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 £575, 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 146 177 202
Rank change year-on-year +31 +25 +23
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 20 8 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.61% 0.17% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.18% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 6 14
10th Percentile £470 £513 £608
25th Percentile £513 £522 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -11.11% +27.36%
75th Percentile £738 £650 £700
90th Percentile £748 £663 £805
England median daily rate £635 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -2.31% - +4.00%

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%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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 - 11 £675 - 3
North West +15 6 £575 -4.17% 6
North East - 4 £538 -
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 1 May 2025, 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 20 (100.00%) DevOps
2 18 (90.00%) Terraform
3 17 (85.00%) Python
4 16 (80.00%) Linux
4 16 (80.00%) AWS
4 16 (80.00%) GitLab
4 16 (80.00%) CI/CD
5 14 (70.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (70.00%) Jenkins
6 13 (65.00%) Bash
7 12 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (60.00%) Security Cleared
7 12 (60.00%) Kubernetes
7 12 (60.00%) Packer
8 11 (55.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (55.00%) cloud-init
8 11 (55.00%) SC Cleared
8 11 (55.00%) CentOS
8 11 (55.00%) Go
8 11 (55.00%) Unix
9 10 (50.00%) Public Sector
10 8 (40.00%) Prometheus
10 8 (40.00%) Grafana
11 7 (35.00%) Agile
11 7 (35.00%) Continuous Integration
12 6 (30.00%) MongoDB
12 6 (30.00%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (25.00%) NCSC
13 5 (25.00%) Observability
13 5 (25.00%) Secrets Management

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 (15.00%) nginx
1 3 (15.00%) Traefik
2 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 16 (80.00%) AWS
2 11 (55.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (30.00%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
4 5 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 5 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (20.00%) Azure
6 3 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (25.00%) DNS
1 5 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (80.00%) GitLab
2 14 (70.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (15.00%) Git
4 2 (10.00%) Selenium
5 1 (5.00%) JIRA
5 1 (5.00%) Maven
5 1 (5.00%) Subversion
General
1 10 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (20.00%) Military
3 3 (15.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Electronics
4 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.00%) Marketing
4 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (55.00%) cloud-init
2 5 (25.00%) Kafka
2 5 (25.00%) Keycloak
3 2 (10.00%) pytest
4 1 (5.00%) ARM Templates
4 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (5.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) PKI
2 1 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 16 (80.00%) Linux
2 12 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (55.00%) CentOS
3 11 (55.00%) Unix
4 1 (5.00%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (5.00%) Mac OS
4 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) DevOps
2 16 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 14 (70.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (35.00%) Agile
4 7 (35.00%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (25.00%) Cloud Security
5 5 (25.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 5 (25.00%) Identity Management
5 5 (25.00%) Observability
5 5 (25.00%) Secrets Management
5 5 (25.00%) Static Application Security Testing
6 3 (15.00%) Microservices
6 3 (15.00%) Mobile Device Management
6 3 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (10.00%) Service Delivery
7 2 (10.00%) The Twelve-Factor App
8 1 (5.00%) ITSM
8 1 (5.00%) Programme Management
8 1 (5.00%) Risk Management
8 1 (5.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 17 (85.00%) Python
2 13 (65.00%) Bash
3 11 (55.00%) Go
4 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.00%) Java
5 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (55.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (25.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (90.00%) Terraform
2 12 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 12 (60.00%) Packer
3 8 (40.00%) Grafana
3 8 (40.00%) Prometheus
4 5 (25.00%) Consul
4 5 (25.00%) Istio
4 5 (25.00%) Jamf Pro
4 5 (25.00%) linkerd
4 5 (25.00%) Rancher
4 5 (25.00%) ZABBIX
5 4 (20.00%) Ansible
6 3 (15.00%) HAProxy
7 1 (5.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (5.00%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (5.00%) Graylog
7 1 (5.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Okta
1 5 (25.00%) Splunk
2 3 (15.00%) Apple
2 3 (15.00%) ESET
3 1 (5.00%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.00%) SAP