Senior DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Senior Development Operations Engineer
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Newcastle upon Tyne is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 32 -
Rank change year-on-year -19 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 2 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.49% 1.77% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 1.96% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile £479 £482 -
25th Percentile £484 £502 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% - -
75th Percentile £534 £619 -
90th Percentile £536 £698 -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £513 £538 -
% change year-on-year -4.65% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 397 204 182
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.54% 90.27% 91.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 147 93
10th Percentile £163 £248 £221
25th Percentile £345 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £440 £485
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% -9.28% -13.39%
75th Percentile £525 £574 £580
90th Percentile £595 £631 £650
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £438 £445 £450
% change year-on-year -1.69% -1.11% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 2 22
10th Percentile £20.58 £17.90 £12.58
25th Percentile £44.50 £22.63 £17.19
Median hourly rate £55.00 £32.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +71.88% -32.63% +280.00%
75th Percentile £62.79 £41.13 £50.00
90th Percentile £69.55 £45.70 £67.88
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £52.50 £13.00 £16.00
% change year-on-year +303.85% -18.75% +28.00%

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Senior DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne

For the 6 months to 2 March 2026, Senior DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Newcastle upon Tyne region featuring Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Coaching
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Packer
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Coaching
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Packer
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Dynatrace