DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Stevenage

Development Operations Engineer
Hertfordshire > Stevenage

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Stevenage is £681, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 - 48
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Stevenage 0.29% - 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% - 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £681 - £250
Hertfordshire median daily rate £681 £550 £250
% change year-on-year +23.82% +120.00% -55.56%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Stevenage

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Stevenage. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Stevenage with a recognized job title 333 118 304
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.37% 96.72% 91.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 21 31
10th Percentile £209 £313 £80
25th Percentile £419 £450 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £400
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +31.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £513
90th Percentile £775 £625 £650
Hertfordshire median daily rate £525 £531 £441
% change year-on-year -1.18% +20.40% -11.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 71 205
10th Percentile £34.20 £41.25 £39.55
25th Percentile £50.00 £60.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £82.18 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.00 £85.00 £84.75
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £50.00 £66.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -24.24% +5.60% -3.85%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Stevenage

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Stevenage.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Stevenage

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Stevenage

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Stevenage.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Stevenage

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 12 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stevenage

For the 6 months to 2 March 2026, DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Stevenage region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Debian
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) NVIDIA
1 1 (100.00%) Podman
1 1 (100.00%) QEMU
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (100.00%) VMS

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stevenage by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Acoustics
1 1 (100.00%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Debian
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) NVIDIA