DevOps Contracts in Northern Ireland

DevOps
UK > Northern Ireland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 19 16
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 +5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 5 11 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 3.65% 5.53% 8.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.90% 7.24% 10.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 13
10th Percentile £463 £530 £426
25th Percentile £481 £556 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £485
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +23.71% -7.62%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £550
90th Percentile £617 £640 £576
UK median daily rate £550 £583 £575
% change year-on-year -5.66% +1.39% +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 102 152 174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 74.45% 76.38% 84.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 77 90
10th Percentile £212 £163 £145
25th Percentile £370 £270 £301
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £425 £433
Median % change year-on-year +20.59% -1.73% +2.00%
75th Percentile £625 £535 £500
90th Percentile £675 £638 £550
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 14 13
10th Percentile - £13.40 £10.22
25th Percentile £12.25 £13.91 £10.29
Median hourly rate £14.19 £15.25 £15.74
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -3.11% +16.59%
75th Percentile £23.54 £16.78 £21.00
90th Percentile £31.88 £18.12 -
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Northern Ireland

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps in Northern Ireland.

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Northern Ireland

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Northern Ireland

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 13 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
County Antrim 0 4 £519 -13.54% 31
County Londonderry - 1 £640 -
DevOps
UK

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Maven
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) NetSuite Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) NetSuite Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) REST
1 3 (60.00%) Software Packaging
1 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) SDET
1 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Community of Practice
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Kanban
2 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (20.00%) Product Backlog
2 1 (20.00%) Product Management
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle