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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,835 2,878 3,369
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.65% 10.42% 10.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.50% 11.49% 11.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,328 2,094 2,300
10th Percentile £385 £360 £400
25th Percentile £438 £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 113 21 83
10th Percentile £35.45 £35.00 £57.25
25th Percentile £55.50 £51.25 £63.30
Median hourly rate £67.00 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -4.29% +6.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 £82.00 £74.72
90th Percentile £88.00 £92.50 £85.57
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 38,695 25,047 28,792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.19% 90.72% 85.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,133 16,039 18,801
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
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 £758
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,478 1,391 1,685
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £20.69 £17.87 £18.16
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.90% -4.71%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 +1 2,496 £550 - 1,386
North of England +1 836 £500 +5.26% 427
South East -10 469 £525 +5.00% 376
Midlands +1 468 £490 +3.16% 219
Yorkshire +2 414 £500 +2.04% 129
West Midlands -1 384 £492 -1.60% 152
North West -2 334 £524 +12.69% 227
South West +14 321 £525 +0.96% 189
East of England +19 141 £505 +1.00% 82
North East +13 105 £425 -18.27% 73
East Midlands +3 79 £488 +7.26% 66
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
1 296 (6.12%) Confluence
2 124 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 120 (2.48%) Apache Spark
4 115 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
5 98 (2.03%) Apache
6 76 (1.57%) SAS
7 42 (0.87%) CMS
8 31 (0.64%) IIS
8 31 (0.64%) 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 10 (0.21%) OpenStack
16 9 (0.19%) Anypoint
16 9 (0.19%) Appian
17 7 (0.14%) Tomcat
17 7 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 60 (1.24%) Microsoft Project
2 53 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 35 (0.72%) MS Visio
4 29 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
5 25 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.21%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.21%) CPLEX
7 9 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.14%) Trello
9 5 (0.10%) Notion
10 2 (0.041%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.021%) Gliffy
11 1 (0.021%) InDesign
11 1 (0.021%) Maya
11 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 61 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.21%) Aladdin
3 10 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
4 9 (0.19%) Magento
5 8 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
5 8 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
6 7 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 6 (0.12%) Maximo
8 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
8 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
8 5 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.083%) Endur
9 4 (0.083%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.083%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.062%) Findur
10 3 (0.062%) SAP BPC
10 3 (0.062%) Teamcenter
10 3 (0.062%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2,596 (53.69%) Azure
2 1,661 (34.35%) AWS
3 1,503 (31.09%) Azure DevOps
4 792 (16.38%) GitHub
5 593 (12.26%) GCP
6 496 (10.26%) GitHub Actions
7 412 (8.52%) Power Platform
8 379 (7.84%) Serverless
9 249 (5.15%) Amazon S3
10 237 (4.90%) Entra ID
11 220 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
12 196 (4.05%) Azure AKS
13 180 (3.72%) AWS CloudFormation
14 178 (3.68%) Amazon EKS
15 175 (3.62%) Azure Data Factory
16 174 (3.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 167 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
18 150 (3.10%) Amazon EC2
19 149 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
20 144 (2.98%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 228 (4.72%) Firewall
2 140 (2.90%) DNS
3 112 (2.32%) VPN
4 103 (2.13%) Network Security
5 59 (1.22%) TCP/IP
6 49 (1.01%) WAN
7 39 (0.81%) SSL
8 36 (0.74%) SD-WAN
9 35 (0.72%) DHCP
10 32 (0.66%) Internet
11 31 (0.64%) BGP
12 28 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
13 25 (0.52%) OSPF
14 23 (0.48%) HTTP
15 19 (0.39%) VLAN
16 18 (0.37%) SAN
16 18 (0.37%) VXLAN
17 17 (0.35%) MPLS
17 17 (0.35%) SSH
18 16 (0.33%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 290 (6.00%) Power BI
2 254 (5.25%) SQL Server
3 231 (4.78%) PostgreSQL
4 174 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
5 169 (3.50%) NoSQL
6 153 (3.16%) Relational Database
7 145 (3.00%) Data Lake
8 142 (2.94%) MongoDB
9 97 (2.01%) Metadata
10 96 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
11 92 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
12 84 (1.74%) Delta Lake
13 82 (1.70%) DynamoDB
14 75 (1.55%) Oracle Database
15 60 (1.24%) Redis
16 57 (1.18%) Big Data
17 56 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
18 52 (1.08%) MySQL
19 47 (0.97%) BigQuery
20 46 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 668 (13.82%) Jenkins
2 645 (13.34%) Git
3 579 (11.98%) JIRA
4 490 (10.13%) GitLab
5 106 (2.19%) Selenium
6 90 (1.86%) SonarQube
7 82 (1.70%) Postman
8 78 (1.61%) JUnit
9 74 (1.53%) Bitbucket
10 72 (1.49%) Maven
11 56 (1.16%) REST Assured
12 53 (1.10%) Cypress.io
12 53 (1.10%) JMeter
13 50 (1.03%) Cucumber
14 46 (0.95%) Gatling
15 41 (0.85%) Gradle
16 40 (0.83%) LoadRunner
16 40 (0.83%) Mockito
17 34 (0.70%) Artifactory
18 33 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,228 (25.40%) Social Skills
2 901 (18.63%) Finance
3 669 (13.84%) Public Sector
4 457 (9.45%) Analytical Skills
5 336 (6.95%) Banking
6 124 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 100 (2.07%) Retail
8 92 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
9 68 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
10 57 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
11 56 (1.16%) Legal
12 55 (1.14%) Marketing
13 46 (0.95%) Investment Banking
14 42 (0.87%) Aerospace
14 42 (0.87%) Military
15 40 (0.83%) Financial Institution
16 39 (0.81%) Law
17 38 (0.79%) Front Office
17 38 (0.79%) Telecoms
18 36 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 891 (18.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 779 (16.11%) Developer
3 705 (14.58%) Senior
4 553 (11.44%) Architect
5 487 (10.07%) Lead
6 292 (6.04%) Azure Engineer
7 291 (6.02%) Data Engineer
8 249 (5.15%) Analyst
9 208 (4.30%) AWS Engineer
10 194 (4.01%) Platform Engineer
11 180 (3.72%) Cloud Engineer
12 172 (3.56%) Solutions Architect
13 171 (3.54%) Senior DevOps
14 157 (3.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 151 (3.12%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 149 (3.08%) Java Developer
17 145 (3.00%) AWS DevOps
18 136 (2.81%) Software Engineer
19 132 (2.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
20 129 (2.67%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 483 (9.99%) REST
2 422 (8.73%) .NET
3 286 (5.92%) Kafka
4 262 (5.42%) RESTful
5 242 (5.01%) React
6 241 (4.98%) Spring
7 221 (4.57%) Spring Boot
8 180 (3.72%) Node.js
9 147 (3.04%) JSON
10 145 (3.00%) PySpark
11 137 (2.83%) OAuth
12 135 (2.79%) Playwright
13 133 (2.75%) AngularJS
14 128 (2.65%) .NET Framework
14 128 (2.65%) SOAP
15 110 (2.28%) HTML
16 101 (2.09%) YAML
17 95 (1.96%) CSS
18 94 (1.94%) OAuth2
19 88 (1.82%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 865 (17.89%) Cloud Native
2 343 (7.09%) Product Ownership
3 229 (4.74%) Distributed Systems
4 145 (3.00%) Onboarding
5 138 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
6 137 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
7 125 (2.59%) Hybrid Cloud
8 79 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
9 71 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
10 69 (1.43%) Management Information System
11 67 (1.39%) Public Cloud
12 65 (1.34%) Data Structures
12 65 (1.34%) Security Posture
13 63 (1.30%) AI Agents
14 60 (1.24%) Data Centre
15 53 (1.10%) Replication
16 52 (1.08%) Mobile App
17 47 (0.97%) Virtual Team
18 39 (0.81%) PKI
19 38 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 427 (8.83%) Linux
2 266 (5.50%) Windows
3 96 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 72 (1.49%) Unix
5 70 (1.45%) Windows Server
6 28 (0.58%) Ubuntu
7 27 (0.56%) Apple iOS
8 24 (0.50%) VMS
9 18 (0.37%) Android
10 9 (0.19%) Solaris
10 9 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.17%) AIX
12 7 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
12 7 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 7 (0.14%) zOS
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 2,779 (57.48%) CI/CD
2 1,938 (40.08%) Agile
3 1,293 (26.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 778 (16.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 772 (15.97%) Containerisation
6 768 (15.88%) Problem-Solving
7 732 (15.14%) Test Automation
8 696 (14.40%) AI
9 693 (14.33%) Microservices
9 693 (14.33%) Stakeholder Management
10 615 (12.72%) Observability
11 612 (12.66%) Scrum
12 589 (12.18%) Software Engineering
13 574 (11.87%) Migration
14 571 (11.81%) Platform Engineering
15 555 (11.48%) Analytics
16 457 (9.45%) Technical Leadership
17 452 (9.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 439 (9.08%) Data Modelling
19 418 (8.65%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,368 (28.29%) Python
2 911 (18.84%) SQL
3 675 (13.96%) Java
4 439 (9.08%) C#
5 396 (8.19%) PowerShell
6 395 (8.17%) Bash
7 377 (7.80%) JavaScript
8 264 (5.46%) TypeScript
9 194 (4.01%) Bicep
10 84 (1.74%) Go
11 58 (1.20%) T-SQL
12 57 (1.18%) Shell Script
13 56 (1.16%) PL/SQL
14 53 (1.10%) Apex Code
15 52 (1.08%) Scala
16 49 (1.01%) Groovy
17 32 (0.66%) C++
18 27 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 25 (0.52%) C
19 25 (0.52%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,545 (31.95%) Security Cleared
2 1,294 (26.76%) SC Cleared
3 305 (6.31%) Degree
4 200 (4.14%) Azure Certification
5 182 (3.76%) DV Cleared
6 164 (3.39%) AWS Certification
7 132 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
8 115 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
9 81 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
10 75 (1.55%) CISSP
11 52 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
12 46 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 46 (0.95%) ISTQB
13 40 (0.83%) PMP
14 35 (0.72%) PMI Certification
15 32 (0.66%) Master's Degree
16 30 (0.62%) CISM
17 24 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 23 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
19 22 (0.46%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 452 (9.35%) QA
2 246 (5.09%) Data Quality
3 156 (3.23%) Accessibility
4 134 (2