DevOps Contracts in the North of England

DevOps
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 15 13
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 405 537 750
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 8.63% 9.27% 10.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.06% 10.22% 11.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 433 573
10th Percentile £395 £425 £397
25th Percentile £449 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £694 £700 £697
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 7
10th Percentile - £40.24 -
25th Percentile - £41.20 £38.68
Median hourly rate £45.88 £46.11 £46.72
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.32% -
75th Percentile £45.96 £49.45 £57.25
90th Percentile £46.09 £49.48 £63.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -0.76% +19.09% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

DevOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,027 5,253 6,349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.79% 90.66% 88.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,466 3,653 4,642
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 209 259
10th Percentile £11.04 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £16.25 £12.86
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.30 £18.69
Median % change year-on-year -39.52% +56.81% +2.51%
75th Percentile £44.74 £47.00 £31.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £51.91
England median hourly rate £36.33 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -2.21% +52.57% +3.62%

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 May 2024. 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 -1 239 £530 -3.64% 182
Yorkshire +2 152 £480 -20.00% 85
North East -7 18 £525 -12.50% 21
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 19 (4.69%) Confluence
2 7 (1.73%) nginx
3 6 (1.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (1.48%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.74%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.74%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.49%) Apache
7 2 (0.49%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.49%) CMS
7 2 (0.49%) Traefik
8 1 (0.25%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.25%) Kentico
8 1 (0.25%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (1.48%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.25%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (2.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.73%) SAP PM
4 4 (0.99%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.49%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 172 (42.47%) Azure
2 109 (26.91%) AWS
3 87 (21.48%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (9.88%) Serverless
5 32 (7.90%) GitHub
6 31 (7.65%) Amazon EC2
7 25 (6.17%) GCP
8 23 (5.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 21 (5.19%) Amazon S3
10 18 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
10 18 (4.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 14 (3.46%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (2.72%) Kong
12 11 (2.72%) Route 53
12 11 (2.72%) SaaS
13 10 (2.47%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (2.47%) Amazon ELB
13 10 (2.47%) Apigee
14 9 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
14 9 (2.22%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 55 (13.58%) Firewall
2 37 (9.14%) VPN
3 12 (2.96%) BGP
3 12 (2.96%) Cisco ASA
3 12 (2.96%) Cisco Firepower
3 12 (2.96%) Cisco ISE
3 12 (2.96%) DNS
3 12 (2.96%) EIGRP
3 12 (2.96%) HSRP
3 12 (2.96%) IPsec
3 12 (2.96%) NetScaler
3 12 (2.96%) Network Security
3 12 (2.96%) OSPF
3 12 (2.96%) SNMP
3 12 (2.96%) Spanning Tree
3 12 (2.96%) Wi-Fi
4 9 (2.22%) HTTP
4 9 (2.22%) SSL
5 8 (1.98%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.74%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (7.16%) Relational Database
3 25 (6.17%) NoSQL
4 24 (5.93%) MongoDB
5 22 (5.43%) SQL Server
6 13 (3.21%) MySQL
7 11 (2.72%) RDBMS
8 10 (2.47%) DynamoDB
8 10 (2.47%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (2.47%) Oracle Reports
9 9 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
10 8 (1.98%) Data Lake
11 7 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (1.73%) Redis
12 6 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (1.48%) GIS
13 5 (1.23%) InterSystems Cache
13 5 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (1.23%) Tableau
14 4 (0.99%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 66 (16.30%) Git
2 51 (12.59%) Jenkins
3 49 (12.10%) JIRA
4 45 (11.11%) GitLab
5 13 (3.21%) JUnit
6 11 (2.72%) SonarQube
7 9 (2.22%) Selenium
8 8 (1.98%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 7 (1.73%) CircleCI
9 7 (1.73%) Travis CI
10 5 (1.23%) Burp Suite
10 5 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (1.23%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (0.99%) AppScan
12 3 (0.74%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.74%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.74%) webpack
13 2 (0.49%) Maven
13 2 (0.49%) Subversion
General
1 60 (14.81%) Social Skills
2 55 (13.58%) Public Sector
3 53 (13.09%) Finance
4 22 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (4.44%) Retail
6 17 (4.20%) Banking
7 10 (2.47%) Legal
8 5 (1.23%) Marketing
9 4 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.74%) Law
11 2 (0.49%) Local Government
11 2 (0.49%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.25%) Automotive
