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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 21 35
Rank change year-on-year +6 +14 -11
Contract jobs citing DevOps 92 30 29
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 8.91% 5.95% 3.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.93% 6.91% 4.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 21 23
10th Percentile £362 £367 £356
25th Percentile £409 £456 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -
75th Percentile £538 £537 £575
90th Percentile £588 £588 £630
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%

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 842 434 600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 81.59% 86.11% 78.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 293 409
10th Percentile £190 £200 £188
25th Percentile £362 £315 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.18% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £550
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 112 22 63
10th Percentile £13.54 £13.81 £11.83
25th Percentile £16.35 £14.74 £14.00
Median hourly rate £21.97 £22.05 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.35% +25.97% +3.34%
75th Percentile £25.15 £25.03 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.25 £33.55 £51.50
England median hourly rate £39.00 £32.50 £33.07
% change year-on-year +20.00% -1.71% -11.83%

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 8 April 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 8 April 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 +5 36 £441 -7.11% 7
Derbyshire +3 23 £535 +12.63% 2
Leicestershire +1 17 £425 -8.11% 21
Nottinghamshire -6 15 £500 -1.96% 9
Lincolnshire - 1 - - 4
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 (16.30%) Confluence
2 4 (4.35%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (2.17%) Apache
5 1 (1.09%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (1.09%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (13.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (9.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.09%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.09%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.09%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 1 (1.09%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (1.09%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (1.09%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.09%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (1.09%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.09%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 61 (66.30%) Azure
2 49 (53.26%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (13.04%) AWS
3 12 (13.04%) Azure AKS
4 7 (7.61%) Power Platform
5 6 (6.52%) Entra ID
6 5 (5.43%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (5.43%) IaaS
6 5 (5.43%) PaaS
7 4 (4.35%) GCP
7 4 (4.35%) GitHub
7 4 (4.35%) Serverless
8 3 (3.26%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 3 (3.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (3.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (3.26%) Azure Functions
8 3 (3.26%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (3.26%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.17%) dbt
9 2 (2.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.52%) Network Security
2 5 (5.43%) Firewall
3 3 (3.26%) Reverse Proxy
3 3 (3.26%) VLAN
4 1 (1.09%) NAS
4 1 (1.09%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.87%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (9.78%) Tableau
3 8 (8.70%) SQL Server
4 5 (5.43%) Power BI
5 4 (4.35%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.26%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (3.26%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (3.26%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.26%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (3.26%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.17%) Aerospike
7 2 (2.17%) Apache Hive
7 2 (2.17%) Big Data
7 2 (2.17%) Hadoop
7 2 (2.17%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.17%) Power Query
7 2 (2.17%) PowerPivot
7 2 (2.17%) Redis
7 2 (2.17%) Spark SQL
8 1 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 19 (20.65%) JIRA
2 14 (15.22%) Git
3 6 (6.52%) SonarQube
4 5 (5.43%) Jenkins
5 4 (4.35%) Bitbucket
6 3 (3.26%) Artifactory
6 3 (3.26%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.09%) Chocolatey
7 1 (1.09%) Hudson
7 1 (1.09%) JUnit
General
1 27 (29.35%) Social Skills
2 25 (27.17%) Finance
3 14 (15.22%) Banking
4 8 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (7.61%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.43%) Retail
7 4 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.26%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (3.26%) Marketing
9 1 (1.09%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.09%) Automotive
9 1 (1.09%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.09%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.09%) Law
Job Titles
1 21 (22.83%) Architect
2 17 (18.48%) Senior
3 16 (17.39%) DevOps Engineer
4 15 (16.30%) Developer
5 13 (14.13%) Azure Engineer
6 11 (11.96%) Solutions Architect
7 9 (9.78%) Software Developer
8 7 (7.61%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 7 (7.61%) Payments Architect
8 7 (7.61%) Payments Solutions Architect
9 6 (6.52%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (6.52%) DevOps Architect
9 6 (6.52%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 6 (6.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (6.52%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (6.52%) Senior DevOps
9 6 (6.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 6 (6.52%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 5 (5.43%) Senior Architect
10 5 (5.43%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.70%) .NET
2 7 (7.61%) ADO
2 7 (7.61%) RESTful
3 6 (6.52%) Lightning Web Components
3 6 (6.52%) REST
4 4 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (4.35%) Kafka
4 4 (4.35%) Middleware
4 4 (4.35%) Node.js
4 4 (4.35%) Visualforce
5 3 (3.26%) HTML
5 3 (3.26%) J2EE
5 3 (3.26%) OAuth
5 3 (3.26%) OAuth2
5 3 (3.26%) OpenID
5 3 (3.26%) OSGi
5 3 (3.26%) PySpark
5 3 (3.26%) SAML
6 2 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (2.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (20.65%) Product Ownership
2 11 (11.96%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.26%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.17%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (2.17%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.09%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.61%) Linux
2 5 (5.43%) Unix
3 3 (3.26%) Windows
4 2 (2.17%) VMS
5 1 (1.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (57.61%) CI/CD
2 32 (34.78%) Agile
3 24 (26.09%) Stakeholder Management
4 23 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (19.57%) Microservices
6 17 (18.48%) Continuous Improvement
6 17 (18.48%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (16.30%) Project Delivery
8 14 (15.22%) Infrastructure Automation
9 13 (14.13%) Migration
9 13 (14.13%) Technical Architecture
10 12 (13.04%) Containerisation
10 12 (13.04%) Scrum
11 11 (11.96%) Architectural Design
12 9 (9.78%) Records Management
12 9 (9.78%) Regulatory Compliance
12 9 (9.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 8 (8.70%) Change Management
13 8 (8.70%) Performance Tuning
13 8 (8.70%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (19.57%) Python
2 15 (16.30%) SQL
3 11 (11.96%) C#
4 10 (10.87%) PowerShell
5 9 (9.78%) Java
6 6 (6.52%) Apex Code
6 6 (6.52%) SOQL
7 5 (5.43%) Bicep
8 3 (3.26%) JavaScript
9 2 (2.17%) C++
9 2 (2.17%) Rust
9 2 (2.17%) SOSL
9 2 (2.17%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.17%) VBA
10 1 (1.09%) Bash
10 1 (1.09%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.61%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (4.35%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.26%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.17%) Degree
6 1 (1.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.09%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.78%) QA
2 6 (6.52%) GDPR
3 4 (4.35%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.26%) GRC
4 3 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (3.26%) NIST
4 3 (3.26%) PCI DSS
4 3 (3.26%) SOC 2
5 2 (2.17%) PMO
6 1 (1.09%) COBIT
6 1 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.09%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (10.87%) Docker
2 4 (4.35%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (27.17%) Terraform
2 23 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 6 (6.52%) Ansible
4 4 (4.35%) Istio
4 4 (4.35%) Puppet
5 3 (3.26%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.26%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (2.17%) Grafana
Vendors
1 22 (23.91%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.78%) ServiceNow
3 6 (6.52%) Databricks
3 6 (6.52%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.26%) Adobe
4 3 (3.26%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.26%) Splunk
5 2 (2.17%) Ab Initio
5 2 (2.17%) Oracle
5 2 (2.17%) SAP
6 1 (1.09%) Ariba
6 1 (1.09%) Cisco
6 1 (1.09%) F5
6 1 (1.09%) Google
6 1 (1.09%) IFS
6 1 (1.09%) OpenText
6 1 (1.09%) Sybase
6 1 (1.09%) VMware