Senior DevOps Contracts in the North West

Senior Development Operations
England > North West

The median Senior Development Operations daily rate in the North West is £663 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 123 141 177
Rank change year-on-year +18 +36 -45
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 12 10 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.44% 0.33% 0.025%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.35% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 1
10th Percentile £539 £589 -
25th Percentile £550 £600 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% - +30.00%
75th Percentile £750 £675 £675
90th Percentile - £690 -
England median daily rate £600 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -7.69% - +18.18%

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%

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps in the North West

Senior DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Senior DevOps in the North West

Senior DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps in the North West over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior DevOps in the North West

Senior DevOps
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 Senior DevOps 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 +18 11 £675 +8.00% 7
Lancashire +7 1 £650 -7.14%
Senior DevOps
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Senior DevOps 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 Senior DevOps in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
1 12 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (75.00%) Terraform
2 9 (75.00%) Python
2 9 (75.00%) AWS
3 7 (58.33%) Docker
4 6 (50.00%) Kubernetes
4 6 (50.00%) Git
4 6 (50.00%) Azure
4 6 (50.00%) Containerisation
5 5 (41.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 5 (41.67%) Bash
5 5 (41.67%) Network Security
5 5 (41.67%) AWS Certification
5 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (33.33%) Migration
6 4 (33.33%) Go
6 4 (33.33%) Product Ownership
6 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (25.00%) Confluence
7 3 (25.00%) Agile
7 3 (25.00%) Data Migration
7 3 (25.00%) GitLab
7 3 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
7 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
8 2 (16.67%) Ansible
8 2 (16.67%) GCP
8 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps

Senior DevOps 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 3 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) AWS
2 6 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) Network Security
2 1 (8.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Git
2 3 (25.00%) GitLab
3 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
3 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) JSON
1 1 (8.33%) Node.js
1 1 (8.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 3 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (33.33%) Migration
5 3 (25.00%) Agile
5 3 (25.00%) Data Migration
5 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 2 (16.67%) Identity Management
6 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
7 1 (8.33%) Cloud Operations
7 1 (8.33%) Cost Optimisation
7 1 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
7 1 (8.33%) Decision-Making
7 1 (8.33%) Project Roadmap
7 1 (8.33%) Security Operations
7 1 (8.33%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) Python
2 5 (41.67%) Bash
3 4 (33.33%) Go
4 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (8.33%) Java
5 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) AWS Certification
1 5 (41.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (8.33%) NIST
1 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (75.00%) Terraform
2 6 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (16.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Atlassian
2 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow