DigitalOcean Contract Job Trends

DigitalOcean, Inc
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring DigitalOcean skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 555 - 630
Rank change year-on-year - - +190
Contract jobs citing DigitalOcean 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.003% - 0.002%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.008% - 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £369 - £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +109.09%
75th Percentile £406 - £613
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £388 - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

DigitalOcean falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 12,732 13,005 16,929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.38% 34.70% 35.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,517 8,599 12,161
10th Percentile £308 £313 £300
25th Percentile £410 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 180 326
10th Percentile £15.20 £16.30 £14.57
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.41
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +7.99% +44.04%
75th Percentile £43.75 £66.69 £63.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £78.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.27 £35.00 £22.51
% change year-on-year -44.94% +55.49% +15.44%

DigitalOcean
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DigitalOcean relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

DigitalOcean job vacancy trend in the UK

DigitalOcean
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing DigitalOcean.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean
Top 4 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DigitalOcean within the UK over the 6 months to 14 October 2025. 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
Live
Jobs
Yorkshire - 1 £388 - 2
England - 1 £388 - 3
UK excluding London - 1 £388 - 2
North of England - 1 £388 - 2

DigitalOcean
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) PHP Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Principal PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Laravel
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft