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 £516, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 86 65
Rank change year-on-year -11 -21 +5
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 73 99 180
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.20% 2.11% 3.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.36% 2.26% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 76 146
10th Percentile £380 £425 £475
25th Percentile £455 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.22% -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £573 £587 £675
90th Percentile £614 £650 £763
England median daily rate £525 £538 £613
% change year-on-year -2.33% -12.24% +2.08%
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 £66.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +24.97% -8.33% -

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 3,097 4,374 5,296
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.26% 93.00% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,046 2,716 3,702
10th Percentile £235 £263 £275
25th Percentile £375 £385 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.71% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £577 £595
90th Percentile £638 £670 £688
England median daily rate £517 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 425 161
10th Percentile £12.79 £11.07 £14.25
25th Percentile £14.34 £12.86 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.36 £22.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -26.67% +55.88%
75th Percentile £46.89 £46.91 £48.98
90th Percentile £74.38 £64.50 £66.00
England median hourly rate £29.30 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -21.87% -16.67% +91.49%

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 30 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 30 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 +18 38 £525 +6.06% 151
North West -21 26 £475 -5.00% 196
North East +8 12 £538 - 48
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 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 73 (100.00%) DevOps
2 49 (67.12%) AWS
3 48 (65.75%) CI/CD
4 46 (63.01%) Terraform
5 42 (57.53%) Kubernetes
6 30 (41.10%) Python
7 26 (35.62%) Security Cleared
7 26 (35.62%) Jenkins
8 25 (34.25%) GitLab
8 25 (34.25%) Infrastructure as Code
9 23 (31.51%) Linux
10 22 (30.14%) Ansible
10 22 (30.14%) Docker
11 20 (27.40%) SC Cleared
12 17 (23.29%) Agile
12 17 (23.29%) GitHub
13 16 (21.92%) Git
13 16 (21.92%) Containerisation
14 15 (20.55%) Azure
15 12 (16.44%) SQL
16 11 (15.07%) JavaScript
16 11 (15.07%) Microservices
16 11 (15.07%) Azure DevOps
16 11 (15.07%) Public Sector
17 10 (13.70%) Amazon EKS
17 10 (13.70%) Amazon ECS
17 10 (13.70%) Prometheus
17 10 (13.70%) Amazon S3
17 10 (13.70%) Continuous Integration
17 10 (13.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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 5 (6.85%) nginx
2 4 (5.48%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (4.11%) Apache
3 3 (4.11%) Tomcat
4 2 (2.74%) JBoss
5 1 (1.37%) Confluence
5 1 (1.37%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 49 (67.12%) AWS
2 17 (23.29%) GitHub
3 15 (20.55%) Azure
4 11 (15.07%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (13.70%) Amazon ECS
5 10 (13.70%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (13.70%) Amazon S3
6 8 (10.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (10.96%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (10.96%) GCP
6 8 (10.96%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (9.59%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (9.59%) Serverless
8 6 (8.22%) AWS KMS
8 6 (8.22%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (6.85%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (5.48%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 3 (4.11%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 3 (4.11%) AWS CloudTrail
11 3 (4.11%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.33%) DNS
2 4 (5.48%) SSL
2 4 (5.48%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.74%) Firewall
3 2 (2.74%) Network Security
3 2 (2.74%) VPN
4 1 (1.37%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.59%) DynamoDB
2 6 (8.22%) MongoDB
3 5 (6.85%) SQL Server
4 4 (5.48%) Data Lake
5 3 (4.11%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (4.11%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.74%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.74%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.37%) Big Data
