DevOps Contracts in the Thames Valley

DevOps
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 13 23
Rank change year-on-year +3 +10 -13
Contract jobs citing DevOps 309 293 271
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 11.52% 10.18% 7.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.49% 11.24% 8.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 216 199
10th Percentile £450 £425 £413
25th Percentile £500 £509 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £596 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.52% +13.57% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £625
90th Percentile £688 £738 £651
South East median daily rate £550 £588 £538
% change year-on-year -6.38% +9.30% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 6 0
10th Percentile £56.65 £73.21 -
25th Percentile £61.60 £75.17 -
Median hourly rate £83.77 £77.43 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.18% - -
75th Percentile £87.46 £79.19 -
90th Percentile £87.53 - -
South East median hourly rate £83.77 £77.43 £35.00
% change year-on-year +8.18% +121.23% -33.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,291 2,607 3,200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.42% 90.62% 89.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,259 1,771 2,166
10th Percentile £224 £313 £250
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +4.62% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £588
90th Percentile £675 £699 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.79% +1.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 67 89
10th Percentile £14.50 £17.00 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £25.23 £12.31
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £17.42
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +201.38% -17.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.59 £24.42
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £67.39
South East median hourly rate £49.50 £52.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.71% +133.33% -10.00%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the Thames Valley

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for DevOps in the Thames Valley

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the Thames Valley

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in the Thames Valley

DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps in the Thames Valley

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 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
Berkshire +3 281 £600 +4.35% 28
Buckinghamshire -10 16 £475 -20.83% 18
Oxfordshire +2 12 £450 -25.00% 12
DevOps
South East

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 22 (7.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.29%) Oracle Workflow
2 4 (1.29%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.97%) Confluence
4 2 (0.65%) Apache
4 2 (0.65%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.65%) CMS
4 2 (0.65%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.65%) Kentico
5 1 (0.32%) Appian
5 1 (0.32%) Jadu
5 1 (0.32%) JBoss
5 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 11 (3.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 21 (6.80%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 12 (3.88%) Oracle EBS
2 12 (3.88%) Oracle EBS R12
3 8 (2.59%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.32%) Maximo
5 1 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 187 (60.52%) Azure
2 91 (29.45%) Azure DevOps
3 55 (17.80%) Azure Monitor
4 48 (15.53%) Entra ID
5 45 (14.56%) AWS
6 31 (10.03%) OpenShift
7 26 (8.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 24 (7.77%) Azure Data Factory
8 24 (7.77%) Serverless
9 23 (7.44%) Azure Storage
10 22 (7.12%) Microsoft 365
11 21 (6.80%) Azure Functions
12 13 (4.21%) Azure API Management
12 13 (4.21%) PaaS
13 11 (3.56%) GCP
13 11 (3.56%) Power Platform
14 9 (2.91%) Azure Key Vault
15 7 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
15 7 (2.27%) IaaS
16 6 (1.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 56 (18.12%) Firewall
2 30 (9.71%) Intrusion Detection
3 23 (7.44%) DNS
4 21 (6.80%) DHCP
5 7 (2.27%) VSAN
6 5 (1.62%) Network Security
7 4 (1.29%) VPN
8 2 (0.65%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (8.41%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (6.80%) NoSQL
3 13 (4.21%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (3.56%) Oracle Database
4 11 (3.56%) Oracle Database 11g
5 7 (2.27%) Power BI
5 7 (2.27%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.94%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.62%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.29%) Big Data
8 4 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.29%) MySQL
8 4 (1.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 4 (1.29%) Oracle Discoverer
8 4 (1.29%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (1.29%) SQLPlus
8 4 (1.29%) SSDT
9 3 (0.97%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.65%) Apache Hive
10 2 (0.65%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 44 (14.24%) Git
1 44 (14.24%) Selenium
2 34 (11.00%) Jenkins
3 26 (8.41%) Cucumber
3 26 (8.41%) JIRA
4 24 (7.77%) REST Assured
4 24 (7.77%) SonarQube
5 15 (4.85%) GitLab
6 11 (3.56%) Oracle Forms
7 7 (2.27%) Visual Studio
8 6 (1.94%) Postman
9 5 (1.62%) SpecFlow
10 4 (1.29%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.97%) Maven
11 3 (0.97%) Robot Framework
12 2 (0.65%) SoapUI
13 1 (0.32%) Cypress.io
13 1 (0.32%) MSTest
13 1 (0.32%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.32%) WebDriver
General
1 97 (31.39%) Social Skills
2 68 (22.01%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (8.09%) Public Sector
4 21 (6.80%) Law
5 19 (6.15%) Finance
6 13 (4.21%) Police
7 6 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.62%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.65%) Banking
10 2 (0.65%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.65%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.65%) Retail
11 1 (0.32%) Back Office
11 1 (0.32%) Billing
11 1 (0.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.32%) Legal
11 1 (0.32%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 83 (26.86%) Developer
2 45 (14.56%) Architect
3 36 (11.65%) Security Architect
4 33 (10.68%) Senior
5 27 (8.74%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 23 (7.44%) Full Stack Developer
7 22 (7.12%) Analyst
8 21 (6.80%) Active Directory Support
8 21 (6.80%) Azure Developer
9 18 (5.83%) Site Engineer
9 18 (5.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 17 (5.50%) Java Engineer
11 16 (5.18%) Azure Engineer
11 16 (5.18%) DevOps Engineer
12 14 (4.53%) Active Directory Specialist
12 14 (4.53%) Azure Specialist
12 14 (4.53%) Support Specialist
13 13 (4.21%) Administrator
13 13 (4.21%) Lead
13 13 (4.21%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (12.30%) ARM Templates
2 30 (9.71%) REST
3 26 (8.41%) React
4 25 (8.09%) Java EE
5 18 (5.83%) .NET
6 15 (4.85%) Kafka
7 13 (4.21%) Itk
8 8 (2.59%) HTML
8 8 (2.59%) XML
8 8 (2.59%) YAML
9 7 (2.27%) CSS
10 6 (1.94%) AngularJS
10 6 (1.94%) Node.js
11 5 (1.62%) .NET Framework
12 4 (1.29%) Elastic Stack
12 4 (1.29%) GraphQL
12 4 (1.29%) PyTorch
12 4 (1.29%) TensorFlow
12 4 (1.29%) Web Services
13 3 (0.97%) Google JAX
Miscellaneous
1 29 (9.39%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.12%) Product Ownership
3 21 (6.80%) PKI
3 21 (6.80%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (3.88%) Robotics
5 8 (2.59%) Client/Server
6 5 (1.62%) IoT
7 4 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (0.97%) Algorithms
8 3 (0.97%) Public Cloud
8 3 (0.97%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.65%) CSOC
9 2 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.65%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.65%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.32%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.32%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.32%) iPad
10 1 (0.32%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.32%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 43 (13.92%) Linux
2 38 (12.30%) Windows
3 36 (11.65%) Windows Server
4 27 (8.74%) Windows Server 2016
4 27 (8.74%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (2.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.65%) Unix
7 1 (0.32%) Android
7 1 (0.32%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (43.37%) Agile
2 86 (27.83%) CI/CD
3 64 (20.71%) Software Engineering
4 63 (20.39%) Infrastructure as Code
5 59 (19.09%) Test Automation
6 51 (16.50%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (14.89%) Microservices
8 43 (13.92%) Containerisation
9 39 (12.62%) Technical Leadership
10 38 (12.30%) Cybersecurity
11 33 (10.68%) Change Management
11 33 (10.68%) Continuous Integration
11 33 (10.68%) Release Management
12 32 (10.36%) Continuous Improvement
12 32 (10.36%) SDLC
12 32 (10.36%) Unit Testing
13 29 (9.39%) Security Architecture
14 28 (9.06%) Analytics
15 27 (8.74%) Software Architecture
16 26 (8.41%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 49 (15.86%) Java
1 49 (15.86%) Python
2 41 (13.27%) C#
3 39 (12.62%) PowerShell
4 29 (9.39%) VBScript
5 27 (8.74%) SQL
6 23 (7.44%) Bicep
7 21 (6.80%) C
7 21 (6.80%) VB
8 15 (4.85%) PL/SQL
9 14 (4.53%) JavaScript
10 13 (4.21%) C++
11 6 (1.94%) PHP
12 4 (1.29%) Bash
13 3 (0.97%) Go
13 3 (0.97%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.97%) R
13 3 (0.97%) Ruby
14 2 (0.65%) Scala
15 1 (0.32%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 135 (43.69%) Security Cleared
2 81 (26.21%) SC Cleared
3 73 (23.62%) DV Cleared
4 30 (9.71%) Degree
5 21 (6.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (0.97%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.65%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.65%) PMP
8 1 (0.32%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.85%) QA
2 6 (1.94%) PMO
3 3 (0.97%) GDPR
3 3 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.97%) NIST
4 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.32%) NCSC
4 1 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (14.89%) Active Directory
2 29 (9.39%) Docker
3 25 (8.09%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (6.80%) Virtual Desktop
5 20 (6.47%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (2.27%) vCloud
6 7 (2.27%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.97%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.32%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 84 (27.18%) Kubernetes
2 37 (11.97%) Terraform
3 35 (11.33%) Ansible
4 22 (7.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 22 (7.12%) SCOM
4 22 (7.12%) WSUS
5 21 (6.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (6.80%) SCCM
6 19 (6.15%) Istio
7 15 (4.85%) Prometheus
8 14 (4.53%) Argo
8 14 (4.53%) Grafana
9 12 (3.88%) Docker Swarm
9 12 (3.88%) Kibana
9 12 (3.88%) Podman
10 9 (2.91%) Rancher
11 7 (2.27%) vCenter Server
12 5 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.65%) Control-M
13 2 (0.65%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 60 (19.42%) Microsoft
2 36 (11.65%) Oracle
3 20 (6.47%) VMware
4 10 (3.24%) Google
5 4 (1.29%) ServiceNow
6 3 (0.97%) SAP
7 2 (0.65%) Atmel
7 2 (0.65%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.32%) ArcSight
8 1 (0.32%) BMC
8 1 (0.32%) Cadence
8 1 (0.32%) Citrix
8 1 (0.32%) Databricks
8 1 (0.32%) IBM
8 1 (0.32%) Remedy
8 1 (0.32%) TIBCO