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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 16 15
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,821 2,809 3,443
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.66% 10.19% 9.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.49% 11.23% 11.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,321 2,025 2,372
10th Percentile £388 £360 £400
25th Percentile £440 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £742 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 21 91
10th Percentile £36.34 £35.00 £56.50
25th Percentile £56.50 £51.25 £63.30
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.75% -4.29% +6.87%
75th Percentile £77.75 £82.00 £78.13
90th Percentile £94.63 £92.50 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +4.48% -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 38,601 25,022 29,686
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.36% 90.73% 85.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,205 16,045 19,444
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £421 £405 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,390 1,351 1,859
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £13.69
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £17.50
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -37.63% -5.12%
75th Percentile £69.50 £52.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +2 2,471 £550 - 761
North of England +4 872 £500 +3.90% 318
South East -9 463 £525 +5.00% 287
Midlands +2 460 £489 +2.89% 154
Yorkshire +2 445 £500 +2.04% 75
West Midlands -2 371 £499 -0.25% 110
North West -1 341 £525 +10.53% 174
South West +14 321 £525 - 142
East of England +16 139 £510 +2.00% 57
North East +12 105 £425 -18.66% 71
East Midlands 0 84 £488 +6.21% 44
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
1 292 (6.06%) Confluence
2 122 (2.53%) SharePoint
3 121 (2.51%) Apache Spark
4 105 (2.18%) Apache Airflow
5 96 (1.99%) Apache
6 70 (1.45%) SAS
7 43 (0.89%) CMS
8 31 (0.64%) IIS
8 31 (0.64%) Jupyter
9 23 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
9 23 (0.48%) nginx
10 14 (0.29%) WebSphere
11 13 (0.27%) Camunda
12 12 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
13 11 (0.23%) OpenStack
13 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
14 9 (0.19%) Appian
15 7 (0.15%) Tomcat
15 7 (0.15%) WebLogic
16 6 (0.12%) Documentum
Applications
1 59 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
2 58 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (0.66%) MS Visio
4 31 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
4 31 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.21%) CPLEX
6 9 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.12%) Trello
9 4 (0.083%) Notion
10 2 (0.041%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.021%) InDesign
11 1 (0.021%) Maya
11 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 61 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.21%) Aladdin
3 10 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
4 9 (0.19%) Magento
4 9 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
5 8 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
5 8 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.12%) Maximo
6 6 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
7 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
7 5 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.083%) Endur
8 4 (0.083%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.083%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.062%) Findur
9 3 (0.062%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.062%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.062%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2,568 (53.27%) Azure
2 1,682 (34.89%) AWS
3 1,460 (30.28%) Azure DevOps
4 781 (16.20%) GitHub
5 588 (12.20%) GCP
6 475 (9.85%) GitHub Actions
7 402 (8.34%) Power Platform
8 388 (8.05%) Serverless
9 254 (5.27%) Amazon S3
10 233 (4.83%) Entra ID
11 226 (4.69%) AWS Lambda
12 194 (4.02%) Azure AKS
13 183 (3.80%) AWS CloudFormation
14 177 (3.67%) Amazon EKS
15 166 (3.44%) Azure Monitor
16 163 (3.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 162 (3.36%) Azure Data Factory
18 151 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
19 145 (3.01%) Dynamics 365
20 138 (2.86%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 222 (4.60%) Firewall
2 133 (2.76%) DNS
3 110 (2.28%) VPN
4 109 (2.26%) Network Security
5 53 (1.10%) TCP/IP
6 49 (1.02%) WAN
7 40 (0.83%) SSL
8 36 (0.75%) SD-WAN
9 31 (0.64%) BGP
10 30 (0.62%) Internet
11 29 (0.60%) DHCP
12 27 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
13 25 (0.52%) OSPF
14 21 (0.44%) HTTP
15 18 (0.37%) SAN
15 18 (0.37%) VXLAN
16 17 (0.35%) MPLS
16 17 (0.35%) VLAN
17 16 (0.33%) BIG-IP
17 16 (0.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 276 (5.72%) Power BI
2 252 (5.23%) SQL Server
3 230 (4.77%) PostgreSQL
4 165 (3.42%) NoSQL
5 157 (3.26%) Relational Database
6 155 (3.22%) Data Warehouse
7 144 (2.99%) Data Lake
8 143 (2.97%) MongoDB
9 100 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
10 87 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
10 87 (1.80%) Metadata
11 85 (1.76%) DynamoDB
12 81 (1.68%) Delta Lake
13 78 (1.62%) Oracle Database
14 58 (1.20%) Redis
15 57 (1.18%) Big Data
16 55 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
17 49 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
18 47 (0.97%) MySQL
19 46 (0.95%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 668 (13.86%) Jenkins
2 629 (13.05%) Git
3 573 (11.89%) JIRA
4 487 (10.10%) GitLab
5 108 (2.24%) Selenium
6 86 (1.78%) SonarQube
7 84 (1.74%) Postman
8 83 (1.72%) JUnit
9 71 (1.47%) Bitbucket
9 71 (1.47%) Maven
10 60 (1.24%) REST Assured
11 52 (1.08%) Cucumber
12 50 (1.04%) JMeter
13 48 (1.00%) Cypress.io
14 45 (0.93%) Gatling
15 42 (0.87%) Gradle
16 40 (0.83%) Mockito
17 34 (0.71%) Artifactory
17 34 (0.71%) LoadRunner
17 34 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,209 (25.08%) Social Skills
2 915 (18.98%) Finance
3 663 (13.75%) Public Sector
4 432 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
5 334 (6.93%) Banking
6 115 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 101 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
8 89 (1.85%) Retail
9 65 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
10 60 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
11 56 (1.16%) Marketing
12 54 (1.12%) Legal
13 46 (0.95%) Military
14 42 (0.87%) Investment Banking
15 40 (0.83%) Law
16 39 (0.81%) Financial Institution
17 37 (0.77%) Front Office
18 36 (0.75%) Telecoms
19 35 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
20 30 (0.62%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 919 (19.06%) DevOps Engineer
2 763 (15.83%) Developer
3 688 (14.27%) Senior
4 555 (11.51%) Architect
5 470 (9.75%) Lead
6 293 (6.08%) Azure Engineer
7 280 (5.81%) Data Engineer
8 259 (5.37%) Analyst
9 215 (4.46%) AWS Engineer
10 202 (4.19%) Platform Engineer
11 182 (3.78%) Cloud Engineer
12 174 (3.61%) Solutions Architect
13 170 (3.53%) Senior DevOps
14 156 (3.24%) Java Developer
14 156 (3.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 154 (3.19%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 149 (3.09%) AWS DevOps
17 136 (2.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 136 (2.82%) Software Engineer
18 129 (2.68%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 477 (9.89%) REST
2 419 (8.69%) .NET
3 288 (5.97%) Kafka
4 261 (5.41%) Spring
5 251 (5.21%) RESTful
6 250 (5.19%) React
7 244 (5.06%) Spring Boot
8 183 (3.80%) Node.js
9 143 (2.97%) JSON
10 142 (2.95%) PySpark
11 139 (2.88%) OAuth
12 137 (2.84%) AngularJS
13 130 (2.70%) Playwright
14 127 (2.63%) .NET Framework
14 127 (2.63%) SOAP
15 109 (2.26%) HTML
16 103 (2.14%) YAML
17 94 (1.95%) CSS
17 94 (1.95%) OAuth2
18 89 (1.85%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 854 (17.71%) Cloud Native
2 339 (7.03%) Product Ownership
3 229 (4.75%) Distributed Systems
4 143 (2.97%) Onboarding
5 136 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
6 132 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
7 116 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
8 78 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
9 72 (1.49%) Public Cloud
9 72 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
10 68 (1.41%) Security Posture
11 67 (1.39%) Management Information System
12 62 (1.29%) Data Centre
13 61 (1.27%) Data Structures
14 59 (1.22%) AI Agents
15 53 (1.10%) Replication
16 49 (1.02%) Virtual Team
17 48 (1.00%) Mobile App
18 41 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
19 37 (0.77%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 423 (8.77%) Linux
2 256 (5.31%) Windows
3 95 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 71 (1.47%) Unix
5 64 (1.33%) Windows Server
6 27 (0.56%) Ubuntu
7 25 (0.52%) VMS
8 24 (0.50%) Apple iOS
9 16 (0.33%) Android
10 9 (0.19%) Solaris
10 9 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.17%) zOS
