DevOps Engineer Contracts in Manchester

Development Operations Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2025.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 61 31
Rank change year-on-year -13 -30 +10
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 6 32 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.60% 2.50% 5.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 2.61% 5.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 19 88
10th Percentile £390 £415 £463
25th Percentile £396 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +7.14% -8.70%
75th Percentile £531 £638 £606
90th Percentile £588 £678 £675
North West median daily rate £390 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -25.71% - -8.70%

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 922 1,227 1,734
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.29% 95.86% 96.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 594 812 1,279
10th Percentile £292 £313 £303
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £670 £688 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -7.98% -2.20% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 63 57
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.63 £14.39
25th Percentile £13.27 £18.39 £16.29
Median hourly rate £20.26 £42.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.34% +123.68% +4.11%
75th Percentile £40.31 £62.50 £30.00
90th Percentile £74.13 £74.10 £64.65
North West median hourly rate £27.25 £32.90 £27.60
% change year-on-year -17.16% +19.18% +10.40%

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 26 July 2025.

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 26 July 2025, 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 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
3 4 (66.67%) Terraform
3 4 (66.67%) AWS
3 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
4 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (50.00%) GitLab
4 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 2 (33.33%) Azure
5 2 (33.33%) Ansible
5 2 (33.33%) Docker
5 2 (33.33%) Military
6 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 1 (16.67%) Maven
6 1 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
6 1 (16.67%) Release Management
6 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
6 1 (16.67%) Git
6 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 1 (16.67%) Java
6 1 (16.67%) Oracle
6 1 (16.67%) Linux
6 1 (16.67%) Python
6 1 (16.67%) Service Management
6 1 (16.67%) ITSM
6 1 (16.67%) Risk Management

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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Kong
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Maven
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) ARM Templates
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (16.67%) Node.js
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) Coaching
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (16.67%) ITSM
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) Release Management
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Service Management
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bash
1 1 (16.67%) Bicep
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (66.67%) Terraform
3 2 (33.33%) Ansible
4 1 (16.67%) Grafana
4 1 (16.67%) Graylog
4 1 (16.67%) Packer
4 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
4 1 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle
1 1 (16.67%) Splunk