DevOps Engineer Contracts in Yorkshire

Development Operations Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Yorkshire is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 58 73 70
Rank change year-on-year +15 -3 +4
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 50 48 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 2.89% 2.24% 3.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.19% 2.33% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 40 64
10th Percentile £295 £511 £439
25th Percentile £400 £525 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +19.05% +16.67%
75th Percentile £530 £700 £561
90th Percentile £625 - £695
England median daily rate £538 £611 £600
% change year-on-year -12.07% +1.88% +14.29%

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 1,567 2,058 2,572
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.47% 95.94% 96.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 968 1,399 1,889
10th Percentile £234 £225 £210
25th Percentile £400 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +9.38% +6.67%
75th Percentile £575 £616 £563
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 30 90
10th Percentile £11.30 £12.00 £10.98
25th Percentile £12.53 £16.75 £12.47
Median hourly rate £17.50 £21.00 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +15.07% -1.35%
75th Percentile £25.83 £43.38 £22.39
90th Percentile £53.75 £56.78 £26.55
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Yorkshire

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in Yorkshire

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in Yorkshire

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 DevOps Engineer within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 12 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
West Yorkshire +29 32 £463 -33.93% 9
South Yorkshire -22 17 £622 -4.31% 4
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 Yorkshire region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 50 (100.00%) DevOps
2 38 (76.00%) Kubernetes
3 36 (72.00%) Terraform
4 33 (66.00%) CI/CD
5 31 (62.00%) Docker
5 31 (62.00%) Jenkins
5 31 (62.00%) AWS
6 29 (58.00%) Containerisation
7 25 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 23 (46.00%) Python
9 22 (44.00%) SC Cleared
9 22 (44.00%) Security Cleared
10 19 (38.00%) Bash
11 18 (36.00%) GitLab
12 16 (32.00%) Azure
12 16 (32.00%) Agile
13 15 (30.00%) Prometheus
14 14 (28.00%) Puppet
15 12 (24.00%) Ansible
15 12 (24.00%) Infrastructure Automation
16 11 (22.00%) Splunk
16 11 (22.00%) Linux
16 11 (22.00%) PowerShell
16 11 (22.00%) Continuous Integration
17 10 (20.00%) Git
17 10 (20.00%) Firewall
17 10 (20.00%) High Availability
17 10 (20.00%) AWS Certification
17 10 (20.00%) GCP
17 10 (20.00%) Problem-Solving

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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (14.00%) Confluence
2 3 (6.00%) nginx
3 1 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 31 (62.00%) AWS
2 16 (32.00%) Azure
3 10 (20.00%) GCP
4 8 (16.00%) GitHub
5 6 (12.00%) Kong
6 5 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (10.00%) Amazon S3
6 5 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (8.00%) Amazon ELB
7 4 (8.00%) Apigee
7 4 (8.00%) AWS KMS
7 4 (8.00%) Route 53
7 4 (8.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (6.00%) Datadog
8 3 (6.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (4.00%) Anthos
10 1 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (2.00%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (20.00%) Firewall
2 6 (12.00%) DNS
2 6 (12.00%) HTTP
2 6 (12.00%) TCP/IP
2 6 (12.00%) VPN
3 4 (8.00%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (4.00%) BIG-IP
4 2 (4.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 2 (4.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (2.00%) ClickHouse
2 1 (2.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 31 (62.00%) Jenkins
2 18 (36.00%) GitLab
3 10 (20.00%) Git
4 7 (14.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 7 (14.00%) JIRA
5 6 (12.00%) CircleCI
5 6 (12.00%) Travis CI
6 2 (4.00%) Jaeger
6 2 (4.00%) Maven
7 1 (2.00%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.00%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (12.00%) JSON
1 6 (12.00%) XML
1 6 (12.00%) YAML
2 4 (8.00%) Kafka
3 2 (4.00%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (2.00%) Apache Beam
4 1 (2.00%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.00%) FastAPI
4 1 (2.00%) Keycloak
4 1 (2.00%) OAuth
4 1 (2.00%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 11 (22.00%) Linux
2 4 (8.00%) CentOS
2 4 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (4.00%) Unix
4 1 (2.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (100.00%) DevOps
2 33 (66.00%) CI/CD
3 29 (58.00%) Containerisation
4 25 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (32.00%) Agile
6 12 (24.00%) Infrastructure Automation
7 11 (22.00%) Continuous Integration
8 10 (20.00%) High Availability
8 10 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (18.00%) Configuration Management
10 8 (16.00%) DevSecOps
10 8 (16.00%) Task Automation
11 7 (14.00%) Scrum
12 6 (12.00%) Collaborative Working
12 6 (12.00%) Continuous Deployment
12 6 (12.00%) Observability
12 6 (12.00%) Project Management
12 6 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
12 6 (12.00%) Use Case
12 6 (12.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 23 (46.00%) Python
2 19 (38.00%) Bash
3 11 (22.00%) PowerShell
4 6 (12.00%) Java
5 5 (10.00%) Go
5 5 (10.00%) Scala
6 3 (6.00%) Shell Script
7 2 (4.00%) ActionScript
7 2 (4.00%) SQL
8 1 (2.00%) Bicep
8 1 (2.00%) Groovy
8 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.00%) Perl
8 1 (2.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 22 (44.00%) SC Cleared
1 22 (44.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 10 (20.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 5 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (4.00%) Degree
5 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.00%) QA
System Software
1 31 (62.00%) Docker
2 2 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 38 (76.00%) Kubernetes
2 36 (72.00%) Terraform
3 15 (30.00%) Prometheus
4 14 (28.00%) Puppet
5 12 (24.00%) Ansible
6 9 (18.00%) Progress Chef
7 7 (14.00%) Grafana
8 6 (12.00%) Docker Swarm
8 6 (12.00%) Kibana
8 6 (12.00%) logstash
9 4 (8.00%) Kiali
9 4 (8.00%) Packer
9 4 (8.00%) Rancher
10 2 (4.00%) Istio
11 1 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (22.00%) Splunk
2 4 (8.00%) Dynatrace
3 2 (4.00%) AppDynamics
3 2 (4.00%) F5
3 2 (4.00%) VMware
4 1 (2.00%) ForgeRock
4 1 (2.00%) Oracle
4 1 (2.00%) Zscaler