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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,272 2,524 3,336
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.76% 10.27% 8.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.63% 11.28% 10.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,997 1,864 2,316
10th Percentile £388 £400 £406
25th Percentile £440 £460 £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 £515 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.28% -2.18% -5.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 15 97
10th Percentile £39.70 £41.50 £56.25
25th Percentile £45.60 £61.25 £61.25
Median hourly rate £63.73 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.96% +7.69% -0.76%
75th Percentile £75.00 £80.75 £84.40
90th Percentile £84.88 £88.68 £87.46
UK median hourly rate £63.73 £73.23 £65.00
% change year-on-year -12.97% +12.65% -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 33,832 22,384 32,276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.21% 91.08% 86.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,627 14,686 21,247
10th Percentile £315 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £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 2,111 905 2,227
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.79 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £15.91
Median hourly rate £42.50 £31.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.10% -11.43% -6.67%
75th Percentile £67.25 £63.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.47
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £29.90 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.11% -14.57% -6.67%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +1 2,176 £538 -6.43% 493
North of England +6 750 £500 -3.82% 297
South East +1 452 £510 -7.27% 286
Yorkshire 0 408 £500 -4.28% 71
Midlands +2 390 £491 -1.80% 118
South West +14 302 £500 -11.89% 127
West Midlands +7 298 £500 -2.34% 62
North West +4 283 £500 -2.72% 162
East of England +27 125 £525 +1.94% 93
East Midlands +2 89 £464 -2.37% 55
North East +5 66 £475 -9.52% 64
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
1 247 (5.78%) Confluence
2 118 (2.76%) Apache Spark
3 101 (2.36%) SharePoint
4 87 (2.04%) Apache
5 68 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
6 67 (1.57%) SAS
7 33 (0.77%) CMS
8 32 (0.75%) nginx
9 27 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
10 24 (0.56%) OpenStack
11 22 (0.51%) IIS
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%) WebLogic
14 9 (0.21%) WebSphere
15 7 (0.16%) ArcGIS
15 7 (0.16%) Camunda
16 6 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 69 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
3 48 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
5 22 (0.51%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.12%) Trello
7 5 (0.12%) 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 68 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.21%) Aladdin
3 9 (0.21%) Maximo
3 9 (0.21%) NEC Housing
3 9 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
4 6 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
5 5 (0.12%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.094%) Endur
6 4 (0.094%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.094%) SAP BPC
7 3 (0.070%) Findur
7 3 (0.070%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.070%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 3 (0.070%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.047%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.047%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.047%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 2,299 (53.82%) Azure
2 1,434 (33.57%) AWS
3 1,268 (29.68%) Azure DevOps
4 723 (16.92%) GitHub
5 547 (12.80%) GCP
6 439 (10.28%) Serverless
7 406 (9.50%) GitHub Actions
8 356 (8.33%) Power Platform
9 235 (5.50%) Amazon S3
10 218 (5.10%) AWS CloudFormation
11 217 (5.08%) AWS Lambda
12 216 (5.06%) Entra ID
13 206 (4.82%) Azure Data Factory
14 196 (4.59%) Azure AKS
15 162 (3.79%) Azure Monitor
16 161 (3.77%) OpenShift
17 157 (3.68%) Amazon EKS
18 143 (3.35%) Dynamics 365
18 143 (3.35%) PaaS
19 133 (3.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 193 (4.52%) Firewall
2 103 (2.41%) DNS
3 82 (1.92%) Network Security
4 81 (1.90%) VPN
5 39 (0.91%) TCP/IP
6 25 (0.59%) HTTP
6 25 (0.59%) WAN
7 23 (0.54%) SD-WAN
7 23 (0.54%) SSL
8 22 (0.51%) DHCP
9 17 (0.40%) BGP
9 17 (0.40%) IPsec
10 16 (0.37%) MPLS
11 15 (0.35%) SAN
12 14 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
13 12 (0.28%) Internet
13 12 (0.28%) LAN
13 12 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
14 11 (0.26%) OpenVPN
15 10 (0.23%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 232 (5.43%) Power BI
2 223 (5.22%) PostgreSQL
3 208 (4.87%) SQL Server
4 165 (3.86%) NoSQL
5 148 (3.46%) Data Lake
6 120 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
6 120 (2.81%) Relational Database
7 97 (2.27%) MongoDB
8 94 (2.20%) Azure SQL Database
9 88 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
10 80 (1.87%) Delta Lake
11 74 (1.73%) DynamoDB
12 70 (1.64%) Metadata
13 67 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
13 67 (1.57%) Oracle Database
14 59 (1.38%) Big Data
15 53 (1.24%) Tableau
16 49 (1.15%) Redis
17 47 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
18 43 (1.01%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 614 (14.37%) Jenkins
2 546 (12.78%) Git
3 543 (12.71%) JIRA
4 410 (9.60%) GitLab
5 90 (2.11%) Selenium
6 81 (1.90%) JUnit
7 80 (1.87%) Postman
8 70 (1.64%) Bitbucket
9 69 (1.62%) SonarQube
10 54 (1.26%) Maven
11 49 (1.15%) Artifactory
11 49 (1.15%) Cucumber
12 46 (1.08%) REST Assured
13 41 (0.96%) Cypress.io
14 38 (0.89%) JMeter
15 34 (0.80%) Gatling
16 33 (0.77%) Mockito
17 31 (0.73%) Oracle APEX
17 31 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
18 28 (0.66%) TestRail
General
1 1,160 (27.15%) Social Skills
2 806 (18.87%) Finance
3 516 (12.08%) Public Sector
4 370 (8.66%) Analytical Skills
5 304 (7.12%) Banking
6 146 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
7 66 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
8 59 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 57 (1.33%) Retail
10 51 (1.19%) Marketing
11 50 (1.17%) Financial Institution
12 48 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
13 47 (1.10%) Front Office
14 43 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
15 42 (0.98%) Investment Banking
15 42 (0.98%) Legal
16 33 (0.77%) Telecoms
17 31 (0.73%) Military
18 23 (0.54%) Law
19 17 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 812 (19.01%) DevOps Engineer
2 639 (14.96%) Developer
3 597 (13.97%) Senior
4 489 (11.45%) Architect
5 356 (8.33%) Lead
6 297 (6.95%) Azure Engineer
7 270 (6.32%) Data Engineer
8 249 (5.83%) Analyst
9 193 (4.52%) AWS Engineer
10 158 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
11 154 (3.60%) Platform Engineer
12 153 (3.58%) Solutions Architect
13 150 (3.51%) AWS DevOps
14 138 (3.23%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 138 (3.23%) Software Engineer
15 134 (3.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 131 (3.07%) Business Analyst
17 124 (2.90%) Senior DevOps
18 122 (2.86%) Senior Developer
19 116 (2.72%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 394 (9.22%) REST
2 361 (8.45%) .NET
3 253 (5.92%) Kafka
4 252 (5.90%) Node.js
5 239 (5.59%) React
6 235 (5.50%) Spring
7 218 (5.10%) Spring Boot
8 196 (4.59%) RESTful
9 155 (3.63%) AngularJS
10 134 (3.14%) YAML
11 131 (3.07%) JSON
12 128 (3.00%) Playwright
13 121 (2.83%) PySpark
14 118 (2.76%) OAuth
15 109 (2.55%) HTML
16 103 (2.41%) Middleware
17 99 (2.32%) SOAP
18 91 (2.13%) CSS
19 86 (2.01%) .NET Framework
19 86 (2.01%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 651 (15.24%) Cloud Native
2 258 (6.04%) Product Ownership
3 159 (3.72%) Distributed Systems
4 112 (2.62%) Onboarding
5 94 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
6 90 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
7 87 (2.04%) Public Cloud
8 81 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
9 63 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
10 54 (1.26%) Virtual Team
11 51 (1.19%) Management Information System
12 45 (1.05%) Private Cloud
13 42 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
14 38 (0.89%) Data Centre
14 38 (0.89%) Data Structures
15 37 (0.87%) Replication
16 36 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
16 36 (0.84%) NHS
16 36 (0.84%) Security Posture
17 35 (0.82%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 386 (9.04%) Linux
2 221 (5.17%) Windows
3 72 (1.69%) Unix
4 68 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 40 (0.94%) Windows Server
6 37 (0.87%) VMS
7 22 (0.51%) Ubuntu
8 12 (0.28%) Android
8 12 (0.28%) CentOS
9 10 (0.23%) Apple iOS
9 10 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.16%) Windows 10
11 6 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.12%) Solaris
13 4 (0.094%) Amazon Linux
13 4 (0.094%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (0.094%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.070%) Debian
14 3 (0.070%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.070%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,359 (55.22%) CI/CD
2 1,621 (37.94%) Agile
3 1,045 (24.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 727 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
5 704 (16.48%) Containerisation
6 625 (14.63%) Microservices
7 593 (13.88%) Test Automation
8 555 (12.99%) Continuous Improvement
9 523 (12.24%) Migration
10 521 (12.20%) Analytics
11 480 (11.24%) Observability
12 473 (11.07%) Scrum
13 462 (10.81%) Stakeholder Management
14 457 (10.70%) AI
15 415 (9.71%) Software Engineering
16 397 (9.29%) Data Modelling
17 358 (8.38%) Mentoring
18 346 (8.10%) Platform Engineering
19 330 (7.72%) Data Pipeline
20 324 (7.58%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,203 (28.16%) Python
2 918 (21.49%) SQL
3 556 (13.01%) Java
4 427 (10.00%) C#
5 347 (8.12%) JavaScript
6 312 (7.30%) PowerShell
7 293 (6.86%) Bash
8 242 (5.66%) TypeScript
9 147 (3.44%) Bicep
10 97 (2.27%) Go
11 85 (1.99%) PL/SQL
12 70 (1.64%) Scala
13 52 (1.22%) Shell Script
14 42 (0.98%) T-SQL
15 38 (0.89%) Groovy
16 34 (0.80%) Apex Code
17 31 (0.73%) C++
18 28 (0.66%) Ruby
19 22 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 22 (0.51%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,384 (32.40%) Security Cleared
2 1,145 (26.80%) SC Cleared
3 306 (7.16%) Degree
4 196 (4.59%) Azure Certification
5 146 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 141 (3.30%) DV Cleared
7 119 (2.79%) AWS Certification
8 111 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 70 (1.64%) CISSP
10 51 (1.19%) CISM
10 51 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
11 50 (1.17%) Master's Degree
12 48 (1.12%) ISTQB
13 41 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 38 (0.89%) PMI Certification
15 36 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
15 36 (0.84%) PMP
16 22 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 21 (0.49%) IIBA
17 21 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 380 (8.90%) QA
2 193 (4.52%) Data Quality
3 162 (3.79%) GDPR
4 123 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 116 (2.72%) NIST
6 88 (2.06%) Accessibility
7 60 (1.40%) NCSC
8 38 (0.89%) PCI DSS
8 38 (0.89%) WCAG
9 29 (0.68%) SLA
10 27 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 25 (0.59%) PMO
12 15 (0.35%) GRC
12 15 (0.35%) ISO 20022
13 14 (0.33%) HIPAA
13 14 (0.33%) NIST 800
14 12 (0.28%) PSD2
14 12 (0.28%) SOC 2
15 10 (0.23%) SEPA
16 9 (0.21%) HL7
System Software
1 874 (20.46%) Docker
2 165 (3.86%) Active Directory
3 65 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
3 65 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (0.77%) vSphere
5 25 (0.59%) VMware NSX
6 14 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
7 13 (0.30%) Hyper-V
8 12 (0.28%) Postfix
8 12 (0.28%) Squid
9 11 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (0.19%) Firmware
10 8 (0.19%) Lustre
10 8 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 6 (0.14%) GPFS
11 6 (0.14%) HDFS
12 5 (0.12%) Corosync
12 5 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
12 5 (0.12%) RACF
13 4 (0.094%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,195 (27.97%) Terraform
2 1,126 (26.36%) Kubernetes
3 428 (10.02%) Ansible
4 267 (6.25%) Grafana
5 226 (5.29%) Prometheus
6 91 (2.13%) Argo
7 67 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
8 63 (1.47%) Puppet
9 49 (1.15%) Istio
10 29 (0.68%) Packer
11 24 (0.56%) vCenter Server
12 23 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
12 23 (0.54%) Progress Chef
13 21 (0.49%) Kibana
13 21 (0.49%) Rancher
14 19 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 17 (0.40%) Consul
15 17 (0.40%) FortiGate
16 15 (0.35%) HP ALM
17 12 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 773 (18.09%) Microsoft
2 286 (6.69%) Oracle
3 254 (5.95%) Databricks
4 193 (4.52%) Google
5 176 (4.12%) Splunk
6 158 (3.70%) ServiceNow
7 132 (3.09%) Red Hat
8 119 (2.79%) Salesforce
9 114 (2.67%) VMware
10 99 (2.32%) SAP
11 74 (1.73%) Dynatrace
12 69 (1.62%) OpenAI
13 59 (1.38%) Atlassian
14 55 (1.29%) CyberArk
15 41 (0.96%) IBM
16 34 (0.80%) Foundry
17 33 (0.77%) Cisco
18 31 (0.73%) AppDynamics
19 30 (0.70%) Talend
20 29 (0.68%) Denodo