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

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 8 14
Rank change year-on-year +1 +6 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 140 180 179
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 12.89% 10.73% 8.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.90% 12.62% 8.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 123 147
10th Percentile £360 £386 £450
25th Percentile £425 £448 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -17.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £594 £675
90th Percentile £606 £638 £700
England median daily rate £530 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -3.64% -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 1,007 1,426 2,004
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.73% 84.98% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 619 859 1,312
10th Percentile £263 £275 £276
25th Percentile £375 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £581 £619
90th Percentile £625 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 69 62
10th Percentile £15.32 £11.30 £9.80
25th Percentile £17.95 £12.15 £10.01
Median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -43.16%
75th Percentile £22.14 £20.74 £20.99
90th Percentile £29.06 £53.75 £49.36
England median hourly rate £28.53 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.93% - +50.00%

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 31 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 31 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 +4 75 £500 +5.26% 125
South Yorkshire -4 65 £500 -3.85% 35
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 10 (7.14%) Confluence
2 9 (6.43%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.43%) CICS
4 2 (1.43%) CMS
5 1 (0.71%) Apache
5 1 (0.71%) nginx
5 1 (0.71%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.71%) Traefik
5 1 (0.71%) Tuxedo
5 1 (0.71%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.43%) VisionPLUS
2 1 (0.71%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 42 (30.00%) AWS
2 38 (27.14%) Azure
3 24 (17.14%) GCP
4 23 (16.43%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (12.86%) GitHub
6 14 (10.00%) Amazon S3
7 9 (6.43%) Serverless
8 7 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (4.29%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (4.29%) Power Platform
10 5 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (3.57%) CloudBees
10 5 (3.57%) Power Automate
11 4 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (2.14%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 3 (2.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.00%) TCP/IP
2 12 (8.57%) Firewall
3 4 (2.86%) DNS
3 4 (2.86%) SSL
4 2 (1.43%) HTTPS
4 2 (1.43%) Network Security
4 2 (1.43%) SAN
4 2 (1.43%) VPN
5 1 (0.71%) SNA
5 1 (0.71%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.57%) MongoDB
2 8 (5.71%) DynamoDB
2 8 (5.71%) NoSQL
3 7 (5.00%) Flink
4 6 (4.29%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.57%) Power BI
6 4 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.86%) BigQuery
6 4 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.14%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (2.14%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.14%) RDBMS
7 3 (2.14%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.43%) Bigtable
8 2 (1.43%) Data Mining
8 2 (1.43%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.43%) InfluxDB
8 2 (1.43%) MySQL
8 2 (1.43%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.43%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 37 (26.43%) Jenkins
2 29 (20.71%) Git
3 21 (15.00%) JIRA
4 15 (10.71%) GitLab
4 15 (10.71%) Postman
4 15 (10.71%) Selenium
5 4 (2.86%) Cucumber
5 4 (2.86%) Cypress.io
5 4 (2.86%) Gradle
5 4 (2.86%) HP UFT
5 4 (2.86%) IntelliJ
5 4 (2.86%) JUnit
5 4 (2.86%) Maven
5 4 (2.86%) SoapUI
5 4 (2.86%) TestRail
6 3 (2.14%) JMeter
6 3 (2.14%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.43%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.43%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.43%) TestNG
General
1 26 (18.57%) Social Skills
2 21 (15.00%) Finance
3 12 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (8.57%) Banking
4 7 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.86%) Retail
6 2 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.43%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.43%) Legal
6 2 (1.43%) Military
7 1 (0.71%) Back Office
7 1 (0.71%) Front Office
7 1 (0.71%) Local Government
7 1 (0.71%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (27.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 24 (17.14%) Architect
3 21 (15.00%) Senior
4 20 (14.29%) Developer
5 14 (10.00%) Lead
6 10 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
7 9 (6.43%) AWS DevOps
7 9 (6.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 8 (5.71%) Analyst
9 7 (5.00%) Lead DevOps
9 7 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
9 7 (5.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 6 (4.29%) Automation Engineer
