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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 15 17
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 -5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,227 2,565 3,328
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.07% 10.58% 8.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.86% 11.65% 10.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,959 1,888 2,348
10th Percentile £386 £400 £406
25th Percentile £438 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £650
90th Percentile £717 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.67% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 19 87
10th Percentile £39.53 £36.85 £55.60
25th Percentile £45.46 £57.82 £61.25
Median hourly rate £63.73 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.96% +7.69% -0.76%
75th Percentile £75.00 £80.75 £69.00
90th Percentile £89.95 £84.87 £86.19
UK median hourly rate £63.73 £73.23 £65.00
% change year-on-year -12.97% +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 32,858 22,016 32,689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.08% 90.81% 86.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,074 14,505 21,608
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,007 857 2,166
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.27 £20.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.36
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.63 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +10.94% -1.54% -11.33%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -1 2,136 £550 -4.35% 512
North of England +5 759 £500 -4.76% 306
South East +1 441 £525 -4.55% 307
Midlands +10 419 £494 -0.75% 142
Yorkshire +1 407 £500 -4.76% 86
West Midlands +6 329 £500 - 98
North West +4 297 £488 -7.11% 159
South West +12 286 £500 -13.04% 165
East of England +20 116 £551 +10.65% 92
East Midlands +4 87 £450 -5.26% 44
North East +5 60 £475 -9.52% 63
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
1 268 (6.34%) Confluence
2 110 (2.60%) Apache Spark
3 91 (2.15%) SharePoint
4 88 (2.08%) Apache
4 88 (2.08%) SAS
5 67 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
6 33 (0.78%) CMS
7 30 (0.71%) nginx
8 29 (0.69%) OpenStack
9 23 (0.54%) IIS
10 22 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
11 12 (0.28%) Mendix
12 11 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 11 (0.26%) HCL Notes
12 11 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
13 8 (0.19%) Camunda
13 8 (0.19%) WebLogic
14 7 (0.17%) ArcGIS
14 7 (0.17%) WebSphere
15 6 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 81 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 49 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
4 28 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
5 23 (0.54%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.21%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.14%) Weka
8 5 (0.12%) Trello
9 2 (0.047%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.047%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.047%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.024%) InDesign
10 1 (0.024%) Maya
Business Applications
1 65 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
4 9 (0.21%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.21%) Maximo
4 9 (0.21%) NEC Housing
5 6 (0.14%) Endur
5 6 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
6 5 (0.12%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.095%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.095%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.071%) Findur
8 3 (0.071%) Magento
8 3 (0.071%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.071%) SAP BPC
8 3 (0.071%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.071%) SAP FI/CO
8 3 (0.071%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 2,239 (52.97%) Azure
2 1,432 (33.88%) AWS
3 1,237 (29.26%) Azure DevOps
4 768 (18.17%) GitHub
5 583 (13.79%) GCP
6 454 (10.74%) Serverless
7 413 (9.77%) GitHub Actions
8 347 (8.21%) Power Platform
9 224 (5.30%) Amazon S3
10 220 (5.20%) AWS CloudFormation
11 215 (5.09%) AWS Lambda
12 210 (4.97%) Azure Data Factory
13 206 (4.87%) Entra ID
14 183 (4.33%) OpenShift
15 180 (4.26%) Azure AKS
16 161 (3.81%) Azure Monitor
17 158 (3.74%) Amazon EKS
18 147 (3.48%) Dynamics 365
19 140 (3.31%) PaaS
20 136 (3.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 198 (4.68%) Firewall
2 109 (2.58%) DNS
3 87 (2.06%) Network Security
4 80 (1.89%) VPN
5 40 (0.95%) TCP/IP
6 29 (0.69%) WAN
7 28 (0.66%) SD-WAN
8 23 (0.54%) HTTP
9 22 (0.52%) SSL
10 20 (0.47%) DHCP
11 17 (0.40%) BGP
12 16 (0.38%) IPsec
12 16 (0.38%) MPLS
13 14 (0.33%) SAN
14 12 (0.28%) Reverse Proxy
15 11 (0.26%) 5G
15 11 (0.26%) Internet
15 11 (0.26%) OpenVPN
16 10 (0.24%) Kerberos
16 10 (0.24%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 235 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
2 220 (5.20%) Power BI
3 193 (4.57%) SQL Server
4 170 (4.02%) NoSQL
5 148 (3.50%) Data Lake
6 119 (2.82%) Relational Database
7 107 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
8 93 (2.20%) Azure SQL Database
9 92 (2.18%) MongoDB
10 91 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
11 73 (1.73%) Delta Lake
12 71 (1.68%) Oracle Database
13 69 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
14 68 (1.61%) DynamoDB
15 64 (1.51%) Metadata
16 54 (1.28%) Tableau
17 52 (1.23%) Big Data
17 52 (1.23%) Redis
18 45 (1.06%) BigQuery
19 44 (1.04%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 680 (16.09%) Jenkins
2 562 (13.30%) JIRA
3 557 (13.18%) Git
4 463 (10.95%) GitLab
5 110 (2.60%) Selenium
6 94 (2.22%) JUnit
7 81 (1.92%) Postman
8 69 (1.63%) Bitbucket
9 64 (1.51%) SonarQube
10 54 (1.28%) Cucumber
11 50 (1.18%) Artifactory
12 49 (1.16%) Maven
13 46 (1.09%) REST Assured
14 41 (0.97%) Cypress.io
15 36 (0.85%) JMeter
16 33 (0.78%) Oracle APEX
16 33 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
17 31 (0.73%) Mockito
18 29 (0.69%) Liquibase
19 27 (0.64%) MLflow
General
1 1,203 (28.46%) Social Skills
2 806 (19.07%) Finance
3 521 (12.33%) Public Sector
4 371 (8.78%) Analytical Skills
5 331 (7.83%) Banking
6 151 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
7 69 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
8 62 (1.47%) Financial Institution
9 58 (1.37%) Retail
10 56 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 54 (1.28%) Marketing
12 50 (1.18%) Front Office
13 49 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
14 47 (1.11%) Investment Banking
15 42 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
16 37 (0.88%) Legal
16 37 (0.88%) Telecoms
17 26 (0.62%) Military
18 22 (0.52%) Law
19 20 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 745 (17.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 645 (15.26%) Developer
3 585 (13.84%) Senior
4 475 (11.24%) Architect
5 360 (8.52%) Lead
6 272 (6.43%) Azure Engineer
7 265 (6.27%) Data Engineer
8 237 (5.61%) Analyst
9 197 (4.66%) AWS Engineer
10 161 (3.81%) Cloud Engineer
11 155 (3.67%) Platform Engineer
12 149 (3.52%) AWS DevOps
13 144 (3.41%) Software Engineer
14 142 (3.36%) Solutions Architect
15 128 (3.03%) Senior Developer
16 126 (2.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 123 (2.91%) Business Analyst
18 119 (2.82%) Senior DevOps
19 116 (2.74%) Azure DevOps Engineer
20 111 (2.63%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 455 (10.76%) REST
2 342 (8.09%) .NET
3 256 (6.06%) Node.js
4 255 (6.03%) Kafka
5 247 (5.84%) React
6 229 (5.42%) Spring
7 213 (5.04%) Spring Boot
8 202 (4.78%) RESTful
9 155 (3.67%) AngularJS
10 143 (3.38%) JSON
11 140 (3.31%) YAML
12 119 (2.82%) Playwright
13 117 (2.77%) OAuth
13 117 (2.77%) PySpark
14 114 (2.70%) HTML
15 111 (2.63%) SOAP
16 110 (2.60%) Middleware
17 105 (2.48%) Elastic Stack
18 97 (2.29%) XML
19 94 (2.22%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 610 (14.43%) Cloud Native
2 253 (5.99%) Product Ownership
3 162 (3.83%) Distributed Systems
4 109 (2.58%) Onboarding
5 106 (2.51%) Public Cloud
6 88 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
6 88 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
7 80 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
8 61 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
9 54 (1.28%) Management Information System
9 54 (1.28%) Virtual Team
10 41 (0.97%) Security Posture
11 40 (0.95%) Private Cloud
12 39 (0.92%) Data Structures
12 39 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
13 37 (0.88%) Data Centre
14 36 (0.85%) AI Agents
15 33 (0.78%) NHS
16 31 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
16 31 (0.73%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 418 (9.89%) Linux
2 227 (5.37%) Windows
3 76 (1.80%) Unix
4 61 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 42 (0.99%) VMS
6 39 (0.92%) Windows Server
7 23 (0.54%) Ubuntu
8 14 (0.33%) CentOS
9 9 (0.21%) Windows 10
10 7 (0.17%) Android
10 7 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
11 6 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.12%) Apple iOS
13 4 (0.095%) Solaris
13 4 (0.095%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.071%) Debian
14 3 (0.071%) Oracle Linux
14 3 (0.071%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.071%) zOS
15 2 (0.047%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,370 (56.07%) CI/CD
2 1,630 (38.56%) Agile
3 1,046 (24.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 770 (18.22%) Problem-Solving
5 741 (17.53%) Containerisation
6 627 (14.83%) Test Automation
7 626 (14.81%) Microservices
8 543 (12.85%) Continuous Improvement
9 531 (12.56%) Analytics
10 499 (11.81%) Migration
11 473 (11.19%) Scrum
11 473 (11.19%) Stakeholder Management
12 468 (11.07%) Observability
13 458 (10.84%) AI
14 391 (9.25%) Software Engineering
15 385 (9.11%) Data Modelling
16 352 (8.33%) Mentoring
17 337 (7.97%) Data Pipeline
18 320 (7.57%) Platform Engineering
19 306 (7.24%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1,263 (29.88%) Python
2 905 (21.41%) SQL
3 546 (12.92%) Java
4 417 (9.87%) C#
5 363 (8.59%) JavaScript
6 333 (7.88%) PowerShell
7 306 (7.24%) Bash
8 257 (6.08%) TypeScript
9 140 (3.31%) Bicep
10 116 (2.74%) Go
11 81 (1.92%) PL/SQL
12 64 (1.51%) Scala
13 47 (1.11%) Shell Script
14 44 (1.04%) T-SQL
15 40 (0.95%) Groovy
16 36 (0.85%) C++
17 31 (0.73%) Ruby
18 30 (0.71%) Apex Code
19 23 (0.54%) Rust
20 21 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1,367 (32.34%) Security Cleared
2 1,109 (26.24%) SC Cleared
3 322 (7.62%) Degree
4 188 (4.45%) Azure Certification
5 164 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 148 (3.50%) DV Cleared
7 115 (2.72%) AWS Certification
8 97 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
9 79 (1.87%) CISSP
10 66 (1.56%) Master's Degree
11 58 (1.37%) CISM
12 49 (1.16%) ISTQB
12 49 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
13 45 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 40 (0.95%) PMI Certification
15 35 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
15 35 (0.83%) PMP
16 22 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 21 (0.50%) IIBA
18 20 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 379 (8.97%) QA
2 187 (4.42%) Data Quality
3 170 (4.02%) GDPR
4 141 (3.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 123 (2.91%) NIST
6 85 (2.01%) Accessibility
7 72 (1.70%) NCSC
8 37 (0.88%) PCI DSS
9 36 (0.85%) WCAG
10 29 (0.69%) PMO
10 29 (0.69%) SLA
11 27 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 17 (0.40%) HIPAA
13 15 (0.35%) ISO 20022
14 14 (0.33%) NIST 800
15 13 (0.31%) PSD2
15 13 (0.31%) SOC 2
16 12 (0.28%) GRC
17 11 (0.26%) SEPA
18 9 (0.21%) HL7
System Software
1 925 (21.88%) Docker
2 169 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 70 (1.66%) Virtual Machines
3 70 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (1.09%) vSphere
5 32 (0.76%) VMware NSX
6 15 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (0.28%) Hyper-V
8 11 (0.26%) Squid
9 9 (0.21%) Lustre
9 9 (0.21%) Postfix
9 9 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 8 (0.19%) Firmware
10 8 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
11 7 (0.17%) GPFS
12 6 (0.14%) HDFS
13 5 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
13 5 (0.12%) RACF
14 4 (0.095%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
14 4 (0.095%) KVM
Systems Management
1 1,209 (28.60%) Terraform
2 1,156 (27.35%) Kubernetes
3 451 (10.67%) Ansible
4 283 (6.70%) Grafana
5 236 (5.58%) Prometheus
6 92 (2.18%) Argo
7 67 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
8 66 (1.56%) Puppet
9 49 (1.16%) Istio
10 29 (0.69%) Packer
10 29 (0.69%) vCenter Server
11 27 (0.64%) Progress Chef
12 23 (0.54%) Kibana
13 21 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 19 (0.45%) Rancher
15 18 (0.43%) FortiGate
16 16 (0.38%) Consul
16 16 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
16 16 (0.38%) Podman
17 15 (0.35%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 737 (17.44%) Microsoft
2 297 (7.03%) Oracle
3 257 (6.08%) Databricks
4 214 (5.06%) Google
5 188 (4.45%) Splunk
6 148 (3.50%) ServiceNow
7 138 (3.26%) Red Hat
8 121 (2.86%) VMware
9 113 (2.67%) Salesforce
10 94 (2.22%) SAP
11 72 (1.70%) OpenAI
12 67 (1.59%) Atlassian
13 66 (1.56%) Dynatrace
14 60 (1.42%) CyberArk
15 42 (0.99%) Talend
16 40 (0.95%) IBM
17 37 (0.88%) Denodo
18 33 (0.78%) Cisco
18 33 (0.78%) Foundry
19 30 (0.71%) Pure Storage