DevOps Engineer Contracts in Leeds

Development Operations Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Leeds is £508, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 July 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
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 29 62
Rank change year-on-year -9 +33 -5
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 26 43 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 4.90% 5.49% 2.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.99% 5.99% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 38 21
10th Percentile £388 £288 £475
25th Percentile £419 £386 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £425 £650
Median % change year-on-year +19.41% -34.62% +19.54%
75th Percentile £538 £488 £700
90th Percentile £553 £529 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £510 £450 £615
% change year-on-year +13.33% -26.83% +14.69%

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 521 718 1,156
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 98.12% 91.70% 98.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 463 807
10th Percentile £307 £300 £363
25th Percentile £396 £400 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £638
90th Percentile £618 £649 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £492 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +0.41% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 22 14
10th Percentile £31.53 £12.25 £12.00
25th Percentile £31.62 £15.22 £15.94
Median hourly rate £33.11 £22.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.50% +12.82% -8.24%
75th Percentile £66.51 £48.75 £22.02
90th Percentile £85.74 - £23.75
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £19.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +16.53% - +1.60%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 26 (100.00%) DevOps
2 19 (73.08%) AWS
3 18 (69.23%) Terraform
4 16 (61.54%) SC Cleared
4 16 (61.54%) Security Cleared
5 12 (46.15%) CI/CD
6 9 (34.62%) Jenkins
7 8 (30.77%) Ansible
7 8 (30.77%) Kubernetes
8 7 (26.92%) Python
9 6 (23.08%) DynamoDB
9 6 (23.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (19.23%) GitLab
10 5 (19.23%) Prometheus
10 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (19.23%) Serverless
10 5 (19.23%) Docker
10 5 (19.23%) Amazon S3
10 5 (19.23%) Azure
10 5 (19.23%) Containerisation
11 4 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (15.38%) Git
11 4 (15.38%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (15.38%) Splunk
11 4 (15.38%) GitHub
11 4 (15.38%) SQL
11 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
11 4 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (15.38%) Dynatrace
11 4 (15.38%) Azure DevOps

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:

Cloud Services
1 19 (73.08%) AWS
2 6 (23.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (19.23%) Amazon S3
3 5 (19.23%) Azure
3 5 (19.23%) Serverless
4 4 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (15.38%) Amazon SQS
4 4 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (15.38%) GitHub
4 4 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (11.54%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (11.54%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 2 (7.69%) AWS KMS
6 2 (7.69%) GCP
7 1 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (3.85%) NuGet
7 1 (3.85%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) DNS
1 2 (7.69%) SSL
1 2 (7.69%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.85%) Firewall
2 1 (3.85%) Network Security
2 1 (3.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (23.08%) DynamoDB
2 2 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.85%) Big Data
3 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (34.62%) Jenkins
2 5 (19.23%) GitLab
3 4 (15.38%) Git
4 2 (7.69%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.85%) Artifactory
5 1 (3.85%) JMeter
5 1 (3.85%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (3.85%) Selenium
General
1 2 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.85%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) Django
1 1 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (3.85%) Kafka
1 1 (3.85%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
1 1 (3.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (3.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Linux
1 2 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) DevOps
2 12 (46.15%) CI/CD
3 5 (19.23%) Containerisation
3 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (11.54%) FinOps
6 2 (7.69%) Agile
6 2 (7.69%) Analytics
6 2 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (7.69%) Configuration Management
6 2 (7.69%) Cost Optimisation
6 2 (7.69%) DevSecOps
6 2 (7.69%) Incident Response
6 2 (7.69%) Mob Programming
6 2 (7.69%) Observability
6 2 (7.69%) Pair Programming
6 2 (7.69%) Resource Management
7 1 (3.85%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (3.85%) Release Management
7 1 (3.85%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) Python
2 4 (15.38%) SQL
3 2 (7.69%) Groovy
3 2 (7.69%) PowerShell
3 2 (7.69%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.85%) Bash
4 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (61.54%) SC Cleared
1 16 (61.54%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.85%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) GDPR
1 2 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (7.69%) NIST
1 2 (7.69%) SOC 2
2 1 (3.85%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 5 (19.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (69.23%) Terraform
2 8 (30.77%) Ansible
2 8 (30.77%) Kubernetes
3 5 (19.23%) Prometheus
4 3 (11.54%) Grafana
5 2 (7.69%) Puppet
6 1 (3.85%) Kustomize
6 1 (3.85%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Dynatrace
1 4 (15.38%) Splunk
2 3 (11.54%) VMware
3 2 (7.69%) Databricks
3 2 (7.69%) Google
4 1 (3.85%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (3.85%) Red Hat