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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,880 2,925 3,343
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.65% 10.57% 10.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.51% 11.63% 11.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,346 2,112 2,288
10th Percentile £385 £360 £400
25th Percentile £438 £425 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -7.13%
75th Percentile £625 £634 £650
90th Percentile £700 £737 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 23 82
10th Percentile £36.34 £36.50 £56.25
25th Percentile £55.00 £52.13 £61.60
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.75% -4.29% +6.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 £85.86 £74.44
90th Percentile £89.80 £95.00 £85.61
UK median hourly rate £67.86 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +1.28% -4.29% +6.87%

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 38,995 25,146 28,578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.11% 90.84% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,229 16,020 18,598
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £629 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £755
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,544 1,434 1,645
10th Percentile £14.45 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.87 £18.35
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%
75th Percentile £68.60 £50.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +67.00% -39.40% -1.19%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 15 August 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 2,545 £550 - 2,181
North of England 0 834 £500 +4.17% 528
South East -10 480 £525 +5.00% 487
Midlands -1 460 £488 -2.50% 242
Yorkshire 0 415 £500 +1.46% 139
West Midlands -3 378 £490 -4.85% 156
North West -5 325 £525 +11.11% 288
South West +6 316 £525 +0.96% 229
East of England +14 140 £505 +1.00% 135
North East +13 111 £425 -19.05% 105
East Midlands -1 77 £488 +6.85% 85
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
1 287 (5.88%) Confluence
2 127 (2.60%) SharePoint
3 120 (2.46%) Apache Spark
4 119 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
5 102 (2.09%) Apache
6 77 (1.58%) SAS
7 41 (0.84%) CMS
8 34 (0.70%) Jupyter
9 32 (0.66%) IIS
10 23 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
11 20 (0.41%) nginx
12 13 (0.27%) Camunda
13 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
13 11 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
13 11 (0.23%) WebSphere
14 10 (0.20%) OpenStack
15 9 (0.18%) Anypoint
15 9 (0.18%) Appian
16 6 (0.12%) Mattermost
16 6 (0.12%) Mule
Applications
1 61 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
2 57 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 36 (0.74%) MS Visio
4 30 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
5 28 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.18%) CPLEX
8 8 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
9 7 (0.14%) Trello
10 5 (0.10%) Notion
11 3 (0.061%) Windchill
12 1 (0.020%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.020%) EngageOne
12 1 (0.020%) Gliffy
12 1 (0.020%) InDesign
12 1 (0.020%) Weka
Business Applications
1 61 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.23%) Aladdin
3 11 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
4 9 (0.18%) Magento
4 9 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
5 8 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
5 8 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 5 (0.10%) Maximo
7 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
7 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
7 5 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.082%) Endur
8 4 (0.082%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.082%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.061%) Findur
9 3 (0.061%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.061%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.061%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2,639 (54.08%) Azure
2 1,686 (34.55%) AWS
3 1,528 (31.31%) Azure DevOps
4 816 (16.72%) GitHub
5 607 (12.44%) GCP
6 509 (10.43%) GitHub Actions
7 422 (8.65%) Power Platform
8 383 (7.85%) Serverless
9 242 (4.96%) Entra ID
10 240 (4.92%) Amazon S3
11 223 (4.57%) AWS Lambda
12 189 (3.87%) Azure AKS
13 184 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
13 184 (3.77%) Azure Data Factory
14 181 (3.71%) Amazon EKS
15 178 (3.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 169 (3.46%) Azure Monitor
17 152 (3.11%) Dynamics 365
18 151 (3.09%) Power Automate
19 149 (3.05%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 234 (4.80%) Firewall
2 144 (2.95%) DNS
3 116 (2.38%) VPN
4 104 (2.13%) Network Security
5 61 (1.25%) TCP/IP
6 51 (1.05%) WAN
7 42 (0.86%) SSL
8 38 (0.78%) DHCP
9 37 (0.76%) SD-WAN
10 32 (0.66%) Internet
11 31 (0.64%) BGP
12 29 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
13 25 (0.51%) HTTP
13 25 (0.51%) OSPF
14 21 (0.43%) VLAN
15 20 (0.41%) SAN
16 18 (0.37%) VXLAN
17 17 (0.35%) LAN
17 17 (0.35%) MPLS
17 17 (0.35%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 292 (5.98%) Power BI
2 258 (5.29%) SQL Server
3 237 (4.86%) PostgreSQL
4 177 (3.63%) Data Warehouse
5 168 (3.44%) NoSQL
6 156 (3.20%) Relational Database
7 146 (2.99%) Data Lake
8 139 (2.85%) MongoDB
9 104 (2.13%) Metadata
10 101 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
11 95 (1.95%) Azure SQL Database
12 83 (1.70%) Delta Lake
13 76 (1.56%) DynamoDB
14 74 (1.52%) Oracle Database
15 60 (1.23%) Redis
16 58 (1.19%) Big Data
17 57 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
18 52 (1.07%) BigQuery
18 52 (1.07%) MySQL
19 47 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 684 (14.02%) Jenkins
2 657 (13.46%) Git
3 577 (11.82%) JIRA
4 514 (10.53%) GitLab
5 108 (2.21%) Selenium
6 87 (1.78%) SonarQube
7 82 (1.68%) Postman
8 76 (1.56%) JUnit
9 74 (1.52%) Bitbucket
10 73 (1.50%) Maven
11 54 (1.11%) Cypress.io
11 54 (1.11%) JMeter
12 53 (1.09%) REST Assured
13 50 (1.02%) Cucumber
14 47 (0.96%) Gatling
15 45 (0.92%) Gradle
16 40 (0.82%) LoadRunner
17 36 (0.74%) Mockito
18 34 (0.70%) Artifactory
18 34 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,258 (25.78%) Social Skills
2 920 (18.85%) Finance
3 665 (13.63%) Public Sector
4 464 (9.51%) Analytical Skills
5 341 (6.99%) Banking
6 134 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 100 (2.05%) Retail
8 89 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
9 67 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
10 58 (1.19%) Legal
11 57 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
12 54 (1.11%) Marketing
13 50 (1.02%) Investment Banking
14 46 (0.94%) Aerospace
15 43 (0.88%) Military
16 41 (0.84%) Front Office
17 40 (0.82%) Financial Institution
17 40 (0.82%) Law
17 40 (0.82%) Telecoms
18 35 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 885 (18.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 773 (15.84%) Developer
3 727 (14.90%) Senior
4 549 (11.25%) Architect
5 491 (10.06%) Lead
6 294 (6.02%) Azure Engineer
6 294 (6.02%) Data Engineer
7 249 (5.10%) Analyst
8 208 (4.26%) AWS Engineer
9 195 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
10 182 (3.73%) Cloud Engineer
11 171 (3.50%) Senior DevOps
12 167 (3.42%) Solutions Architect
13 156 (3.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 149 (3.05%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 145 (2.97%) AWS DevOps
16 142 (2.91%) Java Developer
17 141 (2.89%) Software Engineer
18 135 (2.77%) Senior Developer
19 132 (2.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 496 (10.16%) REST
2 426 (8.73%) .NET
3 305 (6.25%) Kafka
4 261 (5.35%) RESTful
5 244 (5.00%) React
6 236 (4.84%) Spring
7 218 (4.47%) Spring Boot
8 174 (3.57%) Node.js
9 157 (3.22%) JSON
10 144 (2.95%) PySpark
11 138 (2.83%) OAuth
12 134 (2.75%) Playwright
13 129 (2.64%) AngularJS
14 127 (2.60%) .NET Framework
15 122 (2.50%) SOAP
16 113 (2.32%) HTML
17 104 (2.13%) YAML
18 97 (1.99%) CSS
19 96 (1.97%) OAuth2
20 87 (1.78%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 881 (18.05%) Cloud Native
2 345 (7.07%) Product Ownership
3 227 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
4 154 (3.16%) Onboarding
5 150 (3.07%) Enterprise Software
6 134 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
6 134 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
7 82 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
8 73 (1.50%) AI Agents
9 70 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
10 68 (1.39%) Management Information System
11 67 (1.37%) Security Posture
12 63 (1.29%) Data Structures
12 63 (1.29%) Public Cloud
13 59 (1.21%) Data Centre
14 54 (1.11%) Replication
15 51 (1.05%) Mobile App
16 48 (0.98%) Virtual Team
17 42 (0.86%) Enterprise Cloud
18 39 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 451 (9.24%) Linux
2 275 (5.64%) Windows
3 105 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 84 (1.72%) Unix
5 75 (1.54%) Windows Server
6 29 (0.59%) Apple iOS
6 29 (0.59%) Ubuntu
7 25 (0.51%) VMS
8 18 (0.37%) Android
9 8 (0.16%) AIX
9 8 (0.16%) CentOS
9 8 (0.16%) Solaris
9 8 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (0.16%) zOS
10 7 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
11 6 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (0.082%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (0.082%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,821 (57.81%) CI/CD
2 1,973 (40.43%) Agile
3 1,325 (27.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 806 (16.52%) Continuous Improvement
5 776 (15.90%) Problem-Solving
6 771 (15.80%) Containerisation
7 752 (15.41%) Test Automation
8 735 (15.06%) Stakeholder Management
9 712 (14.59%) AI
10 695 (14.24%) Microservices
11 623 (12.77%) Observability
12 604 (12.38%) Software Engineering
13 599 (12.27%) Scrum
14 587 (12.03%) Platform Engineering
15 579 (11.86%) Migration
16 555 (11.37%) Analytics
17 485 (9.94%) Technical Leadership
18 461 (9.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 439 (9.00%) Data Modelling
20 420 (8.61%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,409 (28.87%) Python
2 923 (18.91%) SQL
3 691 (14.16%) Java
4 442 (9.06%) C#
5 426 (8.73%) PowerShell
6 409 (8.38%) Bash
7 392 (8.03%) JavaScript
8 266 (5.45%) TypeScript
9 198 (4.06%) Bicep
10 79 (1.62%) Go
11 60 (1.23%) Shell Script
12 59 (1.21%) T-SQL
13 56 (1.15%) Scala
14 55 (1.13%) PL/SQL
15 52 (1.07%) Groovy
16 50 (1.02%) Apex Code
17 30 (0.61%) C++
18 29 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 27 (0.55%) Perl
20 21 (0.43%) C
Qualifications
1 1,563 (32.03%) Security Cleared
2 1,311 (26.86%) SC Cleared
3 308 (6.31%) Degree
4 200 (4.10%) Azure Certification
5 185 (3.79%) DV Cleared
6 160 (3.28%) AWS Certification
7 135 (2.77%) BPSS Clearance
8 112 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
9 85 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
10 75 (1.54%) CISSP
11 50 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
12 49 (1.00%) ISTQB
13 44 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 40 (0.82%) PMP
15 35 (0.72%) PMI Certification
16 33 (0.68%) Master's Degree
17 31 (0.64%) CISM
18 24 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
19 23 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
20 22 (0.45%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 465 (9.53%) QA
2 252 (5.16%) Data Quality
3 160 (3.28%) Accessibility
4 135 (2.77%) GDPR
5 89 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 77 (1.58%) NIST
7 74 (1.52%) WCAG
8 48 (0.98%) NCSC
9 44 (0.90%) PMO
10 36 (0.74%) PCI DSS
11 32 (0.66%) SLA
12 29 (0.59%) GRC
13 26 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 11 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
14 11 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
14 11 (0.23%) HIPAA
14 11 (0.23%) ISO 20022
15 8 (0.16%) PSD2
15 8 (0.16%) SEPA
16 7 (0.14%) HL7
System Software
1 943 (19.32%) Docker
2 170 (3.48%) Active Directory
3 71 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 70 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (0.47%) Hyper-V
6 20 (0.41%) vSphere
7 16 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
8 15 (0.31%) VMware NSX
9 12 (0.25%) Squid
10 11 (0.23%) Postfix
11 10 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
12 9 (0.18%) IAG
13 8 (0.16%) KVM
14 6 (0.12%) Corosync
14 6 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
15 5 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 5 (0.10%) Firmware
15 5 (0.10%) NFS
15 5 (0.10%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 1,387 (28.42%) Terraform
2 1,243 (25.47%) Kubernetes
3 478 (9.80%) Ansible
4 310 (6.35%) Grafana
5 264 (5.41%) Prometheus
6 75 (1.54%) Argo
7 60 (1.23%) Puppet
8 54 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
9 46 (0.94%) Progress Chef
10 38 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
11 32 (0.66%) Packer
12 30 (0.61%) Istio
13 18 (0.37%) Kustomize
13 18 (0.37%) SCCM
14 17 (0.35%) Kibana
14 17 (0.35%) vCenter Server
15 16 (0.33%) Kubeflow
16 13 (0.27%) HP ALM
16 13 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
17 12 (0.25%) Control-M
Vendors
1 944 (19.34%) Microsoft
2 256 (5.25%) Oracle
3 247 (5.06%) Databricks
4 234 (4.80%) Google
5 195 (4.00%) ServiceNow
6 158 (3.24%) Splunk
7 147 (3.01%) Salesforce
8 129 (2.64%) Dynatrace
9 106 (2.17%) SAP
10 101 (2.07%) Red Hat
11 99 (2.03%) VMware
12 59 (1.21%) IBM
13 51 (1.05%) Informatica
14 47 (0.96%) Atlassian
15 46 (0.94%) Cisco
16 42 (0.86%) OpenAI
17 41 (0.84%) AppDynamics
18 37 (0.76%) Foundry
19 36 (0.74%) Denodo
20 34 (0.70%) MuleSoft