DevOps Contracts in the South East

DevOps
England > 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 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 435 605 815
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 7.84% 10.47% 10.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.27% 11.71% 11.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 306 462 549
10th Percentile £400 £450 £406
25th Percentile £494 £500 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £580 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.88% +10.48% +6.28%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £630
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 7 12
10th Percentile £56.65 £52.65 -
25th Percentile £61.60 £52.75 -
Median hourly rate £83.77 £79.19 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.78% +126.26% -33.33%
75th Percentile £87.46 - £55.00
90th Percentile £87.53 £89.61 £61.44
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -0.76% +19.09% +3.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,694 5,167 6,960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.65% 89.46% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,751 3,590 4,710
10th Percentile £250 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £594
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 435 223 286
10th Percentile £13.00 £17.10 £12.23
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £15.53
Median hourly rate £47.50 £49.00 £21.95
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +123.23% -20.18%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.56 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.96 £63.25
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -1.75% +52.57% +3.62%

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 6 May 2024.

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 6 May 2024.

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 6 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
Thames Valley +3 295 £600 +4.35% 73
Berkshire +2 269 £600 +8.16% 40
Hampshire -16 73 £525 -3.31% 72
Surrey -6 42 £538 -8.51% 32
Buckinghamshire -13 15 £550 -8.33% 20
Oxfordshire +5 11 £450 -25.00% 13
Kent -2 11 £388 -38.00% 7
West Sussex -24 10 £550 -6.06% 14
East Sussex -6 5 £530 -18.46% 9
Home Counties +4 1 £475 -
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 24 (5.52%) Confluence
2 17 (3.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (1.15%) Apache
4 5 (1.15%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.92%) CMS
5 4 (0.92%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.46%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.46%) JBoss
7 2 (0.46%) Kentico
7 2 (0.46%) nginx
8 1 (0.23%) Appian
8 1 (0.23%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.23%) IIS
8 1 (0.23%) Jadu
8 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.23%) Umbraco
Applications
1 12 (2.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.23%) Simulink
4 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (3.91%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 13 (2.99%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (1.84%) Oracle EBS R12
3 8 (1.84%) Teamcenter
4 6 (1.38%) SAP Hybris
5 3 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.23%) Maximo
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Payroll
6 1 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.23%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 243 (55.86%) Azure
2 136 (31.26%) Azure DevOps
3 85 (19.54%) AWS
4 49 (11.26%) Azure Monitor
5 37 (8.51%) Entra ID
6 33 (7.59%) Serverless
7 32 (7.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 31 (7.13%) Azure Data Factory
9 26 (5.98%) Power Platform
10 25 (5.75%) Azure Functions
11 22 (5.06%) OpenShift
12 20 (4.60%) PaaS
13 18 (4.14%) Microsoft 365
14 17 (3.91%) Azure Logic Apps
15 16 (3.68%) Azure Storage
15 16 (3.68%) Dynamics 365
16 14 (3.22%) Azure API Management
16 14 (3.22%) Power Automate
16 14 (3.22%) PowerApps
17 13 (2.99%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 53 (12.18%) Firewall
2 30 (6.90%) Intrusion Detection
3 20 (4.60%) DNS
4 16 (3.68%) DHCP
5 7 (1.61%) VSAN
6 5 (1.15%) Network Security
6 5 (1.15%) VPN
7 2 (0.46%) OpenLDAP
7 2 (0.46%) SAN
7 2 (0.46%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.23%) BGP
8 1 (0.23%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.23%) IOS XR
8 1 (0.23%) MPLS
8 1 (0.23%) SNMP
8 1 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (7.59%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (4.83%) NoSQL
3 20 (4.60%) Power BI
4 17 (3.91%) Oracle Database
4 17 (3.91%) Oracle Database 11g
4 17 (3.91%) SQL Server
5 9 (2.07%) Data Lake
5 9 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (2.07%) Relational Database
6 8 (1.84%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (0.92%) Big Data
8 4 (0.92%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.92%) Metadata
8 4 (0.92%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.69%) BigQuery
9 3 (0.69%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 53 (12.18%) Git
2 51 (11.72%) JIRA
3 45 (10.34%) Jenkins
4 41 (9.43%) Selenium
5 26 (5.98%) Cucumber
6 25 (5.75%) SonarQube
7 24 (5.52%) REST Assured
8 21 (4.83%) GitLab
9 12 (2.76%) Visual Studio
10 8 (1.84%) Oracle Forms
11 6 (1.38%) JUnit
11 6 (1.38%) Postman
11 6 (1.38%) Robot Framework
12 5 (1.15%) Bitbucket
12 5 (1.15%) SpecFlow
13 4 (0.92%) Visual Studio Code
14 3 (0.69%) JMeter
15 2 (0.46%) Artifactory
15 2 (0.46%) NUnit
15 2 (0.46%) Oracle APEX
General
1 109 (25.06%) Social Skills
2 81 (18.62%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (10.34%) Finance
4 39 (8.97%) Public Sector
5 21 (4.83%) Law
6 13 (2.99%) Police
7 9 (2.07%) Retail
8 7 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.15%) Marketing
9 5 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (1.15%) Publishing
10 4 (0.92%) Back Office
10 4 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.46%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.46%) Automotive
11 2 (0.46%) Banking
11 2 (0.46%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.23%) Billing
12 1 (0.23%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 102 (23.45%) Developer
2 59 (13.56%) Architect
3 52 (11.95%) DevOps Engineer
4 47 (10.80%) Senior
5 33 (7.59%) Security Architect
6 31 (7.13%) Analyst
7 27 (6.21%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 26 (5.98%) Lead
9 25 (5.75%) Azure Developer
10 23 (5.29%) Full Stack Developer
11 18 (4.14%) Java Engineer
12 16 (3.68%) Active Directory Support
13 15 (3.45%) Consultant
13 15 (3.45%) PostgreSQL Developer
13 15 (3.45%) Project Manager
14 14 (3.22%) Active Directory Specialist
14 14 (3.22%) Administrator
14 14 (3.22%) Azure Specialist
14 14 (3.22%) Senior Architect
14 14 (3.22%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (8.51%) ARM Templates
1 37 (8.51%) REST
2 32 (7.36%) .NET
3 25 (5.75%) Java EE
3 25 (5.75%) React
4 19 (4.37%) AngularJS
5 17 (3.91%) Node.js
6 15 (3.45%) CSS
6 15 (3.45%) HTML
7 13 (2.99%) Itk
7 13 (2.99%) JSON
8 12 (2.76%) XML
9 11 (2.53%) Kafka
10 9 (2.07%) .NET Framework
10 9 (2.07%) SOAP
10 9 (2.07%) Web Services
11 8 (1.84%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (1.84%) RESTful
12 7 (1.61%) .NET Core
13 6 (1.38%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 29 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 25 (5.75%) Cloud Native
3 17 (3.91%) PKI
3 17 (3.91%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (3.45%) Client/Server
5 12 (2.76%) Public Cloud
5 12 (2.76%) Robotics
6 7 (1.61%) Data Centre
6 7 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (1.61%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.38%) Driving Licence
8 5 (1.15%) IoT
8 5 (1.15%) Private Cloud
9 3 (0.69%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.46%) CSOC
10 2 (0.46%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.46%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.46%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.23%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 55 (12.64%) Windows
2 51 (11.72%) Linux
3 40 (9.20%) Windows Server
4 22 (5.06%) Windows Server 2016
4 22 (5.06%) Windows Server 2019
5 18 (4.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.69%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.46%) Debian
8 1 (0.23%) Android
8 1 (0.23%) VMS
8 1 (0.23%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (40.23%) Agile
2 116 (26.67%) CI/CD
3 78 (17.93%) Test Automation
4 71 (16.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 71 (16.32%) Software Engineering
5 64 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
6 49 (11.26%) Technical Leadership
7 42 (9.66%) Continuous Integration
8 40 (9.20%) Microservices
9 39 (8.97%) Containerisation
10 37 (8.51%) Cybersecurity
11 35 (8.05%) Continuous Improvement
11 35 (8.05%) Unit Testing
12 34 (7.82%) Change Management
12 34 (7.82%) Stakeholder Management
13 33 (7.59%) SDLC
14 32 (7.36%) Migration
14 32 (7.36%) Scrum
15 31 (7.13%) Analytics
15 31 (7.13%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 72 (16.55%) Python
2 54 (12.41%) C#
3 53 (12.18%) SQL
4 51 (11.72%) PowerShell
5 47 (10.80%) Java
6 31 (7.13%) VBScript
7 28 (6.44%) JavaScript
8 20 (4.60%) C
9 18 (4.14%) Bicep
9 18 (4.14%) C++
9 18 (4.14%) PL/SQL
10 16 (3.68%) VB
11 11 (2.53%) Bash
12 10 (2.30%) PHP
12 10 (2.30%) T-SQL
13 7 (1.61%) Go
14 6 (1.38%) Ruby
15 5 (1.15%) Scala
16 4 (0.92%) X++
17 3 (0.69%) Perl
Qualifications
1 185 (42.53%) Security Cleared
2 107 (24.60%) SC Cleared
3 87 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 39 (8.97%) Degree
5 16 (3.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 9 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (0.92%) CCNP
7 4 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (0.92%) PMP
8 3 (0.69%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.69%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.69%) MCSE
9 2 (0.46%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.46%) CBAP
9 2 (0.46%) PhD
10 1 (0.23%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.60%) QA
2 11 (2.53%) PMO
3 5 (1.15%) ISO 9001
4 4 (0.92%) NCSC
4 4 (0.92%) NIST
5 3 (0.69%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.46%) GDPR
6 2 (0.46%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.23%) GxP
7 1 (0.23%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.23%) MISRA
7 1 (0.23%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.23%) SLA
7 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 40 (9.20%) Docker
2 39 (8.97%) Active Directory
3 29 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (5.52%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (3.68%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (1.61%) vCloud
6 7 (1.61%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.69%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.46%) Varnish
8 2 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.46%) vSphere
9 1 (0.23%) LXC
9 1 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.23%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 87 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 57 (13.10%) Terraform
3 55 (12.64%) Ansible
4 17 (3.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 17 (3.91%) SCOM
4 17 (3.91%) WSUS
5 16 (3.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (3.68%) SCCM
6 15 (3.45%) Istio
7 12 (2.76%) Docker Swarm
7 12 (2.76%) Podman
8 10 (2.30%) Rancher
9 9 (2.07%) Grafana
9 9 (2.07%) Kibana
9 9 (2.07%) Prometheus
10 8 (1.84%) Argo
11 7 (1.61%) Progress Chef
11 7 (1.61%) Puppet
11 7 (1.61%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 80 (18.39%) Microsoft
2 46 (10.57%) Oracle
3 37 (8.51%) VMware
4 15 (3.45%) SAP
5 9 (2.07%) Databricks
5 9 (2.07%) Google
6 7 (1.61%) Adobe
6 7 (1.61%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.15%) Informatica
7 5 (1.15%) ServiceNow
8 4 (0.92%) Splunk
9 3 (0.69%) ArcSight
9 3 (0.69%) Cisco
9 3 (0.69%) New Relic
10 2 (0.46%) Atmel
10 2 (0.46%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.23%) Blue Prism
11 1 (0.23%) Dataiku
11 1 (0.23%) NVIDIA
11 1 (0.23%) Workday