DevOps Job Trends in the East Midlands

DevOps
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 53 33
Rank change year-on-year -12 -20 -12
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 105 55 228
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 2.50% 3.72% 5.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.44% 4.19% 6.92%
Number of salaries quoted 85 39 186
10th Percentile £52,440 £30,800 £35,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £35,625 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,125 £69,688
90th Percentile £91,000 £85,224 £77,750
England median annual salary £70,932 £70,000 £65,620
% change year-on-year +1.33% +6.68% -6.26%

All Process & 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 3,055 1,314 3,294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 72.74% 88.96% 80.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,806 892 2,489
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,500 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £56,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £68,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

DevOps job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

DevOps
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing DevOps

DevOps
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 17 April 2026.

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 April 2026. 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
Leicestershire +13 59 £67,500 +80.00% 12
Nottinghamshire -9 23 £75,000 +13.21% 11
Derbyshire -22 10 £52,500 -36.36% 3
Northamptonshire -23 8 £65,000 +44.44% 8
Lincolnshire -32 1 £27,000 -62.76% 3
DevOps
England

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 10 (9.52%) IIS
2 1 (0.95%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.90%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.95%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 68 (64.76%) Azure
2 36 (34.29%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (20.95%) AWS
4 10 (9.52%) npm
4 10 (9.52%) NuGet
4 10 (9.52%) SonarCloud
5 7 (6.67%) GitHub
6 6 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (5.71%) Power Platform
7 5 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (3.81%) Azure AKS
8 4 (3.81%) GCP
9 3 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (2.86%) Datadog
9 3 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (2.86%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.90%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (1.90%) IaaS
10 2 (1.90%) PaaS
10 2 (1.90%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.95%) Broadband
1 1 (0.95%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (18.10%) SQL Server
2 11 (10.48%) NoSQL
3 6 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.81%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (3.81%) Power BI
4 4 (3.81%) Redis
5 3 (2.86%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.90%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.90%) Power Query
6 2 (1.90%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.95%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.95%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 14 (13.33%) Git
2 5 (4.76%) XCUITest
3 3 (2.86%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.86%) Selenium
4 2 (1.90%) Postman
5 1 (0.95%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.95%) GitLab
5 1 (0.95%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.95%) JUnit
5 1 (0.95%) MLflow
5 1 (0.95%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.95%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (7.62%) Social Skills
2 7 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (6.67%) Finance
3 6 (5.71%) Marketing
4 4 (3.81%) Retail
5 2 (1.90%) Law
6 1 (0.95%) Advertising
6 1 (0.95%) Health Technology
6 1 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.95%) Legal
6 1 (0.95%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 47 (44.76%) DevOps Engineer
2 36 (34.29%) Senior
3 30 (28.57%) Azure Engineer
4 26 (24.76%) Lead
5 24 (22.86%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 23 (21.90%) Senior DevOps
6 23 (21.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 14 (13.33%) Lead DevOps
8 13 (12.38%) Developer
9 9 (8.57%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (7.62%) Head of DevOps
11 7 (6.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 7 (6.67%) Software Engineer
12 6 (5.71%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 6 (5.71%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 6 (5.71%) Security Engineer
12 6 (5.71%) Senior Software Engineer
13 5 (4.76%) Lead DevOps Engineer
14 4 (3.81%) Lead Software Engineer
14 4 (3.81%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (22.86%) .NET
2 18 (17.14%) React
3 13 (12.38%) Node.js
4 11 (10.48%) .NET Core
5 10 (9.52%) YAML
6 8 (7.62%) .NET Framework
7 7 (6.67%) RESTful
8 6 (5.71%) ASP.NET
9 5 (4.76%) ASP.NET Core
9 5 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (4.76%) SwiftUI
10 3 (2.86%) AngularJS
10 3 (2.86%) Middleware
10 3 (2.86%) OpenTelemetry
11 2 (1.90%) CSS
11 2 (1.90%) Django
11 2 (1.90%) Entity Framework
11 2 (1.90%) Flask
11 2 (1.90%) HTML
11 2 (1.90%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.48%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (4.76%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.86%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.90%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.95%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.95%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.95%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 15 (14.29%) Linux
2 13 (12.38%) Windows
3 5 (4.76%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.95%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (38.10%) CI/CD
2 23 (21.90%) Agile
3 20 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (16.19%) Mentoring
5 16 (15.24%) Containerisation
5 16 (15.24%) Microservices
6 14 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (13.33%) Test Automation
7 13 (12.38%) DevSecOps
8 12 (11.43%) Cybersecurity
9 10 (9.52%) Platform Engineering
9 10 (9.52%) Software Engineering
9 10 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
10 9 (8.57%) E-Commerce
11 8 (7.62%) DataOps
11 8 (7.62%) Migration
11 8 (7.62%) Performance Tuning
11 8 (7.62%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (6.67%) Line Management
13 6 (5.71%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 22 (20.95%) C#
2 15 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 14 (13.33%) Bash
3 14 (13.33%) SQL
4 9 (8.57%) JavaScript
4 9 (8.57%) Python
5 5 (4.76%) Bicep
5 5 (4.76%) Swift
6 4 (3.81%) Java
7 2 (1.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.90%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.95%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.95%) Delphi
8 1 (0.95%) Go
8 1 (0.95%) Rust
Qualifications
1 6 (5.71%) SC Cleared
1 6 (5.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.81%) Degree
3 3 (2.86%) Azure Certification
3 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.90%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.95%) Chartered Engineer
5 1 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.81%) QA
2 3 (2.86%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.95%) GDPR
3 1 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 20 (19.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (20.95%) Terraform
2 20 (19.05%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.76%) Grafana
4 3 (2.86%) Ansible
5 2 (1.90%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.95%) Argo
6 1 (0.95%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (15.24%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.52%) CrowdStrike
3 5 (4.76%) Apple
4 4 (3.81%) Oracle
5 3 (2.86%) LogicMonitor
6 2 (1.90%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.90%) SAP
6 2 (1.90%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.95%) Databricks
7 1 (0.95%) Google
7 1 (0.95%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.95%) Salesforce