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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 27 24
Rank change year-on-year -4 -3 -11
Contract jobs citing DevOps 13 47 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 3.89% 5.62% 7.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.23% 6.41% 8.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 11
10th Percentile £400 £340 £413
25th Percentile £419 £406 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £650
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -34.62% +8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £681
90th Percentile £788 £660 £788
East of England median daily rate £500 £534 £563
% change year-on-year -6.37% -5.07% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 34 20
10th Percentile - - £59.63
25th Percentile - £61.25 -
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - £65.75
90th Percentile - - £66.05
East of England median hourly rate - £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +15.56%

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 307 733 649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 91.92% 87.57% 87.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 253 343
10th Percentile £348 £215 £260
25th Percentile £450 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £675
90th Percentile £675 £701 £750
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 314 144
10th Percentile £17.48 £38.12 £21.00
25th Percentile £34.91 £40.13 £53.69
Median hourly rate £62.00 £50.00 £62.75
Median % change year-on-year +24.00% -20.32% +25.50%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £84.50 £77.00 £77.00
East of England median hourly rate £36.75 £40.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -8.13% +81.82% +41.94%

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 30 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 30 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
Watford +8 3 £550 +29.41% 202
Stevenage -3 2 £450 +80.00% 173
Hatfield +7 1 £775 +55.00% 1
Welwyn Garden City -3 1 £775 - 6
Letchworth - 1 £425 -
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 2 (15.38%) Apache
1 2 (15.38%) IIS
1 2 (15.38%) WebSphere
2 1 (7.69%) IBM Domino
2 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Direct Connect
3 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.69%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.69%) SaaS
4 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) Firewall
2 2 (15.38%) BGP
2 2 (15.38%) Network Security
2 2 (15.38%) OSPF
2 2 (15.38%) VLAN
2 2 (15.38%) VPN
3 1 (7.69%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (7.69%) SD-WAN
3 1 (7.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (15.38%) DB2
2 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (7.69%) Big Data
3 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
3 1 (7.69%) Data Mart
3 1 (7.69%) MySQL
3 1 (7.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (7.69%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (15.38%) Retail
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (15.38%) Administrator
1 2 (15.38%) Architect
1 2 (15.38%) Consultant
1 2 (15.38%) Developer
1 2 (15.38%) Maximo Consultant
1 2 (15.38%) Network Administrator
1 2 (15.38%) Network Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) .NET Developer
2 1 (7.69%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (7.69%) Maximo Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Python Developer
2 1 (7.69%) Senior Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Senior Technical Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (7.69%) Technical Delivery Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Technical Leader
2 1 (7.69%) Technical Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) .NET
1 2 (15.38%) SOAP
1 2 (15.38%) Web Services
1 2 (15.38%) XML
2 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.69%) CSS
2 1 (7.69%) ggplot2
2 1 (7.69%) Gherkin
2 1 (7.69%) HTML
2 1 (7.69%) JSON
2 1 (7.69%) Node.js
2 1 (7.69%) React
2 1 (7.69%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Culture of Ownership
1 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
1 1 (7.69%) Distributed Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
1 1 (7.69%) Private Cloud
1 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
1 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
2 1 (7.69%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
2 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (23.08%) Agile
3 3 (23.08%) ITSM
3 3 (23.08%) Task Automation
4 2 (15.38%) CAFM
4 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (15.38%) Data Analysis
4 2 (15.38%) Data Science
4 2 (15.38%) Facilities Management
4 2 (15.38%) Migration
4 2 (15.38%) Network Management
4 2 (15.38%) Release Management
4 2 (15.38%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (15.38%) Security Architecture
4 2 (15.38%) Service Design
4 2 (15.38%) System Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
4 2 (15.38%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) Bash
3 2 (15.38%) R
4 1 (7.69%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Terraform
2 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
3 2 (15.38%) Ansible
4 1 (7.69%) Nagios
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Databricks
2 2 (15.38%) Fortinet
2 2 (15.38%) Huawei
2 2 (15.38%) IBM
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) SolarWinds
3 1 (7.69%) Spotify