Lead DevOps Contracts in Yorkshire

Lead Development Operations
England > Yorkshire

The median Lead Development Operations daily rate in Yorkshire is £575, 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 87 95 118
Rank change year-on-year +8 +23 +18
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 5 5 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.49% 0.30% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.32% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 6
10th Percentile £484 £578 £500
25th Percentile £534 £600 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -11.66%
75th Percentile £628 £653 £684
90th Percentile £701 £681 £694
England median daily rate £575 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -8.00% -3.85% -

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%

Lead DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps in Yorkshire

Lead DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Lead DevOps in Yorkshire

Lead DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Lead DevOps in Yorkshire

Lead 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 Lead 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 +17 3 £600 -
South Yorkshire +7 2 £575 -8.00% 2
Lead DevOps
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Lead DevOps 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 in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) AWS
3 3 (60.00%) Linux
3 3 (60.00%) Python
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) GitLab
3 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (60.00%) Terraform
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Microservices
4 2 (40.00%) The Twelve-Factor App
4 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (20.00%) Unix
5 1 (20.00%) Go
5 1 (20.00%) HAProxy
5 1 (20.00%) Test Planning
5 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (20.00%) Coaching
5 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (20.00%) Bash
5 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
5 1 (20.00%) Splunk
5 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
5 1 (20.00%) Kafka
5 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
5 1 (20.00%) Mobile Device Management
5 1 (20.00%) TDD
5 1 (20.00%) PKI
5 1 (20.00%) ISTQB

Lead DevOps 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 1 (20.00%) nginx
1 1 (20.00%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) cloud-init
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) NHS
1 1 (20.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) CentOS
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) The Twelve-Factor App
4 1 (20.00%) Coaching
4 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Defect Tracking
4 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
4 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) Mobile Device Management
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Regression Testing
4 1 (20.00%) TDD
4 1 (20.00%) Test Planning
4 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) NCSC
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Consul
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) HAProxy
2 1 (20.00%) Istio
2 1 (20.00%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (20.00%) linkerd
2 1 (20.00%) Packer
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (20.00%) Rancher
2 1 (20.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Apple
1 1 (20.00%) ESET
1 1 (20.00%) Okta
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk