DevOps Contracts in the East Midlands

DevOps
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 29 17
Rank change year-on-year +7 -12 +6
Contract jobs citing DevOps 53 40 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 6.89% 5.32% 8.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.04% 6.62% 9.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 30 60
10th Percentile £267 £297 £309
25th Percentile £333 £356 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £445 £425
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% +4.71% -11.46%
75th Percentile £500 £533 £602
90th Percentile £552 £604 £678
England median daily rate £525 £550 £590
% change year-on-year -4.55% -6.78% -1.67%

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 659 604 750
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.70% 80.32% 86.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 449 406 552
10th Percentile £225 £263 £213
25th Percentile £333 £360 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £450 £484
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -6.98% +5.16%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £613
90th Percentile £625 £625 £700
England median daily rate £511 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.64% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 38 44
10th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £12.18
25th Percentile £16.17 £14.74 £17.10
Median hourly rate £18.87 £18.16 £30.88
Median % change year-on-year +3.91% -41.19% +57.03%
75th Percentile £25.15 £26.15 £53.81
90th Percentile - £50.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £40.59
% change year-on-year -41.51% +5.94% +50.44%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the East Midlands

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for DevOps in the East Midlands

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 19 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the East Midlands

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in the East Midlands

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 19 August 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
Northamptonshire -6 22 £354 -23.04% 8
Leicestershire -2 12 £463 +23.33% 12
Derbyshire +12 9 £700 +30.23% 13
Nottinghamshire 0 7 £520 -3.26% 28
Lincolnshire - 1 - - 12
DevOps
England

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (9.43%) Confluence
2 3 (5.66%) CICS
3 2 (3.77%) JBoss
4 1 (1.89%) Camunda
4 1 (1.89%) Mule
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Teamcenter
2 1 (1.89%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.89%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 25 (47.17%) Azure
2 20 (37.74%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (24.53%) AWS
4 5 (9.43%) SaaS
5 4 (7.55%) GitHub
6 3 (5.66%) GCP
7 2 (3.77%) Apigee
7 2 (3.77%) BrowserStack
7 2 (3.77%) ChatGPT
7 2 (3.77%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (3.77%) OpenShift
7 2 (3.77%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.89%) Anthos
8 1 (1.89%) Azure Batch
8 1 (1.89%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.89%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.89%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.89%) Kong
8 1 (1.89%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.89%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.09%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.55%) Relational Database
3 3 (5.66%) DB2
3 3 (5.66%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.77%) Oracle Database
4 2 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.89%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.89%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.89%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.89%) Power BI
5 1 (1.89%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (33.96%) Git
2 10 (18.87%) Jenkins
2 10 (18.87%) Selenium
2 10 (18.87%) SonarQube
3 9 (16.98%) JIRA
4 8 (15.09%) Maven
5 7 (13.21%) Cucumber
5 7 (13.21%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (11.32%) Bitbucket
6 6 (11.32%) GitLab
7 4 (7.55%) Eclipse
7 4 (7.55%) JUnit
7 4 (7.55%) Mockito
8 3 (5.66%) Chocolatey
8 3 (5.66%) IntelliJ
9 2 (3.77%) Bitbucket Server
9 2 (3.77%) CA Release Automation
9 2 (3.77%) JMeter
9 2 (3.77%) Postman
9 2 (3.77%) REST Assured
General
1 10 (18.87%) Finance
1 10 (18.87%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.09%) Banking
3 5 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.77%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.89%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.89%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (39.62%) Developer
2 8 (15.09%) Android Developer
3 7 (13.21%) Java Developer
4 5 (9.43%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (9.43%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) Architect
5 4 (7.55%) Lead
6 3 (5.66%) Analyst
6 3 (5.66%) Automation Tester
6 3 (5.66%) Business Analyst
6 3 (5.66%) Test Leader
6 3 (5.66%) Tester
7 2 (3.77%) .NET Developer
7 2 (3.77%) Automation Test Lead
7 2 (3.77%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) DevOps Manager
7 2 (3.77%) Digital Product Owner
7 2 (3.77%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (3.77%) Product Owner
7 2 (3.77%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (20.75%) RESTful
2 10 (18.87%) Spring Boot
3 8 (15.09%) Android Jetpack
3 8 (15.09%) Jetpack Compose
4 6 (11.32%) .NET
4 6 (11.32%) Hibernate
4 6 (11.32%) Spring
5 5 (9.43%) REST
6 4 (7.55%) CSS
6 4 (7.55%) HTML
6 4 (7.55%) Jest
6 4 (7.55%) JPA
6 4 (7.55%) Kafka
6 4 (7.55%) Node.js
6 4 (7.55%) React
6 4 (7.55%) Redux
7 3 (5.66%) JSON
7 3 (5.66%) SOAP
7 3 (5.66%) XML
8 2 (3.77%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.09%) Mobile App
2 4 (7.55%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (5.66%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (5.66%) Mainframe
3 3 (5.66%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.66%) VSAM
4 2 (3.77%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.77%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.89%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.89%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.89%) IoT
5 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.89%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 1 (1.89%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.89%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.89%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (15.09%) Android
2 4 (7.55%) Linux
3 2 (3.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.77%) Windows
4 1 (1.89%) VMS
4 1 (1.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (64.15%) CI/CD
2 27 (50.94%) Agile
3 22 (41.51%) Test Automation
4 17 (32.08%) Microservices
5 14 (26.42%) TDD
6 13 (24.53%) Scrum
7 12 (22.64%) Unit Testing
8 9 (16.98%) Mentoring
9 8 (15.09%) Android Development
9 8 (15.09%) API Integration
9 8 (15.09%) Migration
10 7 (13.21%) Code Quality
10 7 (13.21%) Test Strategy
11 6 (11.32%) Acceptance Criteria
11 6 (11.32%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (11.32%) Infrastructure as Code
12 5 (9.43%) Domain-Driven Design
12 5 (9.43%) User Experience
13 4 (7.55%) Analytics
13 4 (7.55%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 16 (30.19%) SQL
2 12 (22.64%) Java
3 8 (15.09%) C#
3 8 (15.09%) Kotlin
4 7 (13.21%) PowerShell
5 6 (11.32%) Python
6 5 (9.43%) JavaScript
7 3 (5.66%) COBOL
7 3 (5.66%) JCL
7 3 (5.66%) PHP
8 2 (3.77%) C
8 2 (3.77%) C++
8 2 (3.77%) Perl
9 1 (1.89%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.89%) Bash
9 1 (1.89%) Bicep
9 1 (1.89%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.89%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.89%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.89%) X++
Qualifications
1 6 (11.32%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.43%) Degree
3 4 (7.55%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.77%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.89%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.89%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.21%) QA
2 1 (1.89%) EMIR
2 1 (1.89%) GDPR
2 1 (1.89%) IEC 61508
2 1 (1.89%) MiFID
2 1 (1.89%) MISRA
2 1 (1.89%) MISRA C
2 1 (1.89%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 10 (18.87%) Docker
2 3 (5.66%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (22.64%) Kubernetes
2 7 (13.21%) Terraform
3 3 (5.66%) Ansible
4 2 (3.77%) Kibana
4 2 (3.77%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (20.75%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.32%) Oracle
3 4 (7.55%) Veracode
4 3 (5.66%) ServiceNow
4 3 (5.66%) Splunk
5 2 (3.77%) AppDynamics
5 2 (3.77%) Google
5 2 (3.77%) MuleSoft
5 2 (3.77%) Nintex
5 2 (3.77%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.77%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.77%) SAP
6 1 (1.89%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.89%) Databricks
6 1 (1.89%) Dell
6 1 (1.89%) QNX
6 1 (1.89%) Siemens
6 1 (1.89%) Solace
6 1 (1.89%) Trayport
6 1 (1.89%) Workday