DevOps Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

DevOps
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 6 16
Rank change year-on-year -8 +10 -6
Contract jobs citing DevOps 34 42 13
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 10.59% 19.09% 6.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.68% 20.69% 8.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 25 8
10th Percentile £400 £404 £418
25th Percentile £425 £435 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £585 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +17.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £591
90th Percentile £628 £794 £608
North East median daily rate £520 £585 £500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +17.00% -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 291 203 162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 90.65% 92.27% 85.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 100 107
10th Percentile £170 £305 £223
25th Percentile £358 £357 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £536 £588 £580
90th Percentile £589 £650 £720
North East median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 18 8
10th Percentile £14.05 £13.75 £16.03
25th Percentile £16.46 £15.31 £16.81
Median hourly rate £19.25 £16.25 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.46% -14.47% +11.76%
75th Percentile £52.63 £19.94 £23.19
90th Percentile £53.75 £70.00 £32.53
North East median hourly rate £24.08 £22.75 £19.75
% change year-on-year +5.85% +15.19% -12.22%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

DevOps job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing DevOps

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 2 December 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 2 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 -8 34 £520 -11.49% 38
DevOps
North East

DevOps
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (8.82%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 25 (73.53%) AWS
2 8 (23.53%) GitHub
3 7 (20.59%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (17.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (17.65%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (17.65%) Serverless
5 4 (11.76%) Amazon S3
5 4 (11.76%) Azure
5 4 (11.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (8.82%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (5.88%) GCP
8 1 (2.94%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (2.94%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (2.94%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.94%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.88%) MongoDB
2 2 (5.88%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.94%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.94%) Delta Lake
3 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.94%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 17 (50.00%) GitLab
2 9 (26.47%) Jenkins
3 7 (20.59%) Git
4 5 (14.71%) Cucumber
5 4 (11.76%) JIRA
5 4 (11.76%) REST Assured
6 3 (8.82%) JMeter
7 2 (5.88%) Cypress.io
7 2 (5.88%) Gatling
7 2 (5.88%) Mocha
7 2 (5.88%) Postman
7 2 (5.88%) Selenium
7 2 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (2.94%) Artifactory
8 1 (2.94%) SonarQube
8 1 (2.94%) TestRail
General
1 20 (58.82%) Public Sector
2 7 (20.59%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Finance
4 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (32.35%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (23.53%) Lead
3 7 (20.59%) AWS DevOps
3 7 (20.59%) Test Engineer
4 6 (17.65%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (17.65%) Developer
5 5 (14.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (11.76%) Test Automation Engineer
7 3 (8.82%) Senior
8 2 (5.88%) Automation Tester
8 2 (5.88%) Backend Developer
8 2 (5.88%) Data Engineer
8 2 (5.88%) DevOps Automation Engineer
8 2 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (5.88%) Lead Data Engineer
8 2 (5.88%) Lead Test Engineer
8 2 (5.88%) Network Migration Engineer
8 2 (5.88%) Node.js Developer
8 2 (5.88%) QA Automation Engineer
8 2 (5.88%) QA Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (23.53%) REST
2 4 (11.76%) Node.js
3 3 (8.82%) Gherkin
4 2 (5.88%) .NET
4 2 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (5.88%) GraphQL
4 2 (5.88%) Jest
4 2 (5.88%) Kafka
4 2 (5.88%) Next.js
4 2 (5.88%) OpenAPI
4 2 (5.88%) Spring
4 2 (5.88%) Spring Boot
4 2 (5.88%) Swagger
4 2 (5.88%) WireMock
5 1 (2.94%) AWS CDK
5 1 (2.94%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (2.94%) Playwright
5 1 (2.94%) PySpark
5 1 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.94%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.94%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Linux
1 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (76.47%) CI/CD
2 15 (44.12%) Test Automation
3 13 (38.24%) Agile
4 12 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (29.41%) Containerisation
6 8 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (20.59%) Mentoring
7 7 (20.59%) TDD
8 6 (17.65%) Data Engineering
8 6 (17.65%) Microservices
8 6 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (14.71%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (11.76%) BDD
10 4 (11.76%) Coaching
10 4 (11.76%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 4 (11.76%) Migration
10 4 (11.76%) Observability
10 4 (11.76%) QA Automation
10 4 (11.76%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 17 (50.00%) Python
2 11 (32.35%) Java
3 8 (23.53%) Bash
4 6 (17.65%) JavaScript
5 4 (11.76%) Go
6 3 (8.82%) SQL
6 3 (8.82%) TypeScript
7 2 (5.88%) Bicep
7 2 (5.88%) Groovy
7 2 (5.88%) Perl
8 1 (2.94%) C#
8 1 (2.94%) PHP
8 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (55.88%) SC Cleared
1 19 (55.88%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.94%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.94%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.94%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (20.59%) QA
2 3 (8.82%) Accessibility
3 2 (5.88%) WCAG
4 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.94%) GDPR
4 1 (2.94%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (32.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (58.82%) Terraform
2 13 (38.24%) Kubernetes
3 10 (29.41%) Grafana
4 6 (17.65%) Ansible
4 6 (17.65%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.94%) Argo
5 1 (2.94%) Istio
5 1 (2.94%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (5.88%) Databricks
1 2 (5.88%) Dynatrace
2 1 (2.94%) Blue Prism
2 1 (2.94%) Checkmarx
2 1 (2.94%) Google
2 1 (2.94%) Oracle
2 1 (2.94%) Red Hat
2 1 (2.94%) UiPath