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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,850 2,934 3,325
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.61% 10.55% 10.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.48% 11.62% 11.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,330 2,117 2,288
10th Percentile £385 £360 £400
25th Percentile £438 £425 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.78%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 23 78
10th Percentile £36.34 £36.50 £56.18
25th Percentile £55.00 £52.13 £61.34
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.75% -4.29% +6.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 £85.86 £74.33
90th Percentile £89.80 £95.00 £85.08
UK median hourly rate £67.86 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +1.28% -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 38,847 25,245 28,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.01% 90.81% 85.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,107 16,076 18,544
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.40% -4.53%
75th Percentile £626 £627 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,555 1,444 1,611
10th Percentile £14.28 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.87 £18.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.83%
75th Percentile £68.55 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.97
% change year-on-year +67.00% -38.61% -1.28%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 17 August 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 2,531 £550 - 432
North of England 0 824 £500 +4.17% 253
South East -7 478 £525 +5.00% 289
Midlands 0 458 £488 -2.50% 123
Yorkshire 0 409 £500 +1.46% 67
West Midlands -1 376 £490 -4.85% 77
North West -1 321 £525 +11.11% 130
South West +7 316 £525 +0.96% 131
East of England +15 138 £505 +1.00% 51
North East +15 111 £425 -19.05% 58
East Midlands -1 78 £488 +6.85% 45
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
1 285 (5.88%) Confluence
2 127 (2.62%) SharePoint
3 119 (2.45%) Apache Spark
4 117 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
5 101 (2.08%) Apache
6 76 (1.57%) SAS
7 40 (0.82%) CMS
8 34 (0.70%) Jupyter
9 32 (0.66%) IIS
10 23 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
11 19 (0.39%) nginx
12 13 (0.27%) Camunda
13 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
13 11 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
13 11 (0.23%) WebSphere
14 10 (0.21%) OpenStack
15 9 (0.19%) Anypoint
15 9 (0.19%) Appian
16 6 (0.12%) Mattermost
16 6 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 61 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
2 57 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 37 (0.76%) MS Visio
4 30 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
5 28 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.21%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.19%) CPLEX
8 8 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
9 7 (0.14%) Trello
10 5 (0.10%) Notion
11 3 (0.062%) Windchill
12 1 (0.021%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
12 1 (0.021%) Gliffy
12 1 (0.021%) InDesign
12 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 61 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.23%) Aladdin
3 11 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
4 9 (0.19%) Magento
4 9 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
5 8 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
5 8 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 5 (0.10%) Maximo
7 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
7 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
8 4 (0.082%) Endur
8 4 (0.082%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.082%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.082%) 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 2,628 (54.19%) Azure
2 1,674 (34.52%) AWS
3 1,525 (31.44%) Azure DevOps
4 810 (16.70%) GitHub
5 599 (12.35%) GCP
6 508 (10.47%) GitHub Actions
7 420 (8.66%) Power Platform
8 380 (7.84%) Serverless
9 242 (4.99%) Entra ID
10 236 (4.87%) Amazon S3
11 219 (4.52%) AWS Lambda
12 189 (3.90%) Azure AKS
13 183 (3.77%) Azure Data Factory
14 181 (3.73%) AWS CloudFormation
15 177 (3.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 177 (3.65%) Amazon EKS
16 169 (3.48%) Azure Monitor
17 152 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
18 151 (3.11%) Power Automate
19 146 (3.01%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 234 (4.82%) Firewall
2 141 (2.91%) DNS
3 115 (2.37%) VPN
4 103 (2.12%) Network Security
5 60 (1.24%) TCP/IP
6 51 (1.05%) WAN
7 42 (0.87%) SSL
8 37 (0.76%) DHCP
8 37 (0.76%) SD-WAN
9 32 (0.66%) Internet
10 31 (0.64%) BGP
11 29 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
12 25 (0.52%) HTTP
12 25 (0.52%) OSPF
13 21 (0.43%) VLAN
14 20 (0.41%) SAN
15 18 (0.37%) VXLAN
16 17 (0.35%) LAN
16 17 (0.35%) MPLS
16 17 (0.35%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 292 (6.02%) Power BI
2 254 (5.24%) SQL Server
3 237 (4.89%) PostgreSQL
4 175 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
5 169 (3.48%) NoSQL
6 156 (3.22%) Relational Database
7 144 (2.97%) Data Lake
8 137 (2.82%) MongoDB
9 103 (2.12%) Metadata
10 101 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
11 94 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
12 82 (1.69%) Delta Lake
13 76 (1.57%) DynamoDB
14 74 (1.53%) Oracle Database
15 60 (1.24%) Redis
16 58 (1.20%) Big Data
17 55 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
18 52 (1.07%) MySQL
19 51 (1.05%) BigQuery
20 47 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 676 (13.94%) Jenkins
2 654 (13.48%) Git
3 574 (11.84%) JIRA
4 511 (10.54%) GitLab
5 108 (2.23%) Selenium
6 87 (1.79%) SonarQube
7 80 (1.65%) Postman
8 77 (1.59%) JUnit
9 73 (1.51%) Bitbucket
9 73 (1.51%) Maven
10 54 (1.11%) Cypress.io
10 54 (1.11%) JMeter
11 52 (1.07%) REST Assured
12 49 (1.01%) Cucumber
13 47 (0.97%) Gatling
14 45 (0.93%) Gradle
15 40 (0.82%) LoadRunner
16 37 (0.76%) Mockito
17 34 (0.70%) Artifactory
17 34 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,253 (25.84%) Social Skills
2 914 (18.85%) Finance
3 663 (13.67%) Public Sector
4 458 (9.44%) Analytical Skills
5 337 (6.95%) Banking
6 135 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 101 (2.08%) Retail
8 89 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
9 66 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
10 58 (1.20%) Legal
11 56 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
12 53 (1.09%) Marketing
13 49 (1.01%) Investment Banking
14 46 (0.95%) Aerospace
15 42 (0.87%) Military
16 41 (0.85%) Front Office
17 40 (0.82%) Financial Institution
17 40 (0.82%) Law
18 39 (0.80%) Telecoms
19 35 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 881 (18.16%) DevOps Engineer
2 773 (15.94%) Developer
3 721 (14.87%) Senior
4 544 (11.22%) Architect
5 487 (10.04%) Lead
6 294 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
7 291 (6.00%) Data Engineer
8 245 (5.05%) Analyst
9 204 (4.21%) AWS Engineer
10 194 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
11 179 (3.69%) Cloud Engineer
12 171 (3.53%) Senior DevOps
13 163 (3.36%) Solutions Architect
14 156 (3.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 150 (3.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 144 (2.97%) AWS DevOps
17 143 (2.95%) Java Developer
18 138 (2.85%) Software Engineer
19 135 (2.78%) Senior Developer
20 131 (2.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 493 (10.16%) REST
2 423 (8.72%) .NET
3 304 (6.27%) Kafka
4 261 (5.38%) RESTful
5 241 (4.97%) React
6 236 (4.87%) Spring
7 218 (4.49%) Spring Boot
8 172 (3.55%) Node.js
9 156 (3.22%) JSON
10 143 (2.95%) PySpark
11 138 (2.85%) OAuth
12 132 (2.72%) Playwright
13 127 (2.62%) .NET Framework
14 126 (2.60%) AngularJS
15 121 (2.49%) SOAP
16 112 (2.31%) HTML
17 105 (2.16%) YAML
18 97 (2.00%) OAuth2
19 96 (1.98%) CSS
20 85 (1.75%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 879 (18.12%) Cloud Native
2 341 (7.03%) Product Ownership
3 227 (4.68%) Distributed Systems
4 154 (3.18%) Onboarding
5 150 (3.09%) Enterprise Software
6 137 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
7 134 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
8 81 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
9 73 (1.51%) AI Agents
10 69 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
11 68 (1.40%) Management Information System
12 67 (1.38%) Security Posture
13 63 (1.30%) Data Structures
14 61 (1.26%) Public Cloud
15 58 (1.20%) Data Centre
16 54 (1.11%) Replication
17 51 (1.05%) Mobile App
18 48 (0.99%) Virtual Team
19 43 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
20 38 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 449 (9.26%) Linux
2 277 (5.71%) Windows
3 104 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 86 (1.77%) Unix
5 75 (1.55%) Windows Server
6 29 (0.60%) Apple iOS
6 29 (0.60%) Ubuntu
7 25 (0.52%) VMS
8 18 (0.37%) Android
9 8 (0.16%) AIX
9 8 (0.16%) CentOS
9 8 (0.16%) Solaris
9 8 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (0.16%) zOS
10 7 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
11 6 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (0.082%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (0.082%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,801 (57.75%) CI/CD
2 1,963 (40.47%) Agile
3 1,318 (27.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 799 (16.47%) Continuous Improvement
5 771 (15.90%) Containerisation
6 770 (15.88%) Problem-Solving
7 750 (15.46%) Test Automation
8 734 (15.13%) Stakeholder Management
9 704 (14.52%) AI
10 690 (14.23%) Microservices
11 621 (12.80%) Observability
12 597 (12.31%) Software Engineering
13 595 (12.27%) Scrum
14 587 (12.10%) Platform Engineering
15 580 (11.96%) Migration
16 552 (11.38%) Analytics
17 485 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
18 457 (9.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 434 (8.95%) Data Modelling
20 420 (8.66%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,392 (28.70%) Python
2 916 (18.89%) SQL
3 686 (14.14%) Java
4 438 (9.03%) C#
5 428 (8.82%) PowerShell
6 407 (8.39%) Bash
7 384 (7.92%) JavaScript
8 263 (5.42%) TypeScript
9 198 (4.08%) Bicep
10 78 (1.61%) Go
11 59 (1.22%) Shell Script
12 58 (1.20%) T-SQL
13 55 (1.13%) PL/SQL
14 54 (1.11%) Scala
15 52 (1.07%) Groovy
16 50 (1.03%) Apex Code
17 30 (0.62%) C++
18 29 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 27 (0.56%) Perl
20 21 (0.43%) C
Qualifications
1 1,554 (32.04%) Security Cleared
2 1,306 (26.93%) SC Cleared
3 303 (6.25%) Degree
4 198 (4.08%) Azure Certification
5 184 (3.79%) DV Cleared
6 158 (3.26%) AWS Certification
7 135 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 109 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
9 85 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
10 73 (1.51%) CISSP
11 50 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
12 49 (1.01%) ISTQB
13 43 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 40 (0.82%) PMP
15 35 (0.72%) PMI Certification
16 32 (0.66%) Master's Degree
17 31 (0.64%) CISM
18 24 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
19 23 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
20 22 (0.45%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 462 (9.53%) QA
2 248 (5.11%) Data Quality
3 158 (3.26%) Accessibility
4 132 (2.72%) GDPR
5 91 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 77 (1.59%) NIST
7 74 (1.53%) WCAG
8 48 (0.99%) NCSC
9 44 (0.91%) PMO
10 38 (0.78%) PCI DSS
11 32 (0.66%) SLA
12 29 (0.60%) GRC
13 26 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 11 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
14 11 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
14 11 (0.23%) HIPAA
15 9 (0.19%) ISO 20022
16 8 (0.16%) SEPA
17 7 (0.14%) HL7
17 7 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 937 (19.32%) Docker
2 170 (3.51%) Active Directory
3 70 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
3 70 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.47%) Hyper-V
5 19 (0.39%) vSphere
6 16 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 16 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.29%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.25%) Squid
9 11 (0.23%) Postfix
10 10 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
11 9 (0.19%) IAG
12 8 (0.16%) KVM
13 6 (0.12%) Corosync
13 6 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
14 5 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 5 (0.10%) Firmware
14 5 (0.10%) NFS
14 5 (0.10%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 1,372 (28.29%) Terraform
2 1,233 (25.42%) Kubernetes
3 475 (9.79%) Ansible
4 307 (6.33%) Grafana
5 262 (5.40%) Prometheus
6 74 (1.53%) Argo
7 60 (1.24%) Puppet
8 54 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
9 46 (0.95%) Progress Chef
10 38 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
11 32 (0.66%) Packer
12 29 (0.60%) Istio
13 18 (0.37%) Kustomize
13 18 (0.37%) SCCM
14 17 (0.35%) Kibana
15 16 (0.33%) Kubeflow
15 16 (0.33%) vCenter Server
16 13 (0.27%) HP ALM
16 13 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
17 12 (0.25%) Control-M
Vendors
1 940 (19.38%) Microsoft
2 254 (5.24%) Oracle
3 248 (5.11%) Databricks
4 231 (4.76%) Google
5 195 (4.02%) ServiceNow
6 157 (3.24%) Splunk
7 146 (3.01%) Salesforce
8 128 (2.64%) Dynatrace
9 106 (2.19%) SAP
10 100 (2.06%) Red Hat
11 98 (2.02%) VMware
12 59 (1.22%) IBM
13 51 (1.05%) Informatica
14 47 (0.97%) Atlassian
15 46 (0.95%) Cisco
16 41 (0.85%) AppDynamics
16 41 (0.85%) OpenAI
17 37 (0.76%) Foundry
18 36 (0.74%) Denodo
19 34 (0.70%) MuleSoft