DevOps Contract Job Trends in England

DevOps
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,428 2,420 3,478
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.63% 10.05% 9.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.50% 11.01% 11.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,103 1,754 2,417
10th Percentile £393 £390 £400
25th Percentile £443 £450 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £755 £750
UK median daily rate £523 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -6.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 11 110
10th Percentile £39.53 £35.00 £56.50
25th Percentile £59.94 £51.25 £61.34
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - +3.05% -
75th Percentile £78.25 £82.48 £77.50
90th Percentile £94.25 £92.50 £87.05
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £73.23 £65.50
% change year-on-year -4.40% +11.79% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 35,421 21,987 31,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.00% 91.31% 85.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,454 14,284 20,634
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,213 963 2,325
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.60 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.34% -23.73% +0.43%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £27.99 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.84% -23.32% +0.29%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

DevOps job vacancy trend in England

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing DevOps

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in England

DevOps
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing DevOps.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing DevOps

DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps in England

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the England region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +3 2,253 £550 - 684
North of England +7 819 £500 - 321
South East +3 468 £525 +5.00% 259
Yorkshire +2 460 £500 - 89
Midlands +5 406 £488 -2.50% 129
West Midlands +4 318 £500 -4.58% 90
North West 0 294 £500 - 179
South West +14 277 £523 -5.00% 142
East of England +20 128 £525 +5.00% 81
East Midlands +1 84 £465 +0.54% 39
North East +5 81 £450 -14.29% 54
DevOps
UK

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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
1 249 (5.62%) Confluence
2 123 (2.78%) Apache Spark
3 107 (2.42%) SharePoint
4 90 (2.03%) Apache
5 80 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
6 68 (1.54%) SAS
7 42 (0.95%) CMS
8 26 (0.59%) IIS
9 24 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
9 24 (0.54%) nginx
10 18 (0.41%) Jupyter
10 18 (0.41%) OpenStack
11 14 (0.32%) Camunda
12 12 (0.27%) WebSphere
13 11 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
14 9 (0.20%) Mendix
14 9 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
15 8 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 8 (0.18%) HCL Notes
15 8 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 67 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
3 46 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 33 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
5 24 (0.54%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.090%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.090%) CPLEX
6 4 (0.090%) Notion
7 3 (0.068%) Trello
8 2 (0.045%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.045%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.023%) InDesign
9 1 (0.023%) Maya
9 1 (0.023%) Weka
Business Applications
1 57 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 10 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
5 9 (0.20%) Maximo
6 8 (0.18%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
7 6 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.11%) Endur
8 5 (0.11%) Magento
9 4 (0.090%) NEC Housing
9 4 (0.090%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.068%) Findur
10 3 (0.068%) OpenText MBPM
10 3 (0.068%) Oracle BPM
10 3 (0.068%) SAP BPC
10 3 (0.068%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.068%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.068%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.068%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 2,370 (53.52%) Azure
2 1,499 (33.85%) AWS
3 1,290 (29.13%) Azure DevOps
4 725 (16.37%) GitHub
5 566 (12.78%) GCP
6 429 (9.69%) GitHub Actions
7 395 (8.92%) Serverless
8 374 (8.45%) Power Platform
9 241 (5.44%) Amazon S3
10 218 (4.92%) Entra ID
11 209 (4.72%) AWS Lambda
12 189 (4.27%) AWS CloudFormation
13 186 (4.20%) Azure AKS
14 184 (4.16%) Azure Data Factory
15 165 (3.73%) OpenShift
16 153 (3.46%) Amazon EKS
17 141 (3.18%) PaaS
18 138 (3.12%) Amazon EC2
19 137 (3.09%) Azure Monitor
20 135 (3.05%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 215 (4.86%) Firewall
2 115 (2.60%) DNS
3 94 (2.12%) Network Security
4 90 (2.03%) VPN
5 45 (1.02%) TCP/IP
6 41 (0.93%) WAN
7 35 (0.79%) SD-WAN
8 30 (0.68%) BGP
9 27 (0.61%) SSL
10 25 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
11 22 (0.50%) DHCP
11 22 (0.50%) OSPF
12 20 (0.45%) SAN
13 18 (0.41%) HTTP
13 18 (0.41%) IPsec
14 17 (0.38%) Internet
14 17 (0.38%) MPLS
15 16 (0.36%) LAN
15 16 (0.36%) VXLAN
16 14 (0.32%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 246 (5.56%) Power BI
2 228 (5.15%) SQL Server
3 211 (4.77%) PostgreSQL
4 157 (3.55%) Data Lake
4 157 (3.55%) NoSQL
5 133 (3.00%) Relational Database
6 126 (2.85%) Data Warehouse
7 113 (2.55%) MongoDB
8 96 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
9 92 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
10 83 (1.87%) Delta Lake
11 77 (1.74%) DynamoDB
12 71 (1.60%) Metadata
13 69 (1.56%) Oracle Database
14 59 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
15 54 (1.22%) Big Data
16 53 (1.20%) Redis
17 50 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
17 50 (1.13%) BigQuery
18 45 (1.02%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 620 (14.00%) Jenkins
2 552 (12.47%) Git
3 520 (11.74%) JIRA
4 459 (10.37%) GitLab
5 91 (2.06%) Selenium
6 89 (2.01%) Postman
7 75 (1.69%) SonarQube
8 73 (1.65%) JUnit
9 60 (1.36%) Bitbucket
10 58 (1.31%) Maven
10 58 (1.31%) REST Assured
11 52 (1.17%) Cucumber
12 48 (1.08%) Artifactory
13 44 (0.99%) JMeter
14 40 (0.90%) Cypress.io
14 40 (0.90%) Gatling
15 36 (0.81%) Gradle
16 35 (0.79%) Mockito
17 29 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
18 26 (0.59%) LoadRunner
General
1 1,122 (25.34%) Social Skills
2 835 (18.86%) Finance
3 545 (12.31%) Public Sector
4 366 (8.27%) Analytical Skills
5 307 (6.93%) Banking
6 135 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
7 74 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 69 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
9 61 (1.38%) Retail
10 54 (1.22%) Legal
11 48 (1.08%) Marketing
12 47 (1.06%) Financial Institution
13 46 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
14 39 (0.88%) Investment Banking
15 37 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
16 36 (0.81%) Military
17 34 (0.77%) Front Office
18 30 (0.68%) Law
19 23 (0.52%) Aerospace
20 20 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 878 (19.83%) DevOps Engineer
2 619 (13.98%) Developer
2 619 (13.98%) Senior
3 539 (12.17%) Architect
4 394 (8.90%) Lead
5 298 (6.73%) Azure Engineer
6 279 (6.30%) Data Engineer
7 262 (5.92%) Analyst
8 188 (4.25%) AWS Engineer
9 172 (3.88%) Cloud Engineer
10 171 (3.86%) Solutions Architect
11 158 (3.57%) Platform Engineer
12 144 (3.25%) Senior DevOps
13 142 (3.21%) Business Analyst
14 141 (3.18%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 138 (3.12%) Software Engineer
16 130 (2.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 128 (2.89%) AWS DevOps
18 120 (2.71%) Java Developer
19 118 (2.66%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 397 (8.97%) REST
2 377 (8.51%) .NET
3 254 (5.74%) Kafka
3 254 (5.74%) React
4 237 (5.35%) Spring
5 227 (5.13%) Spring Boot
6 210 (4.74%) Node.js
7 195 (4.40%) RESTful
8 147 (3.32%) AngularJS
9 130 (2.94%) PySpark
10 124 (2.80%) OAuth
10 124 (2.80%) Playwright
10 124 (2.80%) YAML
11 119 (2.69%) JSON
12 103 (2.33%) SOAP
13 100 (2.26%) Middleware
14 96 (2.17%) HTML
15 95 (2.15%) .NET Framework
15 95 (2.15%) OpenID
16 85 (1.92%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 736 (16.62%) Cloud Native
2 276 (6.23%) Product Ownership
3 175 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
4 116 (2.62%) Onboarding
5 105 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
6 94 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
7 92 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
8 83 (1.87%) Public Cloud
9 69 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
10 61 (1.38%) Data Centre
11 58 (1.31%) Management Information System
12 47 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
13 45 (1.02%) Security Posture
14 44 (0.99%) AI Agents
14 44 (0.99%) Mobile App
14 44 (0.99%) Replication
15 41 (0.93%) Private Cloud
16 40 (0.90%) Virtual Team
17 39 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
18 37 (0.84%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 392 (8.85%) Linux
2 230 (5.19%) Windows
3 86 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 63 (1.42%) Unix
5 47 (1.06%) Windows Server
6 34 (0.77%) VMS
7 26 (0.59%) Ubuntu
8 19 (0.43%) Apple iOS
9 16 (0.36%) Android
10 13 (0.29%) CentOS
11 10 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (0.16%) Windows 10
13 6 (0.14%) Solaris
13 6 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
15 4 (0.090%) Alpine Linux
15 4 (0.090%) Data ONTAP
15 4 (0.090%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.090%) Windows Server 2012
16 3 (0.068%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,509 (56.66%) CI/CD
2 1,601 (36.16%) Agile
3 1,139 (25.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 688 (15.54%) Containerisation
5 674 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
6 630 (14.23%) Microservices
7 616 (13.91%) Test Automation
8 595 (13.44%) Continuous Improvement
9 551 (12.44%) Migration
10 547 (12.35%) Observability
11 524 (11.83%) Stakeholder Management
12 515 (11.63%) Analytics
13 510 (11.52%) AI
14 498 (11.25%) Scrum
15 453 (10.23%) Software Engineering
16 424 (9.58%) Platform Engineering
17 409 (9.24%) Data Modelling
18 374 (8.45%) Mentoring
18 374 (8.45%) Roadmaps
19 365 (8.24%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1,217 (27.48%) Python
2 894 (20.19%) SQL
3 602 (13.60%) Java
4 409 (9.24%) C#
5 335 (7.57%) PowerShell
6 329 (7.43%) Bash
7 313 (7.07%) JavaScript
8 225 (5.08%) TypeScript
9 150 (3.39%) Bicep
10 91 (2.06%) Go
11 63 (1.42%) Scala
12 54 (1.22%) Shell Script
13 48 (1.08%) PL/SQL
14 45 (1.02%) Apex Code
14 45 (1.02%) T-SQL
15 40 (0.90%) Groovy
16 27 (0.61%) C++
16 27 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 23 (0.52%) Kotlin
18 22 (0.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,404 (31.71%) Security Cleared
2 1,151 (25.99%) SC Cleared
3 294 (6.64%) Degree
4 196 (4.43%) Azure Certification
5 142 (3.21%) DV Cleared
6 126 (2.85%) AWS Certification
7 125 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
8 113 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
9 76 (1.72%) CISSP
10 59 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
11 47 (1.06%) CISM
12 42 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
12 42 (0.95%) ISTQB
13 41 (0.93%) Master's Degree
14 39 (0.88%) PMI Certification
15 38 (0.86%) PMP
16 36 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 23 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
18 21 (0.47%) IIBA
18 21 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 382 (8.63%) QA
2 206 (4.65%) Data Quality
3 166 (3.75%) GDPR
4 117 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 112 (2.53%) Accessibility
5 112 (2.53%) NIST
6 61 (1.38%) NCSC
7 53 (1.20%) WCAG
8 44 (0.99%) PCI DSS
9 39 (0.88%) SLA
10 30 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 27 (0.61%) PMO
12 21 (0.47%) GRC
13 15 (0.34%) HIPAA
14 13 (0.29%) NIST 800
14 13 (0.29%) SOC 2
15 12 (0.27%) ISO 20022
15 12 (0.27%) PSD2
16 9 (0.20%) SEPA
17 7 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 842 (19.02%) Docker
2 162 (3.66%) Active Directory
3 70 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
4 60 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 33 (0.75%) vSphere
6 22 (0.50%) VMware NSX
7 17 (0.38%) Squid
7 17 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.32%) Postfix
9 12 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
10 10 (0.23%) Hyper-V
11 8 (0.18%) Firmware
12 7 (0.16%) RACF
13 6 (0.14%) Corosync
14 5 (0.11%) HDFS
14 5 (0.11%) NFS
14 5 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
14 5 (0.11%) SRDF
15 4 (0.090%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 4 (0.090%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,251 (28.25%) Terraform
2 1,130 (25.52%) Kubernetes
3 453 (10.23%) Ansible
4 301 (6.80%) Grafana
5 255 (5.76%) Prometheus
6 83 (1.87%) Argo
7 70 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
8 62 (1.40%) Puppet
9 45 (1.02%) Istio
10 32 (0.72%) Progress Chef
11 27 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
12 25 (0.56%) Packer
13 22 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 22 (0.50%) vCenter Server
14 21 (0.47%) Kibana
15 16 (0.36%) Consul
15 16 (0.36%) HP ALM
16 14 (0.32%) FortiGate
17 13 (0.29%) Rancher
18 12 (0.27%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 796 (17.98%) Microsoft
2 253 (5.71%) Databricks
3 245 (5.53%) Oracle
4 203 (4.58%) Google
5 173 (3.91%) Splunk
6 163 (3.68%) ServiceNow
7 138 (3.12%) Red Hat
8 134 (3.03%) Salesforce
9 100 (2.26%) VMware
10 99 (2.24%) SAP
11 94 (2.12%) Dynatrace
12 60 (1.36%) OpenAI
13 47 (1.06%) Atlassian
13 47 (1.06%) CyberArk
14 45 (1.02%) IBM
15 38 (0.86%) Informatica
16 36 (0.81%) AppDynamics
16 36 (0.81%) Cisco
16 36 (0.81%) Foundry
17 30 (0.68%) Okta