12 7 (0.15%) AIX
13 6 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
13 6 (0.12%) CentOS
13 6 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
13 6 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
15 4 (0.083%) Alpine Linux
15 4 (0.083%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,766 (57.37%) CI/CD
2 1,912 (39.66%) Agile
3 1,280 (26.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 785 (16.28%) Containerisation
5 748 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
6 740 (15.35%) Continuous Improvement
7 707 (14.67%) Microservices
8 706 (14.64%) Test Automation
9 666 (13.81%) Stakeholder Management
10 662 (13.73%) AI
11 608 (12.61%) Observability
12 598 (12.40%) Scrum
13 580 (12.03%) Software Engineering
14 578 (11.99%) Migration
15 562 (11.66%) Platform Engineering
16 539 (11.18%) Analytics
17 435 (9.02%) Technical Leadership
18 430 (8.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 422 (8.75%) Roadmaps
20 421 (8.73%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,355 (28.11%) Python
2 895 (18.56%) SQL
3 687 (14.25%) Java
4 440 (9.13%) C#
5 391 (8.11%) Bash
6 381 (7.90%) PowerShell
7 357 (7.41%) JavaScript
8 253 (5.25%) TypeScript
9 178 (3.69%) Bicep
10 92 (1.91%) Go
11 57 (1.18%) PL/SQL
12 55 (1.14%) Shell Script
13 54 (1.12%) T-SQL
14 51 (1.06%) Apex Code
15 49 (1.02%) Groovy
16 48 (1.00%) Scala
17 28 (0.58%) C++
18 26 (0.54%) Kotlin
19 22 (0.46%) C
19 22 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1,525 (31.63%) Security Cleared
2 1,266 (26.26%) SC Cleared
3 299 (6.20%) Degree
4 197 (4.09%) Azure Certification
5 183 (3.80%) DV Cleared
6 158 (3.28%) AWS Certification
7 123 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 107 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
9 79 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
10 74 (1.53%) CISSP
11 52 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
12 44 (0.91%) ISTQB
13 43 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 38 (0.79%) PMP
15 36 (0.75%) Master's Degree
16 34 (0.71%) PMI Certification
17 33 (0.68%) CISM
18 24 (0.50%) CCNP
19 22 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
20 21 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 432 (8.96%) QA
2 229 (4.75%) Data Quality
3 154 (3.19%) Accessibility
4 147 (3.05%) GDPR
5 82 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 79 (1.64%) NIST
7 71 (1.47%) WCAG
8 45 (0.93%) NCSC
9 40 (0.83%) PMO
10 39 (0.81%) PCI DSS
11 29 (0.60%) SLA
12 28 (0.58%) GRC
13 23 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 10 (0.21%) HIPAA
14 10 (0.21%) ISO 20022
14 10 (0.21%) PSD2
15 9 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.19%) SEPA
15 9 (0.19%) SOC 2
16 8 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 936 (19.42%) Docker
2 168 (3.48%) Active Directory
3 75 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
4 66 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 27 (0.56%) vSphere
6 23 (0.48%) VMware NSX
7 17 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
8 15 (0.31%) Hyper-V
8 15 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
9 14 (0.29%) Postfix
9 14 (0.29%) Squid
10 10 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
11 8 (0.17%) KVM
12 7 (0.15%) IAG
13 6 (0.12%) Corosync
13 6 (0.12%) RACF
14 5 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
14 5 (0.10%) NFS
14 5 (0.10%) SRDF
15 4 (0.083%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,369 (28.40%) Terraform
2 1,214 (25.18%) Kubernetes
3 473 (9.81%) Ansible
4 316 (6.55%) Grafana
5 267 (5.54%) Prometheus
6 86 (1.78%) Argo
7 61 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
8 56 (1.16%) Puppet
9 40 (0.83%) Progress Chef
10 33 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
11 30 (0.62%) Packer
12 29 (0.60%) Istio
13 26 (0.54%) vCenter Server
14 17 (0.35%) Kibana
15 15 (0.31%) Kustomize
15 15 (0.31%) SCCM
16 13 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 13 (0.27%) HP ALM
16 13 (0.27%) Kubeflow
16 13 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 879 (18.23%) Microsoft
2 260 (5.39%) Oracle
3 239 (4.96%) Databricks
4 217 (4.50%) Google
5 188 (3.90%) ServiceNow
6 165 (3.42%) Splunk
7 147 (3.05%) Salesforce
8 117 (2.43%) Dynatrace
9 112 (2.32%) SAP
10 101 (2.10%) VMware
11 100 (2.07%) Red Hat
12 60 (1.24%) IBM
13 54 (1.12%) OpenAI
14 52 (1.08%) Atlassian
15 46 (0.95%) Informatica
16 43 (0.89%) Cisco
17 39 (0.81%) Foundry
18 35 (0.73%) AppDynamics
19 33 (0.68%) CyberArk
20 31 (0.64%) Okta