DevOps Engineer Contracts in Manchester

Development Operations Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 36 43
Rank change year-on-year -19 +7 -1
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 43 85 128
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.94% 4.85% 4.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.09% 5.05% 5.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 70 106
10th Percentile £425 £463 £444
25th Percentile £444 £488 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £548 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.39% -0.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £591 £600 £625
90th Percentile £650 £675 £638
North West median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 1,391 1,683 2,551
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.21% 95.95% 97.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 947 1,259 1,980
10th Percentile £313 £313 £230
25th Percentile £400 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +2.56% +11.43%
75th Percentile £575 £592 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 44 60
10th Percentile £12.12 £14.37 £11.71
25th Percentile £13.36 £16.85 £14.25
Median hourly rate £27.00 £20.35 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year +32.66% +3.05% +16.18%
75th Percentile £62.50 £35.63 £34.06
90th Percentile £73.75 £60.83 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £32.90 £28.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year +16.07% +13.36% +38.45%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Manchester

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in Manchester

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 19 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in Manchester

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Engineer in Manchester

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 19 June 2024, DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Manchester region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 43 (100.00%) DevOps
2 32 (74.42%) Terraform
3 28 (65.12%) CI/CD
4 25 (58.14%) Azure
5 22 (51.16%) AWS
6 20 (46.51%) Python
6 20 (46.51%) Kubernetes
7 19 (44.19%) Docker
8 18 (41.86%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (30.23%) GitLab
10 10 (23.26%) Ansible
10 10 (23.26%) Containerisation
11 9 (20.93%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (20.93%) Software Delivery
11 9 (20.93%) Git
12 8 (18.60%) Bash
12 8 (18.60%) Migration
12 8 (18.60%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (18.60%) Go
13 7 (16.28%) Agile
13 7 (16.28%) Linux
13 7 (16.28%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (16.28%) Security Cleared
14 6 (13.95%) PowerShell
14 6 (13.95%) SC Cleared
14 6 (13.95%) SQL
14 6 (13.95%) Oracle
14 6 (13.95%) Active Directory
14 6 (13.95%) Configuration Management
14 6 (13.95%) Jenkins

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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%) Confluence
2 2 (4.65%) nginx
3 1 (2.33%) Apache
3 1 (2.33%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 25 (58.14%) Azure
2 22 (51.16%) AWS
3 9 (20.93%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (18.60%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (16.28%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (11.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (9.30%) GCP
7 4 (9.30%) Serverless
8 3 (6.98%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (6.98%) Amazon ELB
8 3 (6.98%) Amazon S3
8 3 (6.98%) AWS CodePipeline
8 3 (6.98%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (6.98%) GitHub
8 3 (6.98%) Snowflake
9 2 (4.65%) Azure Storage
10 1 (2.33%) Azure AKS
10 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (2.33%) Slack
10 1 (2.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.30%) DNS
2 3 (6.98%) Network Security
3 1 (2.33%) PPP
3 1 (2.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.63%) MySQL
2 3 (6.98%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (6.98%) Data Lake
2 3 (6.98%) DynamoDB
3 2 (4.65%) Redis
3 2 (4.65%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.33%) Flink
4 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (30.23%) GitLab
2 9 (20.93%) Git
3 6 (13.95%) Jenkins
4 4 (9.30%) JIRA
4 4 (9.30%) SonarQube
5 2 (4.65%) Bitbucket
5 2 (4.65%) Selenium
6 1 (2.33%) Liquibase
6 1 (2.33%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (11.63%) Public Sector
2 3 (6.98%) Finance
3 1 (2.33%) Banking
3 1 (2.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.98%) ARM Templates
2 2 (4.65%) pytest
2 2 (4.65%) SAML
2 2 (4.65%) YAML
3 1 (2.33%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (2.33%) cloud-init
3 1 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.33%) JSON
3 1 (2.33%) Node.js
3 1 (2.33%) REST
3 1 (2.33%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.30%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (9.30%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (9.30%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.65%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (4.65%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.33%) Clustering
3 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (16.28%) Linux
2 4 (9.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (4.65%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (2.33%) CentOS
4 1 (2.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (100.00%) DevOps
2 28 (65.12%) CI/CD
3 18 (41.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (23.26%) Containerisation
5 9 (20.93%) Software Delivery
6 8 (18.60%) Migration
7 7 (16.28%) Agile
8 6 (13.95%) Configuration Management
9 5 (11.63%) Data Migration
9 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure Management
9 5 (11.63%) Platform Engineering
9 5 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (9.30%) Cloud Operations
10 4 (9.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 3 (6.98%) Continuous Integration
11 3 (6.98%) Data Pipeline
11 3 (6.98%) High Availability
11 3 (6.98%) IT Strategy
11 3 (6.98%) Software Engineering
11 3 (6.98%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 20 (46.51%) Python
2 8 (18.60%) Bash
2 8 (18.60%) Go
3 6 (13.95%) PowerShell
3 6 (13.95%) SQL
4 5 (11.63%) PHP
5 4 (9.30%) Java
5 4 (9.30%) Ruby
6 1 (2.33%) Bicep
6 1 (2.33%) C
6 1 (2.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (16.28%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.95%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.63%) AWS Certification
3 5 (11.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.98%) NIST
1 3 (6.98%) PCI DSS
2 2 (4.65%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 19 (44.19%) Docker
2 6 (13.95%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.65%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 32 (74.42%) Terraform
2 20 (46.51%) Kubernetes
3 10 (23.26%) Ansible
4 4 (9.30%) Prometheus
5 3 (6.98%) Grafana
5 3 (6.98%) HP Fortify
6 2 (4.65%) Istio
6 2 (4.65%) Podman
7 1 (2.33%) Consul
7 1 (2.33%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (2.33%) Graphite
7 1 (2.33%) HAProxy
7 1 (2.33%) linkerd
7 1 (2.33%) Packer
7 1 (2.33%) Puppet
7 1 (2.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (13.95%) Oracle
2 4 (9.30%) Splunk
3 3 (6.98%) Atlassian
4 2 (4.65%) PagerDuty
4 2 (4.65%) Virgin Media
4 2 (4.65%) VMware
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow