DevOps Contracts in Hertfordshire

DevOps
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 32 26
Rank change year-on-year -4 -6 -12
Contract jobs citing DevOps 9 46 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 2.80% 5.52% 6.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.16% 6.11% 7.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 14
10th Percentile £420 £325 £404
25th Percentile £444 £403 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £613
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -30.61% +2.08%
75th Percentile £788 £503 £669
90th Percentile £798 £619 £758
East of England median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 36 21
10th Percentile - - £60.00
25th Percentile £66.25 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - £65.75
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +18.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 285 753 703
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 88.79% 90.29% 86.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 277 374
10th Percentile £384 £232 £240
25th Percentile £446 £315 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £675
90th Percentile £675 £705 £768
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 314 156
10th Percentile £22.65 £38.12 £21.00
25th Percentile £47.50 £40.00 £53.69
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -23.08% +27.83%
75th Percentile £79.82 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.25
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
% change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Hertfordshire

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Hertfordshire

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Hertfordshire

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps in Hertfordshire.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in Hertfordshire

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Welwyn Garden City - 2 £775 - 2
Hatfield +7 1 £775 +55.00% 3
Watford +7 1 £450 +5.88% 55
Stevenage +1 1 - - 49
Letchworth - 1 £425 - 1
DevOps
East of England

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) AWS
4 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 1 (11.11%) GCP
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 1 (11.11%) SaaS
4 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Network Security
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
1 1 (11.11%) Data Mart
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle APEX
1 1 (11.11%) Rational DOORS
1 1 (11.11%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (33.33%) Retail
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Technical Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Technical Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Agile Delivery Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Python Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Delivery Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Technical Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Delivery Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
2 1 (11.11%) CSS
2 1 (11.11%) HTML
2 1 (11.11%) Node.js
2 1 (11.11%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Mobile App
1 2 (22.22%) Private Cloud
1 2 (22.22%) Public Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Culture of Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) VxWorks
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Security
1 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
1 3 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 2 (22.22%) Agile
2 2 (22.22%) Application Security
2 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
2 2 (22.22%) Data Security
2 2 (22.22%) DevSecOps
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (22.22%) Migration
2 2 (22.22%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (22.22%) Release Management
2 2 (22.22%) Software Architecture
2 2 (22.22%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (11.11%) Integration Testing
3 1 (11.11%) ITSM
3 1 (11.11%) Programme Management
3 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
3 1 (11.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) C++
1 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
1 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
1 1 (11.11%) Python
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Spotify
2 1 (11.11%) Wind River