DevOps Contract Job Trends in Hatfield

DevOps
Hertfordshire > Hatfield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hatfield requiring DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 9 21
Rank change year-on-year -16 +12 -
Contract jobs citing DevOps 7 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Hatfield 4.19% 3.13% 1.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.93% 3.57% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £263 £738 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £775 £500
Median % change year-on-year -45.81% +55.00% -
75th Percentile £602 £813 £525
90th Percentile £668 - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £565 £663 £425
% change year-on-year -14.72% +55.88% -26.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hatfield

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 Hatfield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 142 28 70
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hatfield 85.03% 87.50% 86.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 24 60
10th Percentile £289 £400 £169
25th Percentile £403 £497 £209
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £350
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +64.29% -34.88%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £500
90th Percentile £774 £785 £528
Hertfordshire median daily rate £505 £530 £425
% change year-on-year -4.72% +24.71% -17.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 2 3
10th Percentile £16.30 £17.38 £13.28
25th Percentile £17.24 £17.42 £13.49
Median hourly rate £18.50 £17.48 £13.82
Median % change year-on-year +5.84% +26.48% -16.24%
75th Percentile £19.91 £17.55 £14.61
90th Percentile £20.35 £17.58 £15.08
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £28.00 £66.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -57.58% +32.00% -23.08%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Hatfield

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

DevOps job vacancy trend in Hatfield

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Hatfield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hatfield citing DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hatfield citing DevOps

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Hatfield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Hatfield over the 6 months to 14 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Hatfield

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hatfield 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
3 2 (28.57%) Google Workspace
3 2 (28.57%) Miro
4 1 (14.29%) GCP
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DHCP
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
1 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
2 1 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
2 2 (28.57%) GitLab
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Scrum Master
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Agile Delivery Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) GCP DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) PKI
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) PMI
2 1 (14.29%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) VMS
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Scrum
2 3 (42.86%) Zero Trust
3 2 (28.57%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (28.57%) Kanban
3 2 (28.57%) Software Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (28.57%) Sprint Retrospective
3 2 (28.57%) Sprint Review
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) PMI Certification
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (28.57%) vCenter Server
3 1 (14.29%) Ansible
3 1 (14.29%) Argo
3 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Citrix
1 2 (28.57%) Google
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) VMware
1 2 (28.57%) Wyse
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce
2 1 (14.29%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow