DevOps Contracts in Cheshire

DevOps
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 27 32
Rank change year-on-year +8 +5 -6
Contract jobs citing DevOps 43 32 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 9.58% 6.35% 5.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.86% 7.53% 6.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 26 26
10th Percentile £357 £392 £428
25th Percentile £385 £446 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.81% -1.65% -3.29%
75th Percentile £524 £582 £638
90th Percentile £631 £606 £678
North West median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.37% -2.91% +2.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 436 425 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 97.10% 84.33% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 285 328
10th Percentile £317 £276 £275
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £575
90th Percentile £638 £635 £660
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 23
10th Percentile £19.00 £13.70 £19.06
25th Percentile £25.94 £16.61 £23.15
Median hourly rate £35.20 £26.66 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +32.03% -12.70% +29.96%
75th Percentile £85.44 £42.31 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £44.13 £39.20
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Cheshire

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Cheshire

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Cheshire

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in Cheshire

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Knutsford -1 24 £393 -32.47% 6
Warrington -6 5 £469 -1.32% 11
Alderley Edge - 2 - - 1
Crewe - 2 £588 - 4
Macclesfield - 1 £400 - 2
DevOps
North West

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 5 (11.63%) JBoss
2 4 (9.30%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (9.30%) Confluence
3 3 (6.98%) Apache
3 3 (6.98%) nginx
3 3 (6.98%) Tomcat
4 2 (4.65%) SharePoint
5 1 (2.33%) Camunda
5 1 (2.33%) CICS
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (2.33%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (37.21%) AWS
2 8 (18.60%) Azure
2 8 (18.60%) OpenShift
3 6 (13.95%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (11.63%) GitHub
5 4 (9.30%) Power Platform
5 4 (9.30%) Serverless
6 3 (6.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (6.98%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (6.98%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (6.98%) Amazon S3
6 3 (6.98%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (6.98%) AWS KMS
6 3 (6.98%) Power Automate
6 3 (6.98%) PowerApps
7 2 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.33%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (2.33%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (16.28%) Firewall
2 4 (9.30%) DHCP
3 2 (4.65%) DMZ
4 1 (2.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (18.60%) SQL Server
2 5 (11.63%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (11.63%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (11.63%) RDBMS
2 5 (11.63%) Relational Database
3 4 (9.30%) Data Lake
3 4 (9.30%) MongoDB
3 4 (9.30%) Power BI
4 2 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.65%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.65%) Tableau
5 1 (2.33%) DB2
5 1 (2.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 15 (34.88%) Git
2 14 (32.56%) Jenkins
3 13 (30.23%) JIRA
4 10 (23.26%) GitLab
5 6 (13.95%) SonarQube
5 6 (13.95%) TeamCity
6 5 (11.63%) Bitbucket Server
6 5 (11.63%) CA Release Automation
6 5 (11.63%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (2.33%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.33%) Selenium
General
1 13 (30.23%) Social Skills
2 8 (18.60%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (16.28%) Finance
4 3 (6.98%) Banking
4 3 (6.98%) Retail
5 2 (4.65%) Manufacturing
5 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.33%) Legal
6 1 (2.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 11 (25.58%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (20.93%) AWS DevOps
3 6 (13.95%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 6 (13.95%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) Developer
5 4 (9.30%) Automation Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Senior
6 3 (6.98%) Architect
6 3 (6.98%) Build Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Integration Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.98%) Windows Build Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Windows Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Automation Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Lead
7 2 (4.65%) Senior Automation Engineer
8 1 (2.33%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
8 1 (2.33%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.28%) Spring Boot
2 6 (13.95%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (9.30%) .NET
4 3 (6.98%) ADO
4 3 (6.98%) AngularJS
4 3 (6.98%) CSS
4 3 (6.98%) HTML
4 3 (6.98%) OAuth
5 2 (4.65%) CSS3
5 2 (4.65%) GraphQL
5 2 (4.65%) HTML5
5 2 (4.65%) Kafka
5 2 (4.65%) Node.js
5 2 (4.65%) React
5 2 (4.65%) REST
5 2 (4.65%) RESTful
6 1 (2.33%) jBPM
6 1 (2.33%) Middleware
6 1 (2.33%) Spring
6 1 (2.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.30%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.65%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.33%) Blockchain
3 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.33%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.33%) Insider Threat
3 1 (2.33%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.33%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 10 (23.26%) Windows
2 8 (18.60%) Linux
2 8 (18.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (11.63%) Windows Server
4 3 (6.98%) Unix
5 1 (2.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (60.47%) CI/CD
2 13 (30.23%) Agile
3 11 (25.58%) Continuous Integration
4 10 (23.26%) Migration
5 9 (20.93%) Configuration Management
5 9 (20.93%) Microservices
5 9 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (20.93%) Process Improvement
6 8 (18.60%) Code Quality
7 7 (16.28%) Deployment Automation
7 7 (16.28%) Scrum
7 7 (16.28%) Sprint Planning
8 6 (13.95%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (13.95%) Data Ingestion
8 6 (13.95%) Task Automation
8 6 (13.95%) Test Automation
9 5 (11.63%) Actionable Insight
9 5 (11.63%) Analytics
9 5 (11.63%) Build Automation
9 5 (11.63%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 19 (44.19%) Python
2 16 (37.21%) SQL
3 10 (23.26%) Bash
4 9 (20.93%) Java
5 8 (18.60%) PowerShell
6 5 (11.63%) Perl
7 2 (4.65%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.65%) Ruby
8 1 (2.33%) C#
8 1 (2.33%) COBOL
8 1 (2.33%) JCL
8 1 (2.33%) R
8 1 (2.33%) REXX
8 1 (2.33%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (2.33%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (11.63%) Degree
2 3 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.65%) CCNA
3 2 (4.65%) CCNP
3 2 (4.65%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.33%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (20.93%) Active Directory
1 9 (20.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (34.88%) Kubernetes
2 10 (23.26%) Ansible
2 10 (23.26%) Progress Chef
3 8 (18.60%) Kibana
4 5 (11.63%) Terraform
5 3 (6.98%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (2.33%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (2.33%) Grafana
6 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.33%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (25.58%) Microsoft
2 8 (18.60%) AppDynamics
3 6 (13.95%) Red Hat
3 6 (13.95%) Splunk
4 5 (11.63%) Fortinet
4 5 (11.63%) Infoblox
4 5 (11.63%) Oracle
4 5 (11.63%) ServiceNow
5 3 (6.98%) Cloudera
5 3 (6.98%) Dell
6 2 (4.65%) CyberArk
6 2 (4.65%) Salesforce
6 2 (4.65%) VMware
7 1 (2.33%) TIBCO