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

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 17 15
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 -1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 171 236 308
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 8.80% 8.87% 9.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.77% 10.34% 10.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 173 243
10th Percentile £366 £410 £413
25th Percentile £423 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £629
90th Percentile £673 £820 £675
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - - £38.12
25th Percentile £67.50 - £38.68
Median hourly rate £70.00 £45.88 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.57% +13.28% -44.14%
75th Percentile £72.50 - £46.33
90th Percentile - - £48.17
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.76% +13.91%

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 1,750 2,283 2,831
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.07% 85.83% 90.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,140 1,449 1,995
10th Percentile £300 £308 £313
25th Percentile £389 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £588
90th Percentile £660 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 249 139
10th Percentile £16.03 £10.95 £16.80
25th Percentile £22.81 £13.50 £23.15
Median hourly rate £31.88 £23.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.66% -34.72% +52.90%
75th Percentile £62.25 £45.88 £49.46
90th Percentile £84.39 £62.50 £66.00
England median hourly rate £29.00 £36.50 £37.34
% change year-on-year -20.55% -2.25% +49.36%

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 14 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 14 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 -10 84 £525 -1.69% 520
Cheshire +16 50 £425 -11.83% 79
Merseyside +3 11 £524 +8.83% 34
Lancashire -2 11 £575 -11.87% 144
Cumbria -4 7 £525 +1.94% 1
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 (8.19%) Confluence
2 13 (7.60%) SharePoint
3 11 (6.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.92%) JBoss
6 3 (1.75%) Apache
6 3 (1.75%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.75%) nginx
6 3 (1.75%) Tomcat
6 3 (1.75%) WebSphere
7 2 (1.17%) CICS
7 2 (1.17%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.58%) Camunda
8 1 (0.58%) CMS
8 1 (0.58%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.58%) Liferay
Applications
1 9 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.17%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (0.58%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 53 (30.99%) AWS
2 52 (30.41%) Azure
3 23 (13.45%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (13.45%) Serverless
4 17 (9.94%) GitHub
5 13 (7.60%) Entra ID
6 12 (7.02%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (5.85%) Amazon ECS
7 10 (5.85%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (5.85%) GCP
7 10 (5.85%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (4.68%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (4.68%) OpenShift
10 6 (3.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (3.51%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.92%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (2.92%) Power Platform
12 4 (2.34%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (2.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 18 (10.53%) DNS
2 15 (8.77%) DHCP
3 8 (4.68%) Firewall
4 3 (1.75%) DMZ
5 2 (1.17%) Calico
5 2 (1.17%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.58%) HTTP
6 1 (0.58%) Skype
6 1 (0.58%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (14.62%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (14.04%) Relational Database
3 21 (12.28%) MongoDB
4 15 (8.77%) NoSQL
5 14 (8.19%) SQL Server
6 12 (7.02%) RDBMS
7 7 (4.09%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (3.51%) Data Lake
8 6 (3.51%) MySQL
9 5 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (2.92%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (2.92%) Power BI
10 4 (2.34%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (2.34%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.75%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (1.75%) Tableau
12 2 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (1.17%) Big Data
12 2 (1.17%) DB2
12 2 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 39 (22.81%) Jenkins
2 33 (19.30%) GitLab
3 30 (17.54%) JIRA
4 24 (14.04%) Git
5 10 (5.85%) Gradle
5 10 (5.85%) JUnit
5 10 (5.85%) Liquibase
5 10 (5.85%) Mockito
6 7 (4.09%) Selenium
7 6 (3.51%) SonarQube
7 6 (3.51%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (3.51%) TeamCity
8 5 (2.92%) Bitbucket Server
8 5 (2.92%) CA Release Automation
8 5 (2.92%) Maven
9 4 (2.34%) JMeter
9 4 (2.34%) LoadRunner
10 2 (1.17%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.58%) Appium
11 1 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 46 (26.90%) Social Skills
2 36 (21.05%) Public Sector
3 28 (16.37%) Finance
4 25 (14.62%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (7.02%) Banking
5 12 (7.02%) Manufacturing
6 10 (5.85%) Electronics
6 10 (5.85%) Marketing
6 10 (5.85%) Telecoms
7 9 (5.26%) Military
8 8 (4.68%) Retail
9 3 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.58%) Aviation
10 1 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.58%) Legal
Job Titles
1 33 (19.30%) DevOps Engineer
2 23 (13.45%) Developer
3 20 (11.70%) Architect
4 18 (10.53%) Senior
5 12 (7.02%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 11 (6.43%) AWS DevOps
6 11 (6.43%) Lead
7 9 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (4.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 8 (4.68%) Software Engineer
9 7 (4.09%) DBA
9 7 (4.09%) Engineering Manager
9 7 (4.09%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (3.51%) Change and Release Manager
10 6 (3.51%) Change Manager
10 6 (3.51%) Release Manager
10 6 (3.51%) Senior DevOps
10 6 (3.51%) Tester
11 5 (2.92%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (2.92%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (15.79%) Kafka
2 17 (9.94%) React
2 17 (9.94%) Spring Boot
3 16 (9.36%) .NET
4 12 (7.02%) OpenAPI
4 12 (7.02%) Swagger
5 11 (6.43%) Spring
6 10 (5.85%) Node.js
6 10 (5.85%) XML
7 8 (4.68%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (4.09%) JSON
9 6 (3.51%) CSS
9 6 (3.51%) HTML
10 5 (2.92%) HTML5
10 5 (2.92%) OAuth
11 4 (2.34%) ADO
11 4 (2.34%) AngularJS
11 4 (2.34%) RESTful
12 3 (1.75%) RabbitMQ
12 3 (1.75%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.09%) Onboarding
3 3 (1.75%) Mainframe
3 3 (1.75%) Mobile App
3 3 (1.75%) Private Cloud
3 3 (1.75%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.17%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.17%) IoT
4 2 (1.17%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.17%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.17%) Replication
4 2 (1.17%) Virtual Team
4 2 (1.17%) VSAM
5 1 (0.58%) Blockchain
5 1 (0.58%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.58%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 25 (14.62%) Windows
2 24 (14.04%) Linux
3 16 (9.36%) Windows Server
4 15 (8.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (5.26%) VMS
6 7 (4.09%) Unix
7 3 (1.75%) CentOS
8 2 (1.17%) Android
8 2 (1.17%) Apple iOS
8 2 (1.17%) HPUX
8 2 (1.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (50.88%) CI/CD
2 82 (47.95%) Agile
3 45 (26.32%) Microservices
4 34 (19.88%) Containerisation
4 34 (19.88%) Continuous Integration
5 28 (16.37%) Migration
5 28 (16.37%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (14.04%) Process Improvement
6 24 (14.04%) Software Engineering
7 23 (13.45%) Infrastructure as Code
8 21 (12.28%) ITIL
9 18 (10.53%) Scrum
10 17 (9.94%) Business Intelligence
11 16 (9.36%) Stakeholder Management
11 16 (9.36%) Test Automation
12 15 (8.77%) Configuration Management
12 15 (8.77%) Event-Driven
12 15 (8.77%) ITSM
12 15 (8.77%) Project Management
12 15 (8.77%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 48 (28.07%) SQL
2 39 (22.81%) Python
3 35 (20.47%) Java
4 16 (9.36%) Bash
5 15 (8.77%) TypeScript
6 11 (6.43%) JavaScript
6 11 (6.43%) PowerShell
7 6 (3.51%) Perl
8 5 (2.92%) C#
9 4 (2.34%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.75%) Go
11 2 (1.17%) Bicep
11 2 (1.17%) COBOL
11 2 (1.17%) JCL
11 2 (1.17%) R
11 2 (1.17%) Ruby
12 1 (0.58%) REXX
12 1 (0.58%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 31 (18.13%) Security Cleared
2 23 (13.45%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.68%) Degree
4 4 (2.34%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.34%) ISTQB
5 3 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.17%) CCNA
6 2 (1.17%) CCNP
6 2 (1.17%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.17%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.17%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.17%) PMP
7 1 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.58%) CCSP
7 1 (0.58%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.75%) Data Quality
1 3 (1.75%) QA
2 2 (1.17%) COBIT
3 1 (0.58%) NCSC
3 1 (0.58%) NIST
3 1 (0.58%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 41 (23.98%) Docker
2 21 (12.28%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (26.32%) Kubernetes
2 34 (19.88%) Terraform
3 15 (8.77%) Ansible
4 11 (6.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (5.85%) Progress Chef
5 10 (5.85%) WSUS
6 8 (4.68%) Grafana
6 8 (4.68%) Kibana
7 6 (3.51%) Istio
8 5 (2.92%) Prometheus
9 4 (2.34%) Dell DRAC
9 4 (2.34%) Packer
10 3 (1.75%) Kustomize
11 2 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.58%) Consul
12 1 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.58%) Graylog
12 1 (0.58%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.58%) linkerd
12 1 (0.58%) Rancher
Vendors
1 29 (16.96%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.19%) Oracle
3 13 (7.60%) SAP
4 11 (6.43%) VMware
5 10 (5.85%) Splunk
6 8 (4.68%) AppDynamics
6 8 (4.68%) ServiceNow
7 6 (3.51%) Red Hat
8 5 (2.92%) Fortinet
8 5 (2.92%) Infoblox
8 5 (2.92%) Virgin Media
9 4 (2.34%) Databricks
9 4 (2.34%) Dell
9 4 (2.34%) IBM
10 3 (1.75%) Cloudera
10 3 (1.75%) CyberArk
10 3 (1.75%) Google
11 2 (1.17%) Cisco
11 2 (1.17%) Fujitsu
11 2 (1.17%) Sun