DevOps Consultant Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Development Operations Consultant
England > North of England

The median Development Operations Consultant daily rate in the North of England is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 May 2026.

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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 - 173
Rank change year-on-year - - +36
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Consultant 2 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.031% - 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% - 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile - - £515
25th Percentile - - £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +34.55%
75th Percentile - - £750
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £650 £675 £600
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 5,915 3,077 4,327
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.75% 93.30% 93.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,536 2,039 2,700
10th Percentile £313 £230 £263
25th Percentile £400 £367 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -3.13% -4.00%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £575
90th Percentile £663 £638 £670
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 438 159 417
10th Percentile £17.00 £12.81 £11.07
25th Percentile £25.49 £14.83 £12.75
Median hourly rate £50.00 £24.50 £21.43
Median % change year-on-year +104.08% +14.33% -28.57%
75th Percentile £70.00 £48.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.25 £65.64
England median hourly rate £45.00 £29.07 £37.18
% change year-on-year +54.80% -21.81% -17.38%

DevOps Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

DevOps Consultant job vacancy trend in the North of England

DevOps Consultant
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Consultant job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Consultant job vacancies in the North of England

DevOps Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Consultant within the North of England region over the 6 months to 25 May 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
Yorkshire - 2 £500 - 1
DevOps Consultant
England

DevOps Consultant Skill Set
Top 19 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 25 May 2026, DevOps Consultant 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 of England region featuring DevOps Consultant in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) CloudBees
1 2 (100.00%) Commvault
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) Confluence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) NetBackup
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 2 (100.00%) Puppet
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Veritas

DevOps Consultant Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) CloudBees
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) NetBackup
1 2 (100.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Commvault
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) Veritas