DevOps Contracts in the North West

DevOps
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 15 14
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 247 305 405
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 9.00% 9.59% 10.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.42% 10.59% 11.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 238 309
10th Percentile £411 £413 £373
25th Percentile £459 £475 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +2.33% +10.82%
75th Percentile £608 £636 £630
90th Percentile £813 £675 £699
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 6
10th Percentile - £39.92 -
25th Percentile - £40.40 £38.68
Median hourly rate £45.88 £42.85 £44.04
Median % change year-on-year +7.06% -2.69% -
75th Percentile - £46.95 £55.74
90th Percentile - £48.42 £64.38
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -0.76% +19.09% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

DevOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,370 2,879 3,565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.37% 90.56% 88.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,513 2,045 2,615
10th Percentile £306 £313 £238
25th Percentile £405 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £593 £588 £575
90th Percentile £689 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 142 165
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.36 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.56 £35.00 £20.49
Median % change year-on-year -38.41% +70.82% +10.76%
75th Percentile £45.66 £48.56 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.96 £37.50 £24.50
% change year-on-year -4.12% +53.06% +2.08%

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 2024.

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 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 +3 176 £534 -2.91% 146
Cheshire +4 33 £489 -2.20% 26
Lancashire -3 13 £652 +6.53% 7
Cumbria - 12 £515 - 4
Merseyside -15 7 £475 -9.52% 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 10 (4.05%) Confluence
2 6 (2.43%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.81%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.81%) nginx
4 2 (0.81%) Traefik
5 1 (0.40%) GeoServer
Applications
1 4 (1.62%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (2.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.62%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.81%) SAP Retail
3 2 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 102 (41.30%) Azure
2 70 (28.34%) AWS
3 50 (20.24%) Azure DevOps
4 33 (13.36%) Serverless
5 26 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
6 17 (6.88%) Amazon S3
6 17 (6.88%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (5.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 13 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 8 (3.24%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (3.24%) GCP
10 7 (2.83%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (2.83%) GitHub
10 7 (2.83%) Power Platform
10 7 (2.83%) Route 53
10 7 (2.83%) Snowflake
11 6 (2.43%) Amazon ELB
11 6 (2.43%) Kong
11 6 (2.43%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (17.41%) Firewall
2 31 (12.55%) VPN
3 12 (4.86%) BGP
3 12 (4.86%) Cisco ASA
3 12 (4.86%) Cisco Firepower
3 12 (4.86%) Cisco ISE
3 12 (4.86%) EIGRP
3 12 (4.86%) HSRP
3 12 (4.86%) IPsec
3 12 (4.86%) NetScaler
3 12 (4.86%) OSPF
3 12 (4.86%) SNMP
3 12 (4.86%) Spanning Tree
3 12 (4.86%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (2.83%) DSL
4 7 (2.83%) Network Security
5 6 (2.43%) DNS
6 3 (1.21%) HTTP
6 3 (1.21%) SSL
7 2 (0.81%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.10%) NoSQL
1 20 (8.10%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (7.69%) Relational Database
3 15 (6.07%) MongoDB
4 11 (4.45%) RDBMS
5 10 (4.05%) DynamoDB
5 10 (4.05%) Oracle Reports
6 9 (3.64%) MySQL
6 9 (3.64%) SQL Server
7 7 (2.83%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (2.43%) Data Lake
9 5 (2.02%) Tableau
10 4 (1.62%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.62%) GIS
10 4 (1.62%) OLAP
10 4 (1.62%) OLTP
10 4 (1.62%) Oracle OLAP
11 2 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.81%) Redis
Development Applications
1 37 (14.98%) Git
2 31 (12.55%) JIRA
3 26 (10.53%) Jenkins
4 21 (8.50%) GitLab
5 7 (2.83%) JUnit
5 7 (2.83%) SonarQube
6 6 (2.43%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.43%) Selenium
7 3 (1.21%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.21%) Postman
7 3 (1.21%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.21%) webpack
8 2 (0.81%) Maven
8 2 (0.81%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.40%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.40%) Gradle
9 1 (0.40%) Mockito
9 1 (0.40%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.40%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.40%) WebDriver
General
1 38 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 35 (14.17%) Social Skills
3 27 (10.93%) Finance
4 10 (4.05%) Banking
5 9 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (3.64%) Legal
6 8 (3.24%) Retail
7 3 (1.21%) Law
8 2 (0.81%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.40%) Automotive
9 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.40%) Local Government
9 1 (0.40%) Military
9 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.40%) Public Speaking
9 1 (0.40%) Retail Finance
9 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 62 (25.10%) Architect
2 59 (23.89%) DevOps Engineer
3 42 (17.00%) Lead
4 34 (13.77%) Technical Architect
5 33 (13.36%) Developer
6 29 (11.74%) Technical Leader
7 28 (11.34%) Lead Architect
8 27 (10.93%) Senior
9 23 (9.31%) AWS DevOps
10 17 (6.88%) Solutions Architect
11 16 (6.48%) AWS Engineer
12 15 (6.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 14 (5.67%) Azure Engineer
14 12 (4.86%) Network Engineer
14 12 (4.86%) Senior DevOps
15 11 (4.45%) DBA
15 11 (4.45%) PostgreSQL DBA
16 10 (4.05%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 8 (3.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 8 (3.24%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (14.98%) Node.js
2 17 (6.88%) Kafka
3 16 (6.48%) .NET
4 14 (5.67%) React
5 13 (5.26%) REST
5 13 (5.26%) Spring
6 12 (4.86%) Jinja
6 12 (4.86%) JSON
6 12 (4.86%) Spring Boot
6 12 (4.86%) XML
7 9 (3.64%) JPA
8 7 (2.83%) HTML
8 7 (2.83%) SOAP
9 6 (2.43%) .NET Core
9 6 (2.43%) .NET Framework
9 6 (2.43%) CSS
9 6 (2.43%) Entity Framework
9 6 (2.43%) Hibernate
9 6 (2.43%) RESTful
9 6 (2.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 42 (17.00%) Public Cloud
2 17 (6.88%) Product Ownership
3 10 (4.05%) Mobile App
4 9 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.24%) Virtual Team
6 5 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.02%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.62%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.62%) DataPower
7 4 (1.62%) PKI
8 3 (1.21%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.81%) Clustering
9 2 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.81%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.81%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.40%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 44 (17.81%) Windows
2 35 (14.17%) Android
2 35 (14.17%) Apple iOS
3 33 (13.36%) Windows Server
4 17 (6.88%) Linux
5 10 (4.05%) Unix
6 4 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.81%) Alpine Linux
7 2 (0.81%) CentOS
8 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (48.99%) Agile
2 108 (43.72%) CI/CD
3 45 (18.22%) Microservices
4 43 (17.41%) Design Patterns
5 37 (14.98%) Risk Management
6 33 (13.36%) Containerisation
6 33 (13.36%) Infrastructure as Code
7 32 (12.96%) Mobile Device Management
8 31 (12.55%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (12.55%) Security Architecture
9 30 (12.15%) Zero Trust
10 28 (11.34%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 28 (11.34%) Threat Intelligence
11 22 (8.91%) Scrum
12 21 (8.50%) ITIL
12 21 (8.50%) Migration
13 20 (8.10%) Architectural Patterns
13 20 (8.10%) Mentoring
13 20 (8.10%) Roadmaps
14 19 (7.69%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 57 (23.08%) Python
2 23 (9.31%) Java
3 22 (8.91%) SQL
4 19 (7.69%) Bash
4 19 (7.69%) C#
5 16 (6.48%) Go
6 14 (5.67%) TypeScript
7 13 (5.26%) Ruby
8 12 (4.86%) Perl
8 12 (4.86%) PowerShell
8 12 (4.86%) Tcl
9 10 (4.05%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.02%) PHP
10 5 (2.02%) Search Processing Language
10 5 (2.02%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.62%) C
12 3 (1.21%) Bicep
13 2 (0.81%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.40%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.40%) C++
Qualifications
1 67 (27.13%) Security Cleared
2 61 (24.70%) SC Cleared
3 18 (7.29%) Degree
4 12 (4.86%) CCNA
4 12 (4.86%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (4.45%) CCNP
6 9 (3.64%) AWS Certification
6 9 (3.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 8 (3.24%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.40%) MCP
9 1 (0.40%) MCSE
9 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.86%) QA
2 5 (2.02%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.21%) GDPR
3 3 (1.21%) ISO 22301
3 3 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.21%) NIST
3 3 (1.21%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.81%) NCSC
4 2 (0.81%) SLA
System Software
1 42 (17.00%) Docker
2 12 (4.86%) Active Directory
2 12 (4.86%) Firmware
3 2 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 56 (22.67%) Terraform
2 51 (20.65%) Kubernetes
3 39 (15.79%) Ansible
4 9 (3.64%) Progress Chef
4 9 (3.64%) Prometheus
4 9 (3.64%) Puppet
5 7 (2.83%) CFEngine
5 7 (2.83%) HP Fortify
5 7 (2.83%) PowerBroker
6 6 (2.43%) Grafana
7 5 (2.02%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.81%) Consul
8 2 (0.81%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.81%) Graphite
8 2 (0.81%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.81%) Istio
8 2 (0.81%) linkerd
8 2 (0.81%) Packer
8 2 (0.81%) Podman
8 2 (0.81%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 29 (11.74%) Oracle
2 27 (10.93%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.26%) Splunk
4 12 (4.86%) Cisco
4 12 (4.86%) Citrix
4 12 (4.86%) Palo Alto
4 12 (4.86%) SolarWinds
5 10 (4.05%) Atlassian
6 6 (2.43%) Google
6 6 (2.43%) VMware
7 5 (2.02%) Apple
8 4 (1.62%) Cadence
8 4 (1.62%) IBM
8 4 (1.62%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.62%) TSYS
9 3 (1.21%) PagerDuty
9 3 (1.21%) SAP
9 3 (1.21%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.81%) Mapbox
10 2 (0.81%) Virgin Media