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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 29 20
Rank change year-on-year +11 -9 +2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 57 40 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 7.91% 4.63% 7.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.11% 5.88% 8.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 31 66
10th Percentile £268 £356 £300
25th Percentile £340 £400 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £588
90th Percentile £585 £598 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -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 626 680 887
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.82% 78.70% 87.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 447 680
10th Percentile £225 £210 £213
25th Percentile £332 £322 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.87% -6.32% +5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £563 £600
90th Percentile £589 £622 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 61 52
10th Percentile £13.81 £11.75 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.15 £12.75 £19.38
Median hourly rate £18.87 £17.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +11.00% -40.87% +33.72%
75th Percentile £25.11 £26.15 £52.06
90th Percentile £25.15 £50.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £39.55
% change year-on-year -34.02% -3.62% +54.01%

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 6 July 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 6 July 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
Northamptonshire -1 24 £359 -21.96% 13
Leicestershire +6 14 £463 +12.12% 17
Derbyshire +13 9 £700 +30.23% 12
Nottinghamshire +5 9 £510 +13.33% 23
Lincolnshire - 1 - - 9
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 5 (8.77%) Confluence
2 3 (5.26%) CICS
3 2 (3.51%) JBoss
4 1 (1.75%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.75%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.75%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.75%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 31 (54.39%) Azure
2 27 (47.37%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (28.07%) AWS
4 7 (12.28%) SaaS
5 4 (7.02%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (7.02%) Serverless
6 2 (3.51%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (3.51%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (3.51%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.51%) Apigee
6 2 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (3.51%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (3.51%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (3.51%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (3.51%) BrowserStack
6 2 (3.51%) GitHub
6 2 (3.51%) OpenShift
6 2 (3.51%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.75%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.04%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.02%) NoSQL
2 4 (7.02%) Relational Database
3 3 (5.26%) DB2
4 2 (3.51%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (3.51%) Big Data
4 2 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.51%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.51%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.75%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.75%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.75%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.75%) Power BI
5 1 (1.75%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 19 (33.33%) Git
2 14 (24.56%) Jenkins
3 10 (17.54%) Selenium
4 9 (15.79%) SonarQube
5 8 (14.04%) JIRA
5 8 (14.04%) Maven
6 7 (12.28%) Cucumber
7 6 (10.53%) Bitbucket
7 6 (10.53%) GitLab
7 6 (10.53%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (7.02%) Eclipse
8 4 (7.02%) JUnit
8 4 (7.02%) Mockito
8 4 (7.02%) TeamCity
9 3 (5.26%) Chocolatey
9 3 (5.26%) IntelliJ
10 2 (3.51%) Bitbucket Server
10 2 (3.51%) CA Release Automation
10 2 (3.51%) Postman
10 2 (3.51%) REST Assured
General
1 12 (21.05%) Finance
2 9 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.53%) Banking
4 3 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.51%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.75%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.75%) Games
6 1 (1.75%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 16 (28.07%) Developer
2 7 (12.28%) Android Developer
2 7 (12.28%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (10.53%) Architect
3 6 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
3 6 (10.53%) Java Developer
4 5 (8.77%) Lead
5 4 (7.02%) Analyst
5 4 (7.02%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Business Analyst
5 4 (7.02%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Senior
5 4 (7.02%) Test Leader
6 3 (5.26%) Automation Tester
6 3 (5.26%) Tester
7 2 (3.51%) Engineering Manager
7 2 (3.51%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.51%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.79%) Spring Boot
2 8 (14.04%) RESTful
3 7 (12.28%) Android Jetpack
3 7 (12.28%) Jetpack Compose
4 6 (10.53%) Hibernate
5 5 (8.77%) Kafka
5 5 (8.77%) Spring
6 4 (7.02%) .NET
6 4 (7.02%) CSS
6 4 (7.02%) HTML
6 4 (7.02%) Jest
6 4 (7.02%) JPA
6 4 (7.02%) Node.js
6 4 (7.02%) React
6 4 (7.02%) Redux
7 3 (5.26%) OAuth
7 3 (5.26%) REST
8 2 (3.51%) J2EE
8 2 (3.51%) JSON
8 2 (3.51%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.28%) Mobile App
1 7 (12.28%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.77%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (5.26%) Mainframe
3 3 (5.26%) VSAM
4 2 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.75%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.75%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.75%) IoT
5 1 (1.75%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.75%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 1 (1.75%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.75%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.28%) Android
1 7 (12.28%) Linux
2 3 (5.26%) Windows
3 2 (3.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.51%) Ubuntu
3 2 (3.51%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.75%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (54.39%) CI/CD
2 26 (45.61%) Agile
3 22 (38.60%) Test Automation
4 13 (22.81%) Microservices
5 12 (21.05%) Scrum
5 12 (21.05%) TDD
6 11 (19.30%) Unit Testing
7 10 (17.54%) Mentoring
8 8 (14.04%) Code Quality
9 7 (12.28%) Acceptance Criteria
9 7 (12.28%) Android Development
9 7 (12.28%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (12.28%) Test Strategy
10 6 (10.53%) API Integration
10 6 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (10.53%) Migration
10 6 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (8.77%) Data Pipeline
11 5 (8.77%) Roadmaps
11 5 (8.77%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (28.07%) SQL
2 14 (24.56%) Java
3 10 (17.54%) PowerShell
3 10 (17.54%) Python
4 8 (14.04%) C#
5 7 (12.28%) Kotlin
6 6 (10.53%) JavaScript
7 3 (5.26%) COBOL
7 3 (5.26%) JCL
8 2 (3.51%) Bash
8 2 (3.51%) Perl
8 2 (3.51%) Scala
9 1 (1.75%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.75%) Bicep
9 1 (1.75%) C
9 1 (1.75%) C++
9 1 (1.75%) PHP
9 1 (1.75%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.75%) X++
Qualifications
1 6 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.77%) Degree
3 4 (7.02%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.26%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.75%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.28%) QA
2 2 (3.51%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.75%) EMIR
3 1 (1.75%) GDPR
3 1 (1.75%) IEC 61508
3 1 (1.75%) MiFID
3 1 (1.75%) MISRA
3 1 (1.75%) MISRA C
3 1 (1.75%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 9 (15.79%) Docker
2 3 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (19.30%) Terraform
2 10 (17.54%) Kubernetes
3 5 (8.77%) Ansible
4 2 (3.51%) Kibana
4 2 (3.51%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 10 (17.54%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.77%) Oracle
3 4 (7.02%) Databricks
3 4 (7.02%) Veracode
4 3 (5.26%) ServiceNow
4 3 (5.26%) Splunk
5 2 (3.51%) AppDynamics
5 2 (3.51%) MuleSoft
5 2 (3.51%) Nintex
5 2 (3.51%) Perforce
5 2 (3.51%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.75%) Google
6 1 (1.75%) QNX
6 1 (1.75%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.75%) SAP
6 1 (1.75%) Solace
6 1 (1.75%) Trayport