DevOps Engineer Contracts in the East Midlands

Development Operations Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the East Midlands is £538 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 67 80
Rank change year-on-year +6 +13 -20
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 6 17 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.77% 1.64% 1.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 1.74% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 17 15
10th Percentile - £485 -
25th Percentile £425 £525 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £700 £350
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% +100.00% -13.58%
75th Percentile £577 - £488
90th Percentile £589 - £543
England median daily rate £545 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -9.17% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.00
Median hourly rate - - £21.00
75th Percentile - - £22.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £59.75 £57.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +3.91% +91.67% -38.46%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands. 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 the East Midlands with a recognized job title 730 975 1,330
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.95% 93.93% 94.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 752 977
10th Percentile £163 £209 £181
25th Percentile £258 £325 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £550 £565 £508
90th Percentile £625 £700 £600
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 61 93
10th Percentile £11.81 £11.80 £9.59
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.50
Median hourly rate £17.50 £20.32 £17.11
Median % change year-on-year -13.88% +18.80% +16.36%
75th Percentile £26.15 £30.00 £24.50
90th Percentile £51.91 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £36.02 £44.77 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.53% +98.96% +0.36%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the East Midlands

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the East Midlands

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the East Midlands

DevOps Engineer
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 Engineer within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 - 3 £581 -
Nottinghamshire -6 2 £450 -35.71% 5
Derbyshire +1 1 £538 +7.50% 1
DevOps Engineer
England

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, 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 East Midlands region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) AWS
3 3 (50.00%) OAuth
3 3 (50.00%) SAML
3 3 (50.00%) OpenID
3 3 (50.00%) BeanShell
3 3 (50.00%) REST
3 3 (50.00%) OAuth2
3 3 (50.00%) Java
3 3 (50.00%) Linux
3 3 (50.00%) JSON
3 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (50.00%) ForgeRock
3 3 (50.00%) OpenIDM
3 3 (50.00%) OpenAM
3 3 (50.00%) Virtual Team
3 3 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (33.33%) GDPR
4 2 (33.33%) Serverless
4 2 (33.33%) Docker
4 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
4 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (33.33%) Terraform
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (16.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) JSON
1 3 (50.00%) OAuth
1 3 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 3 (50.00%) OpenID
1 3 (50.00%) REST
1 3 (50.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
1 3 (50.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (16.67%) HP Storage
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) AIX
2 1 (16.67%) Solaris
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) BeanShell
1 3 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) GDPR
1 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) OpenAM
1 3 (50.00%) OpenIDM
2 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (16.67%) HP Data Protector
2 1 (16.67%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) ForgeRock
2 1 (16.67%) Brocade
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) EMC
2 1 (16.67%) HP
2 1 (16.67%) Symantec