DevOps Contract Job Trends in Watford

DevOps
Hertfordshire > Watford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Watford requiring DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 - 19
Rank change year-on-year - - +2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 6 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Watford 9.09% - 2.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.84% - 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £403
25th Percentile £563 - £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.07%
75th Percentile £588 - £575
90th Percentile - - £658
Hertfordshire median daily rate £588 £725 £463
% change year-on-year -18.97% +56.76% -15.91%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Watford

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Watford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 61 38 124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Watford 92.42% 84.44% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 31 88
10th Percentile £170 £268 £277
25th Percentile £325 £306 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £415 £411
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% +0.91% -34.20%
75th Percentile £581 £495 £556
90th Percentile £644 £575 £716
Hertfordshire median daily rate £525 £531 £475
% change year-on-year -1.18% +11.84% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile - - £13.58
25th Percentile £15.00 £46.31 £13.69
Median hourly rate £16.95 £47.44 £14.75
Median % change year-on-year -64.27% +221.63% -38.64%
75th Percentile £19.93 £48.57 £16.06
90th Percentile £21.79 - £16.33
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £22.63 £66.00 £64.00
% change year-on-year -65.71% +3.13% -1.54%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

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

DevOps job vacancy trend in Watford

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Watford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing DevOps

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Watford 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 4 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Apigee
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Batch
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Boomi
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) DataStage
1 1 (16.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 4 (66.67%) .NET Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Senior
2 4 (66.67%) Senior Developer
3 3 (50.00%) Azure Developer
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps Developer
3 3 (50.00%) Senior .NET Developer
3 3 (50.00%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Integration Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Lead
4 1 (16.67%) Lead Data Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) .NET
1 4 (66.67%) .NET Core
1 4 (66.67%) AngularJS
1 4 (66.67%) React
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
2 1 (16.67%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Design Patterns
2 4 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (66.67%) Unit Testing
3 1 (16.67%) API Management
3 1 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (16.67%) CRM
3 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) ERP
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (16.67%) SDLC
3 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Bicep
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Control-M
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) BMC
1 1 (16.67%) Dell
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle
1 1 (16.67%) Talend