DevOps Platform Engineer Contracts in the North West

Platform Engineer - DevOps
England > North West

The median Platform Engineer - DevOps daily rate in the North West is £373, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 July 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
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 127 -
Rank change year-on-year 0 - -
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Platform Engineer 1 6 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.048% 0.22% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.052% 0.23% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £339 £550 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £373 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -37.92% - -
75th Percentile £406 £650 -
90th Percentile - £663 -
England median daily rate £550 £557 £600
% change year-on-year -1.26% -7.17% -4.00%

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 1,937 2,615 2,901
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.37% 94.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,280 1,616 2,032
10th Percentile £268 £268 £294
25th Percentile £375 £382 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £553 £575 £588
90th Percentile £665 £669 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 305 145
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.77 £14.79
25th Percentile £14.73 £15.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £29.01 £32.90 £29.30
Median % change year-on-year -11.81% +12.27% +17.20%
75th Percentile £58.91 £48.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £77.63 £71.72 £58.55
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £43.69
% change year-on-year -30.00% -8.45% +74.76%

DevOps Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Platform Engineer in the North West

DevOps Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Platform Engineer in the North West

DevOps Platform 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 Platform Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 4 July 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 - 1 £373 - 1
DevOps Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 July 2025, DevOps Platform 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 Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) JBoss
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Build Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Cloudera
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) Docker

DevOps Platform 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 1 (100.00%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (100.00%) CA Release Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Build Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (100.00%) Cloudera
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk