DevOps Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

DevOps
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 18 27
Rank change year-on-year 0 +9 -9
Contract jobs citing DevOps 83 60 38
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 7.23% 8.06% 4.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.51% 9.39% 5.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 45 29
10th Percentile £400 £269 £284
25th Percentile £422 £340 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £463 £445
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% +3.93% +4.71%
75th Percentile £543 £500 £500
90th Percentile £588 £566 £598
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £17.97 - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +0.75% -4.29% +6.87%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 873 639 642
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 76.05% 85.89% 78.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 440 436
10th Percentile £213 £225 £230
25th Percentile £400 £334 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £410 £445
Median % change year-on-year +15.85% -7.87% -6.32%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £565
90th Percentile £650 £600 £622
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 56 48
10th Percentile £13.51 £14.22 £12.24
25th Percentile £16.72 £17.49 £12.75
Median hourly rate £18.31 £20.67 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year -11.40% +19.80% -55.19%
75th Percentile £27.73 £25.15 £26.15
90th Percentile £47.50 £25.83 £50.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.13% -8.32%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

DevOps job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing DevOps

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 24 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the East Midlands

DevOps
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing DevOps.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing DevOps

DevOps
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 within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 July 2026. 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
Derbyshire +7 27 £535 -23.57% 4
Northamptonshire +12 22 £442 +23.53% 5
Nottinghamshire -10 18 £488 -4.41% 15
Lincolnshire -3 8 £300 - 2
Leicestershire -12 8 £450 -2.70% 16
DevOps
England

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (7.23%) Confluence
2 3 (3.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (3.61%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.20%) Apache
3 1 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.20%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.20%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 1 (1.20%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 57 (68.67%) Azure
2 44 (53.01%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (20.48%) Power Platform
4 9 (10.84%) AWS
4 9 (10.84%) Azure AKS
4 9 (10.84%) Entra ID
5 5 (6.02%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (6.02%) IaaS
5 5 (6.02%) PaaS
6 4 (4.82%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (4.82%) GitHub
6 4 (4.82%) SaaS
7 3 (3.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (3.61%) Azure Functions
7 3 (3.61%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 3 (3.61%) Serverless
8 2 (2.41%) Azure Batch
8 2 (2.41%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (2.41%) Azure Storage
8 2 (2.41%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.64%) Firewall
2 7 (8.43%) Network Security
3 5 (6.02%) VLAN
4 2 (2.41%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (16.87%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (15.66%) Power BI
2 13 (15.66%) SQL Server
3 5 (6.02%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (6.02%) Data Lake
3 5 (6.02%) Relational Database
4 4 (4.82%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.61%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (3.61%) Power Query
5 3 (3.61%) Star Schema
6 2 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.41%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.41%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.41%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (2.41%) PowerPivot
7 1 (1.20%) Aerospike
7 1 (1.20%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (1.20%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.20%) Redis
7 1 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (10.84%) JIRA
2 8 (9.64%) Git
3 3 (3.61%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.61%) Oracle APEX
3 3 (3.61%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (3.61%) SonarQube
4 2 (2.41%) Artifactory
4 2 (2.41%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.41%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.20%) Balsamiq
5 1 (1.20%) Chocolatey
5 1 (1.20%) Hudson
5 1 (1.20%) JUnit
General
1 20 (24.10%) Social Skills
2 14 (16.87%) Finance
3 10 (12.05%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (7.23%) Banking
5 6 (7.23%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.61%) Marketing
6 3 (3.61%) Police
6 3 (3.61%) Retail
7 2 (2.41%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.41%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.20%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 22 (26.51%) Developer
2 20 (24.10%) Senior
3 16 (19.28%) Architect
4 15 (18.07%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (13.25%) Platform Engineer
5 11 (13.25%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 10 (12.05%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 10 (12.05%) Senior DevOps
6 10 (12.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 9 (10.84%) DevOps Architect
7 9 (10.84%) Senior Architect
8 8 (9.64%) Azure Engineer
8 8 (9.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (9.64%) Software Developer
9 7 (8.43%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (7.23%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 5 (6.02%) .NET Developer
11 5 (6.02%) .NET Software Developer
11 5 (6.02%) Delivery Manager
11 5 (6.02%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.84%) RESTful
2 8 (9.64%) .NET
2 8 (9.64%) REST
3 6 (7.23%) Kafka
4 3 (3.61%) ARM Templates
4 3 (3.61%) Jakarta EE
4 3 (3.61%) Lightning Web Components
4 3 (3.61%) Node.js
4 3 (3.61%) OAuth
4 3 (3.61%) OAuth2
4 3 (3.61%) OpenID
4 3 (3.61%) OSGi
4 3 (3.61%) PySpark
4 3 (3.61%) SAML
4 3 (3.61%) SOAP
5 2 (2.41%) ADO
5 2 (2.41%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (2.41%) HTML
5 2 (2.41%) Spring
5 2 (2.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.84%) Product Ownership
2 8 (9.64%) Cloud Native
3 5 (6.02%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.61%) Driving Licence
4 3 (3.61%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.41%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.20%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.23%) Linux
2 3 (3.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (3.61%) Ubuntu
2 3 (3.61%) Unix
3 1 (1.20%) VMS
3 1 (1.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (44.58%) Agile
2 36 (43.37%) CI/CD
3 19 (22.89%) Microservices
4 18 (21.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (20.48%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (16.87%) Business Intelligence
6 14 (16.87%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (16.87%) Stakeholder Management
7 13 (15.66%) Scrum
8 12 (14.46%) Containerisation
8 12 (14.46%) Migration
8 12 (14.46%) Platform Engineering
8 12 (14.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 10 (12.05%) Analytics
10 9 (10.84%) Data Modelling
10 9 (10.84%) Infrastructure Automation
10 9 (10.84%) Roadmaps
11 8 (9.64%) Cloud Security
11 8 (9.64%) Event-Driven
11 8 (9.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (21.69%) SQL
2 14 (16.87%) Python
3 10 (12.05%) C#
4 9 (10.84%) Java
4 9 (10.84%) PowerShell
5 4 (4.82%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.61%) Apex Code
6 3 (3.61%) Bicep
6 3 (3.61%) PL/SQL
6 3 (3.61%) SOQL
6 3 (3.61%) SOSL
7 2 (2.41%) Rust
7 2 (2.41%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.41%) VBA
8 1 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 15 (18.07%) Security Cleared
2 8 (9.64%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.02%) Degree
4 4 (4.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.20%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.20%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.82%) GDPR
2 3 (3.61%) QA
3 2 (2.41%) PMO
4 1 (1.20%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.20%) COBIT
4 1 (1.20%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.20%) GRC
4 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (1.20%) NIST
4 1 (1.20%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.20%) SLA
4 1 (1.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (13.25%) Docker
2 7 (8.43%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (24.10%) Kubernetes
2 17 (20.48%) Terraform
3 3 (3.61%) Ansible
4 2 (2.41%) Istio
4 2 (2.41%) Puppet
4 2 (2.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (28.92%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.64%) Oracle
3 7 (8.43%) ServiceNow
4 6 (7.23%) Databricks
5 3 (3.61%) Adobe
5 3 (3.61%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.41%) SAP
7 1 (1.20%) Ariba
7 1 (1.20%) IFS
7 1 (1.20%) OpenText
7 1 (1.20%) Splunk
7 1 (1.20%) Sybase