Lead DevOps Engineer Contracts in South Yorkshire

Lead Development Operations Engineer
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Lead Development Operations Engineer daily rate in South Yorkshire is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 55 52
Rank change year-on-year +9 -3 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps Engineer 2 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 0.54% 0.22% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.24% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - £633
25th Percentile £563 £563 £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £675
Median % change year-on-year - -14.81% -4.59%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £694
90th Percentile - - £698
Yorkshire median daily rate £575 £575 £675
% change year-on-year - -14.81% -4.59%

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 339 416 484
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.88% 91.03% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 261 343
10th Percentile £185 £235 £263
25th Percentile £375 £407 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -13.64% +15.79%
75th Percentile £556 £580 £658
90th Percentile £638 £638 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £469 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -1.26% -9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 18 5
10th Percentile - £10.90 £11.10
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.63 £11.25
Median hourly rate £18.35 £13.60 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +34.99% -23.28% +0.45%
75th Percentile £18.50 £23.31 £22.50
90th Percentile £18.51 £23.75 £33.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £14.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +51.71% -36.36% +25.71%

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Job postings that featured Lead DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in South Yorkshire

Lead DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in South Yorkshire

Lead DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 13 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Lead DevOps Engineer 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 South Yorkshire region featuring Lead DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) The Twelve-Factor App
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering

Lead DevOps Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) The Twelve-Factor App
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform