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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 8 12
Rank change year-on-year -9 +4 -4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 81 169 197
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 9.04% 11.74% 11.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.16% 13.56% 12.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 119 151
10th Percentile £413 £425 £413
25th Percentile £450 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £540
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% - -1.82%
75th Percentile £606 £663 £600
90th Percentile £750 £850 £675
North West median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £70.25 - -
25th Percentile £74.38 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - £39.60
75th Percentile £89.38 - -
90th Percentile £92.75 - -
North West median hourly rate £82.50 £45.88 £43.30
% change year-on-year +79.82% +5.95% -42.26%

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 797 1,246 1,621
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.95% 86.59% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 545 846 1,190
10th Percentile £312 £313 £318
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £589
90th Percentile £668 £694 £675
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 77 52
10th Percentile £14.17 £12.46 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.70 £13.50 £17.72
Median hourly rate £60.00 £26.00 £27.60
Median % change year-on-year +130.77% -5.80% +50.76%
75th Percentile £74.38 £61.25 £42.81
90th Percentile £86.20 £73.30 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £30.40 £26.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +16.92% -25.71% +51.99%

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 30 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps in Manchester over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 30 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 - 3 £800 - 1
Stockport - 1 - - 169
Altrincham - 1 - - 17
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 4 (4.94%) WebSphere
1 4 (4.94%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (3.70%) Confluence
3 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.47%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.23%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.23%) CMS
4 1 (1.23%) Headless CMS
4 1 (1.23%) Liferay
Applications
1 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 29 (35.80%) AWS
2 28 (34.57%) Azure
3 15 (18.52%) Serverless
4 12 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (14.81%) GitHub
5 10 (12.35%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (12.35%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (11.11%) GCP
7 8 (9.88%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (7.41%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (4.94%) Amazon S3
9 4 (4.94%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (4.94%) IBM Cloud
9 4 (4.94%) npm
10 3 (3.70%) Amazon EventBridge
10 3 (3.70%) Azure AKS
10 3 (3.70%) Entra ID
11 2 (2.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (2.47%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (2.47%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.88%) DNS
2 4 (4.94%) Calico
2 4 (4.94%) DHCP
3 1 (1.23%) DMZ
3 1 (1.23%) Firewall
3 1 (1.23%) HTTP
3 1 (1.23%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (24.69%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (22.22%) Relational Database
3 15 (18.52%) MongoDB
4 12 (14.81%) NoSQL
5 7 (8.64%) Oracle Reports
5 7 (8.64%) RDBMS
6 5 (6.17%) DynamoDB
7 4 (4.94%) MySQL
7 4 (4.94%) SQL Server
8 3 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (2.47%) Big Data
9 2 (2.47%) DocumentDB
10 1 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (1.23%) Data Mining
10 1 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.23%) Hadoop
10 1 (1.23%) Oracle Database
10 1 (1.23%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 20 (24.69%) Jenkins
2 16 (19.75%) GitLab
3 11 (13.58%) JIRA
4 10 (12.35%) Gradle
4 10 (12.35%) JUnit
4 10 (12.35%) Liquibase
4 10 (12.35%) Mockito
5 7 (8.64%) Git
6 6 (7.41%) Maven
7 5 (6.17%) Selenium
8 4 (4.94%) JMeter
8 4 (4.94%) LoadRunner
9 2 (2.47%) CircleCI
10 1 (1.23%) Appium
10 1 (1.23%) ERwin
10 1 (1.23%) Postman
10 1 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (1.23%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (1.23%) WebDriver
General
1 22 (27.16%) Finance
1 22 (27.16%) Social Skills
2 19 (23.46%) Public Sector
3 16 (19.75%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (13.58%) Manufacturing
5 10 (12.35%) Electronics
5 10 (12.35%) Marketing
5 10 (12.35%) Telecoms
6 9 (11.11%) Banking
7 6 (7.41%) Retail
