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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 26 September 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
26 Sep 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
Same period 2016 |
| Rank |
12 |
27 |
34 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+15 |
+7 |
+57 |
| Contract jobs citing DevOps |
8,914 |
6,497 |
5,492 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
8.67% |
6.56% |
5.14% |
| As % of the Processes & Methodologies category |
10.07% |
7.66% |
6.05% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
6,289 |
4,719 |
3,908 |
| UK median daily rate |
£525 |
£500 |
£500 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+5.00% |
- |
+11.11% |
| 10th Percentile |
£385 |
£370 |
£368 |
| 90th Percentile |
£675 |
£638 |
£625 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£475 |
£475 |
£465 |
| % change year-on-year |
- |
+2.15% |
+10.71% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
20 |
21 |
17 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£48.75 |
£46.50 |
£55.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+4.84% |
-15.45% |
+10.00% |
| 10th Percentile |
£24.03 |
£35.00 |
£36.25 |
| 90th Percentile |
£72.50 |
£61.69 |
£59.31 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£42.50 |
£47.00 |
£55.00 |
| % change year-on-year |
-9.57% |
-14.55% |
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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 |
88,542 |
84,827 |
90,827 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
86.16% |
85.61% |
85.06% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
58,493 |
55,954 |
60,052 |
| UK median daily rate |
£450 |
£450 |
£425 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
- |
+5.88% |
+4.94% |
| 10th Percentile |
£300 |
£278 |
£263 |
| 90th Percentile |
£638 |
£625 |
£600 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£425 |
£400 |
£400 |
| % change year-on-year |
+6.25% |
- |
+6.67% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
2,428 |
2,095 |
2,386 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£20.50 |
£24.00 |
£22.50 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
-14.58% |
+6.67% |
+2.27% |
| 10th Percentile |
£11.17 |
£11.25 |
£11.25 |
| 90th Percentile |
£50.00 |
£50.00 |
£47.83 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£20.00 |
£24.00 |
£23.39 |
| % change year-on-year |
-16.67% |
+2.62% |
+6.31% |
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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 26 September 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 26 September 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 26 September 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 26 September 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 |
4,671 (52.40%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 2 |
3,391 (38.04%) |
Amazon AWS |
| 3 |
2,959 (33.19%) |
Docker |
| 4 |
2,892 (32.44%) |
Jenkins |
| 5 |
2,878 (32.29%) |
Linux |
| 6 |
2,852 (31.99%) |
Java |
| 7 |
2,546 (28.56%) |
Ansible |
| 8 |
2,417 (27.11%) |
Python |
| 9 |
1,988 (22.30%) |
Puppet |
| 10 |
1,959 (21.98%) |
Git (software) |
| 11 |
1,940 (21.76%) |
Continuous Integration |
| 12 |
1,917 (21.51%) |
Terraform |
| 13 |
1,846 (20.71%) |
Kubernetes |
| 14 |
1,819 (20.41%) |
Microsoft Azure |
| 15 |
1,446 (16.22%) |
Finance |
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| 16 |
1,423 (15.96%) |
Scrum |
| 17 |
1,390 (15.59%) |
Microservices |
| 18 |
1,349 (15.13%) |
Opscode Chef |
| 19 |
1,309 (14.68%) |
TDD |
| 20 |
1,295 (14.53%) |
Test Automation |
| 21 |
1,279 (14.35%) |
Configuration Management |
| 22 |
1,259 (14.12%) |
JavaScript |
| 23 |
1,087 (12.19%) |
Bash Shell |
| 24 |
1,058 (11.87%) |
Windows |
| 25 |
1,016 (11.40%) |
SQL |
| 26 |
923 (10.35%) |
JIRA |
| 27 |
918 (10.30%) |
Security Cleared |
| 28 |
871 (9.77%) |
Node.js |
| 29 |
863 (9.68%) |
Ruby |
| 30 |
856 (9.60%) |
Open Source |
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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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