DevOps Contracts in Cheshire

DevOps
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 32 29
Rank change year-on-year +6 -3 -12
Contract jobs citing DevOps 32 31 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 6.39% 5.85% 5.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.57% 6.42% 6.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 26 22
10th Percentile £392 £428 £319
25th Percentile £446 £456 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £517
Median % change year-on-year -1.65% -3.29% +21.36%
75th Percentile £582 £638 £580
90th Percentile £606 £678 £628
North West median daily rate £533 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -3.09% +2.33% +10.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 423 483 456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 84.43% 91.13% 86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 328 263
10th Percentile £277 £275 £214
25th Percentile £400 £400 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +2.86%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £538
90th Percentile £637 £660 £631
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 23 26
10th Percentile £13.70 £19.06 £10.28
25th Percentile £16.61 £23.15 £15.55
Median hourly rate £26.66 £30.54 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +29.96% -27.06%
75th Percentile £42.31 £35.00 £33.62
90th Percentile £44.13 £39.20 £60.88
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +9.18%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Cheshire

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Cheshire

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Cheshire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Cheshire

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Knutsford +23 18 £582 -8.74% 2
Warrington +3 8 £475 +2.70% 6
Chester +7 1 £293 -41.50% 3
DevOps
North West

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 4 (12.50%) Confluence
1 4 (12.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (12.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 20 (62.50%) Azure
2 17 (53.13%) AWS
3 8 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (18.75%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (15.63%) Serverless
6 4 (12.50%) Apigee
6 4 (12.50%) Kong
7 3 (9.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (9.38%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (9.38%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (9.38%) Amazon S3
7 3 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (9.38%) Route 53
7 3 (9.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (6.25%) Azure Functions
8 2 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (3.13%) BrowserStack
9 1 (3.13%) Commercetools
9 1 (3.13%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (21.88%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) Tableau
2 4 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 4 (12.50%) OLAP
2 4 (12.50%) OLTP
2 4 (12.50%) Oracle OLAP
3 3 (9.38%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (9.38%) DynamoDB
3 3 (9.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (40.63%) Jenkins
1 13 (40.63%) JIRA
2 4 (12.50%) Git
3 1 (3.13%) GitLab
3 1 (3.13%) Postman
3 1 (3.13%) Selenium
3 1 (3.13%) SoapUI
3 1 (3.13%) WebDriver
3 1 (3.13%) Zephyr
General
1 11 (34.38%) Finance
2 9 (28.13%) Social Skills
3 7 (21.88%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (21.88%) Public Sector
4 5 (15.63%) Banking
5 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (21.88%) Architect
1 7 (21.88%) Windows Engineer
2 5 (15.63%) Lead
2 5 (15.63%) Splunk Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) AWS Architect
4 3 (9.38%) Developer
4 3 (9.38%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Applications Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Test Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) .NET Developer
6 1 (3.13%) C# Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Lead C# Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Manual Test Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) Python Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Security Architect
6 1 (3.13%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) Senior Test Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.13%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) Web Services
2 4 (12.50%) .NET
2 4 (12.50%) Apache Camel
2 4 (12.50%) IBM Integration Bus
2 4 (12.50%) J2EE
2 4 (12.50%) Kafka
2 4 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (12.50%) SOAP
2 4 (12.50%) Spring
2 4 (12.50%) Spring Boot
2 4 (12.50%) Spring Integration
3 3 (9.38%) .NET Core
3 3 (9.38%) .NET Framework
3 3 (9.38%) Entity Framework
4 2 (6.25%) REST
5 1 (3.13%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.13%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 1 (3.13%) React
5 1 (3.13%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 7 (21.88%) Virtual Team
3 5 (15.63%) Onboarding
4 4 (12.50%) DataPower
5 2 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (6.25%) Mobile App
5 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
6 1 (3.13%) Algorithms
6 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
6 1 (3.13%) Insider Threat
6 1 (3.13%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
6 1 (3.13%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (28.13%) Windows
2 8 (25.00%) Linux
2 8 (25.00%) Unix
3 1 (3.13%) Android
3 1 (3.13%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (34.38%) Agile
1 11 (34.38%) CI/CD
2 8 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 7 (21.88%) Knowledge Transfer
3 7 (21.88%) Microservices
3 7 (21.88%) Platform Engineering
3 7 (21.88%) Server Building
3 7 (21.88%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (18.75%) OO
5 5 (15.63%) Analytics
5 5 (15.63%) Data Analytics
5 5 (15.63%) Data Mapping
5 5 (15.63%) Design Patterns
5 5 (15.63%) ETL
5 5 (15.63%) Machine Learning
5 5 (15.63%) Risk Management
6 4 (12.50%) API Management
6 4 (12.50%) Event-Driven
6 4 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.00%) SQL
2 7 (21.88%) Python
2 7 (21.88%) Ruby
3 5 (15.63%) Java
3 5 (15.63%) Search Processing Language
3 5 (15.63%) Shell Script
4 3 (9.38%) C#
5 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.13%) Bicep
6 1 (3.13%) C
6 1 (3.13%) C++
6 1 (3.13%) Go
6 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.13%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.63%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.13%) Degree
Systems Management
1 8 (25.00%) Ansible
1 8 (25.00%) Progress Chef
2 7 (21.88%) CFEngine
2 7 (21.88%) PowerBroker
2 7 (21.88%) Puppet
3 5 (15.63%) Kubernetes
4 4 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (9.38%) Grafana
5 3 (9.38%) Prometheus
6 2 (6.25%) Terraform
7 1 (3.13%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Atlassian
2 5 (15.63%) Splunk
3 4 (12.50%) IBM
3 4 (12.50%) Oracle
3 4 (12.50%) TSYS
4 1 (3.13%) HP
4 1 (3.13%) VMware