DevOps Engineer Contracts in Leeds

Development Operations Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Leeds is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 47 69
Rank change year-on-year +15 +22 -13
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 28 16 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 6.02% 2.00% 2.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.19% 2.17% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 12 24
10th Percentile £425 £445 £443
25th Percentile £505 £456 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £469 £700
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -33.04% +33.33%
75th Percentile £619 £488 -
90th Percentile £738 £499 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £475 £700
% change year-on-year +10.53% -32.14% +33.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 452 736 1,303
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.20% 92.12% 97.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 458 948
10th Percentile £257 £300 £356
25th Percentile £352 £413 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -7.11% +7.65%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £619
90th Percentile £638 £675 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 11
10th Percentile £17.08 £11.24 £12.00
25th Percentile £31.47 £11.75 £16.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £12.53 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +227.21% -79.95% +179.02%
75th Percentile £98.56 £15.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £17.67 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.82 £14.34 £32.50
% change year-on-year +73.14% -55.89% +92.88%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Leeds

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in Leeds

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Leeds over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in Leeds

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Leeds region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 28 (100.00%) DevOps
2 21 (75.00%) Terraform
3 19 (67.86%) AWS
4 17 (60.71%) SC Cleared
4 17 (60.71%) Security Cleared
5 16 (57.14%) CI/CD
6 15 (53.57%) Python
7 14 (50.00%) Jenkins
8 12 (42.86%) Linux
8 12 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 11 (39.29%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (39.29%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (35.71%) Packer
10 10 (35.71%) Go
10 10 (35.71%) GitLab
10 10 (35.71%) CentOS
10 10 (35.71%) Bash
10 10 (35.71%) Unix
11 9 (32.14%) cloud-init
12 8 (28.57%) Kubernetes
13 7 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
14 6 (21.43%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (21.43%) Public Sector
14 6 (21.43%) Amazon S3
15 5 (17.86%) Azure
15 5 (17.86%) Kafka
15 5 (17.86%) MongoDB
15 5 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
15 5 (17.86%) Prometheus
15 5 (17.86%) Grafana

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 3 (10.71%) nginx
1 3 (10.71%) Traefik
2 1 (3.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 19 (67.86%) AWS
2 11 (39.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (21.43%) Amazon ECS
3 6 (21.43%) Amazon S3
4 5 (17.86%) AWS Fargate
4 5 (17.86%) Azure
4 5 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (14.29%) Entra ID
5 4 (14.29%) Serverless
5 4 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (10.71%) GCP
7 2 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (7.14%) Azure Functions
7 2 (7.14%) NuGet
7 2 (7.14%) PaaS
8 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (3.57%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) DNS
1 4 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) MongoDB
2 4 (14.29%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.57%) Big Data
3 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 10 (35.71%) GitLab
3 3 (10.71%) Git
4 2 (7.14%) Artifactory
4 2 (7.14%) JMeter
4 2 (7.14%) Selenium
4 2 (7.14%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.57%) Babel
5 1 (3.57%) JIRA
5 1 (3.57%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (3.57%) webpack
General
1 6 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 3 (10.71%) Finance
3 2 (7.14%) Military
4 1 (3.57%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (32.14%) cloud-init
2 5 (17.86%) Kafka
3 4 (14.29%) Keycloak
4 1 (3.57%) CSS
4 1 (3.57%) HTML
4 1 (3.57%) JSON
4 1 (3.57%) JWT
4 1 (3.57%) Next.js
4 1 (3.57%) Node.js
4 1 (3.57%) React
4 1 (3.57%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) PKI
2 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.57%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (42.86%) Linux
1 12 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 10 (35.71%) CentOS
2 10 (35.71%) Unix
3 1 (3.57%) Mac OS
3 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) DevOps
2 16 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 11 (39.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (17.86%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 5 (17.86%) Secrets Management
5 5 (17.86%) Static Application Security Testing
6 4 (14.29%) Cloud Security
6 4 (14.29%) Identity Management
6 4 (14.29%) Observability
7 3 (10.71%) Agile
7 3 (10.71%) Analytics
7 3 (10.71%) Mobile Device Management
8 2 (7.14%) Configuration Management
8 2 (7.14%) Containerisation
8 2 (7.14%) Mob Programming
8 2 (7.14%) Pair Programming
8 2 (7.14%) Service Delivery
9 1 (3.57%) Incident Response
9 1 (3.57%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 15 (53.57%) Python
2 10 (35.71%) Bash
2 10 (35.71%) Go
3 4 (14.29%) SQL
4 3 (10.71%) PowerShell
5 2 (7.14%) Groovy
6 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (60.71%) SC Cleared
1 17 (60.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.29%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.57%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) NCSC
2 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (75.00%) Terraform
2 10 (35.71%) Packer
3 8 (28.57%) Kubernetes
4 5 (17.86%) Ansible
4 5 (17.86%) Grafana
4 5 (17.86%) Prometheus
5 4 (14.29%) Consul
5 4 (14.29%) Istio
5 4 (14.29%) Jamf Pro
5 4 (14.29%) linkerd
5 4 (14.29%) Rancher
5 4 (14.29%) ZABBIX
6 3 (10.71%) HAProxy
7 2 (7.14%) Progress Chef
7 2 (7.14%) Puppet
8 1 (3.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Okta
1 4 (14.29%) Splunk
2 3 (10.71%) Apple
2 3 (10.71%) Databricks
2 3 (10.71%) ESET
2 3 (10.71%) Google
2 3 (10.71%) VMware
3 2 (7.14%) Dynatrace
3 2 (7.14%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (3.57%) Red Hat