DevOps Contracts in Leicester

DevOps
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leicester 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 12 5
Rank change year-on-year +6 -7 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 11 10 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicester 14.10% 8.93% 20.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.74% 12.20% 23.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 21
10th Percentile £376 £352 £313
25th Percentile £438 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £419 £420
Median % change year-on-year +10.38% -0.24% -1.18%
75th Percentile £473 £538 £438
90th Percentile £517 - £450
Leicestershire median daily rate £463 £419 £418
% change year-on-year +10.38% +0.36% +0.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 62 82 95
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicester 79.49% 73.21% 90.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 63 82
10th Percentile £250 £288 £263
25th Percentile £348 £343 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £418
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +7.78% +4.38%
75th Percentile £566 £576 £450
90th Percentile £651 £625 £563
Leicestershire median daily rate £444 £375 £415
% change year-on-year +18.33% -9.64% +3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £13.20 £13.62
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.38 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.50 £20.32
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% +0.89% -33.20%
75th Percentile £23.75 £25.38 £21.71
90th Percentile - £27.40 £22.93
Leicestershire median hourly rate £22.50 £21.50 £20.32
% change year-on-year +4.65% +5.81% -6.57%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leicester.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Leicester

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leicester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps in Leicester.

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Leicester

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Leicester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Leicester over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Leicester

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicester 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) Azure
2 6 (54.55%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) AWS
4 1 (9.09%) Anthos
4 1 (9.09%) Apigee
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (9.09%) GCP
4 1 (9.09%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) BigQuery
1 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
3 1 (9.09%) Maven
3 1 (9.09%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Developer
2 5 (45.45%) Android Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Apigee Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) GCP Architect
4 1 (9.09%) MuleSoft Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) Android Jetpack
1 5 (45.45%) Jetpack Compose
1 5 (45.45%) RESTful
2 1 (9.09%) ADO
2 1 (9.09%) JWT
2 1 (9.09%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (9.09%) OAuth
2 1 (9.09%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) SAML
2 1 (9.09%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Mobile App
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Android
2 1 (9.09%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Agile
1 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 5 (45.45%) Android Development
2 5 (45.45%) Mentoring
2 5 (45.45%) Scrum
2 5 (45.45%) TDD
2 5 (45.45%) Test Automation
2 5 (45.45%) Unit Testing
3 4 (36.36%) API Integration
4 2 (18.18%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (9.09%) API Design
5 1 (9.09%) API Development
5 1 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
5 1 (9.09%) Load Balancing
5 1 (9.09%) Microservices
5 1 (9.09%) PLM
5 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (9.09%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Kotlin
2 1 (9.09%) Apex Code
2 1 (9.09%) C#
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Databricks
1 1 (9.09%) Google
1 1 (9.09%) MuleSoft
1 1 (9.09%) Perforce
1 1 (9.09%) Salesforce