DevOps Contracts in Lancashire

DevOps
North West > Lancashire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 19 16 10
Rank change year-on-year -3 -6 +16
Contract jobs citing DevOps 13 19 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 6.70% 7.85% 12.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.50% 9.00% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 16 24
10th Percentile £576 £431 £481
25th Percentile £622 £541 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £652 £613 £675
Median % change year-on-year +6.53% -9.26% +38.89%
75th Percentile £729 £700 £711
90th Percentile £745 - £746
North West median daily rate £533 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -3.09% +2.33% +10.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £42.81 £38.68
Median hourly rate £45.88 £46.11 £41.36
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% +11.49% -
75th Percentile - £49.40 £46.72
90th Percentile - - £53.94
North West median hourly rate £45.88 £42.85 £44.04
% change year-on-year +7.06% -2.69% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 153 211 240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 78.87% 87.19% 91.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 118 157
10th Percentile £313 £339 £230
25th Percentile £413 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £533 £480
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% +10.94% +20.00%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £575
90th Percentile £747 £700 £705
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 42 47
10th Percentile £15.63 £22.31 £14.46
25th Percentile £16.06 £28.85 £16.93
Median hourly rate £17.62 £42.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.54% +7.59% -3.66%
75th Percentile £46.11 £49.52 £44.03
90th Percentile £48.00 £53.43 £60.34
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 Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Lancashire

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Lancashire

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Lancashire

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

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Lancashire

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps in Lancashire.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in Lancashire

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Lancashire 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
Preston +7 3 £740 +127.69% 5
Blackpool +1 1 £540 -16.92% 1
DevOps
North West

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 1 (7.69%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) AWS
4 1 (7.69%) IaaS
4 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) HTTP
1 3 (23.08%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (7.69%) GIS
1 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.69%) Power BI
1 1 (7.69%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 7 (53.85%) JIRA
2 3 (23.08%) Bitbucket
2 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 3 (23.08%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (15.38%) Git
4 1 (7.69%) GitLab
General
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Programme Manager
2 3 (23.08%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) GIS Developer
4 1 (7.69%) IT Manager
4 1 (7.69%) IT Programme Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) JDBC
1 3 (23.08%) JPA
1 3 (23.08%) JWT
1 3 (23.08%) Spring
1 3 (23.08%) WebSockets
2 2 (15.38%) PyTorch
2 2 (15.38%) TensorFlow
3 1 (7.69%) CSS
3 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (7.69%) HTML
3 1 (7.69%) Lucene
3 1 (7.69%) OpenLayers
3 1 (7.69%) PostGIS
3 1 (7.69%) React
3 1 (7.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
1 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Agile
2 6 (46.15%) Software Engineering
3 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (30.77%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (30.77%) ITSM
3 4 (30.77%) Performance Management
3 4 (30.77%) Programme Governance
3 4 (30.77%) Project Management
3 4 (30.77%) Service Management
3 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (30.77%) Waterfall
4 3 (23.08%) Dependency Injection
4 3 (23.08%) DevSecOps
4 3 (23.08%) Machine Learning
4 3 (23.08%) Microservices
4 3 (23.08%) Multithreading
4 3 (23.08%) PRINCE2
4 3 (23.08%) Programme Management
4 3 (23.08%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 3 (23.08%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Java
1 4 (30.77%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) Go
2 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Cadence
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 3 (23.08%) Oracle