Senior DevOps Contracts in the South West

Senior Development Operations
England > South West

The median Senior Development Operations daily rate in the South West is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 145 148 167
Rank change year-on-year +3 +19 -30
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 7 11 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.22% 0.32% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.34% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 6
10th Percentile £520 £591 £570
25th Percentile £588 £606 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £675 £679
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -0.53% +46.72%
75th Percentile £626 £695 £761
90th Percentile £629 £701 £826
England median daily rate £600 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -7.69% - +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £74.44 - -
England median hourly rate £74.44 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 West with a recognized job title 2,942 3,199 3,481
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.10% 92.38% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,390 2,486
10th Percentile £213 £275 £225
25th Percentile £400 £415 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.19% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £613 £643 £588
90th Percentile £700 £719 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 413 252 212
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.09 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £50.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £45.60
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +42.54% +7.29%
75th Percentile £71.25 £72.98 £63.64
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.40 £69.05
England median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +6.38%

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps in the South West

Senior DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Senior DevOps in the South West

Senior 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 Senior DevOps within the South West region over the 6 months to 18 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 +20 4 £630 -6.67% 5
Gloucestershire - 3 £625 -
Senior DevOps
England

Senior DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, Senior DevOps 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 West region featuring Senior DevOps in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) Terraform
2 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
3 5 (71.43%) PowerShell
3 5 (71.43%) DV Cleared
3 5 (71.43%) Azure
3 5 (71.43%) Python
3 5 (71.43%) Ansible
3 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
4 4 (57.14%) Windows
4 4 (57.14%) Configuration Management
4 4 (57.14%) AWS
4 4 (57.14%) PaaS
4 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (42.86%) Bash
5 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
5 3 (42.86%) Linux
5 3 (42.86%) GitLab
5 3 (42.86%) Grafana
5 3 (42.86%) Prometheus
5 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (42.86%) Argo
5 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
5 3 (42.86%) GitOps
6 2 (28.57%) Kustomize
6 2 (28.57%) Bicep
6 2 (28.57%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (28.57%) Task Automation

Senior DevOps Skill Set
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 2 (28.57%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) PaaS
3 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) OpenShift
3 2 (28.57%) Slack
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
4 1 (14.29%) GCP
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) GitLab
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) Git
3 1 (14.29%) Artifactory
3 1 (14.29%) Snyk
3 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Electronics
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (28.57%) Fluent Bit
1 2 (28.57%) Loki
1 2 (28.57%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Configuration Management
2 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (42.86%) GitOps
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 2 (28.57%) SDLC
4 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
4 2 (28.57%) User Experience
4 2 (28.57%) Workflow
5 1 (14.29%) Agile
5 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity
5 1 (14.29%) Digital Marketing
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (14.29%) Kanban
5 1 (14.29%) Programme Management
5 1 (14.29%) Scrum
5 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) PowerShell
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Bash
3 2 (28.57%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 5 (71.43%) DV Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Terraform
2 5 (71.43%) Ansible
2 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
3 3 (42.86%) Argo
3 3 (42.86%) Grafana
3 3 (42.86%) Prometheus
4 2 (28.57%) Kustomize
5 1 (14.29%) Puppet
5 1 (14.29%) vRealize
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
1 2 (28.57%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) SAP