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 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 32 32
Rank change year-on-year +12 0 -7
Contract jobs citing DevOps 66 33 42
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 7.76% 4.41% 5.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.94% 5.22% 6.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 24 38
10th Percentile £266 £220 £307
25th Percentile £340 £348 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £435 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% -8.42% -5.00%
75th Percentile £500 £476 £594
90th Percentile £538 £570 £629
England median daily rate £525 £561 £575
% change year-on-year -6.46% -2.39% -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 738 632 694
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.72% 84.38% 84.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 517 388 503
10th Percentile £213 £267 £205
25th Percentile £350 £356 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £445 £480
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% -7.29% +1.05%
75th Percentile £523 £541 £601
90th Percentile £638 £613 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 28 53
10th Percentile £16.17 £14.90 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 £16.66
Median hourly rate £19.69 £23.25 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -15.33% +4.38% +31.28%
75th Percentile £25.15 £50.00 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.83 £51.50 £69.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% -9.38% +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 26 October 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 26 October 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 +17 21 £413 -13.16% 10
Northamptonshire -1 21 £345 -22.47% 6
Leicestershire -7 10 £463 +27.59% 12
Nottinghamshire -5 7 £423 -21.40% 19
Lincolnshire - 5 £625 - 7
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 (9.09%) Confluence
2 3 (4.55%) CICS
3 1 (1.52%) Camunda
3 1 (1.52%) IIS
3 1 (1.52%) Mule
Applications
1 6 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (4.55%) MS Visio
3 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (7.58%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (4.55%) Teamcenter
3 2 (3.03%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (3.03%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (3.03%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (3.03%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (3.03%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (1.52%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 38 (57.58%) Azure
2 28 (42.42%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (16.67%) AWS
4 5 (7.58%) Azure Monitor
4 5 (7.58%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (7.58%) GitHub
4 5 (7.58%) Serverless
5 4 (6.06%) Power Platform
6 3 (4.55%) Azure AKS
6 3 (4.55%) Azure Functions
6 3 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (4.55%) Power Automate
6 3 (4.55%) PowerApps
7 2 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (3.03%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 2 (3.03%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (3.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (3.03%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.52%) Firewall
1 1 (1.52%) NAS
1 1 (1.52%) SAN
1 1 (1.52%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.61%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.55%) DB2
3 3 (4.55%) NoSQL
3 3 (4.55%) Relational Database
3 3 (4.55%) Tableau
4 2 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (3.03%) DynamoDB
4 2 (3.03%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.52%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.52%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.52%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (18.18%) Git
2 8 (12.12%) JIRA
3 6 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 6 (9.09%) Selenium
4 5 (7.58%) Cucumber
4 5 (7.58%) Maven
5 3 (4.55%) Eclipse
5 3 (4.55%) GitLab
5 3 (4.55%) IntelliJ
5 3 (4.55%) SonarQube
5 3 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (3.03%) Bitbucket
6 2 (3.03%) JUnit
6 2 (3.03%) Mockito
6 2 (3.03%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.52%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.52%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (1.52%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.52%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.52%) WebDriver
General
1 20 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 12 (18.18%) Finance
3 10 (15.15%) Banking
4 5 (7.58%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (6.06%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.03%) Aerospace
6 2 (3.03%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.03%) General Ledger
6 2 (3.03%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.03%) Retail
7 1 (1.52%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.52%) Electronics
7 1 (1.52%) Marketing
7 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (31.82%) Developer
2 8 (12.12%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (10.61%) Java Developer
4 5 (7.58%) Analyst
4 5 (7.58%) Android Developer
4 5 (7.58%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 5 (7.58%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (7.58%) Senior
5 4 (6.06%) Architect
5 4 (6.06%) Azure Specialist
5 4 (6.06%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (6.06%) DevOps Specialist
6 3 (4.55%) Automation Tester
6 3 (4.55%) Business Analyst
6 3 (4.55%) Consultant
6 3 (4.55%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 3 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (4.55%) Integration Developer
6 3 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (4.55%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.15%) ADO
2 8 (12.12%) RESTful
3 6 (9.09%) REST
3 6 (9.09%) Spring Boot
4 5 (7.58%) .NET
4 5 (7.58%) Android Jetpack
4 5 (7.58%) Jetpack Compose
4 5 (7.58%) Spring
5 4 (6.06%) Hibernate
5 4 (6.06%) JSON
6 3 (4.55%) CSS
6 3 (4.55%) HTML
6 3 (4.55%) Kafka
6 3 (4.55%) XML
7 2 (3.03%) Flask
7 2 (3.03%) JPA
7 2 (3.03%) Node.js
7 2 (3.03%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (3.03%) React
7 2 (3.03%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 5 (7.58%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (4.55%) Mainframe
3 3 (4.55%) VSAM
4 2 (3.03%) Data Fabric
4 2 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.03%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.52%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.52%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 1 (1.52%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.52%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.52%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.58%) Android
2 2 (3.03%) Windows
2 2 (3.03%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (46.97%) CI/CD
2 20 (30.30%) Agile
3 13 (19.70%) Test Automation
4 12 (18.18%) Scrum
5 10 (15.15%) Analytics
5 10 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (15.15%) TDD
6 9 (13.64%) Microservices
6 9 (13.64%) Unit Testing
7 8 (12.12%) Mentoring
7 8 (12.12%) Migration
8 7 (10.61%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (10.61%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (9.09%) Acceptance Criteria
9 6 (9.09%) AI
9 6 (9.09%) User Experience
10 5 (7.58%) Android Development
10 5 (7.58%) API Integration
10 5 (7.58%) Test Scripting
10 5 (7.58%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 21 (31.82%) SQL
2 10 (15.15%) Java
2 10 (15.15%) Python
3 8 (12.12%) C#
3 8 (12.12%) PowerShell
4 5 (7.58%) JavaScript
4 5 (7.58%) Kotlin
5 3 (4.55%) COBOL
5 3 (4.55%) JCL
5 3 (4.55%) PHP
5 3 (4.55%) T-SQL
5 3 (4.55%) X++
6 2 (3.03%) C
6 2 (3.03%) C++
6 2 (3.03%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.52%) Bash
7 1 (1.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 13 (19.70%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.58%) Degree
4 2 (3.03%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.52%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.52%) CISA
5 1 (1.52%) CISSP
5 1 (1.52%) GIAC
5 1 (1.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.06%) QA
2 1 (1.52%) EMIR
2 1 (1.52%) GDPR
2 1 (1.52%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.52%) MiFID
2 1 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (7.58%) Docker
2 3 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 6 (9.09%) Terraform
2 1 (1.52%) Ansible
2 1 (1.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 10 (15.15%) ServiceNow
3 9 (13.64%) Oracle
4 3 (4.55%) Google
4 3 (4.55%) SAP
5 2 (3.03%) Siemens
5 2 (3.03%) Veracode
5 2 (3.03%) Workday
6 1 (1.52%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.52%) Cisco
6 1 (1.52%) Databricks
6 1 (1.52%) Dell
6 1 (1.52%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.52%) Solace
6 1 (1.52%) Trayport
6 1 (1.52%) VMware