Lead DevOps Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Lead Development Operations
North West > Manchester

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

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

 6 months to
14 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.33% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £738 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 - -
75th Percentile £813 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £775 £513 -
% change year-on-year +51.22% - -

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 1,684 856 1,407
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 92.94% 95.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 983 594 953
10th Percentile £313 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -8.16% -2.00%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £575
90th Percentile £669 £668 £688
North West median daily rate £475 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +5.56% -7.69% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 47 87
10th Percentile £22.50 - £12.14
25th Percentile £34.88 £13.00 £13.41
Median hourly rate £55.00 £19.80 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +177.78% -26.67% +32.66%
75th Percentile £77.00 £64.38 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.00 £73.75
North West median hourly rate £46.80 £28.75 £32.90
% change year-on-year +62.78% -12.60% +16.07%

Lead DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Lead DevOps job vacancy trend in Manchester

Lead DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Lead DevOps Skill Set
Top 20 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 14 June 2026, Lead DevOps 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 in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) MLOps
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
2 1 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (16.67%) Data Science
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
2 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Python

Lead DevOps 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 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) MLOps
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
2 1 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (16.67%) Data Science
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
2 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
21 Lead DevOps jobs in England