DevOps Contracts in the East Midlands

DevOps
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 22 26
Rank change year-on-year -12 +4 -9
Contract jobs citing DevOps 32 79 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 4.18% 7.57% 6.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.35% 8.59% 7.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 66 61
10th Percentile £356 £313 £319
25th Percentile £404 £363 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £460 £433
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +6.36% +9.22%
75th Percentile £575 £597 £500
90th Percentile £623 £700 £566
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +15.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.00
Median hourly rate - - £21.00
75th Percentile - - £46.67
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £54.00
% change year-on-year -0.76% +21.30% +16.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 598 920 1,195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 78.07% 88.12% 83.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 692 886
10th Percentile £200 £213 £209
25th Percentile £269 £330 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £450 £440
Median % change year-on-year -7.11% +2.27% +13.55%
75th Percentile £561 £566 £520
90th Percentile £625 £700 £610
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 74 83
10th Percentile £11.41 £12.07 £9.51
25th Percentile £12.75 £16.25 £13.32
Median hourly rate £17.00 £18.56 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.39% +0.31% +24.96%
75th Percentile £26.15 £31.50 £26.81
90th Percentile £45.79 £58.50 £35.00
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the East Midlands

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for DevOps in the East Midlands

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the East Midlands

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in the East Midlands

DevOps
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 within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Northamptonshire +21 15 £463 -15.91% 17
Leicestershire -3 10 £419 -0.24% 11
Nottinghamshire -12 4 £538 -12.24% 25
Derbyshire -9 2 £569 +16.07% 7
DevOps
England

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 5 (15.63%) JBoss
2 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (43.75%) AWS
2 11 (34.38%) Azure
3 8 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (18.75%) OpenShift
5 4 (12.50%) Serverless
6 3 (9.38%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (3.13%) Azure Functions
8 1 (3.13%) dbt
8 1 (3.13%) GCP
8 1 (3.13%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (3.13%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) Relational Database
2 5 (15.63%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (15.63%) RDBMS
3 2 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (6.25%) Tableau
4 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.13%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (3.13%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (3.13%) Metadata
4 1 (3.13%) MySQL
4 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.13%) SAP BW
4 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Jenkins
2 6 (18.75%) CA Release Automation
2 6 (18.75%) JIRA
3 5 (15.63%) Bitbucket Server
3 5 (15.63%) Git
3 5 (15.63%) SonarQube
3 5 (15.63%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (15.63%) TeamCity
4 3 (9.38%) JMeter
5 1 (3.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.63%) Banking
3 4 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.38%) Games
4 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.25%) Finance
6 1 (3.13%) Law
6 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (18.75%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (15.63%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (15.63%) Support Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Developer
4 3 (9.38%) Data Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) ForgeRock Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Performance Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Performance Test Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Senior
4 3 (9.38%) Test Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Architect
5 2 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (6.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Business Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Consultant
5 2 (6.25%) Lead
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (15.63%) Spring Boot
2 4 (12.50%) OAuth
2 4 (12.50%) OpenID
2 4 (12.50%) React
2 4 (12.50%) REST
2 4 (12.50%) SAML
3 3 (9.38%) JSON
3 3 (9.38%) OAuth2
4 2 (6.25%) GraphQL
4 2 (6.25%) Node.js
5 1 (3.13%) Apollo GraphQL
5 1 (3.13%) AWS CDK
5 1 (3.13%) gRPC
5 1 (3.13%) Jest
5 1 (3.13%) Kafka
5 1 (3.13%) NestJS
5 1 (3.13%) Next.js
5 1 (3.13%) RAML
5 1 (3.13%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Virtual Team
2 3 (9.38%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (3.13%) e-Health
3 1 (3.13%) HP Storage
3 1 (3.13%) Insider Threat
3 1 (3.13%) LIMS
3 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.13%) NHS
3 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.13%) Online Banking
3 1 (3.13%) PACS
3 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (28.13%) Linux
2 7 (21.88%) Windows
3 5 (15.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.13%) AIX
4 1 (3.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (34.38%) Agile
2 8 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (21.88%) Migration
3 7 (21.88%) Test Automation
4 6 (18.75%) Software Testing
5 5 (15.63%) Build Automation
5 5 (15.63%) Code Quality
5 5 (15.63%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (15.63%) Deployment Automation
5 5 (15.63%) Microservices
5 5 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (12.50%) Scrum
7 3 (9.38%) Continuous Delivery
7 3 (9.38%) Pair Programming
7 3 (9.38%) Performance Testing
7 3 (9.38%) Project Management
7 3 (9.38%) Software Engineering
7 3 (9.38%) Technical Debt
7 3 (9.38%) Test Scripting
7 3 (9.38%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.00%) Python
2 6 (18.75%) Perl
3 5 (15.63%) JavaScript
4 4 (12.50%) C#
4 4 (12.50%) Java
5 3 (9.38%) BeanShell
5 3 (9.38%) SQL
6 1 (3.13%) Bash
6 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.13%) Search Processing Language
6 1 (3.13%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.13%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.50%) ISEB
3 3 (9.38%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (9.38%) ISTQB
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.13%) CBAP
4 1 (3.13%) Degree
4 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) GDPR
1 2 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.13%) HL7
2 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 8 (25.00%) Docker
2 5 (15.63%) Active Directory
3 3 (9.38%) OpenAM
3 3 (9.38%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 9 (28.13%) Kubernetes
2 5 (15.63%) Kibana
2 5 (15.63%) Progress Chef
2 5 (15.63%) Terraform
3 1 (3.13%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (3.13%) HP Data Protector
3 1 (3.13%) NetBackup
3 1 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) Splunk
2 5 (15.63%) AppDynamics
2 5 (15.63%) Red Hat
3 4 (12.50%) ForgeRock
4 2 (6.25%) SAP
5 1 (3.13%) Alteryx
5 1 (3.13%) Ariba
5 1 (3.13%) Brocade
5 1 (3.13%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (3.13%) Cisco
5 1 (3.13%) Databricks
5 1 (3.13%) EMC
5 1 (3.13%) HP
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.13%) Oracle
5 1 (3.13%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.13%) Symantec
5 1 (3.13%) Workday