DevOps Contracts in Leeds

DevOps
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 15 13
Rank change year-on-year +8 -2 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 69 65 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 14.84% 8.14% 8.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.12% 9.39% 9.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 42 101
10th Percentile £313 £413 £450
25th Percentile £456 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £463 £600
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% -22.92% +14.29%
75th Percentile £594 £547 £700
90th Percentile £738 £593 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £463 £600
% change year-on-year +13.51% -22.92% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 428 692 1,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 92.04% 86.61% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 421 872
10th Percentile £263 £300 £388
25th Percentile £350 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £620
90th Percentile £638 £669 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 24 12
10th Percentile £17.08 £11.75 £12.38
25th Percentile £31.54 £12.15 £16.87
Median hourly rate £41.00 £12.30 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year +233.33% -78.88% +158.37%
75th Percentile £98.08 £12.53 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £14.82 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
% change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Leeds

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Leeds

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

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

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Leeds

DevOps
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 5 (7.25%) nginx
1 5 (7.25%) Traefik
2 4 (5.80%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.90%) Confluence
4 1 (1.45%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 34 (49.28%) AWS
2 20 (28.99%) Azure
3 13 (18.84%) AWS CloudFormation
3 13 (18.84%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (15.94%) Amazon S3
5 10 (14.49%) GCP
6 8 (11.59%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (10.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (10.14%) AWS Fargate
7 7 (10.14%) Serverless
8 6 (8.70%) Entra ID
8 6 (8.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (5.80%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (4.35%) GitHub
10 3 (4.35%) Power Automate
11 2 (2.90%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (2.90%) Azure Functions
11 2 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (2.90%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.70%) DNS
1 6 (8.70%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.94%) MongoDB
2 5 (7.25%) DynamoDB
3 4 (5.80%) Flink
3 4 (5.80%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.90%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.90%) Power BI
4 2 (2.90%) Power Query
4 2 (2.90%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.45%) Big Data
5 1 (1.45%) Metadata
5 1 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (24.64%) Jenkins
2 14 (20.29%) GitLab
3 7 (10.14%) Selenium
4 6 (8.70%) JIRA
5 4 (5.80%) Cypress.io
5 4 (5.80%) Git
5 4 (5.80%) Postman
5 4 (5.80%) SoapUI
6 2 (2.90%) Artifactory
6 2 (2.90%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.90%) JMeter
6 2 (2.90%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (2.90%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.45%) Babel
7 1 (1.45%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (1.45%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.45%) webpack
General
1 11 (15.94%) Public Sector
1 11 (15.94%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.14%) Finance
3 2 (2.90%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (2.90%) Banking
3 2 (2.90%) Military
4 1 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (40.58%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (18.84%) Senior
3 12 (17.39%) Architect
4 9 (13.04%) Senior DevOps
5 8 (11.59%) AWS Engineer
5 8 (11.59%) Developer
6 7 (10.14%) AWS DevOps
6 7 (10.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 7 (10.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Lead
7 4 (5.80%) QA Tester
7 4 (5.80%) Software Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Tester
8 3 (4.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) Lead DevOps
8 3 (4.35%) Power Platform Developer
8 3 (4.35%) Python Developer
9 2 (2.90%) Data Engineer
9 2 (2.90%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.94%) cloud-init
1 11 (15.94%) Kafka
2 6 (8.70%) Keycloak
3 4 (5.80%) .NET
3 4 (5.80%) Apache Beam
3 4 (5.80%) JDBC
3 4 (5.80%) Spark Streaming
4 2 (2.90%) React
5 1 (1.45%) ADO
5 1 (1.45%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.45%) CSS
5 1 (1.45%) HTML
5 1 (1.45%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (1.45%) Node.js
5 1 (1.45%) pytest
5 1 (1.45%) REST
5 1 (1.45%) SOAP
5 1 (1.45%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.45%) Swagger
5 1 (1.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.70%) PKI
2 5 (7.25%) NHS
3 2 (2.90%) Blockchain
3 2 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.90%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.90%) IoT
3 2 (2.90%) Private Cloud
3 2 (2.90%) Replication
4 1 (1.45%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.45%) CMDB
4 1 (1.45%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.45%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 17 (24.64%) Linux
2 15 (21.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (17.39%) CentOS
3 12 (17.39%) Unix
4 4 (5.80%) Windows
5 1 (1.45%) HPUX
5 1 (1.45%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.45%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (43.48%) CI/CD
2 19 (27.54%) Agile
3 18 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (18.84%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (13.04%) Continuous Integration
5 9 (13.04%) Data Pipeline
6 8 (11.59%) Identity Management
7 7 (10.14%) Cloud Security
7 7 (10.14%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
7 7 (10.14%) High Availability
7 7 (10.14%) Secrets Management
7 7 (10.14%) Static Application Security Testing
7 7 (10.14%) Test Automation
8 6 (8.70%) Decision-Making
8 6 (8.70%) Mentoring
8 6 (8.70%) Observability
8 6 (8.70%) OWASP
8 6 (8.70%) Software Engineering
9 5 (7.25%) Configuration Management
9 5 (7.25%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (34.78%) Python
2 14 (20.29%) Bash
3 12 (17.39%) Go
4 10 (14.49%) SQL
5 6 (8.70%) PowerShell
6 5 (7.25%) C#
7 2 (2.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (2.90%) Groovy
7 2 (2.90%) Java
7 2 (2.90%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.90%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.45%) COBOL
8 1 (1.45%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (36.23%) SC Cleared
1 25 (36.23%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.14%) AWS Certification
3 3 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (2.90%) CCSP
4 2 (2.90%) CEH
4 2 (2.90%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.90%) CISM
4 2 (2.90%) CISSP
4 2 (2.90%) OSCP
5 1 (1.45%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.45%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.14%) QA
2 6 (8.70%) NCSC
3 4 (5.80%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.90%) COBIT
4 2 (2.90%) NIST
4 2 (2.90%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.45%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (5.80%) Docker
2 1 (1.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (42.03%) Terraform
2 13 (18.84%) Kubernetes
3 12 (17.39%) Packer
4 7 (10.14%) Ansible
4 7 (10.14%) Grafana
4 7 (10.14%) Prometheus
5 6 (8.70%) Consul
5 6 (8.70%) Istio
5 6 (8.70%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (8.70%) linkerd
5 6 (8.70%) Rancher
5 6 (8.70%) ZABBIX
6 5 (7.25%) HAProxy
7 2 (2.90%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.90%) Puppet
8 1 (1.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 6 (8.70%) Okta
1 6 (8.70%) Splunk
2 5 (7.25%) Apple
2 5 (7.25%) Databricks
2 5 (7.25%) ESET
3 4 (5.80%) Google
3 4 (5.80%) VMware
4 2 (2.90%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.90%) LogicMonitor
4 2 (2.90%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.45%) Brio
5 1 (1.45%) IBM
5 1 (1.45%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.45%) Oracle
5 1 (1.45%) Perforce
5 1 (1.45%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.45%) Sun
5 1 (1.45%) Unisys