DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Welwyn Garden City

Development Operations Engineer
Hertfordshire > Welwyn Garden City

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Welwyn Garden City is £850, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Welwyn Garden City 4.76% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 4.76% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £549 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -0.13% -12.00% +25.00%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Welwyn Garden City

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Welwyn Garden City. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Welwyn Garden City with a recognized job title 21 25 15
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 4
10th Percentile £533 £200 £194
25th Percentile £600 £293 £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 £513 £400
Median % change year-on-year +39.02% +28.13% -20.00%
75th Percentile £750 £669 £553
90th Percentile - £738 £581
Hertfordshire median daily rate £507 £527 £425
% change year-on-year -3.70% +23.88% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 0
Median hourly rate - £18.82 -
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £50.00 £62.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -19.35% +24.00% -16.67%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Welwyn Garden City

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Welwyn Garden City.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Welwyn Garden City

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Welwyn Garden City

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Welwyn Garden City.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Welwyn Garden City

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Welwyn Garden City

For the 6 months to 12 June 2026, DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Welwyn Garden City region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Celery
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Django
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) JWT
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Welwyn Garden City 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Celery
1 1 (100.00%) Django
1 1 (100.00%) JWT
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform