DevOps Engineer Contracts in the South East

Development Operations Engineer
England > South East

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the South East is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 136 106 98
Rank change year-on-year -30 -8 +2
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 57 106 182
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.05% 1.90% 2.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.14% 2.00% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 91 130
10th Percentile £398 £463 £444
25th Percentile £444 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% +2.17% +15.00%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £637
90th Percentile £675 £737 £715
England median daily rate £538 £610 £600
% change year-on-year -11.89% +1.67% +14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 5,018 5,291 7,308
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.26% 94.69% 95.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,016 3,707 4,981
10th Percentile £213 £221 £203
25th Percentile £400 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% +10.00%
75th Percentile £619 £601 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 480 230 327
10th Percentile £12.78 £16.25 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.20 £21.95 £15.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +142.00% -19.19%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £42.63
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.00 £57.85
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.23
% change year-on-year -17.38% +93.72% +5.59%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the South East

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the South East

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in the South East

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the South East

DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 16 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
Hampshire -8 29 £525 +5.00% 6
Thames Valley -27 14 £500 -20.00% 13
Berkshire -31 8 £513 -16.39% 10
Surrey -5 7 £650 +9.47% 3
West Sussex +11 5 £445 -18.98% 2
Oxfordshire - 4 £450 - 1
Buckinghamshire +17 2 £625 -9.09% 2
East Sussex +3 2 £530 -24.29%
DevOps Engineer
England

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South East region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 57 (100.00%) DevOps
2 32 (56.14%) Security Cleared
3 28 (49.12%) AWS
4 27 (47.37%) Ansible
5 26 (45.61%) Terraform
6 24 (42.11%) Kubernetes
6 24 (42.11%) SC Cleared
7 21 (36.84%) Azure
8 18 (31.58%) Python
9 16 (28.07%) Jenkins
9 16 (28.07%) Docker
10 15 (26.32%) Linux
11 13 (22.81%) Agile
11 13 (22.81%) Test Automation
12 11 (19.30%) PowerShell
12 11 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (19.30%) CI/CD
13 10 (17.54%) Social Skills
13 10 (17.54%) Containerisation
13 10 (17.54%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (17.54%) Bash
14 8 (14.04%) Git
14 8 (14.04%) Configuration Management
14 8 (14.04%) C++
14 8 (14.04%) Infrastructure as Code
15 7 (12.28%) Public Sector
15 7 (12.28%) Windows
15 7 (12.28%) Continuous Integration
15 7 (12.28%) Degree
16 6 (10.53%) Progress Chef

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (8.77%) Confluence
2 2 (3.51%) Apache
2 2 (3.51%) nginx
3 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 28 (49.12%) AWS
2 21 (36.84%) Azure
3 10 (17.54%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (8.77%) Datadog
5 3 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (5.26%) Amazon S3
5 3 (5.26%) PaaS
5 3 (5.26%) Route 53
5 3 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (3.51%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.51%) CloudFront
6 2 (3.51%) Fastly
6 2 (3.51%) GitHub
6 2 (3.51%) OpenShift
6 2 (3.51%) Slack
7 1 (1.75%) Amazon ECR
7 1 (1.75%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.26%) DNS
2 2 (3.51%) Firewall
3 1 (1.75%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (1.75%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.02%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 16 (28.07%) Jenkins
2 8 (14.04%) Git
3 5 (8.77%) GitLab
3 5 (8.77%) JIRA
4 2 (3.51%) Artifactory
4 2 (3.51%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.51%) Cucumber
4 2 (3.51%) REST Assured
4 2 (3.51%) Selenium
4 2 (3.51%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.75%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.75%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 10 (17.54%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.28%) Public Sector
3 3 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.26%) Finance
4 2 (3.51%) Law
5 1 (1.75%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.02%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (5.26%) REST
3 2 (3.51%) Django
3 2 (3.51%) Fluent Bit
3 2 (3.51%) HornetQ
3 2 (3.51%) Java EE
3 2 (3.51%) Loki
3 2 (3.51%) VCL
3 2 (3.51%) YAML
4 1 (1.75%) .NET
4 1 (1.75%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.75%) JSON
4 1 (1.75%) Keycloak
4 1 (1.75%) LDAP
4 1 (1.75%) Node.js
4 1 (1.75%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.77%) Data Centre
1 5 (8.77%) Private Cloud
1 5 (8.77%) Public Cloud
2 2 (3.51%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 15 (26.32%) Linux
2 7 (12.28%) Windows
3 4 (7.02%) Unix
4 2 (3.51%) Debian
4 2 (3.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.51%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (100.00%) DevOps
2 13 (22.81%) Agile
2 13 (22.81%) Test Automation
3 11 (19.30%) CI/CD
3 11 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (17.54%) Containerisation
5 8 (14.04%) Configuration Management
5 8 (14.04%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (12.28%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (10.53%) Computer Science
7 6 (10.53%) Infrastructure Automation
7 6 (10.53%) Open Source
7 6 (10.53%) SDLC
8 5 (8.77%) High Availability
8 5 (8.77%) Mentoring
8 5 (8.77%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (7.02%) Continuous Delivery
9 4 (7.02%) Release Management
10 3 (5.26%) Coaching
10 3 (5.26%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 18 (31.58%) Python
2 11 (19.30%) PowerShell
3 10 (17.54%) Bash
4 8 (14.04%) C++
5 6 (10.53%) Go
5 6 (10.53%) Java
6 4 (7.02%) C
7 3 (5.26%) Perl
7 3 (5.26%) Ruby
8 2 (3.51%) Groovy
8 2 (3.51%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.75%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.75%) Rust
9 1 (1.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (56.14%) Security Cleared
2 24 (42.11%) SC Cleared
3 7 (12.28%) Degree
4 6 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (10.53%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.75%) QA
System Software
1 16 (28.07%) Docker
2 3 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (3.51%) Varnish
3 2 (3.51%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (3.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.75%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.75%) LXC
4 1 (1.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (47.37%) Ansible
2 26 (45.61%) Terraform
3 24 (42.11%) Kubernetes
4 6 (10.53%) Progress Chef
4 6 (10.53%) Puppet
5 3 (5.26%) Nagios
5 3 (5.26%) Rancher
6 2 (3.51%) Argo
6 2 (3.51%) Grafana
6 2 (3.51%) HAProxy
6 2 (3.51%) Kustomize
6 2 (3.51%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.75%) SCOM
7 1 (1.75%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (8.77%) VMware
2 4 (7.02%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.26%) New Relic
3 3 (5.26%) ServiceNow
3 3 (5.26%) Splunk
4 2 (3.51%) Cisco
4 2 (3.51%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.75%) Guidewire
5 1 (1.75%) Palo Alto