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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 21 16
Rank change year-on-year +14 -5 +13
Contract jobs citing DevOps 19 3 10
As % of all contract jobs in Derby 16.10% 2.44% 8.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.59% 3.00% 10.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 9
10th Percentile £287 £418 £455
25th Percentile £348 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -25.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £475 £625
90th Percentile £575 £483 £645
Derbyshire median daily rate £413 £450 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% -25.00% +9.09%

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 97 100 93
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derby 82.20% 81.30% 80.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 46 67
10th Percentile £171 £250 £168
25th Percentile £359 £313 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £608 £588 £625
90th Percentile £725 £641 £664
Derbyshire median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 8 7
10th Percentile £16.13 - £15.25
25th Percentile £17.84 - £16.48
Median hourly rate £25.08 £17.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +47.50% -4.06% +5.29%
75th Percentile £25.15 £23.21 £18.86
90th Percentile - £24.18 £20.00
Derbyshire median hourly rate £25.08 £24.18 £23.75
% change year-on-year +3.70% +1.81% +53.23%

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 8 November 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 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 17 (89.47%) Azure
2 13 (68.42%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (10.53%) Azure AKS
3 2 (10.53%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
3 2 (10.53%) GitHub
3 2 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.26%) AWS
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Firewall
1 1 (5.26%) NAS
1 1 (5.26%) SAN
1 1 (5.26%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) CircleCI
1 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (10.53%) Aerospace
4 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Electronics
4 1 (5.26%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.26%) Marketing
4 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Azure Specialist
3 4 (21.05%) DevOps Specialist
4 2 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Design Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Digital Design Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Support Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Support Specialist
5 1 (5.26%) Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) DevOps Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) IT Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (42.11%) ADO
2 2 (10.53%) ARM Templates
2 2 (10.53%) REST
3 1 (5.26%) .NET
3 1 (5.26%) .NET Core
3 1 (5.26%) JSON
3 1 (5.26%) LDAP
3 1 (5.26%) OAuth
3 1 (5.26%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.26%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (5.26%) Operational Technology
2 1 (5.26%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
1 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) CI/CD
2 6 (31.58%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (26.32%) Analytics
4 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (15.79%) Knowledge Management
6 2 (10.53%) Agile
6 2 (10.53%) AI
6 2 (10.53%) API Integration
6 2 (10.53%) Data Science
6 2 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (10.53%) High Availability
6 2 (10.53%) Mentoring
6 2 (10.53%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
6 2 (10.53%) PLM
6 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (10.53%) Process Improvement
6 2 (10.53%) Runbook
6 2 (10.53%) Statistics
6 2 (10.53%) Systems Engineering
6 2 (10.53%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) PowerShell
1 5 (26.32%) Python
2 3 (15.79%) C#
2 3 (15.79%) SQL
3 2 (10.53%) C
3 2 (10.53%) C++
4 1 (5.26%) Bash
4 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (52.63%) SC Cleared
1 10 (52.63%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) Degree
3 2 (10.53%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.26%) CISA
4 1 (5.26%) CISSP
4 1 (5.26%) GIAC
4 1 (5.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) GDPR
1 1 (5.26%) HIPAA
1 1 (5.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.53%) Docker
3 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Terraform
2 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.26%) Ansible
3 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) ServiceNow
2 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.53%) SAP
3 2 (10.53%) Siemens
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco
4 1 (5.26%) VMware
4 1 (5.26%) Workday