DevOps Contract Job Trends in the North East

DevOps
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 18 16
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 -8
Contract jobs citing DevOps 84 18 22
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 12.65% 5.92% 6.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.67% 7.47% 8.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 13 7
10th Percentile £360 £384 £358
25th Percentile £400 £430 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £513 £575 £549
90th Percentile £549 - £599
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £66.63 - -
25th Percentile £67.19 - -
Median hourly rate £68.75 - £46.18
75th Percentile £69.69 - -
90th Percentile £69.88 - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £68.75 £65.50
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.96% -

All Process & 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 536 241 263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 80.72% 79.28% 80.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 165 117
10th Percentile £325 £213 £272
25th Percentile £400 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £590
90th Percentile £639 £625 £650
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 15 52
10th Percentile £17.00 - £11.45
25th Percentile £43.96 £11.60 £12.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £17.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +282.35% -12.82% -50.43%
75th Percentile £70.00 £33.40 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £50.70 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.55 £37.50
% change year-on-year +66.37% -23.87% +4.17%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

DevOps job vacancy trend in the North East

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing DevOps

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the North East over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the North East

DevOps
Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing DevOps.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing DevOps

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 8 June 2026. 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 84 £450 -14.29% 29
DevOps
England

DevOps
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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (13.10%) Apache
2 11 (13.10%) Apache Spark
2 11 (13.10%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 50 (59.52%) AWS
2 33 (39.29%) Azure
3 21 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (13.10%) GitHub
5 9 (10.71%) Serverless
6 8 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (8.33%) Amazon S3
7 7 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (7.14%) Firebase
9 5 (5.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (5.95%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (4.76%) Amazon ECR
10 4 (4.76%) SaaS
11 3 (3.57%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 3 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (3.57%) Google Play
11 3 (3.57%) OCI
11 3 (3.57%) Power Platform
11 3 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.76%) Firewall
2 3 (3.57%) BGP
2 3 (3.57%) BIG-IP
2 3 (3.57%) Ethernet VPN
2 3 (3.57%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 3 (3.57%) OSPF
2 3 (3.57%) SD-WAN
2 3 (3.57%) VXLAN
2 3 (3.57%) WAN
2 3 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (3.57%) WLAN
3 2 (2.38%) DNS
3 2 (2.38%) SSL
4 1 (1.19%) HTTP
4 1 (1.19%) IPsec
4 1 (1.19%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.19%) Network Security
4 1 (1.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.52%) MongoDB
2 5 (5.95%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (4.76%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (3.57%) Data Lake
4 3 (3.57%) Delta Lake
4 3 (3.57%) Power BI
4 3 (3.57%) Redis
5 2 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.38%) Metadata
5 2 (2.38%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.38%) Tableau
6 1 (1.19%) Big Data
6 1 (1.19%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.19%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.19%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (1.19%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.19%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 34 (40.48%) GitLab
2 22 (26.19%) Jenkins
3 11 (13.10%) Git
4 9 (10.71%) JIRA
5 8 (9.52%) Selenium
6 6 (7.14%) fastlane
6 6 (7.14%) REST Assured
7 4 (4.76%) Cucumber
7 4 (4.76%) Serenity BDD
8 3 (3.57%) Android Studio
8 3 (3.57%) Crashlytics
8 3 (3.57%) Gradle
