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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 17 15
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 168 247 305
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 8.54% 8.97% 9.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.46% 10.39% 10.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 176 238
10th Percentile £386 £413 £413
25th Percentile £445 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.37% -2.91% +2.33%
75th Percentile £584 £608 £631
90th Percentile £674 £813 £675
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - - £39.92
25th Percentile £67.50 - £40.40
Median hourly rate £70.00 £45.88 £42.85
Median % change year-on-year +52.57% +7.06% -2.69%
75th Percentile £72.50 - £46.95
90th Percentile - - £48.42
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.76% +19.09%

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 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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 1 May 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
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 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 -7 89 £525 -2.23% 287
Cheshire +8 43 £429 -12.81% 53
Lancashire +1 11 £575 -11.87% 127
Merseyside +7 10 £525 +10.53% 27
Cumbria -4 7 £525 +1.94% 2
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 14 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 12 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (4.17%) Confluence
4 6 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.98%) JBoss
6 3 (1.79%) Apache
6 3 (1.79%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.79%) nginx
6 3 (1.79%) Tomcat
6 3 (1.79%) WebSphere
7 2 (1.19%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.60%) Camunda
8 1 (0.60%) CICS
8 1 (0.60%) CMS
8 1 (0.60%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.60%) Liferay
Applications
1 10 (5.95%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.19%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (0.60%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 53 (31.55%) Azure
2 52 (30.95%) AWS
3 26 (15.48%) Serverless
4 22 (13.10%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (8.93%) GitHub
6 14 (8.33%) Entra ID
7 13 (7.74%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (5.95%) GCP
9 9 (5.36%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (5.36%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (5.36%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (4.76%) OpenShift
11 6 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (3.57%) Amazon S3
11 6 (3.57%) Power Platform
12 5 (2.98%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (2.98%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (2.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (10.71%) DNS
2 16 (9.52%) DHCP
3 8 (4.76%) Firewall
4 3 (1.79%) DMZ
5 2 (1.19%) Calico
5 2 (1.19%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.60%) HTTP
6 1 (0.60%) Skype
6 1 (0.60%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (15.48%) Relational Database
3 23 (13.69%) MongoDB
4 17 (10.12%) NoSQL
5 15 (8.93%) RDBMS
6 13 (7.74%) SQL Server
7 10 (5.95%) MySQL
7 10 (5.95%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (3.57%) Data Lake
8 6 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (3.57%) Power BI
9 5 (2.98%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (2.38%) Tableau
11 3 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.79%) DynamoDB
12 2 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (1.19%) Big Data
12 2 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.60%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 39 (23.21%) Jenkins
2 36 (21.43%) GitLab
3 24 (14.29%) JIRA
4 23 (13.69%) Git
5 10 (5.95%) Gradle
5 10 (5.95%) JUnit
5 10 (5.95%) Liquibase
5 10 (5.95%) Mockito
6 7 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (3.57%) Selenium
7 6 (3.57%) SonarQube
7 6 (3.57%) TeamCity
8 5 (2.98%) Bitbucket Server
8 5 (2.98%) CA Release Automation
8 5 (2.98%) Maven
9 4 (2.38%) JMeter
9 4 (2.38%) LoadRunner
10 2 (1.19%) CircleCI
10 2 (1.19%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 44 (26.19%) Social Skills
2 38 (22.62%) Public Sector
3 26 (15.48%) Finance
4 25 (14.88%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (7.14%) Banking
5 12 (7.14%) Manufacturing
6 10 (5.95%) Electronics
6 10 (5.95%) Marketing
6 10 (5.95%) Military
6 10 (5.95%) Telecoms
7 7 (4.17%) Retail
8 3 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Aviation
9 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Legal
Job Titles
1 34 (20.24%) DevOps Engineer
2 23 (13.69%) Developer
3 20 (11.90%) Architect
4 19 (11.31%) Senior
5 13 (7.74%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 11 (6.55%) AWS DevOps
7 10 (5.95%) DBA
8 9 (5.36%) AWS Engineer
8 9 (5.36%) Lead
9 8 (4.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 7 (4.17%) Senior DevOps
10 7 (4.17%) Software Engineer
10 7 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (3.57%) Change and Release Manager
11 6 (3.57%) Change Manager
11 6 (3.57%) PostgreSQL DBA
11 6 (3.57%) Release Manager
11 6 (3.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 5 (2.98%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (17.26%) Kafka
2 17 (10.12%) Spring Boot
3 16 (9.52%) React
4 14 (8.33%) .NET
5 13 (7.74%) XML
6 12 (7.14%) OpenAPI
6 12 (7.14%) Swagger
7 11 (6.55%) Spring
8 10 (5.95%) JSON
8 10 (5.95%) Node.js
9 8 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (3.57%) CSS
10 6 (3.57%) HTML
11 5 (2.98%) HTML5
11 5 (2.98%) OAuth
12 4 (2.38%) ADO
12 4 (2.38%) cloud-init
12 4 (2.38%) RESTful
13 3 (1.79%) ARM Templates
13 3 (1.79%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.76%) Cloud Native
1 8 (4.76%) Onboarding
2 4 (2.38%) Private Cloud
3 3 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (1.79%) Mobile App
3 3 (1.79%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.19%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.19%) IoT
4 2 (1.19%) Mainframe
4 2 (1.19%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.19%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.19%) Replication
4 2 (1.19%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.60%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.60%) NHS
5 1 (0.60%) PKI
5 1 (0.60%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 26 (15.48%) Linux
1 26 (15.48%) Windows
2 17 (10.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 17 (10.12%) Windows Server
3 10 (5.95%) VMS
4 8 (4.76%) Unix
5 4 (2.38%) CentOS
6 2 (1.19%) Android
6 2 (1.19%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.19%) HPUX
6 2 (1.19%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (50.60%) CI/CD
2 77 (45.83%) Agile
3 37 (22.02%) Microservices
4 32 (19.05%) Containerisation
5 30 (17.86%) Continuous Integration
6 29 (17.26%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (16.07%) Migration
8 22 (13.10%) Infrastructure as Code
8 22 (13.10%) ITIL
9 21 (12.50%) Software Engineering
10 18 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
11 17 (10.12%) Process Improvement
12 16 (9.52%) ITSM
13 15 (8.93%) Configuration Management
13 15 (8.93%) Disaster Recovery
13 15 (8.93%) Mentoring
13 15 (8.93%) Test Automation
14 14 (8.33%) Analytics
14 14 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
14 14 (8.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 46 (27.38%) SQL
2 41 (24.40%) Python
3 26 (15.48%) Java
4 17 (10.12%) Bash
5 15 (8.93%) TypeScript
6 11 (6.55%) JavaScript
6 11 (6.55%) PowerShell
7 6 (3.57%) Perl
8 4 (2.38%) C#
8 4 (2.38%) Go
8 4 (2.38%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.19%) R
9 2 (1.19%) Ruby
10 1 (0.60%) Bicep
10 1 (0.60%) COBOL
10 1 (0.60%) JCL
10 1 (0.60%) REXX
10 1 (0.60%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 32 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 23 (13.69%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.76%) Degree
4 4 (2.38%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (2.38%) ISTQB
5 3 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (1.19%) CCNA
6 2 (1.19%) CCNP
6 2 (1.19%) CCSP
6 2 (1.19%) CEH
6 2 (1.19%) CISM
6 2 (1.19%) CISSP
6 2 (1.19%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.19%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.19%) OSCP
6 2 (1.19%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.19%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.79%) COBIT
1 3 (1.79%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.19%) NIST
2 2 (1.19%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.19%) QA
3 1 (0.60%) NCSC
System Software
1 41 (24.40%) Docker
2 22 (13.10%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 46 (27.38%) Kubernetes
2 35 (20.83%) Terraform
3 15 (8.93%) Ansible
4 12 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (6.55%) WSUS
6 10 (5.95%) Progress Chef
7 8 (4.76%) Grafana
7 8 (4.76%) Kibana
8 6 (3.57%) Istio
9 5 (2.98%) Packer
9 5 (2.98%) Prometheus
10 4 (2.38%) Dell DRAC
11 3 (1.79%) Kustomize
12 2 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.60%) Consul
13 1 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.60%) Graylog
13 1 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.60%) linkerd
13 1 (0.60%) Rancher
Vendors
1 28 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 16 (9.52%) Oracle
3 13 (7.74%) SAP
4 12 (7.14%) VMware
5 10 (5.95%) Splunk
6 8 (4.76%) AppDynamics
6 8 (4.76%) ServiceNow
7 6 (3.57%) Red Hat
8 5 (2.98%) Databricks
8 5 (2.98%) Fortinet
8 5 (2.98%) Infoblox
8 5 (2.98%) Virgin Media
9 4 (2.38%) Dell
9 4 (2.38%) IBM
10 3 (1.79%) Cloudera
10 3 (1.79%) CyberArk
10 3 (1.79%) Google
11 2 (1.19%) Cisco
11 2 (1.19%) Fujitsu
11 2 (1.19%) Sun