DevOps Engineer Contracts in the North West

Development Operations Engineer
England > North West

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the North West is £519 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 77 53 67
Rank change year-on-year -24 +14 -7
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 60 123 134
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.17% 3.83% 3.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.30% 4.04% 3.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 98 114
10th Percentile £420 £475 £444
25th Percentile £444 £503 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £555 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.53% -3.48% +15.00%
75th Percentile £569 £648 £638
90th Percentile £615 £675 £693
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 £21.00
% change year-on-year +3.91% +173.81% -56.92%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 2,607 3,043 3,930
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.35% 94.71% 96.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,702 2,182 2,880
10th Percentile £280 £300 £207
25th Percentile £390 £403 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £470
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +6.38% +10.59%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £563
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 135 174
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.10 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £26.39 £30.54 £20.31
Median % change year-on-year -13.59% +50.37% +10.74%
75th Percentile £46.18 £47.25 £43.50
90th Percentile £64.00 £65.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the North West

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the North West

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in the North West

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the North West

DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 27 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
Manchester -20 47 £519 -11.70% 17
Lancashire -3 4 £595 -2.86%
Cheshire +6 3 £448 -23.83% 5
Merseyside +12 1 £475 -9.52% 1
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 West region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 60 (100.00%) DevOps
2 38 (63.33%) Terraform
3 37 (61.67%) CI/CD
4 32 (53.33%) AWS
5 29 (48.33%) Azure
6 27 (45.00%) Kubernetes
7 22 (36.67%) Python
8 21 (35.00%) Docker
9 19 (31.67%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (25.00%) SC Cleared
10 15 (25.00%) Security Cleared
11 14 (23.33%) Agile
12 12 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
12 12 (20.00%) GitLab
13 11 (18.33%) Ansible
13 11 (18.33%) Azure DevOps
13 11 (18.33%) Containerisation
14 10 (16.67%) Go
14 10 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (16.67%) Jenkins
14 10 (16.67%) Migration
15 9 (15.00%) Oracle
15 9 (15.00%) Software Delivery
15 9 (15.00%) Prometheus
16 8 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 8 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
16 8 (13.33%) Bash
16 8 (13.33%) Linux
16 8 (13.33%) PowerShell
17 7 (11.67%) Git

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (6.67%) Confluence
2 2 (3.33%) nginx
2 2 (3.33%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 32 (53.33%) AWS
2 29 (48.33%) Azure
3 12 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 11 (18.33%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (11.67%) Serverless
8 6 (10.00%) Amazon S3
8 6 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (10.00%) GCP
8 6 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (8.33%) AWS CodePipeline
9 5 (8.33%) GitHub
10 4 (6.67%) Route 53
10 4 (6.67%) Snowflake
11 3 (5.00%) Amazon ELB
11 3 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (3.33%) Azure Storage
12 2 (3.33%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.33%) DNS
2 3 (5.00%) Network Security
3 2 (3.33%) HTTP
3 2 (3.33%) SSL
3 2 (3.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.67%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (10.00%) MySQL
3 4 (6.67%) DynamoDB
4 3 (5.00%) Data Lake
5 2 (3.33%) Redis
5 2 (3.33%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.67%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (20.00%) GitLab
2 10 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 7 (11.67%) Git
3 7 (11.67%) JIRA
4 4 (6.67%) Bitbucket
5 3 (5.00%) SonarQube
6 2 (3.33%) Selenium
6 2 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.67%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.67%) Gradle
7 1 (1.67%) JUnit
7 1 (1.67%) Maven
7 1 (1.67%) Mockito
7 1 (1.67%) Travis CI
General
1 5 (8.33%) Public Sector
2 4 (6.67%) Finance
2 4 (6.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (1.67%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.00%) ARM Templates
1 3 (5.00%) AWS CDK
2 2 (3.33%) cloud-init
2 2 (3.33%) JDBC
2 2 (3.33%) JPA
2 2 (3.33%) JWT
2 2 (3.33%) pytest
2 2 (3.33%) SAML
2 2 (3.33%) Spring
2 2 (3.33%) WebSockets
2 2 (3.33%) YAML
3 1 (1.67%) AWS SAM
3 1 (1.67%) Kafka
3 1 (1.67%) REST
3 1 (1.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.33%) Clustering
3 2 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (3.33%) PKI
4 1 (1.67%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.33%) Linux
2 4 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.33%) Alpine Linux
3 2 (3.33%) CentOS
3 2 (3.33%) Windows
4 1 (1.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (100.00%) DevOps
2 37 (61.67%) CI/CD
3 19 (31.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (23.33%) Agile
5 11 (18.33%) Containerisation
6 10 (16.67%) Migration
7 9 (15.00%) Software Delivery
8 7 (11.67%) Configuration Management
8 7 (11.67%) Platform Engineering
8 7 (11.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 6 (10.00%) Microservices
9 6 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (8.33%) Cloud Operations
10 5 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
10 5 (8.33%) Data Migration
10 5 (8.33%) Infrastructure Management
11 4 (6.67%) GitOps
11 4 (6.67%) Load Balancing
11 4 (6.67%) Software Engineering
12 3 (5.00%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (36.67%) Python
2 10 (16.67%) Go
3 8 (13.33%) Bash
3 8 (13.33%) PowerShell
4 6 (10.00%) SQL
5 5 (8.33%) Java
5 5 (8.33%) PHP
5 5 (8.33%) Ruby
6 2 (3.33%) Bicep
7 1 (1.67%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 15 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.33%) AWS Certification
2 5 (8.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (1.67%) MCSE
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.00%) NIST
1 3 (5.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (3.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 21 (35.00%) Docker
2 6 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (63.33%) Terraform
2 27 (45.00%) Kubernetes
3 11 (18.33%) Ansible
4 9 (15.00%) Prometheus
5 6 (10.00%) Grafana
6 3 (5.00%) HP Fortify
7 2 (3.33%) Consul
7 2 (3.33%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (3.33%) Graphite
7 2 (3.33%) HAProxy
7 2 (3.33%) Istio
7 2 (3.33%) linkerd
7 2 (3.33%) Packer
7 2 (3.33%) Podman
7 2 (3.33%) Puppet
7 2 (3.33%) ZABBIX
8 1 (1.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 9 (15.00%) Oracle
2 6 (10.00%) VMware
3 5 (8.33%) Splunk
4 3 (5.00%) Atlassian
4 3 (5.00%) PagerDuty
5 2 (3.33%) Virgin Media
6 1 (1.67%) Confluent
6 1 (1.67%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.67%) New Relic