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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 13 24
Rank change year-on-year +4 +11 -12
Contract jobs citing DevOps 297 293 277
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 11.43% 10.46% 7.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.14% 11.48% 8.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 220 208
10th Percentile £450 £450 £413
25th Percentile £500 £507 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £515
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +11.70% +2.95%
75th Percentile £663 £644 £619
90th Percentile £688 £713 £650
South East median daily rate £550 £581 £525
% change year-on-year -5.21% +10.57% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 3 1
10th Percentile £56.65 - -
25th Percentile £61.60 - -
Median hourly rate £83.77 £79.19 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.78% +49.42% -
75th Percentile £87.46 - -
90th Percentile £87.53 - -
South East median hourly rate £83.77 £79.19 £35.00
% change year-on-year +5.78% +126.26% -33.33%

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 2,261 2,553 3,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 86.99% 91.18% 89.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,257 1,771 2,104
10th Percentile £213 £319 £226
25th Percentile £370 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.57% +1.60% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 63 89
10th Percentile £14.17 £18.50 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £23.75 £11.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £50.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +194.12% -19.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £66.21 £23.75
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £59.40
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +132.56% -21.82%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 16 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
Berkshire +1 267 £600 +8.16% 40
Buckinghamshire -8 18 £550 -8.33% 23
Oxfordshire +7 12 £450 -25.00% 14
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 18 (6.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.35%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.01%) CMS
3 3 (1.01%) Confluence
4 2 (0.67%) Apache
4 2 (0.67%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.67%) Kentico
5 1 (0.34%) Appian
5 1 (0.34%) Jadu
5 1 (0.34%) JBoss
5 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 11 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 17 (5.72%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 8 (2.69%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (2.69%) Oracle EBS R12
2 8 (2.69%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.67%) 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
1 185 (62.29%) Azure
2 92 (30.98%) Azure DevOps
3 51 (17.17%) AWS
4 50 (16.84%) Azure Monitor
5 40 (13.47%) Entra ID
6 28 (9.43%) Azure Data Factory
7 27 (9.09%) Serverless
8 24 (8.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 24 (8.08%) Azure Functions
8 24 (8.08%) OpenShift
9 19 (6.40%) PaaS
10 18 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
11 17 (5.72%) Azure Storage
12 12 (4.04%) Azure API Management
13 11 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
13 11 (3.70%) GCP
13 11 (3.70%) Power Platform
14 9 (3.03%) Azure Key Vault
15 7 (2.36%) Azure Service Bus
15 7 (2.36%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (17.51%) Firewall
2 30 (10.10%) Intrusion Detection
3 19 (6.40%) DNS
4 17 (5.72%) DHCP
5 7 (2.36%) VSAN
6 5 (1.68%) Network Security
7 4 (1.35%) VPN
8 2 (0.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (8.42%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (8.08%) NoSQL
3 13 (4.38%) Oracle Database
3 13 (4.38%) Oracle Database 11g
4 9 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (3.03%) Power BI
5 8 (2.69%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.36%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (2.36%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.35%) Big Data
7 4 (1.35%) MySQL
8 3 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.67%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.67%) 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 40 (13.47%) Selenium
2 37 (12.46%) Git
3 33 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 26 (8.75%) JIRA
5 25 (8.42%) Cucumber
5 25 (8.42%) SonarQube
6 24 (8.08%) REST Assured
7 14 (4.71%) GitLab
8 11 (3.70%) Visual Studio
9 7 (2.36%) Oracle Forms
9 7 (2.36%) Postman
10 5 (1.68%) SpecFlow
11 4 (1.35%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (1.01%) Robot Framework
13 2 (0.67%) SoapUI
14 1 (0.34%) Android Studio
14 1 (0.34%) Appium
14 1 (0.34%) Bitbucket
14 1 (0.34%) TeamCity
14 1 (0.34%) webpack
General
1 85 (28.62%) Social Skills
2 63 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 21 (7.07%) Law
5 19 (6.40%) Finance
6 13 (4.38%) Police
7 7 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (1.35%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.34%) Automotive
12 1 (0.34%) Back Office
12 1 (0.34%) Billing
12 1 (0.34%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.34%) Marketing
12 1 (0.34%) Retail
Job Titles
1 86 (28.96%) Developer
2 47 (15.82%) Architect
3 33 (11.11%) Security Architect
