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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 14 12
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 +2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 433 497 795
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 9.13% 9.02% 11.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.78% 10.01% 12.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 393 585
10th Percentile £400 £425 £396
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% +5.09%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £698 £700 £688
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 21
10th Percentile - £38.12 £55.25
25th Percentile - £38.68 £65.00
Median hourly rate £45.88 £40.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.28% -46.00% -
75th Percentile £45.96 £44.72 £77.50
90th Percentile £46.09 £45.59 £81.00
England median hourly rate £65.50 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year - +0.77% +19.27%

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 4,015 4,967 6,336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 84.69% 90.15% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,426 3,410 4,610
10th Percentile £300 £300 £240
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 385 207 254
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.55 £15.74 £13.66
Median hourly rate £20.74 £27.20 £19.05
Median % change year-on-year -23.75% +42.82% +7.18%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.75 £34.04
90th Percentile £63.75 £63.75 £63.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -3 234 £525 - 156
Yorkshire +6 183 £495 -17.50% 78
North East -6 20 £525 -12.50% 30
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 (5.54%) Confluence
2 12 (2.77%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.62%) nginx
4 6 (1.39%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.69%) Apache
7 3 (0.69%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.46%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.46%) CMS
8 2 (0.46%) Traefik
9 1 (0.23%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.23%) Kentico
9 1 (0.23%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (1.85%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.39%) SAP PM
2 6 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.39%) Temenos T24
3 4 (0.92%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 183 (42.26%) Azure
2 131 (30.25%) AWS
3 87 (20.09%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (9.70%) Serverless
5 39 (9.01%) GCP
6 33 (7.62%) GitHub
7 31 (7.16%) Amazon EC2
8 29 (6.70%) Amazon S3
9 23 (5.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 17 (3.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 16 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (3.46%) Kong
13 12 (2.77%) Apigee
13 12 (2.77%) Cloud Computing
14 11 (2.54%) Power Platform
15 10 (2.31%) Amazon ECS
15 10 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
15 10 (2.31%) Route 53
15 10 (2.31%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 59 (13.63%) Firewall
2 40 (9.24%) VPN
3 15 (3.46%) DNS
4 13 (3.00%) Network Security
5 12 (2.77%) BGP
5 12 (2.77%) Cisco ASA
5 12 (2.77%) Cisco Firepower
5 12 (2.77%) Cisco ISE
5 12 (2.77%) EIGRP
5 12 (2.77%) HSRP
5 12 (2.77%) HTTP
5 12 (2.77%) IPsec
5 12 (2.77%) NetScaler
5 12 (2.77%) OSPF
5 12 (2.77%) SNMP
5 12 (2.77%) Spanning Tree
5 12 (2.77%) SSL
5 12 (2.77%) Wi-Fi
6 11 (2.54%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.15%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (5.77%) Relational Database
3 23 (5.31%) MongoDB
4 21 (4.85%) Data Lake
5 20 (4.62%) NoSQL
6 18 (4.16%) SQL Server
7 15 (3.46%) Amazon RDS
8 14 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
8 14 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (2.77%) Big Data
9 12 (2.77%) BigQuery
9 12 (2.77%) MySQL
10 11 (2.54%) Hadoop
11 10 (2.31%) DynamoDB
12 9 (2.08%) Apache Cassandra
13 8 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
14 7 (1.62%) Oracle Reports
14 7 (1.62%) RDBMS
14 7 (1.62%) Redis
15 6 (1.39%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 89 (20.55%) Git
2 72 (16.63%) Jenkins
3 53 (12.24%) JIRA
4 51 (11.78%) GitLab
5 12 (2.77%) JUnit
6 11 (2.54%) SonarQube
7 10 (2.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 10 (2.31%) CircleCI
7 10 (2.31%) Travis CI
8 8 (1.85%) Bitbucket
8 8 (1.85%) Selenium
9 5 (1.15%) Burp Suite
9 5 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (1.15%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (0.92%) AppScan
11 3 (0.69%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.69%) webpack
12 2 (0.46%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.46%) Postman
12 2 (0.46%) TeamCity
General
1 60 (13.86%) Social Skills
2 54 (12.47%) Public Sector
3 49 (11.32%) Finance
4 31 (7.16%) Banking
5 26 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (3.46%) Retail
7 10 (2.31%) Legal
8 6 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.39%) Marketing
9 4 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (0.92%) Law
10 3 (0.69%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.46%) Local Government
12 1 (0.23%) Automotive
12 1 (0.23%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.23%) Military
12 1 (0.23%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.23%) Public Speaking
12 1 (0.23%) Retail Finance
12 1 (0.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 102 (23.56%) DevOps Engineer
2 98 (22.63%) Architect
3 60 (13.86%) Developer
4 59 (13.63%) Lead
5 39 (9.01%) Solutions Architect
6 34 (7.85%) Senior
6 34 (7.85%) Technical Architect
7 28 (6.47%) Technical Leader
8 27 (6.24%) Lead Architect
9 26 (6.00%) AWS DevOps
10 24 (5.54%) Azure Engineer
11 20 (4.62%) AWS Engineer
12 19 (4.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 15 (3.46%) Analyst
13 15 (3.46%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 14 (3.23%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 13 (3.00%) Consultant
15 13 (3.00%) Java Developer
16 12 (2.77%) DBA
16 12 (2.77%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (10.16%) Node.js
2 38 (8.78%) Kafka
3 25 (5.77%) REST
4 23 (5.31%) React
5 22 (5.08%) Spring
6 19 (4.39%) .NET
6 19 (4.39%) JSON
6 19 (4.39%) Spring Boot
7 18 (4.16%) XML
8 15 (3.46%) Elastic Stack
8 15 (3.46%) JPA
9 13 (3.00%) HTML
10 12 (2.77%) Hibernate
10 12 (2.77%) Jinja
11 11 (2.54%) CSS
11 11 (2.54%) YAML
12 10 (2.31%) SOAP
13 9 (2.08%) AngularJS
13 9 (2.08%) Web Services
14 8 (1.85%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 40 (9.24%) Public Cloud
2 23 (5.31%) Product Ownership
3 12 (2.77%) Mobile App
4 11 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (2.08%) Data Structures
6 8 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (1.62%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.39%) DataPower
9 5 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.92%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.92%) PKI
10 4 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.69%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.69%) CMDB
11 3 (0.69%) Credit Risk
11 3 (0.69%) Low-Code
11 3 (0.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 44 (10.16%) Windows
2 41 (9.47%) Linux
3 36 (8.31%) Apple iOS
4 35 (8.08%) Android
5 33 (7.62%) Windows Server
6 11 (2.54%) Unix
7 8 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (1.39%) CentOS
9 2 (0.46%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (43.88%) CI/CD
2 184 (42.49%) Agile
3 86 (19.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 83 (19.17%) Containerisation
5 64 (14.78%) Problem-Solving
6 63 (14.55%) Microservices
7 58 (13.39%) Continuous Integration
7 58 (13.39%) Design Patterns
7 58 (13.39%) Scrum
8 48 (11.09%) Risk Management
9 41 (9.47%) ITIL
10 37 (8.55%) Test Automation
11 36 (8.31%) Migration
11 36 (8.31%) Stakeholder Management
12 34 (7.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 32 (7.39%) Mobile Device Management
14 31 (7.16%) Security Architecture
14 31 (7.16%) Software Engineering
15 30 (6.93%) Architectural Patterns
15 30 (6.93%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 123 (28.41%) Python
2 53 (12.24%) Java
3 52 (12.01%) Bash
4 44 (10.16%) SQL
5 43 (9.93%) PowerShell
6 25 (5.77%) JavaScript
7 23 (5.31%) Go
8 19 (4.39%) C#
8 19 (4.39%) TypeScript
9 18 (4.16%) Perl
10 12 (2.77%) Tcl
11 11 (2.54%) Shell Script
12 10 (2.31%) Ruby
12 10 (2.31%) Scala
13 6 (1.39%) Groovy
14 5 (1.15%) Bicep
14 5 (1.15%) PHP
14 5 (1.15%) Search Processing Language
15 4 (0.92%) C
16 3 (0.69%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 101 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 94 (21.71%) SC Cleared
3 34 (7.85%) Degree
4 15 (3.46%) DV Cleared
5 12 (2.77%) AWS Certification
5 12 (2.77%) CCNA
5 12 (2.77%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (2.54%) CCNP
7 10 (2.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.92%) CBAP
10 3 (0.69%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.23%) CEH
11 1 (0.23%) CISSP
11 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.23%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.23%) MCP
11 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.70%) QA
2 5 (1.15%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.69%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.69%) GDPR
3 3 (0.69%) ISO 22301
3 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.69%) NIST
3 3 (0.69%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.46%) GRC
4 2 (0.46%) NCSC
5 1 (0.23%) PMO
5 1 (0.23%) SLA
5 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 96 (22.17%) Docker
2 14 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.77%) Firmware
4 4 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.69%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 3 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.46%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 124 (28.64%) Terraform
2 115 (26.56%) Kubernetes
3 72 (16.63%) Ansible
4 32 (7.39%) Prometheus
5 26 (6.00%) Grafana
6 24 (5.54%) Puppet
7 19 (4.39%) Progress Chef
8 11 (2.54%) Docker Swarm
8 11 (2.54%) HP Fortify
8 11 (2.54%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (2.08%) Kibana
9 9 (2.08%) logstash
10 6 (1.39%) Packer
11 5 (1.15%) Istio
12 4 (0.92%) Graylog
12 4 (0.92%) Nessus
12 4 (0.92%) Rancher
12 4 (0.92%) WebInspect
13 2 (0.46%) Graphite
13 2 (0.46%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 60 (13.86%) Microsoft
2 34 (7.85%) Oracle
3 30 (6.93%) Splunk
4 17 (3.93%) Google
5 14 (3.23%) EMC
6 12 (2.77%) Cisco
6 12 (2.77%) Citrix
6 12 (2.77%) IBM
6 12 (2.77%) Palo Alto
6 12 (2.77%) ServiceNow
6 12 (2.77%) SolarWinds
7 9 (2.08%) F5
8 8 (1.85%) SAP
8 8 (1.85%) VMware
9 7 (1.62%) PagerDuty
9 7 (1.62%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.39%) Solace
10 6 (1.39%) TSYS
11 5 (1.15%) Apple
12 4 (0.92%) Cadence