8 3 (3.57%) Xcode
9 2 (2.38%) Gatling
9 2 (2.38%) WebDriver
10 1 (1.19%) JMeter
10 1 (1.19%) JUnit
10 1 (1.19%) Postman
10 1 (1.19%) SonarQube
10 1 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 28 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 13 (15.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (11.90%) Social Skills
4 4 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.38%) Banking
5 2 (2.38%) Military
6 1 (1.19%) Aviation
6 1 (1.19%) Finance
Job Titles
1 32 (38.10%) DevOps Engineer
2 24 (28.57%) Senior
3 13 (15.48%) Developer
4 9 (10.71%) Lead
4 9 (10.71%) Senior DevOps
4 9 (10.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 8 (9.52%) AWS DevOps
5 8 (9.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 8 (9.52%) AWS Engineer
5 8 (9.52%) Test Engineer
6 5 (5.95%) Agile Delivery Manager
6 5 (5.95%) Delivery Manager
6 5 (5.95%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
6 5 (5.95%) Senior Delivery Manager
6 5 (5.95%) Senior Manager
7 4 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (4.76%) Data Engineer
7 4 (4.76%) Lead Test Engineer
8 3 (3.57%) Agile Delivery Lead
8 3 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.10%) Kafka
2 7 (8.33%) Playwright
2 7 (8.33%) RESTful
3 6 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (4.76%) Node.js
4 4 (4.76%) PySpark
4 4 (4.76%) Spring
4 4 (4.76%) Spring Boot
5 3 (3.57%) Android Jetpack
5 3 (3.57%) Android SDK
5 3 (3.57%) Core Data
5 3 (3.57%) iOS SDK
5 3 (3.57%) Jetpack Compose
5 3 (3.57%) Keycloak
5 3 (3.57%) React
5 3 (3.57%) REST
5 3 (3.57%) Retrofit
5 3 (3.57%) SwiftUI
5 3 (3.57%) UIKit
6 2 (2.38%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 10 (11.90%) Product Ownership
3 6 (7.14%) Mobile App
4 5 (5.95%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.57%) Replication
6 2 (2.38%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.38%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (2.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.19%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.19%) BYOD
7 1 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.19%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.95%) Linux
2 3 (3.57%) Android
2 3 (3.57%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.19%) Unix
4 1 (1.19%) Windows
4 1 (1.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (64.29%) CI/CD
2 33 (39.29%) Agile
3 31 (36.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (30.95%) Test Automation
5 16 (19.05%) Containerisation
6 15 (17.86%) Data Engineering
6 15 (17.86%) Scrum
7 11 (13.10%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 10 (11.90%) Analytics
8 10 (11.90%) Mentoring
8 10 (11.90%) Software Engineering
8 10 (11.90%) TDD
9 9 (10.71%) Kanban
9 9 (10.71%) Microservices
9 9 (10.71%) Observability
9 9 (10.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 8 (9.52%) AI
10 8 (9.52%) API Integration
10 8 (9.52%) Architectural Patterns
10 8 (9.52%) SFIA
Programming Languages
1 28 (33.33%) Python
2 18 (21.43%) Java
3 11 (13.10%) SQL
4 9 (10.71%) Bash
5 5 (5.95%) Groovy
6 3 (3.57%) C#
6 3 (3.57%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.57%) Kotlin
6 3 (3.57%) Swift
6 3 (3.57%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.19%) Bicep
7 1 (1.19%) Go
7 1 (1.19%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.19%) Scala
7 1 (1.19%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 47 (55.95%) Security Cleared
2 34 (40.48%) SC Cleared
3 10 (11.90%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.57%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.38%) Degree
6 1 (1.19%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.19%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 7 (8.33%) WCAG
3 6 (7.14%) QA
4 5 (5.95%) Data Quality
System Software
1 25 (29.76%) Docker
2 1 (1.19%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.19%) RACF
Systems Management
1 42 (50.00%) Terraform
2 18 (21.43%) Kubernetes
3 10 (11.90%) Ansible
4 6 (7.14%) Grafana
4 6 (7.14%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.57%) Packer
5 3 (3.57%) Rancher
6 2 (2.38%) Argo
6 2 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.19%) Consul
7 1 (1.19%) Icinga
7 1 (1.19%) Kubeflow
7 1 (1.19%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (15.48%) Dynatrace
2 9 (10.71%) ServiceNow
3 6 (7.14%) Google
4 5 (5.95%) Databricks
5 4 (4.76%) Trend Micro
6 3 (3.57%) Apple
6 3 (3.57%) Arista
6 3 (3.57%) Aruba
6 3 (3.57%) F5
6 3 (3.57%) Palo Alto
6 3 (3.57%) Splunk
7 2 (2.38%) CyberArk
7 2 (2.38%) Microsoft
7 2 (2.38%) Sitecore
7 2 (2.38%) Tenable
8 1 (1.19%) Confluent