12 1 (0.25%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.25%) Military
12 1 (0.25%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.25%) Public Speaking
12 1 (0.25%) Retail Finance
12 1 (0.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 91 (22.47%) DevOps Engineer
2 79 (19.51%) Architect
3 62 (15.31%) Lead
4 58 (14.32%) Developer
5 35 (8.64%) Technical Architect
6 33 (8.15%) Senior
7 29 (7.16%) Technical Leader
8 28 (6.91%) Lead Architect
9 26 (6.42%) AWS DevOps
9 26 (6.42%) Solutions Architect
10 24 (5.93%) Azure Engineer
11 19 (4.69%) AWS Engineer
12 18 (4.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 17 (4.20%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 16 (3.95%) Analyst
14 16 (3.95%) DBA
15 14 (3.46%) Java Developer
15 14 (3.46%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 12 (2.96%) Network Engineer
16 12 (2.96%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (10.62%) Node.js
2 31 (7.65%) Kafka
3 25 (6.17%) REST
4 23 (5.68%) React
5 21 (5.19%) .NET
6 20 (4.94%) Spring
7 19 (4.69%) JSON
7 19 (4.69%) Spring Boot
8 18 (4.44%) XML
9 15 (3.70%) JPA
10 12 (2.96%) Hibernate
10 12 (2.96%) HTML
10 12 (2.96%) Jinja
11 11 (2.72%) Elastic Stack
12 10 (2.47%) CSS
13 9 (2.22%) AngularJS
14 8 (1.98%) .NET Core
14 8 (1.98%) .NET Framework
14 8 (1.98%) SOAP
14 8 (1.98%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (10.86%) Public Cloud
2 23 (5.68%) Product Ownership
3 12 (2.96%) Mobile App
4 9 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (1.73%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (1.48%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.48%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (0.99%) Data Centre
9 4 (0.99%) DataPower
9 4 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (0.99%) Management Information System
9 4 (0.99%) PKI
9 4 (0.99%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.74%) Cloud Native
10 3 (0.74%) CMDB
10 3 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 48 (11.85%) Windows
2 43 (10.62%) Linux
3 35 (8.64%) Android
3 35 (8.64%) Apple iOS
4 33 (8.15%) Windows Server
5 15 (3.70%) Unix
6 8 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.48%) CentOS
8 2 (0.49%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (46.42%) Agile
2 178 (43.95%) CI/CD
3 65 (16.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 62 (15.31%) Containerisation
5 60 (14.81%) Microservices
5 60 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
6 54 (13.33%) Design Patterns
6 54 (13.33%) Scrum
7 52 (12.84%) Continuous Integration
8 46 (11.36%) Risk Management
9 43 (10.62%) ITIL
10 36 (8.89%) Migration
11 34 (8.40%) Test Automation
12 32 (7.90%) Mentoring
12 32 (7.90%) Mobile Device Management
13 31 (7.65%) Security Architecture
13 31 (7.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 31 (7.65%) Stakeholder Management
14 30 (7.41%) Zero Trust
15 29 (7.16%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 100 (24.69%) Python
2 44 (10.86%) Bash
3 41 (10.12%) Java
4 33 (8.15%) PowerShell
5 31 (7.65%) SQL
6 24 (5.93%) C#
7 23 (5.68%) Go
7 23 (5.68%) JavaScript
8 21 (5.19%) TypeScript
9 18 (4.44%) Perl
10 13 (3.21%) Ruby
11 12 (2.96%) Tcl
12 8 (1.98%) Scala
13 7 (1.73%) Shell Script
14 6 (1.48%) Groovy
15 5 (1.23%) PHP
15 5 (1.23%) Search Processing Language
16 4 (0.99%) Bicep
17 3 (0.74%) C
18 2 (0.49%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 95 (23.46%) Security Cleared
2 89 (21.98%) SC Cleared
3 35 (8.64%) Degree
4 14 (3.46%) DV Cleared
5 12 (2.96%) CCNA
5 12 (2.96%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (2.72%) CCNP
7 9 (2.22%) AWS Certification
7 9 (2.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.99%) CBAP
10 3 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.49%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.25%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.25%) MCP
12 1 (0.25%) MCSE
12 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.67%) QA
2 5 (1.23%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.74%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.74%) GDPR
3 3 (0.74%) ISO 22301
3 3 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.74%) NIST
3 3 (0.74%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.49%) NCSC
4 2 (0.49%) SLA
5 1 (0.25%) GRC
5 1 (0.25%) PMO
System Software
1 79 (19.51%) Docker
2 12 (2.96%) Active Directory
2 12 (2.96%) Firmware
3 4 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.74%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.49%) HDFS
5 2 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 100 (24.69%) Terraform
2 99 (24.44%) Kubernetes
3 65 (16.05%) Ansible
4 27 (6.67%) Prometheus
5 22 (5.43%) Grafana
6 20 (4.94%) Puppet
7 15 (3.70%) Progress Chef
8 11 (2.72%) HP Fortify
9 10 (2.47%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (1.98%) Docker Swarm
11 6 (1.48%) Kibana
11 6 (1.48%) logstash
11 6 (1.48%) Packer
12 5 (1.23%) Istio
13 4 (0.99%) Graylog
13 4 (0.99%) Nessus
13 4 (0.99%) Rancher
13 4 (0.99%) WebInspect
14 3 (0.74%) CFEngine
14 3 (0.74%) PowerBroker
Vendors
1 46 (11.36%) Microsoft
2 33 (8.15%) Oracle
3 25 (6.17%) Splunk
4 14 (3.46%) EMC
5 12 (2.96%) Cisco
5 12 (2.96%) Citrix
5 12 (2.96%) Palo Alto
5 12 (2.96%) ServiceNow
5 12 (2.96%) SolarWinds
6 11 (2.72%) SAP
7 10 (2.47%) IBM
8 9 (2.22%) Google
9 8 (1.98%) VMware
10 7 (1.73%) Salesforce
11 6 (1.48%) Atlassian
11 6 (1.48%) F5
11 6 (1.48%) PagerDuty
11 6 (1.48%) Solace
12 5 (1.23%) Apple
13 4 (0.99%) Cadence