DevOps Contracts in Newcastle upon Tyne

DevOps
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 16 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 -12
Contract jobs citing DevOps 23 11 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 10.31% 5.24% 12.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.17% 6.21% 13.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 7 38
10th Percentile £424 £358 £500
25th Percentile £510 £384 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -19.23% +13.04%
75th Percentile £590 £549 £775
90th Percentile £626 £599 £847
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £550 £525 £650
% change year-on-year +4.76% -19.23% +13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 189 177 308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 84.75% 84.29% 94.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 89 243
10th Percentile £225 £335 £352
25th Percentile £358 £400 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £500 £565
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% -11.50% +13.00%
75th Percentile £573 £600 £650
90th Percentile £629 £650 £740
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £460 £500 £565
% change year-on-year -8.00% -11.50% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 18 0
10th Percentile £21.05 £18.25 -
25th Percentile £30.50 £20.75 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £47.50 -
75th Percentile £50.38 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £51.35 £68.75 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £16.50 £17.50 -
% change year-on-year -5.71% - -

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Newcastle upon Tyne

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Newcastle upon Tyne

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Newcastle upon Tyne

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 7 (30.43%) nginx
2 2 (8.70%) Traefik
3 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
3 1 (4.35%) CMS
3 1 (4.35%) Confluence
3 1 (4.35%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 16 (69.57%) AWS
2 8 (34.78%) Azure
3 6 (26.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (17.39%) Kong
5 3 (13.04%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (13.04%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (8.70%) Entra ID
6 2 (8.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon Lightsail
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (4.35%) AWS CodeBuild
7 1 (4.35%) AWS CodeCommit
7 1 (4.35%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 1 (4.35%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) SSL
2 2 (8.70%) DNS
2 2 (8.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.35%) Flink
2 1 (4.35%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 13 (56.52%) GitLab
2 5 (21.74%) Jenkins
3 3 (13.04%) Selenium
4 1 (4.35%) Git
4 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 13 (56.52%) Public Sector
2 4 (17.39%) Electronics
2 4 (17.39%) Finance
2 4 (17.39%) Manufacturing
2 4 (17.39%) Marketing
2 4 (17.39%) Telecoms
3 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (60.87%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) AWS DevOps
2 7 (30.43%) Senior
2 7 (30.43%) Senior DevOps
3 6 (26.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 6 (26.09%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Lead
4 4 (17.39%) Lead DevOps
4 4 (17.39%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Developer
6 2 (8.70%) DevOps Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Senior Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) Kafka
1 3 (13.04%) pytest
1 3 (13.04%) REST
1 3 (13.04%) SOAP
2 2 (8.70%) ARM Templates
2 2 (8.70%) cloud-init
2 2 (8.70%) Keycloak
3 1 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.35%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) PKI
2 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (26.09%) Linux
2 4 (17.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (8.70%) CentOS
3 2 (8.70%) Unix
4 1 (4.35%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) CI/CD
2 9 (39.13%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (21.74%) Agile
4 4 (17.39%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (17.39%) Deployment Automation
4 4 (17.39%) Digital Marketing
4 4 (17.39%) Programme Management
5 3 (13.04%) Containerisation
5 3 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (13.04%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (13.04%) Decision-Making
5 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (8.70%) API Management
6 2 (8.70%) Cloud Security
6 2 (8.70%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 2 (8.70%) Identity Management
6 2 (8.70%) Microservices
6 2 (8.70%) Mobile Device Management
6 2 (8.70%) Scrum
6 2 (8.70%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) Python
2 5 (21.74%) Bash
3 2 (8.70%) Go
4 1 (4.35%) Bicep
4 1 (4.35%) Java
4 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.35%) PHP
4 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (52.17%) Security Cleared
2 9 (39.13%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) AWS Certification
3 2 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) NCSC
2 2 (8.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.35%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 11 (47.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (73.91%) Kubernetes
1 17 (73.91%) Terraform
2 8 (34.78%) Grafana
2 8 (34.78%) Prometheus
3 4 (17.39%) Ansible
4 3 (13.04%) Packer
5 2 (8.70%) Consul
5 2 (8.70%) HAProxy
5 2 (8.70%) Istio
5 2 (8.70%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (8.70%) linkerd
5 2 (8.70%) Rancher
5 2 (8.70%) ZABBIX
6 1 (4.35%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (4.35%) Kibana
6 1 (4.35%) logstash
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) SAP
2 2 (8.70%) Apple
2 2 (8.70%) ESET
2 2 (8.70%) Okta
2 2 (8.70%) Splunk
3 1 (4.35%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft