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 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 22 34
Rank change year-on-year +8 +12 +11
DemandTrendContract jobs citing DevOps 76 33 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 11.91% 6.57% 4.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.93% 7.73% 4.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 28 15
10th Percentile £311 £375 £330
25th Percentile £354 £412 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.83% -1.05% -
75th Percentile £490 £527 £522
90th Percentile £584 £606 £597
North West median daily rate £473 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -14.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 588 427 368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 92.16% 85.06% 87.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 283 216
10th Percentile £306 £323 £275
25th Percentile £358 £396 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £488 £522
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -6.52% +15.89%
75th Percentile £520 £575 £588
90th Percentile £648 £650 £639
North West median daily rate £455 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -9.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 18 32
10th Percentile - £11.18 £17.15
25th Percentile £12.82 £16.06 £22.50
Median hourly rate £22.01 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -37.11% +14.60% +45.43%
75th Percentile £39.19 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £65.53 £47.50 £35.75
North West median hourly rate £26.08 £35.00 £31.88
% change year-on-year -25.50% +9.80% +46.36%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing DevOps

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Cheshire over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Cheshire

DevOps
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing DevOps.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing DevOps

DevOps
DemandTrendContract 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 23 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford +6 60 £393 -19.63% 10
Chester -5 3 £580 +98.29% 9
Warrington -4 1 £410 -13.68% 12
Macclesfield - 1 £400 -
Neston - 1 - -
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 15 (19.74%) Confluence
2 12 (15.79%) JBoss
3 8 (10.53%) Apache
4 5 (6.58%) Tomcat
4 5 (6.58%) WebSphere
5 4 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (5.26%) IIS
5 4 (5.26%) nginx
6 3 (3.95%) CICS
6 3 (3.95%) iPlanet
6 3 (3.95%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (1.32%) Anypoint
7 1 (1.32%) Camunda
7 1 (1.32%) Mule
7 1 (1.32%) Mule ESB
Applications
1 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 36 (47.37%) AWS
2 16 (21.05%) OpenShift
3 12 (15.79%) Azure
4 7 (9.21%) GitHub
5 5 (6.58%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (3.95%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (3.95%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (3.95%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.95%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (3.95%) AWS KMS
6 3 (3.95%) Figma
6 3 (3.95%) SaaS
6 3 (3.95%) Serverless
7 2 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.63%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.89%) Firewall
2 3 (3.95%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.32%) DHCP
3 1 (1.32%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (17.11%) SQL Server
2 10 (13.16%) Relational Database
3 8 (10.53%) RDBMS
4 6 (7.89%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (7.89%) Oracle Database
4 6 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (5.26%) Data Lake
5 4 (5.26%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.95%) DB2
6 3 (3.95%) Tableau
7 2 (2.63%) MySQL
7 2 (2.63%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.32%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 32 (42.11%) JIRA
2 29 (38.16%) Git
3 27 (35.53%) Jenkins
4 14 (18.42%) Sonatype Nexus
5 11 (14.47%) GitLab
5 11 (14.47%) SonarQube
6 10 (13.16%) Bitbucket Server
6 10 (13.16%) CA Release Automation
7 8 (10.53%) TeamCity
8 6 (7.89%) Bitbucket
8 6 (7.89%) Maven
8 6 (7.89%) Selenium
9 5 (6.58%) Cucumber
10 4 (5.26%) Gradle
10 4 (5.26%) JUnit
11 3 (3.95%) Mockito
11 3 (3.95%) Storybook
11 3 (3.95%) Xcode
12 2 (2.63%) Eclipse
12 2 (2.63%) REST Assured
General
1 24 (31.58%) Finance
2 19 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 13 (17.11%) Banking
4 12 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.95%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (3.95%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (3.95%) Publishing
6 1 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.32%) Legal
6 1 (1.32%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (25.00%) Developer
2 11 (14.47%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (13.16%) AWS DevOps
4 8 (10.53%) Java Developer
5 7 (9.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 7 (9.21%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (7.89%) Engineering Manager
7 5 (6.58%) Lead
7 5 (6.58%) Senior
8 4 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) DevOps Specialist
8 4 (5.26%) React Developer
9 3 (3.95%) Architect
9 3 (3.95%) Cloud Consultant
9 3 (3.95%) Consultant
9 3 (3.95%) Cybersecurity Consultant
9 3 (3.95%) Integration Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) Security Consultant
9 3 (3.95%) Tester
10 2 (2.63%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 10 (13.16%) OAuth
3 9 (11.84%) REST
3 9 (11.84%) Spring
4 8 (10.53%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (9.21%) .NET
5 7 (9.21%) CSS
5 7 (9.21%) HTML
6 6 (7.89%) JMS
6 6 (7.89%) React
7 5 (6.58%) Node.js
8 4 (5.26%) JSON
8 4 (5.26%) Kafka
8 4 (5.26%) OpenID
8 4 (5.26%) React Native
8 4 (5.26%) RESTful
8 4 (5.26%) SAML
9 3 (3.95%) Hibernate
9 3 (3.95%) Jest
9 3 (3.95%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.21%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.89%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 5 (6.58%) Mobile App
4 4 (5.26%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.95%) Mainframe
5 3 (3.95%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.95%) VSAM
6 2 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.63%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.63%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.32%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.32%) Insider Threat
7 1 (1.32%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (21.05%) Linux
2 13 (17.11%) Windows
3 11 (14.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (7.89%) Unix
4 6 (7.89%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.95%) Android
5 3 (3.95%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (60.53%) CI/CD
2 33 (43.42%) Agile
3 22 (28.95%) Microservices
3 22 (28.95%) Test Automation
4 18 (23.68%) Continuous Integration
5 16 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (17.11%) Code Quality
6 13 (17.11%) Process Improvement
7 12 (15.79%) Containerisation
7 12 (15.79%) Migration
7 12 (15.79%) Scrum
8 11 (14.47%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (13.16%) Change Management
9 10 (13.16%) SDLC
10 9 (11.84%) Analytics
10 9 (11.84%) Coaching
10 9 (11.84%) Configuration Management
10 9 (11.84%) Observability
11 8 (10.53%) User Acceptance Testing
12 7 (9.21%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 34 (44.74%) Java
2 27 (35.53%) SQL
3 20 (26.32%) Python
4 9 (11.84%) Bash
5 7 (9.21%) Perl
6 6 (7.89%) JavaScript
7 5 (6.58%) PowerShell
7 5 (6.58%) Shell Script
8 4 (5.26%) Groovy
8 4 (5.26%) TypeScript
9 3 (3.95%) COBOL
9 3 (3.95%) JCL
10 2 (2.63%) C#
11 1 (1.32%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.32%) R
11 1 (1.32%) REXX
11 1 (1.32%) Ruby
11 1 (1.32%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 6 (7.89%) AWS Certification
2 5 (6.58%) Degree
3 4 (5.26%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.63%) CCNA
4 2 (2.63%) CCNP
4 2 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.63%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.32%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.32%) CISSP
5 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.32%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.32%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.84%) SEPA
2 7 (9.21%) QA
3 6 (7.89%) ISO 20022
3 6 (7.89%) PSD2
4 4 (5.26%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.32%) Data Quality
System Software
1 19 (25.00%) Docker
2 11 (14.47%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.95%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 24 (31.58%) Kubernetes
2 16 (21.05%) Progress Chef
3 12 (15.79%) Ansible
4 10 (13.16%) Kibana
5 6 (7.89%) Terraform
6 4 (5.26%) CA Single Sign-On
7 3 (3.95%) CA Wily
7 3 (3.95%) Tivoli
8 1 (1.32%) Dell DRAC
8 1 (1.32%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (1.32%) Grafana
8 1 (1.32%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (25.00%) Oracle
2 17 (22.37%) Microsoft
3 14 (18.42%) AppDynamics
4 13 (17.11%) Splunk
5 8 (10.53%) Cloudera
5 8 (10.53%) Red Hat
5 8 (10.53%) ServiceNow
6 5 (6.58%) Fortinet
6 5 (6.58%) Infoblox
7 4 (5.26%) Broadcom
8 3 (3.95%) IBM
8 3 (3.95%) Veracode
9 2 (2.63%) Dynatrace
10 1 (1.32%) CyberArk
10 1 (1.32%) Dell
10 1 (1.32%) InterSystems
10 1 (1.32%) TIBCO
10 1 (1.32%) VMware