DevOps Administrator Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Development Operations Administrator
North West > Manchester

The median Development Operations Administrator daily rate in Manchester is £429, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026.

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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Administrator 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.058% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 - -
North West median daily rate £429 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,597 834 1,367
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 93.60% 95.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 957 590 952
10th Percentile £313 £289 £313
25th Percentile £400 £396 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £453 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.20% -9.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £555 £586
90th Percentile £650 £669 £693
North West median daily rate £472 £474 £493
% change year-on-year -0.47% -3.90% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 45 83
10th Percentile £22.50 - £12.05
25th Percentile £38.25 £13.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £57.50 £24.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +134.69% -9.26% -2.17%
75th Percentile £76.00 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.25 £73.75
North West median hourly rate £50.00 £28.99 £27.50
% change year-on-year +72.47% +5.42% -10.27%

DevOps Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'DevOps Administrator' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

DevOps Administrator job vacancy trend in Manchester

DevOps Administrator
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Administrator job vacancies in Manchester.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Administrator job vacancies in Manchester

DevOps Administrator Skill Set
Top 23 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 16 May 2026, DevOps Administrator 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 Manchester region featuring DevOps Administrator in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) XML

DevOps Administrator Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle