DevOps Engineer Contracts in the North West

Development Operations Engineer
England > North West

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the North West is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 76 58
Rank change year-on-year -21 -18 +3
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 26 57 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.32% 2.10% 3.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.43% 2.22% 3.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 45 85
10th Percentile £358 £409 £475
25th Percentile £387 £425 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £534 £568 £600
90th Percentile £621 £650 £675
England median daily rate £525 £538 £611
% change year-on-year -2.33% -12.07% +1.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £42.81
Median hourly rate - £45.88 £46.11
Median % change year-on-year - -0.49% -
75th Percentile - - £49.40
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £82.48 £66.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +24.97% -8.33% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 1,819 2,572 2,888
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.66% 94.63% 94.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,209 1,643 2,049
10th Percentile £263 £271 £304
25th Percentile £380 £385 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £586
90th Percentile £653 £675 £660
England median daily rate £518 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 291 128
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.13 £14.62
25th Percentile £14.38 £14.00 £18.50
Median hourly rate £28.75 £32.90 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -12.60% +7.71% +31.51%
75th Percentile £60.00 £47.50 £48.06
90th Percentile £83.52 £70.90 £66.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% -16.67% +89.04%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the North West

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the North West

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in the North West

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the North West

DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 31 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
Cheshire +2 10 £363 -18.99% 11
Manchester -14 10 £475 -7.32% 64
Merseyside +1 3 £625 +31.58% 8
Lancashire -1 3 £575 -3.36% 14
DevOps Engineer
England

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, 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 West region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 26 (100.00%) DevOps
2 21 (80.77%) AWS
3 18 (69.23%) CI/CD
4 15 (57.69%) Terraform
5 14 (53.85%) Kubernetes
6 12 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (42.31%) Linux
8 9 (34.62%) GitLab
9 8 (30.77%) GitHub
9 8 (30.77%) SQL
10 7 (26.92%) Python
10 7 (26.92%) Azure
10 7 (26.92%) Jenkins
10 7 (26.92%) Microservices
10 7 (26.92%) Data Pipeline
11 6 (23.08%) Containerisation
11 6 (23.08%) Docker
11 6 (23.08%) High Availability
11 6 (23.08%) Security Cleared
11 6 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
12 5 (19.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 5 (19.23%) Process Improvement
12 5 (19.23%) MongoDB
12 5 (19.23%) DNS
12 5 (19.23%) Kibana
12 5 (19.23%) AppDynamics
12 5 (19.23%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (19.23%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (15.38%) Customer Acquisition
13 4 (15.38%) Apache Airflow

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (15.38%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (11.54%) Apache
2 3 (11.54%) nginx
2 3 (11.54%) Tomcat
3 2 (7.69%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 21 (80.77%) AWS
2 8 (30.77%) GitHub
3 7 (26.92%) Azure
4 5 (19.23%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (19.23%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (15.38%) Amazon S3
5 4 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (11.54%) AWS KMS
7 2 (7.69%) GCP
7 2 (7.69%) OpenShift
8 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
8 1 (3.85%) IaaS
8 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
8 1 (3.85%) PowerApps
8 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (19.23%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) MongoDB
2 4 (15.38%) Data Lake
2 4 (15.38%) SQL Server
3 3 (11.54%) Relational Database
4 2 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (7.69%) RDBMS
5 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (34.62%) GitLab
2 7 (26.92%) Jenkins
3 4 (15.38%) Git
4 2 (7.69%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (7.69%) CA Release Automation
4 2 (7.69%) JIRA
4 2 (7.69%) SonarQube
4 2 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (7.69%) TeamCity
5 1 (3.85%) Maven
General
1 4 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Military
4 1 (3.85%) Finance
4 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.85%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) .NET
1 3 (11.54%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (11.54%) OAuth
2 2 (7.69%) ARM Templates
2 2 (7.69%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.85%) ADO
3 1 (3.85%) Node.js
3 1 (3.85%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 11 (42.31%) Linux
2 5 (19.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (15.38%) Windows
4 2 (7.69%) Windows Server
5 1 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) DevOps
2 18 (69.23%) CI/CD
3 12 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (26.92%) Data Pipeline
4 7 (26.92%) Microservices
5 6 (23.08%) Containerisation
5 6 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (23.08%) High Availability
6 5 (19.23%) Process Improvement
7 4 (15.38%) Actionable Insight
7 4 (15.38%) Agile
7 4 (15.38%) Capacity Planning
7 4 (15.38%) Cloud Security
7 4 (15.38%) Customer Acquisition
7 4 (15.38%) Load Balancing
7 4 (15.38%) Performance Metrics
7 4 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (15.38%) Resource Allocation
8 3 (11.54%) Configuration Management
8 3 (11.54%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 8 (30.77%) SQL
2 7 (26.92%) Python
3 3 (11.54%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.69%) Bash
4 2 (7.69%) Bicep
4 2 (7.69%) Perl
4 2 (7.69%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.85%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
System Software
1 6 (23.08%) Docker
2 2 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (57.69%) Terraform
2 14 (53.85%) Kubernetes
3 5 (19.23%) Kibana
4 4 (15.38%) Ansible
5 3 (11.54%) Istio
5 3 (11.54%) Kustomize
6 2 (7.69%) Progress Chef
7 1 (3.85%) Grafana
7 1 (3.85%) Graylog
7 1 (3.85%) Packer
7 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
7 1 (3.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) AppDynamics
2 2 (7.69%) Cisco
2 2 (7.69%) Red Hat
2 2 (7.69%) Splunk
3 1 (3.85%) Databricks
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle