DevOps Engineer Contracts 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 £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 95 65
Rank change year-on-year +14 -30 +5
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 89 93 197
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.70% 1.95% 3.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.89% 2.09% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 73 160
10th Percentile £383 £425 £475
25th Percentile £468 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -14.58% +9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £586 £675
90th Percentile £669 £624 £763
England median daily rate £550 £545 £600
% change year-on-year +0.92% -9.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £42.81
Median hourly rate - £45.88 £46.11
Median % change year-on-year - -0.49% -
75th Percentile - - £49.40
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £82.48 £59.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year +38.04% +3.91% +91.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 3,078 4,441 5,553
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.14% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,038 2,789 3,920
10th Percentile £230 £263 £285
25th Percentile £364 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £646 £673 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 394 162
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.02 £13.96
25th Percentile £16.16 £12.53 £18.82
Median hourly rate £24.50 £19.34 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +26.68% -36.67% +65.08%
75th Percentile £49.38 £45.97 £49.40
90th Percentile £80.22 £60.00 £65.68
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the North of England

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer 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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in the North of England

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Engineer 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 1 May 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
Yorkshire +20 43 £525 +5.00% 22
North West -8 34 £500 -3.61% 39
North East +12 15 £550 - 6
DevOps Engineer
England

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number 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 89 (100.00%) DevOps
2 62 (69.66%) Terraform
2 62 (69.66%) AWS
3 60 (67.42%) CI/CD
4 50 (56.18%) Kubernetes
5 44 (49.44%) Python
6 41 (46.07%) GitLab
7 39 (43.82%) Linux
8 35 (39.33%) Jenkins
9 34 (38.20%) Infrastructure as Code
9 34 (38.20%) Security Cleared
10 27 (30.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 26 (29.21%) SC Cleared
12 23 (25.84%) Docker
13 22 (24.72%) Public Sector
14 20 (22.47%) Azure
14 20 (22.47%) Bash
15 19 (21.35%) Continuous Integration
15 19 (21.35%) Agile
15 19 (21.35%) AWS CloudFormation
16 17 (19.10%) Ansible
17 16 (17.98%) Packer
17 16 (17.98%) Grafana
17 16 (17.98%) Prometheus
18 15 (16.85%) Azure DevOps
18 15 (16.85%) Unix
19 14 (15.73%) CentOS
19 14 (15.73%) Git
19 14 (15.73%) Go
19 14 (15.73%) Containerisation

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 9 (10.11%) nginx
2 4 (4.49%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.49%) Traefik
3 3 (3.37%) Apache
3 3 (3.37%) Tomcat
4 2 (2.25%) JBoss
5 1 (1.12%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 62 (69.66%) AWS
2 20 (22.47%) Azure
3 19 (21.35%) AWS CloudFormation
4 15 (16.85%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (14.61%) Amazon ECS
5 13 (14.61%) GitHub
6 11 (12.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 10 (11.24%) Amazon S3
8 9 (10.11%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (8.99%) GCP
10 7 (7.87%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (7.87%) AWS Fargate
10 7 (7.87%) Entra ID
11 6 (6.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (5.62%) Serverless
13 4 (4.49%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (4.49%) Kong
14 3 (3.37%) AWS KMS
14 3 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
14 3 (3.37%) CloudBees
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.24%) DNS
2 6 (6.74%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.25%) SSL
4 1 (1.12%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.48%) MongoDB
2 4 (4.49%) Data Lake
2 4 (4.49%) DynamoDB
2 4 (4.49%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.37%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (3.37%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.25%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.25%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.12%) Big Data
5 1 (1.12%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.12%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.12%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 41 (46.07%) GitLab
2 35 (39.33%) Jenkins
3 14 (15.73%) Git
4 6 (6.74%) Selenium
5 4 (4.49%) SonarQube
6 3 (3.37%) JIRA
7 2 (2.25%) Artifactory
7 2 (2.25%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (2.25%) CA Release Automation
7 2 (2.25%) JMeter
7 2 (2.25%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (2.25%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.12%) Babel
8 1 (1.12%) Maven
8 1 (1.12%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (1.12%) Subversion
8 1 (1.12%) TestNG
8 1 (1.12%) webpack
General
1 22 (24.72%) Public Sector
2 10 (11.24%) Finance
3 8 (8.99%) Social Skills
4 5 (5.62%) Manufacturing
4 5 (5.62%) Military
5 4 (4.49%) Electronics
5 4 (4.49%) Marketing
5 4 (4.49%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.12%) Banking
6 1 (1.12%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.61%) cloud-init
2 7 (7.87%) Kafka
3 6 (6.74%) Keycloak
3 6 (6.74%) pytest
4 4 (4.49%) ARM Templates
4 4 (4.49%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (3.37%) .NET
5 3 (3.37%) OAuth
5 3 (3.37%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.25%) Node.js
6 2 (2.25%) REST
7 1 (1.12%) ADO
7 1 (1.12%) CSS
7 1 (1.12%) HTML
7 1 (1.12%) JSON
7 1 (1.12%) JWT
7 1 (1.12%) Next.js
7 1 (1.12%) React
7 1 (1.12%) SOAP
7 1 (1.12%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.74%) PKI
2 2 (2.25%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.12%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.12%) EMC VMAX
3 1 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.12%) Private Cloud
3 1 (1.12%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 39 (43.82%) Linux
2 27 (30.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (16.85%) Unix
4 14 (15.73%) CentOS
5 5 (5.62%) Windows
6 2 (2.25%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.12%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (1.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (100.00%) DevOps
2 60 (67.42%) CI/CD
3 34 (38.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (21.35%) Agile
4 19 (21.35%) Continuous Integration
5 14 (15.73%) Containerisation
6 12 (13.48%) Microservices
7 10 (11.24%) Cloud Security
7 10 (11.24%) Secrets Management
8 9 (10.11%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 9 (10.11%) Static Application Security Testing
9 8 (8.99%) Data Pipeline
9 8 (8.99%) Deployment Automation
9 8 (8.99%) High Availability
9 8 (8.99%) Platform Engineering
10 7 (7.87%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (7.87%) The Twelve-Factor App
11 6 (6.74%) Analytics
11 6 (6.74%) Identity Management
11 6 (6.74%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 44 (49.44%) Python
2 20 (22.47%) Bash
3 14 (15.73%) Go
4 13 (14.61%) SQL
5 11 (12.36%) JavaScript
6 6 (6.74%) PowerShell
7 5 (5.62%) Java
7 5 (5.62%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.37%) Groovy
8 3 (3.37%) Kotlin
9 2 (2.25%) Bicep
9 2 (2.25%) Perl
10 1 (1.12%) Ruby
10 1 (1.12%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 34 (38.20%) Security Cleared
2 26 (29.21%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.87%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.12%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.74%) NCSC
2 2 (2.25%) QA
3 1 (1.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 23 (25.84%) Docker
2 3 (3.37%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 62 (69.66%) Terraform
2 50 (56.18%) Kubernetes
3 17 (19.10%) Ansible
4 16 (17.98%) Grafana
4 16 (17.98%) Packer
4 16 (17.98%) Prometheus
5 9 (10.11%) Istio
6 6 (6.74%) Consul
6 6 (6.74%) Jamf Pro
6 6 (6.74%) Kibana
6 6 (6.74%) linkerd
6 6 (6.74%) Rancher
6 6 (6.74%) ZABBIX
7 5 (5.62%) Progress Chef
8 4 (4.49%) HAProxy
8 4 (4.49%) Puppet
9 3 (3.37%) Kustomize
10 1 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (1.12%) Graylog
10 1 (1.12%) logstash
Vendors
1 8 (8.99%) Splunk
2 6 (6.74%) Okta
3 5 (5.62%) AppDynamics
3 5 (5.62%) Google
3 5 (5.62%) Red Hat
3 5 (5.62%) VMware
4 4 (4.49%) Apple
4 4 (4.49%) Databricks
4 4 (4.49%) ESET
4 4 (4.49%) SAP
5 3 (3.37%) Cisco
5 3 (3.37%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.25%) LogicMonitor
6 2 (2.25%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.25%) Oracle
7 1 (1.12%) 3PAR
7 1 (1.12%) Brocade
7 1 (1.12%) EMC
7 1 (1.12%) HP