DevOps Engineer Contracts in Yorkshire

Development Operations Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Yorkshire is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 69 79
Rank change year-on-year +20 +10 -6
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 43 31 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 4.23% 1.84% 2.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.48% 2.01% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 25 40
10th Percentile £425 £456 £496
25th Percentile £500 £463 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -20.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £700
90th Percentile £729 £624 -
England median daily rate £550 £545 £600
% change year-on-year +0.92% -9.17% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 959 1,546 2,201
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 91.53% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 618 962 1,502
10th Percentile £224 £233 £260
25th Percentile £358 £378 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £629 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 65 27
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.23 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.25 £16.50
Median hourly rate £21.24 £14.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.71% -36.36% +25.71%
75th Percentile £22.14 £23.75 £54.07
90th Percentile £80.10 £51.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Yorkshire

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in Yorkshire

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in Yorkshire

DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
West Yorkshire +24 28 £525 +10.53% 11
South Yorkshire +13 16 £531 -7.61% 7
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Yorkshire region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 43 (100.00%) DevOps
2 31 (72.09%) Terraform
3 29 (67.44%) AWS
3 29 (67.44%) CI/CD
4 27 (62.79%) Python
5 21 (48.84%) Kubernetes
6 20 (46.51%) Jenkins
6 20 (46.51%) Linux
7 19 (44.19%) Security Cleared
8 18 (41.86%) SC Cleared
8 18 (41.86%) GitLab
9 13 (30.23%) Agile
9 13 (30.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 12 (27.91%) Infrastructure as Code
11 11 (25.58%) JavaScript
11 11 (25.58%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (25.58%) Bash
12 10 (23.26%) Go
12 10 (23.26%) Packer
12 10 (23.26%) Unix
12 10 (23.26%) CentOS
13 9 (20.93%) Ansible
13 9 (20.93%) cloud-init
14 8 (18.60%) Git
14 8 (18.60%) Continuous Integration
15 7 (16.28%) Microservices
15 7 (16.28%) Grafana
15 7 (16.28%) The Twelve-Factor App
15 7 (16.28%) Prometheus
15 7 (16.28%) Public Sector

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 3 (6.98%) nginx
1 3 (6.98%) Traefik
2 1 (2.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 29 (67.44%) AWS
2 11 (25.58%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (13.95%) Amazon ECS
3 6 (13.95%) Amazon S3
3 6 (13.95%) Azure
3 6 (13.95%) GCP
4 5 (11.63%) AWS Fargate
4 5 (11.63%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (9.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (9.30%) Entra ID
5 4 (9.30%) GitHub
5 4 (9.30%) Serverless
5 4 (9.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (6.98%) CloudBees
7 2 (4.65%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (4.65%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.65%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (4.65%) NuGet
7 2 (4.65%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.30%) DNS
1 4 (9.30%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.63%) MongoDB
2 4 (9.30%) DynamoDB
3 2 (4.65%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.33%) Big Data
4 1 (2.33%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (46.51%) Jenkins
2 18 (41.86%) GitLab
3 8 (18.60%) Git
4 3 (6.98%) Selenium
5 2 (4.65%) Artifactory
5 2 (4.65%) JMeter
5 2 (4.65%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.33%) Babel
6 1 (2.33%) JIRA
6 1 (2.33%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (2.33%) Subversion
6 1 (2.33%) TestNG
6 1 (2.33%) webpack
General
1 7 (16.28%) Public Sector
2 4 (9.30%) Finance
3 2 (4.65%) Military
3 2 (4.65%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.33%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.93%) cloud-init
2 5 (11.63%) Kafka
3 4 (9.30%) Keycloak
4 1 (2.33%) CSS
4 1 (2.33%) HTML
4 1 (2.33%) JSON
4 1 (2.33%) JWT
4 1 (2.33%) Next.js
4 1 (2.33%) Node.js
4 1 (2.33%) pytest
4 1 (2.33%) React
4 1 (2.33%) REST
4 1 (2.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.30%) PKI
2 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.33%) EMC VMAX
2 1 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (2.33%) Private Cloud
2 1 (2.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 20 (46.51%) Linux
2 13 (30.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (23.26%) CentOS
3 10 (23.26%) Unix
4 1 (2.33%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (100.00%) DevOps
2 29 (67.44%) CI/CD
3 13 (30.23%) Agile
4 12 (27.91%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (18.60%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (16.28%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 7 (16.28%) Microservices
6 7 (16.28%) Platform Engineering
6 7 (16.28%) Static Application Security Testing
6 7 (16.28%) The Twelve-Factor App
7 5 (11.63%) Secrets Management
7 5 (11.63%) TDD
8 4 (9.30%) Cloud Security
8 4 (9.30%) Containerisation
8 4 (9.30%) Identity Management
8 4 (9.30%) Observability
8 4 (9.30%) Software Engineering
9 3 (6.98%) Architectural Patterns
9 3 (6.98%) Design Patterns
9 3 (6.98%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 27 (62.79%) Python
2 11 (25.58%) Bash
2 11 (25.58%) JavaScript
3 10 (23.26%) Go
4 5 (11.63%) Shell Script
5 4 (9.30%) PowerShell
5 4 (9.30%) SQL
6 3 (6.98%) Groovy
6 3 (6.98%) Java
6 3 (6.98%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (44.19%) Security Cleared
2 18 (41.86%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.30%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.33%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (2.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.30%) NCSC
2 2 (4.65%) QA
3 1 (2.33%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (13.95%) Docker
2 1 (2.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (72.09%) Terraform
2 21 (48.84%) Kubernetes
3 10 (23.26%) Packer
4 9 (20.93%) Ansible
5 7 (16.28%) Grafana
5 7 (16.28%) Prometheus
6 4 (9.30%) Consul
6 4 (9.30%) Istio
6 4 (9.30%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (9.30%) linkerd
6 4 (9.30%) Rancher
6 4 (9.30%) ZABBIX
7 3 (6.98%) HAProxy
7 3 (6.98%) Progress Chef
7 3 (6.98%) Puppet
8 1 (2.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (2.33%) vRealize
Vendors
1 5 (11.63%) Google
1 5 (11.63%) VMware
2 4 (9.30%) Okta
2 4 (9.30%) Splunk
3 3 (6.98%) Apple
3 3 (6.98%) Databricks
3 3 (6.98%) ESET
3 3 (6.98%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.65%) Dynatrace
4 2 (4.65%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (2.33%) 3PAR
5 1 (2.33%) Brocade
5 1 (2.33%) Cisco
5 1 (2.33%) EMC
5 1 (2.33%) HP
5 1 (2.33%) Oracle