DevOps Engineer Contracts in the East of England

Development Operations Engineer
England > East of England

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the East of England is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 88 106
Rank change year-on-year -14 +18 -27
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 7 29 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.36% 1.48% 1.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 1.62% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 24 31
10th Percentile £303 £483 £513
25th Percentile £381 £520 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £675 £630
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +7.14% +20.00%
75th Percentile £531 £700 £706
90th Percentile £633 - £738
England median daily rate £538 £610 £600
% change year-on-year -11.89% +1.67% +14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the East of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the East of England with a recognized job title 1,718 1,792 2,365
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.60% 91.43% 92.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 756 1,107 1,421
10th Percentile £206 £190 £183
25th Percentile £306 £315 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +15.15%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £574
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 608 253 344
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 £43.63 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% +172.69% -
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £45.05
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.21 £60.00
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.47%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the East of England

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the East of England

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

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

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in the East of England

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the East of England

DevOps Engineer
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 Engineer 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
Essex +7 3 £450 -32.08%
Hertfordshire -6 3 £475 -5.00% 2
Cambridgeshire 0 1 - - 5
DevOps Engineer
England

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East of England region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Docker
2 4 (57.14%) Linux
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Python
3 3 (42.86%) Azure
3 3 (42.86%) GitLab
3 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Proxmox
4 2 (28.57%) Sprint Retrospective
4 2 (28.57%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (28.57%) LXC
4 2 (28.57%) Windows
4 2 (28.57%) Virtual Environments
4 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
4 2 (28.57%) Bash
4 2 (28.57%) Git
4 2 (28.57%) .NET
4 2 (28.57%) IIS
5 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
5 1 (14.29%) MFC
5 1 (14.29%) C#
5 1 (14.29%) C++
5 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 1 (14.29%) SQL
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
5 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
5 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
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 2 (28.57%) IIS
2 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon Cognito
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
2 1 (14.29%) CloudFront
2 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
2 1 (14.29%) Route 53
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) MQTT
1 1 (14.29%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (14.29%) Big Data
1 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) GitLab
2 2 (28.57%) Git
3 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA
3 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
3 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (14.29%) MFC
2 1 (14.29%) Node.js
2 1 (14.29%) React
2 1 (14.29%) WinForms
2 1 (14.29%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Windows
3 1 (14.29%) CentOS
3 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
3 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (28.57%) Sprint Retrospective
4 2 (28.57%) Virtual Environments
5 1 (14.29%) Auto-Scaling
5 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
5 1 (14.29%) Full Stack Development
5 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
5 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) UML
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) C++
3 1 (14.29%) C++/CLI
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) Ruby
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
2 2 (28.57%) LXC
3 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 2 (28.57%) Proxmox
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Kibana
2 1 (14.29%) logstash
2 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
2 1 (14.29%) Rancher
2 1 (14.29%) SCCM
2 1 (14.29%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Atlassian
1 1 (14.29%) BT
1 1 (14.29%) F5
1 1 (14.29%) Splunk