DevOps Contracts in the South East

DevOps
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 11 12
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 445 575 799
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 8.18% 10.29% 10.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.71% 11.54% 11.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 444 537
10th Percentile £400 £457 £409
25th Percentile £481 £505 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £581 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% +10.57% +6.06%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £631
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 5 11
10th Percentile £56.65 £63.18 -
25th Percentile £61.60 - -
Median hourly rate £83.77 £79.19 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.78% +126.26% -33.33%
75th Percentile £87.46 - £54.00
90th Percentile £87.53 £94.83 £62.15
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £60.02
% change year-on-year -0.76% +9.13% +14.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,584 4,983 6,843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.28% 89.17% 89.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,667 3,471 4,653
10th Percentile £250 £250 £228
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% +1.60% +8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £594
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 213 284
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.10
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £14.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +132.56% -21.82%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £61.05
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +7.71%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the South East

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in the South East

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the South East

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in the South East

DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps in the South East over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps in the South East

DevOps
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 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
Thames Valley +4 297 £600 +4.35% 76
Berkshire +1 267 £600 +8.16% 40
Hampshire -16 75 £525 -4.55% 55
Surrey -6 42 £538 -8.51% 28
Buckinghamshire -8 18 £550 -8.33% 23
West Sussex -18 15 £473 -20.32% 8
Oxfordshire +7 12 £450 -25.00% 13
Kent -1 10 £388 -38.00% 6
East Sussex -3 5 £530 -7.83% 4
Middlesex +2 3 £625 -34.21%
Home Counties +4 1 £475 -
DevOps
England

