DevOps Contract Job Trends in Halifax

DevOps
West Yorkshire > Halifax

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Halifax requiring DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DevOps 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Halifax 22.22% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 31.58% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £419 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Halifax

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Halifax.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 19 6 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Halifax 70.37% 100.00% 87.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 18
10th Percentile £366 £310 £467
25th Percentile £405 £475 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £613 £550
Median % change year-on-year -24.49% +11.36% +12.82%
75th Percentile £541 £738 £725
90th Percentile £595 - £738
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +2.56% -7.14% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £12.30 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £27.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -19.49% +41.03% -7.14%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Halifax

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Halifax.

DevOps job vacancy trend in Halifax

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Halifax

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Halifax citing DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Halifax citing DevOps

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Halifax by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) GCP
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Data Architect
1 2 (33.33%) GCP Architect
1 2 (33.33%) GCP Data Architect
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) GCP DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) GCP DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 3 (50.00%) SIEM
2 3 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (33.33%) AI
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) API Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Design Thinking
3 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Bash
2 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (50.00%) Search Processing Language
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) HIPAA
1 3 (50.00%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 3 (50.00%) Ansible
3 1 (16.67%) Istio
3 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Google
1 3 (50.00%) Splunk