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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
20 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 14 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 3,536 3,159 3,608
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.60% 10.17% 9.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.86% 11.71% 10.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,486 2,128 2,678
10th Percentile £363 £400 £413
25th Percentile £425 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £623 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £558 £568
% change year-on-year -5.83% -1.76% -5.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 35 97
10th Percentile - £43.22 £46.18
25th Percentile £45.46 £58.45 £51.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -0.92%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £76.53
90th Percentile £95.00 £80.45 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -0.92%

All Process and 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 27,490 26,978 34,630
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.21% 86.87% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,441 16,489 23,672
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,813 961 1,464
10th Percentile £14.87 £15.10 £14.51
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.03% -17.78% +26.90%
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.62 £74.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.95
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.36% +25.57%

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 20 November 2025.

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 20 November 2025.

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 20 November 2025. 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 1,769 £550 -5.17% 1,321
North of England +3 613 £492 -3.53% 406
South East +2 376 £500 -16.67% 457
Midlands +14 371 £515 -6.36% 185
Yorkshire -1 327 £500 - 104
West Midlands +11 300 £525 -8.70% 129
North West +4 257 £450 -17.43% 252
South West +2 217 £538 -10.42% 200
East of England +22 107 £538 +7.50% 115
East Midlands +21 71 £418 +4.31% 55
North East -11 31 £550 -6.78% 51
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
1 236 (6.67%) Confluence
2 92 (2.60%) Apache
3 67 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
4 62 (1.75%) SAS
5 61 (1.73%) SharePoint
6 52 (1.47%) Apache Spark
7 39 (1.10%) CMS
8 37 (1.05%) nginx
9 29 (0.82%) IIS
10 28 (0.79%) JBoss
10 28 (0.79%) OpenStack
11 26 (0.74%) CICS
12 20 (0.57%) WebSphere
13 17 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
14 14 (0.40%) WebLogic
15 11 (0.31%) WebSphere Application Server
16 10 (0.28%) Mule
17 9 (0.25%) iPlanet
18 8 (0.23%) Anypoint
19 7 (0.20%) Jupyter
Applications
1 70 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 28 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
4 26 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.45%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.37%) Chatbot
7 12 (0.34%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 8 (0.23%) Weka
9 6 (0.17%) Trello
10 1 (0.028%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.028%) Moqups
10 1 (0.028%) Revit
Business Applications
1 58 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.62%) Endur
3 19 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (0.48%) Aladdin
4 17 (0.48%) VisionPLUS
5 15 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
6 13 (0.37%) Maximo
7 11 (0.31%) Oracle BPM
8 6 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
8 6 (0.17%) FLEXCUBE
9 5 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
9 5 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 4 (0.11%) Fidessa
10 4 (0.11%) SAP ERP
10 4 (0.11%) thinkFolio
10 4 (0.11%) Workday HCM
11 3 (0.085%) SAP FI
11 3 (0.085%) SAP FI/CO
11 3 (0.085%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,706 (48.25%) Azure
2 1,280 (36.20%) AWS
3 936 (26.47%) Azure DevOps
4 606 (17.14%) GitHub
5 504 (14.25%) GCP
6 380 (10.75%) Serverless
7 329 (9.30%) GitHub Actions
8 245 (6.93%) Power Platform
9 216 (6.11%) Amazon S3
10 199 (5.63%) AWS Lambda
11 187 (5.29%) AWS CloudFormation
12 170 (4.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 156 (4.41%) Amazon EC2
14 147 (4.16%) Azure AKS
15 141 (3.99%) SaaS
16 137 (3.87%) Entra ID
17 136 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
18 128 (3.62%) Dynamics 365
19 118 (3.34%) Amazon ECS
19 118 (3.34%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 190 (5.37%) Firewall
2 125 (3.54%) DNS
3 76 (2.15%) VPN
4 66 (1.87%) TCP/IP
5 65 (1.84%) Network Security
5 65 (1.84%) SSL
6 44 (1.24%) HTTP
7 34 (0.96%) SSH
8 31 (0.88%) SMTP
9 30 (0.85%) HTTPS
10 29 (0.82%) WAN
11 24 (0.68%) FTP
12 19 (0.54%) BGP
13 17 (0.48%) DHCP
14 16 (0.45%) LAN
14 16 (0.45%) OpenLDAP
15 15 (0.42%) MPLS
15 15 (0.42%) SD-WAN
16 14 (0.40%) Kerberos
17 12 (0.34%) IMAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 234 (6.62%) PostgreSQL
2 152 (4.30%) Power BI
3 143 (4.04%) NoSQL
4 141 (3.99%) SQL Server
5 129 (3.65%) Amazon RDS
6 100 (2.83%) MongoDB
7 86 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
8 82 (2.32%) Relational Database
9 79 (2.23%) Data Lake
10 71 (2.01%) Oracle Database
11 59 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
12 55 (1.56%) Redis
13 53 (1.50%) DynamoDB
14 50 (1.41%) MySQL
15 47 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
16 40 (1.13%) Metadata
17 38 (1.07%) Delta Lake
18 37 (1.05%) Amazon Aurora
19 36 (1.02%) Pentaho
20 33 (0.93%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 669 (18.92%) Jenkins
2 573 (16.20%) Git
3 539 (15.24%) JIRA
4 441 (12.47%) GitLab
5 120 (3.39%) Selenium
6 97 (2.74%) SonarQube
7 87 (2.46%) JUnit
8 86 (2.43%) Sonatype Nexus
9 71 (2.01%) Bitbucket
10 69 (1.95%) Postman
11 55 (1.56%) Maven
12 54 (1.53%) Liquibase
13 50 (1.41%) Cucumber
14 46 (1.30%) Cypress.io
15 45 (1.27%) Gradle
16 44 (1.24%) Artifactory
17 36 (1.02%) Oracle APEX
18 32 (0.90%) CircleCI
19 31 (0.88%) TeamCity
20 29 (0.82%) Mockito
General
1 1,151 (32.55%) Social Skills
2 633 (17.90%) Finance
3 417 (11.79%) Public Sector
4 328 (9.28%) Banking
5 292 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
6 109 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
7 68 (1.92%) Investment Banking
8 60 (1.70%) Financial Institution
8 60 (1.70%) Marketing
9 58 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 56 (1.58%) Telecoms
11 54 (1.53%) Retail
12 46 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
13 41 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
14 37 (1.05%) Front Office
15 32 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
16 29 (0.82%) Back Office
16 29 (0.82%) Military
17 28 (0.79%) Law
18 25 (0.71%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 695 (19.65%) Developer
2 602 (17.02%) DevOps Engineer
3 477 (13.49%) Senior
4 289 (8.17%) Architect
5 279 (7.89%) Lead
6 220 (6.22%) AWS Engineer
7 179 (5.06%) Analyst
8 172 (4.86%) Azure Engineer
9 170 (4.81%) AWS DevOps
10 167 (4.72%) Data Engineer
11 143 (4.04%) Software Engineer
12 141 (3.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 141 (3.99%) Senior Developer
13 140 (3.96%) Cloud Engineer
14 129 (3.65%) Platform Engineer
15 105 (2.97%) Business Analyst
16 102 (2.88%) Consultant
17 101 (2.86%) Java Developer
18 89 (2.52%) Senior DevOps
19 82 (2.32%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 401 (11.34%) REST
2 306 (8.65%) .NET
3 242 (6.84%) RESTful
4 216 (6.11%) React
5 204 (5.77%) Node.js
6 187 (5.29%) Kafka
7 175 (4.95%) JSON
8 154 (4.36%) SOAP
9 144 (4.07%) HTML
9 144 (4.07%) Spring
10 134 (3.79%) Spring Boot
11 129 (3.65%) AngularJS
11 129 (3.65%) Elastic Stack
12 118 (3.34%) XML
13 114 (3.22%) OAuth
14 107 (3.03%) YAML
15 97 (2.74%) CSS
16 77 (2.18%) Web Services
17 72 (2.04%) GraphQL
18 70 (1.98%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 462 (13.07%) Cloud Native
2 181 (5.12%) Product Ownership
3 143 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
4 108 (3.05%) Onboarding
5 89 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
6 81 (2.29%) Public Cloud
7 65 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
7 65 (1.84%) Mobile App
8 57 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
9 56 (1.58%) Replication
10 49 (1.39%) Security Posture
11 46 (1.30%) Algorithms
11 46 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
12 42 (1.19%) Virtual Team
13 39 (1.10%) Management Information System
14 38 (1.07%) Data Centre
14 38 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 38 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
15 37 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
16 35 (0.99%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 440 (12.44%) Linux
2 219 (6.19%) Windows
3 94 (2.66%) Unix
4 62 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 59 (1.67%) Windows Server
6 51 (1.44%) Android
7 44 (1.24%) Apple iOS
7 44 (1.24%) VMS
8 26 (0.74%) Amazon Linux
9 24 (0.68%) Ubuntu
10 21 (0.59%) CentOS
11 16 (0.45%) Solaris
11 16 (0.45%) Windows 10
12 11 (0.31%) zOS
13 9 (0.25%) Mac OS
14 7 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
15 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
16 3 (0.085%) AIX
16 3 (0.085%) Debian
16 3 (0.085%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,948 (55.09%) CI/CD
2 1,554 (43.95%) Agile
3 875 (24.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 701 (19.82%) Problem-Solving
5 654 (18.50%) Containerisation
6 550 (15.55%) Test Automation
7 510 (14.42%) Microservices
8 451 (12.75%) Scrum
9 382 (10.80%) Continuous Improvement
10 379 (10.72%) Migration
11 377 (10.66%) Analytics
12 359 (10.15%) Software Engineering
13 319 (9.02%) AI
14 293 (8.29%) Observability
15 279 (7.89%) Stakeholder Management
16 272 (7.69%) Mentoring
17 237 (6.70%) DevSecOps
17 237 (6.70%) Infrastructure Automation
17 237 (6.70%) SDLC
18 236 (6.67%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 1,147 (32.44%) Python
2 698 (19.74%) SQL
3 491 (13.89%) Java
4 385 (10.89%) JavaScript
5 338 (9.56%) C#
6 329 (9.30%) Bash
7 324 (9.16%) PowerShell
8 237 (6.70%) TypeScript
9 162 (4.58%) Go
10 101 (2.86%) Bicep
11 69 (1.95%) PL/SQL
12 66 (1.87%) Shell Script
13 61 (1.73%) Groovy
14 50 (1.41%) C++
15 46 (1.30%) Perl
16 42 (1.19%) Scala
17 36 (1.02%) Ruby
18 31 (0.88%) T-SQL
19 30 (0.85%) Kotlin
20 24 (0.68%) PHP
Qualifications
1 977 (27.63%) Security Cleared
2 813 (22.99%) SC Cleared
3 304 (8.60%) Degree
4 165 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 130 (3.68%) Azure Certification
6 123 (3.48%) AWS Certification
7 118 (3.34%) DV Cleared
8 65 (1.84%) Master's Degree
9 61 (1.73%) CISSP
10 53 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
11 52 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
12 41 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 40 (1.13%) CISM
14 34 (0.96%) ISTQB
15 31 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
16 27 (0.76%) PMI Certification
17 23 (0.65%) PMP
18 22 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 17 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
20 15 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 321 (9.08%) QA
2 133 (3.76%) GDPR
3 109 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 105 (2.97%) Data Quality
5 92 (2.60%) NIST
6 84 (2.38%) Accessibility
7 42 (1.19%) NCSC
8 23 (0.65%) HIPAA
9 22 (0.62%) PCI DSS
10 18 (0.51%) WCAG
11 16 (0.45%) SLA
12 14 (0.40%) MiFID
12 14 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 13 (0.37%) PSD2
13 13 (0.37%) SEPA
13 13 (0.37%) SOC 2
14 12 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
14 12 (0.34%) ISO 20022
15 11 (0.31%) EU AI Act
16 10 (0.28%) PMO
System Software
1 889 (25.14%) Docker
2 177 (5.01%) Active Directory
3 77 (2.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 54 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (0.74%) vSphere
6 24 (0.68%) DFS Replication
7 16 (0.45%) Postfix
8 14 (0.40%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.37%) Squid
10 12 (0.34%) Dovecot
10 12 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
11 11 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
12 8 (0.23%) GPFS
12 8 (0.23%) Lustre
12 8 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 8 (0.23%) Tivoli Directory Server
12 8 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
13 7 (0.20%) Hyper-V
13 7 (0.20%) NFS
13 7 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1,051 (29.72%) Terraform
2 989 (27.97%) Kubernetes
3 466 (13.18%) Ansible
4 258 (7.30%) Grafana
5 251 (7.10%) Prometheus
6 81 (2.29%) Puppet
7 66 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
8 64 (1.81%) Argo
9 50 (1.41%) Progress Chef
10 42 (1.19%) Kibana
11 39 (1.10%) Packer
12 22 (0.62%) Istio
12 22 (0.62%) ITRS Geneos
13 20 (0.57%) Podman
14 18 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
15 17 (0.48%) Proxmox
15 17 (0.48%) SCCM
16 16 (0.45%) CA Endevor
16 16 (0.45%) Nessus
17 15 (0.42%) logstash
Vendors
1 618 (17.48%) Microsoft
2 259 (7.32%) Oracle
3 202 (5.71%) Google
4 185 (5.23%) Splunk
5 164 (4.64%) Databricks
6 148 (4.19%) ServiceNow
7 105 (2.97%) VMware
8 97 (2.74%) Salesforce
9 91 (2.57%) Red Hat
9 91 (2.57%) SAP
10 54 (1.53%) Dynatrace
11 52 (1.47%) IBM
12 48 (1.36%) MuleSoft
13 45 (1.27%) F5
14 42 (1.19%) Atlassian
15 38 (1.07%) OpenAI
15 38 (1.07%) Palo Alto
16 37 (1.05%) Talend
17 36 (1.02%) CyberArk
18 35 (0.99%) Denodo
2,609 DevOps jobs in England