Senior DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

Senior Development Operations Engineer
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Nottinghamshire is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 November 2025.

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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 21 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 1 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Nottinghamshire 0.60% 1.73% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 1.90% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 £725 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £750 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% - -
75th Percentile £538 £775 -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £525 £750 -
% change year-on-year -30.00% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Nottinghamshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Nottinghamshire. 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 Nottinghamshire with a recognized job title 158 158 177
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.05% 91.33% 95.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 84 142
10th Percentile £187 £185 £247
25th Percentile £368 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £594 £550 £650
90th Percentile £714 £613 £745
East Midlands median daily rate £420 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -1.18% -5.56% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 8 15
10th Percentile £16.17 £13.34 £11.73
25th Percentile £16.30 £14.37 £13.25
Median hourly rate £17.87 £15.05 £17.71
Median % change year-on-year +18.74% -15.02% +61.00%
75th Percentile £17.88 £40.00 £79.38
90th Percentile £25.15 £76.23 £91.75
East Midlands median hourly rate £21.13 £24.09 £17.83
% change year-on-year -12.31% +35.09% +4.13%

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Nottinghamshire

Senior DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Nottinghamshire

Senior DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior DevOps Engineer within the Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 27 November 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
Nottingham -5 1 £525 -30.00%
Senior DevOps Engineer
East Midlands

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

For the 6 months to 27 November 2025, Senior 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 Nottinghamshire region featuring Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) ADO
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ADO
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet