Senior DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends 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 £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 September 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 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 165 181
Rank change year-on-year -9 +16 +47
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 8 7 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.20% 0.17% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.18% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 11
10th Percentile £430 £653 £581
25th Percentile £481 £656 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £663 £700
Median % change year-on-year -24.53% -5.36% +20.69%
75th Percentile £556 £669 -
90th Percentile £631 £673 £850
England median daily rate £600 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -3.70%

All DemandTrendContract 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 3,688 3,879 4,752
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.62% 92.93% 94.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,404 2,303 3,212
10th Percentile £251 £285 £263
25th Percentile £369 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £550 £585 £600
90th Percentile £640 £675 £675
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 272 200
10th Percentile £13.00 £12.15 £15.72
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.58 £17.65
Median hourly rate £22.45 £29.39 £26.64
Median % change year-on-year -23.62% +10.30% +32.34%
75th Percentile £49.28 £48.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £75.79 £69.65 £56.02
England median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year -44.11% +2.86% +68.27%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancies 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 September 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 September 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 - 5 £500 - 4
North West -9 3 £470 -29.06% 8
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 September 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 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (87.50%) Ansible
2 7 (87.50%) AWS
3 6 (75.00%) Terraform
4 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
4 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
4 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
4 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
5 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
6 3 (37.50%) Docker
6 3 (37.50%) Git
6 3 (37.50%) Azure
6 3 (37.50%) GitLab
7 2 (25.00%) GCP
7 2 (25.00%) Grafana
7 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
7 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
7 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
7 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
8 1 (12.50%) DNS
8 1 (12.50%) SSL
8 1 (12.50%) IBM
8 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
8 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
8 1 (12.50%) Citrix
8 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
8 1 (12.50%) Middleware

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 1 (12.50%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (25.00%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) SSL
2 1 (12.50%) VLAN
2 1 (12.50%) VoIP
2 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (37.50%) Git
2 3 (37.50%) GitLab
3 1 (12.50%) Subversion
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Military
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Clustering
1 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (12.50%) IBM XIV
1 1 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (12.50%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) Coaching
4 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
4 1 (12.50%) Observability
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Security Hardening
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) Ansible
2 6 (75.00%) Terraform
3 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
4 2 (25.00%) Grafana
4 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (12.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Citrix
1 1 (12.50%) Databricks
1 1 (12.50%) IBM
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
1 1 (12.50%) Splunk
1 1 (12.50%) VMware