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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 7 12
Rank change year-on-year -13 +5 -4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 24 40 19
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 7.82% 13.79% 8.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.27% 14.98% 9.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 15 11
10th Percentile £425 £410 £425
25th Percentile £514 £424 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +6.36% -
75th Percentile £588 £650 £600
90th Percentile £608 £823 £625
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
Median hourly rate - £46.18 £46.18
England median hourly rate £67.00 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -4.29% +7.69% -0.92%

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 259 267 196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 84.36% 92.07% 86.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 98 151
10th Percentile £181 £321 £350
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.89% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £575
90th Percentile £631 £691 £626
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 35 11
10th Percentile £13.90 £13.75 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £15.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.25 £29.77 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +48.85% +14.29%
75th Percentile £20.63 £46.18 £39.97
90th Percentile £32.93 £70.00 £46.18
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +36.36%

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 16 October 2025.

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 16 October 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 -14 22 £550 -5.98% 39
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 4 (16.67%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 19 (79.17%) AWS
2 6 (25.00%) Azure
2 6 (25.00%) GitHub
3 5 (20.83%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (12.50%) Serverless
6 2 (8.33%) GCP
6 2 (8.33%) OpenShift
6 2 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) DNS
2 1 (4.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.17%) Delta Lake
2 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.17%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 14 (58.33%) GitLab
2 8 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 7 (29.17%) Git
4 4 (16.67%) JIRA
5 2 (8.33%) Cucumber
5 2 (8.33%) Mocha
5 2 (8.33%) Postman
5 2 (8.33%) REST Assured
6 1 (4.17%) Cypress.io
6 1 (4.17%) JMeter
6 1 (4.17%) Selenium
6 1 (4.17%) SonarQube
6 1 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (45.83%) Public Sector
2 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
3 5 (20.83%) Lead
4 4 (16.67%) Developer
5 3 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Senior
5 3 (12.50%) Test Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Automation Tester
6 2 (8.33%) Backend Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Lead Test Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Migration Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Network Migration Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Node.js Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (8.33%) Tester
7 1 (4.17%) Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) Data Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) REST
2 3 (12.50%) Node.js
3 2 (8.33%) Gherkin
3 2 (8.33%) GraphQL
3 2 (8.33%) Jest
3 2 (8.33%) Kafka
4 1 (4.17%) .NET
4 1 (4.17%) JPA
4 1 (4.17%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (4.17%) Next.js
4 1 (4.17%) OpenAPI
4 1 (4.17%) Playwright
4 1 (4.17%) PySpark
4 1 (4.17%) Spring
4 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.17%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 10 (41.67%) Test Automation
3 9 (37.50%) Agile
4 8 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (29.17%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 6 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (20.83%) Microservices
7 5 (20.83%) Observability
7 5 (20.83%) TDD
8 4 (16.67%) Containerisation
8 4 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
8 4 (16.67%) Migration
9 3 (12.50%) Coaching
9 3 (12.50%) Continuous Deployment
9 3 (12.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 3 (12.50%) Test Strategy
9 3 (12.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 2 (8.33%) QA Automation
10 2 (8.33%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 11 (45.83%) Python
2 8 (33.33%) Bash
3 5 (20.83%) Java
4 4 (16.67%) Go
5 3 (12.50%) Perl
6 2 (8.33%) Groovy
6 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
6 2 (8.33%) SQL
7 1 (4.17%) Bicep
7 1 (4.17%) PHP
7 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
7 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (54.17%) SC Cleared
1 13 (54.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (66.67%) Terraform
2 14 (58.33%) Kubernetes
3 8 (33.33%) Ansible
3 8 (33.33%) Grafana
4 4 (16.67%) Prometheus
5 2 (8.33%) Podman
6 1 (4.17%) Argo
6 1 (4.17%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) Databricks
1 2 (8.33%) Dynatrace
2 1 (4.17%) Google
2 1 (4.17%) Splunk