GCP DevOps Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Google Cloud Platform DevOps
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Google Cloud Platform DevOps daily rate in Sheffield is £892, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 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
12 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a GCP DevOps 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 0.17% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £892 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £892 - -

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 531 353 395
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.71% 87.16% 94.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 352 194 261
10th Percentile £291 £376 £375
25th Percentile £374 £439 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £535 £582
Median % change year-on-year -12.34% -8.02% +10.79%
75th Percentile £538 £594 £675
90th Percentile £609 £638 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £466 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -10.48% -5.45% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 6
10th Percentile £15.55 £15.88 £11.64
25th Percentile £18.10 £20.13 £13.77
Median hourly rate £18.21 £21.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.31% +7.69% +2.63%
75th Percentile £18.50 £21.88 £22.06
90th Percentile £18.51 £22.00 £27.00
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £21.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -13.31% +5.00% +11.89%

GCP DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP DevOps in Sheffield

GCP DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for GCP DevOps job vacancies in Sheffield.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for GCP DevOps job vacancies in Sheffield

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

For the 6 months to 12 September 2025, GCP 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 Sheffield region featuring GCP DevOps in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices

GCP DevOps 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Liquibase
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Encryption
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk