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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,515 2,473 3,549
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.60% 10.11% 9.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.45% 11.06% 11.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,156 1,786 2,449
10th Percentile £390 £379 £400
25th Percentile £440 £447 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £617 £650 £650
90th Percentile £703 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 12 114
10th Percentile £39.53 £36.63 £56.55
25th Percentile £55.88 £51.25 £61.60
Median hourly rate £67.50 £68.75 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +4.96% -
75th Percentile £77.13 £84.41 £76.88
90th Percentile £94.63 £92.13 £86.59
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £66.50
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +1.53%

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 36,262 22,351 32,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.14% 91.35% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,961 14,463 20,809
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,273 1,016 2,371
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.81
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.12 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +69.64% -25.33% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.28 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.14% -25.26% +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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +4 2,311 £550 - 435
North of England +7 830 £500 - 263
South East 0 470 £513 +2.50% 275
Yorkshire +2 453 £500 - 75
Midlands +3 419 £488 -2.50% 109
West Midlands +3 330 £500 -4.58% 73
North West +1 310 £510 +3.29% 158
South West +14 277 £523 -5.00% 127
East of England +24 129 £525 +6.33% 75
North East +9 85 £450 -16.28% 35
East Midlands -3 85 £465 +0.54% 36
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
1 256 (5.67%) Confluence
2 125 (2.77%) Apache Spark
3 111 (2.46%) SharePoint
4 92 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
5 88 (1.95%) Apache
6 76 (1.68%) SAS
7 46 (1.02%) CMS
8 26 (0.58%) IIS
8 26 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
8 26 (0.58%) nginx
9 24 (0.53%) Jupyter
10 16 (0.35%) OpenStack
11 14 (0.31%) Camunda
12 13 (0.29%) WebSphere
13 11 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
14 9 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
15 8 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
16 7 (0.16%) Mendix
16 7 (0.16%) Tomcat
17 6 (0.13%) Mattermost
Applications
1 69 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
3 46 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
5 25 (0.55%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.18%) CPLEX
7 6 (0.13%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.089%) Notion
9 3 (0.066%) Trello
10 2 (0.044%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.044%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.022%) InDesign
11 1 (0.022%) Maya
11 1 (0.022%) Weka
Business Applications
1 59 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
4 10 (0.22%) Maximo
5 9 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.18%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
6 8 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.13%) Endur
8 5 (0.11%) Magento
9 4 (0.089%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.089%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 3 (0.066%) Findur
10 3 (0.066%) NEC Housing
10 3 (0.066%) OpenText MBPM
10 3 (0.066%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.066%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.066%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.066%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.066%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 2,401 (53.18%) Azure
2 1,542 (34.15%) AWS
3 1,315 (29.13%) Azure DevOps
4 732 (16.21%) GitHub
5 563 (12.47%) GCP
6 436 (9.66%) GitHub Actions
7 399 (8.84%) Serverless
8 384 (8.50%) Power Platform
9 246 (5.45%) Amazon S3
10 218 (4.83%) Entra ID
11 215 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
12 192 (4.25%) AWS CloudFormation
13 184 (4.08%) Azure AKS
14 175 (3.88%) Azure Data Factory
15 163 (3.61%) Amazon EKS
16 144 (3.19%) OpenShift
16 144 (3.19%) PaaS
17 141 (3.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 139 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
18 139 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 227 (5.03%) Firewall
2 125 (2.77%) DNS
3 97 (2.15%) Network Security
4 96 (2.13%) VPN
5 46 (1.02%) TCP/IP
6 45 (1.00%) WAN
7 37 (0.82%) SD-WAN
8 31 (0.69%) BGP
9 28 (0.62%) SSL
10 27 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
11 24 (0.53%) DHCP
11 24 (0.53%) OSPF
12 22 (0.49%) Internet
13 19 (0.42%) SAN
14 18 (0.40%) IPsec
15 17 (0.38%) HTTP
15 17 (0.38%) VXLAN
16 16 (0.35%) LAN
16 16 (0.35%) MPLS
17 15 (0.33%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 254 (5.63%) Power BI
2 231 (5.12%) SQL Server
3 213 (4.72%) PostgreSQL
4 160 (3.54%) NoSQL
5 153 (3.39%) Data Lake
6 138 (3.06%) Relational Database
7 126 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
8 120 (2.66%) MongoDB
9 96 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
10 89 (1.97%) Azure SQL Database
11 83 (1.84%) Delta Lake
12 76 (1.68%) DynamoDB
13 74 (1.64%) Metadata
14 68 (1.51%) Oracle Database
15 58 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
15 58 (1.28%) Redis
16 55 (1.22%) Big Data
17 51 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
18 49 (1.09%) BigQuery
19 43 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 620 (13.73%) Jenkins
2 557 (12.34%) Git
3 526 (11.65%) JIRA
4 463 (10.25%) GitLab
5 92 (2.04%) Selenium
6 90 (1.99%) Postman
7 77 (1.71%) SonarQube
8 74 (1.64%) JUnit
9 61 (1.35%) REST Assured
10 60 (1.33%) Bitbucket
11 58 (1.28%) Maven
12 51 (1.13%) Cucumber
13 45 (1.00%) JMeter
14 43 (0.95%) Artifactory
15 40 (0.89%) Gatling
16 37 (0.82%) Gradle
17 36 (0.80%) Cypress.io
18 35 (0.78%) Mockito
19 29 (0.64%) LoadRunner
20 28 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,154 (25.56%) Social Skills
2 855 (18.94%) Finance
3 565 (12.51%) Public Sector
4 374 (8.28%) Analytical Skills
5 310 (6.87%) Banking
6 137 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
7 83 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 74 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
9 67 (1.48%) Retail
10 54 (1.20%) Marketing
11 53 (1.17%) Legal
12 48 (1.06%) Financial Institution
12 48 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
13 42 (0.93%) Military
14 38 (0.84%) Investment Banking
14 38 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
15 31 (0.69%) Law
16 30 (0.66%) Front Office
17 26 (0.58%) Aerospace
18 22 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 896 (19.84%) DevOps Engineer
2 644 (14.26%) Developer
3 635 (14.06%) Senior
4 553 (12.25%) Architect
5 421 (9.32%) Lead
6 299 (6.62%) Azure Engineer
7 276 (6.11%) Data Engineer
8 270 (5.98%) Analyst
9 197 (4.36%) AWS Engineer
10 176 (3.90%) Cloud Engineer
11 174 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
12 168 (3.72%) Platform Engineer
13 147 (3.26%) Senior DevOps
14 145 (3.21%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 145 (3.21%) Business Analyst
15 139 (3.08%) AWS DevOps
16 137 (3.03%) Software Engineer
17 133 (2.95%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 131 (2.90%) Java Developer
19 129 (2.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 412 (9.13%) REST
2 380 (8.42%) .NET
3 262 (5.80%) Kafka
4 252 (5.58%) React
5 251 (5.56%) Spring
6 239 (5.29%) Spring Boot
7 204 (4.52%) RESTful
8 201 (4.45%) Node.js
9 148 (3.28%) AngularJS
10 131 (2.90%) PySpark
11 127 (2.81%) OAuth
12 121 (2.68%) Playwright
13 120 (2.66%) JSON
14 118 (2.61%) YAML
15 108 (2.39%) SOAP
16 101 (2.24%) .NET Framework
17 99 (2.19%) HTML
18 97 (2.15%) OpenID
19 94 (2.08%) Middleware
20 86 (1.90%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 768 (17.01%) Cloud Native
2 279 (6.18%) Product Ownership
3 188 (4.16%) Distributed Systems
4 121 (2.68%) Onboarding
5 114 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
6 97 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
7 96 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
8 86 (1.90%) Public Cloud
9 68 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
10 67 (1.48%) Data Centre
11 58 (1.28%) Management Information System
12 51 (1.13%) Mobile App
13 50 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
14 48 (1.06%) Security Posture
15 47 (1.04%) AI Agents
16 41 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
17 40 (0.89%) Private Cloud
17 40 (0.89%) Virtual Team
18 39 (0.86%) Data Structures
18 39 (0.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 387 (8.57%) Linux
2 233 (5.16%) Windows
3 87 (1.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 65 (1.44%) Unix
5 49 (1.09%) Windows Server
6 32 (0.71%) VMS
7 26 (0.58%) Ubuntu
8 21 (0.47%) Apple iOS
9 17 (0.38%) Android
10 13 (0.29%) CentOS
11 10 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
12 9 (0.20%) Solaris
13 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
13 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
14 5 (0.11%) Windows 10
15 4 (0.089%) Alpine Linux
15 4 (0.089%) Data ONTAP
15 4 (0.089%) Windows Server 2012
16 3 (0.066%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,557 (56.63%) CI/CD
2 1,648 (36.50%) Agile
3 1,183 (26.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 703 (15.57%) Containerisation
5 683 (15.13%) Problem-Solving
6 647 (14.33%) Microservices
7 619 (13.71%) Test Automation
8 611 (13.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 559 (12.38%) Observability
10 555 (12.29%) Migration
11 552 (12.23%) Stakeholder Management
12 536 (11.87%) AI
13 530 (11.74%) Analytics
14 508 (11.25%) Scrum
15 470 (10.41%) Software Engineering
16 452 (10.01%) Platform Engineering
17 415 (9.19%) Data Modelling
18 380 (8.42%) Technical Leadership
19 379 (8.39%) Mentoring
20 373 (8.26%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,248 (27.64%) Python
2 885 (19.60%) SQL
3 630 (13.95%) Java
4 416 (9.21%) C#
5 334 (7.40%) PowerShell
6 326 (7.22%) Bash
7 320 (7.09%) JavaScript
8 224 (4.96%) TypeScript
9 150 (3.32%) Bicep
10 92 (2.04%) Go
11 61 (1.35%) Scala
12 56 (1.24%) Shell Script
13 47 (1.04%) Apex Code
14 46 (1.02%) T-SQL
15 45 (1.00%) PL/SQL
16 38 (0.84%) Groovy
17 26 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 26 (0.58%) Kotlin
18 25 (0.55%) C++
19 22 (0.49%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,448 (32.07%) Security Cleared
2 1,203 (26.64%) SC Cleared
3 291 (6.45%) Degree
4 193 (4.27%) Azure Certification
5 145 (3.21%) DV Cleared
6 140 (3.10%) AWS Certification
7 119 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
8 117 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 74 (1.64%) CISSP
10 62 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
11 44 (0.97%) CISM
12 43 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
12 43 (0.95%) ISTQB
13 41 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 37 (0.82%) Master's Degree
14 37 (0.82%) PMI Certification
15 36 (0.80%) PMP
16 23 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
17 22 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
18 21 (0.47%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 381 (8.44%) QA
2 210 (4.65%) Data Quality
3 160 (3.54%) GDPR
4 117 (2.59%) Accessibility
4 117 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 112 (2.48%) NIST
6 67 (1.48%) NCSC
7 55 (1.22%) WCAG
8 46 (1.02%) PCI DSS
9 40 (0.89%) SLA
10 28 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 27 (0.60%) PMO
12 24 (0.53%) GRC
13 15 (0.33%) HIPAA
14 13 (0.29%) SOC 2
15 12 (0.27%) ISO 20022
15 12 (0.27%) NIST 800
15 12 (0.27%) PSD2
16 10 (0.22%) SEPA
17 7 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 860 (19.05%) Docker
2 165 (3.65%) Active Directory
3 68 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
4 67 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 33 (0.73%) vSphere
6 23 (0.51%) VMware NSX
7 18 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
8 17 (0.38%) Squid
9 16 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
10 14 (0.31%) Postfix
11 13 (0.29%) Hyper-V
12 7 (0.16%) Firmware
12 7 (0.16%) RACF
13 6 (0.13%) Corosync
13 6 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
14 5 (0.11%) KVM
14 5 (0.11%) SRDF
15 4 (0.089%) HDFS
15 4 (0.089%) Microsoft App-V
15 4 (0.089%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,280 (28.35%) Terraform
2 1,126 (24.94%) Kubernetes
3 451 (9.99%) Ansible
4 303 (6.71%) Grafana
5 260 (5.76%) Prometheus
6 86 (1.90%) Argo
7 72 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
8 61 (1.35%) Puppet
9 45 (1.00%) Istio
10 29 (0.64%) Progress Chef
11 28 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
12 27 (0.60%) Packer
13 24 (0.53%) vCenter Server
14 23 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 18 (0.40%) Kibana
16 16 (0.35%) Consul
17 14 (0.31%) HP ALM
17 14 (0.31%) Kustomize
18 13 (0.29%) FortiGate
18 13 (0.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 799 (17.70%) Microsoft
2 248 (5.49%) Databricks
3 244 (5.40%) Oracle
4 207 (4.58%) Google
5 170 (3.77%) Splunk
6 167 (3.70%) ServiceNow
7 136 (3.01%) Salesforce
8 129 (2.86%) Red Hat
9 108 (2.39%) VMware
10 105 (2.33%) SAP
11 101 (2.24%) Dynatrace
12 59 (1.31%) OpenAI
13 49 (1.09%) IBM
14 47 (1.04%) Atlassian
15 46 (1.02%) CyberArk
16 38 (0.84%) AppDynamics
16 38 (0.84%) Informatica
17 37 (0.82%) Foundry
18 35 (0.78%) Cisco
19 30 (0.66%) Okta