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 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 15 14
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,832 2,968 3,297
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.43% 10.75% 10.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.29% 11.84% 11.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,322 2,119 2,246
10th Percentile £385 £360 £400
25th Percentile £438 £425 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -5.66%
75th Percentile £625 £626 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £518 £550
% change year-on-year +1.45% -5.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 23 67
10th Percentile £37.24 £44.25 £55.60
25th Percentile £55.69 £56.50 £65.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.75% -4.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £85.86 £74.72
90th Percentile £94.81 £95.00 £85.41
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +0.75% -4.29% +7.69%

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 39,321 25,058 28,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.90% 90.80% 85.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,195 15,905 17,612
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £636 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £752
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,661 1,475 1,343
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.27 £14.84
25th Percentile £18.00 £17.83 £20.24
Median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.96% -41.51% +0.58%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.03 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.17% -41.51% +1.96%

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 9 September 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 9 September 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 9 September 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 2,550 £550 - 2,117
North of England -2 803 £500 +5.26% 539
South East -10 457 £525 +5.00% 440
Midlands -3 446 £488 -2.50% 214
Yorkshire -3 394 £500 +3.63% 152
West Midlands -5 350 £492 -5.81% 133
South West +9 320 £550 +5.77% 274
North West -2 315 £519 +15.37% 297
East of England +11 150 £505 -3.81% 180
North East +16 109 £425 -18.27% 94
East Midlands +3 92 £463 +2.78% 81
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
1 291 (6.02%) Confluence
2 133 (2.75%) SharePoint
3 126 (2.61%) Apache Airflow
4 120 (2.48%) Apache Spark
5 104 (2.15%) Apache
6 54 (1.12%) SAS
7 41 (0.85%) CMS
8 35 (0.72%) Jupyter
9 27 (0.56%) IIS
10 23 (0.48%) nginx
11 18 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
12 15 (0.31%) Camunda
13 13 (0.27%) OpenStack
14 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
15 10 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
15 10 (0.21%) WebSphere
16 9 (0.19%) Anypoint
16 9 (0.19%) Appian
17 8 (0.17%) WebLogic
18 7 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 61 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (1.24%) Microsoft Project
3 42 (0.87%) MS Visio
4 32 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 30 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
6 9 (0.19%) Chatbot
6 9 (0.19%) CPLEX
6 9 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.14%) Trello
8 5 (0.10%) Notion
8 5 (0.10%) Windchill
9 2 (0.041%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
10 1 (0.021%) Gliffy
10 1 (0.021%) Mingle
10 1 (0.021%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.021%) Sketch
10 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 65 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 10 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.19%) Magento
6 7 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 6 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
7 6 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.10%) Aladdin
8 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
8 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
9 4 (0.083%) Endur
9 4 (0.083%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.083%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.062%) Findur
10 3 (0.062%) Maximo
10 3 (0.062%) Oracle EBS R12
10 3 (0.062%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.062%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 3 (0.062%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,636 (54.55%) Azure
2 1,686 (34.89%) AWS
3 1,527 (31.60%) Azure DevOps
4 833 (17.24%) GitHub
5 610 (12.62%) GCP
6 524 (10.84%) GitHub Actions
7 429 (8.88%) Power Platform
8 404 (8.36%) Serverless
9 256 (5.30%) Amazon S3
10 243 (5.03%) AWS Lambda
11 233 (4.82%) Entra ID
12 197 (4.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 184 (3.81%) Azure Data Factory
14 183 (3.79%) Azure AKS
15 182 (3.77%) Amazon EKS
16 177 (3.66%) Azure Monitor
17 176 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
18 160 (3.31%) Dynamics 365
19 159 (3.29%) Amazon EC2
20 146 (3.02%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 233 (4.82%) Firewall
2 152 (3.15%) DNS
3 114 (2.36%) VPN
4 106 (2.19%) Network Security
5 66 (1.37%) TCP/IP
6 49 (1.01%) WAN
7 48 (0.99%) SSL
8 41 (0.85%) DHCP
9 34 (0.70%) SD-WAN
10 30 (0.62%) BGP
10 30 (0.62%) Internet
11 29 (0.60%) HTTP
12 28 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
13 23 (0.48%) SSH
14 22 (0.46%) OSPF
15 19 (0.39%) SAN
15 19 (0.39%) VLAN
16 17 (0.35%) LAN
17 16 (0.33%) BIG-IP
17 16 (0.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 298 (6.17%) Power BI
2 261 (5.40%) SQL Server
3 247 (5.11%) PostgreSQL
4 188 (3.89%) Data Warehouse
5 168 (3.48%) NoSQL
6 153 (3.17%) Data Lake
7 151 (3.13%) Relational Database
8 145 (3.00%) MongoDB
9 117 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
10 116 (2.40%) Metadata
11 90 (1.86%) Delta Lake
12 88 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
13 81 (1.68%) DynamoDB
14 80 (1.66%) Oracle Database
15 70 (1.45%) MySQL
16 68 (1.41%) Redis
17 57 (1.18%) Big Data
18 56 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
19 53 (1.10%) BigQuery
20 52 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 664 (13.74%) Git
2 663 (13.72%) Jenkins
3 565 (11.69%) JIRA
4 536 (11.09%) GitLab
5 116 (2.40%) Selenium
6 87 (1.80%) SonarQube
7 82 (1.70%) Postman
8 80 (1.66%) Maven
9 79 (1.63%) JUnit
10 68 (1.41%) Bitbucket
11 61 (1.26%) JMeter
12 59 (1.22%) Cypress.io
12 59 (1.22%) REST Assured
13 54 (1.12%) Gradle
14 52 (1.08%) Cucumber
15 47 (0.97%) Gatling
16 41 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
17 40 (0.83%) LoadRunner
18 39 (0.81%) Mockito
19 34 (0.70%) Claude Code
General
1 1,264 (26.16%) Social Skills
2 894 (18.50%) Finance
3 648 (13.41%) Public Sector
4 473 (9.79%) Analytical Skills
5 342 (7.08%) Banking
6 143 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 105 (2.17%) Retail
8 82 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
9 72 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
10 56 (1.16%) Marketing
11 54 (1.12%) Legal
11 54 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
12 51 (1.06%) Aerospace
13 50 (1.03%) Military
14 47 (0.97%) Investment Banking
15 43 (0.89%) Telecoms
16 42 (0.87%) Front Office
17 41 (0.85%) Law
18 38 (0.79%) Local Government
19 36 (0.75%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 906 (18.75%) DevOps Engineer
2 745 (15.42%) Developer
2 745 (15.42%) Senior
3 563 (11.65%) Architect
4 480 (9.93%) Lead
5 299 (6.19%) Azure Engineer
6 290 (6.00%) Data Engineer
7 241 (4.99%) Analyst
8 200 (4.14%) AWS Engineer
9 195 (4.04%) Platform Engineer
10 179 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
11 166 (3.44%) Senior DevOps
12 163 (3.37%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 163 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
13 154 (3.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 143 (2.96%) Java Developer
15 137 (2.84%) Senior Developer
16 134 (2.77%) AWS DevOps
16 134 (2.77%) Software Engineer
17 123 (2.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,402 (29.01%) Terraform
2 506 (10.47%) REST
3 412 (8.53%) .NET
4 330 (6.83%) Kafka
5 268 (5.55%) RESTful
6 251 (5.19%) React
7 245 (5.07%) Spring
8 234 (4.84%) Spring Boot
9 161 (3.33%) JSON
10 155 (3.21%) Node.js
11 149 (3.08%) PySpark
12 140 (2.90%) OAuth
13 134 (2.77%) Playwright
14 121 (2.50%) .NET Framework
15 118 (2.44%) HTML
16 113 (2.34%) CSS
17 111 (2.30%) SOAP
18 104 (2.15%) AngularJS
19 97 (2.01%) YAML
20 94 (1.95%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 889 (18.40%) Cloud Native
2 375 (7.76%) Product Ownership
3 225 (4.66%) Distributed Systems
4 168 (3.48%) Enterprise Software
5 161 (3.33%) Onboarding
6 141 (2.92%) Hybrid Cloud
7 133 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
8 89 (1.84%) AI Agents
9 75 (1.55%) Management Information System
10 70 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
11 69 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
12 66 (1.37%) Replication
13 65 (1.35%) Data Structures
14 64 (1.32%) Security Posture
15 63 (1.30%) Public Cloud
16 55 (1.14%) Data Centre
17 53 (1.10%) Virtual Team
18 51 (1.06%) Mobile App
19 41 (0.85%) PKI
20 40 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 463 (9.58%) Linux
2 273 (5.65%) Windows
3 108 (2.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 96 (1.99%) Unix
5 85 (1.76%) Windows Server
6 32 (0.66%) Ubuntu
7 31 (0.64%) Apple iOS
8 29 (0.60%) VMS
9 21 (0.43%) Android
10 10 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
11 9 (0.19%) CentOS
11 9 (0.19%) zOS
12 8 (0.17%) Solaris
12 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
12 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
13 7 (0.14%) AIX
14 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
14 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.083%) Alpine Linux
15 4 (0.083%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,851 (59.00%) CI/CD
2 1,964 (40.65%) Agile
3 1,381 (28.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 817 (16.91%) Continuous Improvement
5 799 (16.54%) Stakeholder Management
6 779 (16.12%) Containerisation
7 770 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
8 757 (15.67%) AI
9 755 (15.63%) Test Automation
10 707 (14.63%) Microservices
11 660 (13.66%) Observability
12 639 (13.22%) Software Engineering
13 623 (12.89%) Platform Engineering
14 594 (12.29%) Scrum
15 586 (12.13%) Migration
16 528 (10.93%) Analytics
17 518 (10.72%) Technical Leadership
18 457 (9.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 442 (9.15%) Roadmaps
20 427 (8.84%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,420 (29.39%) Python
2 894 (18.50%) SQL
3 703 (14.55%) Java
4 441 (9.13%) PowerShell
5 426 (8.82%) C#
6 418 (8.65%) Bash
7 382 (7.91%) JavaScript
8 263 (5.44%) TypeScript
9 217 (4.49%) Bicep
10 75 (1.55%) Go
11 67 (1.39%) Shell Script
12 58 (1.20%) T-SQL
13 56 (1.16%) Groovy
13 56 (1.16%) Scala
14 49 (1.01%) Apex Code
14 49 (1.01%) PL/SQL
15 33 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 31 (0.64%) Perl
17 29 (0.60%) C++
18 24 (0.50%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,537 (31.81%) Security Cleared
2 1,285 (26.59%) SC Cleared
3 320 (6.62%) Degree
4 209 (4.33%) Azure Certification
5 197 (4.08%) DV Cleared
6 163 (3.37%) AWS Certification
7 140 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 120 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
9 103 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
10 71 (1.47%) CISSP
11 49 (1.01%) ISTQB
12 46 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
13 45 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 39 (0.81%) PMP
15 34 (0.70%) PMI Certification
16 33 (0.68%) Master's Degree
17 29 (0.60%) CISM
18 21 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
19 20 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 20 (0.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 485 (10.04%) QA
2 261 (5.40%) Data Quality
3 161 (3.33%) Accessibility
4 118 (2.44%) GDPR
5 92 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 78 (1.61%) NIST
6 78 (1.61%) WCAG
7 49 (1.01%) PMO
8 45 (0.93%) NCSC
9 34 (0.70%) SLA
10 29 (0.60%) PCI DSS
11 27 (0.56%) GRC
12 22 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 16 (0.33%) ISO 20022
14 12 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
15 10 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
15 10 (0.21%) HIPAA
16 9 (0.19%) HL7
16 9 (0.19%) SEPA
17 8 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 970 (20.07%) Docker
2 157 (3.25%) Active Directory
3 74 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
4 70 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 23 (0.48%) Hyper-V
6 22 (0.46%) vSphere
7 20 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
8 17 (0.35%) VMware NSX
9 16 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
10 13 (0.27%) Squid
11 11 (0.23%) IAG
12 9 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
12 9 (0.19%) Postfix
13 7 (0.14%) KVM
14 6 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 6 (0.12%) Corosync
14 6 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
15 5 (0.10%) Firmware
16 4 (0.083%) Embedded Firmware
16 4 (0.083%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,258 (26.03%) Kubernetes
2 479 (9.91%) Ansible
3 312 (6.46%) Grafana
4 263 (5.44%) Prometheus
5 72 (1.49%) Argo
6 56 (1.16%) Puppet
7 50 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
8 47 (0.97%) Progress Chef
9 42 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
10 30 (0.62%) Packer
11 23 (0.48%) Kibana
12 22 (0.46%) Istio
13 19 (0.39%) Kustomize
13 19 (0.39%) vCenter Server
14 18 (0.37%) Kubeflow
14 18 (0.37%) SCCM
15 14 (0.29%) HP ALM
15 14 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
16 13 (0.27%) SCOM
16 13 (0.27%) systemd
Vendors
1 969 (20.05%) Microsoft
2 271 (5.61%) Databricks
3 251 (5.19%) Oracle
4 235 (4.86%) Google
5 189 (3.91%) ServiceNow
6 166 (3.44%) Splunk
7 144 (2.98%) Salesforce
8 130 (2.69%) Dynatrace
9 106 (2.19%) VMware
10 102 (2.11%) Red Hat
11 97 (2.01%) SAP
12 63 (1.30%) IBM
13 52 (1.08%) Informatica
14 51 (1.06%) OpenAI
15 43 (0.89%) AppDynamics
16 42 (0.87%) Cisco
16 42 (0.87%) Foundry
17 36 (0.75%) Atlassian
18 34 (0.70%) MuleSoft
19 32 (0.66%) CyberArk