DevOps Contracts in Manchester

DevOps
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 12 9
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 170 192 318
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 11.64% 10.95% 12.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.61% 12.09% 13.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 150 228
10th Percentile £425 £413 £404
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -1.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £609 £625
90th Percentile £850 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £65.00
Median hourly rate - £39.60 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -47.20% -
75th Percentile - - £81.00
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £45.88 £40.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year +13.28% -46.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,249 1,588 2,330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 85.49% 90.54% 88.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 833 1,176 1,806
10th Percentile £325 £315 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £588
90th Percentile £693 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 50 51
10th Percentile £12.47 £15.61 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.66 £16.85 £14.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £22.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% +21.62% +13.99%
75th Percentile £59.38 £38.44 £45.63
90th Percentile £72.50 £66.00 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £28.00 £30.54 £23.70
% change year-on-year -8.32% +28.86% +30.83%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Manchester

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Manchester

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Manchester over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Manchester

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in Manchester

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 12 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
Oldham -3 1 £450 +12.50% 1
Cheadle - 1 £400 -
DevOps
North West

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 8 (4.71%) Confluence
2 4 (2.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.35%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.18%) ArcGIS
3 2 (1.18%) nginx
4 1 (0.59%) Apache
4 1 (0.59%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (1.76%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.59%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (4.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.59%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 68 (40.00%) Azure
2 42 (24.71%) AWS
3 36 (21.18%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (11.18%) Serverless
5 18 (10.59%) Amazon EC2
6 13 (7.65%) Amazon S3
7 11 (6.47%) AWS CloudFormation
7 11 (6.47%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (5.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (4.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (3.53%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (3.53%) Amazon ELB
10 6 (3.53%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (3.53%) GitHub
10 6 (3.53%) Snowflake
11 5 (2.94%) GCP
11 5 (2.94%) Power Platform
11 5 (2.94%) SaaS
12 4 (2.35%) OCI
12 4 (2.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (18.24%) Firewall
1 31 (18.24%) VPN
2 6 (3.53%) Network Security
3 4 (2.35%) DNS
4 1 (0.59%) Internet
4 1 (0.59%) PPP
4 1 (0.59%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.59%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.24%) NoSQL
1 14 (8.24%) Relational Database
2 12 (7.06%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (4.71%) MySQL
4 7 (4.12%) DynamoDB
4 7 (4.12%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.53%) Data Lake
5 6 (3.53%) Oracle Reports
5 6 (3.53%) RDBMS
6 4 (2.35%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (2.35%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.76%) GIS
8 2 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.18%) Redis
9 1 (0.59%) Flink
Development Applications
1 27 (15.88%) Git
2 21 (12.35%) GitLab
3 11 (6.47%) JIRA
4 8 (4.71%) SonarQube
5 6 (3.53%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.53%) JUnit
6 4 (2.35%) Bitbucket
6 4 (2.35%) Selenium
7 3 (1.76%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.76%) webpack
8 2 (1.18%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.59%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.59%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.59%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.59%) Postman
9 1 (0.59%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 24 (14.12%) Public Sector
2 23 (13.53%) Social Skills
3 9 (5.29%) Finance
3 9 (5.29%) Legal
4 5 (2.94%) Banking
5 4 (2.35%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.35%) Retail
6 3 (1.76%) Law
6 3 (1.76%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.59%) Automotive
7 1 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.59%) Marketing
7 1 (0.59%) Military
7 1 (0.59%) Retail Finance
7 1 (0.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (32.35%) Architect
2 43 (25.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 35 (20.59%) Lead
4 33 (19.41%) Technical Architect
5 28 (16.47%) Developer
5 28 (16.47%) Lead Architect
5 28 (16.47%) Technical Leader
6 19 (11.18%) AWS DevOps
7 18 (10.59%) Senior
8 14 (8.24%) AWS Engineer
8 14 (8.24%) Solutions Architect
9 13 (7.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 13 (7.65%) Azure Engineer
10 10 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
11 8 (4.71%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 8 (4.71%) Java Developer
11 8 (4.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 6 (3.53%) DBA
12 6 (3.53%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (3.53%) PostgreSQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (22.35%) Node.js
2 15 (8.82%) React
3 11 (6.47%) .NET
4 10 (5.88%) REST
5 9 (5.29%) XML
6 8 (4.71%) JSON
7 7 (4.12%) HTML
7 7 (4.12%) Kafka
8 6 (3.53%) CSS
8 6 (3.53%) Hibernate
8 6 (3.53%) JPA
8 6 (3.53%) Spring
8 6 (3.53%) Spring Boot
9 5 (2.94%) AngularJS
10 4 (2.35%) ARM Templates
10 4 (2.35%) RESTful
11 3 (1.76%) .NET Framework
11 3 (1.76%) Entity Framework
11 3 (1.76%) Redux
11 3 (1.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 32 (18.82%) Public Cloud
2 14 (8.24%) Product Ownership
3 9 (5.29%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (4.71%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.76%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.18%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.18%) PKI
7 2 (1.18%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.59%) Clustering
8 1 (0.59%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.59%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.59%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.59%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.59%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 34 (20.00%) Android
1 34 (20.00%) Apple iOS
1 34 (20.00%) Windows
2 33 (19.41%) Windows Server
3 8 (4.71%) Linux
4 4 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.18%) Alpine Linux
5 2 (1.18%) Unix
6 1 (0.59%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (57.65%) Agile
2 86 (50.59%) CI/CD
3 37 (21.76%) Design Patterns
4 32 (18.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 32 (18.82%) Mobile Device Management
4 32 (18.82%) Risk Management
5 31 (18.24%) Microservices
5 31 (18.24%) Security Architecture
6 30 (17.65%) Zero Trust
7 28 (16.47%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 28 (16.47%) Threat Intelligence
8 27 (15.88%) Containerisation
9 21 (12.35%) Scrum
10 18 (10.59%) Architectural Patterns
10 18 (10.59%) Migration
10 18 (10.59%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (10.59%) Roadmaps
11 15 (8.82%) Mentoring
11 15 (8.82%) Test Automation
12 14 (8.24%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (18.82%) Python
2 18 (10.59%) Java
3 17 (10.00%) Bash
4 14 (8.24%) SQL
5 13 (7.65%) Go
6 12 (7.06%) C#
7 10 (5.88%) TypeScript
8 9 (5.29%) PowerShell
9 7 (4.12%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.94%) PHP
11 4 (2.35%) C
11 4 (2.35%) Ruby
12 3 (1.76%) Bicep
13 2 (1.18%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.59%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 37 (21.76%) Security Cleared
2 34 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.24%) Degree
4 8 (4.71%) DV Cleared
5 7 (4.12%) AWS Certification
5 7 (4.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.59%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.59%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.88%) QA
2 6 (3.53%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.76%) GDPR
3 3 (1.76%) ISO 22301
3 3 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.76%) NIST
3 3 (1.76%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.18%) WCAG
5 1 (0.59%) NCSC
System Software
1 39 (22.94%) Docker
2 11 (6.47%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 50 (29.41%) Terraform
2 39 (22.94%) Kubernetes
3 18 (10.59%) Ansible
4 7 (4.12%) HP Fortify
5 4 (2.35%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.76%) Grafana
7 2 (1.18%) Istio
7 2 (1.18%) Podman
8 1 (0.59%) Consul
8 1 (0.59%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.59%) Graphite
8 1 (0.59%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.59%) linkerd
8 1 (0.59%) Nmap
8 1 (0.59%) Packer
8 1 (0.59%) Puppet
8 1 (0.59%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (12.35%) Microsoft
2 18 (10.59%) Oracle
3 7 (4.12%) Splunk
4 6 (3.53%) Google
5 5 (2.94%) Apple
6 4 (2.35%) Atlassian
6 4 (2.35%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.76%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.18%) Mapbox
8 2 (1.18%) PagerDuty
8 2 (1.18%) SAP
8 2 (1.18%) Verint
8 2 (1.18%) Virgin Media
8 2 (1.18%) VMware
9 1 (0.59%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.59%) Tanium
9 1 (0.59%) Xamarin