DevOps Contracts in Northamptonshire

DevOps
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire 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 14 9 32
Rank change year-on-year -5 +23 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 12 16 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 8.22% 8.16% 2.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.96% 9.14% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 3
10th Percentile £279 £356 £405
25th Percentile £365 £356 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -13.64% +13.70%
75th Percentile £500 £576 £638
90th Percentile £706 £598 £675
East Midlands median daily rate £469 £450 £460
% change year-on-year +4.17% -2.17% +7.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 134 175 215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 91.78% 89.29% 89.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 127 163
10th Percentile £269 £292 £191
25th Percentile £356 £356 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £445 £375
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +18.67% -17.58%
75th Percentile £475 £538 £500
90th Percentile £537 £620 £572
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £419 £450
% change year-on-year +6.81% -7.00% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 18 16
10th Percentile £16.88 £10.90 £16.12
25th Percentile £21.56 £14.00 £18.13
Median hourly rate £32.25 £24.50 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.63% -40.96% +50.91%
75th Percentile £45.06 £51.30 £51.50
90th Percentile £51.03 £53.30 -
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 Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Northamptonshire

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Northamptonshire

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Northamptonshire

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Northamptonshire 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
Northampton -7 11 £450 -2.70% 49
DevOps
East Midlands

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 2 (16.67%) Confluence
1 2 (16.67%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) SaaS
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon Kinesis
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (16.67%) BrowserStack
3 2 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (16.67%) OpenShift
3 2 (16.67%) Serverless
4 1 (8.33%) Apigee
4 1 (8.33%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (8.33%) Kong
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.33%) RDBMS
2 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Jenkins
2 4 (33.33%) JIRA
2 4 (33.33%) Selenium
2 4 (33.33%) SonarQube
2 4 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (25.00%) Bitbucket
3 3 (25.00%) GitLab
4 2 (16.67%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (16.67%) CA Release Automation
4 2 (16.67%) Cucumber
4 2 (16.67%) Cypress.io
4 2 (16.67%) Git
4 2 (16.67%) JMeter
4 2 (16.67%) JUnit
4 2 (16.67%) Maven
4 2 (16.67%) Mockito
4 2 (16.67%) Postman
4 2 (16.67%) SoapUI
4 2 (16.67%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Automation Test Lead
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) DevOps Architect
3 2 (16.67%) DevOps Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) Lead
3 2 (16.67%) Test Leader
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
4 1 (8.33%) Python Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) Spring Boot
2 3 (25.00%) Kafka
3 2 (16.67%) CSS
3 2 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (16.67%) Hibernate
3 2 (16.67%) HTML
3 2 (16.67%) Jest
3 2 (16.67%) JPA
3 2 (16.67%) Node.js
3 2 (16.67%) React
3 2 (16.67%) Redux
3 2 (16.67%) Spring
4 1 (8.33%) OAuth
4 1 (8.33%) OpenID
4 1 (8.33%) RAML
4 1 (8.33%) REST
4 1 (8.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 6 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 5 (41.67%) Microservices
4 4 (33.33%) Agile
4 4 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (33.33%) Migration
4 4 (33.33%) Validation
5 3 (25.00%) Data Validation
6 2 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
6 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (16.67%) Data Integration
6 2 (16.67%) Data Migration
6 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
6 2 (16.67%) Data Security
6 2 (16.67%) ETL
6 2 (16.67%) Integration Testing
6 2 (16.67%) TDD
6 2 (16.67%) Visualisation
6 2 (16.67%) Web Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) Java
2 4 (33.33%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (16.67%) Perl
3 2 (16.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 2 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 2 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) Kibana
2 2 (16.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Splunk
2 2 (16.67%) AppDynamics
2 2 (16.67%) Nintex
2 2 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 2 (16.67%) Veracode
3 1 (8.33%) MuleSoft
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle