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Data Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Process Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Business Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Specialist
3 1 (6.67%) C# Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Data Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack C# Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Project Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Senior .NET Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) .NET
2 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET
2 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (13.33%) YAML
3 1 (6.67%) .NET Core
3 1 (6.67%) CSS
3 1 (6.67%) HTML
3 1 (6.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (26.67%) Agile
3 4 (26.67%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (20.00%) E-Commerce
4 3 (20.00%) Edge Computing
4 3 (20.00%) Migration
5 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
5 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
5 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (13.33%) Data Engineering
5 2 (13.33%) Data Modelling
5 2 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (13.33%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (13.33%) GAP Analysis
5 2 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (13.33%) User Stories
5 2 (13.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) Python
2 4 (26.67%) C#
2 4 (26.67%) SQL
3 3 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.67%) Bash
4 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Azure Certification
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (13.33%) NCSC
2 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (46.67%) Terraform
2 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (13.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Databricks
2 1 (6.67%) Rackspace