DevSecOps Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

DevSecOps
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring DevSecOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 62 64
Rank change year-on-year -20 +2 -
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 3 9 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.24% 1.17% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 1.38% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 1
10th Percentile - £365 -
25th Percentile - £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £422 £425
Median % change year-on-year -28.91% -0.71% -
75th Percentile £350 £432 £438
90th Percentile £380 £440 -
England median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

DevSecOps 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 942 653 611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 74.70% 85.25% 81.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 454 408
10th Percentile £235 £227 £263
25th Percentile £400 £333 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £410 £455
Median % change year-on-year +18.29% -9.89% -9.00%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £575
90th Percentile £650 £626 £625
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 147 57 35
10th Percentile £12.83 £15.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £13.81 £17.87 £14.83
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.87 £18.32
Median % change year-on-year -5.30% +3.00% -36.28%
75th Percentile £26.95 £25.15 £46.13
90th Percentile £36.99 - £50.43
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DevSecOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

DevSecOps job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing DevSecOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing DevSecOps

DevSecOps
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 DevSecOps within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 August 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
Nottinghamshire - 3 £300 - 3
DevSecOps
England

DevSecOps
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) MySQL
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (100.00%) Redis
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Celery
1 3 (100.00%) Django
1 3 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 3 (100.00%) Playwright
1 3 (100.00%) pytest
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) SBOM
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker