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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 14 13
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,883 3,171 3,257
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.42% 11.26% 10.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.27% 12.39% 11.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,381 2,236 2,191
10th Percentile £381 £363 £388
25th Percentile £435 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £712 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 22 55
10th Percentile £37.25 £43.38 £46.18
25th Percentile £56.25 £57.56 £65.00
Median hourly rate £68.75 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% -4.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £78.13 £92.50 -
90th Percentile £94.50 £95.00 £79.95
UK median hourly rate £69.00 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +2.99% -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 39,799 25,590 27,763
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.96% 90.90% 86.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,011 16,250 16,937
10th Percentile £325 £294 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
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% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,071 1,598 1,107
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.53 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.87 £20.50
Median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.96% -40.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £67.25 £44.78 £66.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.50 £74.18
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -10.11%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 2,614 £550 - 317
North of England -4 807 £500 +4.17% 184
South East -10 452 £544 +8.75% 172
Midlands -7 422 £482 -6.41% 90
Yorkshire -3 387 £500 - 60
West Midlands -7 343 £490 -6.67% 56
South West +5 326 £550 - 111
North West -5 323 £510 +13.33% 94
East of England +1 144 £505 -6.05% 41
North East +11 111 £450 -18.18% 35
East Midlands -8 77 £436 +5.70% 34
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
1 300 (6.14%) Confluence
2 140 (2.87%) SharePoint
3 122 (2.50%) Apache Spark
4 115 (2.36%) Apache Airflow
5 111 (2.27%) Apache
6 54 (1.11%) SAS
7 42 (0.86%) Jupyter
8 39 (0.80%) CMS
9 31 (0.63%) nginx
10 24 (0.49%) IIS
11 19 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
12 15 (0.31%) Camunda
13 12 (0.25%) OpenStack
14 9 (0.18%) Anypoint
14 9 (0.18%) Appian
14 9 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
14 9 (0.18%) WebSphere
15 8 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
15 8 (0.16%) Tomcat
16 7 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 67 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
3 53 (1.09%) MS Visio
4 39 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 32 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
6 14 (0.29%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
8 8 (0.16%) Windchill
9 7 (0.14%) CPLEX
10 5 (0.10%) Notion
10 5 (0.10%) Trello
11 3 (0.061%) Mingle
12 2 (0.041%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.041%) Gliffy
13 1 (0.020%) EngageOne
13 1 (0.020%) Mozilla Thunderbird
13 1 (0.020%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 72 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 35 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
4 8 (0.16%) Magento
4 8 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 6 (0.12%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
5 6 (0.12%) SAP MDG
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 (0.082%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.082%) Oracle Payroll
7 4 (0.082%) Teamcenter
8 3 (0.061%) Endur
8 3 (0.061%) Maximo
8 3 (0.061%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (0.061%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2,650 (54.27%) Azure
2 1,687 (34.55%) AWS
3 1,543 (31.60%) Azure DevOps
4 853 (17.47%) GitHub
5 664 (13.60%) GCP
6 533 (10.92%) GitHub Actions
7 445 (9.11%) Power Platform
8 422 (8.64%) Serverless
9 257 (5.26%) Amazon S3
10 251 (5.14%) Entra ID
11 241 (4.94%) AWS Lambda
12 215 (4.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 215 (4.40%) Amazon EKS
13 193 (3.95%) Azure AKS
14 187 (3.83%) Azure Monitor
15 182 (3.73%) Dynamics 365
16 179 (3.67%) Azure Data Factory
17 172 (3.52%) AWS CloudFormation
18 168 (3.44%) Amazon EC2
19 162 (3.32%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 220 (4.51%) Firewall
2 159 (3.26%) DNS
3 114 (2.33%) Network Security
4 111 (2.27%) VPN
5 80 (1.64%) TCP/IP
6 50 (1.02%) SSL
7 45 (0.92%) DHCP
8 44 (0.90%) WAN
9 36 (0.74%) BGP
10 32 (0.66%) HTTP
10 32 (0.66%) Internet
11 27 (0.55%) SSH
12 26 (0.53%) OSPF
12 26 (0.53%) SD-WAN
13 19 (0.39%) LAN
13 19 (0.39%) VLAN
14 18 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
15 17 (0.35%) BIG-IP
15 17 (0.35%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 15 (0.31%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 287 (5.88%) Power BI
2 263 (5.39%) SQL Server
3 254 (5.20%) PostgreSQL
4 178 (3.65%) Data Warehouse
5 152 (3.11%) NoSQL
6 151 (3.09%) Data Lake
7 148 (3.03%) MongoDB
8 134 (2.74%) Relational Database
9 128 (2.62%) Amazon RDS
10 119 (2.44%) Metadata
11 87 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
12 80 (1.64%) Delta Lake
13 78 (1.60%) MySQL
14 77 (1.58%) DynamoDB
15 76 (1.56%) Oracle Database
16 71 (1.45%) Redis
17 56 (1.15%) Big Data
17 56 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 53 (1.09%) BigQuery
19 50 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 721 (14.77%) Git
2 700 (14.34%) Jenkins
3 573 (11.73%) GitLab
4 549 (11.24%) JIRA
5 135 (2.76%) Selenium
6 82 (1.68%) Maven
7 81 (1.66%) Postman
8 80 (1.64%) JUnit
9 78 (1.60%) SonarQube
10 77 (1.58%) Cucumber
11 65 (1.33%) Cypress.io
12 63 (1.29%) Bitbucket
13 61 (1.25%) REST Assured
14 57 (1.17%) JMeter
15 56 (1.15%) Gradle
16 42 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
17 41 (0.84%) Claude Code
17 41 (0.84%) Visual Studio
18 39 (0.80%) Mockito
19 38 (0.78%) Gatling
General
1 1,329 (27.22%) Social Skills
2 965 (19.76%) Finance
3 654 (13.39%) Public Sector
4 506 (10.36%) Analytical Skills
5 394 (8.07%) Banking
6 147 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 112 (2.29%) Retail
8 85 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
9 72 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
10 61 (1.25%) Aerospace
11 56 (1.15%) Marketing
12 54 (1.11%) Investment Banking
13 53 (1.09%) Military
14 49 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
14 49 (1.00%) Telecoms
15 47 (0.96%) Financial Institution
15 47 (0.96%) Local Government
15 47 (0.96%) Manufacturing
16 44 (0.90%) Legal
17 42 (0.86%) Law
Job Titles
1 927 (18.98%) DevOps Engineer
2 765 (15.67%) Senior
3 756 (15.48%) Developer
4 568 (11.63%) Architect
5 490 (10.03%) Lead
6 301 (6.16%) Azure Engineer
7 291 (5.96%) Data Engineer
8 220 (4.51%) Analyst
9 201 (4.12%) AWS Engineer
10 197 (4.03%) Platform Engineer
11 179 (3.67%) Cloud Engineer
11 179 (3.67%) Senior DevOps
12 164 (3.36%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 163 (3.34%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 155 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
15 139 (2.85%) AWS DevOps
16 136 (2.79%) Software Engineer
17 133 (2.72%) Java Developer
18 129 (2.64%) Senior Developer
19 127 (2.60%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,497 (30.66%) Terraform
2 596 (12.21%) REST
3 447 (9.15%) .NET
4 346 (7.09%) Kafka
5 278 (5.69%) RESTful
6 266 (5.45%) React
7 240 (4.92%) Spring
8 237 (4.85%) Spring Boot
9 173 (3.54%) OAuth
10 164 (3.36%) JSON
11 151 (3.09%) Node.js
12 140 (2.87%) PySpark
13 137 (2.81%) Playwright
14 123 (2.52%) .NET Framework
15 120 (2.46%) HTML
15 120 (2.46%) SOAP
16 112 (2.29%) CSS
17 110 (2.25%) Middleware
17 110 (2.25%) OAuth2
18 101 (2.07%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 914 (18.72%) Cloud Native
2 382 (7.82%) Product Ownership
3 227 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
4 212 (4.34%) Enterprise Software
5 201 (4.12%) Onboarding
6 147 (3.01%) Hybrid Cloud
7 128 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
8 110 (2.25%) AI Agents
9 97 (1.99%) Management Information System
10 73 (1.49%) Security Posture
11 71 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
12 69 (1.41%) Public Cloud
13 65 (1.33%) Data Structures
14 64 (1.31%) Data Centre
15 61 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
16 60 (1.23%) Replication
17 55 (1.13%) PKI
18 51 (1.04%) Mobile App
19 50 (1.02%) Virtual Team
20 48 (0.98%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 514 (10.53%) Linux
2 301 (6.16%) Windows
3 117 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 101 (2.07%) Unix
5 92 (1.88%) Windows Server
6 39 (0.80%) Ubuntu
7 30 (0.61%) VMS
8 26 (0.53%) Apple iOS
9 18 (0.37%) Android
10 16 (0.33%) CentOS
11 10 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
11 10 (0.20%) zOS
12 8 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
12 8 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
13 7 (0.14%) AIX
13 7 (0.14%) macOS
14 6 (0.12%) Solaris
15 5 (0.10%) Alpine Linux
16 4 (0.082%) Windows Server 2008
17 3 (0.061%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,998 (61.40%) CI/CD
2 1,995 (40.86%) Agile
3 1,479 (30.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 909 (18.62%) Stakeholder Management
5 875 (17.92%) Continuous Improvement
6 853 (17.47%) AI
7 834 (17.08%) Test Automation
8 798 (16.34%) Containerisation
9 797 (16.32%) Problem-Solving
10 727 (14.89%) Observability
11 712 (14.58%) Microservices
12 691 (14.15%) Software Engineering
13 690 (14.13%) Platform Engineering
14 611 (12.51%) Migration
15 592 (12.12%) Scrum
16 569 (11.65%) Technical Leadership
17 517 (10.59%) Analytics
18 470 (9.63%) Roadmaps
19 457 (9.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 433 (8.87%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,491 (30.53%) Python
2 858 (17.57%) SQL
3 707 (14.48%) Java
4 476 (9.75%) PowerShell
5 472 (9.67%) C#
6 457 (9.36%) Bash
7 414 (8.48%) JavaScript
8 306 (6.27%) TypeScript
9 246 (5.04%) Bicep
10 99 (2.03%) Go
11 68 (1.39%) Shell Script
12 60 (1.23%) Groovy
13 57 (1.17%) T-SQL
14 55 (1.13%) Scala
15 43 (0.88%) Apex Code
15 43 (0.88%) PL/SQL
16 33 (0.68%) C++
17 31 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 30 (0.61%) Kotlin
19 29 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1,572 (32.19%) Security Cleared
2 1,303 (26.68%) SC Cleared
3 350 (7.17%) Degree
4 240 (4.92%) DV Cleared
5 229 (4.69%) Azure Certification
6 196 (4.01%) AWS Certification
7 152 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
8 135 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
9 105 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
10 77 (1.58%) CISSP
11 58 (1.19%) ISTQB
12 56 (1.15%) PMP
13 51 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
14 50 (1.02%) PMI Certification
15 41 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 39 (0.80%) Master's Degree
17 32 (0.66%) CISM
18 24 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 21 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 21 (0.43%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 506 (10.36%) QA
2 261 (5.35%) Data Quality
3 172 (3.52%) Accessibility
4 117 (2.40%) GDPR
5 92 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 78 (1.60%) WCAG
7 64 (1.31%) NIST
8 46 (0.94%) PMO
9 45 (0.92%) NCSC
10 32 (0.66%) PCI DSS
11 31 (0.63%) SLA
12 24 (0.49%) GRC
13 19 (0.39%) ISO 20022
14 16 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 15 (0.31%) HIPAA
15 15 (0.31%) SOC 2
16 13 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
16 13 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
17 12 (0.25%) SEPA
18 9 (0.18%) HL7
System Software
1 1,000 (20.48%) Docker
2 153 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 73 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
4 64 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 23 (0.47%) vSphere
6 22 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
7 20 (0.41%) Hyper-V
8 17 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (0.23%) Squid
9 11 (0.23%) VMware NSX
10 10 (0.20%) IAG
11 8 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
12 6 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 6 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.10%) KVM
13 5 (0.10%) Postfix
13 5 (0.10%) RACF
14 4 (0.082%) BitLocker
14 4 (0.082%) Firmware
15 3 (0.061%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1,313 (26.89%) Kubernetes
2 490 (10.03%) Ansible
3 323 (6.61%) Grafana
4 271 (5.55%) Prometheus
5 62 (1.27%) Argo
6 52 (1.06%) Puppet
7 51 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
8 47 (0.96%) Progress Chef
9 38 (0.78%) Kibana
9 38 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
10 33 (0.68%) Packer
11 25 (0.51%) Kubeflow
12 24 (0.49%) Istio
13 20 (0.41%) Kustomize
13 20 (0.41%) SCCM
14 13 (0.27%) Control-M
14 13 (0.27%) SCOM
14 13 (0.27%) vCenter Server
15 12 (0.25%) HP ALM
15 12 (0.25%) systemd
Vendors
1 1,022 (20.93%) Microsoft
2 288 (5.90%) Databricks
3 283 (5.80%) Google
4 235 (4.81%) Oracle
5 179 (3.67%) ServiceNow
6 168 (3.44%) Splunk
7 144 (2.95%) Dynatrace
8 138 (2.83%) Salesforce
9 99 (2.03%) VMware
10 97 (1.99%) SAP
11 92 (1.88%) Red Hat
12 66 (1.35%) IBM
13 65 (1.33%) OpenAI
14 51 (1.04%) Foundry
15 44 (0.90%) Cisco
16 41 (0.84%) MuleSoft
17 40 (0.82%) Informatica
18 34 (0.70%) AppDynamics
19 32 (0.66%) Atlassian
19 32 (0.66%) Okta