DevOps Contract Job Trends in the North of England

DevOps
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 10 11
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 +4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 837 446 443
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 11.37% 11.26% 10.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.63% 12.68% 12.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 560 357 300
10th Percentile £375 £324 £381
25th Percentile £413 £393 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £518
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -8.23% -5.89%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £638
90th Percentile £675 £638 £713
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 4
10th Percentile - £70.25 -
25th Percentile £25.38 £74.38 -
Median hourly rate £46.80 £82.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -43.27% +78.65% -
75th Percentile £71.50 £89.38 -
90th Percentile £74.20 £92.75 -
England median hourly rate £67.25 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +0.37% -4.29% +6.87%

All Process & 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 6,143 3,517 3,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 83.45% 88.81% 84.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,619 2,245 2,099
10th Percentile £313 £268 £306
25th Percentile £402 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £469 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% -6.20% -
75th Percentile £588 £556 £586
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 500 205 245
10th Percentile £16.01 £12.82 £11.07
25th Percentile £21.33 £17.48 £13.87
Median hourly rate £43.96 £22.63 £25.30
Median % change year-on-year +94.26% -10.55% -13.65%
75th Percentile £70.00 £44.78 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.88 £73.75 £69.90
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

DevOps job vacancy trend in the North of England

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing DevOps

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 7 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the North of England

DevOps
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing DevOps.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing DevOps

DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps in the North of England over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 7 August 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 +2 413 £500 +3.36% 117
North West -2 331 £525 +12.90% 207
North East +15 110 £425 -19.05% 75
DevOps
England

DevOps
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 49 (5.85%) Confluence
2 24 (2.87%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (2.87%) Apache Spark
3 23 (2.75%) SharePoint
4 20 (2.39%) Apache
5 18 (2.15%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
7 4 (0.48%) SAS
8 3 (0.36%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.24%) CICS
10 1 (0.12%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.12%) Camunda
10 1 (0.12%) CMS
10 1 (0.12%) Drupal
10 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
10 1 (0.12%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.36%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.24%) Trello
5 1 (0.12%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 8 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.12%) Exstream
3 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.12%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.12%) SAP QM
3 1 (0.12%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 358 (42.77%) AWS
2 356 (42.53%) Azure
3 177 (21.15%) GCP
4 172 (20.55%) GitHub
5 170 (20.31%) Azure DevOps
6 101 (12.07%) GitHub Actions
7 67 (8.00%) Serverless
8 50 (5.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 50 (5.97%) Power Platform
9 41 (4.90%) OpenShift
10 37 (4.42%) AWS Lambda
11 32 (3.82%) Entra ID
12 29 (3.46%) Azure Monitor
13 28 (3.35%) Microsoft 365
14 26 (3.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 26 (3.11%) Amazon EKS
14 26 (3.11%) Azure AKS
14 26 (3.11%) PowerApps
15 25 (2.99%) Amazon S3
15 25 (2.99%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 53 (6.33%) Firewall
2 35 (4.18%) DNS
3 16 (1.91%) BIG-IP
3 16 (1.91%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 15 (1.79%) Network Security
5 12 (1.43%) BGP
5 12 (1.43%) Ethernet VPN
5 12 (1.43%) OSPF
5 12 (1.43%) SD-WAN
5 12 (1.43%) VXLAN
5 12 (1.43%) WAN
6 10 (1.19%) SSL
6 10 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (1.19%) WLAN
7 9 (1.08%) SAN
7 9 (1.08%) TCP/IP
7 9 (1.08%) VPN
8 5 (0.60%) 3GPP
8 5 (0.60%) iSCSI
8 5 (0.60%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (5.73%) SQL Server
2 46 (5.50%) MongoDB
3 45 (5.38%) PostgreSQL
4 34 (4.06%) Relational Database
5 28 (3.35%) Power BI
6 23 (2.75%) NoSQL
7 20 (2.39%) RDBMS
8 17 (2.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 16 (1.91%) Data Lake
10 15 (1.79%) Metadata
10 15 (1.79%) MySQL
11 14 (1.67%) DynamoDB
12 13 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
12 13 (1.55%) Oracle Database
13 11 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (1.31%) Neo4j
14 9 (1.08%) BigQuery
14 9 (1.08%) Delta Lake
14 9 (1.08%) Redis
15 7 (0.84%) Ataccama
Development Applications
1 179 (21.39%) Jenkins
2 122 (14.58%) GitLab
3 105 (12.54%) Git
4 100 (11.95%) JIRA
5 25 (2.99%) Selenium
6 23 (2.75%) Gatling
7 19 (2.27%) SonarQube
8 18 (2.15%) Maven
9 17 (2.03%) REST Assured
10 15 (1.79%) Claude Code
10 15 (1.79%) Postman
11 14 (1.67%) Cucumber
11 14 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
12 12 (1.43%) Gradle
13 11 (1.31%) JMeter
14 9 (1.08%) JUnit
15 8 (0.96%) fastlane
15 8 (0.96%) LoadRunner
15 8 (0.96%) Serenity BDD
15 8 (0.96%) Zephyr
General
1 188 (22.46%) Social Skills
2 163 (19.47%) Finance
3 131 (15.65%) Public Sector
4 74 (8.84%) Banking
5 69 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (2.75%) Retail
8 15 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
9 14 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (1.43%) Military
11 11 (1.31%) Law
11 11 (1.31%) Publishing
12 8 (0.96%) Financial Institution
13 7 (0.84%) Police
14 6 (0.72%) Aviation
14 6 (0.72%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.60%) Fire and Rescue
15 5 (0.60%) Legal
16 4 (0.48%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 197 (23.54%) DevOps Engineer
2 130 (15.53%) Senior
3 123 (14.70%) Developer
4 110 (13.14%) Lead
5 61 (7.29%) Architect
6 45 (5.38%) Analyst
7 43 (5.14%) AWS Engineer
8 41 (4.90%) Software Engineer
9 36 (4.30%) Cloud Engineer
10 35 (4.18%) Java Developer
10 35 (4.18%) Senior DevOps
11 31 (3.70%) Senior Developer
11 31 (3.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 30 (3.58%) Platform Engineer
13 28 (3.35%) AWS DevOps
13 28 (3.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 28 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
14 27 (3.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 26 (3.11%) Security Engineer
16 24 (2.87%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (8.36%) Kafka
2 69 (8.24%) REST
3 60 (7.17%) Spring
4 52 (6.21%) Spring Boot
5 51 (6.09%) React
6 49 (5.85%) Node.js
7 45 (5.38%) .NET
8 41 (4.90%) Playwright
9 35 (4.18%) JSON
10 32 (3.82%) RESTful
11 24 (2.87%) PySpark
12 23 (2.75%) YAML
13 22 (2.63%) OpenTelemetry
14 16 (1.91%) AngularJS
14 16 (1.91%) OAuth
15 15 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
16 14 (1.67%) Next.js
17 12 (1.43%) ARM Templates
17 12 (1.43%) XML
18 11 (1.31%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 193 (23.06%) Cloud Native
2 70 (8.36%) Product Ownership
3 34 (4.06%) Hybrid Cloud
4 32 (3.82%) Data Protection Act
5 25 (2.99%) Data Centre
5 25 (2.99%) Replication
6 20 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
6 20 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
6 20 (2.39%) Security Posture
7 18 (2.15%) Public Cloud
8 17 (2.03%) Management Information System
9 16 (1.91%) NHS
10 15 (1.79%) Mobile App
11 14 (1.67%) Onboarding
12 13 (1.55%) Clustering
13 12 (1.43%) AI Agents
13 12 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
14 11 (1.31%) Data Structures
14 11 (1.31%) Mainframe
15 9 (1.08%) EMC VMAX
Operating Systems
1 80 (9.56%) Linux
2 36 (4.30%) Windows
3 22 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (1.31%) Android
4 11 (1.31%) Apple iOS
4 11 (1.31%) Unix
5 7 (0.84%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.72%) VMS
7 4 (0.48%) Data ONTAP
8 3 (0.36%) AIX
9 2 (0.24%) Solaris
9 2 (0.24%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.12%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 540 (64.52%) CI/CD
2 307 (36.68%) Agile
3 255 (30.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 174 (20.79%) Observability
5 150 (17.92%) Continuous Improvement
6 148 (17.68%) Test Automation
7 143 (17.08%) Containerisation
8 126 (15.05%) Problem-Solving
9 124 (14.81%) Software Engineering
10 121 (14.46%) Microservices
11 112 (13.38%) AI
12 104 (12.43%) Platform Engineering
13 99 (11.83%) Stakeholder Management
14 93 (11.11%) Roadmaps
15 84 (10.04%) Mentoring
16 81 (9.68%) Scrum
17 78 (9.32%) Migration
18 74 (8.84%) DevSecOps
19 73 (8.72%) Cloud Security
20 67 (8.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 299 (35.72%) Python
2 167 (19.95%) Java
3 110 (13.14%) SQL
4 96 (11.47%) Bash
5 91 (10.87%) PowerShell
6 51 (6.09%) C#
7 50 (5.97%) JavaScript
8 46 (5.50%) TypeScript
9 23 (2.75%) Bicep
10 19 (2.27%) Groovy
11 17 (2.03%) Scala
11 17 (2.03%) Shell Script
12 14 (1.67%) T-SQL
13 13 (1.55%) Go
14 10 (1.19%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.72%) Rust
16 5 (0.60%) ActionScript
16 5 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
17 4 (0.48%) COBOL
17 4 (0.48%) VB
Qualifications
1 182 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 151 (18.04%) SC Cleared
3 56 (6.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 50 (5.97%) Degree
5 38 (4.54%) AWS Certification
5 38 (4.54%) Azure Certification
6 21 (2.51%) CISSP
7 16 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (1.43%) DV Cleared
10 8 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 5 (0.60%) OCP
12 5 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
13 4 (0.48%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.48%) PMP
14 3 (0.36%) CCIE
14 3 (0.36%) CCNP
14 3 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (8.12%) QA
2 44 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 27 (3.23%) Data Quality
4 25 (2.99%) WCAG
5 15 (1.79%) GDPR
6 9 (1.08%) NIST
7 6 (0.72%) HL7
8 4 (0.48%) GRC
8 4 (0.48%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.36%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 3 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.36%) SLA
10 2 (0.24%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.12%) PSD2
11 1 (0.12%) SEPA
11 1 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 193 (23.06%) Docker
2 20 (2.39%) Virtual Machines
3 19 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.91%) Active Directory
5 14 (1.67%) vSphere
6 11 (1.31%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.72%) Oracle RAC
7 6 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.60%) KVM
8 5 (0.60%) SRDF
9 4 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.36%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 3 (0.36%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.24%) NFS
12 1 (0.12%) ACF2
12 1 (0.12%) RACF
Systems Management
1 318 (37.99%) Terraform
2 234 (27.96%) Kubernetes
3 99 (11.83%) Ansible
4 76 (9.08%) Grafana
5 60 (7.17%) Prometheus
6 33 (3.94%) Argo
7 19 (2.27%) Progress Chef
8 13 (1.55%) vCenter Server
9 11 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (1.08%) Istio
10 9 (1.08%) NetBackup
10 9 (1.08%) Puppet
11 8 (0.96%) HAProxy
11 8 (0.96%) Kustomize
12 7 (0.84%) Packer
12 7 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
13 6 (0.72%) Control-M
13 6 (0.72%) SCOM
14 5 (0.60%) Data Guard
14 5 (0.60%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 125 (14.93%) Microsoft
2 73 (8.72%) Google
3 46 (5.50%) Splunk
4 40 (4.78%) ServiceNow
5 36 (4.30%) Red Hat
6 31 (3.70%) Dynatrace
7 25 (2.99%) Databricks
7 25 (2.99%) Oracle
8 22 (2.63%) VMware
9 17 (2.03%) F5
10 15 (1.79%) Pure Storage
11 13 (1.55%) Palo Alto
12 12 (1.43%) SAP
12 12 (1.43%) Trend Micro
13 11 (1.31%) Aruba
14 10 (1.19%) Arista
14 10 (1.19%) Cisco
14 10 (1.19%) Foundry
14 10 (1.19%) Sonatype
15 9 (1.08%) Apple