DevOps Contracts in the North West

DevOps
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 15 12
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 +3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 234 285 415
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 8.54% 9.35% 10.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.04% 10.43% 11.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 220 300
10th Percentile £413 £405 £374
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £603 £625
90th Percentile £830 £675 £688
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 20
10th Percentile - £38.12 £54.49
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 - £44.72 £77.50
90th Percentile - £45.59 £81.00
England median hourly rate £65.50 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year - +0.77% +18.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,330 2,732 3,596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 85.07% 89.66% 88.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,452 1,918 2,617
10th Percentile £308 £313 £240
25th Percentile £401 £413 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.50%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 142 158
10th Percentile £11.00 £16.02 £10.63
25th Percentile £14.00 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £26.66 £35.00 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -23.83% +50.72% +29.34%
75th Percentile £46.18 £45.90 £52.67
90th Percentile £66.61 £65.98 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the North West

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in the North West

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the North West

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in the North West

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 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 +3 167 £540 - 138
Cheshire +10 32 £475 -9.52% 11
Lancashire +1 13 £652 +8.74% 7
Cumbria -9 12 £515 +14.44% 2
Merseyside -9 5 £519 +3.75% 8
DevOps
England

DevOps
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 12 (5.13%) Confluence
2 6 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.85%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.85%) nginx
5 2 (0.85%) Traefik
6 1 (0.43%) Apache
6 1 (0.43%) GeoServer
Applications
1 6 (2.56%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (2.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (2.56%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.85%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 90 (38.46%) Azure
2 64 (27.35%) AWS
3 48 (20.51%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (11.54%) Serverless
5 25 (10.68%) Amazon EC2
6 16 (6.84%) Amazon S3
7 15 (6.41%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 13 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (5.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (2.99%) Power Platform
10 7 (2.99%) Snowflake
11 6 (2.56%) Amazon ELB
11 6 (2.56%) Apigee
11 6 (2.56%) GCP
11 6 (2.56%) GitHub
11 6 (2.56%) Kong
11 6 (2.56%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 43 (18.38%) Firewall
2 31 (13.25%) VPN
3 12 (5.13%) BGP
3 12 (5.13%) Cisco ASA
3 12 (5.13%) Cisco Firepower
3 12 (5.13%) Cisco ISE
3 12 (5.13%) EIGRP
3 12 (5.13%) HSRP
3 12 (5.13%) IPsec
3 12 (5.13%) NetScaler
3 12 (5.13%) OSPF
3 12 (5.13%) SNMP
3 12 (5.13%) Spanning Tree
3 12 (5.13%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (2.99%) Network Security
5 6 (2.56%) DNS
6 3 (1.28%) HTTP
6 3 (1.28%) SSL
7 2 (0.85%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.43%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.41%) NoSQL
1 15 (6.41%) Relational Database
2 14 (5.98%) MongoDB
2 14 (5.98%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (4.27%) Data Lake
3 10 (4.27%) DynamoDB
4 8 (3.42%) MySQL
5 7 (2.99%) Oracle Reports
5 7 (2.99%) RDBMS
5 7 (2.99%) SQL Server
6 6 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (2.56%) OLAP
6 6 (2.56%) OLTP
7 5 (2.14%) Oracle OLAP
7 5 (2.14%) Tableau
8 4 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (1.71%) GIS
9 3 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 40 (17.09%) Git
2 27 (11.54%) JIRA
3 24 (10.26%) GitLab
4 22 (9.40%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.99%) SonarQube
6 6 (2.56%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.56%) JUnit
7 5 (2.14%) Selenium
8 3 (1.28%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (1.28%) webpack
9 2 (0.85%) Postman
9 2 (0.85%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.43%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.43%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.43%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.43%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.43%) Travis CI
10 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.43%) WebDriver
General
1 34 (14.53%) Public Sector
2 25 (10.68%) Social Skills
3 18 (7.69%) Finance
4 17 (7.26%) Banking
5 9 (3.85%) Legal
6 5 (2.14%) Retail
7 3 (1.28%) Law
7 3 (1.28%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.85%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.43%) Automotive
9 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.43%) Local Government
9 1 (0.43%) Marketing
9 1 (0.43%) Military
9 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.43%) Public Speaking
9 1 (0.43%) Retail Finance
9 1 (0.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 69 (29.49%) Architect
2 58 (24.79%) DevOps Engineer
3 40 (17.09%) Lead
4 33 (14.10%) Technical Architect
5 30 (12.82%) Developer
6 28 (11.97%) Senior
6 28 (11.97%) Technical Leader
7 27 (11.54%) Lead Architect
8 22 (9.40%) Solutions Architect
9 21 (8.97%) AWS DevOps
10 15 (6.41%) AWS Engineer
11 14 (5.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 13 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
13 12 (5.13%) Network Engineer
13 12 (5.13%) Senior DevOps
14 9 (3.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 8 (3.42%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 8 (3.42%) Senior Network Engineer
16 7 (2.99%) DBA
16 7 (2.99%) PostgreSQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (15.81%) Node.js
2 15 (6.41%) Spring
3 14 (5.98%) .NET
3 14 (5.98%) Kafka
3 14 (5.98%) React
4 12 (5.13%) Jinja
4 12 (5.13%) REST
4 12 (5.13%) Spring Boot
5 9 (3.85%) JPA
5 9 (3.85%) JSON
5 9 (3.85%) SOAP
5 9 (3.85%) XML
6 8 (3.42%) HTML
6 8 (3.42%) Web Services
7 7 (2.99%) CSS
8 6 (2.56%) .NET Framework
8 6 (2.56%) Hibernate
8 6 (2.56%) IBM Integration Bus
8 6 (2.56%) J2EE
8 6 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 34 (14.53%) Public Cloud
2 17 (7.26%) Product Ownership
3 11 (4.70%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (4.27%) Mobile App
5 6 (2.56%) DataPower
6 5 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.14%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.71%) PKI
8 3 (1.28%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.85%) Clustering
9 2 (0.85%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.85%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.85%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.43%) Insider Threat
10 1 (0.43%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 35 (14.96%) Android
1 35 (14.96%) Apple iOS
2 34 (14.53%) Windows
3 33 (14.10%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.42%) Linux
5 4 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.28%) Unix
7 2 (0.85%) Alpine Linux
7 2 (0.85%) CentOS
8 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (48.29%) Agile
2 98 (41.88%) CI/CD
3 44 (18.80%) Microservices
4 43 (18.38%) Design Patterns
5 39 (16.67%) Risk Management
6 34 (14.53%) Infrastructure as Code
7 33 (14.10%) Containerisation
8 32 (13.68%) Mobile Device Management
9 31 (13.25%) Security Architecture
10 30 (12.82%) Zero Trust
11 28 (11.97%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 28 (11.97%) Threat Intelligence
12 23 (9.83%) Architectural Patterns
12 23 (9.83%) Scrum
13 21 (8.97%) Problem-Solving
14 20 (8.55%) Roadmaps
14 20 (8.55%) Stakeholder Management
15 19 (8.12%) ITIL
15 19 (8.12%) Migration
16 17 (7.26%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 56 (23.93%) Python
2 24 (10.26%) Java
2 24 (10.26%) SQL
3 19 (8.12%) Bash
4 15 (6.41%) C#
4 15 (6.41%) Go
5 12 (5.13%) Perl
5 12 (5.13%) Tcl
6 11 (4.70%) TypeScript
7 10 (4.27%) PowerShell
8 9 (3.85%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.56%) Ruby
10 5 (2.14%) PHP
10 5 (2.14%) Search Processing Language
10 5 (2.14%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.71%) Bicep
11 4 (1.71%) C
12 2 (0.85%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.43%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 66 (28.21%) Security Cleared
2 59 (25.21%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.41%) Degree
4 12 (5.13%) CCNA
4 12 (5.13%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (4.70%) CCNP
6 9 (3.85%) AWS Certification
6 9 (3.85%) DV Cleared
7 8 (3.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.43%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.70%) QA
2 5 (2.14%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.28%) GDPR
3 3 (1.28%) ISO 22301
3 3 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.28%) NIST
3 3 (1.28%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.85%) NCSC
5 1 (0.43%) SLA
5 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 46 (19.66%) Docker
2 13 (5.56%) Active Directory
3 12 (5.13%) Firmware
4 2 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 59 (25.21%) Terraform
2 50 (21.37%) Kubernetes
3 33 (14.10%) Ansible
4 8 (3.42%) Prometheus
5 7 (2.99%) HP Fortify
5 7 (2.99%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (2.56%) Grafana
7 5 (2.14%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.85%) Consul
8 2 (0.85%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.85%) Graphite
8 2 (0.85%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.85%) Istio
8 2 (0.85%) linkerd
8 2 (0.85%) Packer
8 2 (0.85%) Podman
8 2 (0.85%) Puppet
8 2 (0.85%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.43%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.43%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 30 (12.82%) Oracle
2 29 (12.39%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.56%) Splunk
4 12 (5.13%) Cisco
4 12 (5.13%) Citrix
4 12 (5.13%) Palo Alto
4 12 (5.13%) SolarWinds
5 6 (2.56%) Google
5 6 (2.56%) IBM
5 6 (2.56%) TSYS
6 5 (2.14%) Apple
6 5 (2.14%) VMware
7 4 (1.71%) Cadence
7 4 (1.71%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.28%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.28%) PagerDuty
8 3 (1.28%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.85%) Mapbox
9 2 (0.85%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.85%) Virgin Media