Principal DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Bury

Principal Development Operations Engineer
Manchester > Bury

The median Principal Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Bury is £761, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
9 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Principal DevOps Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bury 40.00% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 40.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £687 - -
25th Percentile £707 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £761 - -
75th Percentile £794 - -
90th Percentile £801 - -
Manchester median daily rate £761 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Bury

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Bury. 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 Bury with a recognized job title 5 3 1
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 30.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £500 - £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £609 - £325
75th Percentile £772 - £338
90th Percentile £792 - -
Manchester median daily rate £478 £450 £495
% change year-on-year +6.22% -9.09% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £21.10 -
Manchester median hourly rate £60.00 £21.10 £30.50
% change year-on-year +184.36% -30.82% +60.53%

Principal DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bury

For the 6 months to 9 July 2026, Principal DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Bury region featuring Principal DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) FinOps
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) Monorepo
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Product Roadmap
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) Release Management
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving

Principal DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bury by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) FinOps
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) Monorepo
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Product Roadmap
1 2 (100.00%) Release Management
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
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