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 29 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 11 14
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 425 448 493
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 10.86% 10.33% 9.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.22% 12.30% 10.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 309 383
10th Percentile £337 £381 £413
25th Percentile £393 £444 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.83% -6.33% +3.77%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £638
90th Percentile £625 £702 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 10
10th Percentile £70.25 £45.97 £39.42
25th Percentile £74.38 £46.11 -
Median hourly rate £82.50 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +78.65% - -38.43%
75th Percentile £89.38 - -
90th Percentile £92.75 - £46.76
England median hourly rate £67.00 £70.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -4.29% +6.87% +0.38%

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 3,477 3,641 4,801
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.81% 83.93% 89.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,220 2,209 3,232
10th Percentile £268 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% - -
75th Percentile £551 £585 £600
90th Percentile £650 £670 £688
England median daily rate £512 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.48% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 277 209
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £15.74
25th Percentile £17.46 £13.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £22.58 £22.88 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year -1.31% -18.25% +39.90%
75th Percentile £43.39 £47.50 £44.00
90th Percentile £72.29 £68.80 £55.96
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +63.46%

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 29 July 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
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 29 July 2025.

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 29 July 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 -2 216 £490 -2.00% 160
North West -1 196 £475 -13.64% 324
North East -11 15 £523 -19.62% 55
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 38 (8.94%) Confluence
2 15 (3.53%) Apache Spark
3 13 (3.06%) CICS
4 9 (2.12%) Apache
4 9 (2.12%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (2.12%) JBoss
4 9 (2.12%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.65%) CMS
5 7 (1.65%) WebSphere
6 6 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (1.18%) nginx
7 5 (1.18%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.94%) WebSphere Application Server
9 3 (0.71%) Mule
10 2 (0.47%) IIS
10 2 (0.47%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.24%) Liferay
11 1 (0.24%) Tuxedo
11 1 (0.24%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.47%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.18%) VisionPLUS
2 4 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.47%) Maximo
3 2 (0.47%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.24%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.24%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.24%) SAP MRS
4 1 (0.24%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 152 (35.76%) AWS
2 128 (30.12%) Azure
3 64 (15.06%) Azure DevOps
4 59 (13.88%) GCP
5 49 (11.53%) Serverless
6 41 (9.65%) GitHub
7 24 (5.65%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (5.41%) Amazon S3
9 20 (4.71%) Amazon EKS
9 20 (4.71%) AWS CloudFormation
9 20 (4.71%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (4.47%) SaaS
11 18 (4.24%) Microsoft 365
12 17 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 17 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
13 16 (3.76%) Azure AKS
14 15 (3.53%) Entra ID
15 13 (3.06%) OpenShift
16 12 (2.82%) Amazon SQS
17 11 (2.59%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.12%) Firewall
2 20 (4.71%) TCP/IP
3 14 (3.29%) DNS
4 13 (3.06%) DHCP
5 5 (1.18%) SSL
6 4 (0.94%) Calico
7 3 (0.71%) DMZ
7 3 (0.71%) VPN
8 2 (0.47%) HTTP
8 2 (0.47%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.47%) Network Security
8 2 (0.47%) SAN
9 1 (0.24%) SNA
9 1 (0.24%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (8.71%) NoSQL
1 37 (8.71%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (7.76%) MongoDB
2 33 (7.76%) Relational Database
3 28 (6.59%) SQL Server
4 20 (4.71%) RDBMS
5 14 (3.29%) DynamoDB
6 11 (2.59%) Oracle Database
7 9 (2.12%) MySQL
8 8 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (1.88%) Data Lake
8 8 (1.88%) Flink
8 8 (1.88%) Oracle Reports
9 7 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (1.65%) Power BI
10 6 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (1.18%) BigQuery
11 5 (1.18%) DB2
12 4 (0.94%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 112 (26.35%) Jenkins
2 82 (19.29%) Git
3 75 (17.65%) JIRA
4 60 (14.12%) GitLab
5 20 (4.71%) JUnit
5 20 (4.71%) Selenium
6 19 (4.47%) Liquibase
6 19 (4.47%) SonarQube
7 17 (4.00%) Gradle
8 16 (3.76%) Sonatype Nexus
9 15 (3.53%) Postman
10 14 (3.29%) Maven
11 13 (3.06%) Mockito
12 9 (2.12%) Cucumber
12 9 (2.12%) TeamCity
13 7 (1.65%) Bitbucket
13 7 (1.65%) Bitbucket Server
13 7 (1.65%) CA Release Automation
14 5 (1.18%) IntelliJ
14 5 (1.18%) TestNG
General
1 113 (26.59%) Social Skills
2 90 (21.18%) Finance
3 55 (12.94%) Public Sector
4 51 (12.00%) Banking
5 41 (9.65%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (3.76%) Retail
7 14 (3.29%) Manufacturing
8 10 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (2.35%) Electronics
8 10 (2.35%) Marketing
8 10 (2.35%) Telecoms
9 7 (1.65%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.18%) Military
12 4 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.94%) Legal
12 4 (0.94%) Publishing
13 3 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.47%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.47%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 75 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
2 69 (16.24%) Developer
3 48 (11.29%) Senior
4 40 (9.41%) Architect
5 31 (7.29%) AWS DevOps
6 29 (6.82%) AWS Engineer
6 29 (6.82%) Lead
7 25 (5.88%) Software Engineer
8 24 (5.65%) Analyst
9 22 (5.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 20 (4.71%) Business Analyst
11 17 (4.00%) Automation Engineer
12 12 (2.82%) Java Developer
12 12 (2.82%) Platform Engineer
12 12 (2.82%) Windows Engineer
13 11 (2.59%) Azure Engineer
13 11 (2.59%) Cloud Engineer
13 11 (2.59%) Senior DevOps
13 11 (2.59%) Solutions Architect
14 10 (2.35%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (10.82%) Kafka
2 33 (7.76%) .NET
3 30 (7.06%) React
3 30 (7.06%) RESTful
4 27 (6.35%) Spring Boot
5 26 (6.12%) JSON
6 25 (5.88%) Node.js
7 22 (5.18%) REST
8 21 (4.94%) Elastic Stack
9 17 (4.00%) Spring
10 15 (3.53%) Swagger
11 13 (3.06%) OAuth
11 13 (3.06%) OpenAPI
12 12 (2.82%) HTML
12 12 (2.82%) XML
13 11 (2.59%) CSS
14 9 (2.12%) .NET Core
15 8 (1.88%) OpenID
15 8 (1.88%) SAML
15 8 (1.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 40 (9.41%) Cloud Native
2 19 (4.47%) Onboarding
3 17 (4.00%) Mainframe
3 17 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.29%) Mobile App
5 10 (2.35%) Public Cloud
5 10 (2.35%) VSAM
6 8 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.65%) NHS
8 6 (1.41%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.18%) Data Centre
10 4 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.94%) IBM Mainframe
10 4 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.94%) Replication
11 3 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.71%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 58 (13.65%) Linux
2 36 (8.47%) Windows
3 23 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (3.29%) Unix
4 14 (3.29%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.65%) Android
5 7 (1.65%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.65%) Solaris
6 6 (1.41%) VMS
6 6 (1.41%) zOS
7 4 (0.94%) AIX
8 3 (0.71%) HPUX
8 3 (0.71%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.24%) CentOS
9 1 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.24%) SUSE
9 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (46.59%) CI/CD
2 197 (46.35%) Agile
3 80 (18.82%) Microservices
4 73 (17.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 65 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
6 60 (14.12%) Software Engineering
7 57 (13.41%) Containerisation
8 51 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 50 (11.76%) Test Automation
10 46 (10.82%) Continuous Integration
11 45 (10.59%) Migration
12 41 (9.65%) Scrum
13 40 (9.41%) Configuration Management
14 36 (8.47%) TDD
15 35 (8.24%) Continuous Improvement
16 32 (7.53%) Change Management
17 31 (7.29%) Code Quality
17 31 (7.29%) ITIL
17 31 (7.29%) SDLC
18 29 (6.82%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 133 (31.29%) Python
2 78 (18.35%) Java
3 76 (17.88%) SQL
4 32 (7.53%) Bash
4 32 (7.53%) JavaScript
5 27 (6.35%) Shell Script
6 26 (6.12%) TypeScript
7 23 (5.41%) C#
8 20 (4.71%) PowerShell
9 14 (3.29%) Go
9 14 (3.29%) Perl
10 12 (2.82%) Kotlin
11 11 (2.59%) JCL
12 10 (2.35%) COBOL
13 7 (1.65%) REXX
14 6 (1.41%) Groovy
14 6 (1.41%) Objective-C
14 6 (1.41%) Swift
15 5 (1.18%) Bicep
15 5 (1.18%) CLIST
Qualifications
1 65 (15.29%) Security Cleared
2 59 (13.88%) SC Cleared
3 24 (5.65%) Degree
4 12 (2.82%) AWS Certification
4 12 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (2.12%) ITIL Certification
6 8 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.88%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.65%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.94%) PMI Certification
8 4 (0.94%) PMP
9 3 (0.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (0.71%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.47%) CTC Cleared
10 2 (0.47%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.47%) IBM Certification
10 2 (0.47%) Postgraduate
10 2 (0.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (8.71%) QA
2 5 (1.18%) Accessibility
2 5 (1.18%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.18%) GDPR
2 5 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (1.18%) NIST
3 4 (0.94%) SEPA
3 4 (0.94%) WCAG
4 3 (0.71%) NCSC
4 3 (0.71%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.47%) PMO
6 1 (0.24%) COBIT
6 1 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.24%) HL7
6 1 (0.24%) SLA
6 1 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 79 (18.59%) Docker
2 26 (6.12%) Active Directory
3 16 (3.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.41%) Oracle RAC
4 6 (1.41%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 5 (1.18%) Time Sharing Option
5 5 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.24%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 110 (25.88%) Kubernetes
2 106 (24.94%) Terraform
3 82 (19.29%) Ansible
4 21 (4.94%) Puppet
5 19 (4.47%) Grafana
5 19 (4.47%) Prometheus
6 17 (4.00%) Progress Chef
7 11 (2.59%) Kibana
8 8 (1.88%) Microsoft Clustering
8 8 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (1.65%) CA Endevor
9 7 (1.65%) WSUS
10 6 (1.41%) Data Guard
10 6 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (1.18%) OMEGAMON
11 5 (1.18%) SCCM
11 5 (1.18%) yum
12 4 (0.94%) Control-M
12 4 (0.94%) Istio
12 4 (0.94%) Packer
Vendors
1 73 (17.18%) Microsoft
2 33 (7.76%) VMware
3 30 (7.06%) Splunk
4 29 (6.82%) Oracle
5 18 (4.24%) Google
5 18 (4.24%) ServiceNow
6 17 (4.00%) IBM
6 17 (4.00%) MuleSoft
6 17 (4.00%) Red Hat
7 16 (3.76%) SAP
8 14 (3.29%) AppDynamics
9 10 (2.35%) Databricks
10 9 (2.12%) Cloudera
10 9 (2.12%) Dynatrace
11 8 (1.88%) Alibaba
12 5 (1.18%) Fortinet
12 5 (1.18%) Infoblox
12 5 (1.18%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.94%) Dell
14 3 (0.71%) Brio