DevOps Contracts in Kent

DevOps
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 20 27
Rank change year-on-year +5 +7 -13
Contract jobs citing DevOps 10 16 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 4.61% 7.73% 4.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.75% 10.74% 5.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 12
10th Percentile £310 £541 £418
25th Percentile £363 £584 £539
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £625 £588
Median % change year-on-year -38.00% +6.38% +17.50%
75th Percentile £439 £638 £644
90th Percentile £575 £649 £674
South East median daily rate £550 £588 £538
% change year-on-year -6.38% +9.30% +7.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 129 149 251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 59.45% 71.98% 86.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 111 225
10th Percentile £205 £200 £189
25th Percentile £285 £205 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £355 £475
Median % change year-on-year +23.24% -25.26% +26.67%
75th Percentile £550 £509 £588
90th Percentile £675 £638 £649
South East median daily rate £501 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.79% +1.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 7 5
10th Percentile £11.80 £42.78 £19.07
25th Percentile - £49.51 £23.50
Median hourly rate £15.00 £56.47 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.44% +71.12% -16.49%
75th Percentile £35.75 £62.25 £33.86
90th Percentile £62.96 £71.72 £44.59
South East median hourly rate £49.50 £52.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.71% +133.33% -10.00%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Kent

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Kent

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Kent

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

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Kent

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Kent 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
Maidstone +3 2 - - 1
DevOps
South East

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Developer
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Data Warehouse Developer
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (20.00%) Business Strategy
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Databricks