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 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 28 46
Rank change year-on-year +9 +18 -14
Contract jobs citing DevOps 79 29 21
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 8.04% 4.99% 2.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.54% 5.74% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 21 19
10th Percentile £343 £356 £404
25th Percentile £397 £381 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £471 £530 £556
90th Percentile £575 £588 £588
England median daily rate £525 £575 £568
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.32% -5.42%

All Process & 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 828 505 651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 84.32% 86.92% 81.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 464 314 448
10th Percentile £190 £226 £188
25th Percentile £358 £340 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £425 £440
Median % change year-on-year +2.47% -3.41% -2.22%
75th Percentile £538 £529 £550
90th Percentile £613 £600 £664
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 22 62
10th Percentile £14.74 £14.70 £11.78
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.05 £17.71
Median % change year-on-year -14.40% +24.46% +5.24%
75th Percentile £25.00 £28.67 £32.13
90th Percentile £25.77 £39.09 £51.50
England median hourly rate £25.89 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.04% - -

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 February 2026.

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 February 2026. 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 +3 29 £430 +4.18% 4
Derbyshire +11 24 £431 -9.21% 6
Leicestershire 0 16 £418 +7.74% 7
Nottinghamshire -8 6 £525 +0.96% 15
Lincolnshire - 4 £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 12 (15.19%) Confluence
2 3 (3.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (3.80%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.27%) Apache
3 1 (1.27%) Apache Synapse
3 1 (1.27%) IIS
Applications
1 13 (16.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (12.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.80%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (5.06%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (3.80%) Oracle Assets
2 3 (3.80%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (3.80%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (3.80%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (3.80%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (2.53%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.27%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (1.27%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 50 (63.29%) Azure
2 37 (46.84%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (18.99%) AWS
4 9 (11.39%) Azure AKS
5 7 (8.86%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (7.59%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (7.59%) GitHub
7 5 (6.33%) Entra ID
7 5 (6.33%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (5.06%) GCP
8 4 (5.06%) Serverless
9 3 (3.80%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 3 (3.80%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (3.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (3.80%) IaaS
9 3 (3.80%) PaaS
10 2 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (2.53%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (2.53%) Power Automate
10 2 (2.53%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.06%) Firewall
1 4 (5.06%) Network Security
2 3 (3.80%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (2.53%) NAS
3 2 (2.53%) SAN
4 1 (1.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.66%) Tableau
2 4 (5.06%) DynamoDB
3 3 (3.80%) Data Lake
3 3 (3.80%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.53%) Aerospike
4 2 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.53%) Apache Hive
4 2 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.53%) Big Data
4 2 (2.53%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.53%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.53%) Redis
4 2 (2.53%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.27%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (1.27%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.27%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.27%) Spark SQL
5 1 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (18.99%) JIRA
2 8 (10.13%) Git
3 4 (5.06%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.06%) SonarQube
4 2 (2.53%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.27%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.27%) Chocolatey
5 1 (1.27%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.27%) Hudson
5 1 (1.27%) JUnit
5 1 (1.27%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 24 (30.38%) Social Skills
2 22 (27.85%) Finance
3 13 (16.46%) Banking
4 7 (8.86%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (8.86%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (5.06%) Marketing
7 3 (3.80%) General Ledger
7 3 (3.80%) Retail
8 2 (2.53%) Aerospace
8 2 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.27%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.27%) Automotive
9 1 (1.27%) Electronics
9 1 (1.27%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.27%) Law
9 1 (1.27%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (24.05%) Architect
2 12 (15.19%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (15.19%) Solutions Architect
3 11 (13.92%) Azure Engineer
3 11 (13.92%) Developer
4 10 (12.66%) Senior
5 7 (8.86%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 7 (8.86%) Payments Architect
5 7 (8.86%) Payments Solutions Architect
6 5 (6.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) Service Manager
7 4 (5.06%) Azure Specialist
7 4 (5.06%) Consultant
7 4 (5.06%) DevOps Specialist
7 4 (5.06%) Senior Manager
7 4 (5.06%) Senior Service Manager
8 3 (3.80%) Analyst
8 3 (3.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (3.80%) Software Developer
8 3 (3.80%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (17.72%) ADO
2 4 (5.06%) .NET
2 4 (5.06%) Lightning Web Components
2 4 (5.06%) Middleware
2 4 (5.06%) OAuth
2 4 (5.06%) REST
2 4 (5.06%) SAML
2 4 (5.06%) Visualforce
3 3 (3.80%) J2EE
3 3 (3.80%) OAuth2
3 3 (3.80%) OpenID
3 3 (3.80%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (3.80%) OSGi
3 3 (3.80%) RESTful
4 2 (2.53%) CSS
4 2 (2.53%) FastAPI
4 2 (2.53%) Flask
4 2 (2.53%) HTML
4 2 (2.53%) Kafka
4 2 (2.53%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 17 (21.52%) Product Ownership
2 9 (11.39%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.53%) Data Fabric
3 2 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.53%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.53%) Operational Technology
3 2 (2.53%) Replication
3 2 (2.53%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.33%) Linux
2 3 (3.80%) Unix
2 3 (3.80%) Windows
3 2 (2.53%) VMS
4 1 (1.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (53.16%) CI/CD
2 20 (25.32%) Stakeholder Management
3 18 (22.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (21.52%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (18.99%) Agile
6 14 (17.72%) Technical Architecture
7 12 (15.19%) Architectural Design
8 11 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (13.92%) Project Delivery
9 10 (12.66%) Analytics
9 10 (12.66%) Records Management
9 10 (12.66%) Regulatory Compliance
10 9 (11.39%) Containerisation
10 9 (11.39%) Microservices
10 9 (11.39%) Migration
11 8 (10.13%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 8 (10.13%) Infrastructure Automation
11 8 (10.13%) Mentoring
11 8 (10.13%) Scrum
11 8 (10.13%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 12 (15.19%) Python
1 12 (15.19%) SQL
2 10 (12.66%) PowerShell
3 8 (10.13%) Java
4 6 (7.59%) C#
5 4 (5.06%) Apex Code
5 4 (5.06%) SOQL
6 3 (3.80%) Bicep
6 3 (3.80%) C++
6 3 (3.80%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.53%) Bash
7 2 (2.53%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.53%) T-SQL
7 2 (2.53%) X++
8 1 (1.27%) C
8 1 (1.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (24.05%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.92%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (5.06%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.53%) Degree
6 1 (1.27%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.27%) CISA
6 1 (1.27%) CISSP
6 1 (1.27%) GIAC
6 1 (1.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.13%) QA
2 7 (8.86%) GDPR
3 3 (3.80%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.80%) GRC
3 3 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (3.80%) NIST
3 3 (3.80%) PCI DSS
3 3 (3.80%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.27%) COBIT
4 1 (1.27%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (11.39%) Docker
2 4 (5.06%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (22.78%) Terraform
2 16 (20.25%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.33%) Ansible
4 4 (5.06%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.80%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (2.53%) Grafana
6 2 (2.53%) Istio
6 2 (2.53%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (27.85%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.92%) ServiceNow
3 5 (6.33%) Databricks
3 5 (6.33%) Oracle
4 4 (5.06%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.80%) Adobe
5 3 (3.80%) Dynatrace
5 3 (3.80%) Splunk
6 2 (2.53%) Ab Initio
6 2 (2.53%) Cisco
6 2 (2.53%) Google
6 2 (2.53%) SAP
6 2 (2.53%) VMware
7 1 (1.27%) F5
7 1 (1.27%) IFS
7 1 (1.27%) Siemens
7 1 (1.27%) Sybase
7 1 (1.27%) Workday