DevOps Engineer Contracts in Berkshire

Development Operations Engineer
South East > Berkshire

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Berkshire is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 86 84
Rank change year-on-year -27 -2 -21
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 9 27 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.46% 1.52% 2.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 1.60% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 20 38
10th Percentile £439 £498 £434
25th Percentile £478 £514 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £632 £536
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +17.76% +4.63%
75th Percentile £556 £738 £618
90th Percentile £590 £740 £655
South East median daily rate £525 £600 £590
% change year-on-year -12.50% +1.69% +12.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,829 1,686 2,239
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 94.77% 95.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 945 1,049 1,428
10th Percentile £259 £325 £220
25th Percentile £400 £413 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £688 £706 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 57 38
10th Percentile £20.05 £17.34 £13.00
25th Percentile £42.13 £24.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £60.80 £64.68 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -5.99% +227.47% -8.14%
75th Percentile £75.24 £75.00 £34.29
90th Percentile £87.53 £79.61 £71.89
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year -4.76% +150.00% -13.93%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Berkshire

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in Berkshire

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Berkshire over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in Berkshire

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Engineer in Berkshire

DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Reading -24 6 £500 -25.93% 5
Newbury - 1 £575 -
DevOps Engineer
South East

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Berkshire region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (66.67%) Terraform
3 5 (55.56%) Ansible
3 5 (55.56%) Test Automation
3 5 (55.56%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
4 4 (44.44%) Agile
4 4 (44.44%) Azure
4 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
4 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
5 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
5 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
5 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (33.33%) AWS
5 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 3 (33.33%) Linux
5 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
5 3 (33.33%) Release Management
6 2 (22.22%) VMware
6 2 (22.22%) YAML
6 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (22.22%) JIRA
6 2 (22.22%) Law
6 2 (22.22%) Selenium
6 2 (22.22%) Java
6 2 (22.22%) ITIL
6 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
6 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 2 (22.22%) Confluence
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) IaaS
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (11.11%) NuGet
3 1 (11.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Cucumber
1 2 (22.22%) GitLab
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
1 2 (22.22%) REST Assured
1 2 (22.22%) Selenium
1 2 (22.22%) SonarQube
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (22.22%) Java EE
1 2 (22.22%) REST
1 2 (22.22%) YAML
2 1 (11.11%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) ARM Templates
2 1 (11.11%) JSON
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (55.56%) Test Automation
3 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
4 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (33.33%) Release Management
5 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
5 2 (22.22%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
5 2 (22.22%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (22.22%) ITIL
5 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
5 2 (22.22%) Software Architecture
5 2 (22.22%) Software Delivery
5 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (11.11%) Continuous Deployment
6 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (22.22%) Go
2 2 (22.22%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) Degree
4 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
1 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Terraform
2 5 (55.56%) Ansible
3 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
4 2 (22.22%) Rancher
5 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (11.11%) SCOM
5 1 (11.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) ServiceNow
2 2 (22.22%) VMware