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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 23 May 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
23 May 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
| Rank |
11 |
13 |
30 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+2 |
+17 |
+17 |
| Contract jobs citing DevOps |
10,041 |
8,423 |
5,583 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
11.04% |
8.36% |
6.19% |
| As % of the Processes & Methodologies category |
12.69% |
9.67% |
7.25% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
6,935 |
5,968 |
4,039 |
| UK median daily rate |
£538 |
£525 |
£500 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+2.38% |
+5.00% |
+3.09% |
| 10th Percentile |
£400 |
£388 |
£360 |
| 90th Percentile |
£688 |
£675 |
£638 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£500 |
£495 |
£475 |
| % change year-on-year |
+1.01% |
+4.21% |
+5.56% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
35 |
30 |
18 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£45.64 |
£60.50 |
£54.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
-24.57% |
+12.04% |
+2.86% |
| 10th Percentile |
£35.00 |
£34.00 |
£39.63 |
| 90th Percentile |
£70.00 |
£72.63 |
£74.34 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£40.32 |
£61.00 |
£57.00 |
| % change year-on-year |
-33.91% |
+7.02% |
+17.53% |
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 |
79,098 |
87,137 |
76,995 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
86.93% |
86.46% |
85.32% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
52,110 |
57,481 |
50,498 |
| UK median daily rate |
£475 |
£450 |
£438 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+5.56% |
+2.86% |
+2.94% |
| 10th Percentile |
£304 |
£298 |
£275 |
| 90th Percentile |
£650 |
£638 |
£625 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£438 |
£420 |
£400 |
| % change year-on-year |
+4.17% |
+5.00% |
+0.63% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
2,128 |
2,294 |
2,079 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£24.64 |
£21.79 |
£25.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+13.08% |
-12.86% |
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| 10th Percentile |
£11.62 |
£11.17 |
£11.47 |
| 90th Percentile |
£51.42 |
£50.00 |
£52.50 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£23.13 |
£20.00 |
£25.00 |
| % change year-on-year |
+15.63% |
-20.00% |
-6.38% |
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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 23 May 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 23 May 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 23 May 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 23 May 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 |
4,813 (47.93%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 2 |
3,762 (37.47%) |
Amazon AWS |
| 3 |
3,099 (30.86%) |
Docker |
| 3 |
3,099 (30.86%) |
Microsoft Azure |
| 4 |
3,008 (29.96%) |
Jenkins |
| 5 |
2,695 (26.84%) |
Linux |
| 6 |
2,532 (25.22%) |
Java |
| 7 |
2,494 (24.84%) |
Python |
| 8 |
2,451 (24.41%) |
Ansible |
| 9 |
2,439 (24.29%) |
Kubernetes |
| 10 |
2,184 (21.75%) |
Terraform |
| 11 |
2,016 (20.08%) |
Git (software) |
| 12 |
1,697 (16.90%) |
Finance |
| 13 |
1,688 (16.81%) |
Continuous Integration |
| 14 |
1,619 (16.12%) |
Puppet |
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| 15 |
1,587 (15.81%) |
Scrum |
| 16 |
1,553 (15.47%) |
Microservices |
| 17 |
1,356 (13.50%) |
Test Automation |
| 18 |
1,354 (13.48%) |
SQL |
| 19 |
1,334 (13.29%) |
JavaScript |
| 20 |
1,157 (11.52%) |
JIRA |
| 21 |
1,111 (11.06%) |
Configuration Management |
| 22 |
1,089 (10.85%) |
Microsoft |
| 22 |
1,089 (10.85%) |
Opscode Chef |
| 23 |
1,076 (10.72%) |
Windows |
| 24 |
1,057 (10.53%) |
TDD |
| 25 |
1,025 (10.21%) |
.NET |
| 26 |
994 (9.90%) |
Security Cleared |
| 27 |
956 (9.52%) |
PowerShell |
| 28 |
917 (9.13%) |
Web Services |
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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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