DevOps Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Development Operations Engineer
England > North of England

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £495, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 66 66
Rank change year-on-year -9 0 +14
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 111 173 246
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.29% 3.17% 3.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.47% 3.33% 3.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 142 192
10th Percentile £385 £475 £438
25th Percentile £425 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £675 £625
90th Percentile £650 £763 £674
England median daily rate £538 £613 £600
% change year-on-year -12.24% +2.08% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £45.88 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £73.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -4.11% +53.68% -9.52%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 4,500 5,202 6,871
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.82% 95.33% 96.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,727 3,644 5,017
10th Percentile £263 £264 £206
25th Percentile £388 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £569
90th Percentile £668 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 458 163 268
10th Percentile £11.12 £14.05 £11.28
25th Percentile £13.23 £17.60 £14.82
Median hourly rate £23.48 £27.20 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.69% +36.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £47.88 £43.75 £33.96
90th Percentile £67.25 £58.90 £63.00
England median hourly rate £38.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -14.44% +87.50% +14.01%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the North of England

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the North of England

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in the North of England

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the North of England

DevOps Engineer
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 Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 10 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 -21 58 £500 -8.68% 24
Yorkshire +12 48 £475 -24.00% 12
North East -5 5 - - 3
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 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 of England region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 111 (100.00%) DevOps
2 79 (71.17%) Terraform
3 72 (64.86%) CI/CD
4 65 (58.56%) Kubernetes
5 64 (57.66%) AWS
6 54 (48.65%) Docker
7 48 (43.24%) Azure
8 47 (42.34%) Python
9 42 (37.84%) Infrastructure as Code
10 41 (36.94%) Containerisation
11 40 (36.04%) Jenkins
12 38 (34.23%) GitLab
13 36 (32.43%) Security Cleared
14 35 (31.53%) SC Cleared
15 33 (29.73%) Agile
16 29 (26.13%) Bash
17 28 (25.23%) Ansible
18 27 (24.32%) Prometheus
19 23 (20.72%) Linux
20 20 (18.02%) Continuous Integration
20 20 (18.02%) Git
21 18 (16.22%) PowerShell
21 18 (16.22%) Grafana
22 15 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
22 15 (13.51%) Amazon EC2
22 15 (13.51%) Puppet
22 15 (13.51%) Splunk
22 15 (13.51%) Configuration Management
22 15 (13.51%) Migration
23 14 (12.61%) Scrum

