DevOps Contract Job Trends in Derby

DevOps
Derbyshire > Derby

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Derby requiring DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 20 18
Rank change year-on-year +14 -2 +8
Contract jobs citing DevOps 22 4 6
As % of all contract jobs in Derby 17.46% 3.10% 5.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.15% 3.81% 7.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 6
10th Percentile £287 - £444
25th Percentile £348 £463 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% -13.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £538 £488 £625
90th Percentile £575 - £631
Derbyshire median daily rate £413 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -13.16% -13.64% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Derby

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Derby.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 104 105 83
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derby 82.54% 81.40% 78.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 46 58
10th Percentile £171 £250 £157
25th Percentile £355 £310 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £598 £588 £600
90th Percentile £695 £641 £664
Derbyshire median daily rate £456 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -3.95% +11.76% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 10 7
10th Percentile £16.13 - £15.25
25th Percentile £16.59 £17.00 £16.48
Median hourly rate £23.67 £19.30 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +22.67% +8.89% +5.29%
75th Percentile £25.15 £23.86 £18.86
90th Percentile - £24.18 £20.00
Derbyshire median hourly rate £23.67 £22.89 £20.00
% change year-on-year +3.43% +14.43% +18.84%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Derby

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Derby.

DevOps job vacancy trend in Derby

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Derby

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Derby citing DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Derby citing DevOps

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Derby

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Derby over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Derby

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derby 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:

Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 19 (86.36%) Azure
2 15 (68.18%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (13.64%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (13.64%) GitHub
3 3 (13.64%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (9.09%) Azure AKS
4 2 (9.09%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.55%) AWS
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) Firewall
2 2 (9.09%) NAS
2 2 (9.09%) SAN
3 1 (4.55%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) CircleCI
1 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.55%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (9.09%) Aerospace
4 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Electronics
4 1 (4.55%) Finance
4 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.55%) Marketing
4 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Azure Specialist
3 4 (18.18%) DevOps Specialist
4 2 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Design Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Digital Design Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) IT Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Support Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Support Specialist
4 2 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Software Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (36.36%) ADO
2 2 (9.09%) ARM Templates
2 2 (9.09%) REST
3 1 (4.55%) .NET
3 1 (4.55%) .NET Core
3 1 (4.55%) JSON
3 1 (4.55%) LDAP
3 1 (4.55%) OAuth
3 1 (4.55%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (9.09%) Operational Technology
1 2 (9.09%) Replication
2 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.55%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
1 2 (9.09%) Windows
2 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 6 (27.27%) Analytics
2 6 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (18.18%) High Availability
4 3 (13.64%) Containerisation
4 3 (13.64%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (13.64%) Knowledge Management
4 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (13.64%) Runbook
5 2 (9.09%) AI
5 2 (9.09%) API Integration
5 2 (9.09%) Business Continuity Planning
5 2 (9.09%) Cloud Security
5 2 (9.09%) Incident Response
5 2 (9.09%) LLM
5 2 (9.09%) Mentoring
5 2 (9.09%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
5 2 (9.09%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) Python
2 7 (31.82%) PowerShell
3 4 (18.18%) C#
4 3 (13.64%) C++
4 3 (13.64%) SQL
5 2 (9.09%) Bash
5 2 (9.09%) C
6 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (45.45%) SC Cleared
1 10 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.64%) Degree
3 2 (9.09%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.55%) CISA
4 1 (4.55%) CISSP
4 1 (4.55%) GIAC
4 1 (4.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) GDPR
1 1 (4.55%) HIPAA
1 1 (4.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 3 (13.64%) Docker
3 2 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Terraform
2 3 (13.64%) Kubernetes
3 2 (9.09%) Ansible
3 2 (9.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) ServiceNow
2 7 (31.82%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.09%) Cisco
3 2 (9.09%) SAP
3 2 (9.09%) Siemens
3 2 (9.09%) VMware
4 1 (4.55%) F5
4 1 (4.55%) Workday