DevOps Contracts in the East of England

DevOps
England > East of England

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 18 22
Rank change year-on-year -13 +4 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 97 155 206
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 5.00% 7.91% 8.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.95% 9.03% 9.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 85 152
10th Percentile £400 £413 £413
25th Percentile £425 £463 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.13% -4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £662
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 23 3
10th Percentile - £57.00 £54.00
25th Percentile £61.25 - £54.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - +13.04% +30.68%
75th Percentile - £65.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £74.55 £68.85
England median hourly rate £65.50 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year - +0.77% +18.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,629 1,716 2,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 84.01% 87.55% 88.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 674 1,013 1,322
10th Percentile £201 £206 £195
25th Percentile £318 £344 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 618 321 378
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £22.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% +41.94% -3.13%
75th Percentile £62.50 £63.75 £41.88
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the East of England

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in the East of England

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the East of England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the East of England

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in the East of England

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the East of England region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Hertfordshire -5 49 £425 -34.62% 20
Essex +1 32 £534 -10.89% 8
Cambridgeshire -15 8 £550 +15.79% 25
Bedfordshire -11 6 £475 -8.65% 2
Suffolk -1 2 £638 -8.93% 4
DevOps
England

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (9.28%) IIS
2 4 (4.12%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.03%) Apache
3 1 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.03%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 24 (24.74%) Azure
2 21 (21.65%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (8.25%) GCP
4 6 (6.19%) AWS
5 5 (5.15%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (4.12%) Power Platform
7 3 (3.09%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (3.09%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.09%) Serverless
8 2 (2.06%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.06%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.06%) CloudFront
9 1 (1.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.03%) Amazon Cognito
9 1 (1.03%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (1.03%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
9 1 (1.03%) GitHub
9 1 (1.03%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.03%) Route 53
9 1 (1.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 34 (35.05%) Modbus
1 34 (35.05%) RS-422
1 34 (35.05%) RS-485
2 15 (15.46%) Firewall
3 14 (14.43%) VPN
4 4 (4.12%) TCP/IP
4 4 (4.12%) Wireshark
5 1 (1.03%) HTTP
5 1 (1.03%) MQTT
5 1 (1.03%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.12%) Power BI
2 3 (3.09%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.06%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (2.06%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.03%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.03%) Big Data
4 1 (1.03%) Couchbase
4 1 (1.03%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.03%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.03%) MySQL
4 1 (1.03%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.03%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (4.12%) Fiddler
1 4 (4.12%) Git
1 4 (4.12%) GitLab
2 2 (2.06%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.03%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.03%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.03%) JIRA
3 1 (1.03%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 37 (38.14%) Social Skills
2 34 (35.05%) Electronics
3 11 (11.34%) Finance
4 9 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.19%) Banking
6 3 (3.09%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.06%) Automotive
7 2 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.06%) Legal
7 2 (2.06%) Retail
8 1 (1.03%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.03%) Games
8 1 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.03%) Marketing
8 1 (1.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 40 (41.24%) Software Engineer
2 27 (27.84%) C++ Software Engineer
3 11 (11.34%) Developer
4 9 (9.28%) Full Stack Engineer
4 9 (9.28%) Senior
5 8 (8.25%) Architect
5 8 (8.25%) Java Engineer
6 7 (7.22%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (6.19%) C Software Engineer
7 6 (6.19%) C/C++ Software Engineer
7 6 (6.19%) Senior Java Engineer
8 5 (5.15%) Java Developer
8 5 (5.15%) Principal Engineer
8 5 (5.15%) Principal Systems Engineer
8 5 (5.15%) Senior Full Stack Engineer
8 5 (5.15%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (5.15%) Systems Engineer
8 5 (5.15%) Web Engineer
9 4 (4.12%) Administrator
9 4 (4.12%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (17.53%) React
2 15 (15.46%) CSS
2 15 (15.46%) HTML
3 13 (13.40%) .NET
4 5 (5.15%) .NET Framework
5 4 (4.12%) SAML
6 3 (3.09%) Kafka
6 3 (3.09%) Node.js
7 2 (2.06%) MFC
7 2 (2.06%) WinForms
7 2 (2.06%) WPF
8 1 (1.03%) Akka
8 1 (1.03%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.03%) ASP.NET
8 1 (1.03%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (1.03%) React Native
8 1 (1.03%) REST
8 1 (1.03%) RESTful
8 1 (1.03%) Spring
8 1 (1.03%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 28 (28.87%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (6.19%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.06%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.06%) FMCG
3 2 (2.06%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.03%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.03%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.22%) Windows
2 5 (5.15%) Linux
3 2 (2.06%) CentOS
3 2 (2.06%) Ubuntu
3 2 (2.06%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (65.98%) Agile
2 50 (51.55%) Software Engineering
3 39 (40.21%) Customer Requirements
4 37 (38.14%) TDD
5 36 (37.11%) Continuous Integration
6 35 (36.08%) Pair Programming
7 34 (35.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 34 (35.05%) Software Testing
7 34 (35.05%) Unit Testing
8 25 (25.77%) CI/CD
9 21 (21.65%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (20.62%) Load Balancing
11 18 (18.56%) Identity Management
12 14 (14.43%) Full Stack Development
13 7 (7.22%) Computer Science
13 7 (7.22%) Migration
13 7 (7.22%) Technical Leadership
14 6 (6.19%) Scrum
14 6 (6.19%) TOGAF
14 6 (6.19%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 42 (43.30%) C#
2 38 (39.18%) C++
3 34 (35.05%) C
4 22 (22.68%) Java
5 17 (17.53%) TypeScript
6 11 (11.34%) Python
7 6 (6.19%) PowerShell
8 4 (4.12%) Bash
8 4 (4.12%) JavaScript
9 3 (3.09%) SQL
10 2 (2.06%) C++/CLI
11 1 (1.03%) Bicep
11 1 (1.03%) PHP
11 1 (1.03%) R
11 1 (1.03%) Ruby
11 1 (1.03%) Scala
11 1 (1.03%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (8.25%) Degree
2 7 (7.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.06%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.03%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.03%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.03%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.06%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (10.31%) Docker
2 5 (5.15%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.06%) LXC
Systems Management
1 8 (8.25%) Kubernetes
1 8 (8.25%) SCOM
2 4 (4.12%) SCCM
2 4 (4.12%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (3.09%) Ansible
3 3 (3.09%) Terraform
4 2 (2.06%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.06%) Proxmox
5 1 (1.03%) HAProxy
5 1 (1.03%) Kibana
5 1 (1.03%) logstash
5 1 (1.03%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.03%) Puppet
5 1 (1.03%) Rancher
Vendors
1 10 (10.31%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.19%) Google
3 5 (5.15%) F5
4 2 (2.06%) Alteryx
4 2 (2.06%) Liquidlogic
4 2 (2.06%) Splunk
5 1 (1.03%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.03%) Avaya
5 1 (1.03%) BT
5 1 (1.03%) Computacenter
5 1 (1.03%) Genesys
5 1 (1.03%) SAP
5 1 (1.03%) Typelevel
5 1 (1.03%) Workday