DevOps Engineer Contracts in Sheffield

Development Operations Engineer
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Sheffield is £475, 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 41 45 26
Rank change year-on-year +4 -19 +4
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 9 10 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 2.82% 2.64% 6.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.09% 2.94% 6.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 25
10th Percentile £412 £508 £575
25th Percentile £456 £563 £585
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £700
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% -17.86% +30.54%
75th Percentile £550 £625 -
90th Percentile £565 £650 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £531 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -7.61% -11.54% +20.93%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Sheffield

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Sheffield. 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 Sheffield with a recognized job title 291 340 445
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.22% 89.71% 98.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 210 311
10th Percentile £220 £360 £363
25th Percentile £381 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £481 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% -12.50% +10.00%
75th Percentile £552 £588 £675
90th Percentile £641 £650 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £470 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -1.05% -13.64% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 5
10th Percentile - £10.90 £11.10
25th Percentile £18.10 £11.33 £11.25
Median hourly rate £18.35 £22.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -16.58% +24.15% +8.21%
75th Percentile £18.50 £23.75 £22.50
90th Percentile £18.51 - £33.00
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.35 £13.60 £17.72
% change year-on-year +34.99% -23.28% +0.45%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Sheffield

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in Sheffield

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

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

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in Sheffield

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, DevOps Engineer 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 Sheffield region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
3 7 (77.78%) Kubernetes
4 6 (66.67%) Jenkins
4 6 (66.67%) Python
5 5 (55.56%) Shell Script
5 5 (55.56%) Git
6 4 (44.44%) GitHub
6 4 (44.44%) Ansible
6 4 (44.44%) GCP
6 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
6 4 (44.44%) Agile
6 4 (44.44%) TDD
7 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
7 3 (33.33%) Google
7 3 (33.33%) Linux
7 3 (33.33%) Java
7 3 (33.33%) CloudBees
7 3 (33.33%) Kotlin
7 3 (33.33%) Terraform
7 3 (33.33%) AWS
7 3 (33.33%) Architectural Design
7 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
7 3 (33.33%) Design Patterns
7 3 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
8 2 (22.22%) Azure AKS
8 2 (22.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (22.22%) Cost Optimisation
8 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
8 2 (22.22%) Static Application Security Testing

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) GCP
1 4 (44.44%) GitHub
2 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) CloudBees
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (22.22%) Azure AKS
3 2 (22.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (11.11%) Azure
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) BigQuery
2 1 (11.11%) Big Data
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 5 (55.56%) Git
3 2 (22.22%) GitLab
4 1 (11.11%) Selenium
4 1 (11.11%) TestNG
General
1 1 (11.11%) Banking
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
1 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) pytest
1 1 (11.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) EMC VMAX
1 1 (11.11%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
3 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) TDD
4 3 (33.33%) Architectural Design
4 3 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
4 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 3 (33.33%) Design Patterns
4 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (22.22%) Cost Optimisation
5 2 (22.22%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (22.22%) Problem Management
5 2 (22.22%) Product Backlog
5 2 (22.22%) Scrum
5 2 (22.22%) SDLC
5 2 (22.22%) Software Delivery
5 2 (22.22%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 5 (55.56%) Shell Script
3 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
4 3 (33.33%) Java
4 3 (33.33%) Kotlin
5 2 (22.22%) Groovy
6 1 (11.11%) Bash
6 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
1 1 (11.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (11.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Kubernetes
2 4 (44.44%) Ansible
3 3 (33.33%) Terraform
4 2 (22.22%) Grafana
4 2 (22.22%) Prometheus
5 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
5 1 (11.11%) Puppet
5 1 (11.11%) vRealize
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Google
2 2 (22.22%) Red Hat
2 2 (22.22%) VMware
3 1 (11.11%) 3PAR
3 1 (11.11%) Brocade
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco
3 1 (11.11%) Databricks
3 1 (11.11%) EMC
3 1 (11.11%) HP
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle