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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 14 17
Rank change year-on-year +4 +3 -8
Contract jobs citing DevOps 71 79 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 12.68% 8.09% 8.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.79% 9.28% 8.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 55 103
10th Percentile £313 £363 £450
25th Percentile £425 £447 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -20.83% +14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £544 £694
90th Percentile £600 £591 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £511 £491 £600
% change year-on-year +4.07% -18.13% +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 515 851 1,417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 91.96% 87.10% 91.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 495 973
10th Percentile £263 £300 £350
25th Percentile £375 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £550 £584 £619
90th Percentile £602 £663 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 35 19
10th Percentile £18.59 £11.91 £12.00
25th Percentile - £12.15 £14.46
Median hourly rate £22.14 £12.53 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.70% -37.35% +8.11%
75th Percentile £34.38 £15.20 £63.75
90th Percentile £100.97 £41.35 £70.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -40.94%

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 17 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 17 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 +6 64 £513 +7.89% 113
Halifax - 3 £413 - 1
Huddersfield +1 1 £525 +5.00% 1
Bradford +1 1 - - 10
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 6 (8.45%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.23%) Confluence
3 1 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.41%) nginx
3 1 (1.41%) Traefik
3 1 (1.41%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.41%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 29 (40.85%) AWS
2 20 (28.17%) Azure
3 13 (18.31%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (18.31%) GCP
4 12 (16.90%) Amazon S3
5 7 (9.86%) Serverless
6 6 (8.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (7.04%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (7.04%) GitHub
8 4 (5.63%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (5.63%) Power Automate
9 3 (4.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (4.23%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (4.23%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (2.82%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (2.82%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (2.82%) Power Platform
11 1 (1.41%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 1 (1.41%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.23%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.82%) DNS
2 2 (2.82%) SSL
3 1 (1.41%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.45%) DynamoDB
1 6 (8.45%) MongoDB
2 5 (7.04%) Flink
2 5 (7.04%) NoSQL
3 3 (4.23%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.82%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.82%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.82%) Power BI
4 2 (2.82%) Power Query
5 1 (1.41%) Big Data
5 1 (1.41%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.41%) Bigtable
5 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.41%) GIS
5 1 (1.41%) Metadata
5 1 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.41%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (18.31%) Jenkins
2 8 (11.27%) GitLab
2 8 (11.27%) JIRA
3 6 (8.45%) Git
3 6 (8.45%) Selenium
4 4 (5.63%) Cypress.io
4 4 (5.63%) Postman
4 4 (5.63%) SoapUI
5 2 (2.82%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.82%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.41%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.41%) Babel
6 1 (1.41%) JMeter
6 1 (1.41%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (1.41%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.41%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.41%) webpack
General
1 14 (19.72%) Social Skills
2 10 (14.08%) Public Sector
3 7 (9.86%) Finance
4 3 (4.23%) Banking
5 2 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.41%) Local Government
6 1 (1.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 25 (35.21%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (19.72%) Architect
3 12 (16.90%) Senior
4 11 (15.49%) Developer
5 9 (12.68%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (11.27%) AWS DevOps
6 8 (11.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 7 (9.86%) Senior DevOps
7 7 (9.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 5 (7.04%) GCP Architect
8 5 (7.04%) Lead
9 4 (5.63%) Data Architect
9 4 (5.63%) GCP Data Architect
9 4 (5.63%) Power Platform Developer
9 4 (5.63%) QA Tester
9 4 (5.63%) Software Engineer
9 4 (5.63%) Tester
10 3 (4.23%) Lead DevOps
10 3 (4.23%) Python Developer
10 3 (4.23%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.68%) Kafka
2 6 (8.45%) .NET
3 5 (7.04%) Apache Beam
3 5 (7.04%) cloud-init
3 5 (7.04%) JDBC
3 5 (7.04%) Spark Streaming
4 2 (2.82%) React
4 2 (2.82%) REST
4 2 (2.82%) SOAP
5 1 (1.41%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.41%) ADO
5 1 (1.41%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.41%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.41%) CSS
5 1 (1.41%) JWT
5 1 (1.41%) Keycloak
5 1 (1.41%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (1.41%) Next.js
5 1 (1.41%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.41%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.04%) NHS
2 2 (2.82%) Blockchain
2 2 (2.82%) Cloud Native
2 2 (2.82%) CMDB
2 2 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (2.82%) Data Structures
2 2 (2.82%) IoT
2 2 (2.82%) Mainframe
2 2 (2.82%) Replication
3 1 (1.41%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.41%) PKI
3 1 (1.41%) Private Cloud
3 1 (1.41%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (14.08%) Linux
2 8 (11.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (9.86%) Unix
4 5 (7.04%) CentOS
5 4 (5.63%) Windows
6 1 (1.41%) HPUX
6 1 (1.41%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.41%) Solaris
6 1 (1.41%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (43.66%) CI/CD
2 22 (30.99%) Agile
3 16 (22.54%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (19.72%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (12.68%) Data Pipeline
6 8 (11.27%) High Availability
6 8 (11.27%) Roadmaps
7 7 (9.86%) Decision-Making
7 7 (9.86%) Test Automation
8 6 (8.45%) Software Engineering
9 5 (7.04%) Architectural Design
9 5 (7.04%) Collaborative Working
9 5 (7.04%) Data Ingestion
9 5 (7.04%) Event-Driven
9 5 (7.04%) OWASP
9 5 (7.04%) Project Management
9 5 (7.04%) Test Strategy
10 4 (5.63%) Containerisation
10 4 (5.63%) DevSecOps
10 4 (5.63%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 19 (26.76%) Python
2 12 (16.90%) SQL
3 8 (11.27%) Bash
4 6 (8.45%) C#
5 5 (7.04%) Go
5 5 (7.04%) PowerShell
6 3 (4.23%) Java
7 2 (2.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (2.82%) Groovy
7 2 (2.82%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.82%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.82%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.41%) ANSI SQL
8 1 (1.41%) COBOL
8 1 (1.41%) JCL
8 1 (1.41%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.41%) REXX
8 1 (1.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 22 (30.99%) SC Cleared
1 22 (30.99%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.23%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.41%) CBAP
4 1 (1.41%) CCSP
4 1 (1.41%) CEH
4 1 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.41%) CISM
4 1 (1.41%) CISSP
4 1 (1.41%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (1.41%) Degree
4 1 (1.41%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.41%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.86%) QA
2 4 (5.63%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.82%) NIST
4 1 (1.41%) COBIT
4 1 (1.41%) GDPR
4 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.41%) NCSC
4 1 (1.41%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (7.04%) Docker
2 1 (1.41%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (35.21%) Terraform
2 10 (14.08%) Ansible
3 9 (12.68%) Kubernetes
4 5 (7.04%) Packer
5 3 (4.23%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.82%) Grafana
7 1 (1.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.41%) Consul
7 1 (1.41%) Control-M
7 1 (1.41%) HAProxy
7 1 (1.41%) Istio
7 1 (1.41%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (1.41%) linkerd
7 1 (1.41%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.41%) Puppet
7 1 (1.41%) Rancher
7 1 (1.41%) Tivoli NetView
7 1 (1.41%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (8.45%) Google
2 5 (7.04%) Databricks
3 4 (5.63%) VMware
4 3 (4.23%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.82%) IBM
5 2 (2.82%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.82%) Splunk
6 1 (1.41%) Apple
6 1 (1.41%) Brio
6 1 (1.41%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.41%) ESET
6 1 (1.41%) ESRI
6 1 (1.41%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (1.41%) Okta
6 1 (1.41%) Oracle
6 1 (1.41%) Perforce
6 1 (1.41%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.41%) SAP
6 1 (1.41%) Sun
6 1 (1.41%) Unisys