DevOps Contracts in the South East

DevOps
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 19 16 11
Rank change year-on-year -3 -5 +3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 261 434 594
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 8.67% 7.81% 10.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.47% 9.20% 11.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 303 454
10th Percentile £388 £401 £445
25th Percentile £455 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £583
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.37% +9.64%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 30 8
10th Percentile £35.98 £56.65 £52.35
25th Percentile £44.56 £61.60 £52.69
Median hourly rate £60.75 £83.77 £67.35
Median % change year-on-year -27.48% +24.38% +92.41%
75th Percentile £77.56 £87.46 £79.19
90th Percentile £86.53 £87.53 £87.01
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.76% +19.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the South East

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the South East.

Daily rate trend for DevOps in the South East

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the South East

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in the South East

DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps in the South East

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the South East 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
Thames Valley -4 154 £500 -16.67% 164
Berkshire -5 137 £500 -16.67% 92
Hampshire +13 49 £575 +4.55% 89
Surrey +3 26 £469 -10.71% 53
East Sussex +7 15 £475 -10.38% 14
Buckinghamshire +15 14 £419 -23.82% 40
West Sussex +11 8 £625 +13.64% 19
Kent +4 7 £615 +58.71% 29
Oxfordshire -3 3 - - 55
Middlesex - 2 £750 - 3
Home Counties +1 1 - -
DevOps
England

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 9 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.30%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.92%) Anypoint
3 5 (1.92%) Confluence
4 4 (1.53%) Apache
5 3 (1.15%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.15%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.77%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.77%) CMS
6 2 (0.77%) IIS
6 2 (0.77%) JBoss
7 1 (0.38%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.77%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.38%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) NEC Housing
1 1 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 166 (63.60%) Azure
2 101 (38.70%) Azure DevOps
3 76 (29.12%) AWS
4 26 (9.96%) GitHub
5 25 (9.58%) IaaS
5 25 (9.58%) PaaS
5 25 (9.58%) Serverless
6 24 (9.20%) Azure Data Factory
7 21 (8.05%) Azure Monitor
8 19 (7.28%) Azure AKS
9 16 (6.13%) GCP
10 15 (5.75%) Azure API Management
10 15 (5.75%) Power Platform
11 14 (5.36%) Entra ID
12 13 (4.98%) OpenShift
12 13 (4.98%) SaaS
13 12 (4.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 11 (4.21%) Azure Functions
15 10 (3.83%) Azure Service Bus
16 8 (3.07%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 27 (10.34%) Firewall
2 16 (6.13%) DNS
3 14 (5.36%) DHCP
4 8 (3.07%) SMTP
4 8 (3.07%) VPN
5 7 (2.68%) SAN
6 6 (2.30%) Intrusion Detection
7 5 (1.92%) Fibre Channel
7 5 (1.92%) Radio Access Network
8 4 (1.53%) 4G
8 4 (1.53%) 5G
8 4 (1.53%) Network Security
9 3 (1.15%) 5G NR
9 3 (1.15%) LTE
10 2 (0.77%) BGP
10 2 (0.77%) IPv6
10 2 (0.77%) OSPF
10 2 (0.77%) Spanning Tree
10 2 (0.77%) SSL
10 2 (0.77%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.05%) Big Data
2 15 (5.75%) SQL Server
3 14 (5.36%) Azure SQL Database
3 14 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (4.21%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (3.83%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (3.45%) NoSQL
6 9 (3.45%) Power BI
7 8 (3.07%) Oracle Database
8 6 (2.30%) Oracle Database 11g
9 5 (1.92%) Redis
10 4 (1.53%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.15%) MySQL
11 3 (1.15%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.15%) SSDT
12 2 (0.77%) DocumentDB
12 2 (0.77%) MS Access
12 2 (0.77%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.38%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 37 (14.18%) Git
2 36 (13.79%) JIRA
3 34 (13.03%) Selenium
4 30 (11.49%) Jenkins
5 21 (8.05%) GitLab
6 16 (6.13%) Cucumber
7 13 (4.98%) REST Assured
7 13 (4.98%) SonarQube
8 7 (2.68%) Cypress.io
8 7 (2.68%) SpecFlow
9 6 (2.30%) JUnit
10 4 (1.53%) Appium
10 4 (1.53%) Visual Studio
10 4 (1.53%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (1.15%) Bitbucket Server
11 3 (1.15%) Snyk
12 2 (0.77%) CA Release Automation
12 2 (0.77%) Postman
12 2 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.77%) TeamCity
General
1 60 (22.99%) Social Skills
2 45 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (12.26%) Public Sector
4 24 (9.20%) Finance
5 16 (6.13%) Telecoms
6 8 (3.07%) Law
7 7 (2.68%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.30%) Electronics
8 6 (2.30%) Marketing
9 5 (1.92%) Police
10 3 (1.15%) Billing
10 3 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.77%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.77%) Korean Language
12 1 (0.38%) Automotive
12 1 (0.38%) Banking
12 1 (0.38%) French Language
12 1 (0.38%) Games
12 1 (0.38%) Military
12 1 (0.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (19.16%) Developer
2 49 (18.77%) DevOps Engineer
3 35 (13.41%) Azure Engineer
4 21 (8.05%) Senior
5 20 (7.66%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 18 (6.90%) Full-Stack Developer
6 18 (6.90%) Software Engineer
7 15 (5.75%) Architect
7 15 (5.75%) Azure Developer
8 14 (5.36%) AWS Engineer
8 14 (5.36%) Support Engineer
9 13 (4.98%) Analyst
9 13 (4.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (4.60%) Lead
11 11 (4.21%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 11 (4.21%) 3rd Line Support
11 11 (4.21%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
12 10 (3.83%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (3.83%) Infrastructure Support
12 10 (3.83%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (11.11%) .NET
2 19 (7.28%) REST
3 18 (6.90%) ADO
4 16 (6.13%) ARM Templates
4 16 (6.13%) CSS
4 16 (6.13%) HTML
4 16 (6.13%) React
5 15 (5.75%) YAML
6 14 (5.36%) RESTful
7 13 (4.98%) Java EE
8 12 (4.60%) .NET Core
9 10 (3.83%) Elastic Stack
9 10 (3.83%) JSON
10 9 (3.45%) OAuth
11 8 (3.07%) AngularJS
12 7 (2.68%) PySpark
13 6 (2.30%) Node.js
14 5 (1.92%) JBoss Seam
14 5 (1.92%) Kafka
14 5 (1.92%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.36%) Product Ownership
2 12 (4.60%) Data Centre
3 10 (3.83%) Cloud Native
3 10 (3.83%) Public Cloud
4 9 (3.45%) PKI
5 8 (3.07%) Clustering
5 8 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.68%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.30%) Client/Server
7 6 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.30%) Renewable Energy
7 6 (2.30%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 5 (1.92%) IoT
8 5 (1.92%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.77%) Replication
10 2 (0.77%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.38%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 49 (18.77%) Windows
2 37 (14.18%) Linux
3 21 (8.05%) Windows Server
4 11 (4.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.92%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.15%) Unix
6 3 (1.15%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.38%) CentOS
7 1 (0.38%) VMS
7 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (38.31%) Agile
2 93 (35.63%) CI/CD
3 61 (23.37%) Problem-Solving
4 60 (22.99%) Test Automation
5 57 (21.84%) Infrastructure as Code
6 44 (16.86%) Containerisation
7 33 (12.64%) Software Engineering
8 31 (11.88%) Continuous Integration
9 27 (10.34%) Microservices
9 27 (10.34%) Migration
9 27 (10.34%) Scrum
10 26 (9.96%) Configuration Management
10 26 (9.96%) Unit Testing
11 25 (9.58%) Artificial Intelligence
12 22 (8.43%) Full-Stack Development
13 21 (8.05%) Continuous Improvement
13 21 (8.05%) Software Testing
14 20 (7.66%) SDLC
15 17 (6.51%) Decision-Making
15 17 (6.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 75 (28.74%) Python
2 54 (20.69%) SQL
3 53 (20.31%) PowerShell
4 43 (16.48%) C#
5 29 (11.11%) Java
6 22 (8.43%) JavaScript
7 17 (6.51%) Bash
8 13 (4.98%) TypeScript
9 12 (4.60%) Bicep
10 9 (3.45%) PL/SQL
11 7 (2.68%) VBScript
12 6 (2.30%) Go
13 3 (1.15%) C
13 3 (1.15%) Perl
13 3 (1.15%) PHP
13 3 (1.15%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.15%) VB
14 2 (0.77%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.38%) C++
15 1 (0.38%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 80 (30.65%) Security Cleared
2 50 (19.16%) SC Cleared
3 32 (12.26%) DV Cleared
4 29 (11.11%) Degree
5 17 (6.51%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.92%) CCNP
7 5 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.53%) CISSP
8 4 (1.53%) MCSE
9 3 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.77%) CISM
10 2 (0.77%) OCP
10 2 (0.77%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.38%) APMP
11 1 (0.38%) CEH
11 1 (0.38%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.38%) JNCIP
11 1 (0.38%) PMP
11 1 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.66%) QA
2 8 (3.07%) NIST
3 7 (2.68%) NCSC
4 5 (1.92%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.92%) PMO
4 5 (1.92%) SLA
5 3 (1.15%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.15%) GDPR
6 2 (0.77%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.77%) ISO 26262
6 2 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.38%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.38%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.38%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 45 (17.24%) Docker
2 30 (11.49%) Active Directory
3 21 (8.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (3.07%) BitLocker
4 8 (3.07%) Hyper-V
4 8 (3.07%) Microsoft App-V
4 8 (3.07%) Terminal Services
4 8 (3.07%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (1.92%) DFS Replication
5 5 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.92%) vSphere
6 2 (0.77%) Ceph
6 2 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.38%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.38%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.38%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 55 (21.07%) Kubernetes
1 55 (21.07%) Terraform
2 40 (15.33%) Ansible
3 14 (5.36%) Puppet
4 9 (3.45%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (3.45%) Podman
5 8 (3.07%) Grafana
5 8 (3.07%) Nagios
5 8 (3.07%) Prometheus
5 8 (3.07%) vCenter Server
5 8 (3.07%) vMotion
6 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (1.53%) Progress Chef
6 4 (1.53%) SCCM
7 3 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.77%) Argo
8 2 (0.77%) Kibana
8 2 (0.77%) SCOM
9 1 (0.38%) SCSM
Vendors
1 57 (21.84%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.58%) VMware
3 15 (5.75%) Oracle
4 14 (5.36%) Databricks
5 10 (3.83%) Citrix
5 10 (3.83%) Google
6 8 (3.07%) HP
6 8 (3.07%) Symantec
7 6 (2.30%) Darktrace
7 6 (2.30%) OpenAI
7 6 (2.30%) SAP
7 6 (2.30%) Splunk
8 5 (1.92%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.92%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.15%) Cisco
9 3 (1.15%) UiPath
10 2 (0.77%) Dell
10 2 (0.77%) Ericsson
10 2 (0.77%) NEC
10 2 (0.77%) Salesforce