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 13 August 2020 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 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.
Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills
29,541
78,776
89,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK
86.02%
86.82%
86.89%
Number of daily rates quoted
18,422
51,721
58,723
Median daily rate
£475
£475
£450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year
-
+5.56%
-
10th Percentile
£300
£300
£300
90th Percentile
£675
£650
£638
UK excluding London median daily rate
£450
£438
£425
% change year-on-year
+2.86%
+2.94%
+6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted
1,082
2,287
2,409
Median hourly rate
£35.00
£24.50
£21.25
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year
+42.86%
+15.29%
-12.77%
10th Percentile
£12.75
£11.80
£11.18
90th Percentile
£53.75
£53.75
£50.00
Median hourly rate
£30.58
£24.00
£20.00
% change year-on-year
+27.40%
+20.00%
-18.37%
DevOps Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.
DevOps Contractor Daily Rate Trend
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps.
DevOps Daily Rate Histogram
Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps over the 6 months to 13 August 2020.
DevOps Contractor Hourly Rate Trend
3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps.
DevOps Hourly Rate Histogram
Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps over the 6 months to 13 August 2020.
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 13 August 2020. 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
For the 6 months to 13 August 2020, 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.
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:
