Senior DevOps Engineer Contracts in Manchester

Senior Development Operations Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £570, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 89 112
Rank change year-on-year +15 +23 +29
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 5 7 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.54% 0.46% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.48% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 4
10th Percentile £422 - £587
25th Percentile £476 £513 £595
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £661 £650 £675
90th Percentile £715 £665 -
North West median daily rate £575 £600 £644
% change year-on-year -4.17% -6.80% +14.96%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 867 1,456 1,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.63% 95.98% 96.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 1,007 1,360
10th Percentile £282 £313 £313
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £588
90th Percentile £674 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 84 55
10th Percentile - £12.07 £14.10
25th Percentile £13.00 £13.31 £20.00
Median hourly rate £24.50 £25.10 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% -28.30% +100.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £48.13
90th Percentile £74.38 £73.75 £68.40
North West median hourly rate £29.23 £26.53 £30.54
% change year-on-year +10.20% -13.15% +50.37%

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings that featured Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in Manchester

Senior DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in Manchester

Senior DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior DevOps Engineer in Manchester

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Manchester region featuring Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) GitLab
2 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (80.00%) Packer
2 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 4 (80.00%) Bash
2 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 4 (80.00%) Python
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (60.00%) CentOS
3 3 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (60.00%) Go
3 3 (60.00%) Unix
3 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (60.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (60.00%) cloud-init
4 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (40.00%) Grafana
4 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
4 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (40.00%) Military
4 2 (40.00%) Agile
5 1 (20.00%) Maven
5 1 (20.00%) PKI

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (20.00%) Azure
4 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) GitLab
1 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) Maven
General
1 4 (80.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Military
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) cloud-init
2 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) Keycloak
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) CentOS
2 3 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (40.00%) Agile
5 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
5 1 (20.00%) Coaching
5 1 (20.00%) Cost Reduction
5 1 (20.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
5 1 (20.00%) ITSM
5 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (20.00%) Microservices
5 1 (20.00%) Observability
5 1 (20.00%) Secrets Management
5 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
5 1 (20.00%) Service Management
5 1 (20.00%) Static Application Security Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
5 1 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Bash
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Go
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Packer
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (40.00%) Grafana
3 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (20.00%) Ansible
4 1 (20.00%) Consul
4 1 (20.00%) Graylog
4 1 (20.00%) Istio
4 1 (20.00%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (20.00%) linkerd
4 1 (20.00%) Puppet
4 1 (20.00%) Rancher
4 1 (20.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Okta
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk