Senior DevOps Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Senior Development Operations
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Senior Development Operations daily rate in Sheffield is £892, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 47 -
Rank change year-on-year -32 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 5 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.72% 0.85% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% 0.98% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 0
10th Percentile £657 £587 -
25th Percentile - £594 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £892 £615 -
Median % change year-on-year +45.04% - -
75th Percentile - £623 -
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £892 £615 -
% change year-on-year +45.04% - -

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 628 306 330
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.62% 86.93% 91.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 176 215
10th Percentile £316 £230 £375
25th Percentile £400 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.69% -3.09% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £650
90th Percentile £612 £663 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -8.65% -5.45% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 6
10th Percentile £14.98 £13.14 £15.39
25th Percentile £16.68 £15.22 £18.88
Median hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -5.88% +11.84%
75th Percentile £22.33 £21.50 £23.75
90th Percentile £24.02 - £27.50
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -2.50% -11.11% +18.42%

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior DevOps' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Senior DevOps job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Senior DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Senior DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps in Sheffield over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior DevOps in Sheffield

Senior DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, Senior DevOps contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Sheffield region featuring Senior DevOps in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (80.00%) Change Management
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (80.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (80.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 4 (80.00%) Cryptography
2 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (80.00%) Data Encryption
2 4 (80.00%) Data Security
2 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 4 (80.00%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (80.00%) GCP
2 4 (80.00%) GitLab
2 4 (80.00%) Go
2 4 (80.00%) Grafana
2 4 (80.00%) High Availability
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (80.00%) Liquibase

Senior DevOps Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) GCP
2 4 (80.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) GitLab
1 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (80.00%) Liquibase
General
1 4 (80.00%) Banking
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
1 4 (80.00%) Financial Institution
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (80.00%) REST
1 4 (80.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (80.00%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Change Management
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (80.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 4 (80.00%) Cryptography
2 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (80.00%) Data Encryption
2 4 (80.00%) Data Security
2 4 (80.00%) High Availability
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Microservices
2 4 (80.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Go
1 4 (80.00%) Python
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
1 4 (80.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Certified Developer
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
2 4 (80.00%) Grafana
2 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (80.00%) Prometheus
2 4 (80.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Splunk
2 2 (40.00%) Google