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 £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 152 -
Rank change year-on-year +21 - -
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Platform Engineer 6 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.22% 0.031% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.033% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £550 £663 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - -
75th Percentile £650 £688 -
90th Percentile £663 - -
England median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +15.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,607 3,043 3,930
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.35% 94.71% 96.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,702 2,182 2,880
10th Percentile £280 £300 £207
25th Percentile £390 £403 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £470
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +6.38% +10.59%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £563
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 135 174
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.10 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £26.39 £30.54 £20.31
Median % change year-on-year -13.59% +50.37% +10.74%
75th Percentile £46.18 £47.25 £43.50
90th Percentile £64.00 £65.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

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 27 April 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 +20 5 £550 -18.52%
Lancashire - 1 £650 -
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 27 April 2024, 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 6 (100.00%) Python
1 6 (100.00%) Go
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (83.33%) Terraform
2 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (83.33%) Ansible
2 5 (83.33%) Docker
2 5 (83.33%) AWS
3 3 (50.00%) Bash
3 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (50.00%) Git
3 3 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 3 (50.00%) Identity Management
3 3 (50.00%) Migration
3 3 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (50.00%) Splunk
3 3 (50.00%) DynamoDB
3 3 (50.00%) Amazon ELB
3 3 (50.00%) SonarQube
3 3 (50.00%) HP Fortify
3 3 (50.00%) Data Lake
3 3 (50.00%) IT Strategy
3 3 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
3 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving

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 2 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon ELB
2 3 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Snowflake
3 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 2 (33.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 3 (50.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
1 3 (50.00%) SonarQube
2 2 (33.33%) Bitbucket
2 2 (33.33%) GitLab
2 2 (33.33%) JIRA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
3 3 (50.00%) Identity Management
3 3 (50.00%) IT Strategy
3 3 (50.00%) Migration
3 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
4 2 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (33.33%) Data Migration
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (33.33%) Security Operations
5 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 1 (16.67%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Go
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Bash
2 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (33.33%) NIST
1 2 (33.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Ansible
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
1 5 (83.33%) Terraform
2 3 (50.00%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Splunk
2 2 (33.33%) Atlassian