DevOps Contract Job Trends in Norfolk

DevOps
East of England > Norfolk

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Norfolk requiring DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 - 8
Rank change year-on-year - - +9
Contract jobs citing DevOps 3 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Norfolk 2.19% - 7.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.73% - 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £470 - -
25th Percentile £481 - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £413
Median % change year-on-year - - -41.07%
75th Percentile £519 - £472
90th Percentile £530 - £534
East of England median daily rate £544 £525 £543
% change year-on-year +3.57% -3.23% -3.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Norfolk

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 Norfolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 110 44 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Norfolk 80.29% 68.75% 74.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 19 33
10th Percentile £171 £121 £181
25th Percentile £184 £226 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £438 £375
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +16.67% +59.57%
75th Percentile £501 £544 £500
90th Percentile £550 £694 £569
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 7 1
10th Percentile £12.97 £18.66 -
25th Percentile £13.50 - -
Median hourly rate £18.87 £20.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% +37.93% -46.26%
75th Percentile £20.90 £20.28 -
90th Percentile £24.55 £21.84 -
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £27.50 £19.81
% change year-on-year -23.64% +38.82% -5.67%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Norfolk

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Norfolk.

DevOps job vacancy trend in Norfolk

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Norfolk

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Norfolk citing DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Norfolk citing DevOps

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in Norfolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Norfolk region over the 6 months to 25 October 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
Norwich - 3 £500 - 5
DevOps
East of England

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Norfolk 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Route 53
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Kerberos
1 1 (33.33%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) CyberArk Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Workday Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (33.33%) LDAP
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
1 1 (33.33%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) OOP
2 1 (33.33%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Secrets Management
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) CISA
1 1 (33.33%) CISM
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Nagios
1 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) BeyondTrust
1 1 (33.33%) CyberArk
1 1 (33.33%) SaltStack
1 1 (33.33%) Thycotic
1 1 (33.33%) Workday