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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,289 2,450 3,355
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.64% 10.07% 9.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.52% 11.04% 10.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,013 1,810 2,318
10th Percentile £385 £400 £400
25th Percentile £443 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £650
90th Percentile £713 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -3.53% -2.27% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 14 102
10th Percentile £39.53 £39.88 £56.28
25th Percentile £46.06 £52.50 £61.25
Median hourly rate £63.73 £67.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +3.85% -0.76%
75th Percentile £75.00 £81.69 £82.67
90th Percentile £83.75 £89.64 £87.41
UK median hourly rate £63.73 £71.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year -11.01% +10.17% -0.76%

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 34,270 22,183 32,209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.00% 91.18% 86.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,910 14,537 21,121
10th Percentile £318 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,134 920 2,242
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.75 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.38 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £35.68
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -15.92% -4.85%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.35 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.07 £35.00
% change year-on-year +42.95% -16.94% -6.17%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 30 April 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 +4 2,195 £540 -6.01% 460
North of England +3 743 £500 -3.82% 238
South East 0 451 £510 -7.27% 273
Yorkshire 0 411 £500 -3.80% 48
Midlands +4 404 £488 -2.50% 97
West Midlands +2 308 £500 -4.58% 52
South West +15 297 £500 -12.28% 101
North West +2 275 £500 -2.72% 140
East of England +20 129 £525 +1.94% 88
East Midlands +1 93 £465 -2.11% 45
North East +7 66 £475 -13.64% 50
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
1 246 (5.74%) Confluence
2 121 (2.82%) Apache Spark
3 105 (2.45%) SharePoint
4 85 (1.98%) Apache
5 70 (1.63%) SAS
6 64 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
7 34 (0.79%) CMS
8 33 (0.77%) nginx
9 27 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
10 24 (0.56%) IIS
11 23 (0.54%) OpenStack
12 12 (0.28%) Mendix
13 11 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 11 (0.26%) HCL Notes
13 11 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
14 9 (0.21%) WebSphere
15 8 (0.19%) Camunda
16 7 (0.16%) ArcGIS
17 6 (0.14%) Mattermost
17 6 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 67 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (1.31%) Microsoft Project
3 43 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
5 22 (0.51%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.093%) Trello
7 4 (0.093%) Weka
8 3 (0.070%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.047%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.047%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.023%) InDesign
10 1 (0.023%) Maya
Business Applications
1 63 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
4 9 (0.21%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.21%) Maximo
4 9 (0.21%) NEC Housing
5 7 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
5 7 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.093%) Endur
7 4 (0.093%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.093%) SAP BPC
7 4 (0.093%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.070%) Findur
8 3 (0.070%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.070%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.047%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.047%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.047%) SAP MM
9 2 (0.047%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 2,310 (53.86%) Azure
2 1,446 (33.71%) AWS
3 1,259 (29.35%) Azure DevOps
4 720 (16.79%) GitHub
5 558 (13.01%) GCP
6 425 (9.91%) Serverless
7 412 (9.61%) GitHub Actions
8 360 (8.39%) Power Platform
9 234 (5.46%) Amazon S3
10 218 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
11 213 (4.97%) Entra ID
12 209 (4.87%) AWS Lambda
13 203 (4.73%) Azure Data Factory
14 196 (4.57%) Azure AKS
15 158 (3.68%) OpenShift
16 156 (3.64%) Amazon EKS
17 155 (3.61%) Azure Monitor
18 143 (3.33%) PaaS
19 140 (3.26%) Dynamics 365
20 130 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 199 (4.64%) Firewall
2 106 (2.47%) DNS
3 86 (2.01%) VPN
4 82 (1.91%) Network Security
5 37 (0.86%) TCP/IP
6 31 (0.72%) WAN
7 28 (0.65%) SD-WAN
8 24 (0.56%) HTTP
9 21 (0.49%) BGP
9 21 (0.49%) DHCP
9 21 (0.49%) SSL
10 18 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
11 17 (0.40%) IPsec
12 15 (0.35%) MPLS
12 15 (0.35%) OSPF
12 15 (0.35%) SAN
13 14 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
14 13 (0.30%) LAN
15 11 (0.26%) Internet
15 11 (0.26%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 244 (5.69%) Power BI
2 221 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
3 212 (4.94%) SQL Server
4 163 (3.80%) NoSQL
5 150 (3.50%) Data Lake
6 122 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
6 122 (2.84%) Relational Database
7 94 (2.19%) Azure SQL Database
8 91 (2.12%) MongoDB
9 89 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
10 82 (1.91%) Delta Lake
11 73 (1.70%) DynamoDB
12 69 (1.61%) Metadata
13 68 (1.59%) Oracle Database
14 67 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
15 59 (1.38%) Big Data
16 50 (1.17%) Redis
17 48 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
18 47 (1.10%) Tableau
19 44 (1.03%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 614 (14.32%) Jenkins
2 540 (12.59%) Git
3 534 (12.45%) JIRA
4 422 (9.84%) GitLab
5 86 (2.01%) Selenium
6 79 (1.84%) Postman
7 78 (1.82%) JUnit
8 73 (1.70%) Bitbucket
9 69 (1.61%) SonarQube
10 55 (1.28%) Maven
11 48 (1.12%) Artifactory
12 47 (1.10%) Cucumber
13 46 (1.07%) REST Assured
14 40 (0.93%) Cypress.io
15 39 (0.91%) JMeter
16 34 (0.79%) Gatling
16 34 (0.79%) Mockito
17 30 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
18 28 (0.65%) Gradle
19 25 (0.58%) TestRail
General
1 1,147 (26.74%) Social Skills
2 821 (19.14%) Finance
3 514 (11.98%) Public Sector
4 367 (8.56%) Analytical Skills
5 300 (6.99%) Banking
6 141 (3.29%) Documentation Skills
7 63 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 62 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
9 55 (1.28%) Retail
10 50 (1.17%) Financial Institution
11 48 (1.12%) Marketing
11 48 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
12 45 (1.05%) Front Office
13 44 (1.03%) Legal
14 42 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
15 41 (0.96%) Investment Banking
16 31 (0.72%) Telecoms
17 30 (0.70%) Military
18 23 (0.54%) Law
19 16 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 822 (19.17%) DevOps Engineer
2 635 (14.81%) Developer
3 593 (13.83%) Senior
4 491 (11.45%) Architect
5 353 (8.23%) Lead
6 291 (6.78%) Azure Engineer
7 280 (6.53%) Data Engineer
8 253 (5.90%) Analyst
9 187 (4.36%) AWS Engineer
10 156 (3.64%) Cloud Engineer
11 155 (3.61%) Solutions Architect
12 152 (3.54%) Platform Engineer
13 141 (3.29%) AWS DevOps
14 134 (3.12%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 134 (3.12%) Software Engineer
15 132 (3.08%) Business Analyst
16 125 (2.91%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 124 (2.89%) Senior DevOps
18 116 (2.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 114 (2.66%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 387 (9.02%) REST
2 359 (8.37%) .NET
3 255 (5.95%) Kafka
4 245 (5.71%) Node.js
5 237 (5.53%) React
5 237 (5.53%) Spring
6 222 (5.18%) Spring Boot
7 194 (4.52%) RESTful
8 156 (3.64%) AngularJS
9 131 (3.05%) YAML
10 124 (2.89%) JSON
10 124 (2.89%) Playwright
11 121 (2.82%) PySpark
12 109 (2.54%) OAuth
13 107 (2.49%) HTML
14 103 (2.40%) Middleware
15 101 (2.35%) SOAP
16 91 (2.12%) CSS
17 89 (2.08%) .NET Framework
18 88 (2.05%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 678 (15.81%) Cloud Native
2 264 (6.16%) Product Ownership
3 155 (3.61%) Distributed Systems
4 115 (2.68%) Onboarding
5 91 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
6 88 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
7 83 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
7 83 (1.94%) Public Cloud
8 67 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
9 52 (1.21%) Management Information System
10 51 (1.19%) Virtual Team
11 43 (1.00%) Private Cloud
12 42 (0.98%) Data Centre
13 40 (0.93%) Replication
14 39 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
15 38 (0.89%) Security Posture
16 36 (0.84%) Data Structures
16 36 (0.84%) Mobile App
17 35 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
17 35 (0.82%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 387 (9.02%) Linux
2 224 (5.22%) Windows
3 71 (1.66%) Unix
4 64 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 39 (0.91%) Windows Server
6 35 (0.82%) VMS
7 21 (0.49%) Ubuntu
8 13 (0.30%) Android
9 11 (0.26%) Apple iOS
9 11 (0.26%) CentOS
10 10 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (0.16%) Windows 10
12 6 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (0.12%) Solaris
14 4 (0.093%) Amazon Linux
14 4 (0.093%) Windows Server 2008
14 4 (0.093%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.070%) Debian
15 3 (0.070%) Mac OS
15 3 (0.070%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,373 (55.33%) CI/CD
2 1,623 (37.84%) Agile
3 1,061 (24.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 714 (16.65%) Containerisation
5 711 (16.58%) Problem-Solving
6 619 (14.43%) Microservices
7 601 (14.01%) Test Automation
8 557 (12.99%) Continuous Improvement
9 526 (12.26%) Migration
10 516 (12.03%) Analytics
11 499 (11.63%) Observability
12 474 (11.05%) Scrum
13 470 (10.96%) Stakeholder Management
14 448 (10.45%) AI
15 419 (9.77%) Software Engineering
16 405 (9.44%) Data Modelling
17 355 (8.28%) Platform Engineering
18 352 (8.21%) Mentoring
19 334 (7.79%) Data Pipeline
20 332 (7.74%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,188 (27.70%) Python
2 909 (21.19%) SQL
3 567 (13.22%) Java
4 422 (9.84%) C#
5 337 (7.86%) JavaScript
6 304 (7.09%) PowerShell
7 295 (6.88%) Bash
8 243 (5.67%) TypeScript
9 146 (3.40%) Bicep
10 98 (2.28%) Go
11 73 (1.70%) PL/SQL
12 67 (1.56%) Scala
13 50 (1.17%) Shell Script
14 41 (0.96%) T-SQL
15 40 (0.93%) Groovy
16 35 (0.82%) Apex Code
17 30 (0.70%) C++
18 28 (0.65%) Ruby
19 23 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 22 (0.51%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,399 (32.62%) Security Cleared
2 1,156 (26.95%) SC Cleared
3 301 (7.02%) Degree
4 196 (4.57%) Azure Certification
5 143 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 142 (3.31%) DV Cleared
7 119 (2.77%) AWS Certification
8 111 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 67 (1.56%) CISSP
10 49 (1.14%) CISM
11 48 (1.12%) Master's Degree
11 48 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
12 47 (1.10%) ISTQB
13 40 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 40 (0.93%) PMI Certification
14 38 (0.89%) PMP
15 36 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
16 21 (0.49%) IIBA
16 21 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
16 21 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 385 (8.98%) QA
2 196 (4.57%) Data Quality
3 162 (3.78%) GDPR
4 123 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 115 (2.68%) NIST
6 94 (2.19%) Accessibility
7 59 (1.38%) NCSC
8 41 (0.96%) PCI DSS
9 40 (0.93%) WCAG
10 31 (0.72%) SLA
11 30 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 27 (0.63%) PMO
13 17 (0.40%) GRC
14 16 (0.37%) HIPAA
15 15 (0.35%) ISO 20022
16 14 (0.33%) NIST 800
17 12 (0.28%) PSD2
18 11 (0.26%) SOC 2
19 10 (0.23%) SEPA
20 8 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 863 (20.12%) Docker
2 159 (3.71%) Active Directory
3 69 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
4 62 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 32 (0.75%) vSphere
6 24 (0.56%) VMware NSX
7 14 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 13 (0.30%) Hyper-V
9 12 (0.28%) Postfix
9 12 (0.28%) Squid
10 10 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
11 8 (0.19%) Firmware
12 7 (0.16%) Lustre
12 7 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 6 (0.14%) HDFS
14 5 (0.12%) Corosync
14 5 (0.12%) GPFS
14 5 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
14 5 (0.12%) RACF
15 4 (0.093%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,201 (28.00%) Terraform
2 1,139 (26.56%) Kubernetes
3 434 (10.12%) Ansible
4 280 (6.53%) Grafana
5 235 (5.48%) Prometheus
6 88 (2.05%) Argo
7 67 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
8 62 (1.45%) Puppet
9 47 (1.10%) Istio
10 29 (0.68%) Packer
11 23 (0.54%) Progress Chef
12 22 (0.51%) Kibana
12 22 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
12 22 (0.51%) vCenter Server
13 20 (0.47%) Rancher
14 19 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 17 (0.40%) Consul
16 16 (0.37%) HP ALM
17 15 (0.35%) FortiGate
18 12 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 770 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 279 (6.51%) Oracle
3 245 (5.71%) Databricks
4 193 (4.50%) Google
5 182 (4.24%) Splunk
6 157 (3.66%) ServiceNow
7 129 (3.01%) Red Hat
8 119 (2.77%) Salesforce
9 112 (2.61%) VMware
10 98 (2.28%) SAP
11 85 (1.98%) Dynatrace
12 65 (1.52%) OpenAI
13 55 (1.28%) Atlassian
14 53 (1.24%) CyberArk
15 42 (0.98%) IBM
16 36 (0.84%) AppDynamics
17 34 (0.79%) Foundry
18 33 (0.77%) Denodo
18 33 (0.77%) Informatica
19 31 (0.72%) Cisco