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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,847 2,918 3,340
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.63% 10.56% 10.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.50% 11.63% 11.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,322 2,105 2,278
10th Percentile £385 £359 £400
25th Percentile £438 £425 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 23 82
10th Percentile £36.12 £36.50 £56.25
25th Percentile £55.00 £52.13 £61.60
Median hourly rate £67.25 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.37% -4.29% +6.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 £85.86 £74.44
90th Percentile £88.00 £95.00 £85.61
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +0.75% -4.29% +6.87%

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 38,785 25,097 28,627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.06% 90.81% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,091 16,007 18,621
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,533 1,429 1,649
10th Percentile £14.48 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.34 £17.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.87%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.30 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +68.19% -39.40% -2.35%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 14 August 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 0 2,527 £550 - 2,181
North of England 0 830 £500 +4.17% 526
South East -9 474 £525 +5.00% 482
Midlands -3 459 £488 -2.50% 243
Yorkshire 0 412 £500 +1.75% 137
West Midlands -2 378 £490 -4.85% 158
North West -3 324 £525 +11.11% 288
South West +6 316 £525 +0.96% 229
East of England +14 137 £505 +1.00% 135
North East +13 111 £425 -19.05% 105
East Midlands -4 76 £488 +6.85% 84
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
1 282 (5.82%) Confluence
2 127 (2.62%) SharePoint
3 120 (2.48%) Apache Spark
4 119 (2.46%) Apache Airflow
5 102 (2.10%) Apache
6 77 (1.59%) SAS
7 41 (0.85%) CMS
8 34 (0.70%) Jupyter
9 32 (0.66%) IIS
10 23 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
11 20 (0.41%) nginx
12 13 (0.27%) Camunda
13 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
13 11 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
13 11 (0.23%) WebSphere
14 10 (0.21%) OpenStack
15 9 (0.19%) Anypoint
15 9 (0.19%) Appian
16 6 (0.12%) Mattermost
16 6 (0.12%) Mule
Applications
1 61 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
2 55 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 34 (0.70%) MS Visio
4 30 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
5 26 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.19%) CPLEX
8 8 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
9 7 (0.14%) Trello
10 5 (0.10%) Notion
11 1 (0.021%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.021%) Gliffy
11 1 (0.021%) InDesign
11 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 61 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.23%) Aladdin
3 11 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
4 9 (0.19%) Magento
4 9 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
5 8 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
5 8 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 5 (0.10%) Maximo
7 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
7 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
7 5 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.083%) Endur
8 4 (0.083%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.083%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.062%) Findur
9 3 (0.062%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.062%) Shopify
9 3 (0.062%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2,620 (54.05%) Azure
2 1,672 (34.50%) AWS
3 1,518 (31.32%) Azure DevOps
4 812 (16.75%) GitHub
5 600 (12.38%) GCP
6 508 (10.48%) GitHub Actions
7 421 (8.69%) Power Platform
8 382 (7.88%) Serverless
9 241 (4.97%) Entra ID
10 240 (4.95%) Amazon S3
11 222 (4.58%) AWS Lambda
12 188 (3.88%) Azure AKS
13 183 (3.78%) AWS CloudFormation
14 181 (3.73%) Azure Data Factory
15 179 (3.69%) Amazon EKS
16 176 (3.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 168 (3.47%) Azure Monitor
18 152 (3.14%) Dynamics 365
19 151 (3.12%) Power Automate
20 148 (3.05%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 233 (4.81%) Firewall
2 143 (2.95%) DNS
3 116 (2.39%) VPN
4 104 (2.15%) Network Security
5 61 (1.26%) TCP/IP
6 51 (1.05%) WAN
7 42 (0.87%) SSL
8 38 (0.78%) DHCP
9 37 (0.76%) SD-WAN
10 32 (0.66%) Internet
11 31 (0.64%) BGP
12 29 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
13 25 (0.52%) HTTP
13 25 (0.52%) OSPF
14 21 (0.43%) VLAN
15 20 (0.41%) SAN
16 18 (0.37%) VXLAN
17 17 (0.35%) LAN
17 17 (0.35%) MPLS
17 17 (0.35%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 292 (6.02%) Power BI
2 256 (5.28%) SQL Server
3 232 (4.79%) PostgreSQL
4 176 (3.63%) Data Warehouse
5 166 (3.42%) NoSQL
6 154 (3.18%) Relational Database
7 144 (2.97%) Data Lake
8 139 (2.87%) MongoDB
9 103 (2.13%) Metadata
10 99 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
11 95 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
12 82 (1.69%) Delta Lake
13 75 (1.55%) DynamoDB
14 74 (1.53%) Oracle Database
15 60 (1.24%) Redis
16 58 (1.20%) Big Data
17 57 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
18 52 (1.07%) BigQuery
19 51 (1.05%) MySQL
20 47 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 681 (14.05%) Jenkins
2 651 (13.43%) Git
3 572 (11.80%) JIRA
4 509 (10.50%) GitLab
5 106 (2.19%) Selenium
6 87 (1.79%) SonarQube
7 82 (1.69%) Postman
8 75 (1.55%) JUnit
9 74 (1.53%) Bitbucket
10 73 (1.51%) Maven
11 54 (1.11%) Cypress.io
11 54 (1.11%) JMeter
12 53 (1.09%) REST Assured
13 50 (1.03%) Cucumber
14 47 (0.97%) Gatling
15 45 (0.93%) Gradle
16 40 (0.83%) LoadRunner
17 35 (0.72%) Mockito
18 34 (0.70%) Artifactory
18 34 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,250 (25.79%) Social Skills
2 916 (18.90%) Finance
3 663 (13.68%) Public Sector
4 463 (9.55%) Analytical Skills
5 340 (7.01%) Banking
6 132 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 99 (2.04%) Retail
8 89 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
9 67 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
10 58 (1.20%) Legal
11 56 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
12 54 (1.11%) Marketing
13 50 (1.03%) Investment Banking
14 46 (0.95%) Aerospace
15 43 (0.89%) Military
16 41 (0.85%) Front Office
17 40 (0.83%) Financial Institution
17 40 (0.83%) Law
17 40 (0.83%) Telecoms
18 35 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 881 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 768 (15.84%) Developer
3 721 (14.88%) Senior
4 545 (11.24%) Architect
5 488 (10.07%) Lead
6 293 (6.04%) Data Engineer
7 291 (6.00%) Azure Engineer
8 246 (5.08%) Analyst
9 208 (4.29%) AWS Engineer
10 195 (4.02%) Platform Engineer
11 179 (3.69%) Cloud Engineer
12 170 (3.51%) Senior DevOps
13 167 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
14 155 (3.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 148 (3.05%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 146 (3.01%) AWS DevOps
17 141 (2.91%) Java Developer
17 141 (2.91%) Software Engineer
18 135 (2.79%) Senior Developer
19 133 (2.74%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 494 (10.19%) REST
2 426 (8.79%) .NET
3 304 (6.27%) Kafka
4 258 (5.32%) RESTful
5 242 (4.99%) React
6 234 (4.83%) Spring
7 216 (4.46%) Spring Boot
8 174 (3.59%) Node.js
9 156 (3.22%) JSON
10 143 (2.95%) PySpark
11 136 (2.81%) OAuth
12 133 (2.74%) Playwright
13 128 (2.64%) AngularJS
14 127 (2.62%) .NET Framework
15 123 (2.54%) SOAP
16 111 (2.29%) HTML
17 103 (2.13%) YAML
18 95 (1.96%) CSS
19 94 (1.94%) OAuth2
20 88 (1.82%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 873 (18.01%) Cloud Native
2 343 (7.08%) Product Ownership
3 227 (4.68%) Distributed Systems
4 152 (3.14%) Onboarding
5 148 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
6 134 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
7 133 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
8 81 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
9 72 (1.49%) AI Agents
10 70 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
11 67 (1.38%) Management Information System
11 67 (1.38%) Security Posture
12 63 (1.30%) Data Structures
12 63 (1.30%) Public Cloud
13 59 (1.22%) Data Centre
14 54 (1.11%) Replication
15 49 (1.01%) Mobile App
16 48 (0.99%) Virtual Team
17 39 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
18 38 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 449 (9.26%) Linux
2 272 (5.61%) Windows
3 105 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 82 (1.69%) Unix
5 75 (1.55%) Windows Server
6 29 (0.60%) Ubuntu
7 27 (0.56%) Apple iOS
8 24 (0.50%) VMS
9 18 (0.37%) Android
10 8 (0.17%) AIX
10 8 (0.17%) CentOS
10 8 (0.17%) Solaris
10 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.17%) zOS
11 7 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
12 6 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
14 4 (0.083%) Alpine Linux
14 4 (0.083%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,803 (57.83%) CI/CD
2 1,954 (40.31%) Agile
3 1,312 (27.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 801 (16.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 770 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
6 763 (15.74%) Containerisation
7 746 (15.39%) Test Automation
8 726 (14.98%) Stakeholder Management
9 705 (14.55%) AI
10 691 (14.26%) Microservices
11 618 (12.75%) Observability
12 601 (12.40%) Software Engineering
13 596 (12.30%) Scrum
14 584 (12.05%) Platform Engineering
15 575 (11.86%) Migration
16 551 (11.37%) Analytics
17 478 (9.86%) Technical Leadership
18 459 (9.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 439 (9.06%) Data Modelling
20 418 (8.62%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,400 (28.88%) Python
2 915 (18.88%) SQL
3 682 (14.07%) Java
4 440 (9.08%) C#
5 424 (8.75%) PowerShell
6 408 (8.42%) Bash
7 388 (8.00%) JavaScript
8 265 (5.47%) TypeScript
9 196 (4.04%) Bicep
10 79 (1.63%) Go
11 58 (1.20%) Shell Script
11 58 (1.20%) T-SQL
12 56 (1.16%) Scala
13 55 (1.13%) PL/SQL
14 52 (1.07%) Groovy
15 51 (1.05%) Apex Code
16 30 (0.62%) C++
17 29 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 27 (0.56%) Perl
19 21 (0.43%) C
Qualifications
1 1,549 (31.96%) Security Cleared
2 1,300 (26.82%) SC Cleared
3 302 (6.23%) Degree
4 199 (4.11%) Azure Certification
5 183 (3.78%) DV Cleared
6 160 (3.30%) AWS Certification
7 133 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 110 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 84 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
10 75 (1.55%) CISSP
11 50 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
12 48 (0.99%) ISTQB
13 44 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 40 (0.83%) PMP
15 35 (0.72%) PMI Certification
16 31 (0.64%) CISM
16 31 (0.64%) Master's Degree
17 24 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
18 23 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 22 (0.45%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 454 (9.37%) QA
2 252 (5.20%) Data Quality
3 158 (3.26%) Accessibility
4 133 (2.74%) GDPR
5 87 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 76 (1.57%) NIST
7 74 (1.53%) WCAG
8 48 (0.99%) NCSC
9 44 (0.91%) PMO
10 36 (0.74%) PCI DSS
11 32 (0.66%) SLA
12 27 (0.56%) GRC
13 26 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 11 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
14 11 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
14 11 (0.23%) HIPAA
14 11 (0.23%) ISO 20022
15 8 (0.17%) PSD2
15 8 (0.17%) SEPA
16 7 (0.14%) HL7
System Software
1 937 (19.33%) Docker
2 170 (3.51%) Active Directory
3 71 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 69 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (0.47%) Hyper-V
6 20 (0.41%) vSphere
7 16 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
8 15 (0.31%) VMware NSX
9 12 (0.25%) Squid
10 11 (0.23%) Postfix
11 10 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
12 9 (0.19%) IAG
13 8 (0.17%) KVM
14 6 (0.12%) Corosync
14 6 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
15 5 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 5 (0.10%) Firmware
15 5 (0.10%) NFS
15 5 (0.10%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 1,374 (28.35%) Terraform
2 1,232 (25.42%) Kubernetes
3 476 (9.82%) Ansible
4 309 (6.38%) Grafana
5 263 (5.43%) Prometheus
6 74 (1.53%) Argo
7 60 (1.24%) Puppet
8 54 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
9 46 (0.95%) Progress Chef
10 38 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
11 32 (0.66%) Packer
12 30 (0.62%) Istio
13 18 (0.37%) Kustomize
13 18 (0.37%) SCCM
14 17 (0.35%) Kibana
14 17 (0.35%) vCenter Server
15 16 (0.33%) Kubeflow
16 13 (0.27%) HP ALM
16 13 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
17 12 (0.25%) Control-M
Vendors
1 936 (19.31%) Microsoft
2 255 (5.26%) Oracle
3 243 (5.01%) Databricks
4 228 (4.70%) Google
5 193 (3.98%) ServiceNow
6 157 (3.24%) Splunk
7 148 (3.05%) Salesforce
8 129 (2.66%) Dynatrace
9 106 (2.19%) SAP
10 101 (2.08%) Red Hat
11 98 (2.02%) VMware
12 59 (1.22%) IBM
13 51 (1.05%) Informatica
14 47 (0.97%) Atlassian
15 46 (0.95%) Cisco
16 42 (0.87%) OpenAI
17 41 (0.85%) AppDynamics
18 36 (0.74%) Denodo
18 36 (0.74%) Foundry
19 34 (0.70%) MuleSoft