DevOps Contracts in Kent

DevOps
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 14 18 14
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 +8
Contract jobs citing DevOps 7 11 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 6.67% 5.45% 8.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.37% 8.27% 11.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 5
10th Percentile £531 £310 £534
25th Percentile £534 £381 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £388 £625
Median % change year-on-year +58.71% -38.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £623 £538 £638
90th Percentile £649 £575 £651
South East median daily rate £550 £575 £583
% change year-on-year -4.35% -1.37% +9.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 95 133 166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 90.48% 65.84% 75.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 93 126
10th Percentile £199 £205 £122
25th Percentile £213 £263 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £333 £425 £350
Median % change year-on-year -21.76% +21.43% -19.08%
75th Percentile £545 £540 £514
90th Percentile £688 £656 £674
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 13 6
10th Percentile £14.68 £11.47 £36.85
25th Percentile £17.52 £15.00 £41.16
Median hourly rate £21.43 £35.50 £52.28
Median % change year-on-year -39.63% -32.09% +47.07%
75th Percentile £22.61 £46.87 £57.44
90th Percentile £51.55 £62.96 £62.25
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Kent

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Kent

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Kent

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

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Kent

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Kent 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
Maidstone -3 3 £615 - 27
DevOps
South East

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 5 (71.43%) Azure
1 5 (71.43%) IaaS
2 3 (42.86%) PaaS
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) DHCP
1 5 (71.43%) DNS
1 5 (71.43%) Firewall
1 5 (71.43%) SAN
2 3 (42.86%) Fibre Channel
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Postman
1 1 (14.29%) SoapUI
General
1 1 (14.29%) French Language
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Azure Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) VMware Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 3 (42.86%) 3rd Line Support
2 3 (42.86%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Support
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Support Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) VMware Support Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (71.43%) ITIL
2 5 (71.43%) Security Patching
3 1 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) API Testing
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Epics
3 1 (14.29%) Logistics
3 1 (14.29%) Microservices
3 1 (14.29%) Scrum
3 1 (14.29%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
1 5 (71.43%) DFS Replication
1 5 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (71.43%) vSphere
2 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
1 5 (71.43%) VMware