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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 14 14
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,756 3,030 3,311
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.27% 10.91% 10.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.13% 12.00% 11.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,269 2,144 2,230
10th Percentile £381 £361 £400
25th Percentile £439 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -5.66%
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 112 21 68
10th Percentile £37.25 £42.50 £56.75
25th Percentile £56.25 £53.00 £65.00
Median hourly rate £68.11 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.65% -4.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £78.06 £88.75 £75.94
90th Percentile £93.63 £95.00 £86.19
UK median hourly rate £68.75 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +2.61% -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 39,208 25,244 28,362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.66% 90.88% 86.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,936 16,028 17,611
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £421
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 2,812 1,512 1,298
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.74 £17.77 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.41 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.61% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £68.00 £49.56 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -1.91%

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 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 20 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 20 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 - 2,426
North of England -2 768 £500 +5.26% 713
South East -13 449 £537 +7.40% 559
Midlands -5 432 £488 -2.74% 286
Yorkshire -2 384 £500 +3.09% 188
West Midlands -8 341 £492 -6.08% 170
South West +4 321 £550 +4.76% 300
North West -5 291 £525 +13.51% 406
East of England +9 154 £504 -4.00% 212
North East +14 108 £450 -13.46% 122
East Midlands -1 88 £464 +3.06% 116
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
1 281 (5.91%) Confluence
2 145 (3.05%) 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 20 (0.42%) IIS
11 19 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
12 14 (0.29%) Camunda
13 13 (0.27%) OpenStack
14 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
15 9 (0.19%) Anypoint
15 9 (0.19%) Appian
16 8 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
16 8 (0.17%) WebLogic
16 8 (0.17%) WebSphere
17 7 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 63 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
3 45 (0.95%) MS Visio
4 33 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 27 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
6 12 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
8 8 (0.17%) CPLEX
9 6 (0.13%) Trello
9 6 (0.13%) Windchill
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 31 (0.65%) 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%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2,562 (53.87%) Azure
2 1,669 (35.09%) AWS
3 1,482 (31.16%) Azure DevOps
4 808 (16.99%) GitHub
5 620 (13.04%) GCP
6 513 (10.79%) GitHub Actions
7 422 (8.87%) Power Platform
8 398 (8.37%) Serverless
9 248 (5.21%) Amazon S3
10 238 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
11 232 (4.88%) Entra ID
12 203 (4.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 187 (3.93%) Amazon EKS
14 183 (3.85%) Azure AKS
15 171 (3.60%) Azure Monitor
16 170 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
17 169 (3.55%) AWS CloudFormation
17 169 (3.55%) Dynamics 365
18 159 (3.34%) Amazon EC2
19 153 (3.22%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 222 (4.67%) Firewall
2 142 (2.99%) DNS
3 112 (2.35%) VPN
4 106 (2.23%) Network Security
5 69 (1.45%) TCP/IP
6 52 (1.09%) SSL
7 46 (0.97%) WAN
8 40 (0.84%) DHCP
9 31 (0.65%) BGP
10 30 (0.63%) HTTP
11 29 (0.61%) SD-WAN
12 28 (0.59%) Internet
13 24 (0.50%) SSH
13 24 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
14 23 (0.48%) OSPF
15 19 (0.40%) VLAN
16 17 (0.36%) LAN
16 17 (0.36%) SAN
17 16 (0.34%) BIG-IP
17 16 (0.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 287 (6.03%) Power BI
2 250 (5.26%) SQL Server
3 240 (5.05%) PostgreSQL
4 183 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
5 160 (3.36%) NoSQL
6 149 (3.13%) Data Lake
7 143 (3.01%) MongoDB
7 143 (3.01%) Relational Database
8 117 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
8 117 (2.46%) Metadata
9 82 (1.72%) Delta Lake
10 81 (1.70%) DynamoDB
11 76 (1.60%) Oracle Database
12 74 (1.56%) MySQL
13 73 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
14 68 (1.43%) Redis
15 56 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
15 56 (1.18%) Big Data
16 55 (1.16%) BigQuery
17 53 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 683 (14.36%) Git
2 657 (13.81%) Jenkins
3 547 (11.50%) GitLab
4 535 (11.25%) JIRA
5 124 (2.61%) Selenium
6 90 (1.89%) SonarQube
7 81 (1.70%) Maven
8 79 (1.66%) Postman
9 78 (1.64%) JUnit
10 64 (1.35%) Cucumber
11 63 (1.32%) Bitbucket
12 58 (1.22%) Cypress.io
13 57 (1.20%) REST Assured
14 55 (1.16%) Gradle
14 55 (1.16%) JMeter
15 41 (0.86%) Gatling
16 40 (0.84%) Mockito
17 37 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
18 36 (0.76%) Claude Code
18 36 (0.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,256 (26.41%) Social Skills
2 875 (18.40%) Finance
3 620 (13.04%) Public Sector
4 472 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
5 349 (7.34%) Banking
6 148 (3.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 104 (2.19%) Retail
8 79 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
9 78 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
10 55 (1.16%) Aerospace
10 55 (1.16%) Marketing
11 53 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
12 52 (1.09%) Legal
12 52 (1.09%) Military
13 45 (0.95%) Investment Banking
14 44 (0.93%) Telecoms
15 41 (0.86%) Law
16 39 (0.82%) Manufacturing
17 38 (0.80%) Front Office
18 37 (0.78%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 909 (19.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 741 (15.58%) Senior
3 737 (15.50%) Developer
4 567 (11.92%) Architect
5 463 (9.74%) Lead
6 291 (6.12%) Azure Engineer
7 274 (5.76%) Data Engineer
8 230 (4.84%) Analyst
9 198 (4.16%) AWS Engineer
10 191 (4.02%) Platform Engineer
11 179 (3.76%) Cloud Engineer
12 169 (3.55%) Senior DevOps
13 167 (3.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 158 (3.32%) Solutions Architect
15 156 (3.28%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 142 (2.99%) Java Developer
17 133 (2.80%) AWS DevOps
17 133 (2.80%) Software Engineer
18 132 (2.78%) Senior Developer
19 122 (2.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,394 (29.31%) Terraform
2 508 (10.68%) REST
3 401 (8.43%) .NET
4 328 (6.90%) Kafka
5 270 (5.68%) RESTful
6 248 (5.21%) React
7 242 (5.09%) Spring
8 239 (5.03%) Spring Boot
9 158 (3.32%) JSON
10 156 (3.28%) Node.js
11 152 (3.20%) OAuth
12 139 (2.92%) PySpark
13 127 (2.67%) Playwright
14 118 (2.48%) HTML
15 115 (2.42%) .NET Framework
16 114 (2.40%) SOAP
17 112 (2.35%) CSS
18 102 (2.14%) OAuth2
19 97 (2.04%) AngularJS
19 97 (2.04%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 871 (18.31%) Cloud Native
2 364 (7.65%) Product Ownership
3 221 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
4 180 (3.78%) 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%) Self-Motivation
11 68 (1.43%) Security Posture
12 64 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
12 64 (1.35%) Data Structures
12 64 (1.35%) Public Cloud
12 64 (1.35%) Replication
13 58 (1.22%) Data Centre
14 56 (1.18%) Virtual Team
15 50 (1.05%) Mobile App
16 44 (0.93%) PKI
17 41 (0.86%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 479 (10.07%) Linux
2 277 (5.82%) Windows
3 112 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 93 (1.96%) Unix
5 81 (1.70%) 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 (59.78%) CI/CD
2 1,938 (40.75%) Agile
3 1,394 (29.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 827 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
5 818 (17.20%) Continuous Improvement
6 779 (16.38%) AI
7 775 (16.30%) Containerisation
8 768 (16.15%) Problem-Solving
9 760 (15.98%) Test Automation
10 702 (14.76%) Microservices
11 680 (14.30%) Observability
12 647 (13.60%) Software Engineering
13 640 (13.46%) Platform Engineering
14 583 (12.26%) Scrum
15 572 (12.03%) Migration
16 539 (11.33%) Technical Leadership
17 514 (10.81%) Analytics
18 451 (9.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 438 (9.21%) Roadmaps
20 422 (8.87%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,405 (29.54%) Python
2 843 (17.72%) SQL
3 703 (14.78%) Java
4 437 (9.19%) PowerShell
5 432 (9.08%) C#
6 420 (8.83%) Bash
7 388 (8.16%) JavaScript
8 270 (5.68%) TypeScript
9 217 (4.56%) Bicep
10 84 (1.77%) Go
11 64 (1.35%) Shell Script
12 57 (1.20%) Groovy
13 55 (1.16%) T-SQL
14 54 (1.14%) Scala
15 47 (0.99%) PL/SQL
16 45 (0.95%) Apex Code
17 32 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 30 (0.63%) C++
18 30 (0.63%) Perl
19 25 (0.53%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,528 (32.13%) Security Cleared
2 1,275 (26.81%) SC Cleared
3 327 (6.88%) Degree
4 218 (4.58%) Azure Certification
5 211 (4.44%) DV Cleared
6 167 (3.51%) AWS Certification
7 141 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 123 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
9 110 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
10 75 (1.58%) CISSP
11 50 (1.05%) ISTQB
12 49 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
13 43 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 40 (0.84%) PMP
15 39 (0.82%) Master's Degree
16 34 (0.71%) PMI Certification
17 31 (0.65%) CISM
18 21 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 21 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 20 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 478 (10.05%) QA
2 249 (5.24%) Data Quality
3 160 (3.36%) Accessibility
4 116 (2.44%) GDPR
5 84 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 78 (1.64%) WCAG
7 75 (1.58%) NIST
8 47 (0.99%) NCSC
9 44 (0.93%) PMO
10 31 (0.65%) SLA
11 27 (0.57%) PCI DSS
12 26 (0.55%) GRC
13 21 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 19 (0.40%) ISO 20022
15 15 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
16 12 (0.25%) HIPAA
16 12 (0.25%) SEPA
17 10 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
17 10 (0.21%) SOC 2
18 9 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 961 (20.21%) Docker
2 146 (3.07%) Active Directory
3 71 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
4 64 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
6 20 (0.42%) Hyper-V
6 20 (0.42%) vSphere
7 16 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 13 (0.27%) VMware NSX
9 12 (0.25%) Squid
10 11 (0.23%) IAG
11 9 (0.19%) Postfix
12 8 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
13 6 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 6 (0.13%) Corosync
13 6 (0.13%) KVM
13 6 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
14 5 (0.11%) NFS
14 5 (0.11%) RACF
15 4 (0.084%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1,252 (26.32%) Kubernetes
2 478 (10.05%) Ansible
3 311 (6.54%) Grafana
4 265 (5.57%) Prometheus
5 62 (1.30%) Argo
6 60 (1.26%) Puppet
7 50 (1.05%) Progress Chef
8 48 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
9 45 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
10 33 (0.69%) Packer
11 27 (0.57%) Kibana
12 20 (0.42%) Istio
12 20 (0.42%) Kubeflow
13 19 (0.40%) Kustomize
14 16 (0.34%) SCCM
15 15 (0.32%) HP ALM
15 15 (0.32%) vCenter Server
16 13 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
16 13 (0.27%) SCOM
16 13 (0.27%) systemd
Vendors
1 957 (20.12%) Microsoft
2 267 (5.61%) Databricks
3 245 (5.15%) Google
4 239 (5.03%) Oracle
5 193 (4.06%) ServiceNow
6 167 (3.51%) Splunk
7 140 (2.94%) Salesforce
8 128 (2.69%) Dynatrace
9 103 (2.17%) VMware
10 93 (1.96%) Red Hat
10 93 (1.96%) SAP
11 66 (1.39%) IBM
12 58 (1.22%) OpenAI
13 47 (0.99%) Foundry
14 46 (0.97%) Cisco
15 41 (0.86%) Informatica
16 39 (0.82%) AppDynamics
17 34 (0.71%) MuleSoft
18 33 (0.69%) Atlassian
19 31 (0.65%) Okta