Senior DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Senior Development Operations Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Leeds is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 February 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 47 70
Rank change year-on-year -22 +23 +27
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 10 7 1
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 1.30% 1.43% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.36% 1.52% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £455 £683 -
25th Percentile £463 £694 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £725 £600
Median % change year-on-year -34.48% +20.83% -11.11%
75th Percentile £488 £738 £625
90th Percentile £495 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £725 £600
% change year-on-year -34.48% +20.83% -11.11%

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 736 460 846
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.71% 94.26% 94.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 486 283 550
10th Percentile £313 £263 £275
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £570 £600
90th Percentile £653 £686 £675
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 20 12
10th Percentile - £16.94 £11.17
25th Percentile £14.25 £19.50 £12.13
Median hourly rate £16.25 £24.18 £12.53
Median % change year-on-year -32.80% +92.98% -78.49%
75th Percentile £28.75 £38.75 £15.24
90th Percentile £74.00 £97.18 £21.30
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.59 £25.84 £15.50
% change year-on-year -24.19% +66.71% -55.78%

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Leeds

Senior DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

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

For the 6 months to 6 February 2026, Senior DevOps 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 Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
1 10 (100.00%) Terraform
2 9 (90.00%) Jenkins
2 9 (90.00%) Python
3 8 (80.00%) AWS
3 8 (80.00%) Docker
3 8 (80.00%) Git
4 7 (70.00%) Ansible
4 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
4 7 (70.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (60.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (60.00%) Amazon ELB
5 6 (60.00%) Amazon S3
5 6 (60.00%) Bash
5 6 (60.00%) CheckPoint
5 6 (60.00%) F5
5 6 (60.00%) Firewall
5 6 (60.00%) Palo Alto
5 6 (60.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 6 (60.00%) VPN
6 5 (50.00%) DNS
6 5 (50.00%) GitLab
6 5 (50.00%) High Availability
6 5 (50.00%) Mentoring
6 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
6 5 (50.00%) SSL
6 5 (50.00%) TCP/IP
7 4 (40.00%) DevSecOps
7 4 (40.00%) Incident Response

Senior DevOps 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 8 (80.00%) AWS
2 6 (60.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 6 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (60.00%) Amazon ELB
2 6 (60.00%) Amazon S3
2 6 (60.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 3 (30.00%) GCP
4 2 (20.00%) Azure
4 2 (20.00%) GitHub
5 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (10.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (10.00%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) Firewall
1 6 (60.00%) VPN
2 5 (50.00%) DNS
2 5 (50.00%) SSL
2 5 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (30.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (80.00%) Git
3 5 (50.00%) GitLab
4 1 (10.00%) Maven
4 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
4 1 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
1 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (70.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (50.00%) High Availability
3 5 (50.00%) Mentoring
4 4 (40.00%) DevSecOps
4 4 (40.00%) Incident Response
4 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (30.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (10.00%) Agile
7 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
7 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (10.00%) Creative Thinking
7 1 (10.00%) Observability
7 1 (10.00%) Release Management
7 1 (10.00%) SDLC
7 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Python
2 6 (60.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) Go
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) OCP
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Terraform
2 7 (70.00%) Ansible
3 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (10.00%) Grafana
4 1 (10.00%) Istio
4 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) CheckPoint
1 6 (60.00%) F5
1 6 (60.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (20.00%) Zscaler
3 1 (10.00%) Databricks
3 1 (10.00%) Google