DevOps Contracts in Merseyside

DevOps
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 24 16
Rank change year-on-year +5 -8 +8
Contract jobs citing DevOps 11 5 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 6.79% 2.34% 10.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.80% 3.13% 12.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 24
10th Percentile £466 £468 £403
25th Percentile £489 £477 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% +3.75% +29.03%
75th Percentile £613 £603 £546
90th Percentile £638 £652 £607
North West median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 125 160 266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 77.16% 74.77% 86.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 85 194
10th Percentile £143 £144 £304
25th Percentile £208 £230 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £400 £490
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -18.37% +13.95%
75th Percentile £545 £494 £538
90th Percentile £653 £615 £621
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 25 7
10th Percentile £15.35 - £16.22
25th Percentile - £15.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.44 £22.11 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.12% +26.34% +45.83%
75th Percentile £18.72 £36.25 £28.65
90th Percentile £25.64 £38.87 £43.20
North West median hourly rate £30.40 £26.39 £35.02
% change year-on-year +15.20% -24.63% +53.91%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Merseyside.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Merseyside

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Merseyside

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Merseyside over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Merseyside

DevOps
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 within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Southport -2 5 £523 +10.00% 1
Liverpool +2 4 £625 +20.48% 28
DevOps
North West

DevOps
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
1 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
3 2 (18.18%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (9.09%) Military
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Change and Release Manager
1 5 (45.45%) Change Manager
1 5 (45.45%) Release Manager
2 3 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Principal DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Data Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) ERP Manager
4 1 (9.09%) IT Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Driving Licence
1 1 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (9.09%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
1 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) ITIL
2 5 (45.45%) Release Management
3 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 4 (36.36%) Service Management
4 3 (27.27%) Configuration Management
4 3 (27.27%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (18.18%) Cost Optimisation
5 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (18.18%) High Availability
5 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (18.18%) ITSM
5 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
5 2 (18.18%) Test Management
5 2 (18.18%) Workflow
6 1 (9.09%) Business Strategy
6 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
6 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Bicep
1 1 (9.09%) C#
1 1 (9.09%) Python
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Terraform
2 3 (27.27%) Grafana
3 2 (18.18%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Splunk
2 2 (18.18%) Cisco