DevOps Contracts in South Wales

DevOps
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 8 14
Rank change year-on-year -11 +6 -8
Contract jobs citing DevOps 19 68 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 6.13% 13.47% 10.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.85% 15.14% 12.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 42 60
10th Percentile £356 £464 £398
25th Percentile £400 £525 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £586 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +6.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £657 £600 £642
90th Percentile £680 £650 £732
Wales median daily rate £550 £585 £550
% change year-on-year -5.90% +6.27% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 242 449 724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 78.06% 88.91% 83.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 341 536
10th Percentile £143 £200 £263
25th Percentile £350 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £570 £586 £575
90th Percentile £675 £650 £644
Wales median daily rate £490 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +3.16% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 23 25
10th Percentile £11.11 £16.37 £14.69
25th Percentile £14.57 £16.98 £19.91
Median hourly rate £21.49 £18.14 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.44% -19.38% +5.14%
75th Percentile £75.75 £22.11 £46.88
90th Percentile £87.80 £49.75 £47.40
Wales median hourly rate £19.17 £18.14 £22.50
% change year-on-year +5.68% -19.38% +9.62%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in South Wales

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in South Wales

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in South Wales over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in South Wales

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in South Wales

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 13 May 2024. 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
Cardiff -9 18 £563 -4.01% 17
Newport -6 1 £450 -14.29% 1
DevOps
Wales

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (5.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 18 (94.74%) Azure
2 9 (47.37%) AWS
3 7 (36.84%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (26.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (26.32%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (21.05%) GitHub
6 3 (15.79%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (15.79%) Amazon S3
7 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (5.26%) GCP
8 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
8 1 (5.26%) SaaS
8 1 (5.26%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (26.32%) Firewall
1 5 (26.32%) TCP/IP
1 5 (26.32%) VPN
2 1 (5.26%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) MySQL
2 5 (26.32%) SQL Server
3 4 (21.05%) RDBMS
3 4 (21.05%) Relational Database
4 3 (15.79%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (15.79%) Oracle Database
4 3 (15.79%) PowerCenter
5 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
5 1 (5.26%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) JIRA
2 3 (15.79%) Jenkins
3 2 (10.53%) Burp Suite
3 2 (10.53%) Cucumber
3 2 (10.53%) JMeter
3 2 (10.53%) Selenium
3 2 (10.53%) SonarQube
4 1 (5.26%) AppScan
4 1 (5.26%) Git
4 1 (5.26%) GitLab
4 1 (5.26%) Subversion
4 1 (5.26%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (21.05%) Finance
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.26%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) DBA
2 6 (31.58%) Administrator
3 3 (15.79%) Azure Administrator
3 3 (15.79%) MySQL DBA
3 3 (15.79%) Oracle DBA
4 2 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Test Automation Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Test Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (5.26%) IT Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Network Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Oracle Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Programme Planner
5 1 (5.26%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.26%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (15.79%) Middleware
3 2 (10.53%) .NET
4 1 (5.26%) ADO
4 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET
4 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (5.26%) Kafka
4 1 (5.26%) Vue
4 1 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.26%) Educational Technology
2 1 (5.26%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.26%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 10 (52.63%) Linux
2 9 (47.37%) Windows
3 4 (21.05%) AIX
3 4 (21.05%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.26%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) Change Control
2 5 (26.32%) Project Management
3 4 (21.05%) Agile
3 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
3 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.79%) E-business
4 3 (15.79%) High Availability
4 3 (15.79%) Migration
4 3 (15.79%) Test Automation
5 2 (10.53%) Analytics
5 2 (10.53%) Blue-Green Deployment
5 2 (10.53%) Containerisation
5 2 (10.53%) Data Analytics
5 2 (10.53%) Full Stack Development
5 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (10.53%) Non-Functional Testing
5 2 (10.53%) OWASP
5 2 (10.53%) PRINCE2
5 2 (10.53%) Security Testing
5 2 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) SQL
2 3 (15.79%) Shell Script
3 2 (10.53%) C#
3 2 (10.53%) Java
4 1 (5.26%) Bash
4 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.26%) PHP
4 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
1 2 (10.53%) SANS
2 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.26%) ISTQB
2 1 (5.26%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.26%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (31.58%) QA
2 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) Terraform
2 7 (36.84%) Ansible
2 7 (36.84%) Grafana
2 7 (36.84%) Nagios
3 5 (26.32%) Graylog
3 5 (26.32%) Prometheus
4 3 (15.79%) Data Guard
4 3 (15.79%) Kubernetes
4 3 (15.79%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (5.26%) HP Fortify
5 1 (5.26%) Nessus
5 1 (5.26%) Progress Chef
5 1 (5.26%) Puppet
5 1 (5.26%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 8 (42.11%) Microsoft
2 5 (26.32%) Splunk
3 4 (21.05%) Oracle
4 3 (15.79%) Informatica
5 2 (10.53%) Checkmarx
6 1 (5.26%) Cisco
6 1 (5.26%) Citrix
6 1 (5.26%) Planview
6 1 (5.26%) Veracode