DevOps Contracts in South Yorkshire

DevOps
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 10 5 8
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 48 69 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 12.87% 15.10% 13.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.48% 16.87% 14.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 43 60
10th Percentile £365 £386 £450
25th Percentile £464 £430 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £609
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% -9.61% +11.91%
75th Percentile £588 £614 £700
90th Percentile £619 £649 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £520 £475 £600
% change year-on-year +9.42% -20.83% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 356 409 494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.44% 89.50% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 245 322
10th Percentile £219 £316 £300
25th Percentile £385 £411 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £663
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 38
10th Percentile - £10.90 -
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.64 £9.80
Median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 -
90th Percentile £18.47 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in South Yorkshire

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in South Yorkshire

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in South Yorkshire

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield -8 41 £500 -10.71% 33
Doncaster - 1 £675 - 8
DevOps
Yorkshire

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (2.08%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (31.25%) AWS
2 11 (22.92%) GitHub
3 9 (18.75%) Azure
3 9 (18.75%) GCP
4 5 (10.42%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (10.42%) CloudBees
5 2 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (4.17%) Azure AKS
5 2 (4.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.08%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.08%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.08%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.08%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.17%) HTTPS
1 2 (4.17%) SAN
2 1 (2.08%) Firewall
2 1 (2.08%) SMTP
2 1 (2.08%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.17%) BigQuery
1 2 (4.17%) Data Mining
1 2 (4.17%) InfluxDB
1 2 (4.17%) MongoDB
1 2 (4.17%) Oracle Database
1 2 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.08%) Big Data
2 1 (2.08%) Power BI
2 1 (2.08%) RDBMS
2 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (29.17%) Jenkins
2 13 (27.08%) Git
3 10 (20.83%) JIRA
4 8 (16.67%) GitLab
4 8 (16.67%) Selenium
5 4 (8.33%) Cucumber
5 4 (8.33%) Gradle
5 4 (8.33%) HP UFT
5 4 (8.33%) IntelliJ
5 4 (8.33%) JUnit
5 4 (8.33%) Maven
5 4 (8.33%) TestRail
6 2 (4.17%) JMeter
6 2 (4.17%) Postman
6 2 (4.17%) TestNG
7 1 (2.08%) Subversion
7 1 (2.08%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 8 (16.67%) Banking
1 8 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.58%) Finance
3 4 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.25%) Retail
5 2 (4.17%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.17%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.08%) Back Office
6 1 (2.08%) Front Office
6 1 (2.08%) Military
Job Titles
1 16 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (18.75%) Architect
3 7 (14.58%) Senior
4 5 (10.42%) Analyst
5 4 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Lead
5 4 (8.33%) QA Analyst
5 4 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Test Manager
7 2 (4.17%) Administrator
7 2 (4.17%) Data Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) Developer
7 2 (4.17%) IT Manager
7 2 (4.17%) IT Project Manager
7 2 (4.17%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Project Manager
7 2 (4.17%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) Senior QA Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.25%) REST
2 2 (4.17%) pytest
2 2 (4.17%) RESTful
3 1 (2.08%) Kafka
3 1 (2.08%) LDAP
3 1 (2.08%) Middleware
3 1 (2.08%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (2.08%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (4.17%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.17%) EMC VMAX
2 2 (4.17%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.17%) Replication
3 1 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.08%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (4.17%) Unix
3 1 (2.08%) AIX
3 1 (2.08%) Solaris
3 1 (2.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (56.25%) CI/CD
2 21 (43.75%) Agile
3 14 (29.17%) Test Automation
4 13 (27.08%) Microservices
5 11 (22.92%) TDD
6 9 (18.75%) Design Patterns
7 7 (14.58%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (14.58%) Observability
7 7 (14.58%) Platform Engineering
7 7 (14.58%) Software Delivery
7 7 (14.58%) The Twelve-Factor App
8 6 (12.50%) BDD
8 6 (12.50%) Code Quality
8 6 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
8 6 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (12.50%) Non-Functional Testing
8 6 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 6 (12.50%) Test Strategy
9 5 (10.42%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 20 (41.67%) Python
2 12 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 10 (20.83%) Java
4 8 (16.67%) Shell Script
5 5 (10.42%) Kotlin
6 4 (8.33%) Bash
6 4 (8.33%) PowerShell
6 4 (8.33%) SQL
7 3 (6.25%) Groovy
8 2 (4.17%) ActionScript
8 2 (4.17%) ActionScript 2.0
8 2 (4.17%) Go
9 1 (2.08%) Korn
9 1 (2.08%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (4.17%) IBM Certification
1 2 (4.17%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.08%) CISM
2 1 (2.08%) CISSP
2 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.08%) Degree
2 1 (2.08%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (20.83%) QA
2 2 (4.17%) PMO
3 1 (2.08%) GDPR
3 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.08%) NIST
3 1 (2.08%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.08%) SLA
3 1 (2.08%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (10.42%) Docker
2 2 (4.17%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.08%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 12 (25.00%) Terraform
3 8 (16.67%) Ansible
4 4 (8.33%) Grafana
5 3 (6.25%) Progress Chef
5 3 (6.25%) Puppet
6 2 (4.17%) Control-M
6 2 (4.17%) Prometheus
6 2 (4.17%) vRealize
7 1 (2.08%) Data Guard
7 1 (2.08%) Nagios
7 1 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (8.33%) Oracle
1 4 (8.33%) Red Hat
2 3 (6.25%) Google
2 3 (6.25%) Splunk
2 3 (6.25%) VMware
3 2 (4.17%) 3PAR
3 2 (4.17%) AppDynamics
3 2 (4.17%) Brocade
3 2 (4.17%) Cisco
3 2 (4.17%) EMC
3 2 (4.17%) HP
3 2 (4.17%) IBM
3 2 (4.17%) IBM Sterling
4 1 (2.08%) BMC
4 1 (2.08%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.08%) Databricks
4 1 (2.08%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.08%) Thycotic
4 1 (2.08%) Veeam