Lead DevOps Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Lead Development Operations
England > Yorkshire

The median Lead Development Operations daily rate in Yorkshire is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 76 96
Rank change year-on-year -54 +20 +25
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 10 7 5
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.45% 0.77% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.82% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 4
10th Percentile £436 £528 £578
25th Percentile £463 £550 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% -8.00% +3.31%
75th Percentile £517 £588 £653
90th Percentile £593 £685 £681
England median daily rate £600 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +4.35% - -17.86%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 2,024 853 1,601
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.00% 93.63% 91.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,324 554 983
10th Percentile £309 £221 £200
25th Percentile £400 £350 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.22% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £561
90th Percentile £650 £638 £650
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 30 60
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.93 £11.17
25th Percentile £16.57 £17.08 £12.46
Median hourly rate £42.50 £21.69 £14.20
Median % change year-on-year +95.94% +52.72% -47.88%
75th Percentile £57.25 £28.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £96.83 £53.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -23.53%

Lead DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Lead DevOps' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Lead DevOps job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Lead DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead DevOps job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead DevOps job vacancies in Yorkshire

Lead DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 19 March 2026.

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 19 March 2026. 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 -47 7 £475 -17.39% 1
West Yorkshire -23 3 £475 -13.64%
Lead DevOps
England

Lead DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 19 March 2026, Lead DevOps contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Yorkshire region featuring Lead DevOps in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (50.00%) Ansible
2 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 5 (50.00%) Python
3 4 (40.00%) AWS
3 4 (40.00%) GCP
3 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (40.00%) OpenShift
4 3 (30.00%) Agile
4 3 (30.00%) Azure
4 3 (30.00%) Linux
5 2 (20.00%) Google
6 1 (10.00%) AI
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
6 1 (10.00%) API Development
6 1 (10.00%) Bash
6 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
6 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (10.00%) CircleCI
6 1 (10.00%) Cloud Composer
6 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security
6 1 (10.00%) Cloud Spanner
6 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (10.00%) DevSecOps
6 1 (10.00%) Docker
6 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (10.00%) Generative AI

Lead DevOps Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
1 4 (40.00%) GCP
1 4 (40.00%) OpenShift
2 3 (30.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Composer
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Spanner
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (10.00%) LangChain
1 1 (10.00%) LangGraph
1 1 (10.00%) React
1 1 (10.00%) RESTful
1 1 (10.00%) Spring
1 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) NHS
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
4 1 (10.00%) AI
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Key Management
4 1 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (10.00%) Microservices
4 1 (10.00%) Observability
4 1 (10.00%) Problem Management
4 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Secrets Management
4 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (10.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Ansible
2 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (10.00%) Grafana
3 1 (10.00%) Packer
3 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Google