DevOps Contracts in the North of England

DevOps
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 15 13
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 422 521 770
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 9.09% 9.33% 10.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.63% 10.29% 12.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 419 571
10th Percentile £400 £425 £396
25th Percentile £450 £478 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £600 £639 £625
90th Percentile £695 £700 £688
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 22
10th Percentile - £38.31 £39.48
25th Percentile - £39.14 £58.44
Median hourly rate £45.88 £43.30 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.95% -40.27% -
75th Percentile £45.96 £49.43 £77.50
90th Percentile £46.09 £49.47 £81.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £60.02
% change year-on-year -0.76% +9.13% +14.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

DevOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,971 5,062 6,331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.53% 90.60% 88.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,420 3,499 4,622
10th Percentile £300 £300 £250
25th Percentile £401 £413 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £569
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 365 201 266
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.72 £13.56
Median hourly rate £17.72 £27.98 £19.12
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% +46.32% +5.90%
75th Percentile £45.00 £44.50 £36.75
90th Percentile £59.00 £65.00 £62.86
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +7.71%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the North of England

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in the North of England

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the North of England

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in the North of England

DevOps
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 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 -2 241 £525 -3.23% 173
Yorkshire +4 167 £491 -18.13% 77
North East -11 18 £525 -12.50% 22
DevOps
England

DevOps
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 24 (5.69%) Confluence
2 11 (2.61%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.66%) nginx
4 6 (1.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 6 (1.42%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.71%) Apache
7 3 (0.71%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.47%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.47%) CMS
8 2 (0.47%) Traefik
9 1 (0.24%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.24%) Kentico
9 1 (0.24%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (1.90%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.24%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (2.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.66%) SAP PM
2 7 (1.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.42%) Temenos T24
4 4 (0.95%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 176 (41.71%) Azure
2 123 (29.15%) AWS
3 85 (20.14%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (10.90%) Serverless
5 35 (8.29%) GCP
6 34 (8.06%) GitHub
7 32 (7.58%) Amazon EC2
8 28 (6.64%) Amazon S3
9 23 (5.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 18 (4.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 17 (4.03%) AWS Lambda
12 16 (3.79%) AWS CloudFormation
13 15 (3.55%) Kong
14 12 (2.84%) Apigee
15 11 (2.61%) Route 53
16 10 (2.37%) Amazon EKS
16 10 (2.37%) Amazon ELB
16 10 (2.37%) Cloud Computing
16 10 (2.37%) SaaS
17 9 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 59 (13.98%) Firewall
2 40 (9.48%) VPN
3 15 (3.55%) DNS
4 13 (3.08%) Network Security
5 12 (2.84%) BGP
5 12 (2.84%) Cisco ASA
5 12 (2.84%) Cisco Firepower
5 12 (2.84%) Cisco ISE
5 12 (2.84%) EIGRP
5 12 (2.84%) HSRP
5 12 (2.84%) HTTP
5 12 (2.84%) IPsec
5 12 (2.84%) NetScaler
5 12 (2.84%) OSPF
5 12 (2.84%) SNMP
5 12 (2.84%) Spanning Tree
5 12 (2.84%) SSL
5 12 (2.84%) Wi-Fi
6 11 (2.61%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.18%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.11%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (6.64%) Relational Database
3 26 (6.16%) MongoDB
4 24 (5.69%) NoSQL
5 19 (4.50%) Data Lake
5 19 (4.50%) SQL Server
6 15 (3.55%) Amazon RDS
7 14 (3.32%) Elasticsearch
8 13 (3.08%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (3.08%) MySQL
9 11 (2.61%) Big Data
9 11 (2.61%) BigQuery
9 11 (2.61%) RDBMS
10 10 (2.37%) DynamoDB
10 10 (2.37%) Hadoop
10 10 (2.37%) Oracle Reports
11 9 (2.13%) Apache Cassandra
12 7 (1.66%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (1.66%) Redis
13 6 (1.42%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 87 (20.62%) Git
2 72 (17.06%) Jenkins
3 55 (13.03%) JIRA
4 47 (11.14%) GitLab
5 12 (2.84%) JUnit
6 11 (2.61%) SonarQube
7 10 (2.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 10 (2.37%) CircleCI
7 10 (2.37%) Travis CI
8 9 (2.13%) Selenium
9 8 (1.90%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.18%) Burp Suite
10 5 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (1.18%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (0.95%) AppScan
12 3 (0.71%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.71%) webpack
13 2 (0.47%) Cucumber
13 2 (0.47%) Postman
13 2 (0.47%) Visual Studio
General
1 59 (13.98%) Social Skills
2 54 (12.80%) Public Sector
3 51 (12.09%) Finance
4 27 (6.40%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (6.40%) Banking
5 15 (3.55%) Retail
6 10 (2.37%) Legal
7 6 (1.42%) Marketing
8 4 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (0.71%) Law
9 3 (0.71%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.47%) Local Government
11 1 (0.24%) Automotive
11 1 (0.24%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.24%) Military
11 1 (0.24%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.24%) Public Speaking
11 1 (0.24%) Retail Finance
11 1 (0.24%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 93 (22.04%) Architect
1 93 (22.04%) DevOps Engineer
2 61 (14.45%) Developer
3 60 (14.22%) Lead
4 38 (9.00%) Solutions Architect
5 34 (8.06%) Senior
5 34 (8.06%) Technical Architect
6 28 (6.64%) Technical Leader
7 27 (6.40%) Lead Architect
8 26 (6.16%) AWS DevOps
9 23 (5.45%) Azure Engineer
10 19 (4.50%) AWS Engineer
11 18 (4.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 16 (3.79%) DBA
13 15 (3.55%) Analyst
13 15 (3.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 15 (3.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 14 (3.32%) Consultant
15 13 (3.08%) Java Developer
16 12 (2.84%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (10.19%) Node.js
2 40 (9.48%) Kafka
3 25 (5.92%) REST
4 23 (5.45%) React
5 22 (5.21%) JSON
5 22 (5.21%) Spring
6 21 (4.98%) XML
7 20 (4.74%) .NET
8 19 (4.50%) Spring Boot
9 15 (3.55%) Elastic Stack
9 15 (3.55%) JPA
10 12 (2.84%) Hibernate
10 12 (2.84%) HTML
10 12 (2.84%) Jinja
11 11 (2.61%) YAML
12 10 (2.37%) CSS
12 10 (2.37%) SOAP
13 9 (2.13%) AngularJS
13 9 (2.13%) Web Services
14 8 (1.90%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 41 (9.72%) Public Cloud
2 23 (5.45%) Product Ownership
3 12 (2.84%) Mobile App
4 11 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (2.13%) Data Structures
6 8 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.66%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (1.42%) DataPower
8 6 (1.42%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.95%) PKI
11 3 (0.71%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.71%) CMDB
11 3 (0.71%) Credit Risk
11 3 (0.71%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.71%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.71%) Security Posture
11 3 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 45 (10.66%) Windows
2 41 (9.72%) Linux
3 35 (8.29%) Android
3 35 (8.29%) Apple iOS
4 33 (7.82%) Windows Server
5 12 (2.84%) Unix
6 8 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.42%) CentOS
8 2 (0.47%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (44.31%) Agile
2 184 (43.60%) CI/CD
3 78 (18.48%) Containerisation
3 78 (18.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 63 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
5 60 (14.22%) Microservices
6 58 (13.74%) Scrum
7 56 (13.27%) Continuous Integration
8 55 (13.03%) Design Patterns
9 48 (11.37%) Risk Management
10 41 (9.72%) ITIL
11 37 (8.77%) Test Automation
12 36 (8.53%) Stakeholder Management
13 35 (8.29%) Migration
14 32 (7.58%) Mobile Device Management
14 32 (7.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 31 (7.35%) Mentoring
15 31 (7.35%) Security Architecture
16 30 (7.11%) Architectural Patterns
16 30 (7.11%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 116 (27.49%) Python
2 50 (11.85%) Java
3 49 (11.61%) Bash
4 39 (9.24%) SQL
5 38 (9.00%) PowerShell
6 23 (5.45%) Go
6 23 (5.45%) JavaScript
7 22 (5.21%) C#
8 21 (4.98%) TypeScript
9 18 (4.27%) Perl
10 12 (2.84%) Ruby
10 12 (2.84%) Tcl
11 11 (2.61%) Shell Script
12 9 (2.13%) Scala
13 6 (1.42%) Groovy
14 5 (1.18%) Bicep
14 5 (1.18%) PHP
14 5 (1.18%) Search Processing Language
15 4 (0.95%) C
16 3 (0.71%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 95 (22.51%) Security Cleared
2 88 (20.85%) SC Cleared
3 33 (7.82%) Degree
4 15 (3.55%) DV Cleared
5 12 (2.84%) CCNA
5 12 (2.84%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (2.61%) AWS Certification
6 11 (2.61%) CCNP
7 9 (2.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (0.95%) CBAP
8 4 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.47%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.24%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.24%) MCP
11 1 (0.24%) MCSE
11 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (7.11%) QA
2 5 (1.18%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.71%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.71%) GDPR
3 3 (0.71%) ISO 22301
3 3 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.71%) NIST
3 3 (0.71%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.47%) NCSC
5 1 (0.24%) GRC
5 1 (0.24%) PMO
5 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 92 (21.80%) Docker
2 13 (3.08%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.84%) Firmware
4 4 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.71%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.47%) HDFS
6 2 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 114 (27.01%) Terraform
2 108 (25.59%) Kubernetes
3 71 (16.82%) Ansible
4 30 (7.11%) Prometheus
5 25 (5.92%) Grafana
5 25 (5.92%) Puppet
6 20 (4.74%) Progress Chef
7 11 (2.61%) Docker Swarm
7 11 (2.61%) HP Fortify
7 11 (2.61%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (2.13%) Kibana
8 9 (2.13%) logstash
9 6 (1.42%) Packer
10 5 (1.18%) Istio
11 4 (0.95%) Graylog
11 4 (0.95%) Nessus
11 4 (0.95%) Rancher
11 4 (0.95%) WebInspect
12 2 (0.47%) HAProxy
12 2 (0.47%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 53 (12.56%) Microsoft
2 37 (8.77%) Oracle
3 28 (6.64%) Splunk
4 16 (3.79%) Google
5 14 (3.32%) EMC
6 12 (2.84%) Cisco
6 12 (2.84%) Citrix
6 12 (2.84%) IBM
6 12 (2.84%) Palo Alto
6 12 (2.84%) SolarWinds
7 11 (2.61%) ServiceNow
8 9 (2.13%) F5
8 9 (2.13%) SAP
9 8 (1.90%) VMware
10 7 (1.66%) Salesforce
11 6 (1.42%) PagerDuty
11 6 (1.42%) Solace
11 6 (1.42%) TSYS
12 5 (1.18%) Apple
13 4 (0.95%) Cadence