DevOps Contracts in Buckinghamshire

DevOps
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 22 20
Rank change year-on-year -8 -2 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 23 43 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 5.76% 6.61% 9.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.91% 7.13% 9.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 33 102
10th Percentile £405 £377 £455
25th Percentile £409 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -6.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £625
90th Percentile £678 £743 £674
South East median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% +5.47%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 333 603 1,208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 83.46% 92.63% 93.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 455 989
10th Percentile £241 £275 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.77% +3.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £610 £598
90th Percentile £645 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £511 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -1.70% +1.46% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 17 31
10th Percentile £14.58 £13.17 £10.77
25th Percentile £18.70 £16.00 £11.81
Median hourly rate £30.00 £20.00 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +42.86% +1.82%
75th Percentile £36.75 £23.75 £17.38
90th Percentile £41.15 £24.00 £20.00
South East median hourly rate £58.30 £52.30 £37.13
% change year-on-year +11.47% +40.86% +35.02%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Buckinghamshire

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Buckinghamshire

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Buckinghamshire

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in Buckinghamshire

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Milton Keynes -3 20 £588 +14.63% 23
DevOps
South East

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 (8.70%) Apache
1 2 (8.70%) Apache Spark
1 2 (8.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (69.57%) Azure
2 11 (47.83%) AWS
3 6 (26.09%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (17.39%) OpenShift
4 4 (17.39%) Serverless
5 3 (13.04%) Azure AKS
5 3 (13.04%) Azure Functions
5 3 (13.04%) PaaS
6 2 (8.70%) Azure API Management
6 2 (8.70%) Slack
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (4.35%) GCP
7 1 (4.35%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) FTP
1 1 (4.35%) SMTP
1 1 (4.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) Apache Hive
1 2 (8.70%) Big Data
1 2 (8.70%) Hadoop
1 2 (8.70%) Impala
1 2 (8.70%) MySQL
1 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (8.70%) Redis
2 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.35%) Ingres
2 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (30.43%) Git
2 6 (26.09%) Jenkins
3 4 (17.39%) JIRA
3 4 (17.39%) Postman
4 3 (13.04%) Maven
5 2 (8.70%) GitLab
5 2 (8.70%) LoadRunner
5 2 (8.70%) SoapUI
6 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
6 1 (4.35%) CircleCI
6 1 (4.35%) Gradle
6 1 (4.35%) IntelliJ
6 1 (4.35%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (4.35%) Snyk
6 1 (4.35%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Finance
4 2 (8.70%) Banking
4 2 (8.70%) Corporate Banking
4 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.70%) Retail
5 1 (4.35%) Legal
5 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Developer
3 4 (17.39%) Senior
4 3 (13.04%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (13.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Backend Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Consultant
5 2 (8.70%) DevOps Consultant
5 2 (8.70%) Java Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Network Consultant
5 2 (8.70%) Test Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) C# Developer
6 1 (4.35%) DBA
6 1 (4.35%) Head of IT
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (4.35%) SQL Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Systems Administrator
6 1 (4.35%) Technical Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) Fluent Bit
1 2 (8.70%) GraphQL
1 2 (8.70%) Kafka
1 2 (8.70%) LAMP
1 2 (8.70%) Loki
1 2 (8.70%) NETCONF
1 2 (8.70%) Node.js
1 2 (8.70%) Prisma
1 2 (8.70%) REST
1 2 (8.70%) RESTful
1 2 (8.70%) SOAP
1 2 (8.70%) Spring
1 2 (8.70%) YANG
2 1 (4.35%) Middleware
2 1 (4.35%) OpenAPI
2 1 (4.35%) Playwright
2 1 (4.35%) Swagger
2 1 (4.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.35%) Private Cloud
1 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
1 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
1 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
1 1 (4.35%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 9 (39.13%) Linux
2 2 (8.70%) Unix
2 2 (8.70%) Windows
3 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.35%) Solaris
3 1 (4.35%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) CI/CD
2 9 (39.13%) Agile
3 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (26.09%) Containerisation
4 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (26.09%) Scrum
4 6 (26.09%) SDLC
5 5 (21.74%) Kanban
5 5 (21.74%) Microservices
6 4 (17.39%) Event-Driven
6 4 (17.39%) Task Automation
7 3 (13.04%) API Management
7 3 (13.04%) Cost Optimisation
7 3 (13.04%) Project Management
7 3 (13.04%) System Integration Testing
7 3 (13.04%) Test Automation
7 3 (13.04%) Test Scripting
8 2 (8.70%) Integration Testing
8 2 (8.70%) Security Testing
8 2 (8.70%) Volume Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) Python
1 7 (30.43%) SQL
2 5 (21.74%) Java
3 3 (13.04%) PowerShell
4 2 (8.70%) Bash
4 2 (8.70%) C#
4 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.70%) PHP
4 2 (8.70%) Scala
4 2 (8.70%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.35%) Bicep
5 1 (4.35%) C
5 1 (4.35%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 4 (17.39%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) GDPR
1 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.35%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (30.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (43.48%) Kubernetes
2 6 (26.09%) Ansible
3 5 (21.74%) Terraform
4 2 (8.70%) Argo
4 2 (8.70%) Control-M
4 2 (8.70%) Grafana
4 2 (8.70%) Kustomize
4 2 (8.70%) Prometheus
5 1 (4.35%) Rancher
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) Cisco
2 1 (4.35%) Google
2 1 (4.35%) Red Hat