Lead DevOps Engineer Contracts in Yorkshire

Lead Development Operations Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Lead Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Yorkshire is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 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
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 104 115
Rank change year-on-year +16 +11 +28
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps Engineer 4 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.38% 0.060% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.066% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £633
25th Percentile £563 - £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £675
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.59%
75th Percentile £588 - £694
90th Percentile - - £698
England median daily rate £565 £650 £700
% change year-on-year -13.08% -7.14% +7.69%

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 978 1,518 2,136
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.95% 91.34% 95.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 628 952 1,456
10th Percentile £234 £263 £244
25th Percentile £364 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £539 £575 £600
90th Percentile £613 £650 £700
England median daily rate £523 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 68 30
10th Percentile £14.39 £11.26 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £12.25 £16.75
Median hourly rate £21.24 £14.84 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.17% -29.36% +19.52%
75th Percentile £22.14 £23.75 £51.45
90th Percentile £34.27 £53.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £36.92 £44.77
% change year-on-year -18.73% -17.54% +94.63%

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in Yorkshire

Lead DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in Yorkshire

Lead 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 Lead DevOps Engineer within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 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
South Yorkshire - 2 £575 - 1
West Yorkshire +9 1 - - 4
Lead DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 May 2025, Lead 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 Lead DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) GitLab
3 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (50.00%) The Twelve-Factor App
3 2 (50.00%) GDPR
3 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Ansible
3 2 (50.00%) Docker
3 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) GitHub
3 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (50.00%) Linux
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (50.00%) NIST
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 2 (50.00%) FinOps
3 2 (50.00%) SOC 2
3 2 (50.00%) AWS KMS
3 2 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation

Lead 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 2 (50.00%) AWS KMS
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Macie
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
1 1 (25.00%) SSL
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (25.00%) Git
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (50.00%) FinOps
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) The Twelve-Factor App
3 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Database Security
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Network Load Balancing
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (25.00%) Release Management
3 1 (25.00%) Resource Management
3 1 (25.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
1 2 (50.00%) SOC 2
2 1 (25.00%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (25.00%) Grafana
3 1 (25.00%) Kustomize
3 1 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk