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 during the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 34 46
Rank change year-on-year -13 +12 -7
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 49 102 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 3.20% 5.33% 4.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.34% 5.51% 4.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 80 93
10th Percentile £425 £475 £439
25th Percentile £444 £497 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £578 £650 £625
90th Percentile £605 £675 £638
North West median daily rate £513 £581 £575
% change year-on-year -11.83% +1.09% +15.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,465 1,851 2,502
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.69% 96.71% 97.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,025 1,381 1,991
10th Percentile £313 £313 £213
25th Percentile £400 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £575
90th Percentile £694 £663 £650
North West median daily rate £495 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -1.00% +8.11% +10.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 59 58
10th Percentile £12.02 £14.57 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.31 £20.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £25.10 £37.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.08% +114.29% +9.38%
75th Percentile £60.94 £56.88 £20.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £34.13
North West median hourly rate £26.39 £30.74 £20.00
% change year-on-year -14.15% +53.70% +11.73%

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 April 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 April 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 49 (100.00%) DevOps
2 34 (69.39%) CI/CD
3 33 (67.35%) Terraform
4 29 (59.18%) Azure
5 26 (53.06%) AWS
6 24 (48.98%) Kubernetes
7 20 (40.82%) Python
8 19 (38.78%) Docker
8 19 (38.78%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (26.53%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (24.49%) GitLab
11 11 (22.45%) Containerisation
12 10 (20.41%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (20.41%) Migration
12 10 (20.41%) Agile
13 9 (18.37%) Software Delivery
13 9 (18.37%) Ansible
13 9 (18.37%) Go
14 8 (16.33%) Linux
14 8 (16.33%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (16.33%) Bash
14 8 (16.33%) SC Cleared
14 8 (16.33%) Security Cleared
14 8 (16.33%) PowerShell
15 7 (14.29%) Git
15 7 (14.29%) Configuration Management
15 7 (14.29%) Jenkins
15 7 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 6 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
16 6 (12.24%) GCP

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 4 (8.16%) Confluence
2 2 (4.08%) nginx
2 2 (4.08%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 29 (59.18%) Azure
2 26 (53.06%) AWS
3 13 (26.53%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (20.41%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (16.33%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (12.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (12.24%) GCP
7 5 (10.20%) GitHub
8 4 (8.16%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (8.16%) Serverless
8 4 (8.16%) Snowflake
9 3 (6.12%) Amazon ELB
9 3 (6.12%) Amazon S3
9 3 (6.12%) AWS CodePipeline
9 3 (6.12%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (4.08%) Azure Storage
10 2 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (4.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (2.04%) Azure AKS
11 1 (2.04%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.20%) DNS
2 3 (6.12%) Network Security
3 2 (4.08%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.04%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.20%) MySQL
2 3 (6.12%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (6.12%) Data Lake
2 3 (6.12%) DynamoDB
3 2 (4.08%) Redis
3 2 (4.08%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.04%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.04%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (24.49%) GitLab
2 7 (14.29%) Git
2 7 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 5 (10.20%) JIRA
4 3 (6.12%) SonarQube
5 2 (4.08%) Bitbucket
5 2 (4.08%) Selenium
6 1 (2.04%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.04%) Gradle
6 1 (2.04%) JUnit
6 1 (2.04%) Maven
6 1 (2.04%) Mockito
6 1 (2.04%) Travis CI
General
1 5 (10.20%) Finance
2 4 (8.16%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.12%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.04%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.12%) ARM Templates
2 2 (4.08%) cloud-init
2 2 (4.08%) pytest
2 2 (4.08%) SAML
2 2 (4.08%) YAML
3 1 (2.04%) Kafka
3 1 (2.04%) REST
3 1 (2.04%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.16%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (8.16%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (8.16%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.08%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.08%) Clustering
2 2 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (4.08%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (4.08%) PKI
3 1 (2.04%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.04%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.33%) Linux
2 4 (8.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (4.08%) Alpine Linux
3 2 (4.08%) CentOS
3 2 (4.08%) Windows
4 1 (2.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (100.00%) DevOps
2 34 (69.39%) CI/CD
3 19 (38.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (22.45%) Containerisation
5 10 (20.41%) Agile
5 10 (20.41%) Migration
6 9 (18.37%) Software Delivery
7 7 (14.29%) Configuration Management
7 7 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 6 (12.24%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (10.20%) Cloud Operations
9 5 (10.20%) Data Migration
9 5 (10.20%) Infrastructure Management
9 5 (10.20%) Platform Engineering
10 3 (6.12%) Continuous Deployment
10 3 (6.12%) High Availability
10 3 (6.12%) IT Strategy
10 3 (6.12%) Security Operations
10 3 (6.12%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 20 (40.82%) Python
2 9 (18.37%) Go
3 8 (16.33%) Bash
3 8 (16.33%) PowerShell
4 5 (10.20%) PHP
4 5 (10.20%) Ruby
5 4 (8.16%) SQL
6 3 (6.12%) Bicep
6 3 (6.12%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (16.33%) SC Cleared
1 8 (16.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.20%) AWS Certification
2 5 (10.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.04%) MCSE
3 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.16%) NIST
2 3 (6.12%) PCI DSS
3 2 (4.08%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (4.08%) NCSC
System Software
1 19 (38.78%) Docker
2 6 (12.24%) Active Directory
3 3 (6.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (4.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (67.35%) Terraform
2 24 (48.98%) Kubernetes
3 9 (18.37%) Ansible
4 6 (12.24%) Prometheus
5 3 (6.12%) Grafana
5 3 (6.12%) HP Fortify
6 2 (4.08%) Consul
6 2 (4.08%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (4.08%) Graphite
6 2 (4.08%) HAProxy
6 2 (4.08%) Istio
6 2 (4.08%) linkerd
6 2 (4.08%) Packer
6 2 (4.08%) Podman
6 2 (4.08%) Puppet
6 2 (4.08%) ZABBIX
7 1 (2.04%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (10.20%) Oracle
1 5 (10.20%) Splunk
1 5 (10.20%) VMware
2 3 (6.12%) Atlassian
2 3 (6.12%) PagerDuty
3 2 (4.08%) Virgin Media
4 1 (2.04%) Confluent
4 1 (2.04%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.04%) New Relic