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 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 17 10 12
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 252 440 368
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 7.70% 13.00% 10.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.38% 14.59% 11.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 329 266
10th Percentile £400 £411 £419
25th Percentile £481 £510 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £630 £688 £634
90th Percentile £688 £729 £686
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 56 25
10th Percentile - £60.00 £42.00
25th Percentile - £60.91 £51.34
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.61 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.70% +0.93% +18.18%
75th Percentile £76.74 £75.50 -
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.00 £65.75
England median hourly rate £65.50 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year - +0.77% +18.18%

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 2,686 3,015 3,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.07% 89.10% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,682 2,172 2,330
10th Percentile £238 £313 £300
25th Percentile £401 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 366 317 205
10th Percentile £13.85 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £28.44 £15.40 £23.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £48.74
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +17.97% +8.31%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.31 £69.36
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 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 9 June 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 9 June 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 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
Bristol -3 108 £525 -4.55% 48
Gloucestershire +1 68 £575 -11.54% 32
Wiltshire -43 36 £550 -10.20% 10
Dorset +12 13 £550 +7.32% 7
Devon -9 12 £550 -18.40% 18
Somerset -16 8 £450 -33.68% 10
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 11 (4.37%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.57%) Apache
3 8 (3.17%) Confluence
4 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.59%) Apache Solr
5 4 (1.59%) nginx
6 2 (0.79%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.79%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.40%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.40%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.79%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.40%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.40%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 89 (35.32%) Azure
2 61 (24.21%) AWS
3 56 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
4 36 (14.29%) GitHub
5 22 (8.73%) OpenShift
6 20 (7.94%) GCP
7 12 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (4.37%) Power Platform
9 8 (3.17%) PaaS
9 8 (3.17%) Serverless
10 6 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (2.38%) Amazon S3
10 6 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (1.98%) Amazon Cognito
11 5 (1.98%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (1.19%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.19%) Azure AKS
12 3 (1.19%) Entra ID
12 3 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (1.19%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.97%) HTTP
2 9 (3.57%) VPN
3 5 (1.98%) Firewall
4 4 (1.59%) AMQP
4 4 (1.59%) DNS
4 4 (1.59%) HTTPS
4 4 (1.59%) IPsec
4 4 (1.59%) Network Security
4 4 (1.59%) SAN
4 4 (1.59%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.59%) WAN
5 2 (0.79%) IPv4
5 2 (0.79%) OSPF
5 2 (0.79%) VLAN
6 1 (0.40%) Intranet
6 1 (0.40%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.75%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.97%) Power BI
3 7 (2.78%) NoSQL
4 6 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (1.98%) SQLite
5 5 (1.98%) Triplestore
6 4 (1.59%) Biml
6 4 (1.59%) Couchbase
6 4 (1.59%) InfluxDB
6 4 (1.59%) MySQL
6 4 (1.59%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.19%) Big Data
7 3 (1.19%) GIS
8 2 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.79%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 51 (20.24%) Jenkins
2 41 (16.27%) JIRA
3 23 (9.13%) GoogleTest
4 21 (8.33%) Git
5 15 (5.95%) GitLab
6 13 (5.16%) SonarQube
7 9 (3.57%) Artifactory
7 9 (3.57%) Visual Studio
8 8 (3.17%) Postman
9 6 (2.38%) Bitbucket
9 6 (2.38%) Cypress.io
9 6 (2.38%) NUnit
10 5 (1.98%) Checkstyle
10 5 (1.98%) Spinnaker
11 3 (1.19%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (0.79%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (0.79%) Selenium
12 2 (0.79%) Snyk
12 2 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.79%) TeamCity
General
1 22 (8.73%) Public Sector
2 17 (6.75%) Social Skills
3 14 (5.56%) Finance
4 11 (4.37%) Telecoms
5 10 (3.97%) Legal
6 5 (1.98%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.19%) Electronics
7 3 (1.19%) Marketing
7 3 (1.19%) Retail
8 2 (0.79%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (0.79%) Law
8 2 (0.79%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.40%) Banking
9 1 (0.40%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.40%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.40%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 68 (26.98%) DevOps Engineer
2 55 (21.83%) Architect
3 35 (13.89%) Developer
4 33 (13.10%) Software Engineer
5 21 (8.33%) Java Engineer
5 21 (8.33%) Java Software Engineer
6 20 (7.94%) Senior
7 15 (5.95%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (5.16%) C++ Software Engineer
9 9 (3.57%) SharePoint Architect
10 8 (3.17%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (2.78%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (2.78%) Consultant
11 7 (2.78%) Senior DevOps
11 7 (2.78%) Test Automation Engineer
11 7 (2.78%) Test Engineer
12 6 (2.38%) Administrator
12 6 (2.38%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
12 6 (2.38%) Senior Test Engineer
12 6 (2.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (12.70%) .NET
2 25 (9.92%) Qt
3 20 (7.94%) REST
4 13 (5.16%) YAML
5 12 (4.76%) AngularJS
6 11 (4.37%) XML
7 10 (3.97%) Apache NiFi
7 10 (3.97%) GraphQL
7 10 (3.97%) RabbitMQ
7 10 (3.97%) React
8 9 (3.57%) JSON
9 7 (2.78%) .NET Core
9 7 (2.78%) CSS
10 6 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (2.38%) HTML
10 6 (2.38%) Kafka
10 6 (2.38%) RESTful
11 5 (1.98%) Apache Jena
11 5 (1.98%) PostGIS
11 5 (1.98%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 24 (9.52%) Linux Command Line
3 13 (5.16%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.37%) Cloud Native
4 11 (4.37%) Public Cloud
5 6 (2.38%) SCADA
6 5 (1.98%) Verilog
6 5 (1.98%) VHDL
7 4 (1.59%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.19%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.79%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.79%) Hackathon
9 2 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.79%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.40%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.40%) Cyberattack
10 1 (0.40%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 73 (28.97%) Linux
2 20 (7.94%) Windows
3 9 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.98%) CentOS
5 4 (1.59%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.79%) Unix
7 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.40%) Solaris
7 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (43.25%) Agile
2 97 (38.49%) CI/CD
3 47 (18.65%) Software Engineering
4 36 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (9.13%) Customer Requirements
6 21 (8.33%) Migration
7 20 (7.94%) Containerisation
8 18 (7.14%) Test Automation
9 17 (6.75%) Configuration Management
9 17 (6.75%) Software Delivery
10 16 (6.35%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (6.35%) Project Management
11 15 (5.95%) SDLC
12 14 (5.56%) Microservices
13 13 (5.16%) ArchiMate
13 13 (5.16%) Project Delivery
13 13 (5.16%) Scrum
13 13 (5.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 13 (5.16%) Software Architecture
14 12 (4.76%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 73 (28.97%) Python
2 52 (20.63%) Java
3 34 (13.49%) C#
3 34 (13.49%) C++
4 32 (12.70%) C
5 29 (11.51%) PowerShell
6 26 (10.32%) SQL
7 16 (6.35%) Bash
7 16 (6.35%) JavaScript
8 15 (5.95%) Go
9 12 (4.76%) TypeScript
10 5 (1.98%) Bicep
10 5 (1.98%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.98%) SPARQL
11 4 (1.59%) PHP
11 4 (1.59%) Ruby
12 1 (0.40%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.40%) Perl
12 1 (0.40%) Swift
Qualifications
1 140 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 77 (30.56%) DV Cleared
3 63 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 13 (5.16%) Degree
5 3 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (0.79%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.79%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.79%) HND
6 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.40%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.40%) GIAC
7 1 (0.40%) OSCP
7 1 (0.40%) PhD
7 1 (0.40%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.92%) MISRA
2 19 (7.54%) QA
3 6 (2.38%) NCSC
3 6 (2.38%) NIST
4 5 (1.98%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.59%) GDPR
5 4 (1.59%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.79%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.79%) RMADS
7 1 (0.40%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 63 (25.00%) Docker
2 10 (3.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.38%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.38%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.79%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 66 (26.19%) Terraform
2 65 (25.79%) Kubernetes
3 51 (20.24%) Ansible
4 17 (6.75%) Grafana
4 17 (6.75%) Prometheus
5 8 (3.17%) Docker Swarm
6 7 (2.78%) Progress Chef
6 7 (2.78%) Puppet
7 6 (2.38%) Istio
8 4 (1.59%) Argo
9 3 (1.19%) Kibana
9 3 (1.19%) logstash
9 3 (1.19%) Rancher
10 2 (0.79%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.79%) OPNET
10 2 (0.79%) Salt
10 2 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.79%) vRealize
11 1 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.40%) SCCM
Vendors
1 34 (13.49%) Microsoft
2 31 (12.30%) Google
3 15 (5.95%) Red Hat
3 15 (5.95%) VMware
4 5 (1.98%) Atlassian
4 5 (1.98%) Oracle
4 5 (1.98%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.59%) CyberArk
5 4 (1.59%) SAP
5 4 (1.59%) Sparx
6 2 (0.79%) Mapbox
6 2 (0.79%) SaltStack
6 2 (0.79%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.40%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.40%) IBM
7 1 (0.40%) NetIQ