Lead DevOps Contracts in the North of England

Lead Development Operations
England > North of England

The median Lead Development Operations daily rate in the North of England is £565, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 180 205
Rank change year-on-year +23 +25 +17
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 9 5 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.27% 0.10% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.11% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 7
10th Percentile £490 £578 £500
25th Percentile £511 £600 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -9.60% -3.85% -4.41%
75th Percentile £588 £653 £694
90th Percentile £636 £681 £700
England median daily rate £575 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -8.00% -3.85% -

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 3,078 4,441 5,553
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.14% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,038 2,789 3,920
10th Percentile £230 £263 £285
25th Percentile £364 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £646 £673 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 394 162
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.02 £13.96
25th Percentile £16.16 £12.53 £18.82
Median hourly rate £24.50 £19.34 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +26.68% -36.67% +65.08%
75th Percentile £49.38 £45.97 £49.40
90th Percentile £80.22 £60.00 £65.68
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Lead DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps in the North of England

Lead DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Lead DevOps in the North of England

Lead DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Lead DevOps in the North of England

Lead 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 Lead 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
Yorkshire +8 5 £575 -8.00% 2
North East - 4 £545 -
North West - 1 £575 - 2
Lead DevOps
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Lead DevOps 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 in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (77.78%) Terraform
2 7 (77.78%) GitLab
2 7 (77.78%) Kubernetes
2 7 (77.78%) AWS
3 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
4 4 (44.44%) Public Sector
4 4 (44.44%) Linux
4 4 (44.44%) Python
5 3 (33.33%) SAP
5 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (33.33%) Electronics
5 3 (33.33%) Telecoms
5 3 (33.33%) Finance
5 3 (33.33%) Manufacturing
5 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
5 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
5 3 (33.33%) Programme Management
5 3 (33.33%) Agile
5 3 (33.33%) Marketing
5 3 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
5 3 (33.33%) Kong
5 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (22.22%) Azure
6 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
6 2 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (22.22%) Grafana
6 2 (22.22%) The Twelve-Factor App
6 2 (22.22%) Prometheus

Lead DevOps 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) nginx
1 1 (11.11%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) Kong
3 2 (22.22%) Azure
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 1 (11.11%) GCP
4 1 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) Selenium
General
1 4 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 3 (33.33%) Electronics
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 3 (33.33%) Marketing
2 3 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) ARM Templates
1 1 (11.11%) cloud-init
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
1 1 (11.11%) Keycloak
1 1 (11.11%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 1 (11.11%) NHS
1 1 (11.11%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (11.11%) CentOS
3 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) Programme Management
4 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
4 2 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (22.22%) Microservices
4 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (22.22%) The Twelve-Factor App
5 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security
5 1 (11.11%) Critical Thinking
5 1 (11.11%) End-to-End Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (11.11%) Observability
5 1 (11.11%) Test Assurance
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) Bash
2 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) Bicep
3 1 (11.11%) Go
3 1 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 1 (11.11%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) NCSC
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Kubernetes
1 7 (77.78%) Terraform
2 2 (22.22%) Grafana
2 2 (22.22%) Prometheus
3 1 (11.11%) Ansible
3 1 (11.11%) Consul
3 1 (11.11%) HAProxy
3 1 (11.11%) Istio
3 1 (11.11%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (11.11%) linkerd
3 1 (11.11%) Packer
3 1 (11.11%) Rancher
3 1 (11.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (11.11%) Apple
2 1 (11.11%) ESET
2 1 (11.11%) Okta
2 1 (11.11%) Splunk