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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 14 15
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -6
Contract jobs citing DevOps 3,182 3,256 3,944
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.28% 10.16% 9.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.40% 11.74% 10.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,240 2,192 2,947
10th Percentile £363 £386 £413
25th Percentile £425 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £687
90th Percentile £700 £738 £779
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -5.45% -4.35% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 55 96
10th Percentile £43.38 £46.18 £46.18
25th Percentile £57.56 £65.00 £49.05
Median hourly rate £67.00 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% +7.69% -0.92%
75th Percentile £92.50 - £77.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £79.95 £84.06
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -4.29% +7.69% -0.92%

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 25,655 27,725 36,179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.95% 86.47% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,262 16,906 24,993
10th Percentile £296 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,620 1,099 1,474
10th Percentile £14.64 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +36.36%
75th Percentile £45.00 £66.80 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.55 £74.09 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +36.92%

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 16 October 2025.

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 +1 1,638 £550 -2.22% 708
North of England +4 550 £480 -5.33% 360
South East +4 348 £500 -14.71% 597
Midlands +13 324 £515 -6.36% 151
Yorkshire -1 306 £500 - 91
West Midlands +13 254 £525 -8.70% 111
North West +2 222 £450 -14.29% 220
South West -4 151 £550 -6.78% 131
East of England +33 98 £544 -1.14% 96
East Midlands +13 70 £413 -2.94% 38
North East -13 24 £550 -5.98% 50
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
1 203 (6.38%) Confluence
2 84 (2.64%) Apache
3 55 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
4 51 (1.60%) SharePoint
5 46 (1.45%) Apache Spark
6 36 (1.13%) CMS
7 29 (0.91%) CICS
8 28 (0.88%) SAS
9 27 (0.85%) nginx
10 26 (0.82%) IIS
10 26 (0.82%) JBoss
11 21 (0.66%) WebSphere
12 18 (0.57%) OpenStack
13 15 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
14 11 (0.35%) WebLogic
14 11 (0.35%) WebSphere Application Server
15 10 (0.31%) Mule
16 9 (0.28%) iPlanet
16 9 (0.28%) Smallworld
17 8 (0.25%) Jupyter
Applications
1 57 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 25 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
4 16 (0.50%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.44%) Chatbot
6 12 (0.38%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 6 (0.19%) Trello
8 3 (0.094%) Weka
9 1 (0.031%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.031%) InVision
9 1 (0.031%) Moqups
9 1 (0.031%) Revit
9 1 (0.031%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 40 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (0.91%) Endur
3 18 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (0.53%) VisionPLUS
5 15 (0.47%) Aladdin
6 14 (0.44%) Oracle BPM
6 14 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
7 13 (0.41%) Maximo
8 9 (0.28%) FLEXCUBE
9 6 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
9 6 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
10 4 (0.13%) Fidessa
10 4 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
10 4 (0.13%) SAP PM
10 4 (0.13%) Teamcenter
10 4 (0.13%) thinkFolio
10 4 (0.13%) Workday HCM
11 3 (0.094%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
12 2 (0.063%) Oracle Receivables
12 2 (0.063%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,520 (47.77%) Azure
2 1,156 (36.33%) AWS
3 825 (25.93%) Azure DevOps
4 492 (15.46%) GitHub
5 456 (14.33%) GCP
6 324 (10.18%) Serverless
7 267 (8.39%) GitHub Actions
8 210 (6.60%) Power Platform
9 190 (5.97%) Amazon S3
10 165 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
11 158 (4.97%) AWS CloudFormation
12 151 (4.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 145 (4.56%) Amazon EC2
14 124 (3.90%) Azure AKS
15 123 (3.87%) SaaS
16 115 (3.61%) Entra ID
17 112 (3.52%) Azure Data Factory
18 109 (3.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 98 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
20 96 (3.02%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 179 (5.63%) Firewall
2 123 (3.87%) DNS
3 77 (2.42%) VPN
4 71 (2.23%) SSL
5 66 (2.07%) TCP/IP
6 59 (1.85%) Network Security
7 41 (1.29%) HTTP
8 34 (1.07%) SMTP
8 34 (1.07%) SSH
9 32 (1.01%) HTTPS
10 30 (0.94%) WAN
11 22 (0.69%) FTP
12 21 (0.66%) BGP
13 19 (0.60%) LAN
14 18 (0.57%) DHCP
15 16 (0.50%) MPLS
15 16 (0.50%) OpenLDAP
16 15 (0.47%) SD-WAN
17 12 (0.38%) IMAP
17 12 (0.38%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 207 (6.51%) PostgreSQL
2 144 (4.53%) SQL Server
3 140 (4.40%) Power BI
4 137 (4.31%) NoSQL
5 126 (3.96%) Amazon RDS
6 94 (2.95%) MongoDB
7 85 (2.67%) Relational Database
8 74 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
9 67 (2.11%) Data Lake
10 62 (1.95%) Azure SQL Database
11 60 (1.89%) Oracle Database
12 58 (1.82%) Redis
13 51 (1.60%) DynamoDB
14 48 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
15 44 (1.38%) Delta Lake
16 40 (1.26%) MySQL
17 37 (1.16%) Amazon Aurora
18 34 (1.07%) Big Data
19 30 (0.94%) Metadata
20 24 (0.75%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 594 (18.67%) Jenkins
2 493 (15.49%) Git
3 470 (14.77%) JIRA
4 373 (11.72%) GitLab
5 101 (3.17%) SonarQube
6 94 (2.95%) Selenium
7 81 (2.55%) Sonatype Nexus
8 63 (1.98%) Bitbucket
9 62 (1.95%) JUnit
9 62 (1.95%) Maven
9 62 (1.95%) Postman
10 47 (1.48%) Liquibase
11 46 (1.45%) Cypress.io
11 46 (1.45%) Gradle
12 45 (1.41%) Cucumber
13 39 (1.23%) TeamCity
14 33 (1.04%) Artifactory
15 30 (0.94%) CircleCI
16 28 (0.88%) Visual Studio
17 27 (0.85%) Vagrant
General
1 977 (30.70%) Social Skills
2 596 (18.73%) Finance
3 357 (11.22%) Public Sector
4 313 (9.84%) Banking
5 272 (8.55%) Analytical Skills
6 79 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
7 70 (2.20%) Investment Banking
8 57 (1.79%) Telecoms
9 54 (1.70%) Financial Institution
10 53 (1.67%) Retail
11 51 (1.60%) Marketing
12 48 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 40 (1.26%) Front Office
14 39 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
15 32 (1.01%) Back Office
15 32 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
15 32 (1.01%) Military
16 26 (0.82%) Law
16 26 (0.82%) Manufacturing
17 25 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 637 (20.02%) Developer
2 551 (17.32%) DevOps Engineer
3 407 (12.79%) Senior
4 282 (8.86%) Architect
5 245 (7.70%) Lead
6 183 (5.75%) AWS Engineer
7 164 (5.15%) Analyst
8 161 (5.06%) Azure Engineer
9 139 (4.37%) AWS DevOps
10 133 (4.18%) Software Engineer
11 131 (4.12%) Cloud Engineer
12 127 (3.99%) Data Engineer
13 113 (3.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 111 (3.49%) Senior Developer
15 106 (3.33%) Platform Engineer
16 101 (3.17%) Java Developer
17 93 (2.92%) Business Analyst
18 91 (2.86%) Consultant
19 78 (2.45%) Solutions Architect
20 77 (2.42%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 326 (10.25%) REST
2 283 (8.89%) .NET
3 223 (7.01%) RESTful
4 203 (6.38%) React
5 177 (5.56%) Kafka
6 170 (5.34%) Node.js
7 154 (4.84%) JSON
8 141 (4.43%) HTML
9 138 (4.34%) SOAP
10 121 (3.80%) Elastic Stack
11 117 (3.68%) Spring
12 115 (3.61%) AngularJS
13 112 (3.52%) Spring Boot
14 100 (3.14%) CSS
15 98 (3.08%) XML
16 92 (2.89%) OAuth
17 88 (2.77%) YAML
18 73 (2.29%) ARM Templates
18 73 (2.29%) Web Services
19 72 (2.26%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 424 (13.32%) Cloud Native
2 144 (4.53%) Distributed Systems
2 144 (4.53%) Product Ownership
3 97 (3.05%) Onboarding
4 83 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
5 72 (2.26%) Public Cloud
6 70 (2.20%) Mobile App
7 58 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
8 53 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
9 51 (1.60%) Replication
10 47 (1.48%) Algorithms
11 44 (1.38%) Data Centre
11 44 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 42 (1.32%) Management Information System
13 40 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
13 40 (1.26%) Security Posture
14 37 (1.16%) PKI
15 35 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
16 32 (1.01%) Data Structures
17 31 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 405 (12.73%) Linux
2 208 (6.54%) Windows
3 89 (2.80%) Unix
4 63 (1.98%) Windows Server
5 57 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 56 (1.76%) Android
7 49 (1.54%) Apple iOS
8 38 (1.19%) VMS
9 26 (0.82%) Amazon Linux
10 24 (0.75%) CentOS
11 22 (0.69%) Ubuntu
12 17 (0.53%) Solaris
13 15 (0.47%) Windows 10
14 12 (0.38%) zOS
15 9 (0.28%) Mac OS
16 7 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
17 5 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
18 4 (0.13%) SUSE
19 3 (0.094%) AIX
19 3 (0.094%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,694 (53.24%) CI/CD
2 1,333 (41.89%) Agile
3 770 (24.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 585 (18.38%) Problem-Solving
5 569 (17.88%) Containerisation
6 475 (14.93%) Test Automation
7 454 (14.27%) Microservices
8 387 (12.16%) Scrum
9 362 (11.38%) Migration
10 327 (10.28%) Software Engineering
11 309 (9.71%) Analytics
12 306 (9.62%) Continuous Improvement
13 281 (8.83%) AI
14 250 (7.86%) Observability
15 236 (7.42%) Mentoring
16 232 (7.29%) Stakeholder Management
17 226 (7.10%) SDLC
18 220 (6.91%) Computer Science
19 212 (6.66%) Machine Learning
20 209 (6.57%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 992 (31.18%) Python
2 600 (18.86%) SQL
3 467 (14.68%) Java
4 319 (10.03%) JavaScript
5 311 (9.77%) C#
6 296 (9.30%) PowerShell
7 295 (9.27%) Bash
8 198 (6.22%) TypeScript
9 155 (4.87%) Go
10 101 (3.17%) Bicep
11 73 (2.29%) Shell Script
12 61 (1.92%) Groovy
13 50 (1.57%) C++
14 44 (1.38%) Perl
15 38 (1.19%) PL/SQL
15 38 (1.19%) Scala
16 35 (1.10%) Kotlin
17 29 (0.91%) Ruby
18 24 (0.75%) T-SQL
19 22 (0.69%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 767 (24.10%) Security Cleared
2 606 (19.04%) SC Cleared
3 286 (8.99%) Degree
4 155 (4.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 120 (3.77%) AWS Certification
5 120 (3.77%) Azure Certification
6 112 (3.52%) DV Cleared
7 69 (2.17%) Master's Degree
8 48 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
9 44 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
10 43 (1.35%) CISSP
11 38 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 32 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
13 24 (0.75%) ISTQB
14 23 (0.72%) PMI Certification
15 22 (0.69%) CISM
16 21 (0.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 19 (0.60%) PMP
18 16 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
19 13 (0.41%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 272 (8.55%) QA
2 127 (3.99%) GDPR
3 92 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 89 (2.80%) Data Quality
5 78 (2.45%) Accessibility
6 77 (2.42%) NIST
7 33 (1.04%) NCSC
8 24 (0.75%) HIPAA
9 21 (0.66%) PCI DSS
10 20 (0.63%) SLA
11 17 (0.53%) SOC 2
11 17 (0.53%) WCAG
12 13 (0.41%) MiFID
12 13 (0.41%) SEPA
13 11 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
13 11 (0.35%) PMO
13 11 (0.35%) PSD2
14 10 (0.31%) EU AI Act
14 10 (0.31%) ISO 20022
15 9 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 755 (23.73%) Docker
2 156 (4.90%) Active Directory
3 57 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 48 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (0.75%) DFS Replication
6 18 (0.57%) Postfix
7 13 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
7 13 (0.41%) Squid
7 13 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
7 13 (0.41%) vSphere
8 12 (0.38%) Dovecot
9 10 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (0.25%) Tivoli Directory Server
11 7 (0.22%) Hyper-V
11 7 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
11 7 (0.22%) NFS
12 6 (0.19%) Time Sharing Option
12 6 (0.19%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 5 (0.16%) KVM
13 5 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 923 (29.01%) Terraform
2 878 (27.59%) Kubernetes
3 442 (13.89%) Ansible
4 240 (7.54%) Prometheus
5 239 (7.51%) Grafana
6 85 (2.67%) Puppet
7 64 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
8 58 (1.82%) Progress Chef
9 46 (1.45%) Argo
10 44 (1.38%) Kibana
11 28 (0.88%) Packer
12 24 (0.75%) ITRS Geneos
13 18 (0.57%) Istio
13 18 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
13 18 (0.57%) Podman
14 17 (0.53%) CA Endevor
14 17 (0.53%) SCCM
15 16 (0.50%) logstash
15 16 (0.50%) Nessus
16 15 (0.47%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 562 (17.66%) Microsoft
2 198 (6.22%) Oracle
3 189 (5.94%) Google
4 180 (5.66%) Splunk
5 150 (4.71%) Databricks
6 131 (4.12%) ServiceNow
7 86 (2.70%) Salesforce
8 82 (2.58%) Red Hat
8 82 (2.58%) SAP
9 75 (2.36%) VMware
10 50 (1.57%) IBM
11 47 (1.48%) Dynatrace
12 43 (1.35%) MuleSoft
13 39 (1.23%) F5
14 35 (1.10%) Cisco
15 33 (1.04%) HP
15 33 (1.04%) Palo Alto
16 28 (0.88%) CheckPoint
17 27 (0.85%) Atlassian
18 22 (0.69%) OpenAI