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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 14 14
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,754 2,999 3,262
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.27% 10.94% 10.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.14% 12.04% 11.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,274 2,122 2,199
10th Percentile £381 £363 £400
25th Percentile £439 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £551
Median % change year-on-year - -4.63% -5.09%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £706 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 20 64
10th Percentile £37.25 £41.75 £55.75
25th Percentile £56.38 £58.25 £65.00
Median hourly rate £68.48 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.21% -4.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £78.19 £90.31 £74.44
90th Percentile £93.81 £96.50 £85.00
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 39,170 24,908 27,982
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.62% 90.84% 86.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,910 15,798 17,347
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £626 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,803 1,504 1,266
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.74 £17.69 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -2.95%
75th Percentile £67.85 £47.50 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.85 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.69
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.09% -1.10%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 22 September 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 2,518 £550 - 1,935
North of England -2 768 £500 +5.26% 668
South East -11 447 £537 +7.40% 538
Midlands -5 430 £488 -2.74% 264
Yorkshire -2 383 £500 +2.56% 183
West Midlands -7 342 £496 -5.33% 155
South West +4 320 £550 +4.76% 267
North West -6 293 £525 +14.69% 381
East of England +8 155 £504 -4.00% 180
North East +12 107 £450 -18.18% 107
East Midlands -2 85 £465 +3.33% 109
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
1 283 (5.95%) Confluence
2 144 (3.03%) SharePoint
3 122 (2.57%) Apache Airflow
4 114 (2.40%) Apache Spark
5 98 (2.06%) Apache
6 56 (1.18%) SAS
7 41 (0.86%) CMS
8 38 (0.80%) Jupyter
9 24 (0.50%) nginx
10 19 (0.40%) IIS
10 19 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
11 14 (0.29%) Camunda
12 13 (0.27%) OpenStack
13 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
14 9 (0.19%) Anypoint
14 9 (0.19%) Appian
14 9 (0.19%) WebSphere
15 8 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
15 8 (0.17%) WebLogic
16 7 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 63 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
3 46 (0.97%) MS Visio
4 33 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 27 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
6 12 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.17%) CPLEX
7 8 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.15%) Windchill
9 6 (0.13%) Trello
10 5 (0.11%) Notion
11 2 (0.042%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.042%) Mingle
12 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
12 1 (0.021%) Gliffy
12 1 (0.021%) Mozilla Thunderbird
12 1 (0.021%) Sketch
12 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 71 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 10 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.19%) Magento
6 7 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 6 (0.13%) Aladdin
7 6 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
7 6 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.13%) SAP MDG
8 5 (0.11%) OpenText MBPM
8 5 (0.11%) Oracle BPM
9 3 (0.063%) Endur
9 3 (0.063%) Maximo
9 3 (0.063%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.063%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.063%) Oracle Payroll
9 3 (0.063%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.063%) Teamcenter
10 2 (0.042%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 2,563 (53.91%) Azure
2 1,667 (35.07%) AWS
3 1,482 (31.17%) Azure DevOps
4 800 (16.83%) GitHub
5 623 (13.10%) GCP
6 508 (10.69%) GitHub Actions
7 426 (8.96%) Power Platform
8 397 (8.35%) Serverless
9 248 (5.22%) Amazon S3
10 239 (5.03%) AWS Lambda
11 234 (4.92%) Entra ID
12 203 (4.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 188 (3.95%) Amazon EKS
14 181 (3.81%) Azure AKS
15 170 (3.58%) AWS CloudFormation
15 170 (3.58%) Azure Monitor
16 168 (3.53%) Dynamics 365
