DevOps Contracts in Sheffield

DevOps
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 9 5
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +11
Contract jobs citing DevOps 67 68 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 17.68% 14.98% 15.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.14% 15.67% 17.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 58 55
10th Percentile £385 £450 £440
25th Percentile £430 £528 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £619 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.46% +12.45% +12.82%
75th Percentile £622 £700 £638
90th Percentile £650 - £707
South Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £609 £550
% change year-on-year -9.61% +10.64% +29.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 350 434 360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 92.35% 95.59% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 302 289
10th Percentile £375 £364 £350
25th Percentile £420 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £551 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% +10.25% +25.00%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £563
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £474 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -13.91% +10.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 11
10th Percentile £10.90 £11.05 £9.49
25th Percentile £11.33 £11.13 £12.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £11.50 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +91.30% -28.13% +18.06%
75th Percentile £23.75 £25.88 £18.57
90th Percentile - £34.35 £24.00
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £17.62 £10.63 £16.75
% change year-on-year +65.71% -36.54% +38.83%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Sheffield

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Sheffield

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Sheffield over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Sheffield

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 7 (10.45%) Confluence
2 4 (5.97%) nginx
3 3 (4.48%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (4.48%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (19.40%) AWS
1 13 (19.40%) GCP
2 11 (16.42%) Azure
3 10 (14.93%) GitHub
4 6 (8.96%) Apigee
4 6 (8.96%) CloudBees
4 6 (8.96%) Kong
5 4 (5.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.99%) Google Compute Engine
6 2 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.99%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.49%) Anthos
7 1 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.49%) Datadog
7 1 (1.49%) Serverless
7 1 (1.49%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (1.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (13.43%) Firewall
2 6 (8.96%) DNS
2 6 (8.96%) HTTP
2 6 (8.96%) SSL
2 6 (8.96%) TCP/IP
2 6 (8.96%) VPN
3 1 (1.49%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.43%) Apache Cassandra
1 9 (13.43%) MongoDB
2 6 (8.96%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (8.96%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (8.96%) Relational Database
3 5 (7.46%) NoSQL
4 3 (4.48%) ClickHouse
5 2 (2.99%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (22.39%) Git
2 14 (20.90%) Jenkins
3 10 (14.93%) GitLab
4 9 (13.43%) JIRA
5 6 (8.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (8.96%) CircleCI
5 6 (8.96%) JUnit
5 6 (8.96%) Travis CI
6 1 (1.49%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.49%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (1.49%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.49%) JMeter
6 1 (1.49%) Selenium
General
1 26 (38.81%) Finance
2 15 (22.39%) Social Skills
3 14 (20.90%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (14.93%) Public Sector
5 8 (11.94%) Banking
6 2 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.99%) Marketing
7 1 (1.49%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (16.42%) Developer
2 10 (14.93%) Architect
2 10 (14.93%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (14.93%) Lead
3 7 (10.45%) Java Developer
4 6 (8.96%) Senior
5 5 (7.46%) Cassandra DBA
5 5 (7.46%) Consultant
5 5 (7.46%) DBA
6 4 (5.97%) Automation Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) DevOps Automation Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Storage Consultant
6 4 (5.97%) Storage Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Lead DevOps
7 3 (4.48%) Security Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.99%) EMC Consultant
8 2 (2.99%) EMC Storage Consultant
8 2 (2.99%) Lead Developer
8 2 (2.99%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (16.42%) REST
2 9 (13.43%) Kafka
3 6 (8.96%) ActiveMQ
3 6 (8.96%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (8.96%) Hibernate
3 6 (8.96%) JPA
3 6 (8.96%) JSON
3 6 (8.96%) React
3 6 (8.96%) Spring
3 6 (8.96%) Spring Boot
3 6 (8.96%) XML
3 6 (8.96%) YAML
4 4 (5.97%) AngularJS
5 3 (4.48%) Apache Beam
5 3 (4.48%) CSS
5 3 (4.48%) HTML
5 3 (4.48%) Keycloak
5 3 (4.48%) LDAP
6 1 (1.49%) .NET
6 1 (1.49%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.96%) Data Structures
2 5 (7.46%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (4.48%) CMDB
3 3 (4.48%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.99%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.49%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (20.90%) Linux
2 7 (10.45%) Windows
3 1 (1.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (64.18%) CI/CD
2 27 (40.30%) Agile
3 24 (35.82%) Continuous Integration
4 21 (31.34%) ITIL
4 21 (31.34%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (28.36%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (26.87%) Continuous Delivery
7 16 (23.88%) Change Management
7 16 (23.88%) Performance Analysis
7 16 (23.88%) Scrum
8 14 (20.90%) Build Automation
9 13 (19.40%) Containerisation
9 13 (19.40%) Microservices
10 12 (17.91%) Mentoring
10 12 (17.91%) Validation
11 10 (14.93%) Design Patterns
11 10 (14.93%) Test Automation
12 9 (13.43%) ITSM
13 8 (11.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 8 (11.94%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 18 (26.87%) Python
2 14 (20.90%) Bash
2 14 (20.90%) PowerShell
3 12 (17.91%) Java
4 8 (11.94%) JavaScript
5 7 (10.45%) TypeScript
6 6 (8.96%) Go
6 6 (8.96%) Groovy
6 6 (8.96%) Perl
7 4 (5.97%) Ruby
7 4 (5.97%) Scala
8 2 (2.99%) SQL
9 1 (1.49%) C#
9 1 (1.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (16.42%) SC Cleared
1 11 (16.42%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.96%) Degree
2 6 (8.96%) DV Cleared
3 3 (4.48%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.99%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.43%) QA
2 3 (4.48%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.49%) GRC
System Software
1 19 (28.36%) Docker
2 3 (4.48%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (34.33%) Ansible
2 19 (28.36%) Kubernetes
3 16 (23.88%) Terraform
4 9 (13.43%) Grafana
5 7 (10.45%) Prometheus
6 6 (8.96%) Docker Swarm
6 6 (8.96%) Kibana
6 6 (8.96%) logstash
6 6 (8.96%) Progress Chef
6 6 (8.96%) Puppet
7 4 (5.97%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (2.99%) Istio
9 1 (1.49%) Kiali
9 1 (1.49%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 14 (20.90%) EMC
2 9 (13.43%) ServiceNow
3 7 (10.45%) Splunk
4 6 (8.96%) IBM
4 6 (8.96%) Solace
5 3 (4.48%) Google
6 2 (2.99%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.99%) VMware
7 1 (1.49%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.49%) Oracle
7 1 (1.49%) Reuters
7 1 (1.49%) Veritas