DevOps Engineer Contracts in Manchester

Development Operations Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £513 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 31 46
Rank change year-on-year -21 +15 -6
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 45 87 126
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 3.12% 4.88% 4.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.27% 5.08% 4.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 70 106
10th Percentile £425 £475 £444
25th Percentile £444 £488 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -2.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £625
90th Percentile £650 £653 £638
North West median daily rate £500 £548 £563
% change year-on-year -8.68% -2.67% +12.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,378 1,713 2,561
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.56% 96.02% 97.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 953 1,280 1,990
10th Percentile £313 £313 £229
25th Percentile £400 £413 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +2.56% +13.37%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 43 63
10th Percentile £12.07 £14.87 £11.44
25th Percentile £13.31 £16.85 £14.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £26.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.62% +33.33% +20.15%
75th Percentile £63.13 £44.38 £34.38
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £32.90 £30.54 £23.22
% change year-on-year +7.71% +31.51% +29.37%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Manchester

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in Manchester

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in Manchester

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Engineer in Manchester

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 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 Manchester region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 45 (100.00%) DevOps
2 34 (75.56%) Terraform
3 30 (66.67%) CI/CD
4 24 (53.33%) Azure
4 24 (53.33%) AWS
5 22 (48.89%) Kubernetes
6 21 (46.67%) Docker
7 20 (44.44%) Python
8 19 (42.22%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (31.11%) GitLab
10 12 (26.67%) Containerisation
11 10 (22.22%) Software Delivery
11 10 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (22.22%) Ansible
12 9 (20.00%) Go
12 9 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (20.00%) Git
13 8 (17.78%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (17.78%) Bash
13 8 (17.78%) Security Cleared
13 8 (17.78%) Agile
13 8 (17.78%) Jenkins
14 7 (15.56%) Configuration Management
14 7 (15.56%) Migration
14 7 (15.56%) Linux
14 7 (15.56%) SC Cleared
15 6 (13.33%) PowerShell
15 6 (13.33%) SQL
15 6 (13.33%) Oracle
15 6 (13.33%) Active Directory

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 4 (8.89%) Confluence
2 2 (4.44%) nginx
2 2 (4.44%) Traefik
3 1 (2.22%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 24 (53.33%) AWS
1 24 (53.33%) Azure
2 10 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
3 9 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (17.78%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (11.11%) GCP
7 4 (8.89%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (8.89%) Serverless
7 4 (8.89%) Snowflake
8 3 (6.67%) Amazon ELB
8 3 (6.67%) Amazon S3
8 3 (6.67%) AWS CodePipeline
8 3 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (6.67%) GitHub
9 2 (4.44%) Azure Storage
9 2 (4.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (2.22%) Azure AKS
10 1 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (2.22%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.11%) DNS
2 3 (6.67%) Network Security
3 2 (4.44%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.22%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.11%) MySQL
2 3 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (6.67%) Data Lake
2 3 (6.67%) DynamoDB
3 2 (4.44%) Redis
3 2 (4.44%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.22%) Flink
4 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (31.11%) GitLab
2 9 (20.00%) Git
3 8 (17.78%) Jenkins
4 3 (6.67%) JIRA
4 3 (6.67%) SonarQube
5 2 (4.44%) Bitbucket
5 2 (4.44%) Selenium
6 1 (2.22%) Liquibase
6 1 (2.22%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.22%) Travis CI
General
1 5 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 3 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (2.22%) Banking
3 1 (2.22%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.67%) ARM Templates
2 2 (4.44%) cloud-init
2 2 (4.44%) pytest
2 2 (4.44%) SAML
2 2 (4.44%) YAML
3 1 (2.22%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.22%) JSON
3 1 (2.22%) Node.js
3 1 (2.22%) REST
3 1 (2.22%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.89%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (8.89%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (8.89%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.44%) Clustering
2 2 (4.44%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (4.44%) PKI
3 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.56%) Linux
2 4 (8.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (4.44%) Alpine Linux
3 2 (4.44%) CentOS
4 1 (2.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (100.00%) DevOps
2 30 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 19 (42.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (26.67%) Containerisation
5 10 (22.22%) Software Delivery
6 8 (17.78%) Agile
7 7 (15.56%) Configuration Management
7 7 (15.56%) Migration
8 6 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (11.11%) Data Migration
9 5 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
9 5 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
9 5 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 4 (8.89%) Cloud Operations
10 4 (8.89%) Continuous Integration
11 3 (6.67%) Data Pipeline
11 3 (6.67%) High Availability
11 3 (6.67%) IT Strategy
11 3 (6.67%) Software Engineering
11 3 (6.67%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 20 (44.44%) Python
2 9 (20.00%) Go
3 8 (17.78%) Bash
4 6 (13.33%) PowerShell
4 6 (13.33%) SQL
5 5 (11.11%) PHP
5 5 (11.11%) Ruby
6 4 (8.89%) Java
7 1 (2.22%) Bicep
7 1 (2.22%) C
7 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (17.78%) Security Cleared
2 7 (15.56%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 5 (11.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.22%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.67%) NIST
1 3 (6.67%) PCI DSS
2 2 (4.44%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (4.44%) NCSC
System Software
1 21 (46.67%) Docker
2 6 (13.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.44%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 34 (75.56%) Terraform
2 22 (48.89%) Kubernetes
3 10 (22.22%) Ansible
4 5 (11.11%) Prometheus
5 3 (6.67%) Grafana
5 3 (6.67%) HP Fortify
6 2 (4.44%) Consul
6 2 (4.44%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (4.44%) Graphite
6 2 (4.44%) HAProxy
6 2 (4.44%) Istio
6 2 (4.44%) linkerd
6 2 (4.44%) Packer
6 2 (4.44%) Podman
6 2 (4.44%) Puppet
6 2 (4.44%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (13.33%) Oracle
2 5 (11.11%) Splunk
3 3 (6.67%) Atlassian
3 3 (6.67%) PagerDuty
3 3 (6.67%) VMware
4 2 (4.44%) Virgin Media
5 1 (2.22%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow