Opscode Chef Contracts in England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Opscode Chef skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Opscode Chef over the 3 months to 23 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Opscode Chef UK / England
Location	3 months to 23 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	139	150	185
Rank change year-on-year	+11	+35
Contract jobs citing Opscode Chef	794	840	676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	1.85%	1.70%	1.32%
As % of the Systems Management category	17.08%	15.20%	15.26%
Number of daily rates quoted	566	630	503
Median daily rate	£525	£500	£438
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.00%	+14.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£413	£375	£325
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£650	£600	£600
UK excluding London median daily rate	£500	£450	£415
% change year-on-year	+11.11%	+8.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted	2	0	1
Median hourly rate	£40.00	-	£47.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate	-	-	£47.50

Opscode Chef is in the systems management skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for systems management skills.

Systems Management Skills England
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills	4649	5525	4429
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England	10.81%	11.18%	8.67%
Number of daily rates quoted	3080	3636	2752
Median daily rate	£488	£450	£406
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+8.33%	+10.83%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£300	£290	£262
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£588	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£450	£400	£375
% change year-on-year	+12.50%	+6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted	102	112	153
Median hourly rate	£19.00	£28.00	£20.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-32.14%	+36.58%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.50	£16.30	£12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£47.50	£50.30	£39.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£17.50	£34.85	£20.19
% change year-on-year	-49.78%	+72.65%

Opscode Chef
Job Vacancy Trend in England

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in England citing Opscode Chef as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Systems Management category.

Job vacancy trend for Opscode Chef in England

Opscode Chef
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Opscode Chef in England.

Contractor daily rate trend for Opscode Chef in England

Opscode Chef
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Opscode Chef in England over the 3 months to 23 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Opscode Chef in England

Opscode Chef
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Opscode Chef in England.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Opscode Chef in England

Opscode Chef
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 Opscode Chef within the England region over the 3 months to 23 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
London	-22	449	£550	+8.37%	125
South East	+49	111	£500	+11.11%	30
North West	+37	67	£500	+11.11%	22
East of England	+35	64	£500	+5.26%	17
West Midlands	+14	24	£425	+13.33%	11
South West	+2	24	£438	+9.37%	10
East Midlands	0	23	£500	-	6
Yorkshire	-26	18	£450	-10.00%	18
North East	+56	10	£475	+26.66%
Midlands	-	2	-	-	17
Opscode Chef UK

Opscode Chef
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in England

For the 6 months to 23 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Opscode Chef also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the England region with a requirement for Opscode Chef.

1	1136 (78.13%)	Puppet
2	1087 (74.76%)	DevOps
3	797 (54.81%)	Ansible
3	797 (54.81%)	Linux
4	689 (47.39%)	Amazon AWS
5	639 (43.95%)	Agile Software Development
6	613 (42.16%)	Python
7	605 (41.61%)	Jenkins
8	521 (35.83%)	Configuration Management
9	480 (33.01%)	Java
10	473 (32.53%)	Continuous Integration
11	446 (30.67%)	Docker
12	409 (28.13%)	Ruby
13	355 (24.42%)	Git (software)
14	289 (19.88%)	Microsoft Azure

15	282 (19.39%)	Open Source
16	266 (18.29%)	Perl
17	253 (17.40%)	Unix
18	243 (16.71%)	Bash Shell
19	239 (16.44%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
20	224 (15.41%)	Windows
21	222 (15.27%)	TDD
22	218 (14.99%)	Finance
23	202 (13.89%)	Continuous Delivery
24	201 (13.82%)	Red Hat
24	201 (13.82%)	PowerShell
25	199 (13.69%)	Scrum
26	191 (13.14%)	MySQL
27	187 (12.86%)	Web Services
28	186 (12.79%)	NoSQL

Opscode Chef
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	122 (8.39%)	OpenStack
2	111 (7.63%)	Tomcat
3	110 (7.57%)	Apache
4	98 (6.74%)	JBoss
5	90 (6.19%)	Elasticsearch
6	89 (6.12%)	Cloud Foundry
7	78 (5.36%)	nginx
8	68 (4.68%)	WebSphere
9	60 (4.13%)	Confluence
10	55 (3.78%)	IIS
11	49 (3.37%)	WebLogic
12	40 (2.75%)	Apache Spark
13	23 (1.58%)	CMS
13	23 (1.58%)	Oracle SOA Suite
14	20 (1.38%)	Drupal
15	15 (1.03%)	Apache Pig
16	11 (0.76%)	WordPress
17	10 (0.69%)	SharePoint
18	9 (0.62%)	Skype for Business
19	7 (0.48%)	BizTalk Server

Applications
1	4 (0.28%)	HipChat
1	4 (0.28%)	MS Visio
2	3 (0.21%)	SPSS
3	2 (0.14%)	Microsoft Excel
4	1 (0.069%)	Microsoft Office

Business Applications
1	32 (2.20%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	4 (0.28%)	Salesforce.com CRM
3	3 (0.21%)	Dynamics AX
3	3 (0.21%)	IBM Operational Decision Manager
4	2 (0.14%)	Dynamics CRM
4	2 (0.14%)	NetSuite
5	1 (0.069%)	Dynamics NAV
5	1 (0.069%)	Sage CRM
5	1 (0.069%)	SAP ERP
5	1 (0.069%)	Sentinel

Cloud Services
1	689 (47.39%)	Amazon AWS
2	289 (19.88%)	Microsoft Azure
3	165 (11.35%)	PaaS
4	135 (9.28%)	IaaS
5	104 (7.15%)	Amazon EC2
6	92 (6.33%)	AWS CloudFormation
7	89 (6.12%)	GitHub
8	61 (4.20%)	Amazon S3
9	33 (2.27%)	Datadog
10	30 (2.06%)	SaaS
11	28 (1.93%)	Google Cloud Platform
12	27 (1.86%)	Route 53
13	26 (1.79%)	Cloud Computing
13	26 (1.79%)	OpenShift
13	26 (1.79%)	Virtual Private Cloud
14	22 (1.51%)	AWS Lambda
15	21 (1.44%)	Office 365
16	18 (1.24%)	Amazon ELB
17	17 (1.17%)	Amazon CloudWatch
18	15 (1.03%)	AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Communications & Networking
1	163 (11.21%)	HTTP
2	150 (10.32%)	TCP/IP
3	111 (7.63%)	SSL
4	98 (6.74%)	DNS
5	74 (5.09%)	Firewall
6	41 (2.82%)	Network Security
7	39 (2.68%)	HTTPS
8	34 (2.34%)	Internet
9	29 (1.99%)	DHCP
10	28 (1.93%)	LDAP
10	28 (1.93%)	VPN
11	26 (1.79%)	SMTP
12	23 (1.58%)	SAN
13	18 (1.24%)	LAN
14	16 (1.10%)	IPsec
15	15 (1.03%)	Kerberos
16	14 (0.96%)	Ethernet
16	14 (0.96%)	NAS
16	14 (0.96%)	WAN
17	12 (0.83%)	Wireshark

Database & Business Intelligence
1	191 (13.14%)	MySQL
2	186 (12.79%)	NoSQL
3	168 (11.55%)	PostgreSQL
4	162 (11.14%)	MongoDB
5	128 (8.80%)	SQL Server
6	99 (6.81%)	Apache Cassandra
7	98 (6.74%)	Hadoop
8	97 (6.67%)	Relational Database
9	94 (6.46%)	Big Data
10	79 (5.43%)	Redis
11	40 (2.75%)	Apache Hive
12	39 (2.68%)	HBase
13	38 (2.61%)	Amazon DynamoDB
14	35 (2.41%)	RDBMS
15	21 (1.44%)	Amazon RDS
16	17 (1.17%)	Oracle Database
17	15 (1.03%)	Data Warehouse
17	15 (1.03%)	InterSystems Cache
18	14 (0.96%)	Neo4j
19	12 (0.83%)	Sqoop

Development Applications
1	605 (41.61%)	Jenkins
2	355 (24.42%)	Git (software)
3	149 (10.25%)	Maven
4	144 (9.90%)	Subversion
5	123 (8.46%)	JIRA
6	97 (6.67%)	Octopus Deploy
7	90 (6.19%)	TeamCity
8	74 (5.09%)	Gradle
9	71 (4.88%)	Vagrant
10	63 (4.33%)	Selenium
11	57 (3.92%)	Team Foundation Server
12	51 (3.51%)	Hudson
13	48 (3.30%)	Atlassian Bamboo
13	48 (3.30%)	Sonatype Nexus
14	47 (3.23%)	Ant
15	32 (2.20%)	gulp
15	32 (2.20%)	Travis CI
16	31 (2.13%)	Bitbucket
16	31 (2.13%)	Cucumber
17	30 (2.06%)	NUnit

General
1	218 (14.99%)	Finance
2	92 (6.33%)	Banking
3	58 (3.99%)	Retail
4	48 (3.30%)	Telecoms
5	40 (2.75%)	Marketing
6	33 (2.27%)	Electronics
7	32 (2.20%)	Manufacturing
8	11 (0.76%)	Local Government
9	10 (0.69%)	Games
9	10 (0.69%)	Investment Banking
10	9 (0.62%)	Law
11	7 (0.48%)	Back Office
11	7 (0.48%)	Front Office
11	7 (0.48%)	Legal
11	7 (0.48%)	Publishing
12	6 (0.41%)	Retail Banking
13	3 (0.21%)	Financial Institution
13	3 (0.21%)	Multimedia
14	2 (0.14%)	Corporate Banking
14	2 (0.14%)	Pharmaceutical

Job Titles
1	625 (42.98%)	DevOps Engineer
2	223 (15.34%)	Developer
3	144 (9.90%)	AWS DevOps
4	131 (9.01%)	AWS Engineer
5	116 (7.98%)	AWS DevOps Engineer
6	104 (7.15%)	Architect
7	102 (7.02%)	Linux Engineer
8	101 (6.95%)	Java Developer
9	97 (6.67%)	Senior DevOps
10	86 (5.91%)	Consultant
11	84 (5.78%)	Cloud Engineer
12	82 (5.64%)	Linux/Unix DevOps
13	73 (5.02%)	Senior DevOps Engineer
14	68 (4.68%)	Linux DevOps Engineer
15	53 (3.65%)	Administrator
16	52 (3.58%)	AWS Developer
17	51 (3.51%)	Automation Engineer
18	42 (2.89%)	Operations Engineer
19	41 (2.82%)	Linux Administrator
20	40 (2.75%)	Senior Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	187 (12.86%)	Web Services
2	138 (9.49%)	.NET
3	123 (8.46%)	Node.js
4	84 (5.78%)	Spring
5	81 (5.57%)	AngularJS
6	78 (5.36%)	REST
7	70 (4.81%)	HTML
8	68 (4.68%)	Elastic Stack
9	67 (4.61%)	Middleware
10	64 (4.40%)	JSON
11	61 (4.20%)	CSS
12	58 (3.99%)	J2EE
13	56 (3.85%)	SOAP
14	50 (3.44%)	Kafka
15	48 (3.30%)	RabbitMQ
16	45 (3.09%)	RESTful
17	44 (3.03%)	ASP.NET
18	43 (2.96%)	XML
19	42 (2.89%)	Sensu
20	40 (2.75%)	HTML5

Miscellaneous
1	85 (5.85%)	Public Cloud
2	67 (4.61%)	Analytical Skills
3	60 (4.13%)	Greenfield Project
4	50 (3.44%)	Computer Science
5	37 (2.54%)	User Experience
6	34 (2.34%)	Data Centre
7	31 (2.13%)	Clustering
8	26 (1.79%)	Blog
8	26 (1.79%)	Client/Server
9	24 (1.65%)	Fintech
10	23 (1.58%)	Hybrid Cloud
11	21 (1.44%)	Algorithms
11	21 (1.44%)	Management Information System
12	20 (1.38%)	Enterprise Software
12	20 (1.38%)	Replication
13	19 (1.31%)	Private Cloud
14	18 (1.24%)	Video on Demand
15	16 (1.10%)	Data Structures
15	16 (1.10%)	Smart Meter
16	12 (0.83%)	PKI

Operating Systems
1	797 (54.81%)	Linux
2	253 (17.40%)	Unix
3	239 (16.44%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4	224 (15.41%)	Windows
5	108 (7.43%)	CentOS
6	56 (3.85%)	Ubuntu
7	49 (3.37%)	Windows Server
8	37 (2.54%)	Solaris
9	26 (1.79%)	Windows Server 2008
9	26 (1.79%)	Windows Server 2012
10	25 (1.72%)	CoreOS
11	17 (1.17%)	VMS
12	15 (1.03%)	SUSE
13	14 (0.96%)	AIX
13	14 (0.96%)	Fedora
14	12 (0.83%)	Windows Server 2003
15	10 (0.69%)	Debian
15	10 (0.69%)	Windows 10
16	5 (0.34%)	Data ONTAP
16	5 (0.34%)	HPUX

Processes & Methodologies
1	1087 (74.76%)	DevOps
2	639 (43.95%)	Agile Software Development
3	521 (35.83%)	Configuration Management
4	473 (32.53%)	Continuous Integration
5	282 (19.39%)	Open Source
6	222 (15.27%)	TDD
7	202 (13.89%)	Continuous Delivery
8	199 (13.69%)	Scrum
9	176 (12.10%)	Test Automation
10	147 (10.11%)	Microservices
11	122 (8.39%)	Software Engineering
12	111 (7.63%)	Mentoring
13	105 (7.22%)	OO
14	99 (6.81%)	E-Commerce
14	99 (6.81%)	Kanban
15	89 (6.12%)	High Availability
16	88 (6.05%)	Continuous Deployment
17	77 (5.30%)	Digital Transformation Programme
18	73 (5.02%)	SOA
19	72 (4.95%)	Migration

Programming Languages
1	613 (42.16%)	Python
2	480 (33.01%)	Java
3	409 (28.13%)	Ruby
4	266 (18.29%)	Perl
5	243 (16.71%)	Bash Shell
6	201 (13.82%)	PowerShell
7	157 (10.80%)	SQL
8	137 (9.42%)	JavaScript
9	120 (8.25%)	Shell Script
10	110 (7.57%)	Scala
11	106 (7.29%)	PHP
12	86 (5.91%)	C#
13	77 (5.30%)	Go
14	67 (4.61%)	Groovy
15	30 (2.06%)	Korn
16	29 (1.99%)	C++
17	28 (1.93%)	C
18	16 (1.10%)	Clojure
19	13 (0.89%)	C-shell
20	10 (0.69%)	F#

Qualifications
1	121 (8.32%)	Security Cleared
2	95 (6.53%)	SC Cleared
3	53 (3.65%)	Degree
4	34 (2.34%)	RHCE
5	32 (2.20%)	CISSP
6	25 (1.72%)	Computer Science Degree
7	24 (1.65%)	Cisco Certification
8	21 (1.44%)	RHCSA
9	16 (1.10%)	CCNP
10	15 (1.03%)	CCNA
11	13 (0.89%)	CEH
11	13 (0.89%)	CREST Certified
11	13 (0.89%)	GIAC
11	13 (0.89%)	SANS
12	11 (0.76%)	AWS Certification
13	8 (0.55%)	BPSS Clearance
14	7 (0.48%)	RHCA
14	7 (0.48%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15	6 (0.41%)	DV Cleared
15	6 (0.41%)	Microsoft Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	55 (3.78%)	QA
2	11 (0.76%)	SLA
3	8 (0.55%)	PCI DSS
4	7 (0.48%)	GDPR
4	7 (0.48%)	ISO/IEC 27001
5	4 (0.28%)	Disclosure Scotland
6	3 (0.21%)	GCP
6	3 (0.21%)	PMO
7	2 (0.14%)	Data Quality
8	1 (0.069%)	Cyber Essentials

System Software
1	446 (30.67%)	Docker
2	100 (6.88%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	61 (4.20%)	Active Directory
4	33 (2.27%)	Xen
5	32 (2.20%)	HDFS
5	32 (2.20%)	Virtual Machines
6	28 (1.93%)	vSphere
7	26 (1.79%)	Hyper-V
8	25 (1.72%)	KVM
8	25 (1.72%)	LXC
9	19 (1.31%)	VMware ESXi
10	18 (1.24%)	NFS
11	15 (1.03%)	vCloud
12	13 (0.89%)	Apache ZooKeeper
13	12 (0.83%)	GPFS
14	11 (0.76%)	VirtualBox
15	10 (0.69%)	Apache Flume
15	10 (0.69%)	iptables
16	6 (0.41%)	Veritas Volume Manager
16	6 (0.41%)	XenServer

Systems Management
1	1136 (78.13%)	Puppet
2	797 (54.81%)	Ansible
3	160 (11.00%)	Kubernetes
4	135 (9.28%)	Terraform
5	111 (7.63%)	Salt
6	110 (7.57%)	Nagios
7	55 (3.78%)	logstash
8	46 (3.16%)	ZABBIX
9	45 (3.09%)	Mesos
10	39 (2.68%)	Graphite
11	33 (2.27%)	Kibana
12	32 (2.20%)	Hadoop YARN
13	31 (2.13%)	Cobbler
14	26 (1.79%)	Packer
15	25 (1.72%)	SCCM
16	20 (1.38%)	Grafana
17	18 (1.24%)	Consul
17	18 (1.24%)	vRealize
18	16 (1.10%)	SCOM
19	14 (0.96%)	Rancher

Vendors
1	201 (13.82%)	Red Hat
2	155 (10.66%)	VMware
3	147 (10.11%)	Oracle
4	118 (8.12%)	Splunk
5	106 (7.29%)	Microsoft
6	79 (5.43%)	SaltStack
7	55 (3.78%)	Google
8	39 (2.68%)	SAP
9	36 (2.48%)	Cisco
10	32 (2.20%)	AppDynamics
11	31 (2.13%)	Rackspace
12	27 (1.86%)	Atlassian
12	27 (1.86%)	IBM
12	27 (1.86%)	WSO2
13	26 (1.79%)	NetApp
14	23 (1.58%)	New Relic
14	23 (1.58%)	ServiceNow
14	23 (1.58%)	Veritas
15	17 (1.17%)	EMC
16	16 (1.10%)	Sybase