Senior DevOps Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Senior Development Operations
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Senior Development Operations daily rate in Leeds is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 September 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
3 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 62 79
Rank change year-on-year 0 +17 +32
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 4 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 0.67% 0.14% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 0.15% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £700
Median % change year-on-year - -28.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile £560 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £700
% change year-on-year - -28.57% +16.67%

All DemandTrendContract 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 578 664 1,068
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.47% 91.97% 97.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 387 430 749
10th Percentile £312 £350 £325
25th Percentile £400 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £625
90th Percentile £642 £650 £702
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 29 13
10th Percentile £25.15 £17.65 £12.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £19.50 £15.75
Median hourly rate £29.56 £24.18 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.23% +27.26% -10.59%
75th Percentile £50.48 £48.75 £21.31
90th Percentile £79.33 - £23.45
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £50.00 £25.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +100.00% +31.58% -5.00%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

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

For the 6 months to 3 September 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 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Git
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Docker
3 2 (50.00%) GitLab
3 2 (50.00%) Grafana
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (25.00%) Observability
4 1 (25.00%) Serverless
4 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (25.00%) Databricks
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda

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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) SSL
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) GitLab
3 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Go
1 1 (25.00%) Perl
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (50.00%) Grafana
3 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk