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A first update on our salary survey

DEVOPS-JOBS.NET — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 09:10:01 +0000

🎉 We have a little update on our salary survey which we launched roughly three months ago (check out https://salaries.devops-jobs.net/ if you haven’t yet) and needless to say we’re still pretty excited about it.

About four weeks after the launch we enabled the download feature on the site so everyone can get the latest dataset in JSON and CSV format. Furthermore there’s now a weekly sync of these results to a dedicated github repo as well.

As initially announced, but not yet implemented during that time, we built our own FX data API to provide free and public currency data (yes, you can use it as well if you like!) for the Forex calculations taking place on the dataset in the salary_in_usd column. This is because we allow people to fill in their annual salary in their home or actually paid out currency and then do the work for you to translate that into its corresponding USD amount (yearly average) for better comparability/reference, with data provided by the Bank for International Settlements (🏦 the bank for the central banks, basically).

Well, it’s always fascinating how much effort can go into something seemingly simple like a salary survey (hint: way more than you anticipated). But still, it looks like it’s worth the effort.

We also put in some more descriptive information on the download page about what each column in the dataset represents or how to interpret it. Should be pretty straight forward by now, and hopefull very easy to work with.

Now the plan is to keep this site up there indefinitely for the future to collect remote work salary information year by year on an ongoing basis. With this in mind it should be a good reason now to share this with your colleagues and friends if you haven’t done so yet. 😉

It’ll be very interesting to see how much data we can gather in the long term, and also keep in mind that all this is in the public domain (though mentioning the data came from us would be nice and also increases the amount of data available to share). Meaning it’s free to use by anyone for anything. 🙂

Last but not least: Many thanks to all of you who filled out the survey form and shared the site with others. That’s pretty awesome! 💪

This post first appeared on https://insights.devops-jobs.net/a-first-update-on-our-salary-survey/

Share your salary and see what everyone else is making in DevOps

DEVOPS-JOBS.NET — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 06:54:20 +0000

We were wondering quite recently what the global salary landscape in the DevOps / Cloud Engineering world would look like. Searching around for some data provided few results and basically all of them didn’t provide a full dataset for us to play around with and use freely.

So we decided to set up our own survey, ask the global DevOps scene what they’re making anually, and then release all the data for free afterwards in the public domain under CC0 license terms. Which literally means global salary data from the public, for the public.

We went on quickly by defining some generalized attributes that would make a really simplistic survey everyone can fill it out in under a minute and don’t have to think too hard while doing it, but would still provide as much valuable information as possible so you can derive real insights from it. All of this in an anonymized fashion, of course. We don’t like touching PII anyways – not really our business 😉

It took almost two weeks of deliberations about what to ask for – yeah it gets quite difficult when you start thinking about what makes sense and trying not to mess it up completely – and in roughly a weekend our little salaries app (Django + SQLite are your friends, yay) was built and ready to launch.

🎉 Released a few days ago you can check (and fill) it out here: https://salaries.devops-jobs.net/

As soon as we have a little valid dataset and solved some open issues along the way (noticed we provide a selection of the 30 most used currencies in global trade? Probably some averaged conversion into USD for all non-USD salaries would be nice having added to the data as well 🤔) we’ll release a first dump of the data here.

In the end we think it would be great if we can manage to create a sort of rolling survey throughout the year with a constantly updated dataset that everyone can use as they wish – candidates, recruiters, hr departments, startup founders, data scientists, you name it…

We made everything a select/choice field to avoid free-form input in general, except for the salary value of course. The job titles are the ones that are popular on our DevOps job board, just to stay real and not list decades old jobs that practially don’t mean anything and aren’t even hired for anymore. We provide an open API for this too (see https://devops-jobs.net/api/list-job-titles/).

If you like the idea and want to help us to gather a free and open database of DevOps salary information, feel free to share this survey with anyone who likes to fill out salary surveys – just kidding – the more data the better obviously 😉

This post originally appeared under https://insights.devops-jobs.net/share-your-salary-and-see-what-everyone-else-is-making-in-devops/

The 10 most in-demand Cloud / DevOps roles

DEVOPS-JOBS.NET — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 06:42:20 +0000

We thought it would be interesting to go deeper into the analytics part of running our DevOps job board – in the most privacy focused way for our users, of course. So here we are now starting to expose some of our aggregated internal job data in a systematic fashion through a simple REST API with a list of generalized job titles that are posted on devops-jobs.net.

