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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 8 December 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
8 Dec 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
| Rank |
12 |
10 |
21 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
-2 |
+11 |
+12 |
| Contract jobs citing DevOps |
8,124 |
9,990 |
7,259 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
10.12% |
9.57% |
7.04% |
| As % of the Processes & Methodologies category |
11.81% |
11.00% |
8.16% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
5,666 |
7,015 |
5,363 |
| UK median daily rate |
£540 |
£525 |
£513 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+2.86% |
+2.44% |
+2.50% |
| 10th Percentile |
£400 |
£399 |
£375 |
| 90th Percentile |
£688 |
£675 |
£650 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£500 |
£490 |
£475 |
| % change year-on-year |
+2.04% |
+3.16% |
+2.70% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
49 |
22 |
33 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£46.00 |
£35.00 |
£48.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+31.43% |
-27.08% |
-12.73% |
| 10th Percentile |
£32.45 |
£27.11 |
£35.00 |
| 90th Percentile |
£78.75 |
£63.98 |
£77.75 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£44.00 |
£35.00 |
£46.50 |
| % change year-on-year |
+25.71% |
-24.73% |
-15.45% |
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 |
68,804 |
90,835 |
88,912 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
85.71% |
87.05% |
86.19% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
44,995 |
60,171 |
59,262 |
| UK median daily rate |
£475 |
£463 |
£450 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+2.70% |
+2.78% |
+5.88% |
| 10th Percentile |
£288 |
£300 |
£275 |
| 90th Percentile |
£650 |
£638 |
£638 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£433 |
£425 |
£400 |
| % change year-on-year |
+1.76% |
+6.25% |
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| Number of hourly rates quoted |
2,249 |
2,324 |
2,101 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£23.50 |
£22.00 |
£23.75 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+6.82% |
-7.37% |
+5.56% |
| 10th Percentile |
£12.00 |
£11.18 |
£11.25 |
| 90th Percentile |
£53.06 |
£50.20 |
£49.19 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£22.50 |
£20.50 |
£24.00 |
| % change year-on-year |
+9.76% |
-14.58% |
+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 8 December 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 8 December 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 8 December 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 8 December 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 |
3,925 (48.31%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 2 |
3,079 (37.90%) |
Azure |
| 3 |
2,869 (35.32%) |
AWS |
| 4 |
2,217 (27.29%) |
Docker |
| 5 |
2,153 (26.50%) |
Python |
| 6 |
2,022 (24.89%) |
Kubernetes |
| 7 |
1,941 (23.89%) |
Terraform |
| 8 |
1,892 (23.29%) |
Linux |
| 9 |
1,852 (22.80%) |
Ansible |
| 10 |
1,844 (22.70%) |
Jenkins |
| 11 |
1,767 (21.75%) |
Java |
| 12 |
1,341 (16.51%) |
Git (software) |
| 13 |
1,311 (16.14%) |
Finance |
| 14 |
1,217 (14.98%) |
Microservices |
| 15 |
1,189 (14.64%) |
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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