DevOps Contracts in the South West

DevOps
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 21 9 10
Rank change year-on-year -12 +1 +3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 232 486 386
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 7.36% 14.00% 10.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.86% 15.61% 11.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 368 265
10th Percentile £400 £413 £413
25th Percentile £481 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £546
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.89% +9.20%
75th Percentile £630 £688 £625
90th Percentile £697 £732 £675
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 54 27
10th Percentile - £60.00 £42.00
25th Percentile - £60.91 £49.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £63.60
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +2.99% +15.64%
75th Percentile £85.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile - £78.00 -
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 West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,618 3,114 3,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.06% 89.71% 88.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,668 2,281 2,291
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £594
90th Percentile £700 £723 £674
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 320 200
10th Percentile £13.88 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £29.75 £15.43 £20.46
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £49.13
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +22.13% +14.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.31 £69.85
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the South West

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in the South West

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the South West

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in the South West

DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps in the South West

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Bristol -6 97 £525 -4.55% 83
Gloucestershire -1 64 £581 -10.58% 31
Wiltshire -47 32 £525 -14.29% 9
Dorset +15 13 £550 +7.32% 5
Somerset -11 9 £425 -37.04% 7
Devon -20 9 £556 +1.13% 23
DevOps
England

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 9 (3.88%) Apache
1 9 (3.88%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.02%) Confluence
3 5 (2.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.72%) Apache Solr
4 4 (1.72%) nginx
5 2 (0.86%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.86%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.43%) CMS
6 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.43%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.43%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.86%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.43%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.43%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 91 (39.22%) Azure
2 66 (28.45%) AWS
3 56 (24.14%) Azure DevOps
4 26 (11.21%) GitHub
5 20 (8.62%) GCP
6 19 (8.19%) OpenShift
7 12 (5.17%) Power Platform
8 9 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (3.88%) Serverless
9 7 (3.02%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (3.02%) Amazon S3
9 7 (3.02%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (3.02%) PaaS
10 5 (2.16%) Amazon Cognito
10 5 (2.16%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (1.72%) Azure AKS
12 3 (1.29%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (1.29%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (1.29%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.31%) HTTP
2 9 (3.88%) VPN
3 6 (2.59%) Firewall
4 5 (2.16%) DNS
5 4 (1.72%) AMQP
5 4 (1.72%) HTTPS
5 4 (1.72%) IPsec
5 4 (1.72%) Network Security
5 4 (1.72%) SAN
5 4 (1.72%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.72%) WAN
6 2 (0.86%) IPv4
6 2 (0.86%) OSPF
6 2 (0.86%) VLAN
7 1 (0.43%) Internet
7 1 (0.43%) Intranet
7 1 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.43%) VSAN
7 1 (0.43%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.62%) SQL Server
2 11 (4.74%) Power BI
3 7 (3.02%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (3.02%) NoSQL
3 7 (3.02%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.16%) MySQL
4 5 (2.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (2.16%) SQLite
4 5 (2.16%) Triplestore
5 4 (1.72%) Biml
5 4 (1.72%) Couchbase
5 4 (1.72%) InfluxDB
5 4 (1.72%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.29%) GIS
7 2 (0.86%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.86%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 43 (18.53%) Jenkins
2 31 (13.36%) JIRA
3 19 (8.19%) Git
4 16 (6.90%) GitLab
5 13 (5.60%) GoogleTest
5 13 (5.60%) SonarQube
6 9 (3.88%) Artifactory
7 8 (3.45%) Postman
7 8 (3.45%) Visual Studio
8 6 (2.59%) Cypress.io
8 6 (2.59%) NUnit
9 5 (2.16%) Checkstyle
9 5 (2.16%) Spinnaker
10 4 (1.72%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.86%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.86%) Selenium
11 2 (0.86%) Snyk
11 2 (0.86%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.86%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 21 (9.05%) Social Skills
2 19 (8.19%) Public Sector
3 16 (6.90%) Finance
4 11 (4.74%) Telecoms
5 10 (4.31%) Legal
6 6 (2.59%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.59%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.72%) Electronics
7 4 (1.72%) Marketing
8 3 (1.29%) Retail
9 2 (0.86%) German Language
9 2 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.86%) Law
9 2 (0.86%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.43%) Banking
10 1 (0.43%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.43%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 64 (27.59%) DevOps Engineer
2 44 (18.97%) Architect
3 38 (16.38%) Developer
4 25 (10.78%) Software Engineer
5 22 (9.48%) Senior
6 13 (5.60%) Java Engineer
6 13 (5.60%) Java Software Engineer
7 12 (5.17%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (4.74%) Full Stack Developer
9 9 (3.88%) Azure Engineer
9 9 (3.88%) C++ Software Engineer
10 7 (3.02%) Consultant
10 7 (3.02%) Senior DevOps
10 7 (3.02%) SharePoint Architect
10 7 (3.02%) Test Automation Engineer
10 7 (3.02%) Test Engineer
11 6 (2.59%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (2.59%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 6 (2.59%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
11 6 (2.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (14.66%) .NET
2 21 (9.05%) REST
3 18 (7.76%) AngularJS
4 15 (6.47%) Qt
5 14 (6.03%) React
6 12 (5.17%) YAML
7 11 (4.74%) Spring
7 11 (4.74%) XML
8 10 (4.31%) Apache NiFi
8 10 (4.31%) GraphQL
8 10 (4.31%) JSON
8 10 (4.31%) RabbitMQ
9 9 (3.88%) .NET Core
10 8 (3.45%) CSS
11 7 (3.02%) HTML
11 7 (3.02%) Kafka
12 6 (2.59%) Blazor
12 6 (2.59%) RESTful
13 5 (2.16%) Playwright
13 5 (2.16%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 14 (6.03%) Linux Command Line
3 12 (5.17%) Cloud Native
4 11 (4.74%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.74%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.16%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.16%) Verilog
5 5 (2.16%) VHDL
6 3 (1.29%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.86%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.43%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.43%) Cyber Security Posture
8 1 (0.43%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.43%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.43%) PKI
8 1 (0.43%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 54 (23.28%) Linux
2 21 (9.05%) Windows
3 5 (2.16%) CentOS
4 4 (1.72%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.86%) Unix
6 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.43%) Solaris
6 1 (0.43%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (43.97%) Agile
2 85 (36.64%) CI/CD
3 38 (16.38%) Software Engineering
4 26 (11.21%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (9.48%) Migration
6 22 (9.48%) Project Management
7 20 (8.62%) Containerisation
7 20 (8.62%) Test Automation
8 19 (8.19%) OO
8 19 (8.19%) Software Architecture
9 18 (7.76%) Programme Management
9 18 (7.76%) SDLC
10 17 (7.33%) Customer Requirements
10 17 (7.33%) Software Delivery
11 16 (6.90%) Configuration Management
11 16 (6.90%) Scrum
12 15 (6.47%) Microservices
13 14 (6.03%) Business Intelligence
13 14 (6.03%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 66 (28.45%) Python
2 48 (20.69%) Java
3 36 (15.52%) C
4 33 (14.22%) C#
5 30 (12.93%) SQL
6 28 (12.07%) PowerShell
7 24 (10.34%) C++
8 19 (8.19%) JavaScript
9 15 (6.47%) Go
10 13 (5.60%) Bash
11 10 (4.31%) TypeScript
12 5 (2.16%) Bicep
12 5 (2.16%) Shell Script
12 5 (2.16%) SPARQL
13 4 (1.72%) PHP
14 1 (0.43%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.43%) Perl
14 1 (0.43%) Ruby
14 1 (0.43%) Swift
Qualifications
1 131 (56.47%) Security Cleared
2 74 (31.90%) DV Cleared
3 59 (25.43%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.47%) Degree
5 3 (1.29%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.86%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.86%) HND
6 2 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.43%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.43%) GIAC
7 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.43%) OSCP
7 1 (0.43%) PhD
7 1 (0.43%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (10.78%) QA
2 15 (6.47%) MISRA
3 6 (2.59%) NCSC
3 6 (2.59%) NIST
4 5 (2.16%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.72%) GDPR
5 4 (1.72%) HIPAA
6 3 (1.29%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.86%) RMADS
8 1 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 57 (24.57%) Docker
2 9 (3.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (3.45%) VMware NSX
4 5 (2.16%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.72%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.29%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.43%) NFS
Systems Management
1 65 (28.02%) Terraform
2 60 (25.86%) Kubernetes
3 53 (22.84%) Ansible
4 18 (7.76%) Grafana
4 18 (7.76%) Prometheus
5 8 (3.45%) Docker Swarm
6 6 (2.59%) Istio
6 6 (2.59%) Puppet
7 5 (2.16%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.72%) Argo
9 2 (0.86%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.86%) OPNET
9 2 (0.86%) vRealize
10 1 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.43%) Dell DRAC
10 1 (0.43%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.43%) SCCM
10 1 (0.43%) SCOM
10 1 (0.43%) SELinux
10 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (15.09%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.05%) Google
3 16 (6.90%) VMware
4 7 (3.02%) Red Hat
5 5 (2.16%) Oracle
5 5 (2.16%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.16%) SAP
6 4 (1.72%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.72%) CyberArk
6 4 (1.72%) Sparx
7 2 (0.86%) Mapbox
7 2 (0.86%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.43%) Citrix
8 1 (0.43%) Databricks
8 1 (0.43%) Dell
8 1 (0.43%) HP
8 1 (0.43%) IBM