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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,299 2,414 3,370
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.55% 9.98% 9.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.46% 10.93% 10.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,010 1,777 2,338
10th Percentile £385 £398 £400
25th Percentile £447 £458 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £669 £650
90th Percentile £705 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 13 106
10th Percentile £39.53 £38.25 £56.38
25th Percentile £55.50 £51.25 £61.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -0.76%
75th Percentile £78.00 £82.00 £78.44
90th Percentile £95.00 £90.59 £87.23
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £73.23 £65.00
% change year-on-year -7.82% +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 34,498 22,079 31,531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.70% 91.24% 86.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,001 14,439 20,650
10th Percentile £320 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,129 933 2,247
10th Percentile £15.34 £14.44 £12.90
25th Percentile £20.38 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -2.67%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.01 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +47.83% -21.23% +0.29%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 15 May 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 +3 2,197 £550 -4.35% 545
North of England +9 748 £500 -2.44% 282
South East +3 476 £513 - 309
Yorkshire +5 408 £500 -2.44% 73
Midlands +5 394 £488 -2.50% 104
West Midlands +3 306 £500 -4.31% 62
South West +17 287 £525 -4.55% 117
North West +2 282 £500 - 154
East of England +25 128 £525 +3.45% 84
East Midlands -3 85 £466 -0.53% 42
North East +7 70 £453 -13.81% 58
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
1 239 (5.56%) Confluence
2 119 (2.77%) Apache Spark
3 105 (2.44%) SharePoint
4 81 (1.88%) Apache
5 70 (1.63%) SAS
6 62 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
7 38 (0.88%) CMS
8 25 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
9 24 (0.56%) nginx
10 23 (0.54%) IIS
11 21 (0.49%) OpenStack
12 11 (0.26%) Mendix
12 11 (0.26%) WebSphere
13 10 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 10 (0.23%) HCL Notes
14 9 (0.21%) Camunda
14 9 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
15 8 (0.19%) Jupyter
16 7 (0.16%) ArcGIS
16 7 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 66 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
3 44 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
5 22 (0.51%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.093%) CPLEX
6 4 (0.093%) Trello
7 3 (0.070%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.047%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.047%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.023%) InDesign
9 1 (0.023%) Maya
9 1 (0.023%) Weka
Business Applications
1 56 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
4 10 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
5 9 (0.21%) Aladdin
5 9 (0.21%) Maximo
5 9 (0.21%) NEC Housing
6 8 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
7 6 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.093%) Endur
8 4 (0.093%) Magento
8 4 (0.093%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.093%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.070%) Findur
9 3 (0.070%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.070%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 2 (0.047%) SAP MM
10 2 (0.047%) Shopify
10 2 (0.047%) Summit
10 2 (0.047%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 2,302 (53.55%) Azure
2 1,442 (33.54%) AWS
3 1,244 (28.94%) Azure DevOps
4 702 (16.33%) GitHub
5 561 (13.05%) GCP
6 406 (9.44%) GitHub Actions
7 403 (9.37%) Serverless
8 365 (8.49%) Power Platform
9 236 (5.49%) Amazon S3
10 208 (4.84%) Entra ID
11 206 (4.79%) AWS Lambda
12 202 (4.70%) AWS CloudFormation
13 192 (4.47%) Azure Data Factory
14 187 (4.35%) Azure AKS
15 158 (3.68%) Amazon EKS
16 155 (3.61%) OpenShift
17 144 (3.35%) PaaS
18 140 (3.26%) Azure Monitor
19 133 (3.09%) Dynamics 365
20 131 (3.05%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 197 (4.58%) Firewall
2 108 (2.51%) DNS
3 87 (2.02%) Network Security
4 85 (1.98%) VPN
5 41 (0.95%) TCP/IP
6 35 (0.81%) WAN
7 31 (0.72%) SD-WAN
8 25 (0.58%) BGP
9 24 (0.56%) SSL
10 22 (0.51%) HTTP
