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 27 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 19 35
Rank change year-on-year -1 +16 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 24 21 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 9.27% 7.42% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.80% 8.47% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 16 1
10th Percentile £265 £356 -
25th Percentile £294 £423 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £359 £460 £700
Median % change year-on-year -21.96% -34.29% +53.01%
75th Percentile £475 £509 -
90th Percentile £500 £587 -
East Midlands median daily rate £450 £450 £425
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -10.53%

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 245 248 208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 94.59% 87.63% 90.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 182 158
10th Percentile £263 £314 £210
25th Percentile £339 £360 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £445 £400
Median % change year-on-year -15.73% +11.25% -13.98%
75th Percentile £447 £561 £538
90th Percentile £514 £619 £597
East Midlands median daily rate £410 £445 £475
% change year-on-year -7.87% -6.32% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 14 16
10th Percentile £17.57 £10.90 £20.06
25th Percentile - £11.68 £30.04
Median hourly rate £21.39 £14.00 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.79% -72.55% +54.55%
75th Percentile - £35.00 £51.50
90th Percentile £38.20 £48.25 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.77 £17.00 £26.99
% change year-on-year +10.38% -37.01% +25.53%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 -8 21 £360 -20.88% 29
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 4 (16.67%) Confluence
2 3 (12.50%) CICS
3 2 (8.33%) JBoss
4 1 (4.17%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 10 (41.67%) AWS
2 5 (20.83%) SaaS
3 3 (12.50%) Azure
3 3 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.33%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (8.33%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (8.33%) Amazon S3
4 2 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (8.33%) BrowserStack
4 2 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (8.33%) OpenShift
4 2 (8.33%) Serverless
5 1 (4.17%) Apigee
5 1 (4.17%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (4.17%) Kong
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (29.17%) SQL Server
2 4 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 3 (12.50%) DB2
3 3 (12.50%) Relational Database
4 2 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (8.33%) Oracle Database
5 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
5 1 (4.17%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (37.50%) Jenkins
1 9 (37.50%) Selenium
2 7 (29.17%) Cucumber
2 7 (29.17%) Maven
3 6 (25.00%) Git
3 6 (25.00%) GitLab
3 6 (25.00%) JIRA
3 6 (25.00%) SonarQube
3 6 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (20.83%) Bitbucket
5 4 (16.67%) JUnit
5 4 (16.67%) Mockito
6 3 (12.50%) Eclipse
6 3 (12.50%) IntelliJ
7 2 (8.33%) CA Release Automation
7 2 (8.33%) Cypress.io
7 2 (8.33%) JMeter
7 2 (8.33%) REST Assured
7 2 (8.33%) SoapUI
7 2 (8.33%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (37.50%) Finance
2 6 (25.00%) Banking
3 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Developer
2 6 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 5 (20.83%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Automation Tester
4 3 (12.50%) Tester
5 2 (8.33%) Automation Test Lead
5 2 (8.33%) DevOps Manager
5 2 (8.33%) Digital Product Owner
5 2 (8.33%) Engineering Manager
5 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Lead
5 2 (8.33%) Product Owner
5 2 (8.33%) SQL Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Test Leader
6 1 (4.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (37.50%) Spring Boot
2 6 (25.00%) Hibernate
3 5 (20.83%) Kafka
3 5 (20.83%) Spring
4 4 (16.67%) CSS
4 4 (16.67%) HTML
4 4 (16.67%) Jest
4 4 (16.67%) JPA
4 4 (16.67%) Node.js
4 4 (16.67%) React
4 4 (16.67%) Redux
5 2 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (8.33%) J2EE
5 2 (8.33%) REST
5 2 (8.33%) RESTful
6 1 (4.17%) JDBC
6 1 (4.17%) OAuth
6 1 (4.17%) OpenID
6 1 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (4.17%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 3 (12.50%) Mainframe
2 3 (12.50%) VSAM
3 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 11 (45.83%) Agile
3 10 (41.67%) Test Automation
4 9 (37.50%) Microservices
5 6 (25.00%) Code Quality
5 6 (25.00%) TDD
6 5 (20.83%) Acceptance Criteria
6 5 (20.83%) Test Strategy
7 4 (16.67%) Analytics
7 4 (16.67%) Computer Science
7 4 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
7 4 (16.67%) Migration
7 4 (16.67%) Scrum
7 4 (16.67%) User Experience
7 4 (16.67%) Validation
8 3 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
8 3 (12.50%) Software Testing
8 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (12.50%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 13 (54.17%) Java
2 11 (45.83%) SQL
3 5 (20.83%) Python
4 4 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 3 (12.50%) COBOL
5 3 (12.50%) JCL
6 2 (8.33%) Perl
6 2 (8.33%) Scala
7 1 (4.17%) C#
7 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Degree
2 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Certification
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) QA
2 2 (8.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) Docker
2 2 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.33%) Kibana
2 2 (8.33%) Progress Chef
3 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (16.67%) Oracle
1 4 (16.67%) Veracode
2 3 (12.50%) Splunk
3 2 (8.33%) AppDynamics
3 2 (8.33%) Nintex
3 2 (8.33%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.17%) MuleSoft
4 1 (4.17%) Solace