DevOps Contract Job Trends in York

DevOps
North Yorkshire > York

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in York requiring DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 17 7
Rank change year-on-year +8 -10 +14
Contract jobs citing DevOps 2 3 6
As % of all contract jobs in York 6.90% 4.29% 10.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.41% 5.56% 15.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 6
10th Percentile - £363 -
25th Percentile £413 £381 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £330
Median % change year-on-year - +28.79% -26.67%
75th Percentile £438 £481 £459
90th Percentile - £508 £550
North Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £350 £450
% change year-on-year +21.43% -22.22% -10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
York

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 York.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27 54 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in York 93.10% 77.14% 71.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 18 26
10th Percentile - £162 £164
25th Percentile £120 £240 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £190 £338 £488
Median % change year-on-year -43.70% -30.77% +14.71%
75th Percentile £506 £494 £603
90th Percentile £563 £550 £750
North Yorkshire median daily rate £363 £351 £440
% change year-on-year +3.42% -20.34% +3.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £10.50 -
North Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £17.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +43.71% -20.45% +9.32%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in York

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in York.

DevOps job vacancy trend in York

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in York

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in York citing DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in York citing DevOps

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in York 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%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Scientist
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Pandas
1 1 (50.00%) pytest
1 1 (50.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (50.00%) TensorFlow
1 1 (50.00%) XGBoost
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) Electronic Design Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (50.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) Neural Network
2 1 (50.00%) Physics
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Statistics
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Postgraduate
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform