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 27 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 34 16
Rank change year-on-year -9 -18 +5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 44 93 170
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 4.13% 4.79% 8.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.62% 5.68% 9.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 40 100
10th Percentile £399 £411 £400
25th Percentile £418 £453 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £534 £548
Median % change year-on-year -6.37% -2.47% -8.75%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £650
90th Percentile £690 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 37 23
10th Percentile - - £61.00
25th Percentile - £61.25 -
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - £65.75
90th Percentile - £65.75 £74.80
England median hourly rate £70.00 £68.75 £65.61
% change year-on-year +1.82% +4.79% +0.93%

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 953 1,637 1,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.40% 84.38% 87.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 479 656 997
10th Percentile £212 £203 £226
25th Percentile £363 £313 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £440 £490
Median % change year-on-year +13.70% -10.26% +3.16%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £664 £704
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 612 339
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £31.64 £40.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.90% +90.48% +7.69%
75th Percentile £65.38 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £84.00 £71.13 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.17
% change year-on-year -34.02% +2.56% +44.74%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 +23 21 £459 -14.65% 78
Hertfordshire +2 12 £500 - 87
Bedfordshire -5 5 £575 +21.05% 45
Suffolk -7 3 £520 -20.00% 22
Essex -11 2 £466 -12.69% 68
Norfolk - 1 £525 - 30
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 (9.09%) Apache
2 3 (6.82%) IIS
2 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (6.82%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (2.27%) CMS
3 1 (2.27%) Headless CMS
3 1 (2.27%) IBM Domino
3 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.27%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Maximo
2 1 (2.27%) SAP ERP
2 1 (2.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 17 (38.64%) Azure
2 10 (22.73%) AWS
3 6 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (13.64%) GCP
4 4 (9.09%) Datadog
4 4 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (6.82%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (4.55%) Amazon S3
6 2 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (4.55%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (4.55%) GitHub
6 2 (4.55%) Power Automate
6 2 (4.55%) PowerApps
6 2 (4.55%) SaaS
6 2 (4.55%) Serverless
7 1 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.27%) PaaS
7 1 (2.27%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.36%) Firewall
2 4 (9.09%) LAN
2 4 (9.09%) WAN
3 3 (6.82%) NAS
3 3 (6.82%) SAN
3 3 (6.82%) TCP/IP
3 3 (6.82%) VPN
4 2 (4.55%) BGP
4 2 (4.55%) OSPF
4 2 (4.55%) VLAN
5 1 (2.27%) BIG-IP
5 1 (2.27%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (2.27%) DHCP
5 1 (2.27%) DNS
5 1 (2.27%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (2.27%) IPsec
5 1 (2.27%) Network Security
5 1 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (2.27%) Wireless
5 1 (2.27%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.91%) SQL Server
2 5 (11.36%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (6.82%) DB2
3 3 (6.82%) Power BI
4 2 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (4.55%) Data Lake
4 2 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.55%) MySQL
5 1 (2.27%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.27%) Big Data
5 1 (2.27%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (2.27%) Data Mart
5 1 (2.27%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.27%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.27%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (13.64%) Jenkins
2 4 (9.09%) Git
3 1 (2.27%) Appium
3 1 (2.27%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.27%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.27%) Gatling
3 1 (2.27%) Hudson
3 1 (2.27%) JIRA
3 1 (2.27%) JMeter
3 1 (2.27%) JUnit
3 1 (2.27%) LoadRunner
3 1 (2.27%) Postman
3 1 (2.27%) Selenium
3 1 (2.27%) TestNG
3 1 (2.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (29.55%) Social Skills
2 8 (18.18%) Finance
3 6 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.55%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.55%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.27%) Marketing
5 1 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (13.64%) Architect
2 6 (13.64%) Developer
3 5 (11.36%) Administrator
4 4 (9.09%) Consultant
4 4 (9.09%) Programme Manager
4 4 (9.09%) Systems Administrator
5 3 (6.82%) DevOps Administrator
5 3 (6.82%) Maximo Consultant
5 3 (6.82%) Network Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Senior
6 2 (4.55%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (4.55%) Data Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Dynamics 365 Architect
6 2 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (4.55%) Network Administrator
6 2 (4.55%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Supply Chain Architect
7 1 (2.27%) IT Administrator
7 1 (2.27%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.09%) .NET
1 4 (9.09%) SOAP
1 4 (9.09%) Web Services
1 4 (9.09%) XML
2 3 (6.82%) AngularJS
2 3 (6.82%) CSS
2 3 (6.82%) HTML
2 3 (6.82%) LDAP
3 2 (4.55%) .NET Framework
3 2 (4.55%) Entity Framework
3 2 (4.55%) jQuery
3 2 (4.55%) React
3 2 (4.55%) REST
4 1 (2.27%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.27%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.27%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (2.27%) ggplot2
4 1 (2.27%) RxJS
4 1 (2.27%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.27%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.82%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.27%) Culture of Ownership
3 1 (2.27%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.27%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.27%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.27%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.27%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.27%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.27%) Reinsurance
3 1 (2.27%) SCADA
3 1 (2.27%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.91%) Linux
1 7 (15.91%) Windows
1 7 (15.91%) Windows Server
2 3 (6.82%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.27%) CentOS
3 1 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 11 (25.00%) Agile
3 9 (20.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (20.45%) ITSM
4 8 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (15.91%) Change Management
6 6 (13.64%) Analytics
6 6 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (13.64%) Incident Management
6 6 (13.64%) Migration
6 6 (13.64%) Roadmaps
6 6 (13.64%) Test Automation
7 5 (11.36%) Observability
7 5 (11.36%) Service Management
7 5 (11.36%) Task Automation
7 5 (11.36%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (9.09%) Infrastructure Management
8 4 (9.09%) ITIL
8 4 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (22.73%) Python
2 7 (15.91%) JavaScript
2 7 (15.91%) SQL
3 4 (9.09%) C#
4 3 (6.82%) Bash
5 2 (4.55%) Java
5 2 (4.55%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.55%) R
6 1 (2.27%) Apex Code
6 1 (2.27%) Bicep
6 1 (2.27%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.55%) APMG
3 2 (4.55%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.27%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.27%) CCNA
4 1 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.27%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.36%) QA
2 1 (2.27%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.27%) GDPR
2 1 (2.27%) NIST
2 1 (2.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (13.64%) Docker
2 1 (2.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (34.09%) Terraform
2 9 (20.45%) Ansible
3 8 (18.18%) Kubernetes
4 5 (11.36%) Grafana
4 5 (11.36%) Prometheus
5 3 (6.82%) Consul
6 1 (2.27%) Nagios
6 1 (2.27%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.27%) Puppet
6 1 (2.27%) Salt
Vendors
1 9 (20.45%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.09%) IBM
2 4 (9.09%) Splunk
3 3 (6.82%) NetApp
3 3 (6.82%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.55%) Databricks
4 2 (4.55%) Dynatrace
4 2 (4.55%) Fortinet
4 2 (4.55%) Huawei
4 2 (4.55%) Oracle
5 1 (2.27%) Clearswift
5 1 (2.27%) IFS
5 1 (2.27%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.27%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.27%) SAP
5 1 (2.27%) SnapLogic
5 1 (2.27%) Spotify
5 1 (2.27%) Sybase
5 1 (2.27%) VMware
5 1 (2.27%) Workday