DevOps Contracts in Manchester

DevOps
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 12 10
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 -4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 180 196 306
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 11.74% 10.33% 11.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.48% 11.24% 13.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 152 236
10th Percentile £425 £413 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £625
90th Percentile £850 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £533 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -3.09% +2.33% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £39.60 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -43.43% -
North West median hourly rate £45.88 £42.85 £44.04
% change year-on-year +7.06% -2.69% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

DevOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,335 1,743 2,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.08% 91.88% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 911 1,278 1,823
10th Percentile £313 £315 £263
25th Percentile £406 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.46% +8.44%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £575
90th Percentile £694 £658 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 61 50
10th Percentile £12.42 £14.65 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £24.19 £37.30 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year -35.15% +144.59% -4.69%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £23.69
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £33.88
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +10.64%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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
Oldham -3 1 £450 +12.50% 3
Cheadle - 1 £400 -
Altrincham - 1 £563 - 7
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 (3.33%) Confluence
2 4 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.11%) ArcGIS
3 2 (1.11%) nginx
3 2 (1.11%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (3.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.11%) SAP Retail
2 2 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 72 (40.00%) Azure
2 50 (27.78%) AWS
3 39 (21.67%) Azure DevOps
4 26 (14.44%) Serverless
5 19 (10.56%) Amazon EC2
6 14 (7.78%) Amazon S3
7 13 (7.22%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (5.00%) GCP
10 9 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 7 (3.89%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (3.89%) Snowflake
12 6 (3.33%) Amazon ELB
12 6 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (3.33%) GitHub
13 5 (2.78%) Power Platform
13 5 (2.78%) SaaS
14 4 (2.22%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (2.22%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 31 (17.22%) Firewall
1 31 (17.22%) VPN
2 7 (3.89%) Network Security
3 5 (2.78%) DNS
4 2 (1.11%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.56%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.67%) NoSQL
2 20 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 13 (7.22%) MongoDB
4 12 (6.67%) RDBMS
5 11 (6.11%) Oracle Reports
6 8 (4.44%) DynamoDB
6 8 (4.44%) MySQL
7 6 (3.33%) Data Lake
7 6 (3.33%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.67%) GIS
10 2 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.11%) Redis
11 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 30 (16.67%) Git
2 19 (10.56%) GitLab
3 11 (6.11%) JIRA
4 8 (4.44%) Jenkins
5 7 (3.89%) JUnit
5 7 (3.89%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.78%) Selenium
7 3 (1.67%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.67%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.67%) Postman
7 3 (1.67%) webpack
8 2 (1.11%) Maven
9 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.56%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.56%) Gradle
9 1 (0.56%) JMeter
9 1 (0.56%) Mockito
9 1 (0.56%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.56%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.56%) TeamCity
General
1 24 (13.33%) Public Sector
2 21 (11.67%) Social Skills
3 10 (5.56%) Finance
4 9 (5.00%) Legal
5 7 (3.89%) Retail
6 4 (2.22%) Banking
6 4 (2.22%) Law
7 2 (1.11%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.11%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.56%) Military
8 1 (0.56%) Retail Finance
8 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (29.44%) Architect
2 47 (26.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 35 (19.44%) Lead
4 34 (18.89%) Technical Architect
5 29 (16.11%) Technical Leader
6 28 (15.56%) Lead Architect
7 27 (15.00%) Developer
8 23 (12.78%) AWS DevOps
9 17 (9.44%) Senior
10 16 (8.89%) AWS Engineer
11 15 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 14 (7.78%) Azure Engineer
12 14 (7.78%) Solutions Architect
13 12 (6.67%) DBA
13 12 (6.67%) PostgreSQL DBA
14 11 (6.11%) Senior DevOps
15 10 (5.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 7 (3.89%) Java Developer
16 7 (3.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 6 (3.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (21.11%) Node.js
2 14 (7.78%) Kafka
2 14 (7.78%) React
3 13 (7.22%) JSON
3 13 (7.22%) XML
4 11 (6.11%) .NET
4 11 (6.11%) REST
5 8 (4.44%) Spring Boot
6 6 (3.33%) Hibernate
6 6 (3.33%) JPA
6 6 (3.33%) Spring
7 5 (2.78%) HTML
7 5 (2.78%) RESTful
8 4 (2.22%) CSS
9 3 (1.67%) .NET Framework
9 3 (1.67%) ARM Templates
9 3 (1.67%) Entity Framework
9 3 (1.67%) Express.js
9 3 (1.67%) Redux
9 3 (1.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 33 (18.33%) Public Cloud
2 14 (7.78%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (4.44%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.67%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.67%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.11%) Clustering
6 2 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.11%) PKI
7 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.56%) IoT
7 1 (0.56%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.56%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 35 (19.44%) Windows
2 34 (18.89%) Android
2 34 (18.89%) Apple iOS
3 33 (18.33%) Windows Server
4 8 (4.44%) Linux
5 4 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.11%) Alpine Linux
6 2 (1.11%) CentOS
7 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (57.22%) Agile
2 90 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 39 (21.67%) Design Patterns
4 33 (18.33%) Microservices
5 32 (17.78%) Containerisation
5 32 (17.78%) Mobile Device Management
5 32 (17.78%) Risk Management
6 31 (17.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 31 (17.22%) Security Architecture
7 30 (16.67%) Zero Trust
8 28 (15.56%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 28 (15.56%) Threat Intelligence
9 20 (11.11%) Migration
9 20 (11.11%) Scrum
10 19 (10.56%) Mentoring
10 19 (10.56%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (10.00%) Architectural Patterns
12 17 (9.44%) Roadmaps
13 16 (8.89%) Test Automation
14 14 (7.78%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (18.33%) Python
2 19 (10.56%) Bash
3 15 (8.33%) C#
4 14 (7.78%) Go
4 14 (7.78%) Java
5 12 (6.67%) TypeScript
6 11 (6.11%) SQL
7 10 (5.56%) PowerShell
8 6 (3.33%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.78%) PHP
9 5 (2.78%) Ruby
10 3 (1.67%) C
11 2 (1.11%) Bicep
11 2 (1.11%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.56%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 39 (21.67%) Security Cleared
2 37 (20.56%) SC Cleared
3 14 (7.78%) Degree
4 9 (5.00%) AWS Certification
4 9 (5.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 7 (3.89%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.56%) MCSE
6 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.11%) QA
2 5 (2.78%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.67%) GDPR
3 3 (1.67%) ISO 22301
3 3 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.67%) NIST
3 3 (1.67%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.11%) NCSC
System Software
1 41 (22.78%) Docker
2 10 (5.56%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 50 (27.78%) Terraform
2 44 (24.44%) Kubernetes
3 17 (9.44%) Ansible
4 6 (3.33%) HP Fortify
4 6 (3.33%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.67%) Grafana
6 2 (1.11%) Consul
6 2 (1.11%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (1.11%) Graphite
6 2 (1.11%) HAProxy
6 2 (1.11%) Istio
6 2 (1.11%) linkerd
6 2 (1.11%) Packer
6 2 (1.11%) Podman
6 2 (1.11%) Puppet
6 2 (1.11%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 21 (11.67%) Oracle
2 18 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.44%) Splunk
4 6 (3.33%) Google
5 5 (2.78%) Apple
5 5 (2.78%) VMware
6 4 (2.22%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.67%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.67%) PagerDuty
7 3 (1.67%) SAP
8 2 (1.11%) Mapbox
8 2 (1.11%) Virgin Media
9 1 (0.56%) Confluent
9 1 (0.56%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.56%) New Relic
9 1 (0.56%) Xamarin