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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 34 23
Rank change year-on-year -27 -11 -7
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 112 245 242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 4.08% 4.85% 9.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.67% 6.24% 9.92%
Number of salaries quoted 40 156 123
10th Percentile £39,625 £36,875 £44,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -11.54% +14.04%
75th Percentile £72,813 £67,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.41% -3.57% -

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 2,400 3,927 2,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 87.50% 77.81% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,089 2,437 1,154
10th Percentile £25,850 £26,250 £27,150
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -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 17 July 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 17 July 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 +18 43 £56,250 -22.41% 22
Derbyshire +3 28 £45,000 -18.18% 10
Leicestershire -12 20 £57,500 +4.55% 19
Lincolnshire +15 9 £57,000 +20.00% 9
Nottinghamshire -32 7 £70,000 +7.69% 22
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 (30.36%) Confluence
2 3 (2.68%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.79%) CMS
4 1 (0.89%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.89%) Mendix
Applications
1 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 84 (75.00%) Azure
2 60 (53.57%) AWS
3 48 (42.86%) GCP
4 19 (16.96%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (13.39%) Power Platform
6 9 (8.04%) IaaS
6 9 (8.04%) PaaS
7 7 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 7 (6.25%) Power Automate
7 7 (6.25%) Snowflake
8 6 (5.36%) Entra ID
9 5 (4.46%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (4.46%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (4.46%) PowerApps
10 4 (3.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 4 (3.57%) SaaS
11 2 (1.79%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (1.79%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (1.79%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 25 (22.32%) VPN
2 13 (11.61%) TCP/IP
3 8 (7.14%) Cisco IOS
4 4 (3.57%) Firewall
4 4 (3.57%) SD-WAN
4 4 (3.57%) WAN
5 2 (1.79%) Broadband
5 2 (1.79%) DNS
5 2 (1.79%) LAN
5 2 (1.79%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (48.21%) SQL Server
2 15 (13.39%) NoSQL
3 10 (8.93%) Power BI
4 9 (8.04%) Data Lake
5 8 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (6.25%) BigQuery
7 4 (3.57%) Big Data
7 4 (3.57%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.79%) MySQL
8 2 (1.79%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.79%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.89%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 54 (48.21%) Cucumber
2 46 (41.07%) JIRA
3 43 (38.39%) Selenium
4 40 (35.71%) Maven
5 39 (34.82%) Bitbucket
5 39 (34.82%) GitLab
5 39 (34.82%) SonarQube
5 39 (34.82%) Sonatype Nexus
6 13 (11.61%) Robot Framework
7 9 (8.04%) Git
8 4 (3.57%) Katalon Studio
9 3 (2.68%) Jenkins
10 2 (1.79%) Appium
10 2 (1.79%) Jaeger
10 2 (1.79%) JMeter
10 2 (1.79%) JUnit
10 2 (1.79%) REST Assured
10 2 (1.79%) TestNG
11 1 (0.89%) NUnit
11 1 (0.89%) Postman
General
1 63 (56.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 46 (41.07%) Finance
3 39 (34.82%) Banking
4 24 (21.43%) Social Skills
5 15 (13.39%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (13.39%) Retail
6 13 (11.61%) Telecoms
7 6 (5.36%) Law
8 5 (4.46%) Corporate Banking
8 5 (4.46%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.79%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.79%) Legal
9 2 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.79%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.89%) Electronics
10 1 (0.89%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 43 (38.39%) Software Engineer
2 18 (16.07%) Developer
3 13 (11.61%) Test Automation Engineer
3 13 (11.61%) Test Engineer
4 10 (8.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (7.14%) Senior
6 7 (6.25%) SQL Developer
7 6 (5.36%) Architect
7 6 (5.36%) Lead
8 5 (4.46%) Database Developer
8 5 (4.46%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 5 (4.46%) SQL Database Developer
9 4 (3.57%) Applications Support
10 3 (2.68%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 3 (2.68%) Azure Engineer
10 3 (2.68%) DevOps Engineer
10 3 (2.68%) Junior
10 3 (2.68%) Junior Developer
11 2 (1.79%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 2 (1.79%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (37.50%) React
2 40 (35.71%) CSS
2 40 (35.71%) HTML
3 39 (34.82%) JPA
3 39 (34.82%) Kafka
3 39 (34.82%) Redux
3 39 (34.82%) Spring
3 39 (34.82%) Spring Boot
4 34 (30.36%) Hibernate
5 16 (14.29%) REST
6 12 (10.71%) .NET
7 10 (8.93%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (7.14%) RESTful
9 7 (6.25%) SOAP
10 6 (5.36%) Jest
11 5 (4.46%) CSS3
11 5 (4.46%) Django
11 5 (4.46%) Flask
11 5 (4.46%) HTML5
11 5 (4.46%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 41 (36.61%) Product Ownership
2 39 (34.82%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (11.61%) Linux Command Line
4 8 (7.14%) Cyberattack
5 5 (4.46%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.79%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.79%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.79%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.79%) NHS
6 2 (1.79%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.79%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.89%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.89%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.89%) PMI
7 1 (0.89%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 25 (22.32%) Linux
2 23 (20.54%) Windows
3 9 (8.04%) Android
4 2 (1.79%) AIX
4 2 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.79%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 2 (1.79%) Unix
4 2 (1.79%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.89%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (56.25%) Agile
2 61 (54.46%) Test Automation
3 57 (50.89%) CI/CD
4 46 (41.07%) Microservices
5 44 (39.29%) Software Engineering
6 43 (38.39%) Containerisation
6 43 (38.39%) Performance Optimisation
6 43 (38.39%) SDLC
7 42 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 41 (36.61%) Full-Stack Development
9 40 (35.71%) Front End Development
10 36 (32.14%) Clean Code
11 35 (31.25%) TDD
12 33 (29.46%) Mentoring
13 30 (26.79%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (14.29%) Coaching
15 14 (12.50%) System Testing
16 13 (11.61%) Infrastructure as Code
16 13 (11.61%) Test Management
17 11 (9.82%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 66 (58.93%) SQL
2 61 (54.46%) JavaScript
3 47 (41.96%) Java
4 33 (29.46%) Python
5 26 (23.21%) Bash
5 26 (23.21%) PowerShell
6 12 (10.71%) C#
7 10 (8.93%) TypeScript
8 7 (6.25%) T-SQL
9 4 (3.57%) Groovy
10 3 (2.68%) Bicep
11 2 (1.79%) Go
11 2 (1.79%) Korn
11 2 (1.79%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.89%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.89%) C++
12 1 (0.89%) PHP
Qualifications
1 19 (16.96%) Degree
2 6 (5.36%) Security Cleared
3 5 (4.46%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.57%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.68%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.79%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.79%) HND
7 1 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.89%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.89%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (48.21%) QA
2 6 (5.36%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 57 (50.89%) Docker
2 8 (7.14%) Hyper-V
2 8 (7.14%) VMware NSX
2 8 (7.14%) vSphere
3 4 (3.57%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.79%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 49 (43.75%) Kubernetes
2 23 (20.54%) Terraform
3 12 (10.71%) Ansible
4 3 (2.68%) Grafana
5 2 (1.79%) Argo
5 2 (1.79%) Kustomize
5 2 (1.79%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.79%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.79%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.89%) Marathon
6 1 (0.89%) QRadar
Vendors
1 39 (34.82%) Solace
2 13 (11.61%) Databricks
3 9 (8.04%) Microsoft
3 9 (8.04%) Splunk
4 8 (7.14%) 3PAR
4 8 (7.14%) Cisco
4 8 (7.14%) Juniper
5 5 (4.46%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.68%) IBM
7 2 (1.79%) Google
7 2 (1.79%) Meraki
7 2 (1.79%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.79%) SAP
7 2 (1.79%) VMware
8 1 (0.89%) LogicMonitor