DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Preston

Development Operations Engineer
Lancashire > Preston

As of 16 December 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Preston.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 13 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Preston 2.17% 2.17% -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.33% 2.22% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Lancashire median daily rate - £525 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £39.53 £59.39 -
Median hourly rate £42.69 £63.79 -
Median % change year-on-year -33.08% - -
75th Percentile £45.84 £68.18 -
90th Percentile - - -
Lancashire median hourly rate £42.69 £63.79 -
% change year-on-year -33.08% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Preston

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Preston. 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 Preston with a recognized job title 86 45 61
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 97.83% 98.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 21 22
10th Percentile £146 £200 £328
25th Percentile £351 £350 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £530 £425
Median % change year-on-year -14.15% +24.71% +21.43%
75th Percentile £572 £550 £498
90th Percentile £679 £600 £500
Lancashire median daily rate £475 £500 £588
% change year-on-year -5.00% -14.89% +12.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 9 36
10th Percentile £39.23 £22.02 £20.58
25th Percentile £41.94 £24.76 £33.66
Median hourly rate £42.69 £30.40 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +40.41% -34.17% +15.33%
75th Percentile £72.21 £37.00 £51.63
90th Percentile £75.79 £67.64 £74.37
Lancashire median hourly rate £45.46 £37.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +22.86% -19.88% +15.39%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Preston

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Preston

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Preston.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Preston

DevOps Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Preston

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Preston.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Preston

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 19 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston

For the 6 months to 16 December 2025, DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Preston region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Secrets Management
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform