DevOps Contracts in Liverpool

DevOps
Merseyside > Liverpool

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Liverpool 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 21 28 8
Rank change year-on-year +7 -20 +9
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4 5 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Liverpool 2.94% 2.69% 13.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.57% 3.33% 15.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 31
10th Percentile £508 £355 £425
25th Percentile £547 £363 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +56.25% -23.81% +31.25%
75th Percentile £638 £500 £575
90th Percentile - £545 £626
Merseyside median daily rate £525 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% +31.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Liverpool

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 Liverpool.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 112 150 238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Liverpool 82.35% 80.65% 87.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 67 185
10th Percentile £143 £143 £325
25th Percentile £163 £213 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £375 £490
Median % change year-on-year +18.33% -23.47% +4.53%
75th Percentile £588 £494 £550
90th Percentile £654 £630 £655
Merseyside median daily rate £425 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 23 6
10th Percentile £13.28 - £16.22
25th Percentile - £15.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.44 £18.11 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.49% +55.52%
75th Percentile £20.00 £34.27 £19.13
90th Percentile £25.22 £36.99 £21.50
Merseyside median hourly rate £17.44 £20.31 £18.00
% change year-on-year -14.11% +12.81% +48.42%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Liverpool

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Liverpool

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Liverpool

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Liverpool

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

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Liverpool

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Liverpool 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Principal DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) ERP Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Manager
2 1 (25.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (50.00%) ITSM
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Workflow
3 1 (25.00%) AIOps
3 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) ERP
3 1 (25.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco