DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Development Operations Engineer
England > North of England

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 107 75
Rank change year-on-year +27 -32 -11
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 202 73 114
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 2.80% 1.90% 2.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.04% 2.05% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 64 85
10th Percentile £369 £358 £381
25th Percentile £413 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +2.63% -13.64%
75th Percentile £650 £538 £594
90th Percentile £728 £584 £650
England median daily rate £513 £513 £550
% change year-on-year - -6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £67.80 - -
25th Percentile £70.13 - -
Median hourly rate £74.00 - £45.88
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £82.48 £74.00
% change year-on-year -15.13% +11.46% +1.37%

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 6,635 3,560 4,249
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.85% 92.78% 92.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,877 2,314 2,626
10th Percentile £313 £253 £263
25th Percentile £404 £375 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £465 £484
Median % change year-on-year +5.38% -3.98% -3.15%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £575
90th Percentile £675 £641 £655
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 570 221 382
10th Percentile £17.25 £12.82 £11.45
25th Percentile £25.41 £17.25 £14.03
Median hourly rate £45.56 £22.32 £24.87
Median % change year-on-year +104.15% -10.27% +10.53%
75th Percentile £70.00 £47.12 £47.88
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £68.63
England median hourly rate £45.50 £27.50 £40.33
% change year-on-year +65.45% -31.80% -8.35%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in the North of England

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in the North of England

DevOps Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the North of England

DevOps Engineer
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 Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 19 July 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 +1 105 £525 +5.00% 7
North West -13 60 £595 +52.11% 20
North East -8 37 £425 -10.05% 18
DevOps Engineer
England

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 19 July 2026, DevOps Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 202 (100.00%) DevOps
2 137 (67.82%) CI/CD
3 121 (59.90%) Terraform
4 109 (53.96%) AWS
5 95 (47.03%) Infrastructure as Code
6 94 (46.53%) Python
7 80 (39.60%) Kubernetes
8 67 (33.17%) Azure
9 64 (31.68%) Jenkins
10 60 (29.70%) GCP
11 58 (28.71%) Docker
12 56 (27.72%) Containerisation
13 55 (27.23%) Security Cleared
14 54 (26.73%) SC Cleared
15 49 (24.26%) GitLab
16 46 (22.77%) Platform Engineering
17 43 (21.29%) Observability
18 41 (20.30%) DevSecOps
18 41 (20.30%) GitHub
19 36 (17.82%) Ansible
20 34 (16.83%) Bash
21 32 (15.84%) Agile
22 30 (14.85%) Azure DevOps
22 30 (14.85%) Secrets Management
23 27 (13.37%) GitHub Actions
23 27 (13.37%) Linux
24 25 (12.38%) Git
25 23 (11.39%) Prometheus
26 22 (10.89%) Problem-Solving
27 21 (10.40%) Grafana

