DevOps Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Development Operations Engineer
England > North of England

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 62 73
Rank change year-on-year -34 +11 +5
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 93 192 228
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.00% 3.44% 3.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.15% 3.60% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 158 182
10th Percentile £425 £475 £438
25th Percentile £450 £513 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £587 £663 £625
90th Percentile £644 £728 £650
England median daily rate £538 £610 £600
% change year-on-year -11.89% +1.67% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £45.88 £46.11 -
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% - -
England median hourly rate £59.75 £71.00 £39.00
% change year-on-year -15.85% +82.05% -25.71%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,330 5,332 6,905
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.26% 95.44% 96.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,711 3,750 5,067
10th Percentile £263 £280 £200
25th Percentile £389 £410 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £556
90th Percentile £675 £680 £640
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 399 155 290
10th Percentile £11.06 £14.10 £11.19
25th Percentile £12.53 £17.99 £14.40
Median hourly rate £20.77 £30.54 £19.35
Median % change year-on-year -31.99% +57.81% +8.11%
75th Percentile £46.18 £49.45 £34.89
90th Percentile £62.75 £66.41 £58.75
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.23
% change year-on-year -17.38% +93.72% +5.59%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the North of England

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the North of England

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in the North of England

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the North of England

DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
North West -32 56 £513 -6.82% 23
Yorkshire 0 34 £500 -20.00% 10
North East -11 3 - - 2
DevOps Engineer
England

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 16 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 North of England region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 93 (100.00%) DevOps
2 66 (70.97%) Terraform
3 61 (65.59%) CI/CD
4 53 (56.99%) Kubernetes
5 52 (55.91%) AWS
6 44 (47.31%) Azure
7 41 (44.09%) Python
7 41 (44.09%) Docker
8 35 (37.63%) Jenkins
9 34 (36.56%) Infrastructure as Code
10 31 (33.33%) GitLab
10 31 (33.33%) Agile
10 31 (33.33%) Containerisation
11 27 (29.03%) Security Cleared
12 26 (27.96%) SC Cleared
13 24 (25.81%) Bash
14 23 (24.73%) Ansible
14 23 (24.73%) Prometheus
15 22 (23.66%) Linux
16 20 (21.51%) Git
17 19 (20.43%) Continuous Integration
18 18 (19.35%) Amazon EC2
19 17 (18.28%) PowerShell
20 16 (17.20%) Grafana
21 15 (16.13%) Go
21 15 (16.13%) Azure DevOps
21 15 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
22 14 (15.05%) GCP
22 14 (15.05%) Puppet
23 13 (13.98%) GitHub

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 10 (10.75%) Confluence
2 5 (5.38%) nginx
3 2 (2.15%) Traefik
4 1 (1.08%) Apache
4 1 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.08%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 52 (55.91%) AWS
2 44 (47.31%) Azure
3 18 (19.35%) Amazon EC2
4 15 (16.13%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (15.05%) GCP
6 13 (13.98%) GitHub
7 12 (12.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (11.83%) Amazon S3
8 11 (11.83%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (11.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 8 (8.60%) Route 53
10 7 (7.53%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (7.53%) Amazon ELB
10 7 (7.53%) Serverless
11 6 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (6.45%) Kong
12 4 (4.30%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (4.30%) AWS CodePipeline
12 4 (4.30%) AWS KMS
12 4 (4.30%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (11.83%) DNS
2 8 (8.60%) Firewall
2 8 (8.60%) HTTP
2 8 (8.60%) TCP/IP
3 6 (6.45%) VPN
4 4 (4.30%) Reverse Proxy
4 4 (4.30%) SSL
5 3 (3.23%) Network Security
6 2 (2.15%) BIG-IP
6 2 (2.15%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (1.08%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.60%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (6.45%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (6.45%) MySQL
3 3 (3.23%) Data Lake
3 3 (3.23%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.15%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.15%) Redis
4 2 (2.15%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.08%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.08%) ClickHouse
5 1 (1.08%) Flink
5 1 (1.08%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 35 (37.63%) Jenkins
2 31 (33.33%) GitLab
3 20 (21.51%) Git
4 12 (12.90%) JIRA
5 7 (7.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 7 (7.53%) Travis CI
6 6 (6.45%) CircleCI
7 5 (5.38%) Bitbucket
8 3 (3.23%) SonarQube
9 2 (2.15%) Selenium
9 2 (2.15%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (1.08%) Maven
General
1 11 (11.83%) Social Skills
2 7 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (6.45%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.30%) Finance
5 3 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.08%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.60%) YAML
2 7 (7.53%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (6.45%) JSON
3 6 (6.45%) XML
4 4 (4.30%) ARM Templates
5 2 (2.15%) AWS CDK
5 2 (2.15%) cloud-init
5 2 (2.15%) JDBC
5 2 (2.15%) JPA
5 2 (2.15%) JWT
5 2 (2.15%) Kafka
5 2 (2.15%) pytest
5 2 (2.15%) SAML
5 2 (2.15%) Spring
5 2 (2.15%) WebSockets
6 1 (1.08%) FastAPI
6 1 (1.08%) OAuth
6 1 (1.08%) OLE
6 1 (1.08%) REST
6 1 (1.08%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.45%) Data Structures
2 5 (5.38%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.30%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.30%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (4.30%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.15%) Clustering
4 2 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.15%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.15%) PKI
4 2 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.08%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.08%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.08%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.08%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 22 (23.66%) Linux
2 8 (8.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (7.53%) Unix
4 6 (6.45%) CentOS
5 2 (2.15%) Alpine Linux
5 2 (2.15%) Windows
6 1 (1.08%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (100.00%) DevOps
2 61 (65.59%) CI/CD
3 34 (36.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (33.33%) Agile
4 31 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 19 (20.43%) Continuous Integration
6 15 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (12.90%) Migration
7 12 (12.90%) Scrum
8 9 (9.68%) Configuration Management
8 9 (9.68%) DevSecOps
8 9 (9.68%) Software Delivery
8 9 (9.68%) Task Automation
9 8 (8.60%) Continuous Deployment
9 8 (8.60%) Platform Engineering
9 8 (8.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 7 (7.53%) Collaborative Working
11 6 (6.45%) API Integration
11 6 (6.45%) Project Management
11 6 (6.45%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 41 (44.09%) Python
2 24 (25.81%) Bash
3 17 (18.28%) PowerShell
4 15 (16.13%) Go
5 10 (10.75%) Java
6 7 (7.53%) Ruby
6 7 (7.53%) SQL
7 5 (5.38%) PHP
8 4 (4.30%) Scala
9 3 (3.23%) Bicep
9 3 (3.23%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.15%) ActionScript
10 2 (2.15%) JavaScript
11 1 (1.08%) C
11 1 (1.08%) Groovy
11 1 (1.08%) Perl
11 1 (1.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (29.03%) Security Cleared
2 26 (27.96%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.38%) AWS Certification
3 5 (5.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.08%) Degree
4 1 (1.08%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.08%) MCSE
4 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.45%) QA
2 3 (3.23%) NIST
2 3 (3.23%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.15%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.15%) NCSC
System Software
1 41 (44.09%) Docker
2 6 (6.45%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.15%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.08%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 66 (70.97%) Terraform
2 53 (56.99%) Kubernetes
3 23 (24.73%) Ansible
3 23 (24.73%) Prometheus
4 16 (17.20%) Grafana
5 14 (15.05%) Puppet
6 8 (8.60%) Docker Swarm
7 7 (7.53%) Progress Chef
8 6 (6.45%) Kibana
8 6 (6.45%) logstash
8 6 (6.45%) Packer
9 4 (4.30%) Istio
9 4 (4.30%) Rancher
10 3 (3.23%) HP Fortify
11 2 (2.15%) Consul
11 2 (2.15%) Graphite
11 2 (2.15%) HAProxy
11 2 (2.15%) Kiali
11 2 (2.15%) linkerd
11 2 (2.15%) Podman
Vendors
1 13 (13.98%) Splunk
2 10 (10.75%) Oracle
3 6 (6.45%) PagerDuty
3 6 (6.45%) VMware
4 3 (3.23%) Atlassian
4 3 (3.23%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.15%) F5
5 2 (2.15%) Virgin Media
6 1 (1.08%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.08%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.08%) Zscaler