DevOps Contracts in Preston

DevOps
Lancashire > Preston

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 13 20
Rank change year-on-year -3 +7 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 2 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Preston 2.90% 5.45% 3.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.13% 6.00% 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £397 £668 £273
25th Percentile £408 £695 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £740 £325
Median % change year-on-year -40.88% +127.69% -27.78%
75th Percentile £468 £745 £363
90th Percentile £480 £748 £378
Lancashire median daily rate £575 £652 £613
% change year-on-year -11.87% +6.53% -9.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £42.81
Median hourly rate - - £46.11
75th Percentile - - £49.40
90th Percentile - - -
Lancashire median hourly rate - £45.88 £46.11
% change year-on-year - -0.49% +11.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Preston

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 Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 64 50 78
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 92.75% 90.91% 98.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 16 28
10th Percentile £350 £356 £303
25th Percentile £447 £459 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £571 £438
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% +30.62% +4.48%
75th Percentile £575 £743 £532
90th Percentile £630 £981 £771
Lancashire median daily rate £533 £538 £533
% change year-on-year -0.93% +0.94% +11.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 32 39
10th Percentile £24.76 £12.20 £23.60
25th Percentile £26.88 - £29.00
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -62.21% +6.99%
75th Percentile £31.07 £19.05 £49.52
90th Percentile £43.39 £46.18 £54.03
Lancashire median hourly rate £28.75 £19.18 £42.50
% change year-on-year +49.90% -54.87% +7.59%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Preston

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Preston

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Preston

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Preston

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps in Preston.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in Preston

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Preston 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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum Master
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Management
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Review
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared