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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 3 9
Rank change year-on-year -6 +6 -4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 58 87 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 16.38% 22.60% 14.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.37% 25.14% 15.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 56 58
10th Percentile £360 £395 £454
25th Percentile £400 £445 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £520 £621
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% -16.26% +18.29%
75th Percentile £541 £609 £700
90th Percentile £612 £648 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £520 £609
% change year-on-year -3.85% -14.54% +15.90%

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 334 346 427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 94.35% 89.87% 96.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 199 285
10th Percentile £231 £375 £363
25th Percentile £381 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £485 £588
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -17.45% +17.50%
75th Percentile £551 £588 £700
90th Percentile £647 £639 £744
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 3
10th Percentile £18.10 - £12.45
25th Percentile £18.20 £10.90 £14.63
Median hourly rate £18.69 £17.38 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.57% -15.24% +22.39%
75th Percentile £18.87 £22.44 £31.38
90th Percentile - £23.75 £36.55
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.69 £12.83 £10.63
% change year-on-year +45.67% +20.70% -38.77%

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 29 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 7 (12.07%) Confluence
2 2 (3.45%) CICS
2 2 (3.45%) CMS
3 1 (1.72%) Apache
3 1 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.72%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (3.45%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 12 (20.69%) Azure
2 11 (18.97%) GitHub
3 9 (15.52%) GCP
4 7 (12.07%) AWS
4 7 (12.07%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (8.62%) CloudBees
6 2 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.45%) Azure AKS
6 2 (3.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (1.72%) Azure API Management
7 1 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.72%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.72%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.72%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.72%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (17.24%) Firewall
2 9 (15.52%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.45%) HTTPS
3 2 (3.45%) SAN
4 1 (1.72%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.45%) BigQuery
1 2 (3.45%) Data Mining
1 2 (3.45%) InfluxDB
1 2 (3.45%) MongoDB
1 2 (3.45%) Oracle Database
1 2 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (3.45%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.72%) Big Data
2 1 (1.72%) Delta Lake
2 1 (1.72%) Power BI
2 1 (1.72%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (41.38%) Jenkins
2 19 (32.76%) Git
3 11 (18.97%) JIRA
3 11 (18.97%) Postman
4 8 (13.79%) Selenium
5 4 (6.90%) Cucumber
5 4 (6.90%) Gradle
5 4 (6.90%) HP UFT
5 4 (6.90%) IntelliJ
5 4 (6.90%) JUnit
5 4 (6.90%) Maven
5 4 (6.90%) TestRail
6 2 (3.45%) JMeter
6 2 (3.45%) TestNG
7 1 (1.72%) GitLab
7 1 (1.72%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 15 (25.86%) Finance
2 11 (18.97%) Social Skills
3 10 (17.24%) Banking
4 9 (15.52%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.17%) Retail
6 2 (3.45%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.45%) Legal
6 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.72%) Back Office
7 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Front Office
7 1 (1.72%) Military
7 1 (1.72%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (15.52%) DevOps Engineer
1 9 (15.52%) Senior
2 8 (13.79%) Architect
3 6 (10.34%) Analyst
3 6 (10.34%) Automation Engineer
3 6 (10.34%) Developer
3 6 (10.34%) Windows Engineer
4 5 (8.62%) Lead
4 5 (8.62%) Technical Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) QA Analyst
5 4 (6.90%) Senior Technical Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) DevOps Automation Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Senior Windows Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Test Manager
7 2 (3.45%) Administrator
7 2 (3.45%) IT Manager
7 2 (3.45%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.17%) React Native
2 2 (3.45%) Middleware
2 2 (3.45%) pytest
2 2 (3.45%) REST
2 2 (3.45%) RESTful
3 1 (1.72%) .NET
3 1 (1.72%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.72%) Kafka
3 1 (1.72%) LDAP
3 1 (1.72%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (1.72%) PySpark
3 1 (1.72%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.17%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (5.17%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (5.17%) Mobile App
1 3 (5.17%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.45%) Data Centre
2 2 (3.45%) EMC VMAX
2 2 (3.45%) Mainframe
2 2 (3.45%) Replication
2 2 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (3.45%) VSAM
3 1 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (1.72%) Private Cloud
3 1 (1.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (1.72%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.72%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.97%) Linux
2 6 (10.34%) Windows
3 5 (8.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (8.62%) Unix
4 4 (6.90%) AIX
4 4 (6.90%) Solaris
5 3 (5.17%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (48.28%) Agile
2 22 (37.93%) CI/CD
3 14 (24.14%) Test Automation
4 12 (20.69%) Configuration Management
5 11 (18.97%) TDD
6 10 (17.24%) Cybersecurity
7 9 (15.52%) Data Management
7 9 (15.52%) Design Patterns
8 8 (13.79%) Architectural Design
8 8 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (12.07%) Code Quality
9 7 (12.07%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (12.07%) Mentoring
9 7 (12.07%) Microservices
9 7 (12.07%) Observability
9 7 (12.07%) Problem Management
9 7 (12.07%) Software Delivery
9 7 (12.07%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (10.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 24 (41.38%) Python
2 10 (17.24%) Java
3 9 (15.52%) Shell Script
4 8 (13.79%) Kotlin
5 6 (10.34%) JavaScript
5 6 (10.34%) SQL
6 3 (5.17%) Bash
6 3 (5.17%) Groovy
6 3 (5.17%) Objective-C
6 3 (5.17%) PowerShell
6 3 (5.17%) Swift
7 2 (3.45%) ActionScript
7 2 (3.45%) ActionScript 2.0
7 2 (3.45%) COBOL
7 2 (3.45%) Go
7 2 (3.45%) JCL
8 1 (1.72%) Bicep
8 1 (1.72%) C#
8 1 (1.72%) Korn
8 1 (1.72%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (3.45%) IBM Certification
2 1 (1.72%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.72%) CISM
2 1 (1.72%) CISSP
2 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.72%) Degree
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (1.72%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (17.24%) QA
2 2 (3.45%) PMO
3 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.72%) GDPR
3 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.72%) NIST
3 1 (1.72%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.72%) SEPA
3 1 (1.72%) SLA
3 1 (1.72%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 10 (17.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (6.90%) Docker
3 3 (5.17%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (1.72%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.72%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.72%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (27.59%) Ansible
2 12 (20.69%) Puppet
3 8 (13.79%) Kubernetes
4 6 (10.34%) Microsoft Clustering
5 4 (6.90%) Grafana
5 4 (6.90%) SCCM
5 4 (6.90%) Terraform
6 3 (5.17%) Progress Chef
7 2 (3.45%) Control-M
7 2 (3.45%) Prometheus
7 2 (3.45%) vRealize
8 1 (1.72%) Data Guard
8 1 (1.72%) Nagios
8 1 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (20.69%) VMware
2 9 (15.52%) Microsoft
2 9 (15.52%) MuleSoft
3 6 (10.34%) Red Hat
4 4 (6.90%) Oracle
5 3 (5.17%) Google
5 3 (5.17%) Splunk
6 2 (3.45%) 3PAR
6 2 (3.45%) AppDynamics
6 2 (3.45%) Brocade
6 2 (3.45%) Cisco
6 2 (3.45%) Databricks
6 2 (3.45%) EMC
6 2 (3.45%) HP
6 2 (3.45%) IBM
6 2 (3.45%) IBM Sterling
7 1 (1.72%) BMC
7 1 (1.72%) Centrify
7 1 (1.72%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.72%) Thycotic