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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 33 33
Rank change year-on-year +17 0 -8
Contract jobs citing DevOps 74 20 30
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 8.30% 3.50% 4.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.75% 4.03% 5.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 15 28
10th Percentile £314 £180 £404
25th Percentile £375 £319 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £500 £542 £575
90th Percentile £575 £690 £638
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%

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 759 496 593
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.09% 86.71% 82.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 301 421
10th Percentile £188 £250 £213
25th Percentile £351 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% -5.56% -2.70%
75th Percentile £525 £545 £569
90th Percentile £625 £625 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 23 42
10th Percentile £15.60 £15.48 £12.20
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £21.01
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +7.08% +24.85%
75th Percentile £24.74 £27.65 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £38.49 £54.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.27% +23.66%

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 4 January 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 4 January 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
Derbyshire +14 24 £413 -13.16% 43
Northamptonshire -7 19 £436 -15.00% 23
Leicestershire +1 18 £421 +133.38% 26
Nottinghamshire -5 7 £523 - 30
Lincolnshire - 4 £625 - 23
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 (16.22%) Confluence
2 3 (4.05%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.35%) Apache
3 1 (1.35%) Apache Synapse
3 1 (1.35%) IIS
3 1 (1.35%) Mule
Applications
1 13 (17.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (13.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (4.05%) MS Visio
4 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (5.41%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (4.05%) Oracle Assets
2 3 (4.05%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (4.05%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (4.05%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (4.05%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (2.70%) Teamcenter
4 1 (1.35%) NetSuite
4 1 (1.35%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 48 (64.86%) Azure
2 37 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (12.16%) Azure AKS
4 8 (10.81%) AWS
4 8 (10.81%) GitHub
5 7 (9.46%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (8.11%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (6.76%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (5.41%) Serverless
9 3 (4.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (4.05%) Entra ID
9 3 (4.05%) GCP
9 3 (4.05%) IaaS
9 3 (4.05%) PaaS
10 2 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (2.70%) Amazon S3
10 2 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.70%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (2.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (2.70%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.41%) Firewall
2 2 (2.70%) NAS
2 2 (2.70%) SAN
3 1 (1.35%) Network Security
3 1 (1.35%) SMTP
3 1 (1.35%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.51%) Tableau
2 4 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.05%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.70%) Apache Hive
4 2 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.70%) Big Data
4 2 (2.70%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.70%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.35%) Aerospike
5 1 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.35%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.35%) Metadata
5 1 (1.35%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.35%) Redis
5 1 (1.35%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.35%) Spark SQL
5 1 (1.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (21.62%) JIRA
2 11 (14.86%) Git
3 4 (5.41%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.41%) SonarQube
4 2 (2.70%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.35%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.35%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.35%) Oracle APEX
General
1 25 (33.78%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.27%) Finance
3 14 (18.92%) Banking
4 6 (8.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (6.76%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (6.76%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.05%) Aerospace
6 3 (4.05%) General Ledger
6 3 (4.05%) Retail
7 2 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.35%) Automotive
8 1 (1.35%) Electronics
8 1 (1.35%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.35%) Law
8 1 (1.35%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.35%) Marketing
8 1 (1.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (21.62%) Developer
2 13 (17.57%) Architect
3 11 (14.86%) Azure Engineer
3 11 (14.86%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (13.51%) Senior
4 10 (13.51%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (9.46%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 7 (9.46%) Payments Architect
5 7 (9.46%) Payments Solutions Architect
6 6 (8.11%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) Analyst
7 4 (5.41%) Azure Specialist
7 4 (5.41%) DevOps Specialist
7 4 (5.41%) Service Manager
8 3 (4.05%) Consultant
8 3 (4.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.05%) Oracle Analyst
8 3 (4.05%) Senior Manager
8 3 (4.05%) Senior Service Manager
8 3 (4.05%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (18.92%) ADO
2 6 (8.11%) REST
3 4 (5.41%) .NET
3 4 (5.41%) RESTful
4 3 (4.05%) Android Jetpack
4 3 (4.05%) Jetpack Compose
4 3 (4.05%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (2.70%) ARM Templates
5 2 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (2.70%) FastAPI
5 2 (2.70%) Flask
5 2 (2.70%) JSON
5 2 (2.70%) Kafka
5 2 (2.70%) Spring
5 2 (2.70%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.35%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.35%) CSS
6 1 (1.35%) HTML
6 1 (1.35%) SOAP
6 1 (1.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.86%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.76%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.05%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.05%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.05%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.70%) Data Fabric
4 2 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.70%) Operational Technology
4 2 (2.70%) Replication
4 2 (2.70%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.35%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.11%) Linux
2 4 (5.41%) Windows
3 3 (4.05%) Android
3 3 (4.05%) Unix
4 2 (2.70%) VMS
4 2 (2.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 15 (20.27%) Agile
3 14 (18.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (17.57%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (14.86%) Project Delivery
6 10 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (13.51%) Records Management
6 10 (13.51%) Regulatory Compliance
6 10 (13.51%) Scrum
6 10 (13.51%) Technical Architecture
7 9 (12.16%) Architectural Design
7 9 (12.16%) Containerisation
7 9 (12.16%) Migration
7 9 (12.16%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (10.81%) Analytics
8 8 (10.81%) Collaborative Working
8 8 (10.81%) Infrastructure Automation
8 8 (10.81%) Microservices
9 7 (9.46%) Mentoring
10 6 (8.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 14 (18.92%) SQL
2 13 (17.57%) Python
3 10 (13.51%) PowerShell
4 7 (9.46%) C#
5 5 (6.76%) Java
6 4 (5.41%) C++
7 3 (4.05%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.70%) Bash
8 2 (2.70%) C
8 2 (2.70%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.70%) PHP
8 2 (2.70%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.70%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.70%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.70%) X++
Qualifications
1 17 (22.97%) Security Cleared
2 11 (14.86%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.41%) Azure Certification
3 4 (5.41%) Degree
4 2 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.35%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.35%) CISA
5 1 (1.35%) CISSP
5 1 (1.35%) GIAC
5 1 (1.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.76%) QA
2 3 (4.05%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.35%) GDPR
3 1 (1.35%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (10.81%) Docker
2 5 (6.76%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (18.92%) Terraform
2 13 (17.57%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.41%) Ansible
3 4 (5.41%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.70%) Grafana
4 2 (2.70%) Istio
4 2 (2.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (27.03%) Microsoft
2 10 (13.51%) ServiceNow
3 6 (8.11%) Oracle
4 4 (5.41%) Databricks
5 3 (4.05%) Dynatrace
5 3 (4.05%) Google
5 3 (4.05%) SAP
6 2 (2.70%) Ab Initio
6 2 (2.70%) Cisco
6 2 (2.70%) Siemens
6 2 (2.70%) VMware
6 2 (2.70%) Workday
7 1 (1.35%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.35%) Dell
7 1 (1.35%) F5
7 1 (1.35%) Salesforce