DevOps Contracts in Hertfordshire

DevOps
East of England > Hertfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 30 22 12
Rank change year-on-year -8 -10 +16
Contract jobs citing DevOps 49 56 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 5.83% 7.45% 9.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.65% 8.55% 11.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 65
10th Percentile £245 £415 £491
25th Percentile £400 £500 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -34.62% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £703 £768 £797
East of England median daily rate £534 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -7.13% -4.17% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 20 1
10th Percentile - £59.63 -
25th Percentile £61.25 - £70.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.50
Median % change year-on-year - -7.80% -
75th Percentile - £65.75 £70.75
90th Percentile - £66.05 -
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
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 737 655 697
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 87.63% 87.10% 88.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 350 417
10th Percentile £221 £260 £205
25th Percentile £313 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £597 £676 £625
90th Percentile £700 £753 £708
East of England median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 314 144 84
10th Percentile £38.12 £21.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £40.13 £53.42 £37.17
Median hourly rate £50.00 £62.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.32% +25.50% +25.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £77.00 -
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 Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Hertfordshire

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Hertfordshire

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Hertfordshire

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in Hertfordshire

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Hertfordshire 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
Stevenage -13 36 £250 -57.45% 2
Watford -1 3 £425 -34.62% 2
Hemel Hempstead +7 2 £650 +44.44% 4
Hatfield -8 2 £363 -
Hertford - 2 - - 1
Welwyn Garden City +2 1 - - 5
DevOps
East of England

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 1 (2.04%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 3 (6.12%) AWS
1 3 (6.12%) Power Platform
2 2 (4.08%) Azure
2 2 (4.08%) Serverless
3 1 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (2.04%) Amazon S3
3 1 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (2.04%) GitHub
3 1 (2.04%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 34 (69.39%) Modbus
1 34 (69.39%) RS-422
1 34 (69.39%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.12%) Power BI
2 2 (4.08%) NoSQL
2 2 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.04%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.04%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.04%) Big Data
3 1 (2.04%) Couchbase
3 1 (2.04%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.04%) MySQL
3 1 (2.04%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.04%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Git
1 2 (4.08%) GitLab
2 1 (2.04%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.04%) JIRA
2 1 (2.04%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 34 (69.39%) Electronics
2 29 (59.18%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.08%) Finance
3 2 (4.08%) Retail
4 1 (2.04%) Games
4 1 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.04%) Legal
4 1 (2.04%) Marketing
4 1 (2.04%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 34 (69.39%) Software Engineer
2 25 (51.02%) C++ Software Engineer
3 6 (12.24%) C Software Engineer
3 6 (12.24%) C/C++ Software Engineer
4 4 (8.16%) Developer
5 3 (6.12%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) Test Manager
6 2 (4.08%) Analyst
6 2 (4.08%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 2 (4.08%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
6 2 (4.08%) Data Analyst
6 2 (4.08%) Data Manager
6 2 (4.08%) Power BI Analyst
7 1 (2.04%) .NET Developer
7 1 (2.04%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 1 (2.04%) Java Developer
7 1 (2.04%) Lead
7 1 (2.04%) Senior
7 1 (2.04%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (2.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.12%) Node.js
2 2 (4.08%) .NET
2 2 (4.08%) Kafka
2 2 (4.08%) React
3 1 (2.04%) ASP.NET
3 1 (2.04%) CSS
3 1 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.04%) HTML
3 1 (2.04%) Micronaut
3 1 (2.04%) React Native
3 1 (2.04%) REST
3 1 (2.04%) Spring
3 1 (2.04%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 28 (57.14%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (4.08%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.08%) FMCG
2 2 (4.08%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.04%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.04%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.12%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (83.67%) Agile
2 36 (73.47%) Continuous Integration
3 35 (71.43%) TDD
4 34 (69.39%) Continuous Improvement
4 34 (69.39%) Customer Requirements
4 34 (69.39%) Pair Programming
4 34 (69.39%) Software Engineering
4 34 (69.39%) Software Testing
4 34 (69.39%) Unit Testing
5 6 (12.24%) CI/CD
5 6 (12.24%) Scrum
6 4 (8.16%) Data Management
7 3 (6.12%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (6.12%) ERP
8 2 (4.08%) Configuration Management
8 2 (4.08%) Containerisation
8 2 (4.08%) Knowledge Transfer
8 2 (4.08%) Sprint Retrospective
8 2 (4.08%) Virtual Environments
8 2 (4.08%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 37 (75.51%) C#
2 34 (69.39%) C
2 34 (69.39%) C++
3 4 (8.16%) Python
4 3 (6.12%) JavaScript
4 3 (6.12%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.08%) Bash
5 2 (4.08%) SQL
6 1 (2.04%) Java
6 1 (2.04%) PHP
6 1 (2.04%) Ruby
6 1 (2.04%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
1 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (2.04%) DV Cleared
1 1 (2.04%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (12.24%) Docker
2 2 (4.08%) LXC
Systems Management
1 3 (6.12%) Kubernetes
1 3 (6.12%) Terraform
2 2 (4.08%) Proxmox
3 1 (2.04%) Ansible
3 1 (2.04%) HAProxy
3 1 (2.04%) Kibana
3 1 (2.04%) logstash
3 1 (2.04%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.04%) Puppet
3 1 (2.04%) Rancher
Vendors
1 2 (4.08%) Liquidlogic
2 1 (2.04%) Atlassian
2 1 (2.04%) Avaya
2 1 (2.04%) BT
2 1 (2.04%) Computacenter
2 1 (2.04%) Genesys
2 1 (2.04%) SAP
2 1 (2.04%) Workday