DevOps Contracts in the East Midlands

DevOps
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 33 21
Rank change year-on-year +14 -12 +6
Contract jobs citing DevOps 41 33 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 7.65% 4.27% 7.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.87% 5.47% 8.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 26 66
10th Percentile £349 £356 £313
25th Percentile £416 £401 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £450 £460
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -2.17% +7.29%
75th Percentile £547 £542 £597
90th Percentile £703 £599 £700
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

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 462 603 918
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.19% 78.01% 88.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 404 692
10th Percentile £200 £192 £213
25th Percentile £323 £269 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £419 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.81% -7.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £525 £553 £573
90th Percentile £591 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 57 74
10th Percentile - £11.41 £12.07
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.36 £17.00 £18.56
Median % change year-on-year +7.97% -8.39% +3.10%
75th Percentile £24.54 £26.15 £31.50
90th Percentile £33.15 £45.79 £58.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the East Midlands

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in the East Midlands

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the East Midlands

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in the East Midlands

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 1 May 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
Leicestershire +9 13 £463 +10.38% 24
Northamptonshire -5 12 £450 -5.26% 15
Derbyshire +16 10 £475 -16.48% 15
Nottinghamshire +11 6 £510 +13.33% 32
DevOps
England

DevOps
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (7.32%) Confluence
2 2 (4.88%) JBoss
3 1 (2.44%) BizTalk Server
Business Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 27 (65.85%) Azure
2 24 (58.54%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (24.39%) AWS
4 5 (12.20%) SaaS
5 4 (9.76%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (7.32%) Serverless
7 2 (4.88%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (4.88%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (4.88%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.88%) Apigee
7 2 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.88%) BrowserStack
7 2 (4.88%) GitHub
7 2 (4.88%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.44%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.44%) GCP
8 1 (2.44%) IaaS
8 1 (2.44%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.32%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.88%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (4.88%) Big Data
2 2 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.88%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (4.88%) NoSQL
2 2 (4.88%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.44%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.44%) Power BI
3 1 (2.44%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 13 (31.71%) Git
2 10 (24.39%) Jenkins
3 7 (17.07%) SonarQube
4 5 (12.20%) Selenium
5 4 (9.76%) Bitbucket
5 4 (9.76%) JIRA
5 4 (9.76%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (9.76%) TeamCity
6 3 (7.32%) Chocolatey
6 3 (7.32%) GitLab
6 3 (7.32%) Maven
7 2 (4.88%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (4.88%) CA Release Automation
7 2 (4.88%) Cucumber
7 2 (4.88%) Cypress.io
7 2 (4.88%) JMeter
7 2 (4.88%) JUnit
7 2 (4.88%) Mockito
7 2 (4.88%) SoapUI
7 2 (4.88%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 9 (21.95%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (19.51%) Social Skills
3 7 (17.07%) Finance
4 4 (9.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (7.32%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.44%) Automotive
6 1 (2.44%) Banking
6 1 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Games
6 1 (2.44%) Marketing
6 1 (2.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (19.51%) Architect
2 7 (17.07%) Cloud Engineer
2 7 (17.07%) Developer
3 6 (14.63%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 6 (14.63%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (12.20%) Android Developer
4 5 (12.20%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (12.20%) Lead
4 5 (12.20%) Senior
5 4 (9.76%) Azure Architect
5 4 (9.76%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Test Leader
6 3 (7.32%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) DevOps Architect
7 2 (4.88%) Automation Test Lead
7 2 (4.88%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Azure Consultant
7 2 (4.88%) DevOps Consultant
7 2 (4.88%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.20%) Android Jetpack
1 5 (12.20%) Jetpack Compose
1 5 (12.20%) Spring Boot
2 4 (9.76%) .NET
2 4 (9.76%) RESTful
3 3 (7.32%) Kafka
3 3 (7.32%) OAuth
4 2 (4.88%) CSS
4 2 (4.88%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (4.88%) Hibernate
4 2 (4.88%) HTML
4 2 (4.88%) Jest
4 2 (4.88%) JPA
4 2 (4.88%) Node.js
4 2 (4.88%) OpenID
4 2 (4.88%) React
4 2 (4.88%) Redux
4 2 (4.88%) REST
4 2 (4.88%) SAML
4 2 (4.88%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.20%) Mobile App
2 4 (9.76%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.76%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.88%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.44%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.44%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (2.44%) IoT
4 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.44%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.44%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.07%) Linux
2 5 (12.20%) Android
3 3 (7.32%) Windows
4 2 (4.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (4.88%) Ubuntu
4 2 (4.88%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (51.22%) CI/CD
2 16 (39.02%) Agile
2 16 (39.02%) Test Automation
3 9 (21.95%) Microservices
4 7 (17.07%) Mentoring
5 6 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (14.63%) Scrum
5 6 (14.63%) TDD
5 6 (14.63%) Unit Testing
6 5 (12.20%) Android Development
6 5 (12.20%) API Integration
6 5 (12.20%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (12.20%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (12.20%) Migration
6 5 (12.20%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (9.76%) Code Quality
7 4 (9.76%) High Availability
7 4 (9.76%) Roadmaps
7 4 (9.76%) Service Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 11 (26.83%) PowerShell
2 8 (19.51%) Python
3 7 (17.07%) C#
3 7 (17.07%) SQL
4 6 (14.63%) Java
5 5 (12.20%) Kotlin
6 4 (9.76%) JavaScript
7 3 (7.32%) Bicep
8 2 (4.88%) Bash
8 2 (4.88%) Perl
8 2 (4.88%) Scala
9 1 (2.44%) Apex Code
9 1 (2.44%) C
9 1 (2.44%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (7.32%) AWS Certification
1 3 (7.32%) Degree
2 2 (4.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.88%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.88%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (2.44%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.20%) QA
2 2 (4.88%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.44%) GDPR
3 1 (2.44%) IEC 61508
3 1 (2.44%) MISRA
3 1 (2.44%) MISRA C
3 1 (2.44%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 9 (21.95%) Docker
2 3 (7.32%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (24.39%) Kubernetes
2 9 (21.95%) Terraform
3 5 (12.20%) Ansible
4 2 (4.88%) Kibana
4 2 (4.88%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 6 (14.63%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.32%) Databricks
2 3 (7.32%) ServiceNow
2 3 (7.32%) Splunk
3 2 (4.88%) AppDynamics
3 2 (4.88%) MuleSoft
3 2 (4.88%) Nintex
3 2 (4.88%) Oracle
3 2 (4.88%) Perforce
3 2 (4.88%) Red Hat
3 2 (4.88%) Veracode
4 1 (2.44%) Google
4 1 (2.44%) QNX
4 1 (2.44%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.44%) SAP