DevOps Contract Job Trends in Maidstone

DevOps
Kent > Maidstone

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Maidstone requiring DevOps skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 8 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing DevOps 2 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Maidstone 7.14% 14.81% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.00% 15.38% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £608 £329 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £333 -
Median % change year-on-year +84.96% - -
75th Percentile £623 £336 -
90th Percentile - - -
Kent median daily rate £569 £326 £525
% change year-on-year +74.25% -37.86% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Maidstone

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 Maidstone.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 20 26 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Maidstone 71.43% 96.30% 65.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 8 16
10th Percentile £193 £181 £153
25th Percentile £329 £189 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £333 £223 £365
Median % change year-on-year +49.44% -39.04% +33.94%
75th Percentile £434 £387 £533
90th Percentile £574 £563 £585
Kent median daily rate £375 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -21.05% -2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
Median hourly rate £20.40 - £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +334.44%
Kent median hourly rate £20.40 £15.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +36.00% -73.33% +51.49%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Maidstone

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Maidstone

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Maidstone

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Maidstone citing DevOps

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Maidstone 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) IaaS
1 2 (100.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
1 2 (100.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 2 (100.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Support
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Support Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Support Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Security Patching
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) DFS Replication
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) VMware