Senior DevOps Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Senior Development Operations Engineer
England > North of England

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 181 198 236
Rank change year-on-year +17 +38 -61
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 8 18 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.17% 0.31% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.32% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 8
10th Percentile £513 £608 £400
25th Percentile £522 £625 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £530
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +27.36% +6.00%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £589
90th Percentile £663 £805 £683
England median daily rate £650 £650 £625
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +13.64%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 4,455 5,556 6,967
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.06% 95.15% 97.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,796 3,917 5,115
10th Percentile £263 £284 £200
25th Percentile £381 £410 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £592 £550
90th Percentile £672 £677 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 395 167 297
10th Percentile £11.03 £13.77 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.70 £14.25
Median hourly rate £20.00 £30.54 £18.69
Median % change year-on-year -34.51% +63.45% +3.15%
75th Percentile £46.18 £49.19 £31.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £65.30 £50.31
England median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

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

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

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

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

Senior DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior DevOps Engineer in the North of England

Senior 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 Senior DevOps Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 26 April 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 +19 8 £600 -6.80% 2
Senior DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Senior 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 Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) Python
3 4 (50.00%) Migration
3 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 4 (50.00%) AWS
3 4 (50.00%) Go
3 4 (50.00%) Product Ownership
3 4 (50.00%) Terraform
3 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
4 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (37.50%) Docker
4 3 (37.50%) Bash
4 3 (37.50%) Confluence
4 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Management
4 3 (37.50%) Data Migration
5 2 (25.00%) Git
5 2 (25.00%) Identity Management
5 2 (25.00%) Atlassian
5 2 (25.00%) Network Security
5 2 (25.00%) Agile
5 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
5 2 (25.00%) GCP
5 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer

Senior 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
3 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) GCP
5 1 (12.50%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (37.50%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (50.00%) Migration
3 3 (37.50%) Data Migration
3 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
4 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (25.00%) Identity Management
4 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Cost Optimisation
5 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps
5 1 (12.50%) GitOps
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
5 1 (12.50%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) Go
2 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (37.50%) Bash
4 1 (12.50%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) MCSE
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
1 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (12.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Atlassian