DevOps Contracts in the North of England

DevOps
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 15 13
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 405 529 755
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 8.63% 9.27% 10.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.07% 10.21% 11.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 428 577
10th Percentile £398 £425 £398
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £694 £700 £688
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 7
10th Percentile - £40.24 -
25th Percentile - £41.20 £38.68
Median hourly rate £45.88 £46.11 £46.72
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.32% -
75th Percentile £45.96 £49.45 £57.25
90th Percentile £46.09 £49.48 £63.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -0.76% +19.09% +3.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,023 5,182 6,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.72% 90.78% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,447 3,599 4,626
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.21%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 363 202 253
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.86 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.15 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.21% +57.57% +0.87%
75th Percentile £45.00 £46.51 £31.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.40
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the North of England

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in the North of England

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the North of England

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in the North of England

DevOps
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 within the North of England region over the 6 months to 8 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 0 240 £525 -4.55% 172
Yorkshire +2 151 £488 -18.75% 86
North East -6 18 £525 -12.50% 20
DevOps
England

DevOps
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 19 (4.69%) Confluence
2 7 (1.73%) nginx
3 6 (1.48%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.74%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.74%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.49%) Apache
7 2 (0.49%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.49%) CMS
7 2 (0.49%) Traefik
8 1 (0.25%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.25%) Kentico
8 1 (0.25%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (1.48%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.25%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (2.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.73%) SAP PM
4 4 (0.99%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.99%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.49%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 169 (41.73%) Azure
2 108 (26.67%) AWS
3 86 (21.23%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (9.88%) Serverless
5 32 (7.90%) GitHub
6 31 (7.65%) Amazon EC2
7 25 (6.17%) GCP
8 23 (5.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 21 (5.19%) Amazon S3
10 18 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
10 18 (4.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 14 (3.46%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (2.72%) Kong
12 11 (2.72%) Route 53
12 11 (2.72%) SaaS
13 10 (2.47%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (2.47%) Amazon ELB
13 10 (2.47%) Apigee
14 9 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
14 9 (2.22%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 55 (13.58%) Firewall
2 37 (9.14%) VPN
3 12 (2.96%) BGP
3 12 (2.96%) Cisco ASA
3 12 (2.96%) Cisco Firepower
3 12 (2.96%) Cisco ISE
3 12 (2.96%) DNS
3 12 (2.96%) EIGRP
3 12 (2.96%) HSRP
3 12 (2.96%) IPsec
3 12 (2.96%) NetScaler
3 12 (2.96%) Network Security
3 12 (2.96%) OSPF
3 12 (2.96%) SNMP
3 12 (2.96%) Spanning Tree
3 12 (2.96%) Wi-Fi
4 9 (2.22%) HTTP
4 9 (2.22%) SSL
5 8 (1.98%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.49%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (7.16%) Relational Database
3 25 (6.17%) NoSQL
4 24 (5.93%) MongoDB
5 21 (5.19%) SQL Server
6 13 (3.21%) MySQL
7 11 (2.72%) RDBMS
8 10 (2.47%) DynamoDB
8 10 (2.47%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (2.47%) Oracle Reports
9 9 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
10 8 (1.98%) Data Lake
11 7 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (1.73%) Redis
12 6 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (1.48%) GIS
13 5 (1.23%) InterSystems Cache
13 5 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (1.23%) Tableau
14 4 (0.99%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 67 (16.54%) Git
2 51 (12.59%) Jenkins
3 48 (11.85%) JIRA
4 45 (11.11%) GitLab
5 13 (3.21%) JUnit
6 11 (2.72%) SonarQube
7 9 (2.22%) Selenium
8 8 (1.98%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 7 (1.73%) CircleCI
9 7 (1.73%) Travis CI
10 5 (1.23%) Burp Suite
10 5 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (1.23%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (0.99%) AppScan
12 3 (0.74%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.74%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.74%) webpack
13 2 (0.49%) Maven
13 2 (0.49%) Postman
General
1 59 (14.57%) Social Skills
2 54 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 52 (12.84%) Finance
4 21 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (4.44%) Banking
5 18 (4.44%) Retail
6 10 (2.47%) Legal
7 5 (1.23%) Marketing
8 4 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (0.74%) Law
10 2 (0.49%) Local Government
10 2 (0.49%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.25%) Automotive
11 1 (0.25%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.25%) Military
11 1 (0.25%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.25%) Public Speaking
11 1 (0.25%) Retail Finance
11 1 (0.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 91 (22.47%) DevOps Engineer
2 79 (19.51%) Architect
3 62 (15.31%) Developer
3 62 (15.31%) Lead
4 35 (8.64%) Technical Architect
5 33 (8.15%) Senior
6 29 (7.16%) Technical Leader
7 28 (6.91%) Lead Architect
8 26 (6.42%) AWS DevOps
8 26 (6.42%) Solutions Architect
9 23 (5.68%) Azure Engineer
10 19 (4.69%) AWS Engineer
11 18 (4.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 16 (3.95%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 16 (3.95%) DBA
13 15 (3.70%) Analyst
14 14 (3.46%) Consultant
14 14 (3.46%) Java Developer
14 14 (3.46%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 12 (2.96%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (10.62%) Node.js
2 31 (7.65%) Kafka
3 25 (6.17%) REST
4 23 (5.68%) React
5 21 (5.19%) .NET
6 20 (4.94%) Spring
7 19 (4.69%) JSON
7 19 (4.69%) Spring Boot
8 18 (4.44%) XML
9 15 (3.70%) JPA
10 12 (2.96%) Hibernate
10 12 (2.96%) HTML
10 12 (2.96%) Jinja
11 11 (2.72%) Elastic Stack
12 10 (2.47%) CSS
13 9 (2.22%) AngularJS
14 8 (1.98%) .NET Core
14 8 (1.98%) .NET Framework
14 8 (1.98%) SOAP
14 8 (1.98%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (10.62%) Public Cloud
2 23 (5.68%) Product Ownership
3 12 (2.96%) Mobile App
4 9 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (1.73%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (1.48%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.48%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (0.99%) Data Centre
9 4 (0.99%) DataPower
9 4 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (0.99%) Management Information System
9 4 (0.99%) PKI
10 3 (0.74%) Cloud Native
10 3 (0.74%) CMDB
10 3 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 47 (11.60%) Windows
2 42 (10.37%) Linux
3 35 (8.64%) Android
3 35 (8.64%) Apple iOS
4 33 (8.15%) Windows Server
5 13 (3.21%) Unix
6 8 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.48%) CentOS
8 2 (0.49%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (45.93%) Agile
2 177 (43.70%) CI/CD
3 65 (16.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 63 (15.56%) Containerisation
5 60 (14.81%) Microservices
6 58 (14.32%) Problem-Solving
7 54 (13.33%) Design Patterns
7 54 (13.33%) Scrum
8 52 (12.84%) Continuous Integration
9 46 (11.36%) Risk Management
10 42 (10.37%) ITIL
11 36 (8.89%) Migration
12 33 (8.15%) Test Automation
13 32 (7.90%) Mobile Device Management
14 31 (7.65%) Mentoring
14 31 (7.65%) Security Architecture
14 31 (7.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 31 (7.65%) Stakeholder Management
15 30 (7.41%) Zero Trust
16 29 (7.16%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 101 (24.94%) Python
2 45 (11.11%) Bash
3 40 (9.88%) Java
4 32 (7.90%) PowerShell
5 31 (7.65%) SQL
6 23 (5.68%) C#
6 23 (5.68%) Go
6 23 (5.68%) JavaScript
7 21 (5.19%) TypeScript
8 18 (4.44%) Perl
9 13 (3.21%) Ruby
10 12 (2.96%) Tcl
11 8 (1.98%) Scala
12 7 (1.73%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.48%) Groovy
14 5 (1.23%) PHP
14 5 (1.23%) Search Processing Language
15 4 (0.99%) Bicep
16 3 (0.74%) C
17 2 (0.49%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 95 (23.46%) Security Cleared
2 89 (21.98%) SC Cleared
3 34 (8.40%) Degree
4 14 (3.46%) DV Cleared
5 12 (2.96%) CCNA
5 12 (2.96%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (2.72%) CCNP
7 9 (2.22%) AWS Certification
7 9 (2.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.99%) CBAP
10 3 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.49%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.25%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.25%) MCP
12 1 (0.25%) MCSE
12 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.67%) QA
2 5 (1.23%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.74%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.74%) GDPR
3 3 (0.74%) ISO 22301
3 3 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.74%) NIST
3 3 (0.74%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.49%) NCSC
5 1 (0.25%) GRC
5 1 (0.25%) PMO
5 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 80 (19.75%) Docker
2 12 (2.96%) Active Directory
2 12 (2.96%) Firmware
3 4 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.74%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.49%) HDFS
5 2 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 99 (24.44%) Kubernetes
1 99 (24.44%) Terraform
2 64 (15.80%) Ansible
3 27 (6.67%) Prometheus
4 22 (5.43%) Grafana
5 19 (4.69%) Puppet
6 14 (3.46%) Progress Chef
7 11 (2.72%) HP Fortify
8 10 (2.47%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (1.98%) Docker Swarm
10 6 (1.48%) Kibana
10 6 (1.48%) logstash
10 6 (1.48%) Packer
11 5 (1.23%) Istio
12 4 (0.99%) Graylog
12 4 (0.99%) Nessus
12 4 (0.99%) Rancher
12 4 (0.99%) WebInspect
13 2 (0.49%) Graphite
13 2 (0.49%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 45 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 36 (8.89%) Oracle
3 25 (6.17%) Splunk
4 14 (3.46%) EMC
5 12 (2.96%) Cisco
5 12 (2.96%) Citrix
5 12 (2.96%) Palo Alto
5 12 (2.96%) SolarWinds
6 11 (2.72%) SAP
6 11 (2.72%) ServiceNow
7 10 (2.47%) IBM
8 9 (2.22%) Google
9 8 (1.98%) VMware
10 7 (1.73%) Salesforce
11 6 (1.48%) F5
11 6 (1.48%) PagerDuty
11 6 (1.48%) Solace
12 5 (1.23%) Apple
12 5 (1.23%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.99%) Cadence