The cool thing with this is that we are able to see what’s popular in terms of the roles employers are hiring for most in the Cloud, Infrastructure and DevOps space.

Our “methodology” here is quite simple: we’re primarily counting the occurence of job titles over the last 12 months, cleaned and adjusted for certain specialties that some companies like to do, e.g. inventing their own stuff that’s not being used by anyone else or adding crazy super-specific details to a vacancy title and so on. We also left out many titles with indicators regarding seniority or other requirements as we already have dedicated attributes for these. More on that probably in a future post.

So here it is, our current (as of June 2021) top list of the ten Cloud / DevOps roles with the highest demand from employers on our site:

DevOps Engineer
Site Reliability Engineer
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer
QA Automation Engineer
Cloud Architect
DevSecOps Engineer
Test Automation Engineer
Platform Engineer

If your interested in the raw JSON data you can find the endpoint here: https://devops-jobs.net/api/list-job-titles/

The results there are updated every 6 hours, although it won’t really change that much anytime soon. And if it does we’ll probably write about it 😉

We also use all the job titles from that list for our brand new salaries survey to have a “standardized” selection of positions to choose from and attach salaries to. You can check out the survey – and the resulting dataset being released in the public domain – here: https://salaries.devops-jobs.net/

This post was first published at https://insights.devops-jobs.net/the-10-most-in-demand-cloud-devops-roles/

6 Slack communities about DevOps to join in 2021

DEVOPS-JOBS.NET — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 10:46:38 +0000

It’s common for engineers to follow certain practices or to use specific and constantly evolving tools to provide better services, deliver efficient applications and maintain a more robust infrastructure. If you want some diversion from reading articles and researching every new trend in the Cloud and DevOps space on your own, then joining communities is a nice short-cut and sometimes very productive alternative for you to learn or create new connections with some fellow engineers.

Here are some additional reasons why it can be beneficial to join these online communities:

Collaboration – It allows members to collaborate and to discuss with other professionals in areas in which they want to either clarify or to gather some insights that would help them expand their knowledge. A collaboration channel is available for members to post questions, answer questions or read insights that might be beneficial to them, i.e. articles or websites that can be used for learning or training, new concepts or approaches that are effective and efficient to use.
Camaraderie – Sometimes working alone bothers and disrupts our mental health, so another good thing about these communities is that they can promote conversation with other members and foster new relationships with comrades or future co-workers whom we can relate to, not just solely regarding work topics but also our frustrations and other sentiments about our profession, clients, trends, etc.
Feedback – These communities also provide a channel for learning members to get insights and feedbacks about their technological approaches, strategies and ideas. The insights or critique they get from other members can help them improve and enhance their work, projects or even startups.
Career opportunities – They can provide access to job opportunities most especially to those who are actively seeking for jobs in DevOps, SRE or Infrastructure positions. They usually have a specific channel made for members to post vacancies that other members then can apply for directly. Here are 6 free and open Slack communities you join right now

Azure Stack Blog

https://azurestackblog.slack.com/

This community is all about Azure. It provides a medium for everyone to share ideas, best practices or solutions to improve and make their services better through collaboration and Q&A.

Kubernetes

https://kubernetes.slack.com/

A community that allows discussions and questions about Kubernetes. Novice members could also join to learn and get or share their sentiments.

DevOps Engineers

https://devopsengineers.slack.com/
https://www.devopsengineers.com/

DevOps Engineers its members to come together on the topics of infrastructure, automation, and continuous integration.

HangOps

https://hangops.slack.com/

HangOps allows members to hangout and create awesome discussions about anything related to devops such as infrastructure ,automation and continuous integrations.

Devlio DevChat

https://devolio-devchat.slack.com/

A community of developers that allows members to ask and answer questions, solve challenging problems or scenarios and have a good time learning together.

All Day DevOps

https://alldaydevops.slack.com/

All Day DevOps holds devops conferences that gather different devops to collaborate and hear out other speakers (devops leaders) that would inspired and provide insights to the members. Aside from that since this is a slack community, it also provides the same collaborative channels that members can utilize.

If you want some more

If the above list isn’t enough for you and you want to join a few more (including smaller and non-free) or slightly different communities, you can visit Slofile Slofile to search for them.

This article first appeared under https://insights.devops-jobs.net/6-slack-communities-about-devops-to-join-in-2021/