DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Leicestershire

Development Operations Engineer
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Leicestershire is £418, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 16 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 5 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leicestershire 3.25% 2.08% -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.40% 2.25% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £404 - -
25th Percentile £409 £363 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £375 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.33% - -
75th Percentile £426 £388 -
90th Percentile £456 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £418 £375 £450
% change year-on-year +11.33% -16.67% -30.77%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Leicestershire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Leicestershire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Leicestershire with a recognized job title 147 89 145
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.45% 92.71% 94.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 60 110
10th Percentile £131 £225 £148
25th Percentile £360 £275 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £355
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +33.80% -10.13%
75th Percentile £575 £566 £575
90th Percentile £638 £651 £626
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +5.18% +6.25% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 7
10th Percentile £15.13 £22.13 £13.10
25th Percentile £19.25 £23.44 £17.63
Median hourly rate £22.00 £26.25 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +5.00% +41.56%
75th Percentile £28.75 £28.44 £28.13
90th Percentile £30.25 £29.38 £39.65
East Midlands median hourly rate £19.19 £24.18 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.66% +36.46% -

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Leicestershire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Leicestershire

DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 19 March 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
Leicester +4 4 £418 +11.33% 1
DevOps Engineer
East Midlands

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire

For the 6 months to 19 March 2026, DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Leicestershire region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (80.00%) Git
3 3 (60.00%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (60.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 3 (60.00%) Dynatrace
3 3 (60.00%) IaaS
3 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (60.00%) Observability
3 3 (60.00%) PaaS
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (60.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (40.00%) Azure AKS
4 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
5 1 (20.00%) .NET
5 1 (20.00%) .NET Core
5 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
5 1 (20.00%) ADO
5 1 (20.00%) Agile
5 1 (20.00%) C#
5 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 1 (20.00%) Docker
5 1 (20.00%) GitHub

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) IaaS
2 3 (60.00%) PaaS
3 2 (40.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Git
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (20.00%) ADO
1 1 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (60.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Observability
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C#
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Dynatrace
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft