DevOps Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Platform Engineer - DevOps
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Platform Engineer - DevOps daily rate in Leeds is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 April 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 - 64
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Platform Engineer 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.46% - 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% - 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £454 - -
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £500
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £550 - £500

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 824 453 734
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.93% 97.00% 91.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 524 303 458
10th Percentile £313 £263 £300
25th Percentile £413 £353 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -7.24%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £588
90th Percentile £635 £638 £675
West Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +2.63% -3.06% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 14
10th Percentile - £17.08 £11.30
25th Percentile - £31.47 £11.88
Median hourly rate £14.25 £41.00 £12.53
Median % change year-on-year -65.24% +227.21% -76.80%
75th Percentile £46.75 £98.56 £15.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £102.00 £18.27
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.65 £24.82 £15.17
% change year-on-year -12.77% +63.61% -53.32%

DevOps Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'DevOps Platform Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

DevOps Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in Leeds

DevOps Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Platform Engineer job vacancies in Leeds.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Platform Engineer job vacancies in Leeds

DevOps Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Platform Engineer in Leeds over the 6 months to 23 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Platform Engineer in Leeds

DevOps Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 23 April 2026, DevOps Platform Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Leeds region featuring DevOps Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (50.00%) GitHub
3 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) Terraform
4 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
4 1 (25.00%) Azure
4 1 (25.00%) Degree
4 1 (25.00%) Docker
4 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) Gatling
4 1 (25.00%) HAProxy
4 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Java
4 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (25.00%) Maven
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (25.00%) Observability
4 1 (25.00%) Playwright
4 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) Scala
4 1 (25.00%) SDLC

DevOps Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (25.00%) Gatling
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) Maven
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) HAProxy
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft