DevOps Engineer Contracts in the North West

Development Operations Engineer
England > North West

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the North West is £513 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 86 54 64
Rank change year-on-year -32 +10 -3
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 56 119 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.10% 3.88% 3.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.22% 4.08% 3.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 94 118
10th Percentile £409 £475 £438
25th Percentile £434 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -3.08% +13.50%
75th Percentile £559 £638 £629
90th Percentile £650 £675 £654
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 West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 2,525 2,915 3,889
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 94.95% 96.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,640 2,070 2,834
10th Percentile £276 £300 £213
25th Percentile £390 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +13.10%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £569
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 124 179
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.58 £11.75
25th Percentile £13.50 £19.22 £15.51
Median hourly rate £27.75 £30.54 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.14% +22.16% +38.45%
75th Percentile £46.91 £48.91 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.70 £66.00 £75.00
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the North West

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the North West

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in the North West

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the North West

DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester -20 42 £513 -8.89% 22
Cheshire +7 5 £448 -23.83%
Lancashire 0 4 £595 -2.86% 1
Merseyside +7 1 £475 -9.52%
DevOps Engineer
England

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

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 West region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 56 (100.00%) DevOps
2 36 (64.29%) Terraform
2 36 (64.29%) CI/CD
3 27 (48.21%) Kubernetes
3 27 (48.21%) AWS
4 26 (46.43%) Azure
5 23 (41.07%) Docker
6 22 (39.29%) Python
7 19 (33.93%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (25.00%) Security Cleared
9 13 (23.21%) SC Cleared
9 13 (23.21%) Agile
9 13 (23.21%) GitLab
9 13 (23.21%) Jenkins
9 13 (23.21%) Containerisation
10 12 (21.43%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (19.64%) Ansible
12 10 (17.86%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (17.86%) Go
12 10 (17.86%) Git
12 10 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (16.07%) Oracle
13 9 (16.07%) Bash
13 9 (16.07%) Software Delivery
14 8 (14.29%) Linux
14 8 (14.29%) Migration
14 8 (14.29%) Prometheus
15 7 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
15 7 (12.50%) Configuration Management
15 7 (12.50%) SQL

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (7.14%) Confluence
2 2 (3.57%) nginx
2 2 (3.57%) Traefik
3 1 (1.79%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 27 (48.21%) AWS
2 26 (46.43%) Azure
3 12 (21.43%) Amazon EC2
4 10 (17.86%) AWS CloudFormation
4 10 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (10.71%) Amazon S3
6 6 (10.71%) Serverless
6 6 (10.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (8.93%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (8.93%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (8.93%) GCP
8 4 (7.14%) AWS CodePipeline
8 4 (7.14%) GitHub
8 4 (7.14%) Route 53
8 4 (7.14%) Snowflake
9 3 (5.36%) Amazon ELB
10 2 (3.57%) Azure Storage
10 2 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (3.57%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.93%) DNS
2 3 (5.36%) Network Security
3 2 (3.57%) HTTP
3 2 (3.57%) SSL
3 2 (3.57%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.79%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (10.71%) MySQL
3 3 (5.36%) Data Lake
3 3 (5.36%) DynamoDB
4 2 (3.57%) Redis
5 1 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.79%) Flink
5 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (23.21%) GitLab
1 13 (23.21%) Jenkins
2 10 (17.86%) Git
3 6 (10.71%) JIRA
4 4 (7.14%) Bitbucket
5 3 (5.36%) SonarQube
6 2 (3.57%) Selenium
6 2 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.79%) Travis CI
General
1 5 (8.93%) Public Sector
2 4 (7.14%) Finance
2 4 (7.14%) Social Skills
3 1 (1.79%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.36%) ARM Templates
2 2 (3.57%) AWS CDK
2 2 (3.57%) cloud-init
2 2 (3.57%) JDBC
2 2 (3.57%) JPA
2 2 (3.57%) JWT
2 2 (3.57%) pytest
2 2 (3.57%) SAML
2 2 (3.57%) Spring
2 2 (3.57%) WebSockets
2 2 (3.57%) YAML
3 1 (1.79%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.79%) REST
3 1 (1.79%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.93%) Product Ownership
2 4 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.57%) Clustering
3 2 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (3.57%) PKI
4 1 (1.79%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.79%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.79%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.29%) Linux
2 4 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.57%) Alpine Linux
3 2 (3.57%) CentOS
3 2 (3.57%) Unix
4 1 (1.79%) VMS
4 1 (1.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (100.00%) DevOps
2 36 (64.29%) CI/CD
3 19 (33.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (23.21%) Agile
4 13 (23.21%) Containerisation
5 9 (16.07%) Software Delivery
6 8 (14.29%) Migration
7 7 (12.50%) Configuration Management
7 7 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
8 6 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (10.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 5 (8.93%) Cloud Operations
9 5 (8.93%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (8.93%) Data Migration
9 5 (8.93%) Infrastructure Management
9 5 (8.93%) Software Engineering
10 4 (7.14%) GitOps
10 4 (7.14%) High Availability
10 4 (7.14%) Load Balancing
10 4 (7.14%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 22 (39.29%) Python
2 10 (17.86%) Go
3 9 (16.07%) Bash
4 7 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 7 (12.50%) SQL
5 6 (10.71%) Ruby
6 5 (8.93%) Java
6 5 (8.93%) PHP
7 2 (3.57%) Bicep
8 1 (1.79%) C
8 1 (1.79%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (23.21%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.93%) AWS Certification
3 5 (8.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.79%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.79%) MCSE
4 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.36%) NIST
1 3 (5.36%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (3.57%) NCSC
System Software
1 23 (41.07%) Docker
2 6 (10.71%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (64.29%) Terraform
2 27 (48.21%) Kubernetes
3 11 (19.64%) Ansible
4 8 (14.29%) Prometheus
5 6 (10.71%) Grafana
6 3 (5.36%) HP Fortify
7 2 (3.57%) Consul
7 2 (3.57%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (3.57%) Graphite
7 2 (3.57%) HAProxy
7 2 (3.57%) Istio
7 2 (3.57%) linkerd
7 2 (3.57%) Packer
7 2 (3.57%) Podman
7 2 (3.57%) Puppet
7 2 (3.57%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 9 (16.07%) Oracle
2 5 (8.93%) Splunk
3 4 (7.14%) VMware
4 3 (5.36%) Atlassian
4 3 (5.36%) PagerDuty
5 2 (3.57%) Virgin Media
6 1 (1.79%) Microsoft