7 1 (1.37%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.37%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.37%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 26 (35.62%) Jenkins
2 25 (34.25%) GitLab
3 16 (21.92%) Git
4 4 (5.48%) Selenium
5 3 (4.11%) JIRA
5 3 (4.11%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.74%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (2.74%) CA Release Automation
6 2 (2.74%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (2.74%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.37%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.37%) Babel
7 1 (1.37%) JMeter
7 1 (1.37%) Maven
7 1 (1.37%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.37%) Subversion
7 1 (1.37%) TestNG
7 1 (1.37%) webpack
General
1 11 (15.07%) Public Sector
2 7 (9.59%) Finance
3 6 (8.22%) Social Skills
4 3 (4.11%) Manufacturing
4 3 (4.11%) Military
5 2 (2.74%) Electronics
5 2 (2.74%) Marketing
5 2 (2.74%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.37%) Banking
6 1 (1.37%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.85%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (5.48%) ARM Templates
3 3 (4.11%) .NET
3 3 (4.11%) OAuth
3 3 (4.11%) pytest
4 2 (2.74%) Node.js
4 2 (2.74%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.37%) ADO
5 1 (1.37%) cloud-init
5 1 (1.37%) CSS
5 1 (1.37%) JSON
5 1 (1.37%) JWT
5 1 (1.37%) Kafka
5 1 (1.37%) Keycloak
5 1 (1.37%) Middleware
5 1 (1.37%) Next.js
5 1 (1.37%) React
5 1 (1.37%) REST
5 1 (1.37%) Swagger
5 1 (1.37%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.74%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.37%) EMC VMAX
2 1 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (1.37%) PKI
2 1 (1.37%) Private Cloud
2 1 (1.37%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 23 (31.51%) Linux
2 10 (13.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (6.85%) Windows
4 2 (2.74%) Unix
4 2 (2.74%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.37%) CentOS
5 1 (1.37%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (100.00%) DevOps
2 48 (65.75%) CI/CD
3 25 (34.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (23.29%) Agile
5 16 (21.92%) Containerisation
6 11 (15.07%) Microservices
7 10 (13.70%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (12.33%) Platform Engineering
8 9 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (10.96%) Data Pipeline
9 8 (10.96%) Deployment Automation
9 8 (10.96%) High Availability
9 8 (10.96%) Infrastructure Automation
10 7 (9.59%) Cloud Security
10 7 (9.59%) Configuration Management
10 7 (9.59%) Cost Optimisation
10 7 (9.59%) The Twelve-Factor App
11 6 (8.22%) Actionable Insight
11 6 (8.22%) Performance Metrics
11 6 (8.22%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (41.10%) Python
2 12 (16.44%) SQL
3 11 (15.07%) JavaScript
4 8 (10.96%) Bash
4 8 (10.96%) Shell Script
5 5 (6.85%) PowerShell
6 4 (5.48%) Java
7 3 (4.11%) Bicep
7 3 (4.11%) Groovy
7 3 (4.11%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.74%) Perl
9 1 (1.37%) Go
9 1 (1.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (35.62%) Security Cleared
2 20 (27.40%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.85%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (4.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.37%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.11%) GDPR
1 3 (4.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (4.11%) NIST
1 3 (4.11%) SOC 2
2 2 (2.74%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (2.74%) QA
3 1 (1.37%) NCSC
3 1 (1.37%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 22 (30.14%) Docker
2 3 (4.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 46 (63.01%) Terraform
2 42 (57.53%) Kubernetes
3 22 (30.14%) Ansible
4 10 (13.70%) Prometheus
5 9 (12.33%) Grafana
6 5 (6.85%) Kibana
6 5 (6.85%) Kustomize
6 5 (6.85%) Puppet
7 4 (5.48%) Istio
7 4 (5.48%) Progress Chef
8 3 (4.11%) Packer
9 1 (1.37%) Consul
9 1 (1.37%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (1.37%) Graylog
9 1 (1.37%) HAProxy
9 1 (1.37%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (1.37%) linkerd
9 1 (1.37%) Rancher
9 1 (1.37%) vRealize
9 1 (1.37%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (8.22%) Splunk
2 5 (6.85%) AppDynamics
2 5 (6.85%) Google
2 5 (6.85%) Red Hat
2 5 (6.85%) VMware
3 4 (5.48%) Databricks
4 3 (4.11%) Cisco
4 3 (4.11%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.74%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.74%) Oracle
5 2 (2.74%) SAP
6 1 (1.37%) 3PAR
6 1 (1.37%) Apple
6 1 (1.37%) Brocade
6 1 (1.37%) EMC
6 1 (1.37%) ESET
6 1 (1.37%) HP
6 1 (1.37%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (1.37%) Okta