Lead DevOps Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Lead Development Operations Engineer
England > North of England

The median Lead Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £545, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 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
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 182 208
Rank change year-on-year +30 +26 +40
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps Engineer 10 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.30% 0.022% 0.089%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.023% 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 2
10th Percentile £485 - £633
25th Percentile £506 - £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 - £675
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.59%
75th Percentile £576 - £694
90th Percentile £588 - £698
England median daily rate £565 £650 £700
% change year-on-year -13.08% -7.14% +7.69%

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 3,093 4,298 5,373
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.30% 93.19% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,042 2,705 3,761
10th Percentile £231 £263 £280
25th Percentile £369 £388 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £484 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.90% -3.30% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £688
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 401 158
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £14.18
25th Percentile £16.25 £12.53 £17.85
Median hourly rate £24.50 £20.77 £29.65
Median % change year-on-year +17.96% -29.95% +55.68%
75th Percentile £48.75 £46.18 £49.30
90th Percentile £76.50 £62.50 £66.21
England median hourly rate £29.15 £37.18 £44.77
% change year-on-year -21.60% -16.94% +94.63%

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Lead DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in the North of England

Lead DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in the North of England

Lead 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 Lead DevOps Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 21 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 5 £575 - 7
North East - 4 £545 -
North West - 2 £513 -
Lead DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 May 2025, Lead 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 Lead DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (90.00%) Terraform
2 9 (90.00%) Kubernetes
3 8 (80.00%) GitLab
3 8 (80.00%) AWS
3 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (60.00%) Python
5 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
5 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
5 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (40.00%) Prometheus
6 4 (40.00%) Ansible
6 4 (40.00%) Docker
7 3 (30.00%) GitHub
7 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
7 3 (30.00%) AWS Certification
7 3 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (30.00%) Digital Marketing
7 3 (30.00%) Marketing
7 3 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (30.00%) Programme Management
7 3 (30.00%) Electronics
7 3 (30.00%) Telecoms
7 3 (30.00%) Finance
7 3 (30.00%) Manufacturing
7 3 (30.00%) SAP
7 3 (30.00%) Linux
7 3 (30.00%) DNS
7 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence

Lead 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 3 (30.00%) AWS KMS
2 3 (30.00%) GitHub
2 3 (30.00%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (30.00%) Kong
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon Macie
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudTrail
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Direct Connect
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Serverless
3 2 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) DNS
2 2 (20.00%) Firewall
2 2 (20.00%) Network Security
2 2 (20.00%) SSL
2 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (20.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (80.00%) GitLab
2 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (20.00%) Git
4 1 (10.00%) Selenium
General
1 3 (30.00%) Electronics
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
1 3 (30.00%) Manufacturing
1 3 (30.00%) Marketing
1 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (30.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (10.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (10.00%) pytest
2 1 (10.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (30.00%) Cost Optimisation
5 3 (30.00%) DevSecOps
5 3 (30.00%) Digital Marketing
5 3 (30.00%) FinOps
5 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (30.00%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (30.00%) Programme Management
6 2 (20.00%) Agile
6 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
6 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 2 (20.00%) Incident Response
6 2 (20.00%) Network Load Balancing
6 2 (20.00%) Release Management
6 2 (20.00%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) Bash
2 2 (20.00%) Bicep
2 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) GDPR
1 3 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (30.00%) NIST
1 3 (30.00%) SOC 2
2 2 (20.00%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (90.00%) Kubernetes
1 9 (90.00%) Terraform
2 4 (40.00%) Ansible
2 4 (40.00%) Prometheus
3 3 (30.00%) Grafana
4 2 (20.00%) Kustomize
4 2 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) SAP
2 2 (20.00%) Splunk