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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 32 29
Rank change year-on-year +16 -3 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 71 31 37
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 7.99% 4.25% 4.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.26% 5.03% 5.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 22 34
10th Percentile £270 £193 £404
25th Percentile £348 £333 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.18% -6.32% -5.00%
75th Percentile £500 £484 £601
90th Percentile £575 £530 £638
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%

All Process and 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 767 616 670
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.28% 84.38% 83.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 513 373 486
10th Percentile £205 £267 £213
25th Percentile £350 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% -6.32% -
75th Percentile £519 £538 £588
90th Percentile £625 £625 £700
England median daily rate £507 £525 £546
% change year-on-year -3.43% -3.85% -0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 28 52
10th Percentile £16.17 £14.90 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 £16.56
Median hourly rate £18.87 £23.25 £22.39
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +3.85% +33.02%
75th Percentile £25.11 £50.00 £52.06
90th Percentile £25.15 £51.50 £69.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.03% -16.85% +27.14%

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 15 November 2025.

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 15 November 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
Derbyshire +18 22 £413 -13.16% 7
Northamptonshire -5 19 £354 -20.45% 5
Leicestershire +1 16 £444 +67.30% 14
Nottinghamshire +1 7 £423 -19.14% 19
Lincolnshire - 5 £625 - 4
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 (8.45%) Confluence
2 3 (4.23%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.82%) CICS
4 1 (1.41%) Apache
4 1 (1.41%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (1.41%) Camunda
4 1 (1.41%) IIS
4 1 (1.41%) Mule
Applications
1 6 (8.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (4.23%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (7.04%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (2.82%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (2.82%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (2.82%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (2.82%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (2.82%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (2.82%) Teamcenter
3 1 (1.41%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 45 (63.38%) Azure
2 33 (46.48%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (15.49%) AWS
4 8 (11.27%) Azure Monitor
4 8 (11.27%) GitHub
5 7 (9.86%) Azure AKS
6 5 (7.04%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (7.04%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (7.04%) Serverless
7 4 (5.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (4.23%) Azure Functions
8 3 (4.23%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (4.23%) GCP
8 3 (4.23%) Power Automate
8 3 (4.23%) Power Platform
8 3 (4.23%) PowerApps
9 2 (2.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.82%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.82%) PaaS
9 2 (2.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.23%) Firewall
2 2 (2.82%) NAS
2 2 (2.82%) SAN
3 1 (1.41%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (5.63%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.23%) Data Lake
2 3 (4.23%) Tableau
3 2 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.82%) Apache Hive
3 2 (2.82%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.82%) Big Data
3 2 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.82%) DB2
3 2 (2.82%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.82%) Hadoop
3 2 (2.82%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.82%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.41%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.41%) Metadata
4 1 (1.41%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.41%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 11 (15.49%) Git
2 7 (9.86%) JIRA
3 4 (5.63%) Cucumber
3 4 (5.63%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.63%) Maven
3 4 (5.63%) Selenium
3 4 (5.63%) SonarQube
4 3 (4.23%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (2.82%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.82%) Eclipse
5 2 (2.82%) GitLab
5 2 (2.82%) IntelliJ
5 2 (2.82%) JUnit
5 2 (2.82%) Mockito
6 1 (1.41%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.41%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (1.41%) REST Assured
General
1 23 (32.39%) Social Skills
2 15 (21.13%) Finance
3 11 (15.49%) Banking
4 5 (7.04%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (7.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (5.63%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.82%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.82%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.82%) General Ledger
6 2 (2.82%) Retail
7 1 (1.41%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.41%) Electronics
7 1 (1.41%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.41%) Marketing
7 1 (1.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (30.99%) Developer
2 10 (14.08%) Azure Engineer
2 10 (14.08%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (11.27%) Senior
4 6 (8.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 6 (8.45%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (8.45%) Java Developer
5 4 (5.63%) Analyst
5 4 (5.63%) Android Developer
5 4 (5.63%) Architect
5 4 (5.63%) Azure Specialist
5 4 (5.63%) DevOps Specialist
6 3 (4.23%) Consultant
6 3 (4.23%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 3 (4.23%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (4.23%) Integration Developer
6 3 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 2 (2.82%) Product Owner
7 2 (2.82%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (16.90%) ADO
2 7 (9.86%) RESTful
3 6 (8.45%) REST
3 6 (8.45%) Spring Boot
4 4 (5.63%) .NET
4 4 (5.63%) Android Jetpack
4 4 (5.63%) Jetpack Compose
4 4 (5.63%) Spring
5 3 (4.23%) CSS
5 3 (4.23%) Hibernate
5 3 (4.23%) HTML
6 2 (2.82%) Flask
6 2 (2.82%) JPA
6 2 (2.82%) JSON
6 2 (2.82%) Kafka
6 2 (2.82%) Node.js
6 2 (2.82%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (2.82%) React
6 2 (2.82%) Redux
6 2 (2.82%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.86%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.63%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.23%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.82%) Data Fabric
4 2 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.82%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.82%) Operational Technology
4 2 (2.82%) Replication
4 2 (2.82%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.82%) VSAM
5 1 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.41%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.41%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.41%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.41%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.63%) Android
1 4 (5.63%) Linux
2 3 (4.23%) Windows
3 2 (2.82%) Unix
3 2 (2.82%) VMS
3 2 (2.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (56.34%) CI/CD
2 21 (29.58%) Agile
3 13 (18.31%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (18.31%) Scrum
4 11 (15.49%) Analytics
4 11 (15.49%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (15.49%) Test Automation
5 9 (12.68%) Migration
5 9 (12.68%) TDD
6 8 (11.27%) Mentoring
6 8 (11.27%) Microservices
6 8 (11.27%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (9.86%) High Availability
7 7 (9.86%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (9.86%) Unit Testing
8 6 (8.45%) AI
8 6 (8.45%) Collaborative Working
8 6 (8.45%) Containerisation
9 5 (7.04%) Log Analytics
9 5 (7.04%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 21 (29.58%) SQL
2 14 (19.72%) Python
3 11 (15.49%) PowerShell
4 8 (11.27%) C#
4 8 (11.27%) Java
5 4 (5.63%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.63%) Kotlin
6 3 (4.23%) C++
6 3 (4.23%) PHP
6 3 (4.23%) T-SQL
6 3 (4.23%) X++
7 2 (2.82%) Bash
7 2 (2.82%) C
7 2 (2.82%) COBOL
7 2 (2.82%) JCL
7 2 (2.82%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (23.94%) Security Cleared
2 12 (16.90%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.04%) Degree
4 4 (5.63%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.41%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.41%) CISA
6 1 (1.41%) CISSP
6 1 (1.41%) GIAC
6 1 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.63%) QA
2 3 (4.23%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.41%) EMIR
3 1 (1.41%) GDPR
3 1 (1.41%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.41%) MiFID
3 1 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (8.45%) Docker
2 4 (5.63%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (18.31%) Terraform
2 11 (15.49%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.63%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.82%) Ansible
4 2 (2.82%) Grafana
Vendors
1 20 (28.17%) Microsoft
2 10 (14.08%) ServiceNow
3 6 (8.45%) Oracle
4 4 (5.63%) Databricks
5 3 (4.23%) Google
5 3 (4.23%) SAP
6 2 (2.82%) Ab Initio
6 2 (2.82%) Cisco
6 2 (2.82%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.82%) Siemens
6 2 (2.82%) Veracode
6 2 (2.82%) VMware
6 2 (2.82%) Workday
7 1 (1.41%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.41%) Dell
7 1 (1.41%) F5
7 1 (1.41%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.41%) Trayport