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
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 11 (9.91%) Confluence
2 5 (4.50%) nginx
3 1 (0.90%) Apache
3 1 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.90%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.90%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 64 (57.66%) AWS
2 48 (43.24%) Azure
3 15 (13.51%) Amazon EC2
4 14 (12.61%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (12.61%) GCP
5 11 (9.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 11 (9.91%) Amazon S3
6 10 (9.01%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (9.01%) GitHub
7 8 (7.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 7 (6.31%) Amazon ELB
8 7 (6.31%) Route 53
9 6 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (5.41%) Kong
10 5 (4.50%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (4.50%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (4.50%) Serverless
11 4 (3.60%) Apigee
11 4 (3.60%) AWS KMS
11 4 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.01%) DNS
1 10 (9.01%) Firewall
2 8 (7.21%) HTTP
3 7 (6.31%) TCP/IP
4 6 (5.41%) VPN
5 4 (3.60%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (3.60%) SSL
6 3 (2.70%) Network Security
7 2 (1.80%) BIG-IP
7 2 (1.80%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (0.90%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.31%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (5.41%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (4.50%) MySQL
4 3 (2.70%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.70%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.80%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.80%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.80%) Redis
5 2 (1.80%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.80%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.90%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.90%) ClickHouse
6 1 (0.90%) Flink
Development Applications
1 40 (36.04%) Jenkins
2 38 (34.23%) GitLab
3 20 (18.02%) Git
4 12 (10.81%) JIRA
5 7 (6.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 7 (6.31%) Travis CI
6 6 (5.41%) CircleCI
7 5 (4.50%) Bitbucket
8 4 (3.60%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.80%) Jaeger
9 2 (1.80%) Selenium
9 2 (1.80%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.90%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.90%) Maven
10 1 (0.90%) TeamCity
General
1 12 (10.81%) Social Skills
2 7 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (6.31%) Public Sector
3 5 (4.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (3.60%) Finance
5 2 (1.80%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.21%) YAML
2 7 (6.31%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (6.31%) JSON
3 6 (5.41%) XML
4 4 (3.60%) ARM Templates
4 4 (3.60%) Kafka
5 2 (1.80%) JDBC
5 2 (1.80%) JPA
5 2 (1.80%) JWT
5 2 (1.80%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (1.80%) pytest
5 2 (1.80%) SAML
5 2 (1.80%) Spring
5 2 (1.80%) WebSockets
6 1 (0.90%) Node.js
6 1 (0.90%) OAuth
6 1 (0.90%) OLE
6 1 (0.90%) REST
6 1 (0.90%) RESTful
6 1 (0.90%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.31%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (5.41%) Data Structures
3 5 (4.50%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.60%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.90%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.90%) Clustering
7 1 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.90%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.90%) PKI
7 1 (0.90%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 23 (20.72%) Linux
2 9 (8.11%) Unix
3 8 (7.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (4.50%) CentOS
5 2 (1.80%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.90%) VMS
6 1 (0.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (100.00%) DevOps
2 72 (64.86%) CI/CD
3 42 (37.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (36.94%) Containerisation
5 33 (29.73%) Agile
6 20 (18.02%) Continuous Integration
7 15 (13.51%) Configuration Management
7 15 (13.51%) Migration
7 15 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (12.61%) Scrum
9 13 (11.71%) High Availability
10 11 (9.91%) DevSecOps
10 11 (9.91%) Infrastructure Automation
11 10 (9.01%) Software Delivery
12 9 (8.11%) Task Automation
13 8 (7.21%) Platform Engineering
14 7 (6.31%) Collaborative Working
14 7 (6.31%) Continuous Deployment
14 7 (6.31%) Observability
14 7 (6.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 47 (42.34%) Python
2 29 (26.13%) Bash
3 18 (16.22%) PowerShell
4 14 (12.61%) Go
5 12 (10.81%) Java
6 11 (9.91%) SQL
7 6 (5.41%) Ruby
8 5 (4.50%) PHP
8 5 (4.50%) Scala
9 3 (2.70%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.80%) ActionScript
10 2 (1.80%) Bicep
10 2 (1.80%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.90%) C
11 1 (0.90%) Groovy
11 1 (0.90%) Perl
Qualifications
1 36 (32.43%) Security Cleared
2 35 (31.53%) SC Cleared
3 14 (12.61%) AWS Certification
3 14 (12.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 4 (3.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.80%) Degree
6 1 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.90%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.41%) QA
2 3 (2.70%) NIST
2 3 (2.70%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.90%) NCSC
System Software
1 54 (48.65%) Docker
2 6 (5.41%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.90%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 79 (71.17%) Terraform
2 65 (58.56%) Kubernetes
3 28 (25.23%) Ansible
4 27 (24.32%) Prometheus
5 18 (16.22%) Grafana
6 15 (13.51%) Puppet
7 9 (8.11%) Progress Chef
8 7 (6.31%) Docker Swarm
9 6 (5.41%) Kibana
9 6 (5.41%) logstash
10 5 (4.50%) Packer
11 4 (3.60%) Istio
11 4 (3.60%) Kiali
11 4 (3.60%) Rancher
12 3 (2.70%) HP Fortify
13 2 (1.80%) Podman
14 1 (0.90%) Graphite
14 1 (0.90%) HAProxy
14 1 (0.90%) linkerd
14 1 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (13.51%) Splunk
2 11 (9.91%) Oracle
3 7 (6.31%) PagerDuty
4 5 (4.50%) VMware
5 4 (3.60%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.70%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.80%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.80%) F5
7 2 (1.80%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.90%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.90%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.90%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.90%) Zscaler