Senior DevOps Engineer Contracts in Manchester

Senior Development Operations Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £470, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 August 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
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 78 102
Rank change year-on-year -6 +24 +42
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 2 6 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.20% 0.50% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.52% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £399 - £526
25th Percentile £420 - £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £675 £613
Median % change year-on-year -30.37% +10.20% -5.77%
75th Percentile £530 - £663
90th Percentile £557 - £675
North West median daily rate £470 £663 £613
% change year-on-year -29.06% +8.16% -7.55%

All DemandTrendContract 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in Manchester with a recognized job title 932 1,161 1,622
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.00% 96.03% 94.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 588 736 1,192
10th Percentile £299 £313 £300
25th Percentile £388 £406 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.50% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £713 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 47 57
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.58 £15.72
25th Percentile £14.13 £21.25 £16.85
Median hourly rate £21.10 £35.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.71% +79.49% +14.44%
75th Percentile £43.13 £60.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £72.75 £72.70 £67.60
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £32.90 £30.65
% change year-on-year -23.54% +7.33% +34.71%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancies 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 28 August 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 28 August 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Security Hardening
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) IBM XIV
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) IIS
2 1 (50.00%) VoIP
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Middleware
2 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (50.00%) Replication
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Clustering

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
1 1 (50.00%) VoIP
1 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (50.00%) IBM XIV
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Security Hardening
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) VMware