Senior DevOps Contracts in Leeds

Senior Development Operations
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Senior Development Operations daily rate in Leeds is £725, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 - 90
Rank change year-on-year - - +17
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 9 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.94% - 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.99% - 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile £686 - -
25th Percentile £703 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.69%
75th Percentile £741 - -
90th Percentile £746 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £725 - £700
% change year-on-year - - +7.69%

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 452 736 1,303
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.20% 92.12% 97.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 458 948
10th Percentile £257 £300 £356
25th Percentile £352 £413 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -7.11% +7.65%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £619
90th Percentile £638 £675 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 11
10th Percentile £17.08 £11.24 £12.00
25th Percentile £31.47 £11.75 £16.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £12.53 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +227.21% -79.95% +179.02%
75th Percentile £98.56 £15.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £17.67 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.82 £14.34 £32.50
% change year-on-year +73.14% -55.89% +92.88%

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings that featured Senior DevOps in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps in Leeds

Senior DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Senior DevOps in Leeds

Senior DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior DevOps 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 Senior DevOps in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Linux
1 9 (100.00%) Python
1 9 (100.00%) Unix
1 9 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 9 (100.00%) CentOS
1 9 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
1 9 (100.00%) Bash
1 9 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 9 (100.00%) GitLab
1 9 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 9 (100.00%) Go
1 9 (100.00%) Packer
1 9 (100.00%) Terraform
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
1 9 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 9 (100.00%) cloud-init
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (55.56%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (55.56%) Grafana
2 5 (55.56%) Rancher
2 5 (55.56%) Consul
2 5 (55.56%) Jamf Pro
2 5 (55.56%) AWS Certification
2 5 (55.56%) Prometheus
2 5 (55.56%) linkerd
2 5 (55.56%) AWS Fargate
2 5 (55.56%) Okta
2 5 (55.56%) Istio

Senior DevOps 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (44.44%) nginx
1 4 (44.44%) Traefik
2 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
1 9 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 5 (55.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 5 (55.56%) Amazon ECS
2 5 (55.56%) AWS Fargate
2 5 (55.56%) Entra ID
2 5 (55.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) DNS
1 5 (55.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) GitLab
1 9 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 5 (55.56%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) cloud-init
2 5 (55.56%) Kafka
2 5 (55.56%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) CentOS
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
1 9 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 9 (100.00%) Unix
2 1 (11.11%) Mac OS
2 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
1 9 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (55.56%) Cloud Security
2 5 (55.56%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (55.56%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 5 (55.56%) Identity Management
2 5 (55.56%) Observability
2 5 (55.56%) Secrets Management
2 5 (55.56%) Static Application Security Testing
3 4 (44.44%) Mobile Device Management
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
5 1 (11.11%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Bash
1 9 (100.00%) Go
1 9 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (55.56%) AWS Certification
3 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) NCSC
2 1 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Packer
1 9 (100.00%) Terraform
2 5 (55.56%) Consul
2 5 (55.56%) Grafana
2 5 (55.56%) Istio
2 5 (55.56%) Jamf Pro
2 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 5 (55.56%) linkerd
2 5 (55.56%) Prometheus
2 5 (55.56%) Rancher
2 5 (55.56%) ZABBIX
3 4 (44.44%) HAProxy
4 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Okta
1 5 (55.56%) Splunk
2 4 (44.44%) Apple
2 4 (44.44%) ESET