DevOps
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 23 (5.17%) Confluence
2 18 (4.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (1.12%) Apache
4 5 (1.12%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.67%) CMS
6 2 (0.45%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.45%) JBoss
6 2 (0.45%) Kentico
6 2 (0.45%) nginx
7 1 (0.22%) Appian
7 1 (0.22%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.22%) IIS
7 1 (0.22%) Jadu
7 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 12 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.22%) Simulink
4 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (3.82%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 13 (2.92%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (1.80%) Oracle EBS R12
3 8 (1.80%) Teamcenter
4 6 (1.35%) SAP Hybris
5 3 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.22%) Maximo
6 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Payroll
6 1 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.22%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 254 (57.08%) Azure
2 140 (31.46%) Azure DevOps
3 88 (19.78%) AWS
4 50 (11.24%) Azure Monitor
5 40 (8.99%) Entra ID
6 34 (7.64%) Azure Data Factory
7 33 (7.42%) Serverless
8 32 (7.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 28 (6.29%) Azure Functions
9 28 (6.29%) Power Platform
10 25 (5.62%) OpenShift
11 22 (4.94%) PaaS
12 18 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
13 17 (3.82%) Azure Logic Apps
13 17 (3.82%) Azure Storage
14 16 (3.60%) Dynamics 365
14 16 (3.60%) PowerApps
15 15 (3.37%) GCP
16 14 (3.15%) Power Automate
17 13 (2.92%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 54 (12.13%) Firewall
2 30 (6.74%) Intrusion Detection
3 21 (4.72%) DNS
4 17 (3.82%) DHCP
5 7 (1.57%) VSAN
6 5 (1.12%) Network Security
6 5 (1.12%) VPN
7 2 (0.45%) OpenLDAP
7 2 (0.45%) SAN
7 2 (0.45%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.22%) SNMP
8 1 (0.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (5.62%) NoSQL
3 20 (4.49%) Power BI
4 17 (3.82%) SQL Server
5 13 (2.92%) Oracle Database
5 13 (2.92%) Oracle Database 11g
6 10 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (2.02%) Data Lake
7 9 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (1.80%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (1.12%) MySQL
10 4 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.90%) Big Data
10 4 (0.90%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.90%) Metadata
10 4 (0.90%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.67%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 52 (11.69%) Git
2 51 (11.46%) JIRA
3 46 (10.34%) Selenium
4 44 (9.89%) Jenkins
5 26 (5.84%) Cucumber
6 25 (5.62%) SonarQube
7 24 (5.39%) REST Assured
8 21 (4.72%) GitLab
9 12 (2.70%) Visual Studio
10 8 (1.80%) Oracle Forms
11 7 (1.57%) Postman
12 6 (1.35%) Robot Framework
13 5 (1.12%) Bitbucket
13 5 (1.12%) SpecFlow
14 4 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
15 3 (0.67%) JMeter
15 3 (0.67%) JUnit
16 2 (0.45%) NUnit
16 2 (0.45%) Oracle APEX
16 2 (0.45%) SoapUI
General
1 114 (25.62%) Social Skills
2 82 (18.43%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (10.34%) Finance
4 38 (8.54%) Public Sector
5 21 (4.72%) Law
6 13 (2.92%) Police
7 9 (2.02%) Retail
8 8 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.12%) Marketing
10 5 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (1.12%) Publishing
11 4 (0.90%) Back Office
11 4 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.90%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.45%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.45%) Automotive
12 2 (0.45%) Banking
13 1 (0.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.22%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 105 (23.60%) Developer
2 60 (13.48%) Architect
3 57 (12.81%) DevOps Engineer
4 53 (11.91%) Senior
5 33 (7.42%) Analyst
5 33 (7.42%) Security Architect
6 27 (6.07%) Azure Developer
6 27 (6.07%) Cybersecurity Architect
7 26 (5.84%) Lead
8 24 (5.39%) Full Stack Developer
9 19 (4.27%) Java Engineer
10 17 (3.82%) Active Directory Support
11 16 (3.60%) Consultant
12 15 (3.37%) Project Manager
13 14 (3.15%) Active Directory Specialist
13 14 (3.15%) Azure Specialist
13 14 (3.15%) Senior Architect
13 14 (3.15%) Senior DevOps
13 14 (3.15%) Support Specialist
14 13 (2.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (8.54%) ARM Templates
2 36 (8.09%) REST
3 32 (7.19%) .NET
4 29 (6.52%) React
5 25 (5.62%) Java EE
6 13 (2.92%) Itk
6 13 (2.92%) Kafka
6 13 (2.92%) XML
7 12 (2.70%) AngularJS
7 12 (2.70%) CSS
7 12 (2.70%) HTML
8 11 (2.47%) JSON
9 10 (2.25%) Node.js
10 9 (2.02%) .NET Framework
11 7 (1.57%) .NET Core
11 7 (1.57%) SOAP
12 6 (1.35%) OpenID
12 6 (1.35%) Spring Boot
12 6 (1.35%) Web Services
13 5 (1.12%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 31 (6.97%) Product Ownership
2 25 (5.62%) Cloud Native
3 18 (4.04%) PKI
3 18 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (3.37%) Client/Server
5 12 (2.70%) Public Cloud
5 12 (2.70%) Robotics
6 7 (1.57%) Data Centre
6 7 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (1.57%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.35%) Driving Licence
8 5 (1.12%) IoT
8 5 (1.12%) Private Cloud
9 3 (0.67%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (0.67%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (0.67%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.45%) CSOC
10 2 (0.45%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.45%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 64 (14.38%) Linux
2 57 (12.81%) Windows
3 41 (9.21%) Windows Server
4 23 (5.17%) Windows Server 2016
4 23 (5.17%) Windows Server 2019
5 18 (4.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.12%) Unix
7 2 (0.45%) Debian
7 2 (0.45%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.22%) Android
8 1 (0.22%) Solaris
8 1 (0.22%) VMS
8 1 (0.22%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (39.78%) Agile
2 119 (26.74%) CI/CD
3 80 (17.98%) Test Automation
4 73 (16.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 68 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
5 68 (15.28%) Software Engineering
6 49 (11.01%) Technical Leadership
7 46 (10.34%) Containerisation
8 44 (9.89%) SDLC
9 43 (9.66%) Microservices
10 41 (9.21%) Continuous Integration
11 37 (8.31%) Change Management
11 37 (8.31%) Continuous Improvement
11 37 (8.31%) Cybersecurity
12 36 (8.09%) Stakeholder Management
13 33 (7.42%) Scrum
14 32 (7.19%) Analytics
15 31 (6.97%) Release Management
16 30 (6.74%) Full Stack Development
16 30 (6.74%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 84 (18.88%) Python
2 55 (12.36%) C#
3 54 (12.13%) Java
3 54 (12.13%) PowerShell
4 50 (11.24%) SQL
5 32 (7.19%) VBScript
6 25 (5.62%) C
7 24 (5.39%) JavaScript
8 21 (4.72%) C++
9 19 (4.27%) Bicep
10 17 (3.82%) VB
11 14 (3.15%) PL/SQL
12 13 (2.92%) Bash
13 10 (2.25%) T-SQL
14 9 (2.02%) Go
15 7 (1.57%) PHP
16 6 (1.35%) Ruby
17 5 (1.12%) Scala
18 4 (0.90%) X++
19 3 (0.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 182 (40.90%) Security Cleared
2 103 (23.15%) SC Cleared
3 90 (20.22%) DV Cleared
4 45 (10.11%) Degree
5 17 (3.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (0.90%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (0.90%) PMP
8 3 (0.67%) CCNP
8 3 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.67%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.67%) MCSE
9 2 (0.45%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.45%) CBAP
9 2 (0.45%) PhD
10 1 (0.22%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.72%) QA
2 11 (2.47%) PMO
3 5 (1.12%) ISO 9001
4 4 (0.90%) NCSC
4 4 (0.90%) NIST
5 3 (0.67%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.45%) GDPR
6 2 (0.45%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.22%) GxP
7 1 (0.22%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.22%) MISRA
7 1 (0.22%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.22%) SLA
7 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 44 (9.89%) Active Directory
1 44 (9.89%) Docker
2 29 (6.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (5.39%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (3.82%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (1.57%) vCloud
5 7 (1.57%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.67%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.45%) Varnish
7 2 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.45%) vSphere
8 1 (0.22%) LXC
8 1 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.22%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 93 (20.90%) Kubernetes
2 61 (13.71%) Terraform
3 55 (12.36%) Ansible
4 18 (4.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 18 (4.04%) SCOM
4 18 (4.04%) WSUS
5 17 (3.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (3.82%) SCCM
6 16 (3.60%) Istio
7 12 (2.70%) Docker Swarm
7 12 (2.70%) Grafana
7 12 (2.70%) Podman
7 12 (2.70%) Prometheus
8 11 (2.47%) Argo
9 10 (2.25%) Kibana
9 10 (2.25%) Rancher
10 7 (1.57%) Progress Chef
10 7 (1.57%) Puppet
10 7 (1.57%) vCenter Server
11 4 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 83 (18.65%) Microsoft
2 45 (10.11%) Oracle
3 37 (8.31%) VMware
4 16 (3.60%) SAP
5 11 (2.47%) Google
6 9 (2.02%) Databricks
7 7 (1.57%) Adobe
7 7 (1.57%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.12%) Informatica
8 5 (1.12%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.90%) Splunk
10 3 (0.67%) ArcSight
10 3 (0.67%) New Relic
11 2 (0.45%) Atmel
11 2 (0.45%) Cisco
11 2 (0.45%) Palo Alto
12 1 (0.22%) Atlassian
12 1 (0.22%) BMC
12 1 (0.22%) Citrix
12 1 (0.22%) IBM