DevOps Specialist Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Development Operations Specialist
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Development Operations Specialist daily rate in South Yorkshire is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025.

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

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Specialist 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.16% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South Yorkshire. 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 South Yorkshire with a recognized job title 579 399 422
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.77% 85.62% 93.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 392 224 272
10th Percentile £295 £225 £282
25th Percentile £380 £425 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £568
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -7.57% +13.60%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £650
90th Percentile £632 £646 £743
Yorkshire median daily rate £485 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -3.00% -3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 6
10th Percentile £14.98 £15.05 £15.27
25th Percentile £16.68 £20.00 £18.31
Median hourly rate £19.50 £21.00 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% +6.58%
75th Percentile £22.33 £21.50 £29.13
90th Percentile £24.02 £21.80 £40.63
Yorkshire median hourly rate £23.79 £23.34 £21.31
% change year-on-year +1.92% +9.53% +12.16%

DevOps Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

DevOps Specialist job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

DevOps Specialist
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Specialist job vacancies in South Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Specialist job vacancies in South Yorkshire

DevOps Specialist Skill Set
Top 23 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 4 October 2025, DevOps Specialist 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 South Yorkshire region featuring DevOps Specialist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Cognito
1 1 (100.00%) Pulumi
1 1 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CDK

DevOps Specialist Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon Cognito
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Pulumi
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree