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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 16 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,801 2,825 3,381
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.59% 10.27% 9.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.42% 11.31% 11.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,321 2,050 2,313
10th Percentile £385 £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 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 21 88
10th Percentile £28.27 £35.00 £56.43
25th Percentile £56.06 £51.25 £64.15
Median hourly rate £67.25 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.37% -4.29% +6.87%
75th Percentile £75.44 £82.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £91.15 £92.50 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +0.75% -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 38,641 24,977 29,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.26% 90.76% 85.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,154 16,016 19,101
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
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 £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,462 1,371 1,780
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £13.87
25th Percentile £20.92 £17.98 £17.72
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -39.40% -2.35%
75th Percentile £68.75 £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 31 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 31 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 31 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 2,488 £550 - 869
North of England +2 846 £500 +5.26% 314
Midlands +2 458 £491 +3.37% 153
South East -11 456 £525 +5.00% 291
Yorkshire +2 429 £500 +3.36% 95
West Midlands -1 373 £495 -1.04% 114
North West -3 332 £523 +10.11% 161
South West +13 317 £525 - 133
East of England +15 137 £509 +1.70% 59
North East +12 103 £425 -18.66% 60
East Midlands 0 80 £488 +7.26% 39
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 (6.08%) Confluence
2 125 (2.60%) SharePoint
3 120 (2.50%) Apache Spark
4 110 (2.29%) Apache Airflow
5 97 (2.02%) Apache
6 72 (1.50%) SAS
7 42 (0.87%) CMS
8 31 (0.65%) IIS
8 31 (0.65%) Jupyter
9 23 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
10 22 (0.46%) nginx
11 14 (0.29%) WebSphere
12 13 (0.27%) Camunda
13 12 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
14 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
15 9 (0.19%) Anypoint
15 9 (0.19%) Appian
16 8 (0.17%) OpenStack
17 7 (0.15%) Tomcat
17 7 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 60 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
2 54 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 33 (0.69%) MS Visio
4 30 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
5 25 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.21%) CPLEX
7 9 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
8 8 (0.17%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.12%) Trello
10 4 (0.083%) Notion
11 2 (0.042%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
12 1 (0.021%) InDesign
12 1 (0.021%) Maya
12 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 60 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.67%) 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
7 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
7 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
7 5 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
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%) Shopify
9 3 (0.062%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2,572 (53.57%) Azure
2 1,668 (34.74%) AWS
3 1,477 (30.76%) Azure DevOps
4 792 (16.50%) GitHub
5 594 (12.37%) GCP
6 491 (10.23%) GitHub Actions
7 407 (8.48%) Power Platform
8 379 (7.89%) Serverless
9 248 (5.17%) Amazon S3
10 233 (4.85%) Entra ID
11 217 (4.52%) AWS Lambda
12 195 (4.06%) Azure AKS
13 181 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
14 176 (3.67%) Amazon EKS
15 170 (3.54%) Azure Data Factory
16 167 (3.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 165 (3.44%) Azure Monitor
18 149 (3.10%) Amazon EC2
19 147 (3.06%) Dynamics 365
20 144 (3.00%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 228 (4.75%) Firewall
2 137 (2.85%) DNS
3 114 (2.37%) VPN
4 104 (2.17%) Network Security
5 54 (1.12%) TCP/IP
6 49 (1.02%) WAN
7 40 (0.83%) SSL
8 36 (0.75%) SD-WAN
9 32 (0.67%) DHCP
10 31 (0.65%) BGP
10 31 (0.65%) Internet
11 28 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
12 25 (0.52%) OSPF
13 21 (0.44%) HTTP
14 19 (0.40%) VLAN
15 18 (0.37%) SAN
15 18 (0.37%) VXLAN
16 17 (0.35%) MPLS
17 16 (0.33%) BIG-IP
17 16 (0.33%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 284 (5.92%) Power BI
2 255 (5.31%) SQL Server
3 228 (4.75%) PostgreSQL
4 165 (3.44%) Data Warehouse
4 165 (3.44%) NoSQL
5 151 (3.15%) Relational Database
6 141 (2.94%) Data Lake
7 140 (2.92%) MongoDB
8 93 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
9 90 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
10 88 (1.83%) Metadata
11 82 (1.71%) DynamoDB
12 81 (1.69%) Delta Lake
13 74 (1.54%) Oracle Database
14 58 (1.21%) Big Data
14 58 (1.21%) Redis
15 56 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
16 49 (1.02%) MySQL
17 47 (0.98%) Amazon Athena
18 46 (0.96%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 673 (14.02%) Jenkins
2 623 (12.98%) Git
3 570 (11.87%) JIRA
4 490 (10.21%) GitLab
5 106 (2.21%) Selenium
6 87 (1.81%) SonarQube
7 83 (1.73%) JUnit
7 83 (1.73%) Postman
8 74 (1.54%) Bitbucket
9 69 (1.44%) Maven
10 59 (1.23%) REST Assured
11 55 (1.15%) JMeter
12 52 (1.08%) Cucumber
12 52 (1.08%) Cypress.io
13 44 (0.92%) Gatling
14 41 (0.85%) Mockito
15 39 (0.81%) Gradle
16 38 (0.79%) LoadRunner
17 34 (0.71%) Artifactory
18 32 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,199 (24.97%) Social Skills
2 905 (18.85%) Finance
3 655 (13.64%) Public Sector
4 440 (9.16%) Analytical Skills
5 331 (6.89%) Banking
6 115 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 95 (1.98%) Retail
8 94 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
9 63 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
10 59 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
11 56 (1.17%) Marketing
12 55 (1.15%) Legal
13 45 (0.94%) Investment Banking
14 44 (0.92%) Military
15 40 (0.83%) Financial Institution
15 40 (0.83%) Law
16 37 (0.77%) Front Office
17 36 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
17 36 (0.75%) Telecoms
18 33 (0.69%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 896 (18.66%) DevOps Engineer
2 767 (15.98%) Developer
3 694 (14.46%) Senior
4 551 (11.48%) Architect
5 476 (9.91%) Lead
6 290 (6.04%) Azure Engineer
7 282 (5.87%) Data Engineer
8 249 (5.19%) Analyst
9 209 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
10 199 (4.14%) Platform Engineer
11 180 (3.75%) Cloud Engineer
12 170 (3.54%) Senior DevOps
12 170 (3.54%) Solutions Architect
13 156 (3.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 152 (3.17%) Java Developer
15 149 (3.10%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 145 (3.02%) AWS DevOps
17 136 (2.83%) Software Engineer
18 131 (2.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 127 (2.65%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 476 (9.91%) REST
2 422 (8.79%) .NET
3 279 (5.81%) Kafka
4 252 (5.25%) RESTful
5 247 (5.14%) Spring
6 244 (5.08%) React
7 227 (4.73%) Spring Boot
8 178 (3.71%) Node.js
9 145 (3.02%) JSON
10 144 (3.00%) PySpark
11 140 (2.92%) OAuth
12 136 (2.83%) AngularJS
13 132 (2.75%) Playwright
14 130 (2.71%) SOAP
15 128 (2.67%) .NET Framework
16 107 (2.23%) HTML
17 100 (2.08%) YAML
18 96 (2.00%) OAuth2
19 92 (1.92%) CSS
20 89 (1.85%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 857 (17.85%) Cloud Native
2 333 (6.94%) Product Ownership
3 230 (4.79%) Distributed Systems
4 142 (2.96%) Onboarding
5 137 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
6 133 (2.77%) Enterprise Software
7 118 (2.46%) Hybrid Cloud
8 76 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
9 72 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
10 68 (1.42%) Public Cloud
11 67 (1.40%) Management Information System
12 63 (1.31%) AI Agents
12 63 (1.31%) Data Structures
12 63 (1.31%) Security Posture
13 62 (1.29%) Data Centre
14 51 (1.06%) Replication
15 49 (1.02%) Virtual Team
16 48 (1.00%) Mobile App
17 39 (0.81%) PKI
18 38 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 421 (8.77%) Linux
2 260 (5.42%) Windows
3 95 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 73 (1.52%) Unix
5 67 (1.40%) Windows Server
6 28 (0.58%) Ubuntu
7 25 (0.52%) Apple iOS
8 24 (0.50%) VMS
9 17 (0.35%) Android
10 9 (0.19%) Solaris
10 9 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.17%) zOS
12 7 (0.15%) AIX
12 7 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
12 7 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
