Senior DevOps Contracts in the North of England

Senior Development Operations
England > North of England

The median Senior Development Operations daily rate in the North of England is £590, 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 140 173 199
Rank change year-on-year +33 +26 +25
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 26 12 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.79% 0.25% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.84% 0.27% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 10 15
10th Percentile £473 £513 £589
25th Percentile £525 £550 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £663 £650
Median % change year-on-year -10.94% +1.92% +18.18%
75th Percentile £738 £750 £700
90th Percentile £750 - £790
England median daily rate £635 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +5.83% -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 3,078 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
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps in the North of England

Senior DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior DevOps in the North of England

Senior DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior DevOps in the North of England

Senior 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 Senior 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 - 13 £688 - 3
North West +12 7 £663 - 6
North East - 7 £570 -
Senior DevOps
England

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

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

1 26 (100.00%) DevOps
2 24 (92.31%) Terraform
3 22 (84.62%) GitLab
3 22 (84.62%) AWS
4 21 (80.77%) Python
5 20 (76.92%) Linux
5 20 (76.92%) CI/CD
6 18 (69.23%) Jenkins
6 18 (69.23%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (69.23%) Security Cleared
7 17 (65.38%) Bash
7 17 (65.38%) Kubernetes
8 16 (61.54%) Packer
8 16 (61.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 16 (61.54%) SC Cleared
9 15 (57.69%) CentOS
9 15 (57.69%) Unix
9 15 (57.69%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (57.69%) Go
9 15 (57.69%) cloud-init
10 13 (50.00%) Grafana
10 13 (50.00%) Prometheus
10 13 (50.00%) Public Sector
11 11 (42.31%) Continuous Integration
12 10 (38.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (34.62%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (34.62%) MongoDB
14 8 (30.77%) Splunk
14 8 (30.77%) ZABBIX
14 8 (30.77%) nginx

Senior 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 8 (30.77%) nginx
2 6 (23.08%) Traefik
3 1 (3.85%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 22 (84.62%) AWS
2 15 (57.69%) AWS CloudFormation
3 10 (38.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 9 (34.62%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (30.77%) AWS Fargate
5 8 (30.77%) Entra ID
5 8 (30.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 6 (23.08%) Azure
7 3 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (30.77%) DNS
1 8 (30.77%) TCP/IP
2 2 (7.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (34.62%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (84.62%) GitLab
2 18 (69.23%) Jenkins
3 3 (11.54%) Git
4 2 (7.69%) Selenium
5 1 (3.85%) JIRA
5 1 (3.85%) Maven
5 1 (3.85%) Subversion
General
1 13 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (15.38%) Military
3 3 (11.54%) Finance
4 1 (3.85%) Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Electronics
4 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.85%) Marketing
4 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (57.69%) cloud-init
2 8 (30.77%) Kafka
2 8 (30.77%) Keycloak
3 2 (7.69%) pytest
3 2 (7.69%) REST
3 2 (7.69%) SOAP
4 1 (3.85%) ARM Templates
4 1 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.85%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) PKI
2 1 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 20 (76.92%) Linux
2 16 (61.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (57.69%) CentOS
3 15 (57.69%) Unix
4 1 (3.85%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (3.85%) Mac OS
4 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) DevOps
2 20 (76.92%) CI/CD
3 18 (69.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (42.31%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (30.77%) Agile
5 8 (30.77%) Cloud Security
5 8 (30.77%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 8 (30.77%) Identity Management
5 8 (30.77%) Observability
5 8 (30.77%) Secrets Management
5 8 (30.77%) Static Application Security Testing
6 6 (23.08%) Mobile Device Management
7 3 (11.54%) Microservices
7 3 (11.54%) Platform Engineering
8 2 (7.69%) Service Delivery
8 2 (7.69%) Strategic Thinking
8 2 (7.69%) The Twelve-Factor App
9 1 (3.85%) ITSM
9 1 (3.85%) Risk Management
9 1 (3.85%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (80.77%) Python
2 17 (65.38%) Bash
3 15 (57.69%) Go
4 2 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.85%) Java
5 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (69.23%) Security Cleared
2 16 (61.54%) SC Cleared
3 8 (30.77%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (30.77%) NCSC
2 1 (3.85%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (23.08%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (92.31%) Terraform
2 17 (65.38%) Kubernetes
3 16 (61.54%) Packer
4 13 (50.00%) Grafana
4 13 (50.00%) Prometheus
5 8 (30.77%) Consul
5 8 (30.77%) Istio
5 8 (30.77%) Jamf Pro
5 8 (30.77%) linkerd
5 8 (30.77%) Rancher
5 8 (30.77%) ZABBIX
6 6 (23.08%) HAProxy
7 4 (15.38%) Ansible
8 1 (3.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (3.85%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (3.85%) Graylog
8 1 (3.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) Okta
1 8 (30.77%) Splunk
2 6 (23.08%) Apple
2 6 (23.08%) ESET
3 1 (3.85%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle
3 1 (3.85%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.85%) SAP