DevOps Engineer Contracts in West Yorkshire

Development Operations Engineer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in West Yorkshire is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 67 65
Rank change year-on-year +21 -2 -3
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 25 30 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 2.58% 1.99% 2.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.78% 2.03% 3.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 25 40
10th Percentile £355 £518 £465
25th Percentile £455 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £700 £525
Median % change year-on-year -32.14% +33.33% +31.25%
75th Percentile £505 - £564
90th Percentile £507 £745 £699
Yorkshire median daily rate £495 £625 £525
% change year-on-year -20.80% +19.05% +20.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in West 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 West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 898 1,476 1,802
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.67% 97.94% 97.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 1,027 1,319
10th Percentile £289 £325 £240
25th Percentile £400 £438 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £663
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 18 52
10th Percentile £11.75 £12.00 £10.64
25th Percentile £12.53 £13.81 £12.21
Median hourly rate £15.50 £20.75 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -25.30% +13.70% -15.12%
75th Percentile £48.75 £50.44 £21.88
90th Percentile £53.75 £65.63 £26.50
Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.50 £21.50 £18.25
% change year-on-year -27.91% +17.81% -3.95%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in West Yorkshire

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in West Yorkshire

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in West Yorkshire

DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Leeds +23 24 £475 -32.14% 12
Huddersfield - 1 £500 -
DevOps Engineer
Yorkshire

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, 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 West Yorkshire region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 25 (100.00%) DevOps
2 19 (76.00%) Terraform
3 18 (72.00%) Kubernetes
4 15 (60.00%) AWS
5 13 (52.00%) SC Cleared
5 13 (52.00%) Security Cleared
5 13 (52.00%) Jenkins
5 13 (52.00%) CI/CD
6 11 (44.00%) Docker
7 9 (36.00%) Python
7 9 (36.00%) Containerisation
8 7 (28.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (28.00%) Agile
8 7 (28.00%) Azure
9 6 (24.00%) Bash
9 6 (24.00%) Linux
10 5 (20.00%) Prometheus
10 5 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (20.00%) Puppet
10 5 (20.00%) GitLab
10 5 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (20.00%) Amazon S3
10 5 (20.00%) Java
10 5 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (16.00%) Observability
11 4 (16.00%) AWS KMS
11 4 (16.00%) Continuous Integration
11 4 (16.00%) CentOS
11 4 (16.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (16.00%) Scala

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 15 (60.00%) AWS
2 7 (28.00%) Azure
3 5 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 5 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (16.00%) Amazon ELB
4 4 (16.00%) AWS KMS
4 4 (16.00%) Route 53
4 4 (16.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (8.00%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (4.00%) Akamai
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.00%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.00%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (52.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (20.00%) GitLab
3 1 (4.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.00%) Maven
General
1 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (4.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (4.00%) Kafka
1 1 (4.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (4.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (24.00%) Linux
2 4 (16.00%) CentOS
2 4 (16.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (100.00%) DevOps
2 13 (52.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (36.00%) Containerisation
4 7 (28.00%) Agile
4 7 (28.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (16.00%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (16.00%) Observability
6 3 (12.00%) Configuration Management
6 3 (12.00%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (12.00%) Test Automation
7 2 (8.00%) High Availability
7 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Automation
8 1 (4.00%) Computer Science
8 1 (4.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 1 (4.00%) Full Stack Development
8 1 (4.00%) Kanban
8 1 (4.00%) Migration
8 1 (4.00%) Platform Engineering
8 1 (4.00%) Problem-Solving
8 1 (4.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 9 (36.00%) Python
2 6 (24.00%) Bash
3 5 (20.00%) Java
4 4 (16.00%) Scala
5 3 (12.00%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.00%) Bicep
6 1 (4.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 13 (52.00%) SC Cleared
1 13 (52.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (8.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.00%) Degree
System Software
1 11 (44.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (76.00%) Terraform
2 18 (72.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (20.00%) Prometheus
3 5 (20.00%) Puppet
4 4 (16.00%) Packer
4 4 (16.00%) Rancher
5 1 (4.00%) Ansible
5 1 (4.00%) Progress Chef
5 1 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (4.00%) ForgeRock
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle
2 1 (4.00%) Zscaler