11 21 (0.49%) DHCP
12 20 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
13 18 (0.42%) IPsec
13 18 (0.42%) OSPF
14 16 (0.37%) MPLS
14 16 (0.37%) SAN
15 14 (0.33%) LAN
15 14 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
16 13 (0.30%) Internet
16 13 (0.30%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 245 (5.70%) Power BI
2 210 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
3 209 (4.86%) SQL Server
4 158 (3.68%) NoSQL
5 151 (3.51%) Data Lake
6 133 (3.09%) Relational Database
7 119 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
8 103 (2.40%) MongoDB
9 89 (2.07%) Azure SQL Database
10 88 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
11 82 (1.91%) Delta Lake
12 73 (1.70%) DynamoDB
13 68 (1.58%) Metadata
14 66 (1.54%) Oracle Database
15 64 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
16 56 (1.30%) Big Data
17 53 (1.23%) Redis
18 48 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
19 47 (1.09%) Tableau
20 46 (1.07%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 620 (14.42%) Jenkins
2 546 (12.70%) Git
3 519 (12.07%) JIRA
4 428 (9.96%) GitLab
5 89 (2.07%) Postman
6 83 (1.93%) Selenium
7 71 (1.65%) SonarQube
8 70 (1.63%) JUnit
9 62 (1.44%) Bitbucket
10 56 (1.30%) Maven
11 52 (1.21%) REST Assured
12 49 (1.14%) Artifactory
13 48 (1.12%) Cucumber
14 42 (0.98%) JMeter
15 38 (0.88%) Cypress.io
15 38 (0.88%) Gatling
16 31 (0.72%) Gradle
17 28 (0.65%) Mockito
18 27 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
19 26 (0.60%) LoadRunner
General
1 1,089 (25.33%) Social Skills
2 816 (18.98%) Finance
3 515 (11.98%) Public Sector
4 367 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
5 291 (6.77%) Banking
6 135 (3.14%) Documentation Skills
7 66 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
8 62 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 55 (1.28%) Retail
10 51 (1.19%) Financial Institution
11 50 (1.16%) Marketing
12 48 (1.12%) Legal
12 48 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
13 42 (0.98%) Front Office
14 40 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
15 37 (0.86%) Investment Banking
16 36 (0.84%) Military
17 27 (0.63%) Telecoms
18 23 (0.54%) Aerospace
19 21 (0.49%) Law
Job Titles
1 849 (19.75%) DevOps Engineer
2 606 (14.10%) Developer
3 600 (13.96%) Senior
4 515 (11.98%) Architect
5 354 (8.23%) Lead
6 296 (6.89%) Azure Engineer
7 282 (6.56%) Data Engineer
8 266 (6.19%) Analyst
9 176 (4.09%) AWS Engineer
10 164 (3.81%) Solutions Architect
11 159 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
12 150 (3.49%) Platform Engineer
13 140 (3.26%) Software Engineer
14 137 (3.19%) Senior DevOps
15 136 (3.16%) Business Analyst
16 134 (3.12%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 127 (2.95%) AWS DevOps
18 126 (2.93%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 114 (2.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
20 111 (2.58%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 379 (8.82%) REST
2 353 (8.21%) .NET
3 264 (6.14%) Kafka
4 240 (5.58%) Spring
5 236 (5.49%) React
6 225 (5.23%) Node.js
6 225 (5.23%) Spring Boot
7 191 (4.44%) RESTful
8 147 (3.42%) AngularJS
9 127 (2.95%) Playwright
10 126 (2.93%) PySpark
10 126 (2.93%) YAML
11 125 (2.91%) JSON
12 110 (2.56%) OAuth
13 103 (2.40%) Middleware
14 99 (2.30%) HTML
14 99 (2.30%) SOAP
15 86 (2.00%) OpenID
16 85 (1.98%) .NET Framework
16 85 (1.98%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 679 (15.79%) Cloud Native
2 266 (6.19%) Product Ownership
3 165 (3.84%) Distributed Systems
4 111 (2.58%) Onboarding
5 93 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
6 85 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
7 83 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
8 81 (1.88%) Public Cloud
9 72 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
10 49 (1.14%) Management Information System
11 46 (1.07%) Data Centre
12 43 (1.00%) Replication
13 39 (0.91%) Private Cloud
13 39 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
13 39 (0.91%) Virtual Team
14 38 (0.88%) AI Agents
14 38 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
15 37 (0.86%) Data Structures
15 37 (0.86%) Mobile App
16 34 (0.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 379 (8.82%) Linux
2 219 (5.09%) Windows
3 67 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 66 (1.54%) Unix
5 39 (0.91%) Windows Server
6 34 (0.79%) VMS
7 21 (0.49%) Ubuntu
8 17 (0.40%) Apple iOS
9 15 (0.35%) Android
10 11 (0.26%) CentOS
