DevOps Contracts in England

DevOps
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 15 13
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 2,649 3,573 5,251
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 10.05% 9.57% 11.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.05% 11.19% 12.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,912 2,444 3,863
10th Percentile £363 £400 £425
25th Percentile £438 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £738 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -1.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 117 100
10th Percentile £36.50 £56.50 £53.75
25th Percentile £51.25 £61.60 £60.91
Median hourly rate £62.50 £70.00 £65.55
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +6.78% +0.85%
75th Percentile £82.96 £75.00 £75.75
90th Percentile £91.75 £86.19 £79.55
UK median hourly rate £66.25 £70.00 £65.55
% change year-on-year -5.36% +6.78% +0.85%

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 23,975 31,937 42,799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.99% 85.52% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,423 20,731 29,966
10th Percentile £300 £306 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,196 2,302 1,555
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.85 £16.06 £16.62
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +45.12%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £75.94
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £37.42
% change year-on-year -32.93% +0.21% +43.92%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in England

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps in England.

Daily rate trend for DevOps in England

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in England over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in England

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps in England.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in England

DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps in England over the 6 months to 4 July 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 4 July 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 -3 1,542 £550 -2.22% 4,326
North of England -2 372 £491 -2.87% 1,400
South East +1 289 £500 -13.04% 1,196
Midlands +8 195 £500 -4.76% 700
North West -3 189 £475 -9.52% 840
Yorkshire 0 169 £500 +4.17% 450
West Midlands +9 138 £512 -2.43% 422
South West -13 107 £550 - 599
East Midlands +13 57 £450 - 276
East of England -6 48 £500 -6.37% 516
North East -6 17 £523 -0.48% 111
DevOps
UK

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 132 (4.98%) Confluence
2 94 (3.55%) Apache
3 78 (2.94%) Apache Spark
4 51 (1.93%) SharePoint
5 46 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
6 28 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
7 22 (0.83%) JBoss
8 21 (0.79%) CMS
9 16 (0.60%) nginx
10 15 (0.57%) WebSphere
11 14 (0.53%) CICS
11 14 (0.53%) IIS
12 13 (0.49%) Oracle Coherence
12 13 (0.49%) Tomcat
13 8 (0.30%) Camunda
13 8 (0.30%) GemFire
14 7 (0.26%) Anypoint
14 7 (0.26%) ArcGIS
14 7 (0.26%) SAS
15 6 (0.23%) OpenStack
Applications
1 25 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
3 18 (0.68%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.26%) Trello
6 5 (0.19%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.076%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 1 (0.038%) InVision
8 1 (0.038%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 31 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (0.72%) Endur
3 15 (0.57%) Oracle BPM
4 14 (0.53%) FLEXCUBE
5 9 (0.34%) Maximo
6 8 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.26%) Unit4 Business World
8 6 (0.23%) Aladdin
8 6 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
8 6 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
9 5 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
10 4 (0.15%) SAP PM
10 4 (0.15%) Shopify
11 3 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
11 3 (0.11%) Fidessa
11 3 (0.11%) NetSuite
11 3 (0.11%) Temenos T24
11 3 (0.11%) VisionPLUS
11 3 (0.11%) Workday HCM
12 2 (0.076%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 1,278 (48.24%) Azure
2 947 (35.75%) AWS
3 717 (27.07%) Azure DevOps
4 293 (11.06%) GCP
5 267 (10.08%) GitHub
5 267 (10.08%) Serverless
6 177 (6.68%) Power Platform
7 149 (5.62%) Amazon S3
8 144 (5.44%) AWS Lambda
9 119 (4.49%) GitHub Actions
10 118 (4.45%) AWS CloudFormation
11 103 (3.89%) Amazon EC2
12 102 (3.85%) Azure AKS
13 99 (3.74%) OpenShift
13 99 (3.74%) PaaS
14 96 (3.62%) SaaS
15 93 (3.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 93 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
15 93 (3.51%) Entra ID
16 89 (3.36%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 154 (5.81%) Firewall
2 110 (4.15%) DNS
3 55 (2.08%) TCP/IP
4 52 (1.96%) VPN
5 48 (1.81%) HTTP
6 45 (1.70%) DHCP
7 37 (1.40%) Network Security
8 35 (1.32%) SSL
9 31 (1.17%) SMTP
10 19 (0.72%) WAN
11 18 (0.68%) SAN
12 16 (0.60%) LAN
13 13 (0.49%) FTP
14 12 (0.45%) HTTPS
14 12 (0.45%) Intrusion Detection
14 12 (0.45%) SSH
15 10 (0.38%) BGP
16 9 (0.34%) Internet
16 9 (0.34%) Kerberos
17 8 (0.30%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
2 157 (5.93%) SQL Server
3 119 (4.49%) NoSQL
4 114 (4.30%) Relational Database
5 107 (4.04%) Power BI
6 100 (3.78%) Amazon RDS
7 92 (3.47%) MongoDB
8 67 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
9 63 (2.38%) Big Data
9 63 (2.38%) Data Lake
10 60 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
11 53 (2.00%) DynamoDB
12 46 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
13 45 (1.70%) MySQL
14 37 (1.40%) Redis
15 34 (1.28%) Oracle Database
16 33 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
17 31 (1.17%) RDBMS
18 29 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
19 26 (0.98%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 471 (17.78%) Jenkins
2 346 (13.06%) Git
3 301 (11.36%) JIRA
4 274 (10.34%) GitLab
5 91 (3.44%) Selenium
6 87 (3.28%) SonarQube
7 71 (2.68%) JUnit
8 69 (2.60%) Bitbucket
9 60 (2.27%) Maven
10 53 (2.00%) Postman
10 53 (2.00%) TeamCity
11 52 (1.96%) Gradle
12 51 (1.93%) Mockito
12 51 (1.93%) Sonatype Nexus
13 46 (1.74%) Cucumber
14 40 (1.51%) Liquibase
15 38 (1.43%) JMeter
16 33 (1.25%) Cypress.io
17 29 (1.09%) Artifactory
18 24 (0.91%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 752 (28.39%) Social Skills
2 575 (21.71%) Finance
3 336 (12.68%) Analytical Skills
4 260 (9.82%) Public Sector
5 247 (9.32%) Banking
6 97 (3.66%) Investment Banking
7 70 (2.64%) Telecoms
8 65 (2.45%) Marketing
9 63 (2.38%) Retail
10 56 (2.11%) Front Office
11 49 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
12 46 (1.74%) Manufacturing
13 43 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
14 36 (1.36%) Electronics
15 35 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 35 (1.32%) Military
16 34 (1.28%) Law
17 29 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
18 26 (0.98%) Financial Institution
19 22 (0.83%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 562 (21.22%) Developer
2 512 (19.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 318 (12.00%) Senior
4 281 (10.61%) Architect
5 230 (8.68%) Lead
6 172 (6.49%) AWS Engineer
7 161 (6.08%) Azure Engineer
8 137 (5.17%) AWS DevOps
9 127 (4.79%) Analyst
10 119 (4.49%) Java Developer
11 117 (4.42%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 112 (4.23%) Data Engineer
13 107 (4.04%) Cloud Engineer
14 102 (3.85%) Senior Developer
15 79 (2.98%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 79 (2.98%) Software Engineer
16 76 (2.87%) Solutions Architect
17 71 (2.68%) Consultant
18 69 (2.60%) Business Analyst
18 69 (2.60%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 285 (10.76%) .NET
2 222 (8.38%) Kafka
3 197 (7.44%) React
4 174 (6.57%) REST
5 118 (4.45%) Spring
6 117 (4.42%) Spring Boot
7 115 (4.34%) RESTful
8 105 (3.96%) Node.js
9 102 (3.85%) HTML
10 94 (3.55%) AngularJS
11 92 (3.47%) CSS
12 90 (3.40%) Elastic Stack
13 87 (3.28%) SOAP
14 83 (3.13%) Web Services
15 80 (3.02%) JSON
16 74 (2.79%) .NET Core
17 71 (2.68%) ARM Templates
17 71 (2.68%) OAuth
18 61 (2.30%) ASP.NET
19 56 (2.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 198 (7.47%) Cloud Native
2 118 (4.45%) Product Ownership
3 82 (3.10%) Distributed Systems
4 69 (2.60%) Onboarding
5 56 (2.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 49 (1.85%) Public Cloud
7 47 (1.77%) Data Centre
8 45 (1.70%) Management Information System
9 42 (1.59%) Mobile App
10 41 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
11 39 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
11 39 (1.47%) PKI
12 37 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
13 34 (1.28%) Algorithms
14 33 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
15 32 (1.21%) Replication
16 29 (1.09%) Data Structures
17 28 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
18 25 (0.94%) Derivative
19 24 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 343 (12.95%) Linux
2 215 (8.12%) Windows
3 78 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 78 (2.94%) Windows Server
4 68 (2.57%) Unix
5 34 (1.28%) Android
6 26 (0.98%) VMS
7 24 (0.91%) Apple iOS
7 24 (0.91%) CentOS
8 16 (0.60%) Solaris
8 16 (0.60%) Ubuntu
9 11 (0.42%) Amazon Linux
10 8 (0.30%) zOS
11 6 (0.23%) Mac OS
11 6 (0.23%) Rocky
12 5 (0.19%) Debian
12 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
13 4 (0.15%) AIX
13 4 (0.15%) SUSE
13 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,241 (46.85%) CI/CD
2 1,057 (39.90%) Agile
3 538 (20.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 533 (20.12%) Problem-Solving
5 390 (14.72%) Containerisation
6 383 (14.46%) Microservices
7 371 (14.01%) Test Automation
8 303 (11.44%) Software Engineering
9 289 (10.91%) Migration
10 276 (10.42%) Scrum
11 236 (8.91%) Analytics
12 218 (8.23%) Continuous Integration
13 205 (7.74%) Configuration Management
14 203 (7.66%) Mentoring
15 202 (7.63%) Continuous Improvement
16 201 (7.59%) TDD
17 199 (7.51%) Stakeholder Management
18 176 (6.64%) Artificial Intelligence
19 175 (6.61%) SDLC
20 162 (6.12%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 816 (30.80%) Python
2 547 (20.65%) SQL
3 511 (19.29%) Java
4 329 (12.42%) C#
5 289 (10.91%) PowerShell
6 285 (10.76%) JavaScript
7 229 (8.64%) Bash
8 165 (6.23%) TypeScript
9 99 (3.74%) Go
10 87 (3.28%) Bicep
11 59 (2.23%) Shell Script
12 51 (1.93%) Perl
12 51 (1.93%) Scala
13 46 (1.74%) C++
14 34 (1.28%) PL/SQL
15 29 (1.09%) Groovy
16 28 (1.06%) PHP
17 25 (0.94%) Kotlin
17 25 (0.94%) Ruby
18 16 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 571 (21.56%) Security Cleared
2 445 (16.80%) SC Cleared
3 222 (8.38%) Degree
4 104 (3.93%) DV Cleared
5 88 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 82 (3.10%) AWS Certification
7 79 (2.98%) Azure Certification
8 31 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 28 (1.06%) Master's Degree
9 28 (1.06%) Numerate Degree
10 25 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
11 24 (0.91%) ISTQB
12 23 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
12 23 (0.87%) CISSP
13 22 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
14 21 (0.79%) PMP
15 19 (0.72%) PMI Certification
16 17 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
17 14 (0.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 14 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (7.29%) QA
2 79 (2.98%) GDPR
3 61 (2.30%) Data Quality
4 56 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 46 (1.74%) NIST
6 41 (1.55%) Accessibility
7 17 (0.64%) HIPAA
8 16 (0.60%) PCI DSS
8 16 (0.60%) SLA
9 15 (0.57%) SOC 2
10 13 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.34%) MiFID
11 9 (0.34%) NCSC
11 9 (0.34%) PMO
12 8 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 7 (0.26%) WCAG
14 6 (0.23%) EMIR
15 5 (0.19%) EU AI Act
15 5 (0.19%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.19%) SEPA
System Software
1 517 (19.52%) Docker
2 144 (5.44%) Active Directory
3 63 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (0.60%) vSphere
6 13 (0.49%) DFS Replication
7 11 (0.42%) Hyper-V
7 11 (0.42%) Postfix
8 9 (0.34%) BitLocker
8 9 (0.34%) Microsoft App-V
8 9 (0.34%) Terminal Services
9 8 (0.30%) GridGain
10 6 (0.23%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 6 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.19%) Time Sharing Option
12 3 (0.11%) Lustre
12 3 (0.11%) OpenAM
12 3 (0.11%) OpenDJ
12 3 (0.11%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 768 (28.99%) Terraform
2 709 (26.76%) Kubernetes
3 371 (14.01%) Ansible
4 154 (5.81%) Grafana
5 151 (5.70%) Prometheus
6 99 (3.74%) Puppet
7 61 (2.30%) Progress Chef
8 40 (1.51%) Kibana
8 40 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
9 27 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
10 26 (0.98%) Argo
11 21 (0.79%) Packer
12 18 (0.68%) Podman
13 17 (0.64%) Istio
13 17 (0.64%) Nagios
14 16 (0.60%) HP ALM
15 15 (0.57%) ITRS Geneos
16 14 (0.53%) vCenter Server
17 12 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
18 11 (0.42%) logstash
Vendors
1 447 (16.87%) Microsoft
2 181 (6.83%) Oracle
3 116 (4.38%) Databricks
4 112 (4.23%) Splunk
5 106 (4.00%) Google
6 95 (3.59%) VMware
7 82 (3.10%) SAP
8 79 (2.98%) Red Hat
9 73 (2.76%) ServiceNow
10 51 (1.93%) Salesforce
11 38 (1.43%) IBM
12 36 (1.36%) MuleSoft
13 33 (1.25%) Cisco
14 32 (1.21%) HP
15 27 (1.02%) Atlassian
16 25 (0.94%) Dynatrace
17 23 (0.87%) Citrix
18 22 (0.83%) AppDynamics
19 19 (0.72%) Cloudera
20 16 (0.60%) Fortinet