DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Warrington

Development Operations Engineer
Cheshire > Warrington

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Warrington is £374, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 20 20
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +7
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Warrington 2.33% 1.59% 1.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.03% 1.67% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £354 - -
25th Percentile £358 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £374 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.81% -5.26% -29.63%
75th Percentile £388 £475 -
90th Percentile £392 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £391 £356 £525
% change year-on-year +9.90% -32.19% -12.13%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Warrington

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Warrington. 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 Warrington with a recognized job title 66 60 75
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 76.74% 95.24% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 33 48
10th Percentile £183 £212 £164
25th Percentile £217 £325 £254
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £469 £519 £500
90th Percentile £519 £574 £538
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £19.00 £17.50 £34.08
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -48.65% -
75th Percentile £24.37 £18.75 £45.00
90th Percentile £67.25 - £63.00
Cheshire median hourly rate £23.50 £22.09 £28.31
% change year-on-year +6.38% -21.96% +60.28%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Warrington

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 Warrington.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Warrington

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Warrington

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Warrington.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Warrington

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 25 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Warrington

For the 6 months to 20 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 Warrington region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CodeBuild
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Warrington 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CodeBuild
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform