DevOps Contracts in Tyne and Wear

DevOps
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 14 21 15
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 -12
Contract jobs citing DevOps 23 11 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 9.43% 4.53% 12.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.33% 5.29% 13.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 7 38
10th Percentile £424 £358 £500
25th Percentile £510 £384 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -19.23% +13.04%
75th Percentile £590 £549 £775
90th Percentile £626 £599 £847
North East median daily rate £550 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 203 208 325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 83.20% 85.60% 93.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 98 255
10th Percentile £213 £297 £319
25th Percentile £350 £371 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -11.50% +13.00%
75th Percentile £566 £589 £650
90th Percentile £626 £650 £736
North East median daily rate £470 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 36 0
10th Percentile - £11.50 -
25th Percentile £11.60 £12.13 -
Median hourly rate £16.50 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 £48.75 -
90th Percentile £50.70 £50.00 -
North East median hourly rate £14.07 £15.46 £40.75
% change year-on-year -8.99% -62.06% +146.97%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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 +3 23 £550 +4.76% 87
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 7 (30.43%) nginx
2 2 (8.70%) Traefik
3 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
3 1 (4.35%) CMS
3 1 (4.35%) Confluence
3 1 (4.35%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 16 (69.57%) AWS
2 8 (34.78%) Azure
3 6 (26.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (17.39%) Kong
5 3 (13.04%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (13.04%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (8.70%) Entra ID
6 2 (8.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon Lightsail
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (4.35%) AWS CodeBuild
7 1 (4.35%) AWS CodeCommit
7 1 (4.35%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 1 (4.35%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) SSL
2 2 (8.70%) DNS
2 2 (8.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.35%) Flink
2 1 (4.35%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 13 (56.52%) GitLab
2 5 (21.74%) Jenkins
3 3 (13.04%) Selenium
4 1 (4.35%) Git
4 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 13 (56.52%) Public Sector
2 4 (17.39%) Electronics
2 4 (17.39%) Finance
2 4 (17.39%) Manufacturing
2 4 (17.39%) Marketing
2 4 (17.39%) Telecoms
3 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (60.87%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) AWS DevOps
2 7 (30.43%) Senior
2 7 (30.43%) Senior DevOps
3 6 (26.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 6 (26.09%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Lead
4 4 (17.39%) Lead DevOps
4 4 (17.39%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Developer
6 2 (8.70%) DevOps Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Senior Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) Kafka
1 3 (13.04%) pytest
1 3 (13.04%) REST
1 3 (13.04%) SOAP
2 2 (8.70%) ARM Templates
2 2 (8.70%) cloud-init
2 2 (8.70%) Keycloak
3 1 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.35%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) PKI
2 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (26.09%) Linux
2 4 (17.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (8.70%) CentOS
3 2 (8.70%) Unix
4 1 (4.35%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) CI/CD
2 9 (39.13%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (21.74%) Agile
4 4 (17.39%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (17.39%) Deployment Automation
4 4 (17.39%) Digital Marketing
4 4 (17.39%) Programme Management
5 3 (13.04%) Containerisation
5 3 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (13.04%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (13.04%) Decision-Making
5 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (8.70%) API Management
6 2 (8.70%) Cloud Security
6 2 (8.70%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 2 (8.70%) Identity Management
6 2 (8.70%) Microservices
6 2 (8.70%) Mobile Device Management
6 2 (8.70%) Scrum
6 2 (8.70%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) Python
2 5 (21.74%) Bash
3 2 (8.70%) Go
4 1 (4.35%) Bicep
4 1 (4.35%) Java
4 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.35%) PHP
4 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (52.17%) Security Cleared
2 9 (39.13%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) AWS Certification
3 2 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) NCSC
2 2 (8.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.35%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 11 (47.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (73.91%) Kubernetes
1 17 (73.91%) Terraform
2 8 (34.78%) Grafana
2 8 (34.78%) Prometheus
3 4 (17.39%) Ansible
4 3 (13.04%) Packer
5 2 (8.70%) Consul
5 2 (8.70%) HAProxy
5 2 (8.70%) Istio
5 2 (8.70%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (8.70%) linkerd
5 2 (8.70%) Rancher
5 2 (8.70%) ZABBIX
6 1 (4.35%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (4.35%) Kibana
6 1 (4.35%) logstash
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) SAP
2 2 (8.70%) Apple
2 2 (8.70%) ESET
2 2 (8.70%) Okta
2 2 (8.70%) Splunk
3 1 (4.35%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft