DevOps Contracts in Yorkshire

DevOps
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 8 11 14
Rank change year-on-year +3 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 120 155 197
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 11.80% 9.18% 8.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.77% 10.62% 9.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 100 162
10th Percentile £359 £374 £450
25th Percentile £450 £429 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% -20.83% +14.29%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £650
90th Percentile £698 £626 £700
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 940 1,459 2,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.43% 86.38% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 875 1,388
10th Percentile £246 £265 £296
25th Percentile £363 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £550 £577 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 64 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.30 -
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%
75th Percentile £27.10 £22.00 £20.19
90th Percentile £80.10 £53.75 £56.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Yorkshire

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Yorkshire

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Yorkshire

DevOps
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 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 +8 72 £525 +13.51% 92
South Yorkshire -5 48 £520 -5.50% 42
North Yorkshire +8 1 £300 -31.43% 22
DevOps
England

DevOps
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 9 (7.50%) Confluence
2 5 (4.17%) nginx
2 5 (4.17%) Traefik
3 4 (3.33%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.83%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.83%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 49 (40.83%) AWS
2 30 (25.00%) Azure
3 19 (15.83%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (15.00%) GCP
5 14 (11.67%) GitHub
6 13 (10.83%) AWS CloudFormation
7 11 (9.17%) Amazon S3
8 8 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (5.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (5.83%) AWS Fargate
9 7 (5.83%) Serverless
10 6 (5.00%) Entra ID
10 6 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (4.17%) CloudBees
11 5 (4.17%) Power Automate
12 4 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (2.50%) Power Platform
14 2 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.83%) TCP/IP
2 6 (5.00%) DNS
3 2 (1.67%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.67%) SAN
4 1 (0.83%) Firewall
4 1 (0.83%) SMTP
4 1 (0.83%) SNA
4 1 (0.83%) SSH
4 1 (0.83%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.83%) MongoDB
2 5 (4.17%) DynamoDB
3 4 (3.33%) Flink
3 4 (3.33%) NoSQL
3 4 (3.33%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.50%) Power BI
5 2 (1.67%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.67%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.67%) Data Mining
5 2 (1.67%) InfluxDB
5 2 (1.67%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.67%) Power Query
6 1 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.83%) Big Data
6 1 (0.83%) GIS
6 1 (0.83%) Metadata
6 1 (0.83%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 31 (25.83%) Jenkins
2 22 (18.33%) GitLab
3 18 (15.00%) JIRA
4 17 (14.17%) Git
5 16 (13.33%) Selenium
6 6 (5.00%) Postman
7 4 (3.33%) Cucumber
7 4 (3.33%) Cypress.io
7 4 (3.33%) Gradle
7 4 (3.33%) HP UFT
7 4 (3.33%) IntelliJ
7 4 (3.33%) JMeter
7 4 (3.33%) JUnit
7 4 (3.33%) Maven
7 4 (3.33%) SoapUI
7 4 (3.33%) TestRail
8 2 (1.67%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.67%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.67%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (1.67%) TestNG
General
1 21 (17.50%) Social Skills
2 16 (13.33%) Finance
3 13 (10.83%) Public Sector
4 11 (9.17%) Banking
5 6 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.50%) Military
6 3 (2.50%) Retail
7 2 (1.67%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.83%) Back Office
8 1 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Front Office
8 1 (0.83%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 43 (35.83%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (17.50%) Architect
3 20 (16.67%) Senior
4 13 (10.83%) Senior DevOps
5 11 (9.17%) Developer
5 11 (9.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 9 (7.50%) AWS Engineer
6 9 (7.50%) Lead
7 8 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
7 8 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 6 (5.00%) Analyst
9 5 (4.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 5 (4.17%) Lead DevOps
9 5 (4.17%) Tester
10 4 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (3.33%) Power Platform Developer
10 4 (3.33%) QA Analyst
