DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Derby

Development Operations Engineer
Derbyshire > Derby

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Derby is £380, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 23 17
Rank change year-on-year +8 -6 -
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 5 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Derby 5.21% 0.75% 4.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.49% 0.76% 5.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 5
10th Percentile - - £455
25th Percentile £348 £531 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year -29.26% -10.42% -
75th Percentile £458 £544 £625
90th Percentile £528 - £633
Derbyshire median daily rate £380 £538 £600
% change year-on-year -29.26% -10.42% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Derby

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Derby. 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 Derby with a recognized job title 91 131 98
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 98.50% 93.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 73 64
10th Percentile £171 £176 £185
25th Percentile £348 £310 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% - +18.75%
75th Percentile £626 £588 £619
90th Percentile £725 £608 £650
Derbyshire median daily rate £515 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +8.42% - +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 13 10
10th Percentile £25.04 - £15.25
25th Percentile £25.09 £17.00 -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £21.59 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +16.49% +21.84% -1.56%
75th Percentile - £24.18 -
90th Percentile - - £20.00
Derbyshire median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £20.00
% change year-on-year +4.01% +20.90% +14.29%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Derby

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Derby

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Derby

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Derby.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Derby

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Derby

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Derby over the 6 months to 14 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in Derby

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

For the 6 months to 14 September 2025, 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 Derby region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) ADO
3 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
4 1 (20.00%) Runbook
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) CircleCI
4 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (20.00%) Docker
4 1 (20.00%) Terraform
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (20.00%) ITSM
4 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Management
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Derby 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 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) ADO
2 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) ITSM
3 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Management
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Runbook
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow