DevOps Engineer Contracts in West Yorkshire

Development Operations Engineer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in West Yorkshire is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 73 61
Rank change year-on-year +29 -12 -3
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 32 29 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 3.23% 1.98% 2.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.49% 2.03% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 25 40
10th Percentile £288 £518 £465
25th Percentile £400 £525 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £700 £525
Median % change year-on-year -33.93% +33.33% +31.25%
75th Percentile £491 - £564
90th Percentile £505 - £699
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £625 £525
% change year-on-year -24.00% +19.05% +16.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in West 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 West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 916 1,432 1,790
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 98.02% 97.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 565 999 1,305
10th Percentile £288 £325 £239
25th Percentile £400 £439 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +7.24%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £672
Yorkshire median daily rate £483 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -8.00% +9.38% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 17 50
10th Percentile £11.85 £12.00 £10.58
25th Percentile £12.53 £13.16 £12.12
Median hourly rate £18.27 £20.00 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +9.59% -12.05%
75th Percentile £48.75 £33.75 £21.88
90th Percentile £53.75 £63.75 £26.58
Yorkshire median hourly rate £17.50 £21.00 £18.25
% change year-on-year -16.67% +15.07% -1.35%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in West Yorkshire

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in West Yorkshire

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 20 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in West Yorkshire

DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 20 June 2024. 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
Leeds +22 31 £463 -33.93% 4
Huddersfield - 1 £500 -
DevOps Engineer
Yorkshire

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 20 June 2024, 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 West Yorkshire region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 32 (100.00%) DevOps
2 26 (81.25%) Terraform
3 25 (78.13%) Kubernetes
4 22 (68.75%) AWS
5 20 (62.50%) SC Cleared
5 20 (62.50%) Security Cleared
5 20 (62.50%) CI/CD
6 19 (59.38%) Docker
7 18 (56.25%) Jenkins
8 17 (53.13%) Containerisation
9 15 (46.88%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (34.38%) Python
11 10 (31.25%) High Availability
11 10 (31.25%) AWS Certification
11 10 (31.25%) GitLab
11 10 (31.25%) Infrastructure Automation
11 10 (31.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 8 (25.00%) Bash
13 7 (21.88%) Azure
13 7 (21.88%) Agile
14 6 (18.75%) Configuration Management
15 5 (15.63%) Prometheus
15 5 (15.63%) Java
15 5 (15.63%) Puppet
15 5 (15.63%) Amazon EC2
15 5 (15.63%) Amazon S3
15 5 (15.63%) Cloud Computing
15 5 (15.63%) Linux
15 5 (15.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 5 (15.63%) Amazon ECS

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 22 (68.75%) AWS
2 7 (21.88%) Azure
3 5 (15.63%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (15.63%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (15.63%) Amazon S3
3 5 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (15.63%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (12.50%) Amazon ELB
4 4 (12.50%) AWS KMS
4 4 (12.50%) Route 53
4 4 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (3.13%) Akamai
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.13%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.13%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (56.25%) Jenkins
2 10 (31.25%) GitLab
3 1 (3.13%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.13%) Maven
General
1 1 (3.13%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) ARM Templates
1 1 (3.13%) Kafka
1 1 (3.13%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
1 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (3.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.63%) Linux
2 4 (12.50%) CentOS
2 4 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (100.00%) DevOps
2 20 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 17 (53.13%) Containerisation
4 15 (46.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (31.25%) High Availability
5 10 (31.25%) Infrastructure Automation
6 7 (21.88%) Agile
7 6 (18.75%) Configuration Management
8 4 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (12.50%) Observability
9 3 (9.38%) Deployment Automation
9 3 (9.38%) Test Automation
10 1 (3.13%) Computer Science
10 1 (3.13%) Continuous Improvement
10 1 (3.13%) Extreme Programming
10 1 (3.13%) Fintech
10 1 (3.13%) Identity Access Management
10 1 (3.13%) Kanban
10 1 (3.13%) Migration
10 1 (3.13%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 11 (34.38%) Python
2 8 (25.00%) Bash
3 5 (15.63%) Java
4 4 (12.50%) Scala
5 3 (9.38%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.13%) Bicep
6 1 (3.13%) Go
Qualifications
1 20 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 20 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 10 (31.25%) AWS Certification
2 10 (31.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.13%) Degree
System Software
1 19 (59.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (81.25%) Terraform
2 25 (78.13%) Kubernetes
3 5 (15.63%) Prometheus
3 5 (15.63%) Puppet
4 4 (12.50%) Packer
4 4 (12.50%) Rancher
5 1 (3.13%) Ansible
5 1 (3.13%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (12.50%) Dynatrace
2 1 (3.13%) ForgeRock
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle
2 1 (3.13%) Zscaler