11 10 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (0.16%) Windows 10
13 6 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
14 5 (0.12%) Solaris
15 4 (0.093%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.093%) Windows Server 2012
16 3 (0.070%) Mac OS
16 3 (0.070%) Oracle Linux
16 3 (0.070%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,411 (56.08%) CI/CD
2 1,576 (36.66%) Agile
3 1,074 (24.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 702 (16.33%) Containerisation
5 695 (16.17%) Problem-Solving
6 623 (14.49%) Microservices
7 597 (13.89%) Test Automation
8 557 (12.96%) Continuous Improvement
9 523 (12.17%) Migration
10 512 (11.91%) Observability
11 504 (11.72%) Analytics
12 483 (11.24%) Stakeholder Management
13 463 (10.77%) Scrum
14 454 (10.56%) AI
15 421 (9.79%) Software Engineering
16 408 (9.49%) Data Modelling
17 372 (8.65%) Platform Engineering
18 351 (8.16%) Mentoring
19 339 (7.89%) Data Pipeline
20 337 (7.84%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,176 (27.36%) Python
2 876 (20.38%) SQL
3 580 (13.49%) Java
4 404 (9.40%) C#
5 311 (7.23%) JavaScript
5 311 (7.23%) PowerShell
6 304 (7.07%) Bash
7 230 (5.35%) TypeScript
8 142 (3.30%) Bicep
9 95 (2.21%) Go
10 67 (1.56%) Scala
11 53 (1.23%) PL/SQL
12 51 (1.19%) Shell Script
13 42 (0.98%) Groovy
14 41 (0.95%) Apex Code
15 40 (0.93%) T-SQL
16 30 (0.70%) C++
17 25 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 23 (0.54%) Ruby
19 21 (0.49%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,397 (32.50%) Security Cleared
2 1,147 (26.68%) SC Cleared
3 287 (6.68%) Degree
4 190 (4.42%) Azure Certification
5 143 (3.33%) DV Cleared
6 132 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 117 (2.72%) AWS Certification
8 106 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 68 (1.58%) CISSP
10 50 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
11 49 (1.14%) CISM
12 46 (1.07%) ISTQB
12 46 (1.07%) Master's Degree
13 40 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
14 39 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 38 (0.88%) PMI Certification
16 36 (0.84%) PMP
17 24 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
18 21 (0.49%) IIBA
19 20 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 382 (8.89%) QA
2 203 (4.72%) Data Quality
3 163 (3.79%) GDPR
4 121 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 116 (2.70%) NIST
6 101 (2.35%) Accessibility
7 61 (1.42%) NCSC
8 45 (1.05%) WCAG
9 44 (1.02%) PCI DSS
10 32 (0.74%) SLA
11 30 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 29 (0.67%) PMO
13 18 (0.42%) GRC
14 15 (0.35%) ISO 20022
15 14 (0.33%) HIPAA
15 14 (0.33%) PSD2
16 13 (0.30%) NIST 800
17 12 (0.28%) SEPA
18 11 (0.26%) SOC 2
19 8 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 843 (19.61%) Docker
2 162 (3.77%) Active Directory
3 72 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
4 58 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 30 (0.70%) vSphere
6 21 (0.49%) VMware NSX
7 17 (0.40%) Squid
8 16 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.28%) Postfix
10 10 (0.23%) Hyper-V
10 10 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
11 8 (0.19%) Firmware
12 6 (0.14%) Corosync
12 6 (0.14%) HDFS
12 6 (0.14%) RACF
13 5 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
14 4 (0.093%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
14 4 (0.093%) Lustre
14 4 (0.093%) NFS
14 4 (0.093%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1,198 (27.87%) Terraform
2 1,110 (25.82%) Kubernetes
3 435 (10.12%) Ansible
4 285 (6.63%) Grafana
5 236 (5.49%) Prometheus
6 86 (2.00%) Argo
7 65 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
8 62 (1.44%) Puppet
9 49 (1.14%) Istio
10 24 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
10 24 (0.56%) Packer
10 24 (0.56%) Progress Chef
11 22 (0.51%) Kibana
12 20 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 20 (0.47%) vCenter Server
13 17 (0.40%) HP ALM
14 16 (0.37%) Rancher
15 14 (0.33%) FortiGate
16 13 (0.30%) Consul
17 12 (0.28%) SCCM
Vendors
1 756 (17.59%) Microsoft
2 253 (5.89%) Oracle
3 250 (5.82%) Databricks
4 192 (4.47%) Google
5 177 (4.12%) Splunk
6 160 (3.72%) ServiceNow
7 133 (3.09%) Salesforce
8 129 (3.00%) Red Hat
9 103 (2.40%) SAP
10 101 (2.35%) VMware
11 91 (2.12%) Dynatrace
12 59 (1.37%) OpenAI
13 50 (1.16%) CyberArk
14 45 (1.05%) Atlassian
15 41 (0.95%) IBM
16 36 (0.84%) AppDynamics
16 36 (0.84%) Informatica
17 35 (0.81%) Foundry
18 33 (0.77%) Cisco
18 33 (0.77%) Denodo