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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 20 42
Rank change year-on-year +2 +22 -16
Contract jobs citing DevOps 86 29 26
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 8.46% 5.75% 3.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.20% 6.64% 4.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 20 21
10th Percentile £359 £367 £356
25th Percentile £406 £445 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.90% +8.33% -4.76%
75th Percentile £495 £540 £544
90th Percentile £596 £601 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £551
% change year-on-year -4.55% -0.09% -8.25%

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 843 437 590
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 82.89% 86.71% 79.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 298 404
10th Percentile £192 £201 £186
25th Percentile £360 £325 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £425 £418
Median % change year-on-year +5.18% +1.74% -7.17%
75th Percentile £538 £509 £538
90th Percentile £625 £588 £625
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 20 62
10th Percentile £13.54 £13.81 £11.79
25th Percentile £16.35 £14.97 £14.00
Median hourly rate £19.50 £22.05 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +25.97% +3.98%
75th Percentile £25.00 £26.00 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.25 £35.38 £51.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £33.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +6.06% - -12.00%

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 24 March 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 24 March 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 33 £434 -12.90% 8
Derbyshire +2 20 £488 +2.63% 2
Leicestershire +3 19 £425 -8.11% 21
Nottinghamshire -9 12 £525 +2.94% 10
Lincolnshire - 2 £700 - 6
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 15 (17.44%) Confluence
2 4 (4.65%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (2.33%) Apache
5 1 (1.16%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (1.16%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (13.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (10.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (4.65%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Dynamics AX
1 2 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (2.33%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (2.33%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (2.33%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (2.33%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (2.33%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.16%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 1 (1.16%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 57 (66.28%) Azure
2 46 (53.49%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (15.12%) AWS
4 11 (12.79%) Azure AKS
5 7 (8.14%) Power Platform
6 6 (6.98%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (5.81%) Entra ID
7 5 (5.81%) GitHub
7 5 (5.81%) IaaS
7 5 (5.81%) PaaS
8 4 (4.65%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (4.65%) GCP
8 4 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (4.65%) Serverless
9 3 (3.49%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 3 (3.49%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (3.49%) Azure Functions
10 2 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (2.33%) dbt
10 2 (2.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.81%) Network Security
2 4 (4.65%) Firewall
3 3 (3.49%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (2.33%) VLAN
5 1 (1.16%) NAS
5 1 (1.16%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.47%) Tableau
2 5 (5.81%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (5.81%) Power BI
3 4 (4.65%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.49%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (3.49%) Data Lake
4 3 (3.49%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.49%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.33%) Aerospike
5 2 (2.33%) Apache Hive
5 2 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.33%) Big Data
5 2 (2.33%) Hadoop
5 2 (2.33%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.33%) Power Query
5 2 (2.33%) PowerPivot
5 2 (2.33%) Redis
5 2 (2.33%) Spark SQL
6 1 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 19 (22.09%) JIRA
2 14 (16.28%) Git
3 6 (6.98%) SonarQube
4 5 (5.81%) Jenkins
5 4 (4.65%) Bitbucket
6 3 (3.49%) Artifactory
6 3 (3.49%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.16%) Chocolatey
7 1 (1.16%) Hudson
7 1 (1.16%) JUnit
7 1 (1.16%) Oracle APEX
General
1 27 (31.40%) Finance
2 25 (29.07%) Social Skills
3 14 (16.28%) Banking
4 8 (9.30%) Public Sector
5 7 (8.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (5.81%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (5.81%) Retail
7 4 (4.65%) Marketing
7 4 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.49%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (2.33%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.16%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.16%) Automotive
10 1 (1.16%) Electronics
10 1 (1.16%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.16%) Law
10 1 (1.16%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.16%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (20.93%) Architect
2 15 (17.44%) Senior
3 13 (15.12%) Azure Engineer
3 13 (15.12%) Developer
3 13 (15.12%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (12.79%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (8.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 7 (8.14%) Payments Architect
5 7 (8.14%) Payments Solutions Architect
6 6 (6.98%) Consultant
6 6 (6.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (5.81%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (5.81%) Service Manager
7 5 (5.81%) Software Developer
8 4 (4.65%) Analyst
8 4 (4.65%) Senior Manager
8 4 (4.65%) Senior Service Manager
9 3 (3.49%) Designer
9 3 (3.49%) Senior Service Assurance Manager
9 3 (3.49%) Service Assurance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.47%) ADO
2 6 (6.98%) Lightning Web Components
2 6 (6.98%) REST
3 5 (5.81%) .NET
4 4 (4.65%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (4.65%) Middleware
4 4 (4.65%) Node.js
4 4 (4.65%) RESTful
4 4 (4.65%) Visualforce
5 3 (3.49%) HTML
5 3 (3.49%) J2EE
5 3 (3.49%) Kafka
5 3 (3.49%) OAuth
5 3 (3.49%) OAuth2
5 3 (3.49%) OpenID
5 3 (3.49%) OSGi
5 3 (3.49%) PySpark
5 3 (3.49%) SAML
6 2 (2.33%) CSS
6 2 (2.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (22.09%) Product Ownership
2 11 (12.79%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.49%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.33%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.33%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.16%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.16%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.14%) Linux
2 5 (5.81%) Unix
3 3 (3.49%) Windows
4 2 (2.33%) VMS
5 1 (1.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (56.98%) CI/CD
2 26 (30.23%) Agile
3 25 (29.07%) Stakeholder Management
4 22 (25.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (20.93%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (17.44%) Microservices
6 15 (17.44%) Project Delivery
7 14 (16.28%) Migration
8 13 (15.12%) Infrastructure Automation
8 13 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (15.12%) Scrum
8 13 (15.12%) Technical Architecture
9 12 (13.95%) Containerisation
10 11 (12.79%) Architectural Design
11 10 (11.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 9 (10.47%) Records Management
12 9 (10.47%) Regulatory Compliance
13 8 (9.30%) Data Modelling
13 8 (9.30%) ERP
13 8 (9.30%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 14 (16.28%) Python
2 12 (13.95%) SQL
3 10 (11.63%) Java
3 10 (11.63%) PowerShell
4 7 (8.14%) C#
5 6 (6.98%) Apex Code
5 6 (6.98%) SOQL
6 5 (5.81%) Bicep
7 4 (4.65%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.33%) Bash
8 2 (2.33%) C++
8 2 (2.33%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.33%) SOSL
8 2 (2.33%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.33%) VBA
9 1 (1.16%) Rust
9 1 (1.16%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (17.44%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.14%) BPSS Clearance
2 7 (8.14%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.49%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.33%) Degree
5 1 (1.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.16%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.47%) QA
2 6 (6.98%) GDPR
3 4 (4.65%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.49%) GRC
4 3 (3.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (3.49%) NIST
4 3 (3.49%) PCI DSS
4 3 (3.49%) SOC 2
5 2 (2.33%) PMO
6 1 (1.16%) COBIT
6 1 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.16%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (12.79%) Docker
2 3 (3.49%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (27.91%) Terraform
2 20 (23.26%) Kubernetes
3 6 (6.98%) Ansible
4 4 (4.65%) Istio
4 4 (4.65%) Prometheus
4 4 (4.65%) Puppet
5 3 (3.49%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (2.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 22 (25.58%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.63%) ServiceNow
3 6 (6.98%) Databricks
3 6 (6.98%) Salesforce
4 4 (4.65%) Oracle
5 3 (3.49%) Adobe
5 3 (3.49%) Dynatrace
5 3 (3.49%) Splunk
6 2 (2.33%) Ab Initio
6 2 (2.33%) SAP
7 1 (1.16%) Ariba
7 1 (1.16%) Cisco
7 1 (1.16%) F5
7 1 (1.16%) Google
7 1 (1.16%) IFS
7 1 (1.16%) OpenText
7 1 (1.16%) Sybase
7 1 (1.16%) VMware