DevOps Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Development Operations Engineer
England > North of England

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £506 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 May 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 64 71
Rank change year-on-year -32 +7 +9
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 94 197 229
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.98% 3.39% 3.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.12% 3.56% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 161 183
10th Percentile £425 £475 £439
25th Percentile £450 £513 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +9.09% +10.55%
75th Percentile £582 £675 £625
90th Percentile £624 £763 £688
England median daily rate £545 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -9.17% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £45.88 £46.11 -
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% - -
England median hourly rate £59.75 £57.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +3.91% +91.67% -38.46%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North 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 North of England with a recognized job title 4,427 5,538 6,975
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.10% 95.30% 96.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,777 3,913 5,130
10th Percentile £263 £285 £200
25th Percentile £385 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £595 £550
90th Percentile £672 £679 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 393 160 292
10th Percentile £11.01 £14.00 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.76 £14.00
Median hourly rate £19.18 £30.54 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.20% +65.08% +3.35%
75th Percentile £45.88 £49.40 £31.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £65.78 £49.98
England median hourly rate £36.02 £44.77 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.53% +98.96% +0.36%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the North of England

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the North of England

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in the North of England

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the North of England

DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
North West -22 59 £513 -8.48% 27
Yorkshire +11 32 £500 -20.00% 11
North East -4 3 - - 2
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 North of England region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 94 (100.00%) DevOps
2 65 (69.15%) Terraform
3 61 (64.89%) CI/CD
4 53 (56.38%) AWS
5 50 (53.19%) Kubernetes
6 46 (48.94%) Azure
7 39 (41.49%) Python
8 36 (38.30%) Docker
9 32 (34.04%) Infrastructure as Code
10 30 (31.91%) Agile
11 29 (30.85%) GitLab
12 28 (29.79%) Jenkins
12 28 (29.79%) SC Cleared
12 28 (29.79%) Security Cleared
13 26 (27.66%) Containerisation
14 24 (25.53%) Linux
15 21 (22.34%) Bash
15 21 (22.34%) Prometheus
16 20 (21.28%) Ansible
17 18 (19.15%) Continuous Integration
18 17 (18.09%) Amazon EC2
18 17 (18.09%) Azure DevOps
19 16 (17.02%) PowerShell
19 16 (17.02%) Git
19 16 (17.02%) Go
20 14 (14.89%) Migration
20 14 (14.89%) Grafana
21 13 (13.83%) GCP
21 13 (13.83%) GitHub
22 12 (12.77%) Amazon CloudWatch

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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 8 (8.51%) Confluence
2 5 (5.32%) nginx
3 2 (2.13%) Traefik
4 1 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.06%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 53 (56.38%) AWS
2 46 (48.94%) Azure
3 17 (18.09%) Amazon EC2
3 17 (18.09%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (13.83%) GCP
4 13 (13.83%) GitHub
5 12 (12.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 11 (11.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 10 (10.64%) Amazon S3
7 10 (10.64%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (8.51%) Route 53
9 7 (7.45%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (7.45%) Amazon ELB
9 7 (7.45%) Serverless
10 6 (6.38%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (5.32%) Kong
12 4 (4.26%) Apigee
12 4 (4.26%) AWS CodePipeline
12 4 (4.26%) AWS KMS
12 4 (4.26%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.57%) DNS
2 6 (6.38%) Firewall
2 6 (6.38%) HTTP
2 6 (6.38%) TCP/IP
3 4 (4.26%) VPN
4 3 (3.19%) Network Security
5 2 (2.13%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (2.13%) SSL
6 1 (1.06%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.45%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (6.38%) MySQL
3 4 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (3.19%) Data Lake
4 3 (3.19%) DynamoDB
4 3 (3.19%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.19%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.13%) Redis
6 1 (1.06%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.06%) ClickHouse
6 1 (1.06%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.06%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (30.85%) GitLab
2 28 (29.79%) Jenkins
3 16 (17.02%) Git
4 11 (11.70%) JIRA
5 5 (5.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (5.32%) Bitbucket
5 5 (5.32%) Travis CI
6 4 (4.26%) CircleCI
7 3 (3.19%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.13%) Maven
8 2 (2.13%) Selenium
8 2 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.06%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.06%) Gradle
9 1 (1.06%) JUnit
9 1 (1.06%) Mockito
General
1 9 (9.57%) Social Skills
2 6 (6.38%) Public Sector
3 5 (5.32%) Finance
4 4 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.06%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.38%) YAML
2 4 (4.26%) ARM Templates
2 4 (4.26%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (4.26%) JSON
2 4 (4.26%) XML
3 3 (3.19%) Kafka
4 2 (2.13%) AWS CDK
4 2 (2.13%) cloud-init
4 2 (2.13%) JDBC
4 2 (2.13%) JPA
4 2 (2.13%) JWT
4 2 (2.13%) pytest
4 2 (2.13%) SAML
4 2 (2.13%) Spring
4 2 (2.13%) WebSockets
5 1 (1.06%) Apache Beam
5 1 (1.06%) Keycloak
5 1 (1.06%) OAuth
5 1 (1.06%) RESTful
5 1 (1.06%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.32%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.26%) Data Structures
2 4 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.19%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.13%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.13%) Clustering
4 2 (2.13%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.13%) PKI
4 2 (2.13%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.06%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.06%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.06%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 24 (25.53%) Linux
2 8 (8.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (7.45%) Unix
4 6 (6.38%) CentOS
5 3 (3.19%) Windows
6 2 (2.13%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (1.06%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (100.00%) DevOps
2 61 (64.89%) CI/CD
3 32 (34.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 30 (31.91%) Agile
5 26 (27.66%) Containerisation
6 18 (19.15%) Continuous Integration
7 14 (14.89%) Migration
8 12 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (11.70%) Scrum
10 9 (9.57%) Configuration Management
10 9 (9.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 9 (9.57%) Software Delivery
11 8 (8.51%) Platform Engineering
12 7 (7.45%) Continuous Deployment
12 7 (7.45%) DevSecOps
12 7 (7.45%) Task Automation
13 6 (6.38%) Microservices
14 5 (5.32%) Collaborative Working
14 5 (5.32%) GitOps
14 5 (5.32%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (41.49%) Python
2 21 (22.34%) Bash
3 16 (17.02%) Go
3 16 (17.02%) PowerShell
4 9 (9.57%) Java
5 7 (7.45%) Ruby
5 7 (7.45%) SQL
6 5 (5.32%) PHP
7 3 (3.19%) Bicep
7 3 (3.19%) Scala
8 2 (2.13%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.13%) Perl
8 2 (2.13%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.06%) Groovy
9 1 (1.06%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (29.79%) SC Cleared
1 28 (29.79%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.32%) AWS Certification
2 5 (5.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.06%) Degree
3 1 (1.06%) MCSE
3 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.26%) QA
2 3 (3.19%) NIST
2 3 (3.19%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 36 (38.30%) Docker
2 6 (6.38%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.06%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 65 (69.15%) Terraform
2 50 (53.19%) Kubernetes
3 21 (22.34%) Prometheus
4 20 (21.28%) Ansible
5 14 (14.89%) Grafana
6 11 (11.70%) Puppet
7 6 (6.38%) Docker Swarm
7 6 (6.38%) Packer
7 6 (6.38%) Progress Chef
8 4 (4.26%) Istio
8 4 (4.26%) Kibana
8 4 (4.26%) logstash
8 4 (4.26%) Rancher
9 3 (3.19%) HP Fortify
10 2 (2.13%) Consul
10 2 (2.13%) Graphite
10 2 (2.13%) HAProxy
10 2 (2.13%) linkerd
10 2 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (2.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (11.70%) Splunk
2 10 (10.64%) Oracle
3 7 (7.45%) VMware
4 6 (6.38%) PagerDuty
5 3 (3.19%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.13%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.13%) Virgin Media
7 1 (1.06%) Confluent
7 1 (1.06%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.06%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.06%) New Relic
7 1 (1.06%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.06%) Zscaler