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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 9 11
Rank change year-on-year -11 +2 +2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 235 463 380
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 7.41% 13.53% 10.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.98% 15.11% 11.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 345 264
10th Percentile £400 £413 £413
25th Percentile £481 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £630 £688 £631
90th Percentile £696 £729 £681
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 55 27
10th Percentile - £60.00 £42.00
25th Percentile - £60.91 £49.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £63.60
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +2.99% +15.64%
75th Percentile £85.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile - £78.00 -
England median hourly rate £65.25 £65.50 £60.02
% change year-on-year -0.38% +9.13% +14.32%

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 2,617 3,064 3,238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.56% 89.54% 88.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,676 2,236 2,299
10th Percentile £223 £313 £300
25th Percentile £404 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.43%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £724 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 344 316 208
10th Percentile £13.90 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £29.75 £15.19 £21.13
Median hourly rate £55.00 £59.90 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +22.88% +10.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.74 £69.26
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.14% +49.20% +10.23%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 23 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 -7 98 £525 -4.55% 73
Gloucestershire +1 64 £581 -10.58% 28
Wiltshire -41 32 £525 -14.29% 13
Dorset +15 13 £550 +7.32% 7
Devon -15 11 £550 -8.33% 19
Somerset -15 9 £425 -37.04% 16
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 9 (3.83%) Apache
1 9 (3.83%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.98%) Confluence
3 5 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.70%) Apache Solr
4 4 (1.70%) nginx
5 2 (0.85%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.85%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.43%) CMS
6 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.43%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.43%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (1.70%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.85%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.43%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.43%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 91 (38.72%) Azure
2 66 (28.09%) AWS
3 55 (23.40%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (11.91%) GitHub
5 20 (8.51%) GCP
6 19 (8.09%) OpenShift
7 12 (5.11%) Power Platform
8 9 (3.83%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (3.40%) Serverless
10 7 (2.98%) PaaS
11 6 (2.55%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (2.55%) Amazon S3
11 6 (2.55%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (2.13%) Amazon Cognito
12 5 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (1.70%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (1.28%) Azure AKS
14 3 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (1.28%) IaaS
14 3 (1.28%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.26%) HTTP
2 9 (3.83%) VPN
3 6 (2.55%) Firewall
4 5 (2.13%) DNS
5 4 (1.70%) AMQP
5 4 (1.70%) HTTPS
5 4 (1.70%) IPsec
5 4 (1.70%) Network Security
5 4 (1.70%) SAN
5 4 (1.70%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.70%) WAN
6 2 (0.85%) IPv4
6 2 (0.85%) OSPF
6 2 (0.85%) VLAN
7 1 (0.43%) Internet
7 1 (0.43%) Intranet
7 1 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.43%) VSAN
7 1 (0.43%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.09%) SQL Server
2 11 (4.68%) Power BI
3 7 (2.98%) NoSQL
4 6 (2.55%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.13%) MySQL
5 5 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (2.13%) SQLite
5 5 (2.13%) Triplestore
6 4 (1.70%) Biml
6 4 (1.70%) Couchbase
6 4 (1.70%) InfluxDB
6 4 (1.70%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.28%) GIS
8 2 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.85%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.43%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 45 (19.15%) Jenkins
2 33 (14.04%) JIRA
3 18 (7.66%) Git
4 16 (6.81%) GitLab
5 15 (6.38%) GoogleTest
6 13 (5.53%) SonarQube
7 9 (3.83%) Artifactory
8 8 (3.40%) Postman
8 8 (3.40%) Visual Studio
9 6 (2.55%) Cypress.io
9 6 (2.55%) NUnit
10 5 (2.13%) Checkstyle
10 5 (2.13%) Spinnaker
11 4 (1.70%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.85%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (0.85%) Selenium
12 2 (0.85%) Snyk
12 2 (0.85%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.85%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (8.51%) Public Sector
2 19 (8.09%) Social Skills
3 15 (6.38%) Finance
4 12 (5.11%) Telecoms
5 10 (4.26%) Legal
6 6 (2.55%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.70%) Electronics
8 4 (1.70%) Marketing
9 3 (1.28%) Retail
10 2 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.85%) Law
10 2 (0.85%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.43%) Banking
11 1 (0.43%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.43%) German Language
