DevOps Contracts in West Yorkshire

DevOps
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 9 17 15
Rank change year-on-year +8 -2 -4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 72 79 134
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 13.14% 7.91% 8.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.34% 9.03% 8.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 52 113
10th Percentile £330 £363 £450
25th Percentile £450 £422 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £463 £600
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% -22.92% +14.29%
75th Percentile £588 £541 £675
90th Percentile £735 £586 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £520 £475 £600
% change year-on-year +9.42% -20.83% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West 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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 502 875 1,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 91.61% 87.59% 91.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 513 1,023
10th Percentile £263 £300 £350
25th Percentile £363 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £644 £656 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 35 16
10th Percentile £20.11 £11.91 £12.58
25th Percentile £22.14 £12.15 £15.10
Median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%
75th Percentile £41.50 £15.20 £65.31
90th Percentile £99.93 £41.35 £70.00
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 West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in West Yorkshire

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in West Yorkshire

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in West Yorkshire

DevOps
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 within the West 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
Leeds +8 69 £525 +13.51% 78
Bradford +3 1 - - 10
Halifax - 1 £513 - 1
DevOps
Yorkshire

DevOps
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (6.94%) nginx
1 5 (6.94%) Traefik
2 4 (5.56%) Apache Spark
3 3 (4.17%) Confluence
4 1 (1.39%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.39%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 34 (47.22%) AWS
2 20 (27.78%) Azure
3 13 (18.06%) AWS CloudFormation
3 13 (18.06%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (15.28%) Amazon S3
5 10 (13.89%) GCP
6 8 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (9.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (9.72%) AWS Fargate
7 7 (9.72%) Serverless
8 6 (8.33%) Entra ID
8 6 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (5.56%) Power Automate
10 3 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (4.17%) GitHub
11 2 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (2.78%) Azure Functions
11 2 (2.78%) NuGet
11 2 (2.78%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.72%) TCP/IP
2 6 (8.33%) DNS
3 1 (1.39%) SNA
3 1 (1.39%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.28%) MongoDB
2 5 (6.94%) DynamoDB
3 4 (5.56%) Flink
3 4 (5.56%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.78%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.78%) Power BI
4 2 (2.78%) Power Query
4 2 (2.78%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.39%) Big Data
5 1 (1.39%) GIS
5 1 (1.39%) Metadata
5 1 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (23.61%) Jenkins
2 14 (19.44%) GitLab
3 7 (9.72%) JIRA
3 7 (9.72%) Selenium
4 4 (5.56%) Cypress.io
4 4 (5.56%) Git
4 4 (5.56%) Postman
4 4 (5.56%) SoapUI
5 2 (2.78%) Artifactory
5 2 (2.78%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.78%) JMeter
5 2 (2.78%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (2.78%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.39%) Babel
6 1 (1.39%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (1.39%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.39%) webpack
General
1 12 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 11 (15.28%) Public Sector
3 8 (11.11%) Finance
4 2 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.78%) Banking
4 2 (2.78%) Military
5 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.39%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 28 (38.89%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (18.06%) Senior
3 12 (16.67%) Architect
4 9 (12.50%) Developer
4 9 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
5 8 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (9.72%) AWS DevOps
6 7 (9.72%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 7 (9.72%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 5 (6.94%) Lead
8 4 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) Power Platform Developer
8 4 (5.56%) QA Tester
8 4 (5.56%) Software Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) Tester
9 3 (4.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) Lead DevOps
9 3 (4.17%) Python Developer
10 2 (2.78%) Data Engineer
10 2 (2.78%) DevSecOps Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.28%) cloud-init
1 11 (15.28%) Kafka
2 6 (8.33%) Keycloak
3 4 (5.56%) .NET
3 4 (5.56%) Apache Beam
3 4 (5.56%) JDBC
3 4 (5.56%) Spark Streaming
4 2 (2.78%) React
5 1 (1.39%) ADO
5 1 (1.39%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.39%) CSS
5 1 (1.39%) HTML
5 1 (1.39%) JSON
5 1 (1.39%) Node.js
5 1 (1.39%) pytest
5 1 (1.39%) REST
5 1 (1.39%) SOAP
5 1 (1.39%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.39%) Swagger
5 1 (1.39%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.33%) PKI
2 5 (6.94%) NHS
3 2 (2.78%) Blockchain
3 2 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.78%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.78%) IoT
3 2 (2.78%) Mainframe
3 2 (2.78%) Private Cloud
3 2 (2.78%) Replication
4 1 (1.39%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.39%) CMDB
4 1 (1.39%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.39%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 17 (23.61%) Linux
2 15 (20.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 13 (18.06%) Unix
4 12 (16.67%) CentOS
5 4 (5.56%) Windows
6 1 (1.39%) HPUX
6 1 (1.39%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.39%) Solaris
6 1 (1.39%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (43.06%) CI/CD
2 22 (30.56%) Agile
3 18 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
5 9 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
6 8 (11.11%) Identity Management
7 7 (9.72%) Cloud Security
7 7 (9.72%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
7 7 (9.72%) High Availability
7 7 (9.72%) Secrets Management
7 7 (9.72%) Static Application Security Testing
7 7 (9.72%) Test Automation
8 6 (8.33%) Decision-Making
8 6 (8.33%) Mentoring
8 6 (8.33%) Observability
8 6 (8.33%) OWASP
8 6 (8.33%) Software Engineering
9 5 (6.94%) Configuration Management
9 5 (6.94%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (33.33%) Python
2 14 (19.44%) Bash
3 12 (16.67%) Go
4 10 (13.89%) SQL
5 6 (8.33%) PowerShell
6 5 (6.94%) C#
7 2 (2.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (2.78%) Groovy
7 2 (2.78%) Java
7 2 (2.78%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.78%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.39%) COBOL
8 1 (1.39%) JCL
8 1 (1.39%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.39%) REXX
8 1 (1.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (34.72%) SC Cleared
1 25 (34.72%) Security Cleared
2 7 (9.72%) AWS Certification
3 3 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (2.78%) CCSP
4 2 (2.78%) CEH
4 2 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.78%) CISM
4 2 (2.78%) CISSP
4 2 (2.78%) OSCP
5 1 (1.39%) CBAP
5 1 (1.39%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.39%) Degree
5 1 (1.39%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.72%) QA
2 6 (8.33%) NCSC
3 4 (5.56%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.78%) COBIT
4 2 (2.78%) NIST
4 2 (2.78%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.39%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (5.56%) Docker
2 1 (1.39%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (40.28%) Terraform
2 13 (18.06%) Kubernetes
3 12 (16.67%) Packer
4 7 (9.72%) Ansible
4 7 (9.72%) Grafana
4 7 (9.72%) Prometheus
5 6 (8.33%) Consul
5 6 (8.33%) Istio
5 6 (8.33%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (8.33%) linkerd
5 6 (8.33%) Rancher
5 6 (8.33%) ZABBIX
6 5 (6.94%) HAProxy
7 2 (2.78%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.78%) Puppet
8 1 (1.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.39%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 6 (8.33%) Okta
1 6 (8.33%) Splunk
2 5 (6.94%) Apple
2 5 (6.94%) Databricks
2 5 (6.94%) ESET
3 4 (5.56%) Google
3 4 (5.56%) VMware
4 2 (2.78%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.78%) IBM
4 2 (2.78%) LogicMonitor
4 2 (2.78%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.39%) Brio
5 1 (1.39%) ESRI
5 1 (1.39%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.39%) Oracle
5 1 (1.39%) Perforce
5 1 (1.39%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.39%) SAP
5 1 (1.39%) Sun
5 1 (1.39%) Unisys