DevOps Contracts in the South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 3 months to 24 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

DevOps England / South East
Location	3 months to 24 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	36	60	168
Rank change year-on-year	+24	+108
Contract jobs citing DevOps	393	281	108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East	5.15%	3.15%	1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	6.20%	3.84%	1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted	247	184	73
Median daily rate	£488	£475	£430
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+2.78%	+10.46%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£364	£400	£330
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£580	£616	£545
UK excluding London median daily rate	£475	£465	£413
% change year-on-year	+2.15%	+12.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted	4	5	0
Median hourly rate	£57.00	£55.00	-
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+3.63%	-
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£57.00	£55.00	-
% change year-on-year	+3.63%	-

DevOps is in the process and methodology skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process and methodology skills.

Contract Process & Methodology Skills South East
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for process and methodology skills	6343	7314	7622
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East	83.05%	81.98%	80.65%
Number of daily rates quoted	3719	4473	4397
Median daily rate	£425	£413	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+3.03%	+3.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£300	£288	£275
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£550	£538	£520
UK excluding London median daily rate	£415	£400	£380
% change year-on-year	+3.75%	+5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted	231	272	264
Median hourly rate	£29.92	£32.00	£26.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-6.50%	+23.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.00	£12.50	£12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£55.00	£52.50	£47.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£34.00	£28.50	£30.00
% change year-on-year	+19.29%	-5.00%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in the South East citing DevOps as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Processes & Methodologies category.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the South East

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing DevOps in the South East.

Contractor daily rate trend for DevOps in the South East

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing DevOps in the South East over the 3 months to 24 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for DevOps in the South East

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps in the South East.

Contractor hourly rate trend 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 3 months to 24 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
Hampshire	+33	81	£475	+11.76%	12
Berkshire	+26	79	£465	-7.00%	29
Surrey	0	74	£475	-	21
Buckinghamshire	+20	69	£500	-	4
Oxfordshire	+35	50	£580	+22.10%	5
West Sussex	+34	30	£488	+8.50%	5
East Sussex	-3	6	£450	+17.64%	4
Kent	-19	2	£675	-10.00%	3
Middlesex	+6	1	£475	-10.03%	1
DevOps England

DevOps
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in the South East

For the 6 months to 24 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing DevOps also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the South East region with a requirement for DevOps.

1	410 (53.32%)	Agile Software Development
2	317 (41.22%)	Linux
3	230 (29.91%)	Jenkins
4	208 (27.05%)	Java
5	202 (26.27%)	Continuous Integration
6	196 (25.49%)	Puppet
7	195 (25.36%)	Git (software)
8	181 (23.54%)	Scrum
9	177 (23.02%)	Amazon AWS
10	164 (21.33%)	Ansible
11	156 (20.29%)	Python
12	148 (19.25%)	Windows
13	147 (19.12%)	Docker
14	137 (17.82%)	SQL
14	137 (17.82%)	TDD

15	128 (16.64%)	VMware
16	126 (16.38%)	Microsoft Azure
17	125 (16.25%)	Opscode Chef
18	124 (16.12%)	JavaScript
19	115 (14.95%)	Finance
20	114 (14.82%)	Red Hat
20	114 (14.82%)	Security Cleared
21	113 (14.69%)	Web Services
21	113 (14.69%)	Microsoft
22	111 (14.43%)	Unix
23	102 (13.26%)	Configuration Management
24	94 (12.22%)	Test Automation
25	91 (11.83%)	GitHub
26	89 (11.57%)	SC Cleared
27	86 (11.18%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux

DevOps
Co-occurring IT Skills in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	78 (10.14%)	JBoss
2	60 (7.80%)	OpenStack
3	53 (6.89%)	WebSphere
4	50 (6.50%)	Apache
5	44 (5.72%)	Confluence
6	39 (5.07%)	Tomcat
7	37 (4.81%)	WebSphere Application Server
8	36 (4.68%)	WebLogic
9	35 (4.55%)	IIS
10	26 (3.38%)	WebSphere Process Server
11	22 (2.86%)	SharePoint
12	18 (2.34%)	Elasticsearch
13	14 (1.82%)	nginx
14	13 (1.69%)	CMS
15	11 (1.43%)	Drupal
15	11 (1.43%)	WordPress
16	10 (1.30%)	MS Exchange
17	9 (1.17%)	Cloud Foundry
18	7 (0.91%)	NServiceBus
19	6 (0.78%)	SharePoint 2013

Applications
1	6 (0.78%)	MS Visio
2	4 (0.52%)	Microsoft Office
3	2 (0.26%)	Microsoft Project