11 1 (0.43%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 64 (27.23%) DevOps Engineer
2 45 (19.15%) Architect
3 39 (16.60%) Developer
4 27 (11.49%) Software Engineer
5 21 (8.94%) Senior
6 15 (6.38%) Java Engineer
6 15 (6.38%) Java Software Engineer
7 12 (5.11%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (4.68%) Full Stack Developer
9 10 (4.26%) C++ Software Engineer
10 9 (3.83%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (2.98%) Consultant
11 7 (2.98%) Senior DevOps
11 7 (2.98%) SharePoint Architect
11 7 (2.98%) Test Automation Engineer
11 7 (2.98%) Test Engineer
12 6 (2.55%) Administrator
12 6 (2.55%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
12 6 (2.55%) Senior Test Engineer
12 6 (2.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (14.04%) .NET
2 20 (8.51%) REST
3 18 (7.66%) AngularJS
4 17 (7.23%) Qt
5 13 (5.53%) React
6 11 (4.68%) Spring
6 11 (4.68%) XML
6 11 (4.68%) YAML
7 10 (4.26%) Apache NiFi
7 10 (4.26%) GraphQL
7 10 (4.26%) RabbitMQ
8 9 (3.83%) JSON
9 8 (3.40%) .NET Core
10 7 (2.98%) CSS
11 6 (2.55%) HTML
11 6 (2.55%) Kafka
11 6 (2.55%) RESTful
12 5 (2.13%) .NET Framework
12 5 (2.13%) Apache Jena
12 5 (2.13%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 16 (6.81%) Linux Command Line
3 11 (4.68%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.68%) Public Cloud
4 10 (4.26%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.13%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.13%) Verilog
5 5 (2.13%) VHDL
6 3 (1.28%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.85%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.85%) Hackathon
7 2 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.43%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.43%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.43%) PKI
8 1 (0.43%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.43%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 59 (25.11%) Linux
2 21 (8.94%) Windows
3 5 (2.13%) CentOS
4 4 (1.70%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.85%) Unix
6 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.43%) Solaris
6 1 (0.43%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (43.40%) Agile
2 86 (36.60%) CI/CD
3 39 (16.60%) Software Engineering
4 28 (11.91%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (9.79%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (9.36%) Project Management
7 21 (8.94%) Migration
8 20 (8.51%) Containerisation
9 19 (8.09%) OO
9 19 (8.09%) Software Architecture
9 19 (8.09%) Test Automation
10 18 (7.66%) Customer Requirements
10 18 (7.66%) Programme Management
10 18 (7.66%) SDLC
11 17 (7.23%) Software Delivery
12 16 (6.81%) Configuration Management
13 15 (6.38%) Full Stack Development
13 15 (6.38%) Microservices
13 15 (6.38%) Scrum
14 14 (5.96%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 69 (29.36%) Python
2 50 (21.28%) Java
3 36 (15.32%) C
4 32 (13.62%) C#
5 29 (12.34%) SQL
6 28 (11.91%) PowerShell
7 26 (11.06%) C++
8 18 (7.66%) JavaScript
9 15 (6.38%) Go
10 13 (5.53%) Bash
11 9 (3.83%) TypeScript
12 5 (2.13%) Bicep
12 5 (2.13%) Shell Script
12 5 (2.13%) SPARQL
13 4 (1.70%) PHP
14 1 (0.43%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.43%) Perl
14 1 (0.43%) Ruby
14 1 (0.43%) Swift
Qualifications
1 133 (56.60%) Security Cleared
2 74 (31.49%) DV Cleared
3 60 (25.53%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.38%) Degree
5 3 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (0.85%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.85%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.85%) HND
7 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.43%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.43%) GIAC
7 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.43%) OSCP
7 1 (0.43%) PhD
7 1 (0.43%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (10.64%) QA
2 17 (7.23%) MISRA
3 6 (2.55%) NCSC
3 6 (2.55%) NIST
4 5 (2.13%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.70%) GDPR
5 4 (1.70%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.85%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.85%) RMADS
7 1 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 60 (25.53%) Docker
2 9 (3.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (3.40%) VMware NSX
4 5 (2.13%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.70%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.28%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.43%) NFS
Systems Management
1 64 (27.23%) Terraform
2 60 (25.53%) Kubernetes
3 52 (22.13%) Ansible
4 18 (7.66%) Grafana
4 18 (7.66%) Prometheus
5 8 (3.40%) Docker Swarm
6 6 (2.55%) Istio
6 6 (2.55%) Puppet
7 5 (2.13%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.70%) Argo
9 2 (0.85%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.85%) OPNET
9 2 (0.85%) vRealize
10 1 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.43%) Dell DRAC
10 1 (0.43%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.43%) SCCM
10 1 (0.43%) SCOM
10 1 (0.43%) SELinux
10 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (14.04%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.79%) Google
3 16 (6.81%) VMware
4 8 (3.40%) Red Hat
5 5 (2.13%) Oracle
5 5 (2.13%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.13%) SAP
6 4 (1.70%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.70%) CyberArk
6 4 (1.70%) Sparx
7 2 (0.85%) Mapbox
7 2 (0.85%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.43%) Citrix
8 1 (0.43%) Databricks
8 1 (0.43%) Dell
8 1 (0.43%) HP
8 1 (0.43%) IBM