Lead DevOps Contracts in Merseyside

Lead Development Operations
North West > Merseyside

The median Lead Development Operations daily rate in Merseyside is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 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
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 0.59% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
North West median daily rate £513 - £675
% change year-on-year - - -4.59%

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 161 215 313
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.27% 95.56% 96.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 115 229
10th Percentile £143 £149 £233
25th Percentile £203 £233 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.69% -15.79% +10.47%
75th Percentile £538 £494 £538
90th Percentile £625 £588 £627
North West median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 32 13
10th Percentile £13.07 - -
25th Percentile £16.51 £15.50 £10.09
Median hourly rate £17.44 £19.97 £16.37
Median % change year-on-year -12.65% +21.96% +9.13%
75th Percentile £18.08 £34.80 £18.75
90th Percentile £24.23 £43.09 £26.59
North West median hourly rate £30.96 £26.66 £35.00
% change year-on-year +16.13% -23.83% +72.33%

Lead DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps in Merseyside

Lead DevOps Skill Set
Top 14 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside

For the 6 months to 5 May 2025, Lead DevOps 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 Lead DevOps in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering

Lead DevOps 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep