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 22 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 13 8
Rank change year-on-year +8 -5 -4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 15 3 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East Sussex 12.30% 4.92% 10.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.04% 6.12% 11.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 2 11
10th Percentile £311 £335 £500
25th Percentile £381 £388 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £488 £563 £613
90th Percentile - £615 £663
South East median daily rate £500 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% +10.34%

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 115 49 118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex 94.26% 80.33% 92.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 38 63
10th Percentile £290 £346 £257
25th Percentile £356 £385 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £597 £745
90th Percentile £656 £683 -
South East median daily rate £500 £519 £515
% change year-on-year -3.57% +0.68% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 7
10th Percentile £18.04 - £13.09
25th Percentile £20.61 - £13.16
Median hourly rate £26.29 £15.38 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +70.90% -14.56% +44.23%
75th Percentile £31.24 £34.57 £29.09
90th Percentile £32.12 £46.08 £40.85
South East median hourly rate £22.07 £54.88 £50.00
% change year-on-year -59.78% +9.75% +105.25%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 +9 13 £450 -5.26% 15
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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) CloudFront
3 2 (13.33%) GCP
3 2 (13.33%) GitHub
4 1 (6.67%) Akamai
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (6.67%) Datadog
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.67%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (6.67%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (6.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Senior
2 4 (26.67%) Senior Developer
3 2 (13.33%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Network Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Power BI Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Solution Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Voice Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Voice Network Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) VoIP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (46.67%) .NET
2 4 (26.67%) .NET Core
2 4 (26.67%) ASP.NET
2 4 (26.67%) ASP.NET Core
2 4 (26.67%) RESTful
3 3 (20.00%) CSS
3 3 (20.00%) HTML
4 1 (6.67%) ADO
4 1 (6.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Agile
2 6 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 5 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
4 4 (26.67%) API Development
4 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (20.00%) E-Commerce
5 3 (20.00%) Edge Computing
6 2 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 1 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (6.67%) Cloud Security
7 1 (6.67%) Data Modelling
7 1 (6.67%) DevSecOps
7 1 (6.67%) Event-Driven
7 1 (6.67%) Observability
7 1 (6.67%) Roadmaps
7 1 (6.67%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) C#
1 4 (26.67%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) Java
2 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (20.00%) Kotlin
3 2 (13.33%) Bash
3 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) CCNA
1 3 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (20.00%) Network+ Certification
2 2 (13.33%) AWS Certification
2 2 (13.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Terraform
2 3 (20.00%) Grafana
2 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) Salesforce