DevOps Specialist Contracts in the North West

Development Operations Specialist
England > North West

The median Development Operations Specialist daily rate in the North West is £358, 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 118 - 156
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Specialist 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.10% - 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% - 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 - -
England median daily rate £700 £675 £500
% change year-on-year +3.70% +35.00% -16.67%

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 1,821 2,603 3,030
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.53% 94.48% 94.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,205 1,698 2,172
10th Percentile £250 £281 £300
25th Percentile £378 £393 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £588
90th Percentile £652 £675 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 266 133
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.07 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £29.23 £26.53 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% -13.15% +50.37%
75th Percentile £59.24 £46.18 £47.50
90th Percentile £83.41 £63.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

DevOps Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Specialist in the North West

DevOps Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Specialist in the North West

DevOps Specialist
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 Specialist within the North West 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
Manchester - 2 £358 -
DevOps Specialist
England

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

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

1 2 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Maven
1 2 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 2 (100.00%) Android
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile App
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) IBM Cloud
1 2 (100.00%) npm
1 2 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Istio
1 2 (100.00%) Calico

DevOps Specialist 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 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 2 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) IBM Cloud
1 2 (100.00%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Calico
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Maven
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Android
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Istio
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) IBM