DevOps Jobs in the East Midlands

DevOps
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 36 21
Rank change year-on-year -28 -15 0
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 105 257 266
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 3.91% 5.33% 9.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.24% 6.79% 9.97%
Number of salaries quoted 35 162 115
10th Percentile £35,500 £36,250 £45,500
25th Percentile £43,250 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,250 £80,900 £82,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% -7.14% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,479 3,787 2,669
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 92.36% 78.47% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 928 2,625 1,216
10th Percentile £25,625 £25,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,000 £32,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £45,000 £52,375
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -14.08% +10.26%
75th Percentile £57,500 £56,200 £65,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £76,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the East Midlands

DevOps
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for DevOps in the East Midlands

DevOps
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps in the East Midlands

DevOps
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northamptonshire +12 41 £45,000 -37.93% 192
Leicestershire -23 20 £55,000 +15.79% 195
Derbyshire -1 19 £45,000 -18.18% 369
Nottinghamshire -26 11 £68,525 +14.21% 198
Lincolnshire +20 9 £57,000 +20.00% 190
DevOps
England

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 34 (32.38%) Confluence
2 3 (2.86%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.90%) CMS
4 1 (0.95%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.95%) Mendix
Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.95%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.95%) Moqups
2 1 (0.95%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 74 (70.48%) Azure
2 57 (54.29%) AWS
3 39 (37.14%) GCP
4 15 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (11.43%) Power Platform
6 10 (9.52%) IaaS
7 9 (8.57%) PaaS
8 7 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
8 7 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (5.71%) Entra ID
9 6 (5.71%) Power Automate
9 6 (5.71%) SaaS
10 4 (3.81%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 4 (3.81%) PowerApps
10 4 (3.81%) Serverless
11 3 (2.86%) Azure Functions
12 2 (1.90%) Azure AI
12 2 (1.90%) Azure Service Bus
12 2 (1.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (1.90%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 25 (23.81%) VPN
2 13 (12.38%) TCP/IP
3 8 (7.62%) Cisco IOS
4 4 (3.81%) Firewall
4 4 (3.81%) SD-WAN
4 4 (3.81%) WAN
5 2 (1.90%) Broadband
5 2 (1.90%) DNS
5 2 (1.90%) LAN
5 2 (1.90%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (47.62%) SQL Server
2 9 (8.57%) NoSQL
3 8 (7.62%) Power BI
4 7 (6.67%) Data Lake
5 6 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (3.81%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.90%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.90%) MySQL
7 2 (1.90%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 53 (50.48%) Cucumber
2 45 (42.86%) JIRA
3 40 (38.10%) GitLab
3 40 (38.10%) Maven
3 40 (38.10%) Selenium
4 39 (37.14%) Bitbucket
4 39 (37.14%) SonarQube
4 39 (37.14%) Sonatype Nexus
5 13 (12.38%) Robot Framework
6 7 (6.67%) Git
7 3 (2.86%) Visual Studio
8 2 (1.90%) Jaeger
8 2 (1.90%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.95%) Appium
9 1 (0.95%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.95%) JMeter
9 1 (0.95%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (0.95%) Postman
9 1 (0.95%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.95%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 63 (60.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 48 (45.71%) Finance
3 39 (37.14%) Banking
4 22 (20.95%) Social Skills
5 15 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (12.38%) Telecoms
7 10 (9.52%) Retail
8 9 (8.57%) Law
9 5 (4.76%) Corporate Banking
9 5 (4.76%) Investment Banking
10 3 (2.86%) Legal
11 2 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.90%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.95%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.95%) Electronics
12 1 (0.95%) Games
12 1 (0.95%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 41 (39.05%) Software Engineer
2 17 (16.19%) Developer
3 13 (12.38%) Test Automation Engineer
3 13 (12.38%) Test Engineer
4 10 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (6.67%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 7 (6.67%) Lead
6 5 (4.76%) Architect
6 5 (4.76%) Senior
7 4 (3.81%) Applications Support
7 4 (3.81%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (2.86%) Analyst
8 3 (2.86%) Junior
8 3 (2.86%) Senior Developer
9 2 (1.90%) C# Developer
9 2 (1.90%) Junior Developer
9 2 (1.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (1.90%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.90%) SQL Developer
9 2 (1.90%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (42.86%) React
2 40 (38.10%) CSS
2 40 (38.10%) HTML
2 40 (38.10%) Kafka
2 40 (38.10%) Spring
2 40 (38.10%) Spring Boot
3 39 (37.14%) JPA
3 39 (37.14%) Redux
4 34 (32.38%) Hibernate
5 14 (13.33%) REST
6 12 (11.43%) .NET
7 10 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (6.67%) Jest
8 7 (6.67%) RESTful
9 6 (5.71%) SOAP
10 5 (4.76%) CSS3
10 5 (4.76%) HTML5
10 5 (4.76%) Sass
11 4 (3.81%) AngularJS
11 4 (3.81%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (39.05%) Product Ownership
2 39 (37.14%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (12.38%) Linux Command Line
4 8 (7.62%) Cyberattack
5 3 (2.86%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.90%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.90%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.90%) NHS
6 2 (1.90%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.95%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.95%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.95%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.95%) PMI
7 1 (0.95%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (23.81%) Linux
1 25 (23.81%) Windows
2 9 (8.57%) Android
3 2 (1.90%) Unix
3 2 (1.90%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.95%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.95%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (52.38%) Agile
1 55 (52.38%) Test Automation
2 50 (47.62%) CI/CD
3 48 (45.71%) Microservices
4 43 (40.95%) Containerisation
4 43 (40.95%) Full-Stack Development
4 43 (40.95%) Performance Optimisation
4 43 (40.95%) Software Engineering
5 42 (40.00%) SDLC
6 41 (39.05%) Front End Development
7 39 (37.14%) Continuous Improvement
8 35 (33.33%) Clean Code
8 35 (33.33%) TDD
9 30 (28.57%) Mentoring
9 30 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (14.29%) Coaching
11 14 (13.33%) System Testing
12 13 (12.38%) Test Management
13 11 (10.48%) Infrastructure as Code
13 11 (10.48%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 64 (60.95%) SQL
2 63 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 44 (41.90%) Java
4 27 (25.71%) Python
5 25 (23.81%) PowerShell
6 23 (21.90%) Bash
7 12 (11.43%) C#
8 11 (10.48%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.90%) Bicep
9 2 (1.90%) Go
9 2 (1.90%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.95%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.95%) Groovy
10 1 (0.95%) PHP
Qualifications
1 18 (17.14%) Degree
2 4 (3.81%) Azure Certification
3 3 (2.86%) DBS Check
4 2 (1.90%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.90%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.95%) HND
5 1 (0.95%) ISEB
5 1 (0.95%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.95%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.95%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (51.43%) QA
2 6 (5.71%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 55 (52.38%) Docker
2 8 (7.62%) Hyper-V
2 8 (7.62%) VMware NSX
2 8 (7.62%) vSphere
3 4 (3.81%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 47 (44.76%) Kubernetes
2 17 (16.19%) Terraform
3 11 (10.48%) Ansible
4 2 (1.90%) Argo
4 2 (1.90%) Kustomize
4 2 (1.90%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.95%) Consul
5 1 (0.95%) Marathon
5 1 (0.95%) Packer
5 1 (0.95%) QRadar
5 1 (0.95%) Rancher
Vendors
1 39 (37.14%) Solace
2 12 (11.43%) Microsoft
3 9 (8.57%) Splunk
4 8 (7.62%) 3PAR
4 8 (7.62%) Cisco
4 8 (7.62%) Databricks
4 8 (7.62%) Juniper
5 5 (4.76%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.90%) Google
6 2 (1.90%) Meraki
7 1 (0.95%) Adobe
7 1 (0.95%) IBM
7 1 (0.95%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.95%) VMware