Lead DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Lead Development Operations Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Lead Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £775, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 - 85
Rank change year-on-year - - +21
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps Engineer 9 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.46% - 0.084%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% - 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £575 - -
25th Percentile £738 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 - -
75th Percentile £813 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £775 £450 -
% change year-on-year +72.22% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 1,814 935 1,134
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.76% 92.76% 94.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,058 597 706
10th Percentile £313 £300 £350
25th Percentile £413 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £606 £575 £600
90th Percentile £703 £652 £713
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £493
% change year-on-year +11.11% -8.72% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 79 37
10th Percentile £23.13 £13.00 £15.80
25th Percentile £32.97 £14.20 £21.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £21.10 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +184.36% -31.94% +63.16%
75th Percentile £75.00 £32.20 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.75 £81.90
North West median hourly rate £46.18 £24.62 £37.00
% change year-on-year +87.56% -33.46% +21.15%

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Lead DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Lead DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Manchester

Lead DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Manchester.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Manchester

Lead DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 14 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Lead DevOps Engineer in Manchester

Lead DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 14 September 2026, Lead DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Manchester region featuring Lead DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
1 9 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 9 (100.00%) Terraform
2 7 (77.78%) AWS
2 7 (77.78%) DV Cleared
2 7 (77.78%) MLOps
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 3 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Azure
4 2 (22.22%) Azure AKS
4 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Bicep
4 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 2 (22.22%) DevSecOps
4 2 (22.22%) Docker
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (22.22%) Migration
4 2 (22.22%) Observability
4 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security
5 1 (11.11%) Cost Optimisation
5 1 (11.11%) Data Science
5 1 (11.11%) GitHub
5 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (11.11%) GitLab
5 1 (11.11%) Machine Learning

Lead DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Azure AKS
2 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (77.78%) MLOps
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 2 (22.22%) DevSecOps
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (22.22%) Migration
4 2 (22.22%) Observability
4 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security
5 1 (11.11%) Cost Optimisation
5 1 (11.11%) Data Science
5 1 (11.11%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Bicep
2 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (77.78%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes