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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 32 21
Rank change year-on-year +12 -11 +3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 61 39 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 7.77% 4.97% 7.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.08% 6.02% 8.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 28 53
10th Percentile £269 £271 £302
25th Percentile £340 £361 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £445 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% -1.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £491 £511 £610
90th Percentile £538 £598 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £583
% change year-on-year -4.55% -5.66% -2.83%

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 672 648 748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.61% 82.65% 86.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 402 541
10th Percentile £223 £267 £213
25th Percentile £341 £360 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -10.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £600
90th Percentile £626 £625 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 34 48
10th Percentile £15.71 £12.75 £12.70
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.03 £16.56
Median hourly rate £18.87 £17.66 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.85% -35.78% +48.65%
75th Percentile £25.15 £41.61 £53.75
90th Percentile - £50.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.79
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.81% +51.01%

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
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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -9 23 £354 -23.04% 27
Derbyshire +16 18 £431 -19.77% 15
Leicestershire -3 10 £463 +23.33% 8
Nottinghamshire -1 7 £579 +7.67% 23
Lincolnshire - 1 - - 7
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 6 (9.84%) Confluence
2 3 (4.92%) CICS
3 1 (1.64%) Camunda
3 1 (1.64%) JBoss
3 1 (1.64%) Mule
Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (4.92%) Teamcenter
2 1 (1.64%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.64%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 33 (54.10%) Azure
2 26 (42.62%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (19.67%) AWS
4 5 (8.20%) GitHub
4 5 (8.20%) SaaS
5 3 (4.92%) Azure AKS
6 2 (3.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (3.28%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (3.28%) BrowserStack
6 2 (3.28%) ChatGPT
6 2 (3.28%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.28%) GCP
6 2 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.28%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (3.28%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.28%) Serverless
7 1 (1.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.64%) AtomSphere
7 1 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.64%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.64%) Firewall
1 1 (1.64%) NAS
1 1 (1.64%) SAN
1 1 (1.64%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.11%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.56%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.92%) DB2
3 3 (4.92%) NoSQL
3 3 (4.92%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.28%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (3.28%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.64%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.64%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.64%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.64%) Power BI
5 1 (1.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (22.95%) Git
2 10 (16.39%) Selenium
3 9 (14.75%) Jenkins
3 9 (14.75%) JIRA
4 7 (11.48%) Cucumber
4 7 (11.48%) Maven
5 6 (9.84%) GitLab
5 6 (9.84%) SonarQube
5 6 (9.84%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (8.20%) Bitbucket
7 4 (6.56%) JUnit
7 4 (6.56%) Mockito
8 3 (4.92%) Eclipse
8 3 (4.92%) IntelliJ
9 2 (3.28%) Cypress.io
9 2 (3.28%) JMeter
9 2 (3.28%) Postman
9 2 (3.28%) REST Assured
9 2 (3.28%) SoapUI
10 1 (1.64%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 16 (26.23%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.03%) Finance
3 9 (14.75%) Banking
4 3 (4.92%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.28%) Aerospace
5 2 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.28%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.64%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.64%) General Ledger
6 1 (1.64%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 20 (32.79%) Developer
2 8 (13.11%) Android Developer
3 7 (11.48%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (11.48%) Java Developer
4 6 (9.84%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) Analyst
5 4 (6.56%) Architect
5 4 (6.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) Lead
6 3 (4.92%) Automation Tester
6 3 (4.92%) Business Analyst
6 3 (4.92%) Senior
6 3 (4.92%) Test Leader
6 3 (4.92%) Tester
7 2 (3.28%) DevOps Manager
7 2 (3.28%) DevOps Specialist
7 2 (3.28%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (3.28%) Product Owner
7 2 (3.28%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.03%) RESTful
2 9 (14.75%) Spring Boot
3 8 (13.11%) Android Jetpack
3 8 (13.11%) Jetpack Compose
4 7 (11.48%) ADO
5 6 (9.84%) Hibernate
5 6 (9.84%) REST
6 5 (8.20%) Spring
7 4 (6.56%) .NET
7 4 (6.56%) CSS
7 4 (6.56%) HTML
7 4 (6.56%) Jest
7 4 (6.56%) JPA
7 4 (6.56%) JSON
7 4 (6.56%) Kafka
7 4 (6.56%) Node.js
7 4 (6.56%) React
7 4 (6.56%) Redux
8 3 (4.92%) XML
9 2 (3.28%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.11%) Mobile App
2 5 (8.20%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (6.56%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.56%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.92%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (4.92%) Mainframe
4 3 (4.92%) VSAM
5 2 (3.28%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.64%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.64%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.64%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 1 (1.64%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.64%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.64%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.64%) Replication
6 1 (1.64%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.11%) Android
2 2 (3.28%) Linux
3 1 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.64%) Windows
3 1 (1.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (60.66%) CI/CD
2 24 (39.34%) Agile
3 19 (31.15%) Test Automation
4 14 (22.95%) Scrum
4 14 (22.95%) TDD
5 12 (19.67%) Microservices
6 11 (18.03%) Mentoring
6 11 (18.03%) Unit Testing
7 9 (14.75%) API Integration
8 8 (13.11%) Android Development
8 8 (13.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (13.11%) Migration
9 7 (11.48%) Analytics
9 7 (11.48%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (11.48%) Test Strategy
10 6 (9.84%) Acceptance Criteria
10 6 (9.84%) User Experience
11 5 (8.20%) Artificial Intelligence
11 5 (8.20%) Containerisation
11 5 (8.20%) Domain-Driven Design
Programming Languages
1 20 (32.79%) SQL
2 12 (19.67%) Java
3 10 (16.39%) Python
4 8 (13.11%) Kotlin
4 8 (13.11%) PowerShell
5 7 (11.48%) C#
6 5 (8.20%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.92%) COBOL
7 3 (4.92%) JCL
7 3 (4.92%) PHP
8 2 (3.28%) C
8 2 (3.28%) C++
9 1 (1.64%) Bash
9 1 (1.64%) Bicep
9 1 (1.64%) Perl
9 1 (1.64%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.64%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.64%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.64%) X++
Qualifications
1 10 (16.39%) Security Cleared
2 8 (13.11%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.20%) Degree
4 2 (3.28%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.64%) CISA
5 1 (1.64%) CISSP
5 1 (1.64%) GIAC
5 1 (1.64%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.84%) QA
2 1 (1.64%) EMIR
2 1 (1.64%) GDPR
2 1 (1.64%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.64%) MiFID
2 1 (1.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (9.84%) Docker
2 4 (6.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (13.11%) Kubernetes
2 7 (11.48%) Terraform
3 1 (1.64%) Ansible
3 1 (1.64%) Kibana
3 1 (1.64%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 14 (22.95%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.48%) Oracle
3 6 (9.84%) ServiceNow
4 4 (6.56%) Veracode
5 3 (4.92%) SAP
6 2 (3.28%) Google
6 2 (3.28%) Nintex
6 2 (3.28%) Siemens
6 2 (3.28%) Splunk
6 2 (3.28%) Workday
7 1 (1.64%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.64%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.64%) Databricks
7 1 (1.64%) Dell
7 1 (1.64%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.64%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.64%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.64%) Solace
7 1 (1.64%) Trayport
7 1 (1.64%) VMware