DevOps Contracts in the East of England

DevOps
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 30 26
Rank change year-on-year -15 -4 -5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 37 99 144
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 3.94% 5.19% 6.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.42% 6.02% 8.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 43 80
10th Percentile £413 £403 £411
25th Percentile £418 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - -11.76%
75th Percentile £650 £586 £650
90th Percentile £751 £671 £700
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 42 23
10th Percentile - - £50.25
25th Percentile £66.25 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +18.18%
75th Percentile £68.75 - £65.75
90th Percentile - £65.75 -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.76% +19.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 837 1,644 1,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.23% 86.12% 87.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 703 1,064
10th Percentile £225 £207 £200
25th Percentile £400 £339 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 607 340
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £14.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the East of England

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in the East of England

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the East of England

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in the East of England

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Cambridgeshire +20 19 £501 -8.86% 81
Hertfordshire -4 9 £550 +29.41% 46
Bedfordshire -1 4 £650 +39.41% 17
Suffolk -6 4 £594 -4.92% 13
Essex -15 1 £468 -12.45% 25
DevOps
England

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 20 (54.05%) Azure
2 8 (21.62%) AWS
3 6 (16.22%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (16.22%) GCP
4 3 (8.11%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (8.11%) Power Platform
5 2 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (5.41%) Amazon S3
5 2 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (5.41%) Entra ID
5 2 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (5.41%) Power Automate
5 2 (5.41%) PowerApps
5 2 (5.41%) SaaS
5 2 (5.41%) Serverless
6 1 (2.70%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.81%) LAN
1 4 (10.81%) NAS
1 4 (10.81%) SAN
1 4 (10.81%) TCP/IP
1 4 (10.81%) WAN
2 2 (5.41%) Network Security
3 1 (2.70%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.11%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (8.11%) Power BI
1 3 (8.11%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.41%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (5.41%) Data Lake
2 2 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.41%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (5.41%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.70%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.70%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (2.70%) Data Mart
3 1 (2.70%) MySQL
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.41%) Git
2 2 (5.41%) JIRA
2 2 (5.41%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (5.41%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.70%) GitLab
3 1 (2.70%) Hudson
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (2.70%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 7 (18.92%) Finance
2 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.11%) Retail
4 1 (2.70%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 8 (21.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (18.92%) Architect
3 6 (16.22%) Developer
4 4 (10.81%) Administrator
4 4 (10.81%) DevOps Administrator
4 4 (10.81%) Senior
4 4 (10.81%) Systems Administrator
5 3 (8.11%) Head of IT
5 3 (8.11%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Azure Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Dynamics 365 Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Software Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Supply Chain Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Technical Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Technical Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.70%) Lead
7 1 (2.70%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.81%) .NET
1 4 (10.81%) LDAP
2 2 (5.41%) Kafka
2 2 (5.41%) Node.js
2 2 (5.41%) React
3 1 (2.70%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.70%) ASP.NET
3 1 (2.70%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (2.70%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (2.70%) CSS
3 1 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.70%) HTML
3 1 (2.70%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (2.70%) Middleware
3 1 (2.70%) REST
3 1 (2.70%) Spring
3 1 (2.70%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.70%) Visualforce
3 1 (2.70%) Web Services
3 1 (2.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) Distributed Computing
2 3 (8.11%) Private Cloud
3 2 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.41%) Mobile App
3 2 (5.41%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.70%) Culture of Ownership
4 1 (2.70%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (2.70%) FMCG
4 1 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.70%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 8 (21.62%) Linux
2 7 (18.92%) Windows
3 5 (13.51%) Windows Server
4 4 (10.81%) Ubuntu
5 2 (5.41%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (37.84%) CI/CD
2 8 (21.62%) Migration
3 7 (18.92%) Agile
3 7 (18.92%) Change Management
3 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (16.22%) Roadmaps
5 5 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure Management
6 4 (10.81%) Analytics
6 4 (10.81%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (10.81%) Cloud Security
6 4 (10.81%) Data Protection
6 4 (10.81%) Incident Management
6 4 (10.81%) ITIL
6 4 (10.81%) Problem Management
6 4 (10.81%) Resource Management
6 4 (10.81%) Software Engineering
6 4 (10.81%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (10.81%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (16.22%) Python
2 4 (10.81%) SQL
3 3 (8.11%) Java
4 2 (5.41%) Go
4 2 (5.41%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.41%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.70%) Apex Code
5 1 (2.70%) Bash
5 1 (2.70%) Bicep
5 1 (2.70%) C#
5 1 (2.70%) C++
5 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (8.11%) Degree
1 3 (8.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.70%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) GDPR
2 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.70%) NIST
2 1 (2.70%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (16.22%) Docker
2 2 (5.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (27.03%) Terraform
2 8 (21.62%) Kubernetes
3 7 (18.92%) Ansible
4 5 (13.51%) Prometheus
5 3 (8.11%) Consul
6 2 (5.41%) logstash
7 1 (2.70%) Grafana
Vendors
1 12 (32.43%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.81%) NetApp
2 4 (10.81%) Red Hat
3 2 (5.41%) Google
3 2 (5.41%) Oracle
3 2 (5.41%) VMware
3 2 (5.41%) Wind River
4 1 (2.70%) Databricks
4 1 (2.70%) IFS
4 1 (2.70%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.70%) SAP
4 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.70%) SnapLogic
4 1 (2.70%) Spotify
4 1 (2.70%) Sybase