DevOps Contracts in Reading

DevOps
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 8 13
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 -8
Contract jobs citing DevOps 203 134 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 17.15% 12.87% 10.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.01% 14.32% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 108 114
10th Percentile £497 £472 £413
25th Percentile £513 £508 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.56% +7.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £675 £631 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £675
Berkshire median daily rate £600 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 3 0
10th Percentile £56.61 - -
25th Percentile £56.65 - -
Median hourly rate £87.46 £79.19 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.44% - -
75th Percentile £87.51 - -
90th Percentile £87.53 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.77 £79.19 £69.00
% change year-on-year +5.78% +14.77% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

DevOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,068 936 1,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.20% 89.91% 90.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 620 816
10th Percentile £213 £363 £253
25th Percentile £413 £455 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £660 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £509 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.05% +5.00% +8.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 23 8
10th Percentile £27.58 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £53.74 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £62.07 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +132.14% -35.63%
75th Percentile £82.55 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £57.82 £21.05
% change year-on-year +6.54% +174.67% -2.09%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Reading

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Reading

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Reading over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Reading

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in Reading

DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in Reading

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps in Reading over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps in Reading

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 16 (7.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.97%) OpenStack
2 4 (1.97%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.99%) Confluence
4 1 (0.49%) Apache
4 1 (0.49%) Appian
4 1 (0.49%) CMS
4 1 (0.49%) Jadu
4 1 (0.49%) JBoss
4 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 11 (5.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 16 (7.88%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 7 (3.45%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (3.45%) Oracle EBS R12
3 4 (1.97%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.49%) Maximo
4 1 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 131 (64.53%) Azure
2 60 (29.56%) Azure DevOps
3 46 (22.66%) Azure Monitor
4 45 (22.17%) AWS
5 30 (14.78%) Entra ID
6 23 (11.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 22 (10.84%) Azure Data Factory
7 22 (10.84%) Serverless
8 18 (8.87%) Azure Functions
9 16 (7.88%) Microsoft 365
10 15 (7.39%) Azure Storage
11 13 (6.40%) Azure Key Vault
12 9 (4.43%) GCP
13 7 (3.45%) OpenShift
13 7 (3.45%) PaaS
14 6 (2.96%) Azure API Management
14 6 (2.96%) Azure Cognitive Search
14 6 (2.96%) Azure Logic Apps
14 6 (2.96%) Power Platform
15 4 (1.97%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 42 (20.69%) Firewall
2 23 (11.33%) Intrusion Detection
3 17 (8.37%) DNS
4 15 (7.39%) DHCP
5 7 (3.45%) VSAN
6 1 (0.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (8.87%) NoSQL
3 17 (8.37%) Oracle Database
3 17 (8.37%) Oracle Database 11g
4 6 (2.96%) Power BI
4 6 (2.96%) Relational Database
4 6 (2.96%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.46%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.99%) Tableau
8 1 (0.49%) Big Data
8 1 (0.49%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.49%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 32 (15.76%) Git
1 32 (15.76%) Selenium
2 30 (14.78%) Jenkins
3 25 (12.32%) Cucumber
4 24 (11.82%) REST Assured
4 24 (11.82%) SonarQube
5 20 (9.85%) JIRA
6 13 (6.40%) GitLab
7 8 (3.94%) Visual Studio
8 6 (2.96%) Oracle Forms
9 4 (1.97%) JUnit
10 3 (1.48%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.99%) SpecFlow
12 1 (0.49%) Appium
12 1 (0.49%) MSTest
12 1 (0.49%) NUnit
12 1 (0.49%) SoapUI
12 1 (0.49%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.49%) WebDriver
12 1 (0.49%) Xcode
General
1 74 (36.45%) Social Skills
2 56 (27.59%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (10.84%) Public Sector
4 20 (9.85%) Law
5 14 (6.90%) Finance
6 13 (6.40%) Police
7 6 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.46%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.99%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.49%) Billing
10 1 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.49%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 58 (28.57%) Developer
2 30 (14.78%) Architect
3 25 (12.32%) Security Architect
4 20 (9.85%) Analyst
4 20 (9.85%) Full Stack Developer
5 19 (9.36%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 18 (8.87%) Senior
7 17 (8.37%) Azure Developer
7 17 (8.37%) Java Engineer
8 15 (7.39%) Active Directory Support
8 15 (7.39%) PostgreSQL Developer
9 14 (6.90%) Active Directory Specialist
9 14 (6.90%) Azure Specialist
9 14 (6.90%) Lead
9 14 (6.90%) Support Specialist
10 9 (4.43%) Administrator
10 9 (4.43%) Java Developer
10 9 (4.43%) Systems Administrator
10 9 (4.43%) Test Analyst
11 8 (3.94%) QA Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (17.24%) ARM Templates
2 32 (15.76%) REST
3 25 (12.32%) Java EE
4 18 (8.87%) React
5 14 (6.90%) AngularJS
6 12 (5.91%) Node.js
7 9 (4.43%) Itk
8 8 (3.94%) SOAP
9 7 (3.45%) .NET
10 6 (2.96%) CSS
10 6 (2.96%) HTML
10 6 (2.96%) RESTful
11 5 (2.46%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (2.46%) JSON
12 4 (1.97%) Spring
12 4 (1.97%) Spring Boot
12 4 (1.97%) Web Services
12 4 (1.97%) XML
13 3 (1.48%) .NET Framework
13 3 (1.48%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.88%) Product Ownership
2 15 (7.39%) PKI
2 15 (7.39%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (4.93%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.45%) Client/Server
5 4 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.99%) CSOC
7 2 (0.99%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.49%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.49%) iPad
8 1 (0.49%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.49%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.49%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 28 (13.79%) Linux
2 24 (11.82%) Windows
2 24 (11.82%) Windows Server
3 17 (8.37%) Windows Server 2016
3 17 (8.37%) Windows Server 2019
4 7 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.49%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (38.42%) Agile
2 66 (32.51%) CI/CD
3 54 (26.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 43 (21.18%) Software Engineering
4 43 (21.18%) Test Automation
5 40 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (19.70%) Technical Leadership
6 32 (15.76%) Unit Testing
7 30 (14.78%) Continuous Integration
8 26 (12.81%) Decision-Making
9 25 (12.32%) Software Architecture
10 23 (11.33%) Cybersecurity
10 23 (11.33%) Release Management
10 23 (11.33%) Software Testing
11 22 (10.84%) Full Stack Development
12 20 (9.85%) Containerisation
13 19 (9.36%) Analytics
13 19 (9.36%) Microservices
13 19 (9.36%) Scrum
14 18 (8.87%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 32 (15.76%) Java
1 32 (15.76%) PowerShell
2 27 (13.30%) SQL
3 26 (12.81%) C#
3 26 (12.81%) Python
4 22 (10.84%) VBScript
5 17 (8.37%) PL/SQL
6 16 (7.88%) Bicep
7 15 (7.39%) VB
8 12 (5.91%) JavaScript
9 9 (4.43%) C
10 7 (3.45%) PHP
11 3 (1.48%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.99%) Bash
12 2 (0.99%) C++
13 1 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 103 (50.74%) Security Cleared
2 64 (31.53%) SC Cleared
3 55 (27.09%) DV Cleared
4 22 (10.84%) Degree
5 15 (7.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.99%) CBAP
6 2 (0.99%) PMP
7 1 (0.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.49%) CSPO
7 1 (0.49%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.93%) QA
2 5 (2.46%) PMO
3 2 (0.99%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.49%) NCSC
4 1 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (15.27%) Active Directory
2 26 (12.81%) Docker
3 15 (7.39%) Virtual Desktop
3 15 (7.39%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (3.45%) vCloud
5 7 (3.45%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.49%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 49 (24.14%) Kubernetes
2 31 (15.27%) Ansible
3 26 (12.81%) Terraform
4 15 (7.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 15 (7.39%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (7.39%) SCCM
4 15 (7.39%) SCOM
4 15 (7.39%) WSUS
5 12 (5.91%) Docker Swarm
5 12 (5.91%) Podman
6 7 (3.45%) Istio
6 7 (3.45%) Rancher
6 7 (3.45%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.49%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.49%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.49%) Puppet
Vendors
1 37 (18.23%) Microsoft
2 36 (17.73%) Oracle
3 14 (6.90%) VMware
4 8 (3.94%) Google
5 2 (0.99%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.49%) Adobe
6 1 (0.49%) BMC
6 1 (0.49%) Citrix
6 1 (0.49%) Databricks
6 1 (0.49%) IBM
6 1 (0.49%) Remedy
6 1 (0.49%) SAP
6 1 (0.49%) TIBCO