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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 17 13
Rank change year-on-year 0 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 272 444 547
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 8.92% 7.78% 9.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.77% 9.43% 10.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 309 430
10th Percentile £340 £400 £456
25th Percentile £413 £473 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £555 £590
Median % change year-on-year -9.91% -5.93% +10.28%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £638 £688 £738
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 29 9
10th Percentile £35.98 £56.65 £67.63
25th Percentile £44.56 £61.60 £75.00
Median hourly rate £60.75 £83.77 £75.67
Median % change year-on-year -27.48% +10.70% +116.20%
75th Percentile £77.56 £87.46 £79.19
90th Percentile £86.53 £87.53 £84.40
England median hourly rate £70.00 £67.50 £65.61
% change year-on-year +3.70% +2.89% +0.93%

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 2,783 4,710 5,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.25% 82.50% 89.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,741 2,726 3,514
10th Percentile £250 £263 £250
25th Percentile £396 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £511
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +0.24% +2.25%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £620
90th Percentile £663 £700 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 470 231
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.06 £18.23 £22.07
Median hourly rate £24.00 £50.00 £52.10
Median % change year-on-year -52.00% -4.03% +131.56%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.75 £65.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.63 £75.00
England median hourly rate £26.12 £38.00 £35.03
% change year-on-year -31.26% +8.48% +36.41%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 24 June 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 -2 176 £500 -16.67% 212
Berkshire -1 156 £500 -17.36% 123
Hampshire +12 58 £560 +4.19% 115
Buckinghamshire +18 18 £325 -40.91% 57
Surrey +13 17 £444 -5.08% 66
East Sussex +6 11 £463 -2.63% 31
Kent -1 9 £615 +58.71% 35
West Sussex -2 5 £300 -40.00% 41
Oxfordshire -6 2 £413 -8.33% 36
Middlesex +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 13 (4.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (4.41%) Apache
3 6 (2.21%) IIS
4 5 (1.84%) Anypoint
4 5 (1.84%) Confluence
4 5 (1.84%) OpenStack
5 4 (1.47%) JBoss
6 3 (1.10%) ArcGIS
6 3 (1.10%) Oracle Spatial
6 3 (1.10%) Smallworld
7 2 (0.74%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.74%) Camunda
7 2 (0.74%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.74%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.37%) CMS
8 1 (0.37%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.37%) Mule
8 1 (0.37%) nginx
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.74%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.10%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.37%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 158 (58.09%) Azure
2 89 (32.72%) Azure DevOps
3 82 (30.15%) AWS
4 37 (13.60%) GitHub
5 29 (10.66%) IaaS
6 26 (9.56%) PaaS
7 21 (7.72%) GCP
8 20 (7.35%) Azure AKS
9 19 (6.99%) Serverless
10 18 (6.62%) Azure Monitor
11 17 (6.25%) OpenShift
12 13 (4.78%) Azure Data Factory
12 13 (4.78%) Entra ID
13 12 (4.41%) Azure API Management
13 12 (4.41%) Azure Storage
13 12 (4.41%) Power Platform
14 11 (4.04%) AWS Lambda
15 9 (3.31%) Amazon S3
15 9 (3.31%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (3.31%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (12.13%) Firewall
2 22 (8.09%) DNS
3 16 (5.88%) DHCP
4 12 (4.41%) SMTP
5 10 (3.68%) Intrusion Detection
6 9 (3.31%) SAN
6 9 (3.31%) VPN
7 6 (2.21%) Fibre Channel
8 5 (1.84%) Radio Access Network
9 4 (1.47%) 4G
9 4 (1.47%) 5G
10 3 (1.10%) DOCSIS
10 3 (1.10%) GPON
10 3 (1.10%) LTE
10 3 (1.10%) MPLS
10 3 (1.10%) Network Security
10 3 (1.10%) VoIP
10 3 (1.10%) xDSL
11 2 (0.74%) HTTP
11 2 (0.74%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.99%) SQL Server
2 17 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 13 (4.78%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (4.78%) Big Data
3 13 (4.78%) NoSQL
4 11 (4.04%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (3.68%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (2.57%) Power BI
6 7 (2.57%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.21%) MySQL
7 6 (2.21%) Redis
8 4 (1.47%) GIS
9 3 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.10%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.10%) Spatial Data
9 3 (1.10%) SSDT
10 2 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.74%) DocumentDB
10 2 (0.74%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 40 (14.71%) JIRA
2 34 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 29 (10.66%) Git
4 22 (8.09%) Selenium
5 21 (7.72%) GitLab
6 15 (5.51%) Cucumber
7 13 (4.78%) REST Assured
8 12 (4.41%) SonarQube
9 6 (2.21%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (1.84%) Cypress.io
10 5 (1.84%) Visual Studio
10 5 (1.84%) Visual Studio Code
11 4 (1.47%) MSI
11 4 (1.47%) Robot Framework
12 3 (1.10%) Bitbucket Server
12 3 (1.10%) JUnit
12 3 (1.10%) Snyk
13 2 (0.74%) CA Release Automation
13 2 (0.74%) IntelliJ
13 2 (0.74%) Postman
General
1 84 (30.88%) Social Skills
2 38 (13.97%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (7.72%) Finance
4 20 (7.35%) Public Sector
5 17 (6.25%) Telecoms
6 8 (2.94%) Law
7 5 (1.84%) Police
7 5 (1.84%) Retail
8 4 (1.47%) Billing
8 4 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.74%) Banking
10 2 (0.74%) Electronics
10 2 (0.74%) Korean Language
10 2 (0.74%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.74%) Marketing
11 1 (0.37%) French Language
11 1 (0.37%) Games
11 1 (0.37%) Legal
11 1 (0.37%) Military
Job Titles
1 56 (20.59%) DevOps Engineer
2 51 (18.75%) Developer
3 35 (12.87%) Azure Engineer
4 24 (8.82%) Senior
5 22 (8.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 20 (7.35%) Architect
6 20 (7.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 20 (7.35%) Lead
6 20 (7.35%) Support Engineer
7 18 (6.62%) AWS Engineer
8 17 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
9 16 (5.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 16 (5.88%) Analyst
10 12 (4.41%) 3rd Line Support
10 12 (4.41%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 12 (4.41%) Software Engineer
11 11 (4.04%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (4.04%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
11 11 (4.04%) Infrastructure Support
11 11 (4.04%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (10.29%) .NET
2 24 (8.82%) REST
3 18 (6.62%) ADO
4 17 (6.25%) RESTful
5 16 (5.88%) ARM Templates
5 16 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
5 16 (5.88%) YAML
6 15 (5.51%) React
7 14 (5.15%) .NET Core
8 13 (4.78%) HTML
8 13 (4.78%) Java EE
9 12 (4.41%) CSS
10 11 (4.04%) JSON
10 11 (4.04%) Web Services
11 10 (3.68%) OAuth
12 9 (3.31%) AngularJS
12 9 (3.31%) Kafka
12 9 (3.31%) Node.js
13 8 (2.94%) JBoss Seam
13 8 (2.94%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.25%) Cloud Native
1 17 (6.25%) PKI
2 13 (4.78%) Data Centre
3 11 (4.04%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.31%) Management Information System
5 8 (2.94%) Clustering
5 8 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.57%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.21%) Algorithms
7 6 (2.21%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.47%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (1.10%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.10%) TM Forum
11 2 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.74%) CMDB
11 2 (0.74%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.74%) Replication
11 2 (0.74%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 51 (18.75%) Windows
2 45 (16.54%) Linux
3 21 (7.72%) Windows Server
4 12 (4.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.21%) CentOS
6 5 (1.84%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.84%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.10%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (0.74%) Unix
9 1 (0.37%) VMS
9 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (41.54%) CI/CD
2 97 (35.66%) Agile
3 72 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
4 62 (22.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 61 (22.43%) Test Automation
6 45 (16.54%) Containerisation
7 29 (10.66%) Migration
8 27 (9.93%) Configuration Management
8 27 (9.93%) Scrum
9 25 (9.19%) Continuous Integration
10 24 (8.82%) Software Engineering
11 23 (8.46%) Validation
12 22 (8.09%) Artificial Intelligence
12 22 (8.09%) Microservices
13 21 (7.72%) Cybersecurity
13 21 (7.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 20 (7.35%) Continuous Improvement
14 20 (7.35%) Decision-Making
14 20 (7.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 20 (7.35%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 69 (25.37%) Python
2 57 (20.96%) PowerShell
3 49 (18.01%) SQL
4 35 (12.87%) C#
5 31 (11.40%) Java
6 27 (9.93%) Bash
7 22 (8.09%) JavaScript
8 14 (5.15%) Bicep
9 10 (3.68%) TypeScript
10 8 (2.94%) PHP
11 7 (2.57%) VB
12 4 (1.47%) Go
13 3 (1.10%) Apex Code
13 3 (1.10%) Magik
13 3 (1.10%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.10%) Ruby
13 3 (1.10%) Scala
13 3 (1.10%) SOQL
13 3 (1.10%) VBScript
13 3 (1.10%) X++
Qualifications
1 70 (25.74%) Security Cleared
2 36 (13.24%) DV Cleared
3 33 (12.13%) SC Cleared
4 25 (9.19%) Degree
5 16 (5.88%) Azure Certification
6 10 (3.68%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.74%) CCNA
10 2 (0.74%) CISSP
10 2 (0.74%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.74%) Network+ Certification
10 2 (0.74%) OCP
10 2 (0.74%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.37%) CCNP
11 1 (0.37%) JNCIP
11 1 (0.37%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.88%) QA
2 9 (3.31%) SLA
3 6 (2.21%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.47%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.47%) GDPR
5 3 (1.10%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.10%) NIST
6 2 (0.74%) NCSC
6 2 (0.74%) OASIS TOSCA
6 2 (0.74%) WCAG
7 1 (0.37%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.37%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.37%) HL7
7 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.37%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.37%) PMO
System Software
1 47 (17.28%) Docker
2 35 (12.87%) Active Directory
3 27 (9.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (4.41%) vSphere
5 8 (2.94%) BitLocker
5 8 (2.94%) Hyper-V
5 8 (2.94%) Microsoft App-V
5 8 (2.94%) Terminal Services
5 8 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (2.57%) DFS Replication
7 4 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.74%) Ceph
9 1 (0.37%) Postfix
9 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 74 (27.21%) Kubernetes
2 70 (25.74%) Terraform
3 56 (20.59%) Ansible
4 14 (5.15%) Grafana
5 13 (4.78%) Puppet
6 12 (4.41%) Prometheus
7 9 (3.31%) Docker Swarm
7 9 (3.31%) Podman
8 8 (2.94%) Nagios
8 8 (2.94%) vCenter Server
8 8 (2.94%) vMotion
9 4 (1.47%) Packer
9 4 (1.47%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.47%) WMI
10 3 (1.10%) Amdocs OSS
10 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.74%) Argo
11 2 (0.74%) Kibana
12 1 (0.37%) QRadar
Vendors
1 71 (26.10%) Microsoft
2 27 (9.93%) VMware
3 14 (5.15%) Oracle
4 11 (4.04%) Google
4 11 (4.04%) Red Hat
4 11 (4.04%) Splunk
5 10 (3.68%) Citrix
6 9 (3.31%) Darktrace
7 8 (2.94%) Databricks
7 8 (2.94%) HP
7 8 (2.94%) Symantec
8 6 (2.21%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.84%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.84%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.47%) UiPath
10 4 (1.47%) Virgin Media
11 3 (1.10%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.10%) Cisco
11 3 (1.10%) ESRI
11 3 (1.10%) SAP