DevOps Contract Job Trends in Stoke-on-Trent

DevOps
Staffordshire > Stoke-on-Trent

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent requiring DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 - 18
Rank change year-on-year - - -7
Contract jobs citing DevOps 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Stoke-on-Trent 5.56% - 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.69% - 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £456 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +29.41%
75th Percentile £469 - £575
90th Percentile - - -
Staffordshire median daily rate £463 £350 £500
% change year-on-year +32.14% -30.00% +17.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Stoke-on-Trent

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 Stoke-on-Trent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13 19 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent 72.22% 57.58% 78.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 38
10th Percentile £200 £370 £375
25th Percentile £240 £374 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £344 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.06% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £419 £488 £569
90th Percentile £511 £510 £608
Staffordshire median daily rate £313 £425 £495
% change year-on-year -26.47% -14.14% +4.21%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent.

DevOps job vacancy trend in Stoke-on-Trent

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing DevOps

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stoke-on-Trent 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 (100.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft