DevOps Engineer Contracts in Merseyside

Development Operations Engineer
North West > Merseyside

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Merseyside is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 June 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 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 28 40
Rank change year-on-year +1 +12 +5
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 3 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 1.84% 0.47% 1.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.95% 0.48% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £483 - £463
25th Percentile £531 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £638 £488 £544
90th Percentile - - £548
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £548
% change year-on-year -5.00% -8.68% -2.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Merseyside

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Merseyside. 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 Merseyside with a recognized job title 154 207 298
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 96.28% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 116 210
10th Percentile £143 £153 £225
25th Percentile £208 £213 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £381 £475
Median % change year-on-year +13.73% -19.71% +11.11%
75th Percentile £543 £494 £538
90th Percentile £636 £588 £610
North West median daily rate £465 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -4.62% -2.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 32 11
10th Percentile £12.21 - -
25th Percentile - £15.50 £10.09
Median hourly rate £17.44 £21.43 £16.37
Median % change year-on-year -18.62% +30.91% +9.13%
75th Percentile £21.14 £36.48 £18.75
90th Percentile £22.78 £43.38 £27.30
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £32.90 £30.54
% change year-on-year -12.60% +7.71% +31.51%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Merseyside

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in Merseyside

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Merseyside over the 6 months to 1 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in Merseyside

DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Liverpool - 2 £625 - 39
DevOps Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2025, 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 Merseyside region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) ITSM
2 2 (66.67%) Workflow
3 1 (33.33%) YAML
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (33.33%) Bicep
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) ITSM
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Workflow
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bicep
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco