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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 14 12
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 454 555 821
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 7.97% 9.81% 10.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.64% 11.02% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 430 533
10th Percentile £400 £450 £411
25th Percentile £472 £511 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £588 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.53% +9.30% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £672 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £688
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 8 8
10th Percentile £56.65 £65.74 -
25th Percentile £61.60 £74.10 -
Median hourly rate £83.77 £77.43 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.18% +121.23% -33.33%
75th Percentile £87.46 £79.19 -
90th Percentile £87.53 £87.01 £41.00
England median hourly rate £65.50 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year - +0.77% +18.18%

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 4,709 5,035 6,914
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.69% 89.04% 89.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,713 3,459 4,700
10th Percentile £255 £250 £244
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.80% +0.20% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 465 221 275
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.27
25th Percentile £18.32 £24.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.97
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +138.96% -12.12%
75th Percentile £63.75 £66.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.94 £75.00 £63.55
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 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
Thames Valley +3 300 £594 +0.25% 71
Berkshire +2 272 £605 +5.22% 30
Hampshire -7 84 £538 -1.65% 47
Surrey -10 35 £500 -16.67% 30
Buckinghamshire -10 17 £494 -17.71% 27
West Sussex -13 16 £500 -22.33% 15
Oxfordshire +2 11 £450 -25.00% 14
Middlesex - 11 £625 -
Kent +2 10 £388 -38.00% 7
East Sussex -3 3 £475 -15.56% 8
Home Counties - 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 21 (4.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (3.52%) Confluence
3 6 (1.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (1.10%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.88%) Apache
5 4 (0.88%) CMS
6 3 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.66%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.44%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.44%) JBoss
7 2 (0.44%) Kentico
8 1 (0.22%) Appian
8 1 (0.22%) IIS
8 1 (0.22%) Jadu
8 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 12 (2.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.22%) Simulink
4 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (3.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 13 (2.86%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (1.76%) Oracle EBS R12
3 8 (1.76%) Teamcenter
4 6 (1.32%) SAP Hybris
5 3 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.66%) 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
Cloud Services
1 244 (53.74%) Azure
2 129 (28.41%) Azure DevOps
3 88 (19.38%) AWS
4 55 (12.11%) Azure Monitor
5 46 (10.13%) Entra ID
6 30 (6.61%) Serverless
7 29 (6.39%) OpenShift
8 26 (5.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 25 (5.51%) Azure Data Factory
9 25 (5.51%) Azure Functions
9 25 (5.51%) Power Platform
10 21 (4.63%) Microsoft 365
11 20 (4.41%) Azure Storage
12 15 (3.30%) Dynamics 365
12 15 (3.30%) PaaS
13 14 (3.08%) Azure API Management
13 14 (3.08%) Azure Logic Apps
13 14 (3.08%) GCP
13 14 (3.08%) Power Automate
14 13 (2.86%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 57 (12.56%) Firewall
2 30 (6.61%) Intrusion Detection
3 22 (4.85%) DNS
4 20 (4.41%) DHCP
5 7 (1.54%) VSAN
6 5 (1.10%) Network Security
6 5 (1.10%) VPN
7 2 (0.44%) OpenLDAP
7 2 (0.44%) SAN
7 2 (0.44%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.22%) SNMP
8 1 (0.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (6.39%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (5.29%) NoSQL
3 15 (3.30%) Power BI
3 15 (3.30%) SQL Server
4 13 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (2.42%) Oracle Database
5 11 (2.42%) Oracle Database 11g
6 9 (1.98%) Data Lake
7 8 (1.76%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (0.88%) Big Data
9 4 (0.88%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.88%) Metadata
9 4 (0.88%) MySQL
9 4 (0.88%) SSDT
10 3 (0.66%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.66%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.66%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 55 (12.11%) Git
2 50 (11.01%) Selenium
3 45 (9.91%) Jenkins
3 45 (9.91%) JIRA
4 27 (5.95%) Cucumber
5 24 (5.29%) REST Assured
5 24 (5.29%) SonarQube
6 22 (4.85%) GitLab
7 9 (1.98%) Visual Studio
8 8 (1.76%) Oracle Forms
9 6 (1.32%) Postman
9 6 (1.32%) Robot Framework
10 5 (1.10%) SpecFlow
11 4 (0.88%) JMeter
11 4 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (0.66%) JUnit
12 3 (0.66%) Maven
13 2 (0.44%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.44%) Oracle APEX
13 2 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 125 (27.53%) Social Skills
2 92 (20.26%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (9.91%) Finance
4 36 (7.93%) Public Sector
5 21 (4.63%) Law
6 13 (2.86%) Police
7 11 (2.42%) Retail
8 8 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.32%) Banking
9 6 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.10%) Publishing
10 5 (1.10%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.88%) Aviation
11 4 (0.88%) Back Office
11 4 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.66%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.44%) Automotive
13 2 (0.44%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.44%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 96 (21.15%) Developer
2 63 (13.88%) Architect
3 54 (11.89%) DevOps Engineer
4 50 (11.01%) Senior
5 35 (7.71%) Security Architect
6 30 (6.61%) Analyst
7 27 (5.95%) Cybersecurity Architect
7 27 (5.95%) Lead
8 26 (5.73%) Azure Developer
9 23 (5.07%) Full Stack Developer
10 20 (4.41%) Active Directory Support
11 18 (3.96%) Java Engineer
12 17 (3.74%) Consultant
12 17 (3.74%) Site Engineer
12 17 (3.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 16 (3.52%) Project Manager
14 15 (3.30%) Azure Engineer
15 14 (3.08%) Azure Specialist
15 14 (3.08%) Senior DevOps
15 14 (3.08%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (8.59%) ARM Templates
2 33 (7.27%) REST
3 28 (6.17%) .NET
3 28 (6.17%) React
4 25 (5.51%) Java EE
5 19 (4.19%) Kafka
6 14 (3.08%) Spring Boot
7 13 (2.86%) Itk
8 11 (2.42%) HTML
8 11 (2.42%) J2EE
8 11 (2.42%) XML
9 10 (2.20%) AngularJS
9 10 (2.20%) CSS
9 10 (2.20%) Node.js
10 9 (1.98%) .NET Framework
10 9 (1.98%) JSON
10 9 (1.98%) YAML
11 6 (1.32%) .NET Core
11 6 (1.32%) Elastic Stack
11 6 (1.32%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 30 (6.61%) Product Ownership
2 27 (5.95%) Cloud Native
3 21 (4.63%) PKI
3 21 (4.63%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (3.52%) Client/Server
5 12 (2.64%) Robotics
6 9 (1.98%) Public Cloud
7 7 (1.54%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.54%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.32%) Driving Licence
9 5 (1.10%) IoT
9 5 (1.10%) Private Cloud
10 4 (0.88%) SCADA
11 3 (0.66%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.66%) Mobile App
12 2 (0.44%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.44%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.44%) Security Posture
12 2 (0.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 73 (16.08%) Linux
2 62 (13.66%) Windows
3 45 (9.91%) Windows Server
4 26 (5.73%) Windows Server 2016
4 26 (5.73%) Windows Server 2019
5 23 (5.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.54%) Unix
7 1 (0.22%) Android
7 1 (0.22%) Solaris
7 1 (0.22%) VMS
7 1 (0.22%) VxWorks
7 1 (0.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (39.43%) Agile
2 123 (27.09%) CI/CD
3 84 (18.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 83 (18.28%) Test Automation
5 71 (15.64%) Software Engineering
6 70 (15.42%) Problem-Solving
7 52 (11.45%) Containerisation
8 49 (10.79%) Technical Leadership
9 46 (10.13%) SDLC
10 45 (9.91%) Microservices
11 40 (8.81%) Continuous Integration
12 39 (8.59%) Continuous Improvement
13 38 (8.37%) Change Management
13 38 (8.37%) Cybersecurity
13 38 (8.37%) Release Management
14 34 (7.49%) Stakeholder Management
15 33 (7.27%) Scrum
16 29 (6.39%) Full Stack Development
16 29 (6.39%) Unit Testing
17 28 (6.17%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 90 (19.82%) Python
2 69 (15.20%) Java
3 60 (13.22%) PowerShell
4 51 (11.23%) C#
5 39 (8.59%) SQL
6 36 (7.93%) VBScript
7 35 (7.71%) C
8 32 (7.05%) C++
9 24 (5.29%) Bicep
10 23 (5.07%) JavaScript
11 20 (4.41%) VB
12 12 (2.64%) PL/SQL
13 11 (2.42%) Bash
14 9 (1.98%) Go
15 8 (1.76%) T-SQL
16 6 (1.32%) PHP
16 6 (1.32%) Ruby
17 4 (0.88%) X++
18 3 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
18 3 (0.66%) Perl
Qualifications
1 186 (40.97%) Security Cleared
2 105 (23.13%) SC Cleared
3 92 (20.26%) DV Cleared
4 45 (9.91%) Degree
5 20 (4.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 13 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (0.88%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.88%) PMP
8 3 (0.66%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.44%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.44%) PhD
10 1 (0.22%) APMP
10 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.22%) OCP
10 1 (0.22%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.22%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.41%) QA
2 10 (2.20%) PMO
3 5 (1.10%) ISO 9001
4 4 (0.88%) GDPR
5 3 (0.66%) NIST
6 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.44%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.22%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.22%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.22%) MISRA
7 1 (0.22%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.22%) NCSC
7 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 47 (10.35%) Active Directory
2 43 (9.47%) Docker
3 34 (7.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (6.39%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (4.41%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (1.54%) vCloud
6 7 (1.54%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.66%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.22%) LXC
8 1 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.22%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 103 (22.69%) Kubernetes
2 75 (16.52%) Terraform
3 55 (12.11%) Ansible
4 21 (4.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 21 (4.63%) SCOM
4 21 (4.63%) WSUS
5 20 (4.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (4.41%) SCCM
6 19 (4.19%) Istio
7 15 (3.30%) Grafana
7 15 (3.30%) Prometheus
8 14 (3.08%) Argo
9 13 (2.86%) Kibana
10 12 (2.64%) Docker Swarm
10 12 (2.64%) Podman
11 11 (2.42%) Rancher
12 9 (1.98%) Progress Chef
12 9 (1.98%) Puppet
13 7 (1.54%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 81 (17.84%) Microsoft
2 42 (9.25%) Oracle
3 38 (8.37%) VMware
4 14 (3.08%) SAP
5 11 (2.42%) Google
6 10 (2.20%) Red Hat
7 6 (1.32%) Adobe
7 6 (1.32%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.10%) Informatica
9 4 (0.88%) ArcSight
9 4 (0.88%) Splunk
10 3 (0.66%) Databricks
10 3 (0.66%) New Relic
11 2 (0.44%) Atmel
11 2 (0.44%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.44%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.44%) SolarWinds
12 1 (0.22%) Citrix
12 1 (0.22%) Guidewire
12 1 (0.22%) NVIDIA