Senior DevOps Contracts in the North West

Senior Development Operations
England > North West

The median Senior Development Operations daily rate in the North West is £663, 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 113 125 145
Rank change year-on-year +12 +20 +26
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 7 12 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.36% 0.44% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.46% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 7
10th Percentile £438 £513 £569
25th Percentile £518 £550 £591
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £663 £638
Median % change year-on-year - +3.92% +13.84%
75th Percentile £750 £750 £675
90th Percentile - - £685
England median daily rate £635 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +5.83% -7.69% -

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%

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps in the North West

Senior DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Senior DevOps in the North West

Senior DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior DevOps in the North West

Senior 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 Senior 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 +12 6 £750 +11.11% 6
Lancashire +3 1 £575 -11.54% 4
Senior DevOps
England

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

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

1 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) GitLab
2 6 (85.71%) Terraform
2 6 (85.71%) Linux
2 6 (85.71%) Python
3 5 (71.43%) Packer
3 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
3 5 (71.43%) Bash
3 5 (71.43%) Public Sector
4 4 (57.14%) cloud-init
4 4 (57.14%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
4 4 (57.14%) Go
4 4 (57.14%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
4 4 (57.14%) CentOS
4 4 (57.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (57.14%) Unix
4 4 (57.14%) Agile
5 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
6 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
6 2 (28.57%) Military
6 2 (28.57%) Microservices
6 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
6 2 (28.57%) Grafana
6 2 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (14.29%) NCSC

Senior DevOps 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (14.29%) Azure
4 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
2 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) GitLab
2 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
3 1 (14.29%) Git
3 1 (14.29%) Maven
General
1 5 (71.43%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Military
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) cloud-init
2 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) Keycloak
2 1 (14.29%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
2 4 (57.14%) CentOS
2 4 (57.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (57.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
3 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (57.14%) Agile
4 4 (57.14%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (28.57%) Microservices
6 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
6 1 (14.29%) Coaching
6 1 (14.29%) Cost Reduction
6 1 (14.29%) Identity Management
6 1 (14.29%) ITSM
6 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
6 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
6 1 (14.29%) Secrets Management
6 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
6 1 (14.29%) Service Management
6 1 (14.29%) Static Application Security Testing
6 1 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
6 1 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
6 1 (14.29%) The Twelve-Factor App
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 5 (71.43%) Bash
3 4 (57.14%) Go
4 1 (14.29%) Java
4 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Terraform
2 5 (71.43%) Packer
3 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
4 2 (28.57%) Grafana
4 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
5 1 (14.29%) Ansible
5 1 (14.29%) Consul
5 1 (14.29%) Graylog
5 1 (14.29%) Istio
5 1 (14.29%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (14.29%) linkerd
5 1 (14.29%) Puppet
5 1 (14.29%) Rancher
5 1 (14.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Okta
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle
1 1 (14.29%) Splunk