4 31 (10.44%) Senior
5 27 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 24 (8.08%) Analyst
6 24 (8.08%) Full Stack Developer
7 23 (7.74%) Azure Developer
8 17 (5.72%) Active Directory Support
8 17 (5.72%) Java Engineer
9 15 (5.05%) Lead
10 14 (4.71%) Active Directory Specialist
10 14 (4.71%) Azure Specialist
10 14 (4.71%) DevOps Engineer
10 14 (4.71%) Support Specialist
11 13 (4.38%) Administrator
11 13 (4.38%) Consultant
11 13 (4.38%) PostgreSQL Developer
11 13 (4.38%) Systems Administrator
12 12 (4.04%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (12.46%) ARM Templates
2 30 (10.10%) REST
3 27 (9.09%) React
4 25 (8.42%) Java EE
5 19 (6.40%) .NET
6 13 (4.38%) Itk
7 9 (3.03%) Kafka
8 8 (2.69%) AngularJS
8 8 (2.69%) CSS
8 8 (2.69%) HTML
9 7 (2.36%) XML
10 6 (2.02%) Node.js
10 6 (2.02%) SOAP
11 5 (1.68%) JSON
12 4 (1.35%) Web Services
13 3 (1.01%) .NET Framework
13 3 (1.01%) DOM
13 3 (1.01%) OAuth
13 3 (1.01%) RESTful
13 3 (1.01%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.42%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.74%) Product Ownership
3 17 (5.72%) PKI
3 17 (5.72%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (4.04%) Robotics
5 7 (2.36%) Client/Server
6 6 (2.02%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.68%) IoT
8 3 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.67%) CSOC
9 2 (0.67%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.67%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.34%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.34%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.34%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.34%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.34%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.34%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.34%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 36 (12.12%) Linux
2 33 (11.11%) Windows
3 31 (10.44%) Windows Server
4 23 (7.74%) Windows Server 2016
4 23 (7.74%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (2.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.34%) Android
6 1 (0.34%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (40.74%) Agile
2 83 (27.95%) CI/CD
3 61 (20.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 57 (19.19%) Software Engineering
5 55 (18.52%) Test Automation
6 47 (15.82%) Problem-Solving
7 41 (13.80%) Technical Leadership
8 38 (12.79%) Microservices
9 37 (12.46%) Cybersecurity
10 34 (11.45%) Containerisation
10 34 (11.45%) Continuous Integration
11 32 (10.77%) Continuous Improvement
12 30 (10.10%) SDLC
13 29 (9.76%) Change Management
13 29 (9.76%) Stakeholder Management
14 28 (9.43%) Unit Testing
15 27 (9.09%) Decision-Making
15 27 (9.09%) Release Management
16 26 (8.75%) Analytics
16 26 (8.75%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 43 (14.48%) Python
2 42 (14.14%) C#
3 40 (13.47%) Java
4 37 (12.46%) PowerShell
5 28 (9.43%) SQL
6 24 (8.08%) VBScript
7 19 (6.40%) Bicep
8 18 (6.06%) C
9 17 (5.72%) VB
10 13 (4.38%) JavaScript
10 13 (4.38%) PL/SQL
11 9 (3.03%) C++
12 7 (2.36%) PHP
13 4 (1.35%) Bash
14 3 (1.01%) Ruby
14 3 (1.01%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.67%) Go
16 1 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.34%) Rust
16 1 (0.34%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 128 (43.10%) Security Cleared
2 75 (25.25%) SC Cleared
3 71 (23.91%) DV Cleared
4 30 (10.10%) Degree
5 17 (5.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (1.01%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.01%) CCNP
6 3 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.01%) MCSE
6 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.67%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.67%) CBAP
7 2 (0.67%) PMP
8 1 (0.34%) CSPO
8 1 (0.34%) IIBA
8 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.05%) QA
2 6 (2.02%) PMO
3 4 (1.35%) NCSC
4 3 (1.01%) NIST
5 2 (0.67%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 42 (14.14%) Active Directory
2 30 (10.10%) Docker
3 21 (7.07%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
5 17 (5.72%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (2.36%) vCloud
6 7 (2.36%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.01%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.34%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 67 (22.56%) Kubernetes
2 35 (11.78%) Ansible
3 32 (10.77%) Terraform
4 18 (6.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 18 (6.06%) SCOM
4 18 (6.06%) WSUS
5 17 (5.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (5.72%) SCCM
6 15 (5.05%) Istio
7 12 (4.04%) Docker Swarm
7 12 (4.04%) Podman
8 11 (3.70%) Prometheus
9 10 (3.37%) Argo
9 10 (3.37%) Grafana
10 8 (2.69%) Kibana
10 8 (2.69%) Rancher
11 7 (2.36%) vCenter Server
12 4 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.67%) Kustomize
14 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 61 (20.54%) Microsoft
2 35 (11.78%) Oracle
3 21 (7.07%) VMware
4 10 (3.37%) Google
5 5 (1.68%) SAP
6 3 (1.01%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.01%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.67%) 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%) Citrix
8 1 (0.34%) Databricks
8 1 (0.34%) IBM
8 1 (0.34%) Remedy
8 1 (0.34%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.34%) Workday