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The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 22 September 2019 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.
| DevOps UK |
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6 months to
22 Sep 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
| Rank |
11 |
12 |
27 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+1 |
+15 |
+8 |
| Contract jobs citing DevOps |
9,378 |
8,794 |
6,471 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
10.74% |
8.63% |
6.56% |
| As % of the Processes & Methodologies category |
12.41% |
9.94% |
7.62% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
6,508 |
6,210 |
4,696 |
| UK median daily rate |
£530 |
£525 |
£500 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+0.95% |
+5.00% |
- |
| 10th Percentile |
£400 |
£385 |
£370 |
| 90th Percentile |
£688 |
£675 |
£638 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£500 |
£479 |
£475 |
| % change year-on-year |
+4.44% |
+0.79% |
+2.15% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
41 |
20 |
21 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£45.64 |
£48.75 |
£46.50 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
-6.39% |
+4.84% |
-15.45% |
| 10th Percentile |
£35.00 |
£24.03 |
£35.00 |
| 90th Percentile |
£73.75 |
£72.50 |
£61.69 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£44.50 |
£42.50 |
£47.00 |
| % change year-on-year |
+4.71% |
-9.57% |
-14.55% |
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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.
| All Process and Methodology Skills UK |
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills |
75,597 |
88,473 |
84,977 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
86.57% |
86.79% |
86.08% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
49,590 |
58,400 |
55,989 |
| UK median daily rate |
£475 |
£450 |
£450 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+5.56% |
- |
+5.88% |
| 10th Percentile |
£300 |
£300 |
£278 |
| 90th Percentile |
£650 |
£638 |
£625 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£438 |
£425 |
£400 |
| % change year-on-year |
+2.94% |
+6.25% |
- |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
2,261 |
2,445 |
2,104 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£24.08 |
£20.50 |
£24.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+17.46% |
-14.58% |
+5.10% |
| 10th Percentile |
£11.80 |
£11.17 |
£11.25 |
| 90th Percentile |
£53.75 |
£50.00 |
£50.00 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£23.93 |
£20.00 |
£23.50 |
| % change year-on-year |
+19.63% |
-14.89% |
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DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing DevOps as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.
DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend
This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing DevOps.
DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram
The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing DevOps over the 6 months to 22 September 2019.
DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend
This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps.
DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram
The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing DevOps over the 6 months to 22 September 2019.
DevOps
Top 17 Contract Locations
The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the UK over the 6 months to 22 September 2019. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.
For the 6 months to 22 September 2019, IT contractor jobs citing DevOps also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads with a requirement for DevOps.
| 1 |
4,598 (49.03%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 2 |
3,478 (37.09%) |
AWS |
| 3 |
3,161 (33.71%) |
Azure |
| 4 |
2,707 (28.87%) |
Docker |
| 5 |
2,449 (26.11%) |
Python |
| 6 |
2,372 (25.29%) |
Kubernetes |
| 7 |
2,365 (25.22%) |
Jenkins |
| 8 |
2,356 (25.12%) |
Linux |
| 9 |
2,233 (23.81%) |
Ansible |
| 10 |
2,198 (23.44%) |
Terraform |
| 11 |
2,190 (23.35%) |
Java |
| 12 |
1,708 (18.21%) |
Git (software) |
| 13 |
1,697 (18.10%) |
Finance |
| 14 |
1,475 (15.73%) |
Scrum |
| 15 |
1,463 (15.60%) |
Continuous Integration |
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DevOps
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
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