Business Applications
1	16 (2.08%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	9 (1.17%)	Dynamics CRM
3	2 (0.26%)	Oracle 11i
3	2 (0.26%)	Oracle EBS
3	2 (0.26%)	Oracle Retail
3	2 (0.26%)	Payment Gateway
4	1 (0.13%)	IBM Operational Decision Manager
4	1 (0.13%)	Oracle Applications
4	1 (0.13%)	Oracle BPM
4	1 (0.13%)	Sage CRM
4	1 (0.13%)	SAP ERP

Cloud Services
1	177 (23.02%)	Amazon AWS
2	126 (16.38%)	Microsoft Azure
3	91 (11.83%)	GitHub
4	52 (6.76%)	PaaS
5	40 (5.20%)	SaaS
6	39 (5.07%)	IaaS
7	27 (3.51%)	AWS CloudFormation
8	19 (2.47%)	Amazon S3
9	16 (2.08%)	OpenShift
10	15 (1.95%)	Amazon EC2
11	14 (1.82%)	AWS Lambda
11	14 (1.82%)	Office 365
12	12 (1.56%)	Google Analytics
13	11 (1.43%)	Virtual Private Cloud
14	9 (1.17%)	Cloud Computing
15	7 (0.91%)	Amazon CloudWatch
15	7 (0.91%)	Amazon SQS
16	6 (0.78%)	CloudFront
16	6 (0.78%)	Google Cloud Platform
17	5 (0.65%)	Amazon ElastiCache

Communications & Networking
1	55 (7.15%)	HTTP
2	51 (6.63%)	Firewall
3	41 (5.33%)	TCP/IP
4	36 (4.68%)	DNS
5	35 (4.55%)	SSL
6	25 (3.25%)	LDAP
7	24 (3.12%)	WAN
8	16 (2.08%)	Cisco Nexus
9	14 (1.82%)	Cisco ASA
9	14 (1.82%)	SAN
10	13 (1.69%)	Internet
10	13 (1.69%)	LAN
10	13 (1.69%)	SSH
11	11 (1.43%)	HTTPS
11	11 (1.43%)	VPN
12	9 (1.17%)	BIG-IP
12	9 (1.17%)	DHCP
12	9 (1.17%)	ICMP
12	9 (1.17%)	Network Security
13	8 (1.04%)	PuTTY

Database & Business Intelligence
1	71 (9.23%)	MongoDB
2	64 (8.32%)	SQL Server
3	58 (7.54%)	MySQL
4	48 (6.24%)	NoSQL
5	40 (5.20%)	Big Data
6	39 (5.07%)	PostgreSQL
7	31 (4.03%)	Redis
8	29 (3.77%)	Hadoop
9	28 (3.64%)	Apache Cassandra
10	27 (3.51%)	Oracle Database
11	20 (2.60%)	SQL Server 2012
12	17 (2.21%)	Relational Database
13	15 (1.95%)	Oracle Database 11g
14	14 (1.82%)	Amazon DynamoDB
14	14 (1.82%)	SQL Server 2008
14	14 (1.82%)	SQL Server 2016
15	12 (1.56%)	SQL Server 2005
16	11 (1.43%)	Oracle Database 10g
17	8 (1.04%)	Oracle Reports
18	7 (0.91%)	HBase

Development Applications
1	230 (29.91%)	Jenkins
2	195 (25.36%)	Git (software)
3	85 (11.05%)	Maven
4	68 (8.84%)	JIRA
4	68 (8.84%)	JUnit
5	62 (8.06%)	Selenium
6	52 (6.76%)	Cucumber
7	34 (4.42%)	TeamCity
8	32 (4.16%)	Mockito
9	31 (4.03%)	Ant
9	31 (4.03%)	IntelliJ
9	31 (4.03%)	Team Foundation Server
10	30 (3.90%)	Eclipse
11	28 (3.64%)	Gradle
12	27 (3.51%)	Subversion
13	24 (3.12%)	Sonatype Nexus
14	23 (2.99%)	Octopus Deploy
15	22 (2.86%)	Bitbucket
16	17 (2.21%)	Atlassian Bamboo
17	16 (2.08%)	Grunt

General
1	115 (14.95%)	Finance
2	43 (5.59%)	Telecoms
3	32 (4.16%)	Banking
4	28 (3.64%)	Retail
5	17 (2.21%)	Manufacturing
5	17 (2.21%)	Marketing
6	16 (2.08%)	Electronics
7	7 (0.91%)	Legal
7	7 (0.91%)	Publishing
8	5 (0.65%)	Back Office
8	5 (0.65%)	Financial Institution
8	5 (0.65%)	Law
8	5 (0.65%)	Spanish Language
9	3 (0.39%)	Corporate Banking
9	3 (0.39%)	Games
9	3 (0.39%)	Local Government
10	2 (0.26%)	Automotive
10	2 (0.26%)	Military
11	1 (0.13%)	Advertising
11	1 (0.13%)	Retail Banking