10 6 (4.29%) GCP Architect
10 6 (4.29%) Windows Engineer
11 5 (3.57%) Data Architect
11 5 (3.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 5 (3.57%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 5 (3.57%) Technical Engineer
11 5 (3.57%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.29%) Kafka
2 9 (6.43%) .NET
3 7 (5.00%) Apache Beam
3 7 (5.00%) JDBC
3 7 (5.00%) Spark Streaming
4 6 (4.29%) REST
5 3 (2.14%) .NET Core
5 3 (2.14%) Node.js
5 3 (2.14%) pytest
5 3 (2.14%) React Native
5 3 (2.14%) RESTful
6 2 (1.43%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.43%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.43%) Middleware
6 2 (1.43%) PySpark
6 2 (1.43%) React
6 2 (1.43%) SOAP
6 2 (1.43%) Swagger
6 2 (1.43%) YAML
7 1 (0.71%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.29%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (3.57%) NHS
3 4 (2.86%) Mainframe
3 4 (2.86%) Replication
4 3 (2.14%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.14%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.43%) Blockchain
5 2 (1.43%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.43%) CMDB
5 2 (1.43%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (1.43%) EMC VMAX
5 2 (1.43%) IoT
5 2 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.43%) VSAM
6 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 21 (15.00%) Linux
2 10 (7.14%) Windows
3 9 (6.43%) Unix
4 8 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (3.57%) Solaris
6 4 (2.86%) AIX
7 3 (2.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.71%) CentOS
8 1 (0.71%) HPUX
8 1 (0.71%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.71%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (43.57%) CI/CD
2 57 (40.71%) Agile
3 27 (19.29%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (17.14%) Test Automation
5 20 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (12.14%) Configuration Management
6 17 (12.14%) Microservices
7 14 (10.00%) Architectural Design
8 13 (9.29%) Data Pipeline
8 13 (9.29%) Roadmaps
9 12 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (8.57%) Decision-Making
9 12 (8.57%) High Availability
9 12 (8.57%) Observability
9 12 (8.57%) Scrum
9 12 (8.57%) TDD
10 11 (7.86%) SDLC
10 11 (7.86%) Software Engineering
10 11 (7.86%) Test Strategy
11 10 (7.14%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 49 (35.00%) Python
2 21 (15.00%) SQL
3 16 (11.43%) JavaScript
4 15 (10.71%) Java
5 13 (9.29%) Shell Script
6 8 (5.71%) C#
6 8 (5.71%) Kotlin
6 8 (5.71%) PowerShell
7 7 (5.00%) Bash
8 4 (2.86%) Groovy
9 3 (2.14%) COBOL
9 3 (2.14%) Go
9 3 (2.14%) JCL
9 3 (2.14%) Objective-C
9 3 (2.14%) Swift
10 2 (1.43%) ActionScript
10 2 (1.43%) ANSI SQL
10 2 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.43%) Scala
10 2 (1.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (17.14%) Security Cleared
2 23 (16.43%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.57%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.43%) Degree
4 2 (1.43%) IBM Certification
5 1 (0.71%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.71%) CBAP
5 1 (0.71%) CISM
5 1 (0.71%) CISSP
5 1 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.71%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (0.71%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.86%) QA
2 5 (3.57%) GDPR
3 4 (2.86%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.86%) NIST
4 3 (2.14%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.43%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.43%) PMO
6 1 (0.71%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.71%) NCSC
6 1 (0.71%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.71%) SEPA
6 1 (0.71%) SLA
6 1 (0.71%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 12 (8.57%) Docker
2 10 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.14%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 2 (1.43%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.71%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (25.00%) Terraform
2 29 (20.71%) Ansible
3 24 (17.14%) Kubernetes
4 15 (10.71%) Puppet
5 8 (5.71%) Grafana
6 7 (5.00%) Prometheus
7 6 (4.29%) Microsoft Clustering
8 4 (2.86%) Control-M
8 4 (2.86%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.86%) SCCM
9 2 (1.43%) Kustomize
9 2 (1.43%) vRealize
10 1 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.71%) Consul
10 1 (0.71%) Istio
10 1 (0.71%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.71%) linkerd
10 1 (0.71%) Packer
10 1 (0.71%) Rancher
10 1 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (11.43%) VMware
2 14 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 10 (7.14%) MuleSoft
4 8 (5.71%) Google
5 7 (5.00%) Red Hat
5 7 (5.00%) Splunk
6 6 (4.29%) Databricks
7 5 (3.57%) Oracle
8 4 (2.86%) IBM
9 3 (2.14%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.43%) 3PAR
10 2 (1.43%) AppDynamics
10 2 (1.43%) Brocade
10 2 (1.43%) Cisco
10 2 (1.43%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.43%) EMC
10 2 (1.43%) HP
10 2 (1.43%) IBM Sterling
10 2 (1.43%) LogicMonitor
11 1 (0.71%) BMC