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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 16 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,661 2,649 3,573
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.60% 10.06% 9.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.41% 11.05% 11.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,233 1,912 2,444
10th Percentile £390 £363 £400
25th Percentile £443 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 13 117
10th Percentile £38.89 £36.50 £56.50
25th Percentile £61.78 £51.25 £61.60
Median hourly rate £68.75 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -10.71% +6.78%
75th Percentile £77.88 £82.96 £75.00
90th Percentile £94.69 £91.75 £86.19
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £66.25 £70.00
% change year-on-year +5.66% -5.36% +6.78%

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 37,549 23,970 31,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.39% 91.01% 85.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,634 15,421 20,733
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,360 1,193 2,304
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.85 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 4 July 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 2,398 £550 - 654
North of England +6 861 £500 +1.83% 315
Yorkshire +2 463 £501 +0.20% 90
South East -6 449 £525 +5.00% 349
Midlands -1 431 £500 - 134
West Midlands -3 342 £500 -2.39% 80
North West +1 323 £510 +7.37% 183
South West +18 294 £520 -5.45% 138
East of England +24 141 £525 +5.00% 85
North East +10 93 £431 -17.46% 46
East Midlands -3 84 £488 +8.33% 54
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
1 261 (5.60%) Confluence
2 122 (2.62%) Apache Spark
3 115 (2.47%) SharePoint
4 99 (2.12%) Apache Airflow
5 92 (1.97%) Apache
6 70 (1.50%) SAS
7 49 (1.05%) CMS
8 30 (0.64%) IIS
9 28 (0.60%) Jupyter
10 26 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
10 26 (0.56%) nginx
11 14 (0.30%) Camunda
11 14 (0.30%) OpenStack
11 14 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
11 14 (0.30%) WebSphere
12 11 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
13 9 (0.19%) Appian
13 9 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
14 7 (0.15%) Tomcat
15 6 (0.13%) Documentum
Applications
1 63 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 55 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
3 37 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
5 33 (0.71%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.21%) CPLEX
7 7 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.086%) Notion
8 4 (0.086%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.064%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.064%) Trello
10 1 (0.021%) InDesign
10 1 (0.021%) Maya
10 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 64 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
3 9 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
4 8 (0.17%) Aladdin
4 8 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
5 7 (0.15%) Magento
6 6 (0.13%) Endur
6 6 (0.13%) Maximo
6 6 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.11%) OpenText MBPM
7 5 (0.11%) Oracle BPM
7 5 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.086%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.064%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.064%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.064%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.064%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 3 (0.064%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2,469 (52.97%) Azure
2 1,621 (34.78%) AWS
3 1,371 (29.41%) Azure DevOps
4 749 (16.07%) GitHub
5 566 (12.14%) GCP
6 450 (9.65%) GitHub Actions
7 402 (8.62%) Serverless
8 395 (8.47%) Power Platform
9 260 (5.58%) Amazon S3
10 226 (4.85%) AWS Lambda
11 225 (4.83%) Entra ID
12 189 (4.05%) Azure AKS
13 186 (3.99%) AWS CloudFormation
14 169 (3.63%) Amazon EKS
15 166 (3.56%) Azure Data Factory
16 154 (3.30%) Amazon EC2
17 153 (3.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 149 (3.20%) Azure Monitor
19 148 (3.18%) OpenShift
20 139 (2.98%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 213 (4.57%) Firewall
2 121 (2.60%) DNS
3 100 (2.15%) Network Security
4 98 (2.10%) VPN
5 50 (1.07%) WAN
6 41 (0.88%) TCP/IP
7 37 (0.79%) SD-WAN
8 35 (0.75%) SSL
9 32 (0.69%) BGP
10 27 (0.58%) Internet
10 27 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
11 24 (0.51%) OSPF
12 21 (0.45%) DHCP
13 19 (0.41%) HTTP
14 18 (0.39%) LAN
15 17 (0.36%) MPLS
15 17 (0.36%) SAN
15 17 (0.36%) VXLAN
16 16 (0.34%) BIG-IP
16 16 (0.34%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 262 (5.62%) Power BI
2 245 (5.26%) SQL Server
3 223 (4.78%) PostgreSQL
4 165 (3.54%) NoSQL
5 152 (3.26%) Relational Database
6 142 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
7 137 (2.94%) MongoDB
8 136 (2.92%) Data Lake
9 96 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
10 87 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
11 82 (1.76%) Delta Lake
12 78 (1.67%) DynamoDB
13 77 (1.65%) Metadata
14 75 (1.61%) Oracle Database
15 58 (1.24%) Redis
16 56 (1.20%) Big Data
16 56 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
17 55 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
18 54 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
19 43 (0.92%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 661 (14.18%) Jenkins
2 599 (12.85%) Git
3 544 (11.67%) JIRA
4 489 (10.49%) GitLab
5 100 (2.15%) Selenium
6 92 (1.97%) Postman
7 84 (1.80%) JUnit
8 82 (1.76%) SonarQube
9 67 (1.44%) Bitbucket
10 65 (1.39%) Maven
10 65 (1.39%) REST Assured
11 52 (1.12%) Cucumber
12 50 (1.07%) JMeter
13 44 (0.94%) Gatling
14 41 (0.88%) Gradle
15 39 (0.84%) Cypress.io
16 37 (0.79%) Artifactory
17 36 (0.77%) Mockito
18 34 (0.73%) LoadRunner
19 32 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,175 (25.21%) Social Skills
2 907 (19.46%) Finance
3 613 (13.15%) Public Sector
4 408 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
5 328 (7.04%) Banking
6 120 (2.57%) Documentation Skills
7 98 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 77 (1.65%) Retail
9 69 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
10 55 (1.18%) Marketing
11 54 (1.16%) Legal
12 52 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
13 43 (0.92%) Investment Banking
14 41 (0.88%) Military
15 39 (0.84%) Financial Institution
16 35 (0.75%) Law
17 34 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
18 32 (0.69%) Front Office
19 29 (0.62%) Aerospace
20 27 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 897 (19.24%) DevOps Engineer
2 724 (15.53%) Developer
3 653 (14.01%) Senior
4 570 (12.23%) Architect
5 431 (9.25%) Lead
6 285 (6.11%) Azure Engineer
6 285 (6.11%) Data Engineer
7 255 (5.47%) Analyst
8 210 (4.51%) AWS Engineer
9 178 (3.82%) Platform Engineer
10 177 (3.80%) Cloud Engineer
11 176 (3.78%) Solutions Architect
12 156 (3.35%) Senior DevOps
13 153 (3.28%) AWS DevOps
14 151 (3.24%) Java Developer
15 142 (3.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 140 (3.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 140 (3.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 137 (2.94%) Software Engineer
18 132 (2.83%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 446 (9.57%) REST
2 401 (8.60%) .NET
3 265 (5.69%) Kafka
3 265 (5.69%) Spring
4 245 (5.26%) React
5 243 (5.21%) Spring Boot
6 229 (4.91%) RESTful
7 193 (4.14%) Node.js
8 142 (3.05%) AngularJS
9 134 (2.87%) PySpark
10 132 (2.83%) OAuth
11 131 (2.81%) Playwright
12 126 (2.70%) JSON
13 118 (2.53%) .NET Framework
13 118 (2.53%) SOAP
14 105 (2.25%) HTML
15 98 (2.10%) YAML
16 94 (2.02%) OpenID
17 91 (1.95%) CSS
17 91 (1.95%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 827 (17.74%) Cloud Native
2 303 (6.50%) Product Ownership
3 206 (4.42%) Distributed Systems
4 133 (2.85%) Onboarding
5 120 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
6 118 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
7 103 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
8 75 (1.61%) Public Cloud
9 70 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
10 63 (1.35%) Data Centre
10 63 (1.35%) Management Information System
10 63 (1.35%) Security Posture
11 60 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
12 52 (1.12%) Data Structures
13 51 (1.09%) Mobile App
14 49 (1.05%) AI Agents
15 47 (1.01%) Replication
16 45 (0.97%) Virtual Team
17 43 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
18 35 (0.75%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 407 (8.73%) Linux
2 255 (5.47%) Windows
3 89 (1.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 66 (1.42%) Unix
5 56 (1.20%) Windows Server
6 26 (0.56%) Ubuntu
6 26 (0.56%) VMS
7 23 (0.49%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.32%) Android
9 9 (0.19%) Solaris
9 9 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.17%) CentOS
11 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
12 5 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
12 5 (0.11%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.11%) zOS
13 4 (0.086%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (0.086%) Data ONTAP
13 4 (0.086%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,681 (57.52%) CI/CD
2 1,783 (38.25%) Agile
3 1,225 (26.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 754 (16.18%) Containerisation
5 726 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
6 669 (14.35%) Microservices
6 669 (14.35%) Test Automation
7 665 (14.27%) Continuous Improvement
8 592 (12.70%) Stakeholder Management
9 589 (12.64%) AI
10 564 (12.10%) Migration
11 562 (12.06%) Observability
12 553 (11.86%) Scrum
13 521 (11.18%) Analytics
14 510 (10.94%) Platform Engineering
14 510 (10.94%) Software Engineering
15 412 (8.84%) Data Modelling
16 397 (8.52%) Roadmaps
17 386 (8.28%) Technical Leadership
18 383 (8.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,304 (27.98%) Python
2 893 (19.16%) SQL
3 658 (14.12%) Java
4 435 (9.33%) C#
5 354 (7.59%) Bash
6 343 (7.36%) PowerShell
7 337 (7.23%) JavaScript
8 245 (5.26%) TypeScript
9 164 (3.52%) Bicep
10 93 (2.00%) Go
11 63 (1.35%) Scala
12 55 (1.18%) Shell Script
13 53 (1.14%) T-SQL
14 52 (1.12%) PL/SQL
15 51 (1.09%) Apex Code
16 44 (0.94%) Groovy
17 29 (0.62%) C++
18 24 (0.51%) Kotlin
19 20 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 18 (0.39%) C
Qualifications
1 1,488 (31.92%) Security Cleared
2 1,241 (26.63%) SC Cleared
3 295 (6.33%) Degree
4 181 (3.88%) Azure Certification
5 161 (3.45%) DV Cleared
6 145 (3.11%) AWS Certification
7 116 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 115 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
9 72 (1.54%) CISSP
10 68 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
11 47 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
12 43 (0.92%) ISTQB
13 42 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 39 (0.84%) PMP
15 37 (0.79%) Master's Degree
15 37 (0.79%) PMI Certification
16 34 (0.73%) CISM
17 22 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
18 21 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 21 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 405 (8.69%) QA
2 216 (4.63%) Data Quality
3 148 (3.18%) GDPR
4 140 (3.00%) Accessibility
5 104 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 97 (2.08%) NIST
7 65 (1.39%) WCAG
8 60 (1.29%) NCSC
9 45 (0.97%) PCI DSS
10 34 (0.73%) SLA
11 27 (0.58%) PMO
12 26 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 25 (0.54%) GRC
14 16 (0.34%) HIPAA
15 13 (0.28%) SOC 2
16 11 (0.24%) ISO 20022
16 11 (0.24%) PSD2
17 10 (0.21%) SEPA
18 7 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
18 7 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 905 (19.42%) Docker
2 163 (3.50%) Active Directory
3 74 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
4 63 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 27 (0.58%) vSphere
6 22 (0.47%) VMware NSX
7 19 (0.41%) Squid
8 18 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
9 15 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
10 14 (0.30%) Hyper-V
10 14 (0.30%) Postfix
11 7 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
12 6 (0.13%) Corosync
12 6 (0.13%) KVM
12 6 (0.13%) RACF
13 5 (0.11%) IAG
13 5 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.11%) NFS
13 5 (0.11%) SRDF
14 4 (0.086%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,327 (28.47%) Terraform
2 1,182 (25.36%) Kubernetes
3 454 (9.74%) Ansible
4 307 (6.59%) Grafana
5 265 (5.69%) Prometheus
6 79 (1.69%) Argo
7 68 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
8 59 (1.27%) Puppet
9 35 (0.75%) Progress Chef
10 33 (0.71%) Istio
11 30 (0.64%) Packer
12 26 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
12 26 (0.56%) vCenter Server
13 21 (0.45%) Kibana
14 17 (0.36%) Consul
15 16 (0.34%) HP ALM
16 15 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 15 (0.32%) Kustomize
17 12 (0.26%) HAProxy
17 12 (0.26%) Rancher
Vendors
1 831 (17.83%) Microsoft
2 248 (5.32%) Oracle
3 240 (5.15%) Databricks
4 211 (4.53%) Google
5 185 (3.97%) ServiceNow
6 168 (3.60%) Splunk
7 145 (3.11%) Salesforce
8 112 (2.40%) Dynatrace
9 110 (2.36%) SAP
10 102 (2.19%) Red Hat
11 98 (2.10%) VMware
12 57 (1.22%) OpenAI
13 52 (1.12%) IBM
14 48 (1.03%) Atlassian
15 46 (0.99%) Informatica
16 45 (0.97%) CyberArk
17 42 (0.90%) Foundry
18 35 (0.75%) Cisco
19 33 (0.71%) Okta
20 32 (0.69%) AppDynamics