DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Development Operations Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the East Midlands is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026.

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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 49 60
Rank change year-on-year -14 +11 +8
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 20 5 6
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.80% 0.93% 0.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.01% 1.04% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 1 5
10th Percentile £409 - -
25th Percentile £425 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £375 £538
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -30.23% -23.21%
75th Percentile £494 £388 £577
90th Percentile - - £589
England median daily rate £512 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -7.00% +2.33% -10.42%

All Contract IT Job Roles
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 the East Midlands with a recognized job title 995 480 727
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.64% 88.89% 93.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 539 324 486
10th Percentile £199 £200 £163
25th Percentile £388 £343 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £445 £400
Median % change year-on-year +3.99% +11.19% -11.11%
75th Percentile £543 £525 £550
90th Percentile £619 £596 £625
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 32 79
10th Percentile £13.48 £11.59 £11.81
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.34 £14.00
Median hourly rate £17.87 £22.75 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.45% +30.00% -13.88%
75th Percentile £25.15 £26.37 £26.15
90th Percentile £51.25 £33.55 £51.91
England median hourly rate £47.00 £30.90 £36.50
% change year-on-year +52.09% -15.34% -17.05%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the East Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the East Midlands

DevOps Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the East Midlands.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the East Midlands

DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
Nottinghamshire - 11 £488 -
Leicestershire -1 8 £434 +15.67% 11
Derbyshire -11 1 - - 1
DevOps Engineer
England

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 6 May 2026, DevOps Engineer 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 East Midlands region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) DevOps
2 12 (60.00%) Azure
2 12 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (55.00%) Platform Engineering
4 9 (45.00%) CI/CD
5 8 (40.00%) Git
6 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 6 (30.00%) Kubernetes
6 6 (30.00%) Terraform
7 5 (25.00%) Agile
7 5 (25.00%) Azure AKS
7 5 (25.00%) Docker
7 5 (25.00%) Microservices
8 4 (20.00%) ADO
8 4 (20.00%) Ansible
8 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
8 4 (20.00%) Migration
8 4 (20.00%) SonarQube
9 3 (15.00%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (15.00%) Artifactory
9 3 (15.00%) Bitbucket
9 3 (15.00%) Collaborative Working
9 3 (15.00%) Confluence
9 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (15.00%) Cost Optimisation
9 3 (15.00%) Design Patterns
9 3 (15.00%) Dynatrace
9 3 (15.00%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (15.00%) IaaS

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (15.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (60.00%) Azure
1 12 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (25.00%) Azure AKS
3 3 (15.00%) IaaS
3 3 (15.00%) PaaS
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 8 (40.00%) Git
2 4 (20.00%) SonarQube
3 3 (15.00%) Artifactory
3 3 (15.00%) Bitbucket
3 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (15.00%) JIRA
3 3 (15.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (5.00%) Chocolatey
General
1 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) ADO
2 3 (15.00%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (10.00%) .NET
4 1 (5.00%) .NET Core
4 1 (5.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (5.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Linux
1 3 (15.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) DevOps
2 11 (55.00%) Platform Engineering
3 9 (45.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 5 (25.00%) Agile
5 5 (25.00%) Microservices
6 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 4 (20.00%) Migration
7 3 (15.00%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (15.00%) Cost Optimisation
7 3 (15.00%) Design Patterns
7 3 (15.00%) Incident Response
7 3 (15.00%) Observability
7 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (15.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (15.00%) Sprint Planning
7 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 1 (5.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) Java
2 2 (10.00%) C#
2 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (30.00%) Terraform
2 4 (20.00%) Ansible
3 3 (15.00%) Istio
3 3 (15.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Dynatrace
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow