DigitalOcean Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

DigitalOcean, Inc
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring DigitalOcean skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DigitalOcean 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.007% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.020% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £369 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 - -
75th Percentile £406 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £388 - £575
% change year-on-year - - +109.09%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

DigitalOcean falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,882 4,917 6,826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.83% 27.59% 31.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,274 3,218 4,956
10th Percentile £250 £250 £225
25th Percentile £380 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £669 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 155 138 239
10th Percentile £14.75 £14.16 £14.21
25th Percentile £16.30 £18.50 £16.27
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.44 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.00% +17.07% +32.62%
75th Percentile £36.00 £68.75 £62.19
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.45 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.45% -11.43% +62.79%

DigitalOcean
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing DigitalOcean as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DigitalOcean in the UK excluding London

DigitalOcean
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing DigitalOcean.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DigitalOcean within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 September 2025. 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
Yorkshire - 1 £388 - 2
North of England - 1 £388 - 4
DigitalOcean
UK

DigitalOcean
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) PHP Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Principal PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Laravel
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft