DevOps Contracts in Sheffield

DevOps
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 4 9
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 -4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 41 67 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 12.85% 17.68% 14.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.44% 19.09% 15.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 41 58
10th Percentile £365 £385 £450
25th Percentile £450 £430 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £560 £619
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% -9.46% +12.45%
75th Percentile £556 £622 £700
90th Percentile £612 £650 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £520 £550 £609
% change year-on-year -5.50% -9.61% +11.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 305 351 434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.61% 92.61% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 203 302
10th Percentile £232 £375 £364
25th Percentile £388 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £551
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.30% +10.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £675
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 3
10th Percentile - £10.90 £11.05
25th Percentile £18.10 £11.33 £11.13
Median hourly rate £18.21 £22.00 £11.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +91.30% -28.13%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 £25.88
90th Percentile £18.47 - £34.35
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
% change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Sheffield

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Sheffield

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

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

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Sheffield

DevOps
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (14.63%) Confluence
2 1 (2.44%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (26.83%) GitHub
2 9 (21.95%) Azure
2 9 (21.95%) GCP
3 8 (19.51%) AWS
4 5 (12.20%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (12.20%) CloudBees
5 2 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (4.88%) Azure AKS
5 2 (4.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.44%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.44%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.44%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) HTTPS
1 2 (4.88%) SAN
2 1 (2.44%) Firewall
2 1 (2.44%) SMTP
2 1 (2.44%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.88%) BigQuery
1 2 (4.88%) Data Mining
1 2 (4.88%) InfluxDB
1 2 (4.88%) MongoDB
1 2 (4.88%) Oracle Database
1 2 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (4.88%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.44%) Big Data
2 1 (2.44%) Power BI
2 1 (2.44%) RDBMS
2 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (31.71%) Jenkins
2 12 (29.27%) Git
3 10 (24.39%) JIRA
4 8 (19.51%) Selenium
5 4 (9.76%) Cucumber
5 4 (9.76%) Gradle
5 4 (9.76%) HP UFT
5 4 (9.76%) IntelliJ
5 4 (9.76%) JUnit
5 4 (9.76%) Maven
5 4 (9.76%) TestRail
6 2 (4.88%) GitLab
6 2 (4.88%) JMeter
6 2 (4.88%) Postman
6 2 (4.88%) TestNG
7 1 (2.44%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 8 (19.51%) Banking
1 8 (19.51%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.07%) Finance
3 4 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.32%) Retail
5 2 (4.88%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.88%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.44%) Back Office
6 1 (2.44%) Front Office
6 1 (2.44%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (21.95%) Architect
1 9 (21.95%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (12.20%) Analyst
3 4 (9.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 4 (9.76%) QA Analyst
3 4 (9.76%) Senior
4 3 (7.32%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) Test Manager
5 2 (4.88%) Administrator
5 2 (4.88%) Data Analyst
5 2 (4.88%) Developer
5 2 (4.88%) DevOps Automation Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) IT Manager
5 2 (4.88%) IT Project Manager
5 2 (4.88%) Lead
5 2 (4.88%) Project Manager
5 2 (4.88%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (4.88%) Senior QA Analyst
6 1 (2.44%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 1 (2.44%) Power Apps Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.32%) REST
2 2 (4.88%) pytest
2 2 (4.88%) RESTful
3 1 (2.44%) Kafka
3 1 (2.44%) LDAP
3 1 (2.44%) Middleware
3 1 (2.44%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (2.44%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.32%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (7.32%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (4.88%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.88%) EMC VMAX
2 2 (4.88%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.88%) Replication
3 1 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (2.44%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (14.63%) Linux
2 2 (4.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (4.88%) Unix
3 1 (2.44%) AIX
3 1 (2.44%) Solaris
3 1 (2.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (51.22%) CI/CD
2 15 (36.59%) Agile
3 14 (34.15%) Test Automation
4 11 (26.83%) TDD
5 9 (21.95%) Design Patterns
6 7 (17.07%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (17.07%) Microservices
6 7 (17.07%) Observability
6 7 (17.07%) Software Delivery
7 6 (14.63%) BDD
7 6 (14.63%) Code Quality
7 6 (14.63%) Continuous Delivery
7 6 (14.63%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (14.63%) Non-Functional Testing
7 6 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (14.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (14.63%) Test Strategy
8 5 (12.20%) Architectural Patterns
8 5 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (12.20%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 14 (34.15%) Python
2 10 (24.39%) Java
3 8 (19.51%) Shell Script
4 6 (14.63%) JavaScript
5 5 (12.20%) Kotlin
6 4 (9.76%) Bash
6 4 (9.76%) PowerShell
6 4 (9.76%) SQL
7 3 (7.32%) Groovy
8 2 (4.88%) ActionScript
8 2 (4.88%) ActionScript 2.0
8 2 (4.88%) Go
9 1 (2.44%) Korn
9 1 (2.44%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (4.88%) IBM Certification
2 1 (2.44%) CISM
2 1 (2.44%) CISSP
2 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.44%) Degree
2 1 (2.44%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (24.39%) QA
2 2 (4.88%) PMO
3 1 (2.44%) GDPR
3 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.44%) NIST
3 1 (2.44%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.44%) SLA
3 1 (2.44%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 4 (9.76%) Docker
2 2 (4.88%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.44%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (21.95%) Kubernetes
2 7 (17.07%) Ansible
3 5 (12.20%) Terraform
4 4 (9.76%) Grafana
5 3 (7.32%) Progress Chef
5 3 (7.32%) Puppet
6 2 (4.88%) Control-M
6 2 (4.88%) Prometheus
6 2 (4.88%) vRealize
7 1 (2.44%) Data Guard
7 1 (2.44%) Nagios
7 1 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (9.76%) Oracle
2 3 (7.32%) Google
2 3 (7.32%) Red Hat
2 3 (7.32%) Splunk
2 3 (7.32%) VMware
3 2 (4.88%) 3PAR
3 2 (4.88%) AppDynamics
3 2 (4.88%) Brocade
3 2 (4.88%) Cisco
3 2 (4.88%) EMC
3 2 (4.88%) HP
3 2 (4.88%) IBM
3 2 (4.88%) IBM Sterling
4 1 (2.44%) BMC
4 1 (2.44%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.44%) Databricks
4 1 (2.44%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.44%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.44%) Thycotic
4 1 (2.44%) Veeam