13 6 (0.12%) CentOS
13 6 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
14 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
15 4 (0.083%) Alpine Linux
15 4 (0.083%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,767 (57.63%) CI/CD
2 1,922 (40.03%) Agile
3 1,282 (26.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 771 (16.06%) Containerisation
5 759 (15.81%) Continuous Improvement
6 749 (15.60%) Problem-Solving
7 721 (15.02%) Test Automation
8 692 (14.41%) Microservices
9 677 (14.10%) Stakeholder Management
10 669 (13.93%) AI
11 613 (12.77%) Observability
12 606 (12.62%) Scrum
13 581 (12.10%) Software Engineering
14 569 (11.85%) Migration
15 567 (11.81%) Platform Engineering
16 537 (11.19%) Analytics
17 442 (9.21%) Technical Leadership
18 432 (9.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 429 (8.94%) Data Modelling
20 415 (8.64%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,364 (28.41%) Python
2 901 (18.77%) SQL
3 681 (14.18%) Java
4 438 (9.12%) C#
5 396 (8.25%) Bash
6 384 (8.00%) PowerShell
7 371 (7.73%) JavaScript
8 260 (5.42%) TypeScript
9 183 (3.81%) Bicep
10 90 (1.87%) Go
11 57 (1.19%) PL/SQL
12 56 (1.17%) T-SQL
13 54 (1.12%) Shell Script
14 51 (1.06%) Apex Code
15 49 (1.02%) Groovy
16 48 (1.00%) Scala
17 31 (0.65%) C++
18 26 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 26 (0.54%) Kotlin
19 24 (0.50%) C
Qualifications
1 1,521 (31.68%) Security Cleared
2 1,268 (26.41%) SC Cleared
3 295 (6.14%) Degree
4 196 (4.08%) Azure Certification
5 183 (3.81%) DV Cleared
6 162 (3.37%) AWS Certification
7 127 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 107 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
9 78 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
10 72 (1.50%) CISSP
11 51 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
12 47 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 44 (0.92%) ISTQB
14 39 (0.81%) PMP
15 34 (0.71%) PMI Certification
16 32 (0.67%) Master's Degree
17 30 (0.62%) CISM
18 23 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 23 (0.48%) CCNP
19 22 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 448 (9.33%) QA
2 234 (4.87%) Data Quality
3 150 (3.12%) Accessibility
4 134 (2.79%) GDPR
5 79 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 74 (1.54%) NIST
7 71 (1.48%) WCAG
8 45 (0.94%) NCSC
9 42 (0.87%) PMO
10 38 (0.79%) PCI DSS
11 29 (0.60%) SLA
12 26 (0.54%) GRC
13 23 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 10 (0.21%) HIPAA
15 9 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
16 8 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
16 8 (0.17%) PSD2
16 8 (0.17%) SOC 2
17 7 (0.15%) ISO 20022
17 7 (0.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 928 (19.33%) Docker
2 169 (3.52%) Active Directory
3 74 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
4 66 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 26 (0.54%) vSphere
6 21 (0.44%) VMware NSX
7 18 (0.37%) Hyper-V
8 17 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
9 14 (0.29%) Postfix
9 14 (0.29%) Squid
10 13 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
11 10 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
12 8 (0.17%) KVM
13 7 (0.15%) IAG
14 6 (0.12%) Corosync
15 5 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
15 5 (0.10%) NFS
15 5 (0.10%) RACF
15 5 (0.10%) SRDF
16 4 (0.083%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1,358 (28.29%) Terraform
2 1,206 (25.12%) Kubernetes
3 468 (9.75%) Ansible
4 312 (6.50%) Grafana
5 261 (5.44%) Prometheus
6 81 (1.69%) Argo
7 57 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
8 56 (1.17%) Puppet
9 40 (0.83%) Progress Chef
10 34 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
11 30 (0.62%) Packer
12 29 (0.60%) Istio
13 24 (0.50%) vCenter Server
14 17 (0.35%) SCCM
15 15 (0.31%) Kibana
15 15 (0.31%) Kustomize
16 13 (0.27%) HP ALM
16 13 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
17 12 (0.25%) HAProxy
17 12 (0.25%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 894 (18.62%) Microsoft
2 251 (5.23%) Oracle
3 240 (5.00%) Databricks
4 227 (4.73%) Google
5 190 (3.96%) ServiceNow
6 159 (3.31%) Splunk
7 152 (3.17%) Salesforce
8 126 (2.62%) Dynatrace
9 110 (2.29%) SAP
10 100 (2.08%) Red Hat
11 97 (2.02%) VMware
12 60 (1.25%) IBM
13 53 (1.10%) Atlassian
14 48 (1.00%) Informatica
15 46 (0.96%) OpenAI
16 44 (0.92%) Cisco
17 40 (0.83%) AppDynamics
18 35 (0.73%) Foundry
19 32 (0.67%) MuleSoft
20 31 (0.65%) Okta