DevOps Contracts in Oxfordshire

DevOps
South East > Oxfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire 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 16 22 27
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 -16
Contract jobs citing DevOps 12 13 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 5.31% 5.78% 1.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.74% 6.57% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 4
10th Percentile £418 £520 £378
25th Percentile £425 £550 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +20.00% +10.99%
75th Percentile £506 £650 £617
90th Percentile £561 £680 £625
South East median daily rate £568 £585 £538
% change year-on-year -2.99% +8.84% +7.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 178 198 224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 78.76% 88.00% 85.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 129 184
10th Percentile £150 £250 £170
25th Percentile £263 £350 £296
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.88%
75th Percentile £506 £550 £575
90th Percentile £623 £638 £675
South East median daily rate £510 £501 £500
% change year-on-year +1.90% +0.10% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 13 9
10th Percentile £11.70 £23.19 -
25th Percentile £13.00 £25.95 £17.42
Median hourly rate £19.50 £28.16 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.75% +40.80% -27.27%
75th Percentile £30.50 £32.30 -
90th Percentile £65.00 £52.90 £29.29
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.72
% change year-on-year -9.52% +141.77% -21.04%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Oxfordshire

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Oxfordshire

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

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

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Oxfordshire

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Oxfordshire 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
Oxford +17 11 £450 -25.00% 5
DevOps
South East

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (83.33%) Azure
2 9 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (8.33%) Power Automate
4 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
1 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Selenium
2 1 (8.33%) TestRail
General
1 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Law
2 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Junior
2 2 (16.67%) Lead
2 2 (16.67%) Tester
3 1 (8.33%) .NET Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Functional Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Junior PMO
3 1 (8.33%) Junior Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Lead .NET Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (8.33%) .NET
2 1 (8.33%) GraphQL
2 1 (8.33%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Agile
2 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (16.67%) Customer Service
3 2 (16.67%) Functional Testing
3 2 (16.67%) Scrum
3 2 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
4 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
4 1 (8.33%) Clean Code
4 1 (8.33%) Design Patterns
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (8.33%) Project Management
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineering
4 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (8.33%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) C++
1 2 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) C
2 1 (8.33%) Fortran
2 1 (8.33%) Go
2 1 (8.33%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (8.33%) Rust
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
1 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Ansible
2 2 (16.67%) Terraform
3 1 (8.33%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) SAP
3 1 (8.33%) Cadence