Lead DevOps Contracts in Newcastle upon Tyne

Lead Development Operations
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The median Lead Development Operations daily rate in Newcastle upon Tyne is £545, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 - 49
Rank change year-on-year - - -7
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 4 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.79% - 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.84% - 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £509 - £633
25th Percentile £511 - £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 - £675
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.59%
75th Percentile £573 - £694
90th Percentile - - £698
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £545 - £675
% change year-on-year - - -4.59%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Newcastle upon Tyne

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne. 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 Newcastle upon Tyne with a recognized job title 217 188 322
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.31% 89.52% 98.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 93 252
10th Percentile £236 £338 £320
25th Percentile £358 £400 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £565
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -11.50% +13.00%
75th Percentile £570 £590 £650
90th Percentile £625 £650 £742
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £455 £500 £555
% change year-on-year -9.00% -9.91% +11.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 22 0
10th Percentile £21.05 £12.66 -
25th Percentile £30.50 £18.69 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £47.50 -
75th Percentile £50.38 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £51.35 £67.88 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £13.00 £17.50 -
% change year-on-year -25.71% - -

Lead DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps in Newcastle upon Tyne

Lead DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Daily rate trend for Lead DevOps in Newcastle upon Tyne

Lead DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne

For the 6 months to 1 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region featuring Lead DevOps in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) GitLab
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) Kong
2 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Digital Marketing
2 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) Electronics
2 3 (75.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Manufacturing
2 3 (75.00%) SAP
2 3 (75.00%) Programme Management
2 3 (75.00%) Marketing
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Bicep
4 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
4 1 (25.00%) Java
4 1 (25.00%) pytest
4 1 (25.00%) SFIA

Lead DevOps Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Kong
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 3 (75.00%) Electronics
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Manufacturing
1 3 (75.00%) Marketing
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (75.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (25.00%) pytest
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) Digital Marketing
2 3 (75.00%) Programme Management
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (25.00%) SFIA
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Bicep
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) SAP