DevOps Contracts in the North East

DevOps
England > North East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East with a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 16 5
Rank change year-on-year -4 -11 +12
Contract jobs citing DevOps 18 50 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 5.33% 11.79% 18.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.62% 12.89% 21.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 43 63
10th Percentile £358 £500 £363
25th Percentile £384 £513 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £564
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +6.43% +13.32%
75th Percentile £549 £775 £688
90th Percentile £599 £847 £715
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +15.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £48.50 £55.25
Median hourly rate £46.18 £49.00 £55.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.76% -11.71% -
75th Percentile - £49.50 £55.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £54.00
% change year-on-year -0.76% +21.30% +16.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

DevOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 272 388 435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 80.47% 91.51% 85.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 300 336
10th Percentile £228 £254 £173
25th Percentile £363 £409 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £483
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +13.99% +7.22%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £588
90th Percentile £655 £720 £681
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 2 15
10th Percentile £11.44 £32.98 £10.77
25th Percentile £11.81 £35.56 £12.91
Median hourly rate £15.46 £40.75 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.06% +146.97% +6.45%
75th Percentile £47.47 £45.56 £18.13
90th Percentile £50.00 £47.93 £35.25
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 -4 11 £525 -19.23% 17
Northumberland - 7 - -
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 1 (5.56%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (66.67%) AWS
3 5 (27.78%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (11.11%) GCP
5 2 (11.11%) SaaS
6 1 (5.56%) Azure AKS
6 1 (5.56%) IaaS
6 1 (5.56%) Miro
6 1 (5.56%) PaaS
6 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 7 (38.89%) Git
2 3 (16.67%) GitLab
2 3 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (16.67%) Marketing
2 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Lead
2 3 (16.67%) Architect
2 3 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Operations Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Angular Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Developer
4 1 (5.56%) .NET Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Salesforce Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Salesforce Solution Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Security Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Security Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) PyTorch
1 7 (38.89%) TensorFlow
2 1 (5.56%) .NET
2 1 (5.56%) .NET Framework
2 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (5.56%) GraphQL
2 1 (5.56%) HTML
2 1 (5.56%) JSON
2 1 (5.56%) Middleware
2 1 (5.56%) REST
2 1 (5.56%) Sass
2 1 (5.56%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.11%) Virtual Reality
3 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.56%) Low-Code
3 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
1 3 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Agile
2 7 (38.89%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (38.89%) Digital Engineering
2 7 (38.89%) GitOps
2 7 (38.89%) Machine Learning
2 7 (38.89%) Software Engineering
2 7 (38.89%) Systems Engineering
2 7 (38.89%) Visualisation
3 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 6 (33.33%) Scrum
4 4 (22.22%) Architectural Design
4 4 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (22.22%) Migration
5 3 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
5 3 (16.67%) CRM
5 3 (16.67%) Microservices
6 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (11.11%) Workflow
6 2 (11.11%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) Python
2 1 (5.56%) C#
2 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) SC Cleared
1 7 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
Systems Management
1 8 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 3 (16.67%) Ansible
2 3 (16.67%) Grafana
2 3 (16.67%) Prometheus
2 3 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) PagerDuty
2 3 (16.67%) Salesforce
2 3 (16.67%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud