Lead DevOps Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Lead Development Operations
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Lead Development Operations daily rate in South Yorkshire is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 March 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 43 51
Rank change year-on-year -55 +8 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 2 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.21% 0.71% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.80% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £466 - £573
25th Percentile £472 £563 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% -8.00% -0.40%
75th Percentile £497 £588 £638
90th Percentile £499 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -17.39% -8.00% +3.31%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 865 249 378
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.01% 87.99% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 583 166 230
10th Percentile £335 £208 £250
25th Percentile £412 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% +5.26% -10.38%
75th Percentile £544 £587 £587
90th Percentile £675 £650 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 16
10th Percentile - - £10.90
25th Percentile - £15.22 £12.26
Median hourly rate £25.15 £16.19 £13.23
Median % change year-on-year +55.34% +22.37% -33.85%
75th Percentile - £17.16 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £29.68 £22.14 £13.98
% change year-on-year +34.06% +58.37% -36.45%

Lead DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Lead DevOps job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Lead DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Lead 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 Lead DevOps within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 2 March 2026. 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 - 2 £488 - 3
Lead DevOps
Yorkshire

Lead DevOps Skill Set
Top 14 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 2 March 2026, Lead 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 South Yorkshire region featuring Lead DevOps in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (50.00%) Packer
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared

Lead DevOps 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 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Packer