DevOps Contracts in the North of England

DevOps
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 15 15
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 310 416 541
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 9.41% 8.72% 9.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.45% 10.17% 10.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 283 432
10th Percentile £370 £400 £425
25th Percentile £445 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £650
90th Percentile £686 £694 £700
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - - £40.24
25th Percentile £67.50 - £41.20
Median hourly rate £70.00 £45.88 £46.11
Median % change year-on-year +52.57% -0.49% -1.32%
75th Percentile £72.50 £45.96 £49.45
90th Percentile - £46.09 £49.48
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.76% +19.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the North of England

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in the North of England

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the North of England

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in the North of England

DevOps
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 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
North West -1 168 £500 -6.37% 400
Yorkshire +3 120 £520 +9.42% 170
North East +5 24 £550 +4.76% 69
DevOps
England

DevOps
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 17 (5.48%) Confluence
2 15 (4.84%) nginx
2 15 (4.84%) SharePoint
3 12 (3.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (2.58%) Apache Spark
5 7 (2.26%) Traefik
6 6 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (1.61%) JBoss
8 3 (0.97%) Apache
8 3 (0.97%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.97%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.65%) CMS
9 2 (0.65%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.32%) Camunda
10 1 (0.32%) CICS
10 1 (0.32%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.32%) Liferay
10 1 (0.32%) Tuxedo
10 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.32%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.65%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (0.32%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.32%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 114 (36.77%) AWS
2 92 (29.68%) Azure
3 46 (14.84%) Azure DevOps
4 34 (10.97%) Serverless
5 29 (9.35%) GitHub
6 28 (9.03%) GCP
7 24 (7.74%) AWS CloudFormation
8 22 (7.10%) Entra ID
9 20 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
10 19 (6.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 17 (5.48%) Amazon S3
12 14 (4.52%) Microsoft 365
13 13 (4.19%) Amazon EKS
13 13 (4.19%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (3.55%) AWS Fargate
15 10 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
16 9 (2.90%) Amazon EC2
16 9 (2.90%) Power Platform
16 9 (2.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 8 (2.58%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 26 (8.39%) DNS
2 16 (5.16%) DHCP
3 11 (3.55%) TCP/IP
4 10 (3.23%) Firewall
5 6 (1.94%) SSL
6 3 (0.97%) DMZ
7 2 (0.65%) Calico
7 2 (0.65%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.65%) SAN
8 1 (0.32%) HTTP
8 1 (0.32%) Skype
8 1 (0.32%) SMTP
8 1 (0.32%) SNA
8 1 (0.32%) SSH
8 1 (0.32%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (12.26%) MongoDB
2 31 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (8.71%) Relational Database
4 21 (6.77%) NoSQL
5 17 (5.48%) SQL Server
6 16 (5.16%) RDBMS
7 11 (3.55%) MySQL
8 10 (3.23%) Oracle Reports
9 9 (2.90%) Power BI
10 8 (2.58%) Data Lake
10 8 (2.58%) DynamoDB
11 6 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (1.61%) Flink
13 4 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (1.29%) Tableau
14 3 (0.97%) Big Data
14 3 (0.97%) BigQuery
14 3 (0.97%) Data Mining
15 2 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 75 (24.19%) Jenkins
2 69 (22.26%) GitLab
3 43 (13.87%) JIRA
4 41 (13.23%) Git
5 25 (8.06%) Selenium
6 14 (4.52%) Gradle
6 14 (4.52%) JUnit
7 10 (3.23%) Liquibase
7 10 (3.23%) Mockito
8 9 (2.90%) Maven
9 8 (2.58%) JMeter
9 8 (2.58%) SonarQube
10 7 (2.26%) Postman
10 7 (2.26%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (2.26%) TeamCity
11 5 (1.61%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (1.61%) CA Release Automation
12 4 (1.29%) Cypress.io
12 4 (1.29%) SoapUI
12 4 (1.29%) TestRail
General
1 68 (21.94%) Social Skills
2 65 (20.97%) Public Sector
3 46 (14.84%) Finance
4 31 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (7.42%) Banking
6 16 (5.16%) Manufacturing
7 14 (4.52%) Electronics
7 14 (4.52%) Marketing
7 14 (4.52%) Telecoms
8 13 (4.19%) Military
9 11 (3.55%) Retail
10 3 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.65%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.32%) Back Office
12 1 (0.32%) Front Office
12 1 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.32%) Legal
12 1 (0.32%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 89 (28.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 46 (14.84%) Senior
3 42 (13.55%) Architect
4 37 (11.94%) Developer
5 26 (8.39%) AWS DevOps
5 26 (8.39%) Senior DevOps
6 24 (7.74%) AWS Engineer
7 22 (7.10%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 21 (6.77%) Lead
9 20 (6.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 14 (4.52%) Azure Engineer
11 13 (4.19%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
12 11 (3.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 11 (3.55%) DBA
12 11 (3.55%) Software Engineer
13 10 (3.23%) Tester
14 9 (2.90%) Analyst
14 9 (2.90%) Lead DevOps
14 9 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
15 8 (2.58%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (14.19%) Kafka
2 19 (6.13%) Spring Boot
3 18 (5.81%) .NET
3 18 (5.81%) React
4 17 (5.48%) cloud-init
5 13 (4.19%) Swagger
5 13 (4.19%) XML
6 12 (3.87%) Node.js
6 12 (3.87%) OpenAPI
7 11 (3.55%) JSON
7 11 (3.55%) Spring
8 10 (3.23%) REST
9 9 (2.90%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (2.90%) Keycloak
10 8 (2.58%) pytest
11 7 (2.26%) CSS
11 7 (2.26%) HTML
12 6 (1.94%) ARM Templates
12 6 (1.94%) RESTful
13 5 (1.61%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 10 (3.23%) Cloud Native
2 9 (2.90%) PKI
3 8 (2.58%) Onboarding
4 7 (2.26%) Private Cloud
4 7 (2.26%) Product Ownership
5 6 (1.94%) NHS
5 6 (1.94%) Replication
6 5 (1.61%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.29%) IoT
7 4 (1.29%) Mainframe
7 4 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (0.97%) Blockchain
8 3 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (0.97%) Mobile App
8 3 (0.97%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.65%) EMC VMAX
9 2 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 57 (18.39%) Linux
2 37 (11.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 31 (10.00%) Windows
4 25 (8.06%) Unix
5 18 (5.81%) CentOS
6 17 (5.48%) Windows Server
7 10 (3.23%) VMS
8 4 (1.29%) Solaris
9 3 (0.97%) HPUX
10 2 (0.65%) Android
10 2 (0.65%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.32%) AIX
11 1 (0.32%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.32%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (49.68%) CI/CD
2 123 (39.68%) Agile
3 57 (18.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 54 (17.42%) Problem-Solving
5 51 (16.45%) Microservices
6 43 (13.87%) Continuous Integration
7 42 (13.55%) Containerisation
8 39 (12.58%) Test Automation
9 35 (11.29%) Migration
10 32 (10.32%) Software Engineering
11 29 (9.35%) TDD
12 26 (8.39%) Mentoring
13 25 (8.06%) Business Intelligence
14 24 (7.74%) Configuration Management
14 24 (7.74%) ITIL
14 24 (7.74%) Stakeholder Management
15 22 (7.10%) Data Pipeline
16 21 (6.77%) Cloud Security
16 21 (6.77%) Observability
16 21 (6.77%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 90 (29.03%) Python
2 60 (19.35%) SQL
3 40 (12.90%) Bash
4 39 (12.58%) Java
5 23 (7.42%) JavaScript
6 21 (6.77%) PowerShell
7 20 (6.45%) Go
8 18 (5.81%) TypeScript
9 12 (3.87%) Shell Script
10 9 (2.90%) C#
11 7 (2.26%) Perl
12 5 (1.61%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.29%) Groovy
14 2 (0.65%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.65%) ActionScript 2.0
14 2 (0.65%) COBOL
14 2 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.65%) JCL
14 2 (0.65%) R
14 2 (0.65%) REXX
Qualifications
1 72 (23.23%) Security Cleared
2 59 (19.03%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.19%) AWS Certification
4 10 (3.23%) Degree
5 6 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.61%) CISM
6 5 (1.61%) CISSP
6 5 (1.61%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (1.29%) CCSP
7 4 (1.29%) CEH
7 4 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.29%) OSCP
8 3 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.65%) CCNA
9 2 (0.65%) CCNP
9 2 (0.65%) IBM Certification
9 2 (0.65%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.65%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.13%) QA
2 10 (3.23%) NCSC
3 6 (1.94%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.61%) COBIT
4 5 (1.61%) NIST
4 5 (1.61%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.97%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.65%) PMO
7 1 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.32%) GDPR
7 1 (0.32%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.32%) SLA
7 1 (0.32%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 62 (20.00%) Docker
2 25 (8.06%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 91 (29.35%) Terraform
2 89 (28.71%) Kubernetes
3 33 (10.65%) Ansible
4 27 (8.71%) Grafana
5 22 (7.10%) Prometheus
6 20 (6.45%) Packer
7 15 (4.84%) Progress Chef
8 14 (4.52%) Istio
9 12 (3.87%) Microsoft Intune
9 12 (3.87%) WSUS
10 9 (2.90%) Consul
10 9 (2.90%) Jamf Pro
10 9 (2.90%) Kibana
10 9 (2.90%) linkerd
10 9 (2.90%) Rancher
10 9 (2.90%) ZABBIX
11 7 (2.26%) HAProxy
12 6 (1.94%) Puppet
13 4 (1.29%) Dell DRAC
14 3 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (10.32%) Microsoft
2 21 (6.77%) Oracle
2 21 (6.77%) Splunk
3 19 (6.13%) SAP
3 19 (6.13%) VMware
4 10 (3.23%) AppDynamics
4 10 (3.23%) Databricks
4 10 (3.23%) Red Hat
4 10 (3.23%) ServiceNow
5 9 (2.90%) Google
5 9 (2.90%) Okta
6 8 (2.58%) IBM
7 7 (2.26%) Apple
7 7 (2.26%) ESET
8 5 (1.61%) Fortinet
8 5 (1.61%) Infoblox
8 5 (1.61%) Virgin Media
9 4 (1.29%) Cisco
9 4 (1.29%) CyberArk
9 4 (1.29%) Dell