DevOps Engineer 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 12 (5.94%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (5.45%) Apache
2 11 (5.45%) Apache Spark
2 11 (5.45%) Jupyter
3 2 (0.99%) Confluence
3 2 (0.99%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 109 (53.96%) AWS
2 67 (33.17%) Azure
3 60 (29.70%) GCP
4 41 (20.30%) GitHub
5 30 (14.85%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (13.37%) GitHub Actions
7 18 (8.91%) Serverless
8 15 (7.43%) Amazon EKS
8 15 (7.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 11 (5.45%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (4.46%) Azure AKS
11 8 (3.96%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (3.96%) Amazon S3
12 7 (3.47%) dbt
12 7 (3.47%) OCI
12 7 (3.47%) OpenShift
13 6 (2.97%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (2.97%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (2.48%) Entra ID
14 5 (2.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.46%) Network Security
2 5 (2.48%) DNS
3 4 (1.98%) VPN
4 3 (1.49%) Firewall
5 1 (0.50%) BGP
5 1 (0.50%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.50%) DHCP
5 1 (0.50%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (0.50%) HTTP
5 1 (0.50%) NGFW
5 1 (0.50%) OSPF
5 1 (0.50%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.50%) SSL
5 1 (0.50%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.50%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.46%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (3.47%) Ataccama
2 7 (3.47%) Metadata
3 5 (2.48%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.98%) Neo4j
4 4 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.98%) Redis
5 3 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.99%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.50%) Big Data
7 1 (0.50%) DocumentDB
7 1 (0.50%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 64 (31.68%) Jenkins
2 49 (24.26%) GitLab
3 25 (12.38%) Git
4 13 (6.44%) SonarQube
5 10 (4.95%) JIRA
5 10 (4.95%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (3.96%) Maven
7 5 (2.48%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.98%) MSBuild
8 4 (1.98%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.49%) Gatling
9 3 (1.49%) JUnit
9 3 (1.49%) Liquibase
9 3 (1.49%) Postman
9 3 (1.49%) Selenium
10 2 (0.99%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.99%) Gradle
10 2 (0.99%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.99%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.99%) Terragrunt
General
1 40 (19.80%) Public Sector
2 32 (15.84%) Social Skills
3 31 (15.35%) Finance
4 15 (7.43%) Banking
5 8 (3.96%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (3.47%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.97%) Publishing
8 3 (1.49%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.49%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.99%) Legal
10 1 (0.50%) Law
10 1 (0.50%) Military
10 1 (0.50%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.44%) Kafka
2 9 (4.46%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (4.46%) JSON
3 8 (3.96%) Node.js
3 8 (3.96%) YAML
4 7 (3.47%) SLSA
5 5 (2.48%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (1.98%) .NET
6 4 (1.98%) ARM Templates
6 4 (1.98%) Keycloak
6 4 (1.98%) React
6 4 (1.98%) REST
7 3 (1.49%) FHIR
7 3 (1.49%) Playwright
7 3 (1.49%) Quarkus
8 2 (0.99%) RESTful
8 2 (0.99%) Spring
8 2 (0.99%) Spring Boot
9 1 (0.50%) OpenID
9 1 (0.50%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 31 (15.35%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.44%) Public Cloud
3 7 (3.47%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.48%) NHS
6 4 (1.98%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.98%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.49%) PKI
7 3 (1.49%) Replication
8 2 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.50%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (0.50%) Clustering
9 1 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.50%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.50%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (13.37%) Linux
2 4 (1.98%) Windows
3 3 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.99%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (100.00%) DevOps
2 137 (67.82%) CI/CD
3 95 (47.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 56 (27.72%) Containerisation
5 46 (22.77%) Platform Engineering
6 43 (21.29%) Observability
7 41 (20.30%) DevSecOps
8 32 (15.84%) Agile
9 30 (14.85%) Secrets Management
10 22 (10.89%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (10.40%) Test Automation
12 19 (9.41%) Infrastructure Automation
13 18 (8.91%) GitOps
14 16 (7.92%) Continuous Improvement
14 16 (7.92%) Cybersecurity
15 15 (7.43%) Change Management
15 15 (7.43%) Deployment Automation
15 15 (7.43%) Incident Response
16 14 (6.93%) Cloud Security
16 14 (6.93%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 94 (46.53%) Python
2 34 (16.83%) Bash
3 18 (8.91%) Java
4 16 (7.92%) PowerShell
5 14 (6.93%) Groovy
6 9 (4.46%) Bicep
7 8 (3.96%) Go
8 5 (2.48%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.48%) SQL
9 2 (0.99%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.50%) C
10 1 (0.50%) COBOL
10 1 (0.50%) JCL
10 1 (0.50%) Scala
10 1 (0.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 55 (27.23%) Security Cleared
2 54 (26.73%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (4.95%) AWS Certification
5 8 (3.96%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.48%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (1.98%) Degree
8 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.97%) QA
2 3 (1.49%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.49%) HL7
2 3 (1.49%) WCAG
3 2 (0.99%) GDPR
3 2 (0.99%) NIST
3 2 (0.99%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 58 (28.71%) Docker
2 7 (3.47%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.99%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 121 (59.90%) Terraform
2 80 (39.60%) Kubernetes
3 36 (17.82%) Ansible
4 23 (11.39%) Prometheus
5 21 (10.40%) Grafana
6 11 (5.45%) Argo
7 9 (4.46%) Istio
8 5 (2.48%) Packer
9 4 (1.98%) Kustomize
10 3 (1.49%) Rancher
11 2 (0.99%) linkerd
11 2 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.50%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.50%) CA Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.50%) Consul
12 1 (0.50%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.50%) Podman
12 1 (0.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 14 (6.93%) Splunk
2 11 (5.45%) Google
3 10 (4.95%) Dynatrace
4 8 (3.96%) Microsoft
4 8 (3.96%) Trend Micro
5 7 (3.47%) Sonatype
6 3 (1.49%) Databricks
6 3 (1.49%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.49%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.99%) Alibaba
7 2 (0.99%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.50%) Aruba
8 1 (0.50%) Brio
8 1 (0.50%) F5
8 1 (0.50%) Foundry
8 1 (0.50%) Infoblox
8 1 (0.50%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.50%) Tanium
8 1 (0.50%) Tenable
8 1 (0.50%) Virgin Media