DevOps Contracts in Northern Ireland

DevOps
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 1 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 15 22
Rank change year-on-year -5 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 16 13 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 8.56% 8.28% 4.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.30% 10.83% 5.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 13 3
10th Percentile £255 £488 £530
25th Percentile £344 £525 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -27.39% -4.17% +11.11%
75th Percentile £459 £650 £625
90th Percentile £544 £675 £640
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £587
% change year-on-year -4.55% -6.34% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.98 - -
Median hourly rate £73.23 - -
75th Percentile £78.47 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £73.23 £65.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year +11.79% - +2.99%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 172 120 141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 91.98% 76.43% 75.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 59 72
10th Percentile £179 £182 £166
25th Percentile £306 £366 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £419
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +31.34% -5.90%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £521
90th Percentile £625 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 23 10
10th Percentile £14.14 - £13.70
25th Percentile £14.78 £12.25 £13.91
Median hourly rate £23.00 £15.63 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.15% +0.84% +24.00%
75th Percentile £25.15 £23.74 £17.17
90th Percentile £59.80 £31.88 £18.71
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £36.54
% change year-on-year -24.66% -0.11% +42.29%

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 1 June 2025.

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 1 June 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
County Antrim -5 16 £418 -27.39% 434
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (18.75%) Apache Spark
2 2 (12.50%) GemFire
3 1 (6.25%) Anypoint
3 1 (6.25%) Mule
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) OpenShift
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (6.25%) GCP
2 1 (6.25%) GitHub
2 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (12.50%) Apache Ignite
2 2 (12.50%) MySQL
2 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.25%) Apache Hive
3 1 (6.25%) Big Data
3 1 (6.25%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (87.50%) Finance
2 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (43.75%) Banking
4 4 (25.00%) Front Office
4 4 (25.00%) Investment Banking
5 2 (12.50%) Financial Institution
6 1 (6.25%) Retail
6 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Developer
2 8 (50.00%) Java Engineer
2 8 (50.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 8 (50.00%) Software Engineer
3 6 (37.50%) Java Developer
4 4 (25.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 4 (25.00%) Java Software Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Applications Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Junior
5 2 (12.50%) Junior Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Junior Java Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Junior Java Software Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Junior Java Software Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Junior Software Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Junior Software Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Project Manager
5 2 (12.50%) Technical Manager
5 2 (12.50%) Technical Project Manager
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Manager
6 1 (6.25%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (31.25%) JSON
2 5 (31.25%) React
2 5 (31.25%) RESTful
2 5 (31.25%) XML
3 4 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 4 (25.00%) Apache Avro
3 4 (25.00%) Kafka
3 4 (25.00%) Spring
3 4 (25.00%) Web Services
4 2 (12.50%) Hibernate
5 1 (6.25%) JMS
5 1 (6.25%) JWT
5 1 (6.25%) OAuth
5 1 (6.25%) OpenAPI
5 1 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (6.25%) RAML
5 1 (6.25%) SAML
5 1 (6.25%) SOAP
5 1 (6.25%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Derivative
1 7 (43.75%) Equities
1 7 (43.75%) Equity Derivative
2 6 (37.50%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Agile
2 9 (56.25%) Software Engineering
3 8 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (43.75%) Clean Code
4 7 (43.75%) Continuous Delivery
4 7 (43.75%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (37.50%) User Experience
6 5 (31.25%) Artificial Intelligence
6 5 (31.25%) Microservices
7 4 (25.00%) Code Quality
8 2 (12.50%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 2 (12.50%) Kanban
8 2 (12.50%) Product Strategy
8 2 (12.50%) Project Delivery
8 2 (12.50%) Roadmaps
8 2 (12.50%) Scrum
8 2 (12.50%) Sprint Planning
8 2 (12.50%) Technology Roadmap
9 1 (6.25%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) Java
2 7 (43.75%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.25%) DataWeave
4 1 (6.25%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) MuleSoft
2 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
2 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
2 1 (6.25%) TIBCO