DevOps Contracts in Leicestershire

DevOps
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leicestershire 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 6 15 12
Rank change year-on-year +9 -3 -4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 13 11 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicestershire 13.00% 6.92% 13.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.48% 9.09% 15.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 23
10th Percentile £378 £357 £313
25th Percentile £456 £401 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £419 £420
Median % change year-on-year +10.38% -0.24% +20.00%
75th Percentile £550 £513 £438
90th Percentile £648 £538 £466
East Midlands median daily rate £469 £450 £460
% change year-on-year +4.17% -2.17% +7.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84 121 160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 84.00% 76.10% 91.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 94 136
10th Percentile £225 £193 £250
25th Percentile £269 £258 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £375 £395
Median % change year-on-year +23.33% -5.06% -1.25%
75th Percentile £541 £556 £450
90th Percentile £651 £634 £555
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £419 £450
% change year-on-year +6.81% -7.00% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 7
10th Percentile £19.05 £13.55 £14.08
25th Percentile £19.88 £16.25 £17.03
Median hourly rate £22.50 £21.50 £20.60
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% +4.37% -12.34%
75th Percentile £26.88 £25.50 £41.88
90th Percentile £28.75 £27.45 £63.50
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.36 £17.00 £18.56
% change year-on-year +7.97% -8.39% +3.10%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Leicestershire

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Leicestershire

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Leicestershire

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

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Leicestershire

DevOps
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 within the Leicestershire 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
Leicester +1 11 £463 +10.38% 57
DevOps
East Midlands

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) Azure
2 7 (53.85%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) AWS
4 1 (7.69%) Anthos
4 1 (7.69%) Apigee
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (7.69%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) BigQuery
1 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Git
2 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 2 (15.38%) TeamCity
3 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
3 1 (7.69%) Maven
General
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Automotive
2 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Games
2 1 (7.69%) Marketing
2 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Android Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Architect
4 2 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior
5 1 (7.69%) Apigee Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) GCP Architect
5 1 (7.69%) MuleSoft Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Product Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Product Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) Android Jetpack
1 4 (30.77%) Jetpack Compose
1 4 (30.77%) RESTful
2 1 (7.69%) ADO
2 1 (7.69%) JWT
2 1 (7.69%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (7.69%) OAuth
2 1 (7.69%) REST
2 1 (7.69%) SAML
2 1 (7.69%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Android
2 1 (7.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Agile
1 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 5 (38.46%) Test Automation
3 4 (30.77%) Android Development
3 4 (30.77%) API Integration
3 4 (30.77%) Mentoring
3 4 (30.77%) Scrum
3 4 (30.77%) TDD
3 4 (30.77%) Unit Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (7.69%) B2B
5 1 (7.69%) B2C
5 1 (7.69%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (7.69%) Data Protection
5 1 (7.69%) ETL
5 1 (7.69%) Load Balancing
5 1 (7.69%) PLM
5 1 (7.69%) Project Management
5 1 (7.69%) Test Scripting
5 1 (7.69%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Kotlin
2 2 (15.38%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) Apex Code
3 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
1 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Perforce
2 1 (7.69%) Databricks
2 1 (7.69%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) MuleSoft
2 1 (7.69%) Salesforce