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 £495 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 81 69 71
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 +13
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 104 177 243
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.20% 3.22% 3.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.37% 3.37% 3.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 144 190
10th Percentile £409 £479 £438
25th Percentile £447 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £600 £544
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +10.34% +8.75%
75th Percentile £577 £675 £625
90th Percentile £650 £771 £664
England median daily rate £538 £613 £600
% change year-on-year -12.24% +2.08% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £45.88 - -
England median hourly rate £66.00 £73.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -9.59% +53.68% -9.52%

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 4,392 5,245 6,966
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.95% 95.42% 96.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,700 3,667 5,102
10th Percentile £263 £266 £205
25th Percentile £386 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £568
90th Percentile £669 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 437 161 274
10th Percentile £11.10 £14.00 £11.31
25th Percentile £13.00 £17.72 £14.54
Median hourly rate £22.50 £27.98 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -19.59% +41.67% +11.14%
75th Percentile £47.50 £44.50 £34.05
90th Percentile £66.61 £65.00 £62.11
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.73%

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 4 June 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 4 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
North West -25 59 £500 -9.09% 26
Yorkshire +6 41 £495 -20.80% 16
North East -8 4 - - 4
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 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 North of England region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 104 (100.00%) DevOps
2 75 (72.12%) Terraform
3 66 (63.46%) CI/CD
4 60 (57.69%) AWS
5 58 (55.77%) Kubernetes
6 47 (45.19%) Azure
6 47 (45.19%) Docker
6 47 (45.19%) Python
7 37 (35.58%) Infrastructure as Code
8 36 (34.62%) GitLab
8 36 (34.62%) Containerisation
9 35 (33.65%) Jenkins
10 33 (31.73%) Security Cleared
10 33 (31.73%) Agile
11 32 (30.77%) SC Cleared
12 29 (27.88%) Bash
13 26 (25.00%) Ansible
14 25 (24.04%) Prometheus
15 23 (22.12%) Linux
16 22 (21.15%) Git
17 20 (19.23%) Continuous Integration
18 18 (17.31%) PowerShell
19 17 (16.35%) Amazon EC2
19 17 (16.35%) Grafana
20 15 (14.42%) Go
20 15 (14.42%) GCP
20 15 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
21 14 (13.46%) Azure DevOps
21 14 (13.46%) Puppet
21 14 (13.46%) Splunk

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 11 (10.58%) Confluence
2 6 (5.77%) nginx
3 2 (1.92%) Traefik
4 1 (0.96%) Apache
4 1 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.96%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 60 (57.69%) AWS
2 47 (45.19%) Azure
3 17 (16.35%) Amazon EC2
4 15 (14.42%) GCP
5 14 (13.46%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (11.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 12 (11.54%) GitHub
7 11 (10.58%) Amazon S3
7 11 (10.58%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (9.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 7 (6.73%) Amazon ELB
9 7 (6.73%) Route 53
10 6 (5.77%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (5.77%) Kong
10 6 (5.77%) Serverless
11 5 (4.81%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (4.81%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (3.85%) Apigee
12 4 (3.85%) AWS KMS
12 4 (3.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.58%) DNS
2 8 (7.69%) Firewall
2 8 (7.69%) HTTP
2 8 (7.69%) TCP/IP
3 6 (5.77%) VPN
4 4 (3.85%) Reverse Proxy
4 4 (3.85%) SSL
5 3 (2.88%) Network Security
6 2 (1.92%) BIG-IP
6 2 (1.92%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (0.96%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.73%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (5.77%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (4.81%) MySQL
4 3 (2.88%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.88%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.92%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.92%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.92%) Redis
5 2 (1.92%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.92%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.96%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.96%) ClickHouse
6 1 (0.96%) Flink
Development Applications
1 36 (34.62%) GitLab
2 35 (33.65%) Jenkins
3 22 (21.15%) Git
4 12 (11.54%) JIRA
5 7 (6.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 7 (6.73%) Travis CI
6 6 (5.77%) CircleCI
7 5 (4.81%) Bitbucket
8 4 (3.85%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.92%) Selenium
9 2 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.96%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.96%) Maven
10 1 (0.96%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (9.62%) Social Skills
2 8 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 7 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.81%) Finance
5 4 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.92%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.69%) YAML
2 7 (6.73%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (6.73%) JSON
3 6 (5.77%) XML
4 4 (3.85%) ARM Templates
5 2 (1.92%) cloud-init
5 2 (1.92%) JDBC
5 2 (1.92%) JPA
5 2 (1.92%) JWT
5 2 (1.92%) Kafka
5 2 (1.92%) pytest
5 2 (1.92%) SAML
5 2 (1.92%) Spring
5 2 (1.92%) WebSockets
6 1 (0.96%) Node.js
6 1 (0.96%) OAuth
6 1 (0.96%) OLE
6 1 (0.96%) REST
6 1 (0.96%) RESTful
6 1 (0.96%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.77%) Data Structures
1 6 (5.77%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (4.81%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.92%) Clustering
5 2 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.92%) PKI
6 1 (0.96%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.96%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.96%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 23 (22.12%) Linux
2 9 (8.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (7.69%) Unix
4 6 (5.77%) CentOS
5 2 (1.92%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.96%) VMS
6 1 (0.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (100.00%) DevOps
2 66 (63.46%) CI/CD
3 37 (35.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 36 (34.62%) Containerisation
5 33 (31.73%) Agile
6 20 (19.23%) Continuous Integration
7 15 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (13.46%) Migration
9 13 (12.50%) Scrum
10 12 (11.54%) Configuration Management
11 10 (9.62%) Software Delivery
12 9 (8.65%) DevSecOps
12 9 (8.65%) Task Automation
13 8 (7.69%) Continuous Deployment
13 8 (7.69%) Platform Engineering
14 7 (6.73%) Collaborative Working
14 7 (6.73%) High Availability
14 7 (6.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 6 (5.77%) Microservices
15 6 (5.77%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (45.19%) Python
2 29 (27.88%) Bash
3 18 (17.31%) PowerShell
4 15 (14.42%) Go
5 12 (11.54%) Java
6 9 (8.65%) SQL
7 7 (6.73%) Ruby
8 5 (4.81%) PHP
8 5 (4.81%) Scala
9 3 (2.88%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.92%) ActionScript
10 2 (1.92%) Bicep
10 2 (1.92%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.96%) C
11 1 (0.96%) Groovy
11 1 (0.96%) Perl
Qualifications
1 33 (31.73%) Security Cleared
2 32 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.69%) AWS Certification
3 8 (7.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (1.92%) Degree
5 1 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.96%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.77%) QA
2 3 (2.88%) NIST
2 3 (2.88%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.92%) NCSC
System Software
1 47 (45.19%) Docker
2 6 (5.77%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.96%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 75 (72.12%) Terraform
2 58 (55.77%) Kubernetes
3 26 (25.00%) Ansible
4 25 (24.04%) Prometheus
5 17 (16.35%) Grafana
6 14 (13.46%) Puppet
7 8 (7.69%) Docker Swarm
8 7 (6.73%) Progress Chef
9 6 (5.77%) Kibana
9 6 (5.77%) logstash
9 6 (5.77%) Packer
10 5 (4.81%) Istio
11 4 (3.85%) Rancher
12 3 (2.88%) HP Fortify
12 3 (2.88%) Podman
13 2 (1.92%) Consul
13 2 (1.92%) Graphite
13 2 (1.92%) HAProxy
13 2 (1.92%) Kiali
13 2 (1.92%) linkerd
Vendors
1 14 (13.46%) Splunk
2 11 (10.58%) Oracle
3 7 (6.73%) PagerDuty
4 6 (5.77%) VMware
5 4 (3.85%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.88%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.92%) F5
7 2 (1.92%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.96%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.96%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.96%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.96%) Zscaler