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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 14 14
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,782 3,131 3,282
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.34% 11.16% 10.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.18% 12.28% 11.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,300 2,208 2,192
10th Percentile £381 £362 £394
25th Percentile £438 £425 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.59% -4.30%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £713 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 21 62
10th Percentile £37.25 £42.50 £46.81
25th Percentile £58.63 £56.75 £65.00
Median hourly rate £68.75 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% -4.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £78.63 £88.75 £74.33
90th Percentile £94.25 £95.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £68.88 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.29% +7.69%

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 39,257 25,497 27,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.86% 90.90% 86.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,690 16,157 17,059
10th Percentile £325 £293 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,996 1,590 1,150
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.54 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.33 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -4.49%
75th Percentile £67.47 £45.00 £67.38
90th Percentile £78.88 £67.28 £74.88
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.16
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.38% -8.38%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -1 2,549 £550 - 2,393
North of England -3 786 £500 +4.17% 703
South East -10 450 £540 +7.95% 531
Midlands -8 408 £488 -5.34% 271
Yorkshire -3 371 £500 - 230
West Midlands -10 331 £500 -4.76% 169
South West +7 327 £550 - 247
North West -4 320 £521 +15.80% 364
East of England +1 147 £505 -7.13% 228
North East +10 109 £450 -18.18% 113
East Midlands -10 75 £449 +7.75% 102
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
1 292 (6.11%) Confluence
2 141 (2.95%) SharePoint
3 121 (2.53%) Apache Spark
4 117 (2.45%) Apache Airflow
5 109 (2.28%) Apache
6 47 (0.98%) SAS
7 40 (0.84%) Jupyter
8 38 (0.79%) CMS
9 30 (0.63%) nginx
10 24 (0.50%) IIS
11 20 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
12 15 (0.31%) Camunda
13 13 (0.27%) OpenStack
14 9 (0.19%) Anypoint
14 9 (0.19%) Appian
14 9 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
14 9 (0.19%) WebSphere
15 8 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
15 8 (0.17%) Tomcat
16 7 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 67 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
3 49 (1.02%) MS Visio
4 37 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 31 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
6 14 (0.29%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
8 8 (0.17%) CPLEX
8 8 (0.17%) Windchill
9 5 (0.10%) Notion
9 5 (0.10%) Trello
10 3 (0.063%) Mingle
11 2 (0.042%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.042%) Gliffy
12 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
12 1 (0.021%) Mozilla Thunderbird
12 1 (0.021%) Sketch
12 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 72 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 36 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
4 8 (0.17%) Magento
4 8 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 6 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
5 6 (0.13%) SAP MDG
6 5 (0.10%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.10%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
6 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
6 5 (0.10%) Temenos T24
7 4 (0.084%) Oracle Payroll
7 4 (0.084%) Teamcenter
8 3 (0.063%) Endur
8 3 (0.063%) Maximo
8 3 (0.063%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (0.063%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.063%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 2,594 (54.25%) Azure
2 1,655 (34.61%) AWS
3 1,504 (31.45%) Azure DevOps
4 828 (17.31%) GitHub
5 653 (13.66%) GCP
6 520 (10.87%) GitHub Actions
7 441 (9.22%) Power Platform
8 407 (8.51%) Serverless
9 254 (5.31%) Amazon S3
10 246 (5.14%) Entra ID
11 235 (4.91%) AWS Lambda
12 209 (4.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 208 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
14 189 (3.95%) Azure AKS
15 184 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
16 178 (3.72%) Dynamics 365
17 174 (3.64%) Azure Data Factory
18 164 (3.43%) Amazon EC2
18 164 (3.43%) AWS CloudFormation
19 159 (3.32%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 219 (4.58%) Firewall
2 155 (3.24%) DNS
3 112 (2.34%) Network Security
4 111 (2.32%) VPN
5 80 (1.67%) TCP/IP
6 50 (1.05%) SSL
7 45 (0.94%) DHCP
8 43 (0.90%) WAN
9 35 (0.73%) BGP
10 32 (0.67%) HTTP
11 30 (0.63%) Internet
12 27 (0.56%) SSH
13 26 (0.54%) OSPF
14 25 (0.52%) SD-WAN
15 19 (0.40%) LAN
15 19 (0.40%) VLAN
16 18 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
17 17 (0.36%) BIG-IP
17 17 (0.36%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
18 15 (0.31%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 288 (6.02%) Power BI
2 259 (5.42%) SQL Server
3 248 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
4 181 (3.79%) Data Warehouse
5 158 (3.30%) NoSQL
6 149 (3.12%) Data Lake
7 148 (3.09%) MongoDB
8 135 (2.82%) Relational Database
9 125 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
10 119 (2.49%) Metadata
11 85 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
12 78 (1.63%) Delta Lake
12 78 (1.63%) MySQL
13 75 (1.57%) DynamoDB
13 75 (1.57%) Oracle Database
14 70 (1.46%) Redis
15 57 (1.19%) Big Data
16 56 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 53 (1.11%) BigQuery
18 51 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 694 (14.51%) Git
2 680 (14.22%) Jenkins
3 564 (11.79%) GitLab
4 531 (11.10%) JIRA
5 129 (2.70%) Selenium
6 81 (1.69%) Maven
7 80 (1.67%) Postman
7 80 (1.67%) SonarQube
8 79 (1.65%) JUnit
9 74 (1.55%) Cucumber
10 63 (1.32%) Bitbucket
10 63 (1.32%) Cypress.io
11 59 (1.23%) REST Assured
12 56 (1.17%) JMeter
13 55 (1.15%) Gradle
14 41 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
15 40 (0.84%) Mockito
16 39 (0.82%) Gatling
16 39 (0.82%) Visual Studio
17 38 (0.79%) Claude Code
General
1 1,293 (27.04%) Social Skills
2 921 (19.26%) Finance
3 641 (13.40%) Public Sector
4 496 (10.37%) Analytical Skills
5 377 (7.88%) Banking
6 144 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 109 (2.28%) Retail
8 87 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
9 72 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
10 61 (1.28%) Aerospace
11 56 (1.17%) Marketing
12 53 (1.11%) Investment Banking
12 53 (1.11%) Military
13 48 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
14 47 (0.98%) Telecoms
15 46 (0.96%) Local Government
15 46 (0.96%) Manufacturing
16 44 (0.92%) Financial Institution
16 44 (0.92%) Legal
17 42 (0.88%) Law
Job Titles
1 913 (19.09%) DevOps Engineer
2 750 (15.68%) Senior
3 739 (15.45%) Developer
4 559 (11.69%) Architect
5 479 (10.02%) Lead
6 288 (6.02%) Azure Engineer
7 279 (5.83%) Data Engineer
8 216 (4.52%) Analyst
9 198 (4.14%) AWS Engineer
10 186 (3.89%) Platform Engineer
11 177 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
11 177 (3.70%) Senior DevOps
12 161 (3.37%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 158 (3.30%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 154 (3.22%) Solutions Architect
15 136 (2.84%) AWS DevOps
16 135 (2.82%) Java Developer
17 132 (2.76%) Software Engineer
18 125 (2.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 125 (2.61%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,451 (30.34%) Terraform
2 570 (11.92%) REST
3 430 (8.99%) .NET
4 341 (7.13%) Kafka
5 272 (5.69%) RESTful
6 258 (5.40%) React
7 232 (4.85%) Spring
8 229 (4.79%) Spring Boot
9 168 (3.51%) OAuth
10 160 (3.35%) JSON
11 144 (3.01%) Node.js
12 137 (2.86%) PySpark
13 134 (2.80%) Playwright
14 124 (2.59%) .NET Framework
15 121 (2.53%) HTML
16 117 (2.45%) SOAP
17 113 (2.36%) CSS
18 108 (2.26%) Middleware
18 108 (2.26%) OAuth2
19 98 (2.05%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 886 (18.53%) Cloud Native
2 366 (7.65%) Product Ownership
3 220 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
4 202 (4.22%) Enterprise Software
5 194 (4.06%) Onboarding
6 146 (3.05%) Hybrid Cloud
7 125 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
8 107 (2.24%) AI Agents
9 95 (1.99%) Management Information System
10 72 (1.51%) Security Posture
11 71 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
12 67 (1.40%) Public Cloud
13 64 (1.34%) Data Structures
14 62 (1.30%) Data Centre
15 61 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
16 60 (1.25%) Replication
17 53 (1.11%) PKI
18 50 (1.05%) Mobile App
19 49 (1.02%) Virtual Team
20 46 (0.96%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 508 (10.62%) Linux
2 294 (6.15%) Windows
3 117 (2.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 99 (2.07%) Unix
5 91 (1.90%) Windows Server
6 38 (0.79%) Ubuntu
7 30 (0.63%) VMS
8 26 (0.54%) Apple iOS
9 18 (0.38%) Android
10 16 (0.33%) CentOS
11 10 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
11 10 (0.21%) zOS
12 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
12 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
13 7 (0.15%) AIX
14 6 (0.13%) Solaris
15 4 (0.084%) Alpine Linux
15 4 (0.084%) Mac OS
15 4 (0.084%) Windows Server 2008
16 3 (0.063%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,918 (61.02%) CI/CD
2 1,944 (40.65%) Agile
3 1,438 (30.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 887 (18.55%) Stakeholder Management
5 842 (17.61%) Continuous Improvement
6 836 (17.48%) AI
7 812 (16.98%) Test Automation
8 781 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
9 775 (16.21%) Containerisation
10 704 (14.72%) Observability
11 699 (14.62%) Microservices
12 667 (13.95%) Platform Engineering
13 663 (13.86%) Software Engineering
14 588 (12.30%) Migration
15 582 (12.17%) Scrum
16 557 (11.65%) Technical Leadership
17 511 (10.69%) Analytics
18 455 (9.51%) Roadmaps
19 446 (9.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 420 (8.78%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,458 (30.49%) Python
2 842 (17.61%) SQL
3 696 (14.55%) Java
4 467 (9.77%) PowerShell
5 453 (9.47%) C#
6 450 (9.41%) Bash
7 400 (8.36%) JavaScript
8 289 (6.04%) TypeScript
9 236 (4.94%) Bicep
10 94 (1.97%) Go
11 65 (1.36%) Shell Script
12 58 (1.21%) Groovy
13 57 (1.19%) T-SQL
14 53 (1.11%) Scala
15 42 (0.88%) PL/SQL
16 40 (0.84%) Apex Code
17 33 (0.69%) C++
18 32 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 29 (0.61%) Kotlin
19 29 (0.61%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,550 (32.41%) Security Cleared
2 1,290 (26.98%) SC Cleared
3 345 (7.21%) Degree
4 234 (4.89%) DV Cleared
5 219 (4.58%) Azure Certification
6 179 (3.74%) AWS Certification
7 149 (3.12%) BPSS Clearance
8 131 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
9 104 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
10 75 (1.57%) CISSP
11 58 (1.21%) ISTQB
12 52 (1.09%) PMP
13 51 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
14 46 (0.96%) PMI Certification
15 41 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 39 (0.82%) Master's Degree
17 31 (0.65%) CISM
18 23 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 21 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 21 (0.44%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 497 (10.39%) QA
2 252 (5.27%) Data Quality
3 171 (3.58%) Accessibility
4 109 (2.28%) GDPR
5 88 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 78 (1.63%) WCAG
7 63 (1.32%) NIST
8 45 (0.94%) NCSC
8 45 (0.94%) PMO
9 30 (0.63%) SLA
10 29 (0.61%) PCI DSS
11 24 (0.50%) GRC
12 19 (0.40%) ISO 20022
13 16 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 14 (0.29%) HIPAA
14 14 (0.29%) SOC 2
15 13 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
15 13 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
16 12 (0.25%) SEPA
17 9 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 969 (20.26%) Docker
2 153 (3.20%) Active Directory
3 71 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
4 64 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 23 (0.48%) vSphere
6 22 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
7 19 (0.40%) Hyper-V
8 17 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (0.23%) Squid
9 11 (0.23%) VMware NSX
10 10 (0.21%) IAG
11 8 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
12 6 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 6 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
12 6 (0.13%) Postfix
13 5 (0.10%) KVM
13 5 (0.10%) RACF
14 4 (0.084%) BitLocker
14 4 (0.084%) Corosync
14 4 (0.084%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1,273 (26.62%) Kubernetes
2 488 (10.20%) Ansible
3 318 (6.65%) Grafana
4 267 (5.58%) Prometheus
5 61 (1.28%) Argo
6 54 (1.13%) Puppet
7 51 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
8 47 (0.98%) Progress Chef
9 38 (0.79%) Kibana
9 38 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
10 32 (0.67%) Packer
11 24 (0.50%) Istio
11 24 (0.50%) Kubeflow
12 20 (0.42%) Kustomize
12 20 (0.42%) SCCM
13 13 (0.27%) Control-M
13 13 (0.27%) HP ALM
13 13 (0.27%) SCOM
13 13 (0.27%) vCenter Server
14 12 (0.25%) systemd
Vendors
1 1,005 (21.02%) Microsoft
2 274 (5.73%) Databricks
2 274 (5.73%) Google
3 233 (4.87%) Oracle
4 180 (3.76%) ServiceNow
5 164 (3.43%) Splunk
6 143 (2.99%) Dynatrace
7 130 (2.72%) Salesforce
8 100 (2.09%) SAP
9 98 (2.05%) VMware
10 89 (1.86%) Red Hat
11 67 (1.40%) IBM
12 62 (1.30%) OpenAI
13 50 (1.05%) Foundry
14 44 (0.92%) Cisco
15 40 (0.84%) Informatica
15 40 (0.84%) MuleSoft
16 35 (0.73%) AppDynamics
17 32 (0.67%) Atlassian
18 31 (0.65%) Okta