DevOps Contracts in Tyne and Wear

DevOps
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 12 8
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 34 15 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 17.09% 8.98% 19.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.48% 10.49% 20.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 9 71
10th Percentile £385 £420 £450
25th Percentile £413 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.05% -4.55% -2.44%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £656
90th Percentile £823 £605 £725
North East median daily rate £573 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +9.05% -4.55% -2.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 184 143 478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 92.46% 85.63% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 105 370
10th Percentile £312 £225 £355
25th Percentile £361 £375 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £528
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -9.95% +6.57%
75th Percentile £584 £580 £638
90th Percentile £657 £716 £715
North East median daily rate £450 £450 £525
% change year-on-year - -14.29% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 7 3
10th Percentile £13.75 £16.40 £11.30
25th Percentile £15.44 £17.50 £12.13
Median hourly rate £17.50 £19.50 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +39.29% -17.04%
75th Percentile £50.00 £26.13 £19.13
90th Percentile £70.00 £32.70 £21.90
North East median hourly rate £29.77 £32.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -6.97% +82.86% +29.63%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Tyne and Wear

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Tyne and Wear

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Tyne and Wear

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +7 33 £520 -1.05% 18
DevOps
North East

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 3 (8.82%) Confluence
2 2 (5.88%) IIS
2 2 (5.88%) Jupyter
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.94%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) EngageOne
Cloud Services
1 26 (76.47%) AWS
2 16 (47.06%) Azure
3 3 (8.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (8.82%) Amazon S3
3 3 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (8.82%) GCP
3 3 (8.82%) Serverless
4 2 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (5.88%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (5.88%) IaaS
4 2 (5.88%) Kong
4 2 (5.88%) OpenShift
4 2 (5.88%) PaaS
4 2 (5.88%) Route 53
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (2.94%) AWS KMS
5 1 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.94%) GitHub
5 1 (2.94%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) DHCP
1 2 (5.88%) DNS
1 2 (5.88%) Firewall
1 2 (5.88%) Network Security
1 2 (5.88%) SMS
1 2 (5.88%) SMTP
1 2 (5.88%) VPN
2 1 (2.94%) FTP
2 1 (2.94%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.76%) NonStop SQL
2 3 (8.82%) Big Data
3 2 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (5.88%) Data Lake
3 2 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (5.88%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.94%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 21 (61.76%) GitLab
2 4 (11.76%) JIRA
3 3 (8.82%) Maven
3 3 (8.82%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (5.88%) Git
4 2 (5.88%) Jenkins
4 2 (5.88%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.94%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.94%) CircleCI
5 1 (2.94%) Gradle
5 1 (2.94%) IntelliJ
5 1 (2.94%) MSI
5 1 (2.94%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (2.94%) SoapUI
5 1 (2.94%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (2.94%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 8 (23.53%) Public Sector
2 7 (20.59%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Finance
3 3 (8.82%) Marketing
4 2 (5.88%) Electronics
4 2 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.88%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.88%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.94%) Back Office
5 1 (2.94%) Billing
Job Titles
1 17 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (8.82%) Architect
2 3 (8.82%) Developer
3 2 (5.88%) AWS Architect
3 2 (5.88%) Change and Release Manager
3 2 (5.88%) Change Manager
3 2 (5.88%) Data Engineer
3 2 (5.88%) Release Manager
3 2 (5.88%) Senior
3 2 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.94%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (2.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Solution Architect
4 1 (2.94%) Java Developer
4 1 (2.94%) Lead
4 1 (2.94%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (2.94%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.94%) Splunk Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.76%) Spring Boot
2 3 (8.82%) Spring
3 2 (5.88%) Micronaut
3 2 (5.88%) PySpark
4 1 (2.94%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (2.94%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (2.94%) Dropwizard
4 1 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.94%) jQuery
4 1 (2.94%) Kafka
4 1 (2.94%) KnockoutJS
4 1 (2.94%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (2.94%) OAuth
4 1 (2.94%) OpenID
4 1 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (2.94%) REST
4 1 (2.94%) Swagger
4 1 (2.94%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 1 (2.94%) Visualforce
4 1 (2.94%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (29.41%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (14.71%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.88%) Clustering
3 2 (5.88%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.88%) PKI
3 2 (5.88%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.94%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.59%) Linux
2 3 (8.82%) Windows
3 2 (5.88%) Unix
3 2 (5.88%) Windows Server
3 2 (5.88%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (2.94%) Android
4 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (32.35%) Migration
2 10 (29.41%) CI/CD
3 9 (26.47%) Agile
3 9 (26.47%) Mentoring
4 8 (23.53%) Coaching
4 8 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (11.76%) Decision-Making
5 4 (11.76%) Design Patterns
5 4 (11.76%) Microservices
6 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (8.82%) Scrum
6 3 (8.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (8.82%) Use Case
7 2 (5.88%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (5.88%) Impact Analysis
7 2 (5.88%) Machine Learning
7 2 (5.88%) Security Operations
7 2 (5.88%) Software Deployment
7 2 (5.88%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.71%) Java
2 4 (11.76%) Python
3 3 (8.82%) JavaScript
3 3 (8.82%) PowerShell
3 3 (8.82%) SQL
4 1 (2.94%) Apex Code
4 1 (2.94%) Bash
4 1 (2.94%) C#
4 1 (2.94%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.94%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (58.82%) Security Cleared
2 14 (41.18%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.88%) Degree
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.94%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 10 (29.41%) Docker
2 2 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.88%) BitLocker
2 2 (5.88%) Hyper-V
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft App-V
2 2 (5.88%) Terminal Services
2 2 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (35.29%) Terraform
2 11 (32.35%) Kubernetes
3 8 (23.53%) Ansible
4 5 (14.71%) Grafana
5 4 (11.76%) Prometheus
6 2 (5.88%) Nagios
6 2 (5.88%) Puppet
6 2 (5.88%) vCenter Server
6 2 (5.88%) vMotion
7 1 (2.94%) Rancher
Vendors
1 4 (11.76%) Splunk
2 3 (8.82%) Google
2 3 (8.82%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.88%) Citrix
3 2 (5.88%) Databricks
3 2 (5.88%) HP
3 2 (5.88%) PagerDuty
3 2 (5.88%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.88%) SAP
3 2 (5.88%) Symantec
3 2 (5.88%) VMware
4 1 (2.94%) Apple
4 1 (2.94%) Black Duck
4 1 (2.94%) Confluent
4 1 (2.94%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.94%) New Relic
4 1 (2.94%) Oracle
4 1 (2.94%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) Virgin Media
4 1 (2.94%) Xamarin