DevOps Contracts in the Thames Valley

DevOps
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 15 20
Rank change year-on-year +5 +5 -9
Contract jobs citing DevOps 294 281 297
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 10.83% 9.55% 8.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.38% 10.38% 9.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 209 226
10th Percentile £450 £425 £413
25th Percentile £500 £500 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £519
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +10.90% +3.90%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £619
90th Percentile £688 £700 £653
South East median daily rate £575 £583 £525
% change year-on-year -1.37% +11.05% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 3 2
10th Percentile £56.65 - £55.95
25th Percentile £61.60 - £60.38
Median hourly rate £83.77 £79.19 £69.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.78% +14.77% -
75th Percentile £87.46 - £78.88
90th Percentile £87.53 - £84.05
South East median hourly rate £83.77 £55.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +50.93% +58.57% -6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,374 2,706 3,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.47% 91.98% 88.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,332 1,876 2,095
10th Percentile £213 £320 £225
25th Percentile £363 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 63 86
10th Percentile £15.48 £18.70 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.71 £25.23 £12.10
Median hourly rate £45.00 £52.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +200.00% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.11 £25.55
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £66.88
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -11.76%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the Thames Valley

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for DevOps in the Thames Valley

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the Thames Valley

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in the Thames Valley

DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps in the Thames Valley

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
Berkshire +4 268 £600 +9.09% 42
Buckinghamshire -13 15 £550 -8.33% 18
Oxfordshire +6 11 £450 -30.77% 18
DevOps
South East

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 15 (5.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.70%) Confluence
2 5 (1.70%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.36%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.02%) CMS
5 2 (0.68%) Apache
5 2 (0.68%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.68%) JBoss
5 2 (0.68%) Kentico
5 2 (0.68%) nginx
5 2 (0.68%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.34%) Appian
6 1 (0.34%) Jadu
Applications
1 11 (3.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 17 (5.78%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 8 (2.72%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (2.72%) Oracle EBS R12
2 8 (2.72%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.34%) Maximo
4 1 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.34%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 176 (59.86%) Azure
2 91 (30.95%) Azure DevOps
3 57 (19.39%) AWS
4 46 (15.65%) Azure Monitor
5 30 (10.20%) Entra ID
6 26 (8.84%) Serverless
7 23 (7.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 23 (7.82%) Azure Data Factory
8 20 (6.80%) OpenShift
9 19 (6.46%) Azure Functions
10 16 (5.44%) Azure Storage
10 16 (5.44%) PaaS
11 15 (5.10%) Microsoft 365
12 14 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
13 10 (3.40%) Azure API Management
13 10 (3.40%) Azure Logic Apps
14 9 (3.06%) Azure Service Bus
14 9 (3.06%) GCP
14 9 (3.06%) Power Platform
15 7 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 49 (16.67%) Firewall
2 30 (10.20%) Intrusion Detection
3 16 (5.44%) DNS
4 14 (4.76%) DHCP
5 7 (2.38%) VSAN
6 4 (1.36%) Network Security
7 3 (1.02%) VPN
8 2 (0.68%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.34%) BGP
9 1 (0.34%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.34%) IOS XR
9 1 (0.34%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (9.86%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (6.12%) NoSQL
3 17 (5.78%) Oracle Database
3 17 (5.78%) Oracle Database 11g
4 9 (3.06%) Power BI
4 9 (3.06%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.72%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.36%) Big Data
8 3 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.68%) MySQL
9 2 (0.68%) Tableau
10 1 (0.34%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.34%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.34%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.34%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.34%) Redis
Development Applications
1 38 (12.93%) Git
2 35 (11.90%) Jenkins
2 35 (11.90%) Selenium
3 27 (9.18%) JIRA
4 25 (8.50%) Cucumber
4 25 (8.50%) SonarQube
5 24 (8.16%) REST Assured
6 15 (5.10%) GitLab
7 10 (3.40%) Visual Studio
8 7 (2.38%) Oracle Forms
8 7 (2.38%) SpecFlow
9 6 (2.04%) Postman
10 5 (1.70%) JUnit
11 4 (1.36%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (1.02%) Robot Framework
13 1 (0.34%) Android Studio
13 1 (0.34%) Appium
13 1 (0.34%) rollup.js
13 1 (0.34%) webpack
13 1 (0.34%) Xcode
General
1 80 (27.21%) Social Skills
2 61 (20.75%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (9.86%) Public Sector
4 21 (7.14%) Law
5 18 (6.12%) Finance
6 13 (4.42%) Police
7 6 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.70%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.68%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.34%) Automotive
10 1 (0.34%) Back Office
10 1 (0.34%) Billing
10 1 (0.34%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.34%) Marketing
10 1 (0.34%) Retail
Job Titles
1 84 (28.57%) Developer
2 46 (15.65%) Architect
3 33 (11.22%) Security Architect
4 27 (9.18%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 27 (9.18%) Senior
5 22 (7.48%) Analyst
5 22 (7.48%) Full Stack Developer
6 20 (6.80%) Lead
7 19 (6.46%) Azure Developer
8 17 (5.78%) Java Engineer
9 15 (5.10%) PostgreSQL Developer
10 14 (4.76%) Active Directory Specialist
10 14 (4.76%) Active Directory Support
10 14 (4.76%) Azure Specialist
10 14 (4.76%) Support Specialist
11 13 (4.42%) Administrator
11 13 (4.42%) Consultant
11 13 (4.42%) DevOps Engineer
11 13 (4.42%) Systems Administrator
12 11 (3.74%) Senior Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (11.56%) ARM Templates
1 34 (11.56%) REST
2 25 (8.50%) Java EE
3 21 (7.14%) React
4 18 (6.12%) .NET
5 16 (5.44%) AngularJS
6 14 (4.76%) Node.js
7 13 (4.42%) Itk
8 11 (3.74%) CSS
8 11 (3.74%) HTML
9 9 (3.06%) SOAP
10 8 (2.72%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (2.38%) Kafka
11 7 (2.38%) RESTful
11 7 (2.38%) Web Services
12 6 (2.04%) JSON
12 6 (2.04%) XML
13 5 (1.70%) Spring
13 5 (1.70%) Spring Boot
14 4 (1.36%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.16%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.80%) Product Ownership
3 14 (4.76%) PKI
3 14 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (4.08%) Robotics
5 7 (2.38%) Client/Server
6 5 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.70%) IoT
6 5 (1.70%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.68%) CSOC
7 2 (0.68%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.68%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.34%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.34%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.34%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.34%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.34%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.34%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.34%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 29 (9.86%) Linux
2 28 (9.52%) Windows
2 28 (9.52%) Windows Server
3 20 (6.80%) Windows Server 2016
3 20 (6.80%) Windows Server 2019
4 7 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.34%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (40.82%) Agile
2 76 (25.85%) CI/CD
3 59 (20.07%) Software Engineering
4 57 (19.39%) Infrastructure as Code
5 56 (19.05%) Test Automation
6 47 (15.99%) Problem-Solving
7 41 (13.95%) Technical Leadership
8 36 (12.24%) Cybersecurity
9 35 (11.90%) Continuous Integration
10 34 (11.56%) Microservices
11 31 (10.54%) Continuous Improvement
11 31 (10.54%) Unit Testing
12 30 (10.20%) Containerisation
13 29 (9.86%) Scrum
14 28 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
15 27 (9.18%) Decision-Making
16 25 (8.50%) Full Stack Development
16 25 (8.50%) Release Management
16 25 (8.50%) Software Architecture
16 25 (8.50%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 40 (13.61%) C#
2 37 (12.59%) Java
3 33 (11.22%) Python
4 32 (10.88%) PowerShell
4 32 (10.88%) SQL
5 21 (7.14%) VBScript
6 18 (6.12%) JavaScript
7 17 (5.78%) PL/SQL
8 16 (5.44%) Bicep
8 16 (5.44%) C
9 14 (4.76%) VB
10 9 (3.06%) C++
10 9 (3.06%) PHP
11 3 (1.02%) Go
11 3 (1.02%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.68%) Bash
12 2 (0.68%) Ruby
13 1 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.34%) Rust
Qualifications
1 130 (44.22%) Security Cleared
2 79 (26.87%) SC Cleared
3 66 (22.45%) DV Cleared
4 27 (9.18%) Degree
5 14 (4.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 4 (1.36%) CCNP
6 4 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.02%) MCSE
7 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.68%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.68%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.68%) CBAP
8 2 (0.68%) PMP
9 1 (0.34%) CSPO
9 1 (0.34%) IIBA
9 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.76%) QA
2 6 (2.04%) PMO
3 4 (1.36%) NCSC
4 3 (1.02%) NIST
5 2 (0.68%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (10.88%) Active Directory
2 31 (10.54%) Docker
3 17 (5.78%) Virtual Machines
3 17 (5.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (4.76%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (2.38%) vCloud
5 7 (2.38%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.68%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.34%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 66 (22.45%) Kubernetes
2 39 (13.27%) Ansible
3 31 (10.54%) Terraform
4 15 (5.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 15 (5.10%) SCOM
4 15 (5.10%) WSUS
5 14 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (4.76%) SCCM
6 13 (4.42%) Istio
7 12 (4.08%) Docker Swarm
7 12 (4.08%) Podman
8 9 (3.06%) Rancher
9 8 (2.72%) Kibana
10 7 (2.38%) Prometheus
10 7 (2.38%) vCenter Server
11 6 (2.04%) Argo
11 6 (2.04%) Grafana
12 2 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.34%) Puppet
Vendors
1 55 (18.71%) Microsoft
2 37 (12.59%) Oracle
3 21 (7.14%) VMware
4 8 (2.72%) Google
5 4 (1.36%) SAP
5 4 (1.36%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.02%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.68%) Atmel
8 1 (0.34%) Adobe
8 1 (0.34%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.34%) BMC
8 1 (0.34%) Checkmarx
8 1 (0.34%) Cisco
8 1 (0.34%) Citrix
8 1 (0.34%) Databricks
8 1 (0.34%) IBM
8 1 (0.34%) Nokia
8 1 (0.34%) Remedy
8 1 (0.34%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.34%) Workday