DevOps Contracts in South Yorkshire

DevOps
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire with a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 8 5
Rank change year-on-year +5 -3 +10
Contract jobs citing DevOps 91 67 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 19.24% 12.91% 18.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.09% 13.93% 20.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 59 81
10th Percentile £398 £455 £300
25th Percentile £445 £522 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £617 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.72% +17.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £614 £700 £600
90th Percentile £650 - £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £495 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -17.50% +14.29% +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

DevOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 412 481 470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 87.10% 92.68% 91.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 299 364
10th Percentile £360 £300 £300
25th Percentile £412 £473 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile £584 £675 £564
90th Percentile £624 £743 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 37 20
10th Percentile £10.90 - £10.97
25th Percentile £12.55 £9.80 £11.00
Median hourly rate £12.83 £10.63 £17.06
Median % change year-on-year +20.70% -37.67% -9.04%
75th Percentile £22.00 - £22.33
90th Percentile £23.75 - £23.78
Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £18.70
% change year-on-year +27.00% -43.16% -6.50%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in South Yorkshire

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in South Yorkshire

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in South Yorkshire

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 31 May 2024. 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
Sheffield +7 88 £520 -16.80% 17
DevOps
Yorkshire

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 (10.99%) Confluence
2 9 (9.89%) Apache Spark
3 5 (5.49%) nginx
4 3 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (3.30%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.10%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 28 (30.77%) GCP
2 27 (29.67%) AWS
3 25 (27.47%) Azure
4 12 (13.19%) GitHub
5 9 (9.89%) Kong
5 9 (9.89%) Serverless
6 8 (8.79%) Amazon S3
6 8 (8.79%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
6 8 (8.79%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (6.59%) Apigee
7 6 (6.59%) CloudBees
8 5 (5.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (2.20%) Anthos
9 2 (2.20%) Datadog
9 2 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.20%) Google Compute Engine
9 2 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.20%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.10%) SaaS
10 1 (1.10%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.19%) Firewall
2 9 (9.89%) DNS
2 9 (9.89%) HTTP
2 9 (9.89%) SSL
2 9 (9.89%) TCP/IP
2 9 (9.89%) VPN
3 5 (5.49%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (3.30%) BIG-IP
4 3 (3.30%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.99%) BigQuery
1 10 (10.99%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (9.89%) Apache Cassandra
2 9 (9.89%) Big Data
2 9 (9.89%) Hadoop
2 9 (9.89%) MongoDB
3 8 (8.79%) Amazon Athena
3 8 (8.79%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (8.79%) Amazon Redshift
3 8 (8.79%) Data Lake
4 6 (6.59%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (6.59%) Relational Database
5 5 (5.49%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.30%) ClickHouse
7 1 (1.10%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 31 (34.07%) Git
2 30 (32.97%) Jenkins
3 12 (13.19%) GitLab
3 12 (13.19%) JIRA
4 9 (9.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 9 (9.89%) CircleCI
4 9 (9.89%) Travis CI
5 6 (6.59%) JUnit
6 1 (1.10%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.10%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (1.10%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.10%) JMeter
6 1 (1.10%) Selenium
General
1 28 (30.77%) Finance
2 21 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (21.98%) Social Skills
4 14 (15.38%) Banking
5 11 (12.09%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.20%) Marketing
7 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.10%) Law
7 1 (1.10%) Legal
Job Titles
1 22 (24.18%) Architect
2 14 (15.38%) Developer
2 14 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (12.09%) Solutions Architect
4 9 (9.89%) Automation Engineer
4 9 (9.89%) Lead
5 7 (7.69%) DevOps Automation Engineer
5 7 (7.69%) Java Developer
6 6 (6.59%) Consultant
6 6 (6.59%) Senior
7 5 (5.49%) Cassandra DBA
7 5 (5.49%) DBA
7 5 (5.49%) Storage Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Storage Consultant
9 3 (3.30%) Security Engineer
10 2 (2.20%) Junior Developer
10 2 (2.20%) Junior Java Developer
10 2 (2.20%) Lead Java Developer
10 2 (2.20%) Python Developer
10 2 (2.20%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (19.78%) Kafka
2 12 (13.19%) REST
3 9 (9.89%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (9.89%) JSON
3 9 (9.89%) XML
3 9 (9.89%) YAML
4 6 (6.59%) ActiveMQ
4 6 (6.59%) Hibernate
4 6 (6.59%) JPA
4 6 (6.59%) React
4 6 (6.59%) Spring
4 6 (6.59%) Spring Boot
5 4 (4.40%) AngularJS
5 4 (4.40%) FastAPI
6 3 (3.30%) Apache Beam
6 3 (3.30%) CSS
6 3 (3.30%) HTML
6 3 (3.30%) Keycloak
6 3 (3.30%) LDAP
7 2 (2.20%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.89%) Data Structures
2 5 (5.49%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (3.30%) CMDB
3 3 (3.30%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.20%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.10%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 14 (15.38%) Linux
2 7 (7.69%) Windows
3 2 (2.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (58.24%) CI/CD
2 34 (37.36%) Infrastructure as Code
3 31 (34.07%) Agile
4 29 (31.87%) Containerisation
4 29 (31.87%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (30.77%) Continuous Integration
6 22 (24.18%) ITIL
7 19 (20.88%) Continuous Delivery
7 19 (20.88%) Scrum
8 17 (18.68%) Performance Analysis
8 17 (18.68%) Test Automation
9 16 (17.58%) Change Management
9 16 (17.58%) Microservices
10 15 (16.48%) Build Automation
11 14 (15.38%) Data Modelling
11 14 (15.38%) High Availability
12 13 (14.29%) Design Patterns
12 13 (14.29%) Mentoring
12 13 (14.29%) Validation
13 11 (12.09%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 36 (39.56%) Python
2 23 (25.27%) PowerShell
3 22 (24.18%) Java
4 20 (21.98%) Bash
5 10 (10.99%) SQL
6 9 (9.89%) JavaScript
7 7 (7.69%) TypeScript
8 6 (6.59%) Go
8 6 (6.59%) Groovy
8 6 (6.59%) Perl
8 6 (6.59%) Shell Script
9 4 (4.40%) Ruby
9 4 (4.40%) Scala
10 3 (3.30%) ActionScript
11 1 (1.10%) C#
Qualifications
1 10 (10.99%) SC Cleared
1 10 (10.99%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.79%) Degree
3 6 (6.59%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.30%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (2.20%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.10%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.10%) CEH
6 1 (1.10%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.19%) QA
2 3 (3.30%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.10%) GRC
System Software
1 27 (29.67%) Docker
2 3 (3.30%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (32.97%) Ansible
2 29 (31.87%) Terraform
3 28 (30.77%) Kubernetes
4 13 (14.29%) Puppet
5 12 (13.19%) Grafana
6 11 (12.09%) Prometheus
7 9 (9.89%) Docker Swarm
7 9 (9.89%) Kibana
7 9 (9.89%) logstash
7 9 (9.89%) Progress Chef
8 3 (3.30%) Istio
8 3 (3.30%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (2.20%) Kiali
10 1 (1.10%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 14 (15.38%) EMC
2 13 (14.29%) Splunk
3 11 (12.09%) Google
3 11 (12.09%) Microsoft
4 9 (9.89%) ServiceNow
5 6 (6.59%) IBM
5 6 (6.59%) Solace
6 3 (3.30%) F5
6 3 (3.30%) VMware
7 2 (2.20%) Oracle
8 1 (1.10%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.10%) Reuters
8 1 (1.10%) Veritas