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 £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 77 56 60
Rank change year-on-year -21 +4 +6
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 58 107 140
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.12% 3.51% 3.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.24% 3.70% 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 86 118
10th Percentile £409 £475 £442
25th Percentile £425 £493 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £568 £620 £625
90th Percentile £650 £675 £650
England median daily rate £538 £610 £600
% change year-on-year -11.89% +1.67% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £45.88 - -
England median hourly rate £66.00 £73.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -9.59% +53.68% -9.52%

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 2,592 2,892 3,920
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 94.91% 96.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,638 2,052 2,861
10th Percentile £272 £300 £213
25th Percentile £385 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £586 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 300 130 164
10th Percentile £11.13 £14.52 £11.83
25th Percentile £14.09 £18.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £32.90 £29.65 £24.10
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% +23.03% +33.89%
75th Percentile £48.00 £44.92 £52.60
90th Percentile £70.96 £66.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.47%

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 2 June 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 2 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
Manchester -17 45 £513 -6.82% 24
Cheshire +2 5 £448 -23.83% 2
Lancashire +4 4 £595 -0.83% 1
Merseyside +14 1 £475 -9.52% 1
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 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 58 (100.00%) DevOps
2 38 (65.52%) Terraform
3 36 (62.07%) CI/CD
4 28 (48.28%) AWS
5 27 (46.55%) Kubernetes
6 26 (44.83%) Azure
7 24 (41.38%) Docker
8 23 (39.66%) Python
9 19 (32.76%) Infrastructure as Code
10 16 (27.59%) GitLab
11 15 (25.86%) Security Cleared
12 14 (24.14%) SC Cleared
12 14 (24.14%) Containerisation
13 13 (22.41%) Agile
14 12 (20.69%) Jenkins
14 12 (20.69%) Ansible
15 11 (18.97%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (18.97%) Git
16 10 (17.24%) Oracle
16 10 (17.24%) Go
16 10 (17.24%) Software Delivery
16 10 (17.24%) AWS CloudFormation
17 9 (15.52%) Bash
17 9 (15.52%) SQL
17 9 (15.52%) Azure DevOps
18 8 (13.79%) Prometheus
18 8 (13.79%) Migration
19 7 (12.07%) Configuration Management
19 7 (12.07%) Linux
19 7 (12.07%) PowerShell

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 (6.90%) Confluence
2 2 (3.45%) nginx
2 2 (3.45%) Traefik
3 1 (1.72%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 28 (48.28%) AWS
2 26 (44.83%) Azure
3 11 (18.97%) Amazon EC2
4 10 (17.24%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (15.52%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (10.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (10.34%) Amazon S3
7 5 (8.62%) GCP
7 5 (8.62%) Serverless
7 5 (8.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (6.90%) Snowflake
9 3 (5.17%) Amazon ELB
9 3 (5.17%) AWS CodePipeline
9 3 (5.17%) GitHub
9 3 (5.17%) Route 53
10 2 (3.45%) Azure Storage
10 2 (3.45%) OpenShift
11 1 (1.72%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.62%) DNS
2 3 (5.17%) Network Security
3 2 (3.45%) HTTP
3 2 (3.45%) SSL
3 2 (3.45%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.72%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.34%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (8.62%) MySQL
3 3 (5.17%) Data Lake
3 3 (5.17%) DynamoDB
4 2 (3.45%) Redis
4 2 (3.45%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.72%) Flink
5 1 (1.72%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.72%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (27.59%) GitLab
2 12 (20.69%) Jenkins
3 11 (18.97%) Git
4 5 (8.62%) JIRA
5 4 (6.90%) Bitbucket
6 3 (5.17%) SonarQube
7 2 (3.45%) Selenium
7 2 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.72%) Liquibase
8 1 (1.72%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.72%) Travis CI
General
1 6 (10.34%) Public Sector
2 4 (6.90%) Finance
3 3 (5.17%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.45%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.17%) ARM Templates
2 2 (3.45%) cloud-init
2 2 (3.45%) JDBC
2 2 (3.45%) JPA
2 2 (3.45%) JWT
2 2 (3.45%) pytest
2 2 (3.45%) SAML
2 2 (3.45%) Spring
2 2 (3.45%) WebSockets
2 2 (3.45%) YAML
3 1 (1.72%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (1.72%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.72%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.72%) JSON
3 1 (1.72%) Node.js
3 1 (1.72%) REST
3 1 (1.72%) RESTful
3 1 (1.72%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.62%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.45%) Clustering
3 2 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (3.45%) PKI
4 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.72%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.07%) Linux
2 4 (6.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.45%) Alpine Linux
3 2 (3.45%) CentOS
3 2 (3.45%) Unix
4 1 (1.72%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (100.00%) DevOps
2 36 (62.07%) CI/CD
3 19 (32.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (24.14%) Containerisation
5 13 (22.41%) Agile
6 10 (17.24%) Software Delivery
7 8 (13.79%) Migration
8 7 (12.07%) Configuration Management
8 7 (12.07%) Platform Engineering
9 6 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (10.34%) Software Engineering
10 5 (8.62%) Continuous Integration
10 5 (8.62%) Data Migration
10 5 (8.62%) Infrastructure Management
10 5 (8.62%) Microservices
10 5 (8.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 4 (6.90%) Cloud Operations
11 4 (6.90%) High Availability
11 4 (6.90%) Load Balancing
12 3 (5.17%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (39.66%) Python
2 10 (17.24%) Go
3 9 (15.52%) Bash
3 9 (15.52%) SQL
4 7 (12.07%) PowerShell
5 6 (10.34%) Java
5 6 (10.34%) Ruby
6 5 (8.62%) PHP
7 1 (1.72%) Bicep
7 1 (1.72%) C
7 1 (1.72%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 15 (25.86%) Security Cleared
2 14 (24.14%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.62%) AWS Certification
3 5 (8.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.72%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.17%) NIST
1 3 (5.17%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (3.45%) NCSC
System Software
1 24 (41.38%) Docker
2 6 (10.34%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 38 (65.52%) Terraform
2 27 (46.55%) Kubernetes
3 12 (20.69%) Ansible
4 8 (13.79%) Prometheus
5 6 (10.34%) Grafana
6 3 (5.17%) HP Fortify
7 2 (3.45%) Consul
7 2 (3.45%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (3.45%) Graphite
7 2 (3.45%) HAProxy
7 2 (3.45%) Istio
7 2 (3.45%) linkerd
7 2 (3.45%) Packer
7 2 (3.45%) Podman
7 2 (3.45%) Puppet
7 2 (3.45%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 10 (17.24%) Oracle
2 5 (8.62%) Splunk
3 4 (6.90%) VMware
4 3 (5.17%) Atlassian
4 3 (5.17%) PagerDuty
5 2 (3.45%) Virgin Media
6 1 (1.72%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow