DevOps Contracts in Exeter

DevOps
Devon > Exeter

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Exeter 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 7 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 14 14
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 7 10 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Exeter 9.21% 9.26% 9.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.07% 10.00% 9.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 7
10th Percentile £484 £388 £450
25th Percentile £498 £523 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £588 £670
Median % change year-on-year -11.49% -12.31% +3.08%
75th Percentile £523 £664 £675
90th Percentile £524 £670 £701
Devon median daily rate £520 £562 £672
% change year-on-year -7.55% -16.36% +17.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Exeter

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 Exeter.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 58 100 102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Exeter 76.32% 92.59% 93.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 70 88
10th Percentile £305 £143 £339
25th Percentile £310 £328 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £669
90th Percentile £588 £675 £725
Devon median daily rate £350 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -26.32% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 2
10th Percentile - - £20.70
25th Percentile - £13.86 £24.75
Median hourly rate - £26.40 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year - -16.21% -25.00%
75th Percentile - £30.25 £38.25
90th Percentile - - £42.30
Devon median hourly rate £25.15 £55.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -54.27% +46.67% -10.71%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Exeter

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Exeter

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Exeter

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Exeter

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Exeter 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 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Azure Pipelines
2 4 (57.14%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (42.86%) AWS
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (14.29%) GitHub
5 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (28.57%) DynamoDB
1 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 5 (71.43%) Public Sector
2 4 (57.14%) Military
3 2 (28.57%) Finance
3 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Test Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Database Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) DBA
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
1 1 (14.29%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Replication
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Test Strategy
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) System Integration Testing
2 3 (42.86%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
3 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
3 2 (28.57%) Data Management
3 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
3 2 (28.57%) Database Security
3 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (28.57%) ETL
3 2 (28.57%) High Availability
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
3 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Bug Management
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
1 2 (28.57%) T-SQL
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
2 2 (28.57%) MCSE
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) GDPR
2 1 (14.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft