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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 33 22
Rank change year-on-year -41 -11 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 101 247 293
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 3.64% 5.51% 10.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.93% 6.93% 10.86%
Number of salaries quoted 32 159 124
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,150 £42,000
25th Percentile £40,938 £46,250 £49,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -
75th Percentile £76,250 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,625 £78,450 £80,000
England median annual salary £72,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.77% -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 2,567 3,564 2,697
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 92.50% 79.52% 95.98%
Number of salaries quoted 983 2,511 1,268
10th Percentile £25,625 £25,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £44,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -12.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £58,000 £56,200 £65,000
90th Percentile £68,320 £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 18 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 18 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 +4 41 £45,000 -37.93% 18
Derbyshire -6 17 £82,500 +43.48% 18
Leicestershire -26 17 £52,500 +10.53% 26
Nottinghamshire -21 13 £68,013 +13.35% 32
Lincolnshire +16 8 £72,500 +52.63% 18
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 (33.66%) Confluence
2 3 (2.97%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.98%) CMS
3 2 (1.98%) IIS
4 1 (0.99%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.99%) Mendix
Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.99%) Moqups
1 1 (0.99%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 70 (69.31%) Azure
2 57 (56.44%) AWS
3 37 (36.63%) GCP
4 14 (13.86%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (8.91%) IaaS
6 8 (7.92%) PaaS
6 8 (7.92%) Power Platform
7 6 (5.94%) Entra ID
7 6 (5.94%) SaaS
8 5 (4.95%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (4.95%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (3.96%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 4 (3.96%) Power Automate
9 4 (3.96%) Serverless
10 3 (2.97%) Azure Functions
11 2 (1.98%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (1.98%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (1.98%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (1.98%) PowerApps
11 2 (1.98%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 25 (24.75%) VPN
2 13 (12.87%) TCP/IP
3 8 (7.92%) Cisco IOS
4 4 (3.96%) Firewall
4 4 (3.96%) SD-WAN
4 4 (3.96%) WAN
5 2 (1.98%) Broadband
5 2 (1.98%) DNS
5 2 (1.98%) LAN
5 2 (1.98%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (45.54%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.93%) NoSQL
3 6 (5.94%) Power BI
4 5 (4.95%) Data Lake
5 4 (3.96%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (3.96%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.98%) MySQL
6 2 (1.98%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 52 (51.49%) Cucumber
2 43 (42.57%) JIRA
3 40 (39.60%) GitLab
4 39 (38.61%) Bitbucket
4 39 (38.61%) Maven
4 39 (38.61%) Selenium
4 39 (38.61%) SonarQube
4 39 (38.61%) Sonatype Nexus
5 13 (12.87%) Robot Framework
6 5 (4.95%) Git
7 3 (2.97%) Postman
7 3 (2.97%) Visual Studio
8 2 (1.98%) Jaeger
8 2 (1.98%) Subversion
8 2 (1.98%) TortoiseSVN
9 1 (0.99%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.99%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.99%) NUnit
9 1 (0.99%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 63 (62.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 48 (47.52%) Finance
3 39 (38.61%) Banking
4 20 (19.80%) Social Skills
5 13 (12.87%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (12.87%) Telecoms
6 8 (7.92%) Law
7 7 (6.93%) Retail
8 5 (4.95%) Corporate Banking
8 5 (4.95%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.97%) Legal
10 2 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.98%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.99%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.99%) Electronics
11 1 (0.99%) Games
11 1 (0.99%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 41 (40.59%) Software Engineer
2 13 (12.87%) Developer
2 13 (12.87%) Test Automation Engineer
2 13 (12.87%) Test Engineer
3 10 (9.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (5.94%) Lead
5 5 (4.95%) Architect
5 5 (4.95%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 5 (4.95%) Senior
6 4 (3.96%) Analyst
6 4 (3.96%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (2.97%) Applications Support
7 3 (2.97%) Junior
7 3 (2.97%) Senior Developer
8 2 (1.98%) Junior Developer
8 2 (1.98%) Lead Developer
8 2 (1.98%) Senior C# Developer
8 2 (1.98%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (1.98%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.98%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (45.54%) React
2 40 (39.60%) CSS
2 40 (39.60%) HTML
2 40 (39.60%) Kafka
2 40 (39.60%) Spring
2 40 (39.60%) Spring Boot
3 39 (38.61%) JPA
3 39 (38.61%) Redux
4 34 (33.66%) Hibernate
5 11 (10.89%) REST
6 10 (9.90%) .NET
6 10 (9.90%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (6.93%) Jest
7 7 (6.93%) RESTful
8 5 (4.95%) .NET Framework
8 5 (4.95%) CSS3
8 5 (4.95%) HTML5
8 5 (4.95%) Sass
9 4 (3.96%) AngularJS
9 4 (3.96%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 42 (41.58%) Product Ownership
2 39 (38.61%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (12.87%) Linux Command Line
4 8 (7.92%) Cyberattack
5 2 (1.98%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.98%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.98%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.98%) NHS
5 2 (1.98%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.99%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.99%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.99%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 26 (25.74%) Linux
1 26 (25.74%) Windows
2 9 (8.91%) Android
3 2 (1.98%) Unix
3 2 (1.98%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.98%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.99%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.99%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (55.45%) Agile
2 52 (51.49%) Test Automation
3 49 (48.51%) CI/CD
4 47 (46.53%) Microservices
5 44 (43.56%) Full-Stack Development
5 44 (43.56%) Software Engineering
6 43 (42.57%) Containerisation
6 43 (42.57%) Performance Optimisation
6 43 (42.57%) SDLC
7 41 (40.59%) Front End Development
8 39 (38.61%) Continuous Improvement
9 34 (33.66%) Clean Code
9 34 (33.66%) TDD
10 30 (29.70%) Mentoring
11 28 (27.72%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (14.85%) Coaching
13 14 (13.86%) System Testing
14 13 (12.87%) Test Management
15 10 (9.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 10 (9.90%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 63 (62.38%) SQL
2 62 (61.39%) JavaScript
3 43 (42.57%) Java
4 25 (24.75%) PowerShell
4 25 (24.75%) Python
5 23 (22.77%) Bash
6 10 (9.90%) C#
6 10 (9.90%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.98%) Bicep
7 2 (1.98%) Go
8 1 (0.99%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.99%) PHP
Qualifications
1 17 (16.83%) Degree
2 4 (3.96%) Azure Certification
3 3 (2.97%) DBS Check
4 2 (1.98%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.99%) ISEB
5 1 (0.99%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.99%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.99%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (54.46%) QA
2 6 (5.94%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 55 (54.46%) Docker
2 8 (7.92%) Hyper-V
2 8 (7.92%) VMware NSX
2 8 (7.92%) vSphere
3 4 (3.96%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 47 (46.53%) Kubernetes
2 16 (15.84%) Terraform
3 11 (10.89%) Ansible
4 2 (1.98%) Argo
4 2 (1.98%) Kustomize
4 2 (1.98%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.99%) Consul
5 1 (0.99%) Marathon
5 1 (0.99%) Packer
5 1 (0.99%) QRadar
5 1 (0.99%) Rancher
Vendors
1 39 (38.61%) Solace
2 12 (11.88%) Microsoft
3 9 (8.91%) Splunk
4 8 (7.92%) 3PAR
4 8 (7.92%) Cisco
4 8 (7.92%) Juniper
5 5 (4.95%) Databricks
6 4 (3.96%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.98%) Google
7 2 (1.98%) Meraki
7 2 (1.98%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.99%) Adobe
8 1 (0.99%) IBM
8 1 (0.99%) VMware