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 £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 64 62
Rank change year-on-year -15 -2 +7
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 56 102 145
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.01% 3.39% 3.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.12% 3.58% 3.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 83 121
10th Percentile £409 £475 £444
25th Percentile £434 £488 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £559 £613 £625
90th Percentile £650 £675 £650
England median daily rate £538 £611 £600
% change year-on-year -12.07% +1.88% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £45.88 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £73.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -4.11% +53.68% -9.52%

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 2,637 2,853 3,880
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.45% 94.72% 96.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,626 2,022 2,821
10th Percentile £268 £300 £220
25th Percentile £382 £406 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £576 £588 £575
90th Percentile £670 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 314 132 161
10th Percentile £11.77 £14.56 £12.02
25th Percentile £14.17 £17.65 £15.72
Median hourly rate £32.90 £28.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% +13.36% +38.45%
75th Percentile £47.88 £43.75 £52.56
90th Percentile £71.32 £57.39 £75.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

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 13 June 2024.

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 13 June 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
Manchester -19 43 £513 -6.39% 23
Cheshire -1 5 £448 -23.83% 1
Lancashire 0 4 £595 -0.83% 1
Merseyside +14 1 £475 -29.63% 1
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 June 2024, 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 56 (100.00%) DevOps
2 36 (64.29%) Terraform
3 34 (60.71%) CI/CD
4 27 (48.21%) Azure
5 26 (46.43%) AWS
6 25 (44.64%) Kubernetes
7 23 (41.07%) Python
8 22 (39.29%) Docker
9 18 (32.14%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (26.79%) GitLab
11 14 (25.00%) Security Cleared
12 13 (23.21%) SC Cleared
13 12 (21.43%) Containerisation
13 12 (21.43%) Ansible
13 12 (21.43%) Agile
14 11 (19.64%) Git
15 10 (17.86%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (17.86%) Oracle
15 10 (17.86%) Jenkins
16 9 (16.07%) Go
16 9 (16.07%) Bash
16 9 (16.07%) Software Delivery
16 9 (16.07%) SQL
16 9 (16.07%) Migration
16 9 (16.07%) Azure DevOps
17 8 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
18 7 (12.50%) Linux
18 7 (12.50%) PowerShell
18 7 (12.50%) Prometheus
18 7 (12.50%) Platform Engineering

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 5 (8.93%) Confluence
2 2 (3.57%) nginx
3 1 (1.79%) Apache
3 1 (1.79%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 27 (48.21%) Azure
2 26 (46.43%) AWS
3 10 (17.86%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (16.07%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (10.71%) Amazon S3
7 5 (8.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (8.93%) Serverless
8 4 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (7.14%) GCP
8 4 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (5.36%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (5.36%) Amazon ELB
9 3 (5.36%) AWS CodePipeline
9 3 (5.36%) GitHub
9 3 (5.36%) Route 53
9 3 (5.36%) Snowflake
10 2 (3.57%) Azure Storage
10 2 (3.57%) OpenShift
11 1 (1.79%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.14%) DNS
2 3 (5.36%) Network Security
3 2 (3.57%) HTTP
3 2 (3.57%) SSL
4 1 (1.79%) PPP
4 1 (1.79%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.71%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (8.93%) MySQL
3 3 (5.36%) Data Lake
3 3 (5.36%) DynamoDB
4 2 (3.57%) Redis
4 2 (3.57%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.79%) Flink
5 1 (1.79%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (26.79%) GitLab
2 11 (19.64%) Git
3 10 (17.86%) Jenkins
4 6 (10.71%) JIRA
5 4 (7.14%) Bitbucket
5 4 (7.14%) SonarQube
6 2 (3.57%) Selenium
6 2 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.79%) Liquibase
7 1 (1.79%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (10.71%) Public Sector
2 4 (7.14%) Finance
3 3 (5.36%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.57%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.36%) ARM Templates
2 2 (3.57%) JDBC
2 2 (3.57%) JPA
2 2 (3.57%) JWT
2 2 (3.57%) pytest
2 2 (3.57%) SAML
2 2 (3.57%) Spring
2 2 (3.57%) WebSockets
2 2 (3.57%) YAML
3 1 (1.79%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (1.79%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.79%) cloud-init
3 1 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.79%) JSON
3 1 (1.79%) Node.js
3 1 (1.79%) REST
3 1 (1.79%) RESTful
3 1 (1.79%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.93%) Product Ownership
2 4 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.79%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.79%) Clustering
4 1 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.79%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.79%) PKI
4 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.50%) Linux
2 4 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.57%) Alpine Linux
3 2 (3.57%) Unix
4 1 (1.79%) CentOS
4 1 (1.79%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (100.00%) DevOps
2 34 (60.71%) CI/CD
3 18 (32.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (21.43%) Agile
4 12 (21.43%) Containerisation
5 9 (16.07%) Migration
5 9 (16.07%) Software Delivery
6 7 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (10.71%) Configuration Management
7 6 (10.71%) Software Engineering
8 5 (8.93%) Data Migration
8 5 (8.93%) Infrastructure Management
8 5 (8.93%) Microservices
8 5 (8.93%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (7.14%) Cloud Operations
9 4 (7.14%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (7.14%) High Availability
9 4 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 3 (5.36%) Identity Management
10 3 (5.36%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 23 (41.07%) Python
2 9 (16.07%) Bash
2 9 (16.07%) Go
2 9 (16.07%) SQL
3 7 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 6 (10.71%) Java
5 5 (8.93%) PHP
5 5 (8.93%) Ruby
6 1 (1.79%) Bicep
6 1 (1.79%) C
6 1 (1.79%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 14 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (23.21%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.93%) AWS Certification
3 5 (8.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.79%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.36%) NIST
1 3 (5.36%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.79%) NCSC
System Software
1 22 (39.29%) Docker
2 6 (10.71%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (64.29%) Terraform
2 25 (44.64%) Kubernetes
3 12 (21.43%) Ansible
4 7 (12.50%) Prometheus
5 6 (10.71%) Grafana
6 3 (5.36%) HP Fortify
7 2 (3.57%) Istio
7 2 (3.57%) Podman
8 1 (1.79%) Consul
8 1 (1.79%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (1.79%) Graphite
8 1 (1.79%) HAProxy
8 1 (1.79%) linkerd
8 1 (1.79%) Packer
8 1 (1.79%) Puppet
8 1 (1.79%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 10 (17.86%) Oracle
2 4 (7.14%) Splunk
3 3 (5.36%) Atlassian
3 3 (5.36%) VMware
4 2 (3.57%) PagerDuty
4 2 (3.57%) Virgin Media
5 1 (1.79%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.79%) ServiceNow