DevOps Contracts in the North West

DevOps
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 15 14
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 184 241 278
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 9.02% 8.72% 9.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.17% 10.35% 10.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 168 218
10th Percentile £342 £413 £400
25th Percentile £400 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £575 £645 £612
90th Percentile £648 £833 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £70.25 - £38.12
25th Percentile £74.38 - £38.68
Median hourly rate £82.50 £45.88 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +79.82% +13.28% -46.00%
75th Percentile £89.38 - £44.72
90th Percentile £92.75 - £45.59
England median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £65.61
% change year-on-year - +6.70% +0.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,810 2,328 2,734
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.73% 84.23% 89.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,201 1,423 1,899
10th Percentile £300 £305 £313
25th Percentile £381 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% -1.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £565 £585 £588
90th Percentile £665 £675 £675
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 263 149
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.00 £15.95
25th Percentile £19.13 £14.18 £20.00
Median hourly rate £31.76 £28.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +13.43% -8.32% +29.71%
75th Percentile £61.50 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £81.00 £66.61 £62.19
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.34
% change year-on-year -34.02% +2.09% +45.40%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the North West

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in the North West

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the North West over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the North West

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in the North West

DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps in the North West over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps in the North West

DevOps
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 within the North West region over the 6 months to 30 June 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 -9 84 £507 -7.82% 693
Cheshire +14 61 £402 -15.37% 148
Lancashire 0 14 £550 -15.70% 116
Merseyside +9 10 £524 +0.96% 75
Cumbria +1 7 £525 +1.94% 18
DevOps
England

DevOps
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 18 (9.78%) Confluence
2 8 (4.35%) CICS
2 8 (4.35%) JBoss
3 7 (3.80%) Apache
3 7 (3.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.80%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.80%) WebSphere
4 6 (3.26%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.72%) Tomcat
6 4 (2.17%) Apache Spark
6 4 (2.17%) nginx
6 4 (2.17%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (1.09%) IIS
8 1 (0.54%) Camunda
8 1 (0.54%) CMS
8 1 (0.54%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.54%) Liferay
Applications
1 10 (5.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.54%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Maximo
1 2 (1.09%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (0.54%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 59 (32.07%) AWS
2 53 (28.80%) Azure
3 25 (13.59%) Serverless
4 23 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (7.61%) GitHub
6 13 (7.07%) GCP
7 11 (5.98%) OpenShift
8 10 (5.43%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (4.89%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (3.80%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (3.80%) Entra ID
10 7 (3.80%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (3.80%) SaaS
11 6 (3.26%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (3.26%) Amazon S3
11 6 (3.26%) Power Platform
12 4 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (2.17%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.07%) DHCP
2 12 (6.52%) DNS
3 8 (4.35%) Firewall
4 4 (2.17%) Calico
5 3 (1.63%) DMZ
6 1 (0.54%) HTTP
6 1 (0.54%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.54%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (15.22%) Relational Database
2 25 (13.59%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (10.87%) MongoDB
4 18 (9.78%) SQL Server
5 16 (8.70%) NoSQL
6 15 (8.15%) RDBMS
7 8 (4.35%) Oracle Reports
8 7 (3.80%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (3.26%) Data Lake
10 5 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (2.72%) DB2
11 4 (2.17%) DynamoDB
11 4 (2.17%) MySQL
11 4 (2.17%) Oracle Database
11 4 (2.17%) Power BI
12 3 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (1.09%) Big Data
13 2 (1.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 47 (25.54%) Jenkins
2 37 (20.11%) JIRA
3 31 (16.85%) GitLab
4 28 (15.22%) Git
5 12 (6.52%) JUnit
6 11 (5.98%) Gradle
6 11 (5.98%) Mockito
7 10 (5.43%) Liquibase
8 9 (4.89%) Maven
8 9 (4.89%) SonarQube
8 9 (4.89%) Sonatype Nexus
9 8 (4.35%) Selenium
9 8 (4.35%) TeamCity
10 7 (3.80%) Bitbucket Server
10 7 (3.80%) CA Release Automation
11 3 (1.63%) Bitbucket
11 3 (1.63%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.63%) JMeter
11 3 (1.63%) LoadRunner
12 2 (1.09%) Eclipse
General
1 49 (26.63%) Social Skills
2 36 (19.57%) Finance
3 30 (16.30%) Public Sector
4 29 (15.76%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (8.70%) Banking
6 13 (7.07%) Manufacturing
7 11 (5.98%) Retail
8 10 (5.43%) Electronics
8 10 (5.43%) Marketing
8 10 (5.43%) Telecoms
9 7 (3.80%) Military
9 7 (3.80%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.17%) Publishing
11 2 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.54%) Aviation
12 1 (0.54%) Legal
Job Titles
1 27 (14.67%) Developer
2 23 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 18 (9.78%) Architect
4 17 (9.24%) Senior
5 13 (7.07%) Lead
6 11 (5.98%) AWS DevOps
7 10 (5.43%) Platform Engineer
7 10 (5.43%) Software Engineer
8 8 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (4.35%) DBA
8 8 (4.35%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 7 (3.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 7 (3.80%) Engineering Manager
9 7 (3.80%) Java Developer
10 6 (3.26%) Change Manager
10 6 (3.26%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (3.26%) React Developer
10 6 (3.26%) Release Manager
10 6 (3.26%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (3.26%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (15.22%) Kafka
2 20 (10.87%) Spring Boot
3 19 (10.33%) React
4 18 (9.78%) .NET
5 12 (6.52%) OpenAPI
5 12 (6.52%) Spring
5 12 (6.52%) Swagger
5 12 (6.52%) XML
6 11 (5.98%) JSON
6 11 (5.98%) Node.js
7 10 (5.43%) Elastic Stack
8 9 (4.89%) CSS
8 9 (4.89%) HTML
9 6 (3.26%) HTML5
10 5 (2.72%) ISPF
10 5 (2.72%) OAuth
10 5 (2.72%) REST
10 5 (2.72%) RESTful
11 4 (2.17%) AngularJS
11 4 (2.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.43%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.89%) Mainframe
3 8 (4.35%) VSAM
4 6 (3.26%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.26%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.72%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.17%) IBM Mainframe
6 4 (2.17%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.09%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.09%) IoT
7 2 (1.09%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.09%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.09%) Replication
8 1 (0.54%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.54%) Insider Threat
8 1 (0.54%) NHS
8 1 (0.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (13.59%) Windows
2 24 (13.04%) Linux
3 16 (8.70%) Windows Server
4 12 (6.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (3.80%) VMS
6 5 (2.72%) Unix
6 5 (2.72%) zOS
7 4 (2.17%) Android
7 4 (2.17%) Apple iOS
8 2 (1.09%) HPUX
8 2 (1.09%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 90 (48.91%) Agile
3 46 (25.00%) Microservices
4 32 (17.39%) Containerisation
4 32 (17.39%) Continuous Integration
5 30 (16.30%) Migration
6 29 (15.76%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (13.59%) Software Engineering
8 24 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
9 22 (11.96%) ITIL
9 22 (11.96%) Process Improvement
9 22 (11.96%) Test Automation
10 21 (11.41%) Scrum
11 20 (10.87%) Infrastructure as Code
12 19 (10.33%) ITSM
13 17 (9.24%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (9.24%) Mentoring
14 16 (8.70%) Business Intelligence
14 16 (8.70%) Configuration Management
14 16 (8.70%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (27.17%) SQL
2 44 (23.91%) Java
3 41 (22.28%) Python
4 18 (9.78%) JavaScript
5 17 (9.24%) TypeScript
6 12 (6.52%) Bash
7 10 (5.43%) PowerShell
8 8 (4.35%) JCL
8 8 (4.35%) Perl
9 7 (3.80%) C#
9 7 (3.80%) Shell Script
10 6 (3.26%) REXX
11 5 (2.72%) CLIST
12 4 (2.17%) COBOL
13 2 (1.09%) Bicep
14 1 (0.54%) R
14 1 (0.54%) Ruby
14 1 (0.54%) Scala
14 1 (0.54%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 28 (15.22%) Security Cleared
2 24 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.43%) Degree
4 8 (4.35%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.63%) ISTQB
5 3 (1.63%) PMI Certification
5 3 (1.63%) PMP
6 2 (1.09%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.09%) CCNA
6 2 (1.09%) CCNP
6 2 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.09%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.09%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.54%) CISM
7 1 (0.54%) CISSP
7 1 (0.54%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.54%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.72%) QA
2 4 (2.17%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.63%) SEPA
4 1 (0.54%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.54%) COBIT
4 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.54%) NIST
System Software
1 43 (23.37%) Docker
2 19 (10.33%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.72%) Time Sharing Option
4 2 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 45 (24.46%) Kubernetes
2 30 (16.30%) Terraform
3 17 (9.24%) Ansible
4 12 (6.52%) Progress Chef
5 10 (5.43%) Kibana
6 8 (4.35%) WSUS
7 7 (3.80%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (2.72%) Grafana
8 5 (2.72%) Istio
8 5 (2.72%) OMEGAMON
9 4 (2.17%) CA Endevor
9 4 (2.17%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (1.09%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.54%) Graylog
11 1 (0.54%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.54%) Packer
11 1 (0.54%) Puppet
11 1 (0.54%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 35 (19.02%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.24%) Oracle
3 13 (7.07%) IBM
3 13 (7.07%) SAP
3 13 (7.07%) ServiceNow
4 12 (6.52%) Splunk
5 10 (5.43%) AppDynamics
5 10 (5.43%) VMware
6 8 (4.35%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.72%) Cloudera
7 5 (2.72%) Fortinet
7 5 (2.72%) Infoblox
7 5 (2.72%) Virgin Media
8 4 (2.17%) Dell
9 3 (1.63%) CyberArk
9 3 (1.63%) Databricks
9 3 (1.63%) Google
10 2 (1.09%) Cisco
10 2 (1.09%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.09%) Sun