DevOps Contracts in South Yorkshire

DevOps
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 9 8
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 +14
Contract jobs citing DevOps 69 68 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 15.13% 12.93% 13.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.95% 13.91% 15.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 56 62
10th Percentile £386 £450 £415
25th Percentile £430 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £609 £544
Median % change year-on-year -9.61% +11.91% +27.94%
75th Percentile £614 £700 £623
90th Percentile £649 - £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -20.83% +14.29% +12.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 407 489 454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 89.25% 92.97% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 316 358
10th Percentile £315 £300 £325
25th Percentile £411 £463 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.91% +10.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £588 £657 £550
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -9.52% +9.38% +9.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 38 23
10th Percentile £10.90 - £10.76
25th Percentile £12.64 £9.80 £11.00
Median hourly rate £17.62 £10.63 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year +65.71% -36.54% +38.83%
75th Percentile £23.75 - £22.44
90th Percentile - - £23.95
Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £17.64
% change year-on-year +27.00% -39.74% -9.54%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in South Yorkshire

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in South Yorkshire

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in South Yorkshire

DevOps
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 within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +6 67 £560 -9.46% 11
DevOps
Yorkshire

DevOps
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 7 (10.14%) Confluence
2 5 (7.25%) nginx
3 3 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (4.35%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (18.84%) AWS
1 13 (18.84%) GCP
2 11 (15.94%) Azure
3 10 (14.49%) GitHub
4 6 (8.70%) Apigee
4 6 (8.70%) CloudBees
4 6 (8.70%) Kong
5 5 (7.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (2.90%) Anthos
6 2 (2.90%) Datadog
6 2 (2.90%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.90%) Google Compute Engine
6 2 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.90%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.45%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.45%) Serverless
7 1 (1.45%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (1.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (13.04%) Firewall
2 6 (8.70%) DNS
2 6 (8.70%) HTTP
2 6 (8.70%) SSL
2 6 (8.70%) TCP/IP
2 6 (8.70%) VPN
3 2 (2.90%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.04%) Apache Cassandra
1 9 (13.04%) MongoDB
2 6 (8.70%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (8.70%) Relational Database
3 5 (7.25%) NoSQL
4 3 (4.35%) ClickHouse
5 2 (2.90%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (21.74%) Git
2 14 (20.29%) Jenkins
3 10 (14.49%) GitLab
4 9 (13.04%) JIRA
5 6 (8.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (8.70%) CircleCI
5 6 (8.70%) JUnit
5 6 (8.70%) Travis CI
6 1 (1.45%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.45%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (1.45%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.45%) JMeter
6 1 (1.45%) Selenium
General
1 27 (39.13%) Finance
2 15 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 14 (20.29%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (14.49%) Public Sector
5 8 (11.59%) Banking
6 2 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.90%) Marketing
7 1 (1.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (15.94%) Developer
1 11 (15.94%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (14.49%) Architect
2 10 (14.49%) Lead
3 7 (10.14%) Java Developer
4 6 (8.70%) Senior
5 5 (7.25%) Cassandra DBA
5 5 (7.25%) Consultant
5 5 (7.25%) DBA
5 5 (7.25%) Storage Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) Automation Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) DevOps Automation Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) Storage Consultant
7 3 (4.35%) Lead DevOps
7 3 (4.35%) Security Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.90%) EMC Consultant
8 2 (2.90%) Junior Java Developer
8 2 (2.90%) ServiceNow Developer
8 2 (2.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.94%) REST
2 9 (13.04%) Kafka
3 6 (8.70%) ActiveMQ
3 6 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (8.70%) Hibernate
3 6 (8.70%) JPA
3 6 (8.70%) JSON
3 6 (8.70%) React
3 6 (8.70%) Spring
3 6 (8.70%) Spring Boot
3 6 (8.70%) XML
3 6 (8.70%) YAML
4 4 (5.80%) AngularJS
5 3 (4.35%) Apache Beam
5 3 (4.35%) CSS
5 3 (4.35%) HTML
5 3 (4.35%) Keycloak
5 3 (4.35%) LDAP
6 1 (1.45%) .NET
6 1 (1.45%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.70%) Data Structures
2 5 (7.25%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (4.35%) CMDB
3 3 (4.35%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.90%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (21.74%) Linux
2 7 (10.14%) Windows
3 2 (2.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (63.77%) CI/CD
2 28 (40.58%) Agile
3 25 (36.23%) Continuous Integration
4 22 (31.88%) ITIL
5 21 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (28.99%) Infrastructure as Code
7 19 (27.54%) Continuous Delivery
8 17 (24.64%) Performance Analysis
9 16 (23.19%) Change Management
9 16 (23.19%) Scrum
10 15 (21.74%) Build Automation
11 14 (20.29%) Containerisation
12 13 (18.84%) Microservices
12 13 (18.84%) Validation
13 12 (17.39%) Mentoring
14 10 (14.49%) Design Patterns
14 10 (14.49%) Test Automation
15 9 (13.04%) ITSM
15 9 (13.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 8 (11.59%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (26.09%) Python
2 15 (21.74%) Bash
3 14 (20.29%) PowerShell
4 12 (17.39%) Java
5 8 (11.59%) JavaScript
6 7 (10.14%) TypeScript
7 6 (8.70%) Go
7 6 (8.70%) Groovy
7 6 (8.70%) Perl
8 4 (5.80%) Ruby
8 4 (5.80%) Scala
9 2 (2.90%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.90%) SQL
10 1 (1.45%) C#
Qualifications
1 11 (15.94%) SC Cleared
1 11 (15.94%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.70%) Degree
2 6 (8.70%) DV Cleared
3 3 (4.35%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.90%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.04%) QA
2 3 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.45%) GRC
System Software
1 20 (28.99%) Docker
2 3 (4.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (33.33%) Ansible
2 20 (28.99%) Kubernetes
3 17 (24.64%) Terraform
4 9 (13.04%) Grafana
5 8 (11.59%) Prometheus
6 6 (8.70%) Docker Swarm
6 6 (8.70%) Kibana
6 6 (8.70%) logstash
6 6 (8.70%) Progress Chef
6 6 (8.70%) Puppet
7 4 (5.80%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (4.35%) Istio
9 2 (2.90%) Kiali
10 1 (1.45%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 14 (20.29%) EMC
2 9 (13.04%) ServiceNow
3 8 (11.59%) Splunk
4 6 (8.70%) IBM
4 6 (8.70%) Solace
5 3 (4.35%) Google
5 3 (4.35%) Microsoft
5 3 (4.35%) VMware
6 1 (1.45%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.45%) Oracle
6 1 (1.45%) Reuters
6 1 (1.45%) Veritas