DevOps Engineer Contracts in Lancashire

Development Operations Engineer
North West > Lancashire

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Lancashire is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 41 31
Rank change year-on-year +18 -10 +3
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 6 1 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 3.09% 0.39% 2.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.23% 0.42% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 7
10th Percentile £433 - £622
25th Percentile £468 - £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £675
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.59%
75th Percentile £584 - £694
90th Percentile £624 - £700
North West median daily rate £487 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -7.19% -12.50% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £59.39 - -
Median hourly rate £63.79 - -
75th Percentile £68.18 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £63.79 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Lancashire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Lancashire. 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 Lancashire with a recognized job title 186 236 229
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.88% 92.55% 93.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 126 170
10th Percentile £240 £313 £179
25th Percentile £306 £409 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £588 £645 £647
90th Percentile £628 £720 £738
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 66 24
10th Percentile £16.58 £20.43 £13.63
25th Percentile £17.64 £37.60 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.33 £46.18 £37.80
Median % change year-on-year -12.68% +22.18% +118.74%
75th Percentile £47.39 £50.00 £45.73
90th Percentile £74.37 £59.74 £64.36
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.14% +55.56% +25.00%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Lancashire.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Lancashire

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Lancashire.

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in Lancashire

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Lancashire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Lancashire over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in Lancashire

DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Blackpool - 3 £530 -
Chorley - 2 £525 -
Preston +8 1 - -
DevOps Engineer
North West

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Lancashire region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
3 3 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 3 (50.00%) Python
3 3 (50.00%) Bash
3 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (50.00%) Ansible
3 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (50.00%) Terraform
3 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
4 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 2 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (33.33%) Software Delivery
4 2 (33.33%) Docker
4 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
4 2 (33.33%) GitLab
4 2 (33.33%) Coaching
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) CentOS
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Coaching
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Time Management
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Operations
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Bash
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Grafana
2 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat