DevOps Contracts in Manchester

DevOps
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 16 9 12
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 89 177 196
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 9.61% 11.67% 10.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.72% 13.40% 11.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 124 152
10th Percentile £445 £425 £413
25th Percentile £460 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% -2.36% -
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £850 £675
North West median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.37% -2.91% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £39.60
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £45.88 £42.85
% change year-on-year +52.57% +7.06% -2.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Manchester

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Manchester

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Manchester

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in Manchester

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Salford - 2 £800 - 12
Altrincham -1 1 - - 18
Stockport - 1 - - 15
DevOps
North West

DevOps
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 6 (6.74%) SharePoint
2 5 (5.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.25%) Confluence
3 2 (2.25%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.25%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (1.12%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.12%) CMS
4 1 (1.12%) Headless CMS
4 1 (1.12%) Liferay
Applications
1 4 (4.49%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 32 (35.96%) Azure
2 29 (32.58%) AWS
3 17 (19.10%) Serverless
4 12 (13.48%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (10.11%) Amazon EKS
5 9 (10.11%) GitHub
6 8 (8.99%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (7.87%) Entra ID
7 7 (7.87%) GCP
8 6 (6.74%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (6.74%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (6.74%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (5.62%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (4.49%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (3.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (3.37%) Amazon S3
11 3 (3.37%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (3.37%) Azure AKS
11 3 (3.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (2.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.24%) DNS
2 5 (5.62%) DHCP
3 2 (2.25%) Calico
3 2 (2.25%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.12%) DMZ
4 1 (1.12%) Firewall
4 1 (1.12%) HTTP
4 1 (1.12%) Skype
4 1 (1.12%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (24.72%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (22.47%) Relational Database
3 17 (19.10%) MongoDB
4 13 (14.61%) NoSQL
5 9 (10.11%) MySQL
5 9 (10.11%) Oracle Reports
5 9 (10.11%) RDBMS
6 5 (5.62%) SQL Server
7 3 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (3.37%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.25%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (2.25%) Big Data
8 2 (2.25%) Power BI
8 2 (2.25%) Tableau
9 1 (1.12%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.12%) Data Vault
9 1 (1.12%) Delta Lake
9 1 (1.12%) DocumentDB
9 1 (1.12%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 22 (24.72%) GitLab
1 22 (24.72%) Jenkins
2 10 (11.24%) Gradle
2 10 (11.24%) JIRA
2 10 (11.24%) JUnit
2 10 (11.24%) Liquibase
2 10 (11.24%) Mockito
3 5 (5.62%) Git
3 5 (5.62%) Maven
3 5 (5.62%) Selenium
4 4 (4.49%) JMeter
4 4 (4.49%) LoadRunner
5 2 (2.25%) CircleCI
5 2 (2.25%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (2.25%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.12%) Appium
6 1 (1.12%) ERwin
6 1 (1.12%) Postman
6 1 (1.12%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.12%) WebDriver
General
1 24 (26.97%) Public Sector
2 23 (25.84%) Social Skills
3 17 (19.10%) Finance
4 15 (16.85%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (11.24%) Electronics
5 10 (11.24%) Manufacturing
5 10 (11.24%) Marketing
5 10 (11.24%) Telecoms
6 9 (10.11%) Banking
7 6 (6.74%) Military
8 4 (4.49%) Retail
9 1 (1.12%) Aviation
9 1 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (20.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (14.61%) Developer
3 12 (13.48%) Senior
4 10 (11.24%) Architect
5 9 (10.11%) DBA
6 7 (7.87%) Software Engineer
7 6 (6.74%) Lead
7 6 (6.74%) PostgreSQL DBA
7 6 (6.74%) Senior DevOps
8 5 (5.62%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) Java Developer
8 5 (5.62%) Java Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) Java Software Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) React Developer
8 5 (5.62%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 5 (5.62%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Software Tester
9 4 (4.49%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (28.09%) Kafka
2 14 (15.73%) React
3 12 (13.48%) OpenAPI
3 12 (13.48%) Swagger
4 10 (11.24%) Spring
4 10 (11.24%) Spring Boot
5 9 (10.11%) JSON
5 9 (10.11%) XML
6 6 (6.74%) .NET
7 5 (5.62%) Node.js
8 4 (4.49%) cloud-init
9 3 (3.37%) FastAPI
9 3 (3.37%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (2.25%) ARM Templates
10 2 (2.25%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (2.25%) Next.js
10 2 (2.25%) OAuth
10 2 (2.25%) pytest
10 2 (2.25%) RESTful
11 1 (1.12%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.87%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.37%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.25%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.25%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.25%) Private Cloud
3 2 (2.25%) Replication
3 2 (2.25%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.12%) IoT
4 1 (1.12%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.12%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.12%) PKI
4 1 (1.12%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.12%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (14.61%) Linux
2 9 (10.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (8.99%) Windows
4 5 (5.62%) Unix
5 4 (4.49%) CentOS
5 4 (4.49%) Windows Server
6 3 (3.37%) VMS
7 2 (2.25%) Android
7 2 (2.25%) Apple iOS
7 2 (2.25%) HPUX
7 2 (2.25%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (53.93%) Agile
1 48 (53.93%) CI/CD
2 23 (25.84%) Containerisation
3 21 (23.60%) Microservices
4 19 (21.35%) Software Engineering
5 18 (20.22%) Continuous Integration
6 16 (17.98%) Migration
6 16 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (16.85%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (14.61%) Mentoring
9 12 (13.48%) Business Intelligence
9 12 (13.48%) Disaster Recovery
9 12 (13.48%) TDD
10 10 (11.24%) Digital Marketing
10 10 (11.24%) Programme Management
11 9 (10.11%) Database Security
11 9 (10.11%) Event-Driven
11 9 (10.11%) Test Automation
12 8 (8.99%) Collaborative Working
12 8 (8.99%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 27 (30.34%) SQL
2 18 (20.22%) Python
3 14 (15.73%) TypeScript
4 13 (14.61%) Java
5 7 (7.87%) Bash
6 4 (4.49%) Go
7 3 (3.37%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.37%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.37%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.25%) C#
9 1 (1.12%) Bicep
9 1 (1.12%) Perl
9 1 (1.12%) R
Qualifications
1 23 (25.84%) Security Cleared
2 16 (17.98%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.49%) ISTQB
4 3 (3.37%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.37%) Degree
4 3 (3.37%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (2.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (2.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.25%) CCSP
5 2 (2.25%) CEH
5 2 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.25%) CISM
5 2 (2.25%) CISSP
5 2 (2.25%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.25%) OSCP
5 2 (2.25%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.25%) PMP
6 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.12%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.12%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.37%) COBIT
2 2 (2.25%) NIST
2 2 (2.25%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.25%) QA
3 1 (1.12%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.12%) NCSC
System Software
1 28 (31.46%) Docker
2 6 (6.74%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (26.97%) Kubernetes
2 22 (24.72%) Terraform
3 6 (6.74%) Istio
4 5 (5.62%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (5.62%) Packer
5 4 (4.49%) Grafana
5 4 (4.49%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.37%) Ansible
6 3 (3.37%) Kustomize
6 3 (3.37%) WSUS
7 2 (2.25%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.12%) Consul
8 1 (1.12%) Dell DRAC
8 1 (1.12%) Graylog
8 1 (1.12%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (1.12%) linkerd
8 1 (1.12%) Puppet
8 1 (1.12%) Rancher
8 1 (1.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 10 (11.24%) Microsoft
1 10 (11.24%) Oracle
1 10 (11.24%) SAP
2 5 (5.62%) Databricks
3 4 (4.49%) IBM
4 3 (3.37%) Google
4 3 (3.37%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.37%) VMware
5 2 (2.25%) Brio
5 2 (2.25%) Fujitsu
5 2 (2.25%) Sun
6 1 (1.12%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.12%) BMC
6 1 (1.12%) Dell
6 1 (1.12%) Informatica
6 1 (1.12%) Okta
6 1 (1.12%) Remedy
6 1 (1.12%) Splunk
6 1 (1.12%) Talend
6 1 (1.12%) Unisys