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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 15 14
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 239 298 407
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 8.86% 9.39% 10.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.27% 10.36% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 236 310
10th Percentile £409 £413 £374
25th Percentile £450 £475 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £544
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +1.15% +9.85%
75th Percentile £625 £633 £625
90th Percentile £825 £675 £688
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 2,328 2,877 3,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.25% 90.70% 88.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,485 2,043 2,606
10th Percentile £306 £313 £250
25th Percentile £405 £413 £381
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% +8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 142 162
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.31 £23.15 £14.25
Median hourly rate £22.11 £36.65 £20.07
Median % change year-on-year -39.67% +82.66% +10.08%
75th Percentile £45.88 £49.52 £43.44
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.98 £58.75
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
% change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%

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 5 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 5 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 +5 173 £534 -2.91% 138
Cheshire +3 28 £489 -2.20% 23
Lancashire -1 13 £652 +6.53% 7
Cumbria - 12 £515 - 3
Merseyside -15 7 £475 -7.32% 15
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 (4.18%) Confluence
2 6 (2.51%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.84%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.84%) nginx
4 2 (0.84%) Traefik
5 1 (0.42%) GeoServer
Applications
1 4 (1.67%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.42%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (2.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.67%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.84%) SAP Retail
3 2 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 96 (40.17%) Azure
2 64 (26.78%) AWS
3 50 (20.92%) Azure DevOps
4 33 (13.81%) Serverless
5 26 (10.88%) Amazon EC2
6 17 (7.11%) Amazon S3
6 17 (7.11%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (5.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 13 (5.44%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (5.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 8 (3.35%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (2.93%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (2.93%) GCP
10 7 (2.93%) GitHub
10 7 (2.93%) Power Platform
10 7 (2.93%) Route 53
10 7 (2.93%) Snowflake
11 6 (2.51%) Amazon ELB
11 6 (2.51%) SaaS
12 5 (2.09%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 43 (17.99%) Firewall
2 31 (12.97%) VPN
3 12 (5.02%) BGP
3 12 (5.02%) Cisco ASA
3 12 (5.02%) Cisco Firepower
3 12 (5.02%) Cisco ISE
3 12 (5.02%) EIGRP
3 12 (5.02%) HSRP
3 12 (5.02%) IPsec
3 12 (5.02%) NetScaler
3 12 (5.02%) OSPF
3 12 (5.02%) SNMP
3 12 (5.02%) Spanning Tree
3 12 (5.02%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (2.93%) Network Security
5 6 (2.51%) DNS
6 3 (1.26%) DSL
6 3 (1.26%) HTTP
6 3 (1.26%) SSL
7 2 (0.84%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.37%) NoSQL
2 19 (7.95%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (7.95%) Relational Database
3 15 (6.28%) MongoDB
4 11 (4.60%) RDBMS
5 10 (4.18%) DynamoDB
5 10 (4.18%) Oracle Reports
6 9 (3.77%) MySQL
7 8 (3.35%) SQL Server
8 7 (2.93%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (2.51%) Data Lake
10 5 (2.09%) Tableau
11 4 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.67%) GIS
11 4 (1.67%) OLAP
11 4 (1.67%) OLTP
11 4 (1.67%) Oracle OLAP
12 2 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.84%) Redis
Development Applications
1 35 (14.64%) Git
2 25 (10.46%) JIRA
3 20 (8.37%) GitLab
3 20 (8.37%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.93%) JUnit
4 7 (2.93%) SonarQube
5 6 (2.51%) Bitbucket
5 6 (2.51%) Selenium
6 3 (1.26%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.26%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (1.26%) webpack
7 2 (0.84%) Postman
8 1 (0.42%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.42%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.42%) Gradle
8 1 (0.42%) Maven
8 1 (0.42%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.42%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.42%) Travis CI
8 1 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 36 (15.06%) Public Sector
2 30 (12.55%) Social Skills
3 22 (9.21%) Finance
4 9 (3.77%) Banking
4 9 (3.77%) Legal
5 8 (3.35%) Retail
6 5 (2.09%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.26%) Law
8 2 (0.84%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.42%) Automotive
9 1 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.42%) Local Government
9 1 (0.42%) Military
9 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.42%) Public Speaking
9 1 (0.42%) Retail Finance
9 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 62 (25.94%) Architect
2 57 (23.85%) DevOps Engineer
3 42 (17.57%) Lead
4 34 (14.23%) Technical Architect
5 32 (13.39%) Developer
6 29 (12.13%) Technical Leader
7 28 (11.72%) Lead Architect
8 27 (11.30%) Senior
9 23 (9.62%) AWS DevOps
10 17 (7.11%) Solutions Architect
11 16 (6.69%) AWS Engineer
12 15 (6.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 14 (5.86%) Azure Engineer
14 12 (5.02%) Network Engineer
14 12 (5.02%) Senior DevOps
15 11 (4.60%) DBA
15 11 (4.60%) PostgreSQL DBA
16 10 (4.18%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 8 (3.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 8 (3.35%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (15.06%) Node.js
2 17 (7.11%) Kafka
3 16 (6.69%) .NET
4 14 (5.86%) React
5 13 (5.44%) REST
5 13 (5.44%) Spring
6 12 (5.02%) Jinja
6 12 (5.02%) JSON
6 12 (5.02%) Spring Boot
6 12 (5.02%) XML
7 9 (3.77%) JPA
8 7 (2.93%) HTML
8 7 (2.93%) SOAP
9 6 (2.51%) .NET Core
9 6 (2.51%) .NET Framework
9 6 (2.51%) CSS
9 6 (2.51%) Entity Framework
9 6 (2.51%) Hibernate
9 6 (2.51%) RESTful
9 6 (2.51%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 38 (15.90%) Public Cloud
2 17 (7.11%) Product Ownership
3 10 (4.18%) Mobile App
4 9 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.09%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.67%) DataPower
6 4 (1.67%) PKI
6 4 (1.67%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.26%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.26%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.84%) Clustering
8 2 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.84%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.42%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.42%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 39 (16.32%) Windows
2 35 (14.64%) Android
2 35 (14.64%) Apple iOS
3 33 (13.81%) Windows Server
4 12 (5.02%) Linux
5 6 (2.51%) Unix
6 4 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.84%) Alpine Linux
7 2 (0.84%) CentOS
8 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (49.79%) Agile
2 102 (42.68%) CI/CD
3 44 (18.41%) Microservices
4 42 (17.57%) Design Patterns
5 37 (15.48%) Risk Management
6 33 (13.81%) Infrastructure as Code
7 32 (13.39%) Containerisation
7 32 (13.39%) Mobile Device Management
8 31 (12.97%) Security Architecture
9 30 (12.55%) Zero Trust
10 28 (11.72%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 28 (11.72%) Threat Intelligence
11 26 (10.88%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (9.21%) Scrum
13 21 (8.79%) ITIL
14 20 (8.37%) Architectural Patterns
14 20 (8.37%) Mentoring
14 20 (8.37%) Migration
14 20 (8.37%) Roadmaps
15 18 (7.53%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 55 (23.01%) Python
2 22 (9.21%) Java
3 21 (8.79%) SQL
4 19 (7.95%) Bash
4 19 (7.95%) C#
5 15 (6.28%) Go
6 13 (5.44%) TypeScript
7 12 (5.02%) Perl
7 12 (5.02%) Tcl
8 11 (4.60%) PowerShell
9 9 (3.77%) JavaScript
9 9 (3.77%) Ruby
10 5 (2.09%) PHP
10 5 (2.09%) Search Processing Language
10 5 (2.09%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.26%) Bicep
11 3 (1.26%) C
12 2 (0.84%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.42%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 65 (27.20%) Security Cleared
2 59 (24.69%) SC Cleared
3 18 (7.53%) Degree
4 12 (5.02%) CCNA
4 12 (5.02%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (4.60%) CCNP
6 9 (3.77%) AWS Certification
6 9 (3.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 8 (3.35%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.42%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.42%) MCP
9 1 (0.42%) MCSE
9 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.02%) QA
2 5 (2.09%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.26%) GDPR
3 3 (1.26%) ISO 22301
3 3 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.26%) NIST
3 3 (1.26%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.84%) NCSC
4 2 (0.84%) SLA
System Software
1 42 (17.57%) Docker
2 12 (5.02%) Active Directory
2 12 (5.02%) Firmware
3 2 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 55 (23.01%) Terraform
2 49 (20.50%) Kubernetes
3 34 (14.23%) Ansible
4 9 (3.77%) Prometheus
5 7 (2.93%) HP Fortify
6 6 (2.51%) Grafana
7 5 (2.09%) Puppet
7 5 (2.09%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.67%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.26%) CFEngine
9 3 (1.26%) PowerBroker
10 2 (0.84%) Consul
10 2 (0.84%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.84%) Graphite
10 2 (0.84%) HAProxy
10 2 (0.84%) Istio
10 2 (0.84%) linkerd
10 2 (0.84%) Packer
10 2 (0.84%) Podman
10 2 (0.84%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 29 (12.13%) Oracle
2 27 (11.30%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.44%) Splunk
4 12 (5.02%) Cisco
4 12 (5.02%) Citrix
4 12 (5.02%) Palo Alto
4 12 (5.02%) SolarWinds
5 6 (2.51%) Atlassian
5 6 (2.51%) Google
6 5 (2.09%) Apple
6 5 (2.09%) VMware
7 4 (1.67%) Cadence
7 4 (1.67%) IBM
7 4 (1.67%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.67%) TSYS
8 3 (1.26%) PagerDuty
8 3 (1.26%) SAP
8 3 (1.26%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.84%) Mapbox
9 2 (0.84%) Virgin Media