8 5 (6.17%) Military
9 1 (1.23%) Aviation
9 1 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (16.05%) Developer
2 10 (12.35%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (12.35%) Senior
3 9 (11.11%) Architect
4 8 (9.88%) Lead
4 8 (9.88%) Software Engineer
5 7 (8.64%) DBA
6 5 (6.17%) Java Developer
6 5 (6.17%) Java Engineer
6 5 (6.17%) Java Software Engineer
6 5 (6.17%) React Developer
6 5 (6.17%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 5 (6.17%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 4 (4.94%) PostgreSQL DBA
7 4 (4.94%) Software Tester
7 4 (4.94%) Tester
8 3 (3.70%) Administrator
8 3 (3.70%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 2 (2.47%) Senior DevOps
9 2 (2.47%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (28.40%) Kafka
2 16 (19.75%) React
3 12 (14.81%) OpenAPI
3 12 (14.81%) Swagger
4 10 (12.35%) Spring
4 10 (12.35%) Spring Boot
5 8 (9.88%) .NET
6 7 (8.64%) JSON
6 7 (8.64%) XML
7 6 (7.41%) Node.js
8 3 (3.70%) ASP.NET
8 3 (3.70%) FastAPI
8 3 (3.70%) Next.js
8 3 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (2.47%) ARM Templates
9 2 (2.47%) CSS
9 2 (2.47%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (2.47%) Express.js
9 2 (2.47%) Jest
9 2 (2.47%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.88%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.70%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.47%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.47%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.47%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.47%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.47%) Replication
4 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.23%) IoT
4 1 (1.23%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.23%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.23%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.88%) Linux
2 5 (6.17%) Windows
3 4 (4.94%) Android
3 4 (4.94%) Apple iOS
4 3 (3.70%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.47%) HPUX
5 2 (2.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.47%) Solaris
5 2 (2.47%) VMS
6 1 (1.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (61.73%) Agile
2 46 (56.79%) CI/CD
3 27 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 22 (27.16%) Microservices
4 22 (27.16%) Software Engineering
5 16 (19.75%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (17.28%) Continuous Integration
7 14 (17.28%) Migration
8 13 (16.05%) Mentoring
9 12 (14.81%) TDD
10 11 (13.58%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (12.35%) Business Intelligence
11 10 (12.35%) Digital Marketing
11 10 (12.35%) Disaster Recovery
11 10 (12.35%) Event-Driven
11 10 (12.35%) Programme Management
11 10 (12.35%) Test Automation
12 9 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 7 (8.64%) Database Security
Programming Languages
1 28 (34.57%) SQL
2 16 (19.75%) Java
2 16 (19.75%) TypeScript
3 13 (16.05%) Python
4 6 (7.41%) JavaScript
5 5 (6.17%) Shell Script
6 3 (3.70%) Bash
6 3 (3.70%) C#
6 3 (3.70%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.23%) Bicep
7 1 (1.23%) Perl
Qualifications
1 20 (24.69%) Security Cleared
2 15 (18.52%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.94%) ISTQB
3 4 (4.94%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (3.70%) PMI Certification
4 3 (3.70%) PMP
5 2 (2.47%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.47%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.47%) Degree
6 1 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.23%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.23%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.23%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.47%) QA
2 1 (1.23%) COBIT
2 1 (1.23%) Data Quality
System Software
1 30 (37.04%) Docker
2 3 (3.70%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (28.40%) Kubernetes
2 18 (22.22%) Terraform
3 7 (8.64%) Istio
4 3 (3.70%) Ansible
4 3 (3.70%) Kustomize
5 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.47%) WSUS
6 1 (1.23%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (1.23%) Grafana
6 1 (1.23%) Graylog
6 1 (1.23%) Packer
6 1 (1.23%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (12.35%) SAP
2 8 (9.88%) Oracle
3 7 (8.64%) Microsoft
4 6 (7.41%) IBM
5 4 (4.94%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.70%) Databricks
6 3 (3.70%) Google
7 2 (2.47%) Fujitsu
7 2 (2.47%) Sun
7 2 (2.47%) VMware
8 1 (1.23%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.23%) BMC
8 1 (1.23%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.23%) Dell
8 1 (1.23%) Informatica
8 1 (1.23%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.23%) Remedy
8 1 (1.23%) SendGrid
8 1 (1.23%) Talend
8 1 (1.23%) Unisys