Job Titles
1	203 (26.40%)	DevOps Engineer
2	201 (26.14%)	Developer
3	76 (9.88%)	Java Developer
4	71 (9.23%)	Architect
5	53 (6.89%)	Linux/Unix DevOps
6	50 (6.50%)	Linux Engineer
7	40 (5.20%)	Consultant
8	39 (5.07%)	Linux DevOps Engineer
9	37 (4.81%)	Administrator
10	34 (4.42%)	Cloud Engineer
11	28 (3.64%)	AWS DevOps
12	27 (3.51%)	.NET Developer
12	27 (3.51%)	Systems Administrator
13	26 (3.38%)	Automation Engineer
13	26 (3.38%)	DevOps Consultant
13	26 (3.38%)	DevOps Developer
14	24 (3.12%)	Linux Administrator
15	23 (2.99%)	DevOps Administrator
15	23 (2.99%)	Scala Developer
15	23 (2.99%)	Systems Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	113 (14.69%)	Web Services
2	83 (10.79%)	Spring
3	76 (9.88%)	.NET
3	76 (9.88%)	HTML
4	66 (8.58%)	REST
5	53 (6.89%)	CSS
5	53 (6.89%)	Node.js
5	53 (6.89%)	SOAP
6	52 (6.76%)	AngularJS
6	52 (6.76%)	RESTful
7	49 (6.37%)	HTML5
7	49 (6.37%)	Java EE
8	44 (5.72%)	XML
9	41 (5.33%)	JSON
10	39 (5.07%)	Middleware
11	29 (3.77%)	J2EE
12	28 (3.64%)	Hibernate
12	28 (3.64%)	jQuery
13	24 (3.12%)	EJB
14	23 (2.99%)	Elastic Stack

Miscellaneous
1	36 (4.68%)	Analytical Skills
2	29 (3.77%)	Computer Science
3	19 (2.47%)	Data Centre
4	18 (2.34%)	Linux Command Line
5	16 (2.08%)	Virtual Team
6	14 (1.82%)	Greenfield Project
6	14 (1.82%)	Video on Demand
7	12 (1.56%)	Fat Client
7	12 (1.56%)	Public Cloud
7	12 (1.56%)	Thin Client
8	11 (1.43%)	Mobile App
8	11 (1.43%)	Private Cloud
8	11 (1.43%)	User Experience
9	10 (1.30%)	Clustering
9	10 (1.30%)	Replication
10	8 (1.04%)	PKI
10	8 (1.04%)	Smart Meter
11	7 (0.91%)	Management Information System
11	7 (0.91%)	Online Banking
12	6 (0.78%)	Enterprise Software

Operating Systems
1	317 (41.22%)	Linux
2	148 (19.25%)	Windows
3	111 (14.43%)	Unix
4	86 (11.18%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5	78 (10.14%)	CentOS
6	41 (5.33%)	Ubuntu
7	39 (5.07%)	Windows Server
8	22 (2.86%)	Windows Server 2012
9	19 (2.47%)	Debian
10	15 (1.95%)	Solaris
11	14 (1.82%)	Windows Server 2008
12	12 (1.56%)	Apple iOS
13	9 (1.17%)	AIX
14	6 (0.78%)	Oracle Linux
14	6 (0.78%)	Windows Server 2003
15	5 (0.65%)	SUSE
16	4 (0.52%)	Android
16	4 (0.52%)	Mac OS X
16	4 (0.52%)	VMS
16	4 (0.52%)	Windows Vista

Processes & Methodologies
1	410 (53.32%)	Agile Software Development
2	202 (26.27%)	Continuous Integration
3	181 (23.54%)	Scrum
4	137 (17.82%)	TDD
5	102 (13.26%)	Configuration Management
6	94 (12.22%)	Test Automation
7	81 (10.53%)	Open Source
8	80 (10.40%)	Microservices
9	72 (9.36%)	Continuous Delivery
10	71 (9.23%)	Unit Testing
11	64 (8.32%)	Software Engineering
12	60 (7.80%)	BDD
13	58 (7.54%)	Migration
14	45 (5.85%)	Pair Programming
15	41 (5.33%)	ITIL
16	40 (5.20%)	SOA
17	39 (5.07%)	Kanban
18	35 (4.55%)	MVC
19	34 (4.42%)	Project Management
20	31 (4.03%)	Stakeholder Management

