DevOps Contract Job Trends in Derbyshire

DevOps
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Derbyshire 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 7 24 18
Rank change year-on-year +17 -6 +14
Contract jobs citing DevOps 22 4 6
As % of all contract jobs in Derbyshire 14.47% 2.41% 4.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.05% 3.05% 5.26%
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% -8.33%
75th Percentile £538 £488 £625
90th Percentile £575 - £631
East Midlands median daily rate £420 £475 £474
% change year-on-year -11.58% +0.26% -7.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 129 131 114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire 84.87% 78.92% 82.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 55 75
10th Percentile £134 £250 £160
25th Percentile £175 £316 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.95% +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £591
90th Percentile £691 £642 £664
East Midlands median daily rate £420 £444 £475
% change year-on-year -5.41% -6.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 14 12
10th Percentile £16.13 - £15.50
25th Percentile £16.59 £17.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.67 £22.89 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.43% +14.43% +18.84%
75th Percentile £25.15 £43.55 £35.06
90th Percentile - £50.00 £54.00
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £23.25 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.84% +3.33% +33.69%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

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

DevOps job vacancy trend in Derbyshire

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Derbyshire citing DevOps

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Derbyshire

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

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Derbyshire

DevOps
Hourly Rate Trend in Derbyshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Derbyshire citing DevOps.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Derbyshire citing DevOps

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in Derbyshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 13 December 2025. 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
Derby +14 22 £413 -13.16% 7
DevOps
East Midlands

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derbyshire 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