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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 15 November 2018 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
15 Nov 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
Same period 2016 |
| Rank |
10 |
24 |
33 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+14 |
+9 |
+51 |
| Contract jobs citing DevOps |
9,697 |
7,017 |
5,925 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
9.31% |
6.81% |
5.57% |
| As % of the Processes & Methodologies category |
10.78% |
7.94% |
6.54% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
6,811 |
5,184 |
4,204 |
| UK median daily rate |
£525 |
£513 |
£500 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+2.44% |
+2.50% |
+11.11% |
| 10th Percentile |
£390 |
£375 |
£366 |
| 90th Percentile |
£675 |
£650 |
£625 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£488 |
£475 |
£463 |
| % change year-on-year |
+2.63% |
+2.70% |
+8.82% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
19 |
31 |
17 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£35.00 |
£48.00 |
£55.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
-27.08% |
-12.73% |
- |
| 10th Percentile |
£28.05 |
£35.00 |
£44.18 |
| 90th Percentile |
£65.61 |
£80.00 |
£59.31 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£35.00 |
£46.50 |
£55.00 |
| % change year-on-year |
-24.73% |
-15.45% |
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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 |
89,966 |
88,328 |
90,655 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
86.36% |
85.73% |
85.22% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
59,547 |
58,692 |
59,765 |
| UK median daily rate |
£460 |
£450 |
£425 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+2.22% |
+5.88% |
+3.03% |
| 10th Percentile |
£300 |
£276 |
£263 |
| 90th Percentile |
£638 |
£625 |
£600 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£425 |
£400 |
£400 |
| % change year-on-year |
+6.25% |
- |
+5.26% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
2,344 |
2,127 |
2,494 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£22.00 |
£23.14 |
£22.50 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
-4.93% |
+2.84% |
+2.27% |
| 10th Percentile |
£11.25 |
£11.25 |
£11.25 |
| 90th Percentile |
£50.50 |
£49.75 |
£48.38 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£21.25 |
£24.00 |
£22.50 |
| % change year-on-year |
-11.46% |
+6.67% |
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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 15 November 2018.
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 15 November 2018.
DevOps
Top 16 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 15 November 2018. 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 15 November 2018, 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 |
4,952 (51.07%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 2 |
3,705 (38.21%) |
Amazon AWS |
| 3 |
3,254 (33.56%) |
Docker |
| 4 |
3,143 (32.41%) |
Jenkins |
| 5 |
3,013 (31.07%) |
Linux |
| 6 |
3,008 (31.02%) |
Java |
| 7 |
2,830 (29.18%) |
Ansible |
| 8 |
2,529 (26.08%) |
Python |
| 9 |
2,189 (22.57%) |
Terraform |
| 10 |
2,154 (22.21%) |
Kubernetes |
| 11 |
2,055 (21.19%) |
Microsoft Azure |
| 12 |
2,038 (21.02%) |
Git (software) |
| 13 |
2,001 (20.64%) |
Puppet |
| 14 |
1,984 (20.46%) |
Continuous Integration |
| 15 |
1,611 (16.61%) |
Microservices |
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| 16 |
1,605 (16.55%) |
Finance |
| 17 |
1,487 (15.33%) |
Scrum |
| 18 |
1,397 (14.41%) |
Test Automation |
| 19 |
1,384 (14.27%) |
Opscode Chef |
| 20 |
1,320 (13.61%) |
TDD |
| 21 |
1,288 (13.28%) |
JavaScript |
| 22 |
1,277 (13.17%) |
Configuration Management |
| 23 |
1,160 (11.96%) |
Windows |
| 24 |
1,132 (11.67%) |
SQL |
| 25 |
1,032 (10.64%) |
Bash Shell |
| 26 |
997 (10.28%) |
JIRA |
| 27 |
943 (9.72%) |
Web Services |
| 28 |
934 (9.63%) |
Security Cleared |
| 29 |
916 (9.45%) |
Microsoft |
| 30 |
911 (9.39%) |
Node.js |
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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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