DevOps Contracts in Wales

DevOps
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 9 14
Rank change year-on-year -11 +5 -6
Contract jobs citing DevOps 23 72 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 6.17% 11.65% 9.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.99% 13.33% 11.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 46 61
10th Percentile £356 £459 £400
25th Percentile £425 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £585 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.04% +6.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £662 £600 £639
90th Percentile £689 £663 £730
UK median daily rate £550 £583 £575
% change year-on-year -5.66% +1.39% +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 advertised in Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 288 540 811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 77.21% 87.38% 84.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 413 592
10th Percentile £162 £188 £213
25th Percentile £357 £350 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £563 £580 £575
90th Percentile £672 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 27 29
10th Percentile £11.51 £14.70 £14.05
25th Percentile £13.06 £16.98 £18.13
Median hourly rate £19.17 £18.14 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.68% -19.38% +9.49%
75th Percentile £51.75 £24.38 £31.00
90th Percentile £86.72 £49.25 £47.40
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Wales

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps in Wales.

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Wales

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Wales over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Wales

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps in Wales.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in Wales

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Wales region over the 6 months to 12 May 2024. 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
South Wales -11 21 £538 -8.28% 28
Dyfed - 1 £1,000 - 2
DevOps
UK

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (13.04%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.35%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (4.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 21 (91.30%) Azure
2 9 (39.13%) AWS
3 7 (30.43%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (30.43%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (21.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (17.39%) GitHub
5 4 (17.39%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (13.04%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (13.04%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.35%) GCP
7 1 (4.35%) OneDrive
7 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
7 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
7 1 (4.35%) SaaS
7 1 (4.35%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) Firewall
1 5 (21.74%) TCP/IP
1 5 (21.74%) VPN
2 2 (8.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (39.13%) MySQL
2 5 (21.74%) Oracle Database
2 5 (21.74%) SQL Server
3 4 (17.39%) RDBMS
3 4 (17.39%) Relational Database
4 3 (13.04%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (13.04%) PowerCenter
5 2 (8.70%) MongoDB
6 1 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (4.35%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) JIRA
2 3 (13.04%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.70%) Burp Suite
3 2 (8.70%) Cucumber
3 2 (8.70%) JMeter
3 2 (8.70%) Selenium
3 2 (8.70%) SonarQube
4 1 (4.35%) AppScan
4 1 (4.35%) Git
4 1 (4.35%) GitLab
4 1 (4.35%) Subversion
4 1 (4.35%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (21.74%) Finance
1 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.35%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) DBA
2 6 (26.09%) Administrator
3 3 (13.04%) Azure Administrator
3 3 (13.04%) Developer
3 3 (13.04%) MySQL DBA
3 3 (13.04%) Oracle DBA
4 2 (8.70%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Project Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Senior
4 2 (8.70%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (8.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Test Automation Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Test Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Network Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Oracle Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Programme Planner
5 1 (4.35%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (13.04%) Middleware
3 2 (8.70%) .NET
3 2 (8.70%) Kafka
4 1 (4.35%) ADO
4 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET
4 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (4.35%) CSS
4 1 (4.35%) CSS3
4 1 (4.35%) GraphQL
4 1 (4.35%) HTML
4 1 (4.35%) HTML5
4 1 (4.35%) MobX
4 1 (4.35%) Next.js
4 1 (4.35%) Node.js
4 1 (4.35%) React
4 1 (4.35%) Redux
4 1 (4.35%) RESTful
4 1 (4.35%) Vue
4 1 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.35%) Educational Technology
2 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.35%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 11 (47.83%) Windows
2 10 (43.48%) Linux
3 6 (26.09%) Windows Server
4 4 (17.39%) AIX
5 3 (13.04%) Windows 10
6 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (30.43%) Agile
2 6 (26.09%) Change Control
2 6 (26.09%) Project Management
3 5 (21.74%) CI/CD
3 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (17.39%) Migration
5 3 (13.04%) Containerisation
5 3 (13.04%) E-business
5 3 (13.04%) Full Stack Development
5 3 (13.04%) High Availability
5 3 (13.04%) Project Governance
5 3 (13.04%) Test Automation
6 2 (8.70%) Application Security
6 2 (8.70%) Blue-Green Deployment
6 2 (8.70%) Budget Management
6 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (8.70%) Project Delivery
6 2 (8.70%) Security Testing
6 2 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (8.70%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 4 (17.39%) SQL
2 3 (13.04%) Shell Script
3 2 (8.70%) C#
3 2 (8.70%) Java
3 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.35%) Bash
4 1 (4.35%) PHP
4 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.35%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Degree
2 2 (8.70%) SANS
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.35%) ISTQB
3 1 (4.35%) PMI Certification
3 1 (4.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (26.09%) QA
2 2 (8.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Docker
2 3 (13.04%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 8 (34.78%) Terraform
2 7 (30.43%) Ansible
2 7 (30.43%) Grafana
2 7 (30.43%) Nagios
3 5 (21.74%) Graylog
3 5 (21.74%) Prometheus
4 4 (17.39%) Kubernetes
5 3 (13.04%) Data Guard
5 3 (13.04%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (4.35%) HP Fortify
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (4.35%) Nessus
6 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
6 1 (4.35%) Puppet
6 1 (4.35%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) Microsoft
2 6 (26.09%) Oracle
3 5 (21.74%) Splunk
4 3 (13.04%) Cisco
4 3 (13.04%) Informatica
5 2 (8.70%) Checkmarx
6 1 (4.35%) Citrix
6 1 (4.35%) EMC
6 1 (4.35%) Palo Alto
6 1 (4.35%) Planview
6 1 (4.35%) Veracode
6 1 (4.35%) Zscaler