DigitalOcean Contract Job Trends in England

DigitalOcean, Inc
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring DigitalOcean skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 523 - 591
Rank change year-on-year - - +191
Contract jobs citing DigitalOcean 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.004% - 0.002%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.009% - 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £369 - £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +109.09%
75th Percentile £406 - £613
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £388 - £575
% change year-on-year - - +109.09%

All Cloud Skills
England

DigitalOcean falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 10,867 11,238 14,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.63% 35.17% 35.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,349 7,492 10,591
10th Percentile £300 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 158 293
10th Percentile £14.99 £16.21 £14.54
25th Percentile £18.51 £23.80 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +8.36% +43.56%
75th Percentile £43.75 £68.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £67.03 £70.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.41
% change year-on-year -28.14% +7.99% +44.04%

DigitalOcean
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DigitalOcean relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

DigitalOcean job vacancy trend in England

DigitalOcean
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing DigitalOcean.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DigitalOcean within the England region over the 6 months to 14 October 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
Yorkshire - 1 £388 - 2
North of England - 1 £388 - 2
DigitalOcean
UK

DigitalOcean
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) PHP Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Principal PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Laravel
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft