DevOps Contracts in the North East

DevOps
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 15 20 16
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 -12
Contract jobs citing DevOps 24 18 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 7.50% 5.33% 11.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.20% 6.67% 12.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 7 43
10th Percentile £424 £358 £500
25th Percentile £510 £384 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £590 £549 £775
90th Percentile £626 £599 £847
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48.50
Median hourly rate - £46.18 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year - -5.76% -11.71%
75th Percentile - - £49.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.76% +19.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 261 270 387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 81.56% 79.88% 91.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 127 300
10th Percentile £225 £242 £254
25th Percentile £358 £363 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% +12.82%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £625
90th Percentile £650 £660 £720
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 47 2
10th Percentile - £11.44 £32.98
25th Percentile £11.60 £11.81 £35.56
Median hourly rate £14.07 £15.46 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.99% -62.06% +146.97%
75th Percentile £46.82 £47.47 £45.56
90th Percentile £51.68 £50.00 £47.93
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the North East

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the North East.

Daily rate trend for DevOps in the North East

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the North East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the North East

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in the North East

DevOps
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 within the North East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +7 23 £550 +4.76% 56
DevOps
England

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 (29.17%) nginx
2 2 (8.33%) Traefik
3 1 (4.17%) Apache Spark
3 1 (4.17%) CMS
3 1 (4.17%) Confluence
3 1 (4.17%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 16 (66.67%) AWS
2 8 (33.33%) Azure
3 6 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (16.67%) Kong
5 3 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (8.33%) Entra ID
6 2 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (4.17%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (4.17%) Amazon Lightsail
7 1 (4.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (4.17%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (4.17%) AWS CodeBuild
7 1 (4.17%) AWS CodeCommit
7 1 (4.17%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 1 (4.17%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.83%) SSL
2 2 (8.33%) DNS
2 2 (8.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.17%) Flink
2 1 (4.17%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 14 (58.33%) GitLab
2 5 (20.83%) Jenkins
3 3 (12.50%) Selenium
4 1 (4.17%) Git
4 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 14 (58.33%) Public Sector
2 4 (16.67%) Electronics
2 4 (16.67%) Finance
2 4 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 4 (16.67%) Marketing
2 4 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (62.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (29.17%) AWS DevOps
2 7 (29.17%) Senior
2 7 (29.17%) Senior DevOps
3 6 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 6 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Lead
4 4 (16.67%) Lead DevOps
4 4 (16.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Developer
6 2 (8.33%) DevOps Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) Kafka
1 3 (12.50%) pytest
1 3 (12.50%) REST
1 3 (12.50%) SOAP
2 2 (8.33%) ARM Templates
2 2 (8.33%) cloud-init
2 2 (8.33%) Keycloak
3 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.17%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) PKI
2 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (25.00%) Linux
2 4 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (8.33%) CentOS
3 2 (8.33%) Unix
4 1 (4.17%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 9 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (20.83%) Agile
4 4 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 4 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
4 4 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
4 4 (16.67%) Programme Management
5 3 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (12.50%) Decision-Making
5 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (8.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 2 (8.33%) Identity Management
6 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (8.33%) Microservices
6 2 (8.33%) Mobile Device Management
6 2 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (8.33%) Scrum
6 2 (8.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (33.33%) Python
2 5 (20.83%) Bash
3 2 (8.33%) Go
4 1 (4.17%) Bicep
4 1 (4.17%) Java
4 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.17%) PHP
4 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (54.17%) Security Cleared
2 10 (41.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Certification
3 2 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) NCSC
2 2 (8.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.17%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 12 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 17 (70.83%) Terraform
3 8 (33.33%) Grafana
3 8 (33.33%) Prometheus
4 4 (16.67%) Ansible
5 3 (12.50%) Packer
6 2 (8.33%) Consul
6 2 (8.33%) HAProxy
6 2 (8.33%) Istio
6 2 (8.33%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (8.33%) linkerd
6 2 (8.33%) Rancher
6 2 (8.33%) ZABBIX
7 1 (4.17%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (4.17%) Kibana
7 1 (4.17%) logstash
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) SAP
2 2 (8.33%) Apple
2 2 (8.33%) ESET
2 2 (8.33%) Okta
2 2 (8.33%) Splunk
3 1 (4.17%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft