DevOps Contracts in Essex

DevOps
East of England > Essex

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 7 5
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 +12
Contract jobs citing DevOps 32 36 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 14.29% 14.57% 16.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.30% 16.98% 18.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 22 44
10th Percentile £423 £502 £377
25th Percentile £495 £575 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £599 £493
Median % change year-on-year -10.89% +21.68% -1.50%
75th Percentile £598 £650 £628
90th Percentile £668 £765 £632
East of England median daily rate £534 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -7.13% -4.17% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £74.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +34.55% -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year - +15.56% +27.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 185 212 348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 82.59% 85.83% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 135 222
10th Percentile £194 £217 £213
25th Percentile £300 £366 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +1.01% +23.75%
75th Percentile £551 £557 £575
90th Percentile £600 £647 £631
East of England median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 17 33
10th Percentile £10.59 £23.29 £16.71
25th Percentile £15.93 £36.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £57.25 £44.53 £28.41
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% +56.74% +35.29%
75th Percentile £80.00 £65.75 £65.42
90th Percentile - £72.56 £76.64
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £22.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year +81.82% +41.94% -3.13%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Essex

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Essex

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

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

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Essex

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in Essex

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Essex region over the 6 months to 31 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
Colchester - 7 £500 - 1
Basildon 0 6 £600 +1.52%
Brentwood -5 5 £375 -29.91%
DevOps
East of England

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 9 (28.13%) IIS
2 4 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (28.13%) Azure
1 9 (28.13%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (21.88%) GCP
3 5 (15.63%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (6.25%) AWS
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.13%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
5 1 (3.13%) CloudFront
5 1 (3.13%) Route 53
5 1 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (43.75%) Firewall
1 14 (43.75%) VPN
2 4 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 4 (12.50%) Wireshark
3 1 (3.13%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.13%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Fiddler
2 2 (6.25%) GitLab
General
1 8 (25.00%) Finance
2 6 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (18.75%) Banking
3 2 (6.25%) Automotive
3 2 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (6.25%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.13%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.13%) Legal
4 1 (3.13%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) Full Stack Engineer
2 8 (25.00%) Java Engineer
3 6 (18.75%) Architect
3 6 (18.75%) Developer
3 6 (18.75%) Senior
3 6 (18.75%) Senior Java Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Senior Full Stack Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Web Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) Administrator
5 4 (12.50%) Java Developer
5 4 (12.50%) SharePoint Administrator
5 4 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (9.38%) Applications Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Applications Support
6 3 (9.38%) Applications Support Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Enterprise Architect
6 3 (9.38%) Support Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Systems Support Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Web Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (43.75%) CSS
1 14 (43.75%) HTML
1 14 (43.75%) React
2 8 (25.00%) .NET
3 4 (12.50%) .NET Framework
3 4 (12.50%) SAML
4 1 (3.13%) Akka
4 1 (3.13%) Kafka
4 1 (3.13%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.63%) Windows
2 2 (6.25%) CentOS
2 2 (6.25%) Linux
2 2 (6.25%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (62.50%) Agile
1 20 (62.50%) Load Balancing
2 18 (56.25%) Identity Management
2 18 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 12 (37.50%) Full Stack Development
4 12 (37.50%) Software Engineering
5 7 (21.88%) Migration
6 6 (18.75%) Business Strategy
6 6 (18.75%) Computer Science
6 6 (18.75%) Data Science
6 6 (18.75%) Fintech
6 6 (18.75%) Roadmaps
6 6 (18.75%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 6 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
6 6 (18.75%) TOGAF
6 6 (18.75%) Zachman Framework
7 5 (15.63%) Enterprise Architecture
7 5 (15.63%) Technology Transformation
8 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (59.38%) Java
2 12 (37.50%) TypeScript
3 5 (15.63%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.25%) Bash
5 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.13%) Scala
5 1 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (21.88%) Degree
2 6 (18.75%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 5 (15.63%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (25.00%) SCOM
2 4 (12.50%) SCCM
2 4 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (9.38%) Kubernetes
4 2 (6.25%) Ansible
4 2 (6.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.75%) Google
3 5 (15.63%) F5
4 2 (6.25%) Splunk
5 1 (3.13%) Typelevel