10 4 (3.33%) QA Tester
10 4 (3.33%) Software Engineer
10 4 (3.33%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.00%) Kafka
2 11 (9.17%) cloud-init
3 6 (5.00%) Keycloak
4 4 (3.33%) .NET
4 4 (3.33%) Apache Beam
4 4 (3.33%) JDBC
4 4 (3.33%) REST
4 4 (3.33%) Spark Streaming
5 3 (2.50%) pytest
6 2 (1.67%) React
6 2 (1.67%) RESTful
6 2 (1.67%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.83%) ADO
7 1 (0.83%) CSS
7 1 (0.83%) HTML
7 1 (0.83%) JSON
7 1 (0.83%) LDAP
7 1 (0.83%) Node.js
7 1 (0.83%) SOAP
7 1 (0.83%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.00%) PKI
2 5 (4.17%) NHS
3 4 (3.33%) Replication
3 4 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.50%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.50%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.50%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.67%) Blockchain
5 2 (1.67%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.67%) EMC VMAX
5 2 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.67%) IoT
5 2 (1.67%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.83%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (23.33%) Linux
2 16 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (12.50%) Unix
4 12 (10.00%) CentOS
5 5 (4.17%) Windows
6 2 (1.67%) Solaris
7 1 (0.83%) AIX
7 1 (0.83%) HPUX
7 1 (0.83%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.83%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (47.50%) CI/CD
2 44 (36.67%) Agile
3 25 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (18.33%) Test Automation
5 15 (12.50%) Microservices
6 14 (11.67%) TDD
7 13 (10.83%) Observability
8 11 (9.17%) Cloud Security
8 11 (9.17%) Mentoring
8 11 (9.17%) Software Engineering
8 11 (9.17%) Test Strategy
9 10 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
9 10 (8.33%) Non-Functional Testing
10 9 (7.50%) Architectural Design
10 9 (7.50%) Data Pipeline
10 9 (7.50%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
10 9 (7.50%) High Availability
10 9 (7.50%) Roadmaps
10 9 (7.50%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 44 (36.67%) Python
2 18 (15.00%) Bash
3 14 (11.67%) Go
3 14 (11.67%) JavaScript
3 14 (11.67%) SQL
4 12 (10.00%) Java
5 10 (8.33%) PowerShell
6 8 (6.67%) Shell Script
7 5 (4.17%) C#
7 5 (4.17%) Kotlin
8 4 (3.33%) Groovy
9 2 (1.67%) ActionScript
9 2 (1.67%) ActionScript 2.0
9 2 (1.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.67%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.83%) COBOL
10 1 (0.83%) JCL
10 1 (0.83%) Perl
10 1 (0.83%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.83%) REXX
Qualifications
1 27 (22.50%) Security Cleared
2 26 (21.67%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.83%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.50%) CISM
4 3 (2.50%) CISSP
5 2 (1.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (1.67%) CCSP
5 2 (1.67%) CEH
5 2 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.67%) Degree
5 2 (1.67%) IBM Certification
5 2 (1.67%) OSCP
6 1 (0.83%) CBAP
6 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.83%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.83%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (14.17%) QA
2 6 (5.00%) NCSC
3 4 (3.33%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.50%) NIST
4 3 (2.50%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.67%) COBIT
5 2 (1.67%) PMO
6 1 (0.83%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.83%) GDPR
6 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.83%) SLA
6 1 (0.83%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 9 (7.50%) Docker
2 3 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.83%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (34.17%) Terraform
2 28 (23.33%) Kubernetes
3 14 (11.67%) Ansible
4 12 (10.00%) Packer
5 11 (9.17%) Grafana
6 9 (7.50%) Prometheus
7 6 (5.00%) Consul
7 6 (5.00%) Istio
7 6 (5.00%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (5.00%) linkerd
7 6 (5.00%) Rancher
7 6 (5.00%) ZABBIX
8 5 (4.17%) HAProxy
8 5 (4.17%) Progress Chef
8 5 (4.17%) Puppet
9 2 (1.67%) Control-M
9 2 (1.67%) vRealize
10 1 (0.83%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.83%) Nagios
10 1 (0.83%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 9 (7.50%) Splunk
2 7 (5.83%) VMware
3 6 (5.00%) Google
3 6 (5.00%) Okta
4 5 (4.17%) Apple
4 5 (4.17%) Databricks
4 5 (4.17%) ESET
4 5 (4.17%) Oracle
5 4 (3.33%) IBM
5 4 (3.33%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.50%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.67%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.67%) Brocade
7 2 (1.67%) Cisco
7 2 (1.67%) EMC
7 2 (1.67%) HP
7 2 (1.67%) IBM Sterling
7 2 (1.67%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (1.67%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.67%) ServiceNow