DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in the North East

Development Operations Engineer
England > North East

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the North East is £419, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 18 26
Rank change year-on-year -19 +8 +11
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 13 23 8
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 3.38% 7.77% 3.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.58% 8.68% 3.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 15 6
10th Percentile - £381 £413
25th Percentile £400 £424 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £515 £513
Median % change year-on-year -18.69% +0.49% -21.15%
75th Percentile £575 £580 £588
90th Percentile - £650 £613
England median daily rate £513 £598 £550
% change year-on-year -14.23% +8.64% -8.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North East. 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 the North East with a recognized job title 363 265 238
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.29% 89.53% 94.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 141 166
10th Percentile £170 £256 £213
25th Percentile £348 £350 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £470 £440
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% +6.82% -18.52%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £575
90th Percentile £600 £650 £693
England median daily rate £510 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 15 13
10th Percentile £14.20 £17.10 £15.46
25th Percentile £17.88 £28.14 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £46.18 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.04% +163.89% -22.22%
75th Percentile £53.75 - £46.18
90th Percentile £55.00 - £57.24
England median hourly rate £26.30 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.94% -20.00% +38.46%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in the North East

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the North East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the North East

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the North East over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in the North East

DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the North East region over the 6 months to 16 December 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
Tyne and Wear -19 12 £413 -19.90% 8
DevOps Engineer
England

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 16 December 2025, 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 North East region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) DevOps
2 11 (84.62%) SC Cleared
2 11 (84.62%) Security Cleared
3 9 (69.23%) AWS
3 9 (69.23%) CI/CD
3 9 (69.23%) Terraform
4 7 (53.85%) GitLab
4 7 (53.85%) Python
5 5 (38.46%) Containerisation
5 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (30.77%) Data Engineering
6 4 (30.77%) Docker
6 4 (30.77%) Grafana
6 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
6 4 (30.77%) Test Automation
7 3 (23.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (23.08%) Bash
7 3 (23.08%) Java
7 3 (23.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (15.38%) Ansible
8 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (15.38%) BDD
8 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
8 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (15.38%) Cucumber
8 2 (15.38%) DNS
8 2 (15.38%) Dynatrace
8 2 (15.38%) Functional Testing
8 2 (15.38%) GitHub

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 9 (69.23%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (23.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (15.38%) GitHub
3 2 (15.38%) Serverless
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
4 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (7.69%) Azure
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) CloudFront
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
4 1 (7.69%) Pulumi
4 1 (7.69%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 7 (53.85%) GitLab
2 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
3 2 (15.38%) Cucumber
3 2 (15.38%) REST Assured
4 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
4 1 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (69.23%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) REST
1 2 (15.38%) WireMock
2 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.69%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (69.23%) CI/CD
3 5 (38.46%) Containerisation
3 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (30.77%) Data Engineering
4 4 (30.77%) Test Automation
5 2 (15.38%) BDD
5 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
5 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (15.38%) Functional Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (15.38%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
5 2 (15.38%) Migration
5 2 (15.38%) Non-Functional Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (15.38%) TDD
6 1 (7.69%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 1 (7.69%) Observability
6 1 (7.69%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) Bash
2 3 (23.08%) Java
3 2 (15.38%) Groovy
3 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (84.62%) SC Cleared
1 11 (84.62%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (69.23%) Terraform
2 4 (30.77%) Grafana
3 2 (15.38%) Ansible
3 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
3 2 (15.38%) Prometheus
4 1 (7.69%) Argo
4 1 (7.69%) Packer
4 1 (7.69%) Podman
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Dynatrace
2 1 (7.69%) Splunk