17 167 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
18 158 (3.32%) Amazon EC2
19 153 (3.22%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 221 (4.65%) Firewall
2 143 (3.01%) DNS
3 110 (2.31%) VPN
4 105 (2.21%) Network Security
5 69 (1.45%) TCP/IP
6 52 (1.09%) SSL
7 45 (0.95%) WAN
8 40 (0.84%) DHCP
9 31 (0.65%) BGP
10 30 (0.63%) HTTP
11 28 (0.59%) Internet
11 28 (0.59%) SD-WAN
12 24 (0.50%) SSH
12 24 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
13 23 (0.48%) OSPF
14 19 (0.40%) VLAN
15 17 (0.36%) LAN
15 17 (0.36%) SAN
16 16 (0.34%) BIG-IP
16 16 (0.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 290 (6.10%) Power BI
2 249 (5.24%) SQL Server
3 242 (5.09%) PostgreSQL
4 185 (3.89%) Data Warehouse
5 158 (3.32%) NoSQL
6 149 (3.13%) Data Lake
7 144 (3.03%) Relational Database
8 143 (3.01%) MongoDB
9 118 (2.48%) Metadata
10 117 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
11 82 (1.72%) Delta Lake
12 80 (1.68%) DynamoDB
13 76 (1.60%) Oracle Database
14 75 (1.58%) MySQL
15 73 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
16 68 (1.43%) Redis
17 56 (1.18%) Big Data
18 55 (1.16%) BigQuery
19 54 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
20 53 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 683 (14.37%) Git
2 654 (13.76%) Jenkins
3 544 (11.44%) GitLab
4 536 (11.27%) JIRA
5 125 (2.63%) Selenium
6 89 (1.87%) SonarQube
7 81 (1.70%) Maven
8 80 (1.68%) JUnit
9 79 (1.66%) Postman
10 65 (1.37%) Cucumber
11 60 (1.26%) Bitbucket
12 58 (1.22%) Cypress.io
13 56 (1.18%) REST Assured
14 55 (1.16%) Gradle
14 55 (1.16%) JMeter
15 41 (0.86%) Gatling
15 41 (0.86%) Mockito
16 36 (0.76%) Claude Code
16 36 (0.76%) Visual Studio
17 35 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,247 (26.23%) Social Skills
2 873 (18.36%) Finance
3 621 (13.06%) Public Sector
4 472 (9.93%) Analytical Skills
5 348 (7.32%) Banking
6 148 (3.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 105 (2.21%) Retail
8 79 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
9 77 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
10 56 (1.18%) Aerospace
11 55 (1.16%) Marketing
12 52 (1.09%) Legal
12 52 (1.09%) Military
13 51 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
14 45 (0.95%) Telecoms
15 43 (0.90%) Investment Banking
16 41 (0.86%) Law
16 41 (0.86%) Manufacturing
17 38 (0.80%) Local Government
18 37 (0.78%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 905 (19.04%) DevOps Engineer
2 740 (15.57%) Senior
3 738 (15.52%) Developer
4 564 (11.86%) Architect
5 464 (9.76%) Lead
6 294 (6.18%) Azure Engineer
7 274 (5.76%) Data Engineer
8 233 (4.90%) Analyst
9 197 (4.14%) AWS Engineer
10 187 (3.93%) Platform Engineer
11 178 (3.74%) Cloud Engineer
12 169 (3.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 168 (3.53%) Senior DevOps
14 158 (3.32%) Solutions Architect
15 155 (3.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 141 (2.97%) Java Developer
17 133 (2.80%) AWS DevOps
18 131 (2.76%) Software Engineer
19 130 (2.73%) Senior Developer
20 122 (2.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,396 (29.36%) Terraform
2 513 (10.79%) REST
3 399 (8.39%) .NET
4 329 (6.92%) Kafka
5 269 (5.66%) RESTful
6 250 (5.26%) React
7 241 (5.07%) Spring
8 238 (5.01%) Spring Boot
9 159 (3.34%) JSON
10 157 (3.30%) Node.js
11 155 (3.26%) OAuth
12 139 (2.92%) PySpark
13 128 (2.69%) Playwright
14 118 (2.48%) HTML
15 117 (2.46%) SOAP
16 115 (2.42%) .NET Framework
17 112 (2.36%) CSS
18 104 (2.19%) OAuth2
19 100 (2.10%) Middleware
20 98 (2.06%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 868 (18.26%) Cloud Native
2 364 (7.66%) Product Ownership
3 221 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
4 177 (3.72%) Onboarding
5 176 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
6 136 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
7 123 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
8 99 (2.08%) AI Agents
9 85 (1.79%) Management Information System
10 69 (1.45%) Security Posture
10 69 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
11 64 (1.35%) Data Structures
11 64 (1.35%) Public Cloud
12 63 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
12 63 (1.33%) Replication
13 59 (1.24%) Data Centre
14 56 (1.18%) Virtual Team
15 50 (1.05%) Mobile App
16 44 (0.93%) PKI
17 42 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 476 (10.01%) Linux
2 277 (5.83%) Windows
3 112 (2.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 92 (1.94%) Unix
5 82 (1.72%) Windows Server
6 36 (0.76%) Ubuntu
7 31 (0.65%) Apple iOS
8 28 (0.59%) VMS
9 21 (0.44%) Android
10 13 (0.27%) 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
13 7 (0.15%) Solaris
14 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.084%) Alpine Linux
15 4 (0.084%) Data ONTAP
15 4 (0.084%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,843 (59.80%) CI/CD
2 1,938 (40.77%) Agile
3 1,393 (29.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 828 (17.42%) Stakeholder Management
5 817 (17.19%) Continuous Improvement
6 781 (16.43%) AI
7 770 (16.20%) Containerisation
8 761 (16.01%) Problem-Solving
9 760 (15.99%) Test Automation
10 699 (14.70%) Microservices
11 679 (14.28%) Observability
12 645 (13.57%) Software Engineering
13 635 (13.36%) Platform Engineering
14 583 (12.26%) Scrum
15 573 (12.05%) Migration
16 540 (11.36%) Technical Leadership
17 517 (10.88%) Analytics
18 450 (9.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 439 (9.23%) Roadmaps
20 424 (8.92%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,400 (29.45%) Python
2 843 (17.73%) SQL
3 701 (14.75%) Java
4 431 (9.07%) C#
4 431 (9.07%) PowerShell
5 413 (8.69%) Bash
6 389 (8.18%) JavaScript
7 269 (5.66%) TypeScript
8 217 (4.56%) Bicep
9 87 (1.83%) Go
10 64 (1.35%) Shell Script
11 57 (1.20%) Groovy
12 55 (1.16%) T-SQL
13 54 (1.14%) Scala
14 47 (0.99%) PL/SQL
15 45 (0.95%) Apex Code
16 33 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 30 (0.63%) C++
17 30 (0.63%) Perl
18 24 (0.50%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,529 (32.16%) Security Cleared
2 1,278 (26.88%) SC Cleared
3 331 (6.96%) Degree
4 215 (4.52%) Azure Certification
5 212 (4.46%) DV Cleared
6 167 (3.51%) AWS Certification
7 141 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
8 126 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 110 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
10 74 (1.56%) CISSP
11 49 (1.03%) ISTQB
12 48 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
13 43 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 41 (0.86%) PMP
15 39 (0.82%) Master's Degree
16 35 (0.74%) PMI Certification
17 31 (0.65%) CISM
18 20 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 20 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 20 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 476 (10.01%) QA
2 251 (5.28%) Data Quality
3 161 (3.39%) Accessibility
4 114 (2.40%) GDPR
5 86 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 78 (1.64%) WCAG
7 75 (1.58%) NIST
8 47 (0.99%) NCSC
9 45 (0.95%) PMO
10 31 (0.65%) SLA
11 27 (0.57%) GRC
11 27 (0.57%) PCI DSS
12 20 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 19 (0.40%) ISO 20022
14 15 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
15 14 (0.29%) HIPAA
16 12 (0.25%) SEPA
16 12 (0.25%) SOC 2
17 11 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
18 9 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 952 (20.03%) Docker
2 145 (3.05%) Active Directory
3 71 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
4 65 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (0.44%) Hyper-V
5 21 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (0.44%) vSphere
6 16 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
7 13 (0.27%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.25%) Squid
9 11 (0.23%) IAG
10 9 (0.19%) Postfix
11 8 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
12 6 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 6 (0.13%) Corosync
12 6 (0.13%) KVM
12 6 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.11%) NFS
13 5 (0.11%) RACF
14 4 (0.084%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1,246 (26.21%) Kubernetes
2 472 (9.93%) Ansible
3 306 (6.44%) Grafana
4 261 (5.49%) Prometheus
5 63 (1.33%) Argo
6 54 (1.14%) Puppet
7 46 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
7 46 (0.97%) Progress Chef
7 46 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
8 32 (0.67%) Packer
9 27 (0.57%) Kibana
10 20 (0.42%) Kubeflow
11 19 (0.40%) Kustomize
12 18 (0.38%) Istio
13 16 (0.34%) SCCM
14 15 (0.32%) HP ALM
14 15 (0.32%) vCenter Server
15 13 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
15 13 (0.27%) SCOM
15 13 (0.27%) systemd
Vendors
1 960 (20.19%) Microsoft
2 266 (5.60%) Databricks
3 247 (5.20%) Google
4 238 (5.01%) Oracle
5 195 (4.10%) ServiceNow
6 166 (3.49%) Splunk
7 140 (2.94%) Salesforce
8 128 (2.69%) Dynatrace
9 103 (2.17%) VMware
10 94 (1.98%) SAP
11 93 (1.96%) Red Hat
12 68 (1.43%) IBM
13 58 (1.22%) OpenAI
14 47 (0.99%) Foundry
15 46 (0.97%) Cisco
16 41 (0.86%) Informatica
17 39 (0.82%) AppDynamics
18 34 (0.72%) MuleSoft
19 33 (0.69%) Atlassian
19 33 (0.69%) Okta