Programming Languages
1	208 (27.05%)	Java
2	156 (20.29%)	Python
3	137 (17.82%)	SQL
4	124 (16.12%)	JavaScript
5	77 (10.01%)	PowerShell
6	75 (9.75%)	C#
7	66 (8.58%)	Ruby
8	65 (8.45%)	Perl
9	64 (8.32%)	Bash Shell
10	50 (6.50%)	PHP
11	27 (3.51%)	Scala
12	17 (2.21%)	Groovy
13	15 (1.95%)	Shell Script
14	14 (1.82%)	C++
15	13 (1.69%)	C
16	12 (1.56%)	Haskell
16	12 (1.56%)	T-SQL
17	10 (1.30%)	VB.NET
18	9 (1.17%)	F#
19	8 (1.04%)	PL/SQL

Qualifications
1	114 (14.82%)	Security Cleared
2	89 (11.57%)	SC Cleared
3	49 (6.37%)	Degree
4	18 (2.34%)	Computer Science Degree
5	15 (1.95%)	DV Cleared
5	15 (1.95%)	RHCE
6	13 (1.69%)	Cisco Certification
7	12 (1.56%)	CCNA
7	12 (1.56%)	CCNP
8	9 (1.17%)	Microsoft Certification
9	7 (0.91%)	ISEB
9	7 (0.91%)	PMI Certification
9	7 (0.91%)	PMP
9	7 (0.91%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10	6 (0.78%)	CISSP
10	6 (0.78%)	RHCSA
11	5 (0.65%)	APMP
11	5 (0.65%)	AWS Certification
11	5 (0.65%)	PgMP
12	4 (0.52%)	ISTQB Foundation Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	20 (2.60%)	QA
2	11 (1.43%)	GPG13
2	11 (1.43%)	PCI DSS
3	7 (0.91%)	JSP 440
4	6 (0.78%)	PA-DSS
5	4 (0.52%)	PMO
6	3 (0.39%)	SLA
7	2 (0.26%)	EFQM
7	2 (0.26%)	ISO/IEC 27001
8	1 (0.13%)	Actionable Recommendations
8	1 (0.13%)	Disclosure Scotland
8	1 (0.13%)	ISO 9001

System Software
1	147 (19.12%)	Docker
2	76 (9.88%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	38 (4.94%)	Active Directory
4	22 (2.86%)	vSphere
5	19 (2.47%)	Xen
6	18 (2.34%)	Virtual Machines
7	16 (2.08%)	KVM
8	11 (1.43%)	Hyper-V
8	11 (1.43%)	VMware ESXi
9	10 (1.30%)	XenApp
10	9 (1.17%)	Microsoft App-V
10	9 (1.17%)	vCloud
10	9 (1.17%)	XenDesktop
11	6 (0.78%)	HDFS
11	6 (0.78%)	NFS
11	6 (0.78%)	VMware Workstation
12	5 (0.65%)	Oracle RAC
13	4 (0.52%)	Terminal Services
13	4 (0.52%)	XenServer
14	3 (0.39%)	Samba

Systems Management
1	196 (25.49%)	Puppet
2	164 (21.33%)	Ansible
3	125 (16.25%)	Opscode Chef
4	25 (3.25%)	Grafana
4	25 (3.25%)	logstash
5	22 (2.86%)	Kubernetes
6	21 (2.73%)	Nagios
7	20 (2.60%)	Terraform
8	19 (2.47%)	Kibana
9	17 (2.21%)	vRealize
10	16 (2.08%)	SCOM
11	14 (1.82%)	SELinux
12	10 (1.30%)	Red Hat Satellite
12	10 (1.30%)	SCCM
13	9 (1.17%)	AppDNA
14	8 (1.04%)	Salt
15	6 (0.78%)	Consul
15	6 (0.78%)	Pingdom
16	5 (0.65%)	Mesos
16	5 (0.65%)	Packer

Vendors
1	128 (16.64%)	VMware
2	114 (14.82%)	Red Hat
3	113 (14.69%)	Microsoft
4	74 (9.62%)	Oracle
5	40 (5.20%)	Splunk
6	28 (3.64%)	Cisco
7	27 (3.51%)	HP
8	25 (3.25%)	AppDynamics
8	25 (3.25%)	IBM
9	23 (2.99%)	Citrix
9	23 (2.99%)	SAP
10	22 (2.86%)	Google
11	21 (2.73%)	ServiceNow
12	20 (2.60%)	CA
13	17 (2.21%)	webMethods
14	16 (2.08%)	F5
14	16 (2.08%)	SaltStack
15	12 (1.56%)	Nimsoft
16	11 (1.43%)	Adobe
16	11 (1.43%)	Remedy