DevOps Contracts in the East Midlands

DevOps
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 18 24
Rank change year-on-year -11 +6 -7
Contract jobs citing DevOps 40 86 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 5.23% 8.48% 6.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.68% 9.62% 8.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 72 68
10th Percentile £356 £301 £345
25th Percentile £408 £360 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £453
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -6.08% +13.13%
75th Percentile £538 £578 £500
90th Percentile £598 £700 £572
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £46.67
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £57.89
% change year-on-year -0.76% +13.15% +10.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

DevOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 599 894 1,150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 78.30% 88.17% 82.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 411 694 858
10th Percentile £200 £210 £200
25th Percentile £270 £335 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £463 £440
Median % change year-on-year -9.62% +5.11% +12.46%
75th Percentile £550 £579 £522
90th Percentile £623 £700 £614
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 52 81
10th Percentile £11.24 £11.89 £9.74
25th Percentile £12.75 £16.25 £13.73
Median hourly rate £17.00 £22.38 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.04% +11.90% +36.99%
75th Percentile £26.15 £51.50 £29.38
90th Percentile £35.00 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in the East Midlands

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the East Midlands

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in the East Midlands

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northamptonshire +23 23 £455 -17.27% 12
Leicestershire -6 9 £422 +1.08% 15
Derbyshire -7 3 £538 +9.69% 7
Nottinghamshire -7 3 £450 -25.77% 24
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 5 (12.50%) JBoss
2 1 (2.50%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (50.00%) AWS
2 12 (30.00%) Azure
3 6 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (15.00%) OpenShift
4 4 (10.00%) Serverless
5 3 (7.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (5.00%) dbt
7 1 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.50%) GCP
7 1 (2.50%) Rubrik
7 1 (2.50%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) SAN
2 1 (2.50%) DSL
2 1 (2.50%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 7 (17.50%) Relational Database
3 5 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (12.50%) RDBMS
4 3 (7.50%) SQL Server
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (5.00%) Tableau
6 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.50%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (2.50%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (2.50%) Metadata
6 1 (2.50%) MySQL
6 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.50%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 15 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 14 (35.00%) JIRA
3 12 (30.00%) Git
4 6 (15.00%) CA Release Automation
5 5 (12.50%) Bitbucket Server
5 5 (12.50%) SonarQube
5 5 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (12.50%) TeamCity
6 3 (7.50%) JMeter
7 2 (5.00%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (32.50%) Banking
2 5 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 4 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (7.50%) Finance
5 1 (2.50%) Games
5 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (22.50%) Architect
2 7 (17.50%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) Developer
4 5 (12.50%) Support Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Data Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) ForgeRock Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Performance Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Performance Test Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Test Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Analyst
7 2 (5.00%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (5.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Business Analyst
7 2 (5.00%) Consultant
7 2 (5.00%) Senior
7 2 (5.00%) Software Developer
8 1 (2.50%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (12.50%) Spring Boot
2 4 (10.00%) OAuth
2 4 (10.00%) OpenID
2 4 (10.00%) React
2 4 (10.00%) REST
2 4 (10.00%) SAML
3 3 (7.50%) CSS
3 3 (7.50%) HTML
3 3 (7.50%) JSON
3 3 (7.50%) OAuth2
3 3 (7.50%) RESTful
4 2 (5.00%) .NET
4 2 (5.00%) .NET Core
4 2 (5.00%) .NET Framework
4 2 (5.00%) Entity Framework
4 2 (5.00%) GraphQL
4 2 (5.00%) jQuery
4 2 (5.00%) Node.js
5 1 (2.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Credit Risk
2 4 (10.00%) Virtual Team
3 3 (7.50%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (2.50%) e-Health
4 1 (2.50%) FMCG
4 1 (2.50%) HP Storage
4 1 (2.50%) Insider Threat
4 1 (2.50%) LIMS
4 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.50%) NHS
4 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.50%) Online Banking
4 1 (2.50%) PACS
4 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (22.50%) Linux
2 8 (20.00%) Windows
3 5 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.50%) AIX
4 1 (2.50%) Solaris
4 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (22.50%) Agile
1 9 (22.50%) CI/CD
2 8 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 8 (20.00%) Microservices
3 7 (17.50%) Migration
4 6 (15.00%) Architectural Design
5 5 (12.50%) Build Automation
5 5 (12.50%) Code Quality
5 5 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
5 5 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (12.50%) Test Automation
6 4 (10.00%) Scrum
6 4 (10.00%) Software Testing
7 3 (7.50%) DevSecOps
7 3 (7.50%) Mentoring
7 3 (7.50%) MVC
7 3 (7.50%) Performance Testing
7 3 (7.50%) Project Management
7 3 (7.50%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 8 (20.00%) Python
2 6 (15.00%) Perl
3 5 (12.50%) C#
3 5 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 4 (10.00%) SQL
5 3 (7.50%) BeanShell
5 3 (7.50%) Java
6 2 (5.00%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.50%) Bash
7 1 (2.50%) Ruby
7 1 (2.50%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (2.50%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.50%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.00%) ISEB
3 3 (7.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (7.50%) Degree
3 3 (7.50%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.50%) CBAP
4 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) GDPR
1 2 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.50%) HL7
2 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 8 (20.00%) Docker
2 6 (15.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (7.50%) OpenAM
3 3 (7.50%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 13 (32.50%) Progress Chef
2 8 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 6 (15.00%) Terraform
4 5 (12.50%) Kibana
5 1 (2.50%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (2.50%) HP Data Protector
5 1 (2.50%) NetBackup
5 1 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (15.00%) Splunk
2 5 (12.50%) AppDynamics
2 5 (12.50%) Red Hat
3 4 (10.00%) ForgeRock
4 2 (5.00%) Databricks
4 2 (5.00%) SAP
5 1 (2.50%) Alteryx
5 1 (2.50%) Ariba
5 1 (2.50%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.50%) Brocade
5 1 (2.50%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (2.50%) Cisco
5 1 (2.50%) EMC
5 1 (2.50%) HP
5 1 (2.50%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.50%) Oracle
5 1 (2.50%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.50%) Symantec
5 1 (2.50%) Workday