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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,450 2,442 3,485
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.61% 10.14% 9.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.47% 11.10% 11.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,118 1,770 2,417
10th Percentile £390 £385 £400
25th Percentile £443 £450 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £752 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 11 110
10th Percentile £39.53 £35.00 £56.50
25th Percentile £61.00 £51.25 £61.34
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - +3.05% -
75th Percentile £78.00 £82.48 £77.50
90th Percentile £94.00 £92.50 £87.05
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £71.61 £65.50
% change year-on-year -2.25% +9.33% -

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 35,679 21,999 31,507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.05% 91.35% 85.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,608 14,249 20,517
10th Percentile £325 £304 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,238 979 2,317
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.83
25th Percentile £20.76 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -24.00% +1.35%
75th Percentile £68.00 £59.60 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.93 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.53 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.68% -24.58% +1.39%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 2,265 £550 - 723
North of England +7 815 £500 - 330
South East +1 470 £525 +5.00% 294
Yorkshire +2 449 £500 - 97
Midlands +3 415 £488 -2.50% 138
West Midlands +1 327 £500 -4.31% 98
North West +3 302 £500 - 190
South West +16 279 £525 -4.55% 145
East of England +24 128 £525 +7.69% 86
East Midlands -2 84 £465 +0.54% 40
North East +7 82 £450 -14.29% 44
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
1 247 (5.55%) Confluence
2 124 (2.79%) Apache Spark
3 109 (2.45%) SharePoint
4 92 (2.07%) Apache
5 87 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
6 74 (1.66%) SAS
7 44 (0.99%) CMS
8 26 (0.58%) IIS
8 26 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
8 26 (0.58%) nginx
9 21 (0.47%) Jupyter
10 16 (0.36%) OpenStack
11 14 (0.31%) 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%) HCL Notes
15 8 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
16 7 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 67 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
3 46 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 33 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
5 25 (0.56%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.11%) CPLEX
7 4 (0.090%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.090%) Notion
8 3 (0.067%) Trello
9 2 (0.045%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.045%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.022%) InDesign
10 1 (0.022%) Maya
10 1 (0.022%) Weka
Business Applications
1 59 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 9 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.18%) Aladdin
5 8 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
5 8 (0.18%) Maximo
6 7 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.11%) Endur
7 5 (0.11%) Magento
8 4 (0.090%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.067%) Findur
9 3 (0.067%) NEC Housing
9 3 (0.067%) OpenText MBPM
9 3 (0.067%) Oracle BPM
9 3 (0.067%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.067%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.067%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.067%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.067%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 2,376 (53.39%) Azure
2 1,517 (34.09%) AWS
3 1,291 (29.01%) Azure DevOps
4 731 (16.43%) GitHub
5 560 (12.58%) GCP
6 432 (9.71%) GitHub Actions
7 394 (8.85%) Serverless
8 380 (8.54%) Power Platform
9 241 (5.42%) Amazon S3
10 217 (4.88%) Entra ID
11 211 (4.74%) AWS Lambda
12 187 (4.20%) AWS CloudFormation
13 182 (4.09%) Azure AKS
14 179 (4.02%) Azure Data Factory
15 156 (3.51%) Amazon EKS
16 149 (3.35%) PaaS
17 147 (3.30%) OpenShift
18 138 (3.10%) Amazon EC2
19 137 (3.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 135 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 218 (4.90%) Firewall
2 119 (2.67%) DNS
3 94 (2.11%) Network Security
4 93 (2.09%) VPN
5 45 (1.01%) TCP/IP
6 44 (0.99%) WAN
7 36 (0.81%) SD-WAN
8 29 (0.65%) BGP
9 26 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
10 25 (0.56%) SSL
11 24 (0.54%) DHCP
12 23 (0.52%) OSPF
13 20 (0.45%) Internet
14 19 (0.43%) HTTP
14 19 (0.43%) SAN
15 18 (0.40%) IPsec
16 17 (0.38%) VXLAN
17 16 (0.36%) LAN
18 15 (0.34%) MPLS
19 14 (0.31%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 251 (5.64%) Power BI
2 231 (5.19%) SQL Server
3 213 (4.79%) PostgreSQL
4 157 (3.53%) NoSQL
5 155 (3.48%) Data Lake
6 135 (3.03%) Relational Database
7 128 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
8 119 (2.67%) MongoDB
9 99 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
10 92 (2.07%) Azure SQL Database
11 83 (1.87%) Delta Lake
12 75 (1.69%) DynamoDB
13 74 (1.66%) Oracle Database
14 72 (1.62%) Metadata
15 60 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
16 56 (1.26%) Redis
17 55 (1.24%) Big Data
18 51 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
19 49 (1.10%) BigQuery
20 44 (0.99%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 618 (13.89%) Jenkins
2 550 (12.36%) Git
3 516 (11.60%) JIRA
4 461 (10.36%) GitLab
5 91 (2.04%) Selenium
6 88 (1.98%) Postman
7 77 (1.73%) SonarQube
8 72 (1.62%) JUnit
9 61 (1.37%) Bitbucket
10 58 (1.30%) Maven
10 58 (1.30%) REST Assured
11 50 (1.12%) Cucumber
12 49 (1.10%) Artifactory
13 45 (1.01%) 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%) LoadRunner
17 29 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,136 (25.53%) Social Skills
2 838 (18.83%) Finance
3 555 (12.47%) Public Sector
4 368 (8.27%) Analytical Skills
5 302 (6.79%) Banking
6 137 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
7 74 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 69 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
9 62 (1.39%) Retail
10 54 (1.21%) Legal
11 50 (1.12%) Marketing
12 49 (1.10%) Financial Institution
13 47 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
14 39 (0.88%) Investment Banking
15 38 (0.85%) Military
16 36 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
17 31 (0.70%) Front Office
18 29 (0.65%) Law
19 24 (0.54%) Aerospace
20 22 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 882 (19.82%) DevOps Engineer
2 624 (14.02%) Developer
2 624 (14.02%) Senior
3 545 (12.25%) Architect
4 400 (8.99%) Lead
5 298 (6.70%) Azure Engineer
6 276 (6.20%) Data Engineer
7 267 (6.00%) Analyst
8 190 (4.27%) AWS Engineer
9 172 (3.87%) Cloud Engineer
9 172 (3.87%) Solutions Architect
10 158 (3.55%) Platform Engineer
11 145 (3.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 145 (3.26%) Senior DevOps
12 143 (3.21%) Business Analyst
13 138 (3.10%) Software Engineer
14 132 (2.97%) AWS DevOps
15 131 (2.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 123 (2.76%) Java Developer
17 121 (2.72%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 407 (9.15%) REST
2 377 (8.47%) .NET
3 257 (5.78%) Kafka
4 252 (5.66%) React
5 240 (5.39%) Spring
6 230 (5.17%) Spring Boot
7 209 (4.70%) Node.js
8 196 (4.40%) RESTful
9 149 (3.35%) AngularJS
10 130 (2.92%) PySpark
11 125 (2.81%) OAuth
12 123 (2.76%) Playwright
13 122 (2.74%) YAML
14 118 (2.65%) JSON
15 102 (2.29%) SOAP
16 96 (2.16%) .NET Framework
17 95 (2.13%) HTML
17 95 (2.13%) OpenID
18 94 (2.11%) Middleware
19 84 (1.89%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 750 (16.85%) Cloud Native
2 275 (6.18%) Product Ownership
3 181 (4.07%) Distributed Systems
4 118 (2.65%) Onboarding
5 107 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
6 95 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
7 91 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
8 84 (1.89%) Public Cloud
9 69 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
10 63 (1.42%) Data Centre
11 59 (1.33%) Management Information System
12 47 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
13 46 (1.03%) Mobile App
13 46 (1.03%) Security Posture
14 43 (0.97%) AI Agents
15 41 (0.92%) Replication
16 40 (0.90%) Private Cloud
17 39 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
17 39 (0.88%) Virtual Team
18 37 (0.83%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 394 (8.85%) Linux
2 237 (5.33%) Windows
3 87 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 65 (1.46%) Unix
5 49 (1.10%) Windows Server
6 33 (0.74%) VMS
7 26 (0.58%) Ubuntu
8 20 (0.45%) Apple iOS
9 16 (0.36%) Android
10 13 (0.29%) CentOS
11 10 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
12 9 (0.20%) Solaris
13 7 (0.16%) Windows 10
14 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
14 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
16 4 (0.090%) Alpine Linux
16 4 (0.090%) Data ONTAP
16 4 (0.090%) Windows Server 2012
17 3 (0.067%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,520 (56.63%) CI/CD
2 1,614 (36.27%) Agile
3 1,154 (25.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 685 (15.39%) Containerisation
5 667 (14.99%) Problem-Solving
6 633 (14.22%) Microservices
7 623 (14.00%) Test Automation
8 602 (13.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 552 (12.40%) Migration
10 549 (12.34%) Observability
11 532 (11.96%) Stakeholder Management
12 517 (11.62%) Analytics
13 512 (11.51%) AI
14 500 (11.24%) Scrum
15 461 (10.36%) Software Engineering
16 429 (9.64%) Platform Engineering
17 410 (9.21%) Data Modelling
18 373 (8.38%) Mentoring
19 370 (8.31%) Roadmaps
20 365 (8.20%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1,219 (27.39%) Python
2 889 (19.98%) SQL
3 610 (13.71%) Java
4 407 (9.15%) C#
5 337 (7.57%) PowerShell
6 323 (7.26%) Bash
7 315 (7.08%) JavaScript
8 225 (5.06%) TypeScript
9 148 (3.33%) Bicep
10 90 (2.02%) Go
11 62 (1.39%) Scala
12 56 (1.26%) Shell Script
13 47 (1.06%) PL/SQL
14 45 (1.01%) T-SQL
15 44 (0.99%) Apex Code
16 37 (0.83%) Groovy
17 25 (0.56%) C++
17 25 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 24 (0.54%) Kotlin
19 22 (0.49%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,430 (32.13%) Security Cleared
2 1,173 (26.36%) SC Cleared
3 289 (6.49%) Degree
4 200 (4.49%) Azure Certification
5 149 (3.35%) DV Cleared
6 130 (2.92%) AWS Certification
7 122 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 115 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
9 74 (1.66%) CISSP
10 59 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
11 44 (0.99%) CISM
12 43 (0.97%) ISTQB
13 42 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
14 38 (0.85%) Master's Degree
15 37 (0.83%) PMI Certification
16 36 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 36 (0.81%) PMP
17 23 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
18 21 (0.47%) IIBA
18 21 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 382 (8.58%) QA
2 205 (4.61%) Data Quality
3 163 (3.66%) GDPR
4 118 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 113 (2.54%) Accessibility
5 113 (2.54%) NIST
6 61 (1.37%) NCSC
7 53 (1.19%) WCAG
8 45 (1.01%) PCI DSS
9 40 (0.90%) SLA
10 29 (0.65%) 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
1 849 (19.08%) Docker
2 165 (3.71%) Active Directory
3 68 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
4 65 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 33 (0.74%) vSphere
6 22 (0.49%) VMware NSX
7 17 (0.38%) Squid
7 17 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
8 16 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
9 14 (0.31%) Postfix
10 12 (0.27%) Hyper-V
11 7 (0.16%) Firmware
11 7 (0.16%) RACF
12 6 (0.13%) Corosync
12 6 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
13 5 (0.11%) HDFS
13 5 (0.11%) SRDF
14 4 (0.090%) Microsoft App-V
14 4 (0.090%) NFS
14 4 (0.090%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,254 (28.18%) Terraform
2 1,115 (25.06%) Kubernetes
3 446 (10.02%) Ansible
4 299 (6.72%) Grafana
5 253 (5.69%) Prometheus
6 82 (1.84%) Argo
7 71 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
8 61 (1.37%) Puppet
9 45 (1.01%) Istio
10 30 (0.67%) Progress Chef
11 27 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
12 26 (0.58%) Packer
13 24 (0.54%) vCenter Server
14 22 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 19 (0.43%) Kibana
16 16 (0.36%) Consul
16 16 (0.36%) HP ALM
17 13 (0.29%) Kustomize
17 13 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
18 12 (0.27%) SCCM
Vendors
1 794 (17.84%) Microsoft
2 249 (5.60%) Oracle
3 246 (5.53%) Databricks
4 205 (4.61%) Google
5 172 (3.87%) Splunk
6 163 (3.66%) ServiceNow
7 137 (3.08%) Red Hat
8 135 (3.03%) Salesforce
9 106 (2.38%) VMware
10 102 (2.29%) SAP
11 97 (2.18%) Dynatrace
12 58 (1.30%) OpenAI
13 47 (1.06%) Atlassian
13 47 (1.06%) CyberArk
14 46 (1.03%) IBM
15 39 (0.88%) Informatica
16 38 (0.85%) AppDynamics
17 37 (0.83%) Foundry
18 35 (0.79%) Cisco
19 30 (0.67%) Okta