DevOps Engineer Contracts in South Yorkshire

Development Operations Engineer
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in South Yorkshire is £622 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 May 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 28 37
Rank change year-on-year -17 +9 0
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 12 33 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 2.69% 6.21% 4.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.96% 6.80% 4.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 29 20
10th Percentile £510 £513 £494
25th Percentile £536 £575 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £622 £650 £536
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% +21.21% -22.00%
75th Percentile £631 £700 £690
90th Percentile £650 - £711
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £625 £525
% change year-on-year -20.00% +19.05% +16.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South Yorkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire. 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 South Yorkshire with a recognized job title 405 485 495
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.81% 91.34% 95.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 344 394
10th Percentile £235 £260 £270
25th Percentile £407 £450 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% +18.75%
75th Percentile £578 £663 £550
90th Percentile £638 £700 £638
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +10.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 5 28
10th Percentile £10.90 £13.60 £10.91
25th Percentile £12.63 £17.50 £11.75
Median hourly rate £13.60 £20.00 £18.32
Median % change year-on-year -32.03% +9.17% -1.08%
75th Percentile £23.31 £22.75 £22.68
90th Percentile £23.75 £33.10 £24.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £14.50 £20.50 £17.64
% change year-on-year -29.27% +16.21% -8.36%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in South Yorkshire

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in South Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in South Yorkshire

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in South Yorkshire

DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 13 May 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
Sheffield -22 11 £622 -4.31% 2
DevOps Engineer
Yorkshire

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 13 May 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 South Yorkshire region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 11 (91.67%) Terraform
3 10 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (83.33%) Containerisation
3 10 (83.33%) CI/CD
3 10 (83.33%) Python
3 10 (83.33%) Bash
4 9 (75.00%) AWS
4 9 (75.00%) Agile
4 9 (75.00%) Docker
4 9 (75.00%) GitLab
4 9 (75.00%) Kubernetes
5 8 (66.67%) GCP
5 8 (66.67%) Prometheus
5 8 (66.67%) Task Automation
5 8 (66.67%) Git
5 8 (66.67%) Splunk
5 8 (66.67%) GitHub
5 8 (66.67%) Jenkins
6 7 (58.33%) Ansible
6 7 (58.33%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (58.33%) Azure
6 7 (58.33%) Firewall
6 7 (58.33%) Grafana
6 7 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (50.00%) Kong
7 6 (50.00%) DevSecOps
7 6 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
7 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
7 6 (50.00%) Travis CI

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 6 (50.00%) Confluence
2 3 (25.00%) nginx
3 1 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (8.33%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) AWS
2 8 (66.67%) GCP
2 8 (66.67%) GitHub
3 7 (58.33%) Azure
4 6 (50.00%) Kong
5 4 (33.33%) Apigee
6 3 (25.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (16.67%) Anthos
7 2 (16.67%) Datadog
8 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (8.33%) CloudBees
8 1 (8.33%) Serverless
8 1 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (58.33%) Firewall
2 6 (50.00%) DNS
2 6 (50.00%) HTTP
2 6 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 6 (50.00%) VPN
3 4 (33.33%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (16.67%) BIG-IP
4 2 (16.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 2 (16.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (8.33%) ClickHouse
2 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (75.00%) GitLab
2 8 (66.67%) Git
2 8 (66.67%) Jenkins
3 6 (50.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 6 (50.00%) CircleCI
3 6 (50.00%) JIRA
3 6 (50.00%) Travis CI
General
1 6 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (50.00%) JSON
1 6 (50.00%) XML
1 6 (50.00%) YAML
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Beam
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) Keycloak
2 1 (8.33%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 10 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 10 (83.33%) Containerisation
2 10 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (75.00%) Agile
4 8 (66.67%) Task Automation
5 7 (58.33%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (50.00%) API Integration
6 6 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
6 6 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
6 6 (50.00%) DevSecOps
6 6 (50.00%) Project Management
6 6 (50.00%) Scrum
6 6 (50.00%) Secure Coding
6 6 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (50.00%) Use Case
6 6 (50.00%) Workflow
7 4 (33.33%) API Development
8 2 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) Bash
1 10 (83.33%) Python
2 6 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (25.00%) Go
4 2 (16.67%) ActionScript
4 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
5 1 (8.33%) Groovy
5 1 (8.33%) Java
5 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (8.33%) Perl
5 1 (8.33%) Ruby
5 1 (8.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 9 (75.00%) Docker
2 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (8.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 11 (91.67%) Terraform
2 9 (75.00%) Kubernetes
3 8 (66.67%) Prometheus
4 7 (58.33%) Ansible
4 7 (58.33%) Grafana
5 6 (50.00%) Docker Swarm
5 6 (50.00%) Kibana
5 6 (50.00%) logstash
5 6 (50.00%) Progress Chef
5 6 (50.00%) Puppet
6 2 (16.67%) Istio
6 2 (16.67%) Kiali
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Splunk
2 2 (16.67%) F5
2 2 (16.67%) VMware