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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 11 13
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 67 74 107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 14.11% 9.41% 8.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.33% 10.90% 9.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 53 90
10th Percentile £311 £415 £450
25th Percentile £444 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £619
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -23.23% +17.86%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £700
90th Percentile £600 £620 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £600
% change year-on-year +5.26% -20.83% +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 437 679 1,126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 92.00% 86.39% 91.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 417 810
10th Percentile £274 £300 £390
25th Percentile £375 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £549
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -8.88% +9.75%
75th Percentile £538 £585 £638
90th Percentile £600 £643 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -5.00% -7.11% +7.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 25 13
10th Percentile £31.53 £11.75 £12.00
25th Percentile £31.62 £12.15 £15.75
Median hourly rate £33.11 £12.30 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +169.19% -38.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £66.51 £12.53 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.74 £15.24 £68.75
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £12.53 £19.00
% change year-on-year +76.70% -34.05% +1.60%

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 31 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 9 (13.43%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.99%) Confluence
3 1 (1.49%) nginx
3 1 (1.49%) Traefik
3 1 (1.49%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (40.30%) AWS
2 24 (35.82%) Azure
3 16 (23.88%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (20.90%) Amazon S3
4 14 (20.90%) GCP
5 8 (11.94%) Serverless
6 6 (8.96%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (8.96%) GitHub
7 5 (7.46%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (7.46%) Power Platform
8 4 (5.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (5.97%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (4.48%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (4.48%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (4.48%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (4.48%) Power Automate
10 2 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (2.99%) AWS KMS
10 2 (2.99%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (2.99%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.48%) DNS
1 3 (4.48%) SSL
1 3 (4.48%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.49%) Firewall
2 1 (1.49%) Network Security
2 1 (1.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.93%) MongoDB
2 8 (11.94%) NoSQL
3 7 (10.45%) DynamoDB
3 7 (10.45%) Flink
4 4 (5.97%) Power BI
5 3 (4.48%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (4.48%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.99%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.99%) Bigtable
6 2 (2.99%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.99%) MySQL
6 2 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.99%) Power Query
6 2 (2.99%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.99%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.99%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.49%) Big Data
7 1 (1.49%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 12 (17.91%) Jenkins
2 9 (13.43%) Git
2 9 (13.43%) JIRA
3 7 (10.45%) GitLab
3 7 (10.45%) Selenium
4 4 (5.97%) Cypress.io
4 4 (5.97%) Postman
4 4 (5.97%) SoapUI
5 3 (4.48%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.99%) Artifactory
6 2 (2.99%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.99%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.49%) Babel
7 1 (1.49%) JMeter
7 1 (1.49%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.49%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.49%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.49%) webpack
General
1 12 (17.91%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.46%) Finance
3 4 (5.97%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.49%) Military
5 1 (1.49%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (32.84%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (20.90%) Architect
3 10 (14.93%) AWS Engineer
3 10 (14.93%) Developer
4 9 (13.43%) AWS DevOps
4 9 (13.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 7 (10.45%) Senior
6 5 (7.46%) Lead
7 4 (5.97%) GCP Architect
7 4 (5.97%) Lead DevOps
7 4 (5.97%) QA Tester
7 4 (5.97%) Software Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) Tester
8 3 (4.48%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) Data Architect
8 3 (4.48%) Data Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) Python Developer
8 3 (4.48%) Senior DevOps
8 3 (4.48%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.93%) Kafka
2 7 (10.45%) Apache Beam
2 7 (10.45%) JDBC
2 7 (10.45%) Spark Streaming
3 6 (8.96%) .NET
4 3 (4.48%) Node.js
4 3 (4.48%) REST
5 2 (2.99%) React
5 2 (2.99%) Swagger
6 1 (1.49%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.49%) cloud-init
6 1 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.49%) JSON
6 1 (1.49%) JWT
6 1 (1.49%) Keycloak
6 1 (1.49%) Lambda Expressions
6 1 (1.49%) Next.js
6 1 (1.49%) PySpark
6 1 (1.49%) pytest
6 1 (1.49%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.46%) NHS
2 3 (4.48%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.99%) Blockchain
3 2 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.99%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.99%) IoT
3 2 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.99%) Replication
4 1 (1.49%) CMDB
4 1 (1.49%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.49%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.49%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.49%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.46%) Linux
2 4 (5.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (5.97%) Windows
3 3 (4.48%) Unix
4 1 (1.49%) CentOS
4 1 (1.49%) HPUX
4 1 (1.49%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.49%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (41.79%) CI/CD
2 18 (26.87%) Agile
2 18 (26.87%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (17.91%) Data Pipeline
4 10 (14.93%) High Availability
4 10 (14.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (14.93%) Test Automation
5 9 (13.43%) Decision-Making
6 7 (10.45%) Data Ingestion
6 7 (10.45%) Event-Driven
6 7 (10.45%) Roadmaps
7 6 (8.96%) Architectural Design
7 6 (8.96%) OWASP
7 6 (8.96%) Software Engineering
8 5 (7.46%) Collaborative Working
8 5 (7.46%) Containerisation
8 5 (7.46%) Infrastructure Automation
8 5 (7.46%) Project Management
8 5 (7.46%) Scrum
8 5 (7.46%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 18 (26.87%) Python
2 13 (19.40%) SQL
3 5 (7.46%) C#
3 5 (7.46%) Java
3 5 (7.46%) PowerShell
4 4 (5.97%) Bash
4 4 (5.97%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.97%) Shell Script
5 2 (2.99%) ANSI SQL
5 2 (2.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (2.99%) Groovy
5 2 (2.99%) Scala
5 2 (2.99%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.49%) COBOL
6 1 (1.49%) Go
6 1 (1.49%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (31.34%) SC Cleared
1 21 (31.34%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.97%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.49%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (1.49%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.94%) QA
2 4 (5.97%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.48%) GDPR
4 2 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.99%) NIST
4 2 (2.99%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.49%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.49%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (8.96%) Docker
2 1 (1.49%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (31.34%) Terraform
2 12 (17.91%) Ansible
3 9 (13.43%) Kubernetes
4 4 (5.97%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.48%) Grafana
6 2 (2.99%) Control-M
6 2 (2.99%) Puppet
7 1 (1.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.49%) Consul
7 1 (1.49%) HAProxy
7 1 (1.49%) Istio
7 1 (1.49%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (1.49%) Kustomize
7 1 (1.49%) linkerd
7 1 (1.49%) Packer
7 1 (1.49%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.49%) Rancher
7 1 (1.49%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (7.46%) Databricks
2 4 (5.97%) Google
2 4 (5.97%) VMware
3 3 (4.48%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.48%) Splunk
4 2 (2.99%) LogicMonitor
4 2 (2.99%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.49%) Apple
5 1 (1.49%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.49%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.49%) ESET
5 1 (1.49%) IBM
5 1 (1.49%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.49%) Okta
5 1 (1.49%) Oracle
5 1 (1.49%) Perforce
5 1 (1.49%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.49%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.49%) Sun
5 1 (1.49%) Unisys