DevOps Contracts in Tyne and Wear

DevOps
North East > Tyne and Wear

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 15 3
Rank change year-on-year -6 -12 +13
Contract jobs citing DevOps 11 43 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 4.53% 12.36% 22.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.29% 13.23% 24.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 38 59
10th Percentile £358 £500 £400
25th Percentile £384 £525 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +13.04% +16.16%
75th Percentile £549 £775 £688
90th Percentile £599 £847 £717
North East median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +12.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 208 325 356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 85.60% 93.39% 90.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 255 272
10th Percentile £297 £319 £200
25th Percentile £371 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £565 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% +13.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £589 £650 £600
90th Percentile £650 £736 £695
North East median daily rate £500 £550 £488
% change year-on-year -9.09% +12.82% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 0 12
10th Percentile £11.50 - £10.57
25th Percentile £12.13 - £12.54
Median hourly rate £17.50 - £16.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.68%
75th Percentile £48.75 - £17.50
90th Percentile £50.00 - £18.63
North East median hourly rate £15.46 £40.75 £16.50
% change year-on-year -62.06% +146.97% +8.20%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Tyne and Wear

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Tyne and Wear

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Tyne and Wear

DevOps
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 within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -1 11 £525 -19.23% 13
DevOps
North East

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (9.09%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) AWS
2 5 (45.45%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (18.18%) GCP
4 2 (18.18%) SaaS
5 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
5 1 (9.09%) IaaS
5 1 (9.09%) Miro
5 1 (9.09%) PaaS
5 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) GitLab
1 3 (27.27%) JIRA
General
1 3 (27.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (27.27%) Marketing
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Architect
1 3 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Operations Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Angular Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) .NET Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Salesforce Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Salesforce Solution Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Security Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Security Solutions Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) .NET
1 1 (9.09%) .NET Framework
1 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
1 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
1 1 (9.09%) HTML
1 1 (9.09%) JSON
1 1 (9.09%) Middleware
1 1 (9.09%) REST
1 1 (9.09%) Sass
1 1 (9.09%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 2 (18.18%) Virtual Reality
3 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 1 (9.09%) Low-Code
3 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
1 3 (27.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Agile
2 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 6 (54.55%) Scrum
3 4 (36.36%) Architectural Design
3 4 (36.36%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (36.36%) Migration
4 3 (27.27%) Architectural Patterns
4 3 (27.27%) CRM
4 3 (27.27%) Microservices
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (18.18%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
5 2 (18.18%) Design Patterns
5 2 (18.18%) Kanban
5 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (18.18%) Process Improvement
5 2 (18.18%) Product Backlog
5 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
5 2 (18.18%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 2 (18.18%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) C#
1 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
1 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Ansible
1 3 (27.27%) Grafana
1 3 (27.27%) Prometheus
1 3 (27.27%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) PagerDuty
1 3 (27.27%) Salesforce
1 3 (27.27%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft