DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Development Operations Engineer
North East > Tyne and Wear

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Tyne and Wear is £413, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 16 19
Rank change year-on-year -19 +3 +14
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 12 23 8
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 3.61% 10.65% 4.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.74% 12.17% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 15 6
10th Percentile - £381 £413
25th Percentile £400 £424 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £515 £513
Median % change year-on-year -19.90% +0.49% -22.64%
75th Percentile £525 £580 £588
90th Percentile £575 £650 £613
North East median daily rate £419 £515 £513
% change year-on-year -18.69% +0.49% -21.15%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Tyne and Wear

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Tyne and Wear. 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 Tyne and Wear with a recognized job title 321 189 168
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.69% 87.50% 93.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 110 114
10th Percentile £167 £211 £191
25th Percentile £339 £335 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £521 £575 £579
90th Percentile £578 £650 £720
North East median daily rate £440 £465 £435
% change year-on-year -5.43% +6.90% -19.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 5 6
10th Percentile £14.05 £15.41 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.88 £16.50 £15.69
Median hourly rate £36.00 £21.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +71.43% +20.00% +40.00%
75th Percentile £53.75 £48.75 £49.69
90th Percentile £54.50 £61.50 £60.00
North East median hourly rate £36.00 £46.18 £17.50
% change year-on-year -22.04% +163.89% -22.22%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Tyne and Wear.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Tyne and Wear

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in Tyne and Wear

DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -18 12 £413 -19.90% 7
DevOps Engineer
North East

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear

For the 6 months to 14 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 Tyne and Wear region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 10 (83.33%) SC Cleared
2 10 (83.33%) Security Cleared
3 9 (75.00%) AWS
4 8 (66.67%) CI/CD
4 8 (66.67%) Terraform
5 6 (50.00%) GitLab
5 6 (50.00%) Python
6 4 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 4 (33.33%) Data Engineering
6 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (25.00%) Docker
7 3 (25.00%) Grafana
7 3 (25.00%) Java
7 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
7 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
7 3 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (16.67%) Bash
8 2 (16.67%) BDD
8 2 (16.67%) Cloud Security
8 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (16.67%) Cucumber
8 2 (16.67%) DNS
8 2 (16.67%) Dynatrace
8 2 (16.67%) Functional Testing
8 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
8 2 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 9 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (16.67%) Serverless
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
4 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (8.33%) CloudFront
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) Pulumi
4 1 (8.33%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) GitLab
2 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (16.67%) Cucumber
3 2 (16.67%) REST Assured
4 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
4 1 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (75.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) REST
1 2 (16.67%) WireMock
2 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (8.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 4 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (16.67%) BDD
5 2 (16.67%) Cloud Security
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (16.67%) Functional Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 2 (16.67%) Migration
5 2 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (16.67%) TDD
6 1 (8.33%) Continuous Delivery
6 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (8.33%) SDLC
6 1 (8.33%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) Java
3 2 (16.67%) Bash
3 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.33%) Groovy
4 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 10 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (66.67%) Terraform
2 3 (25.00%) Grafana
3 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
4 1 (8.33%) Ansible
4 1 (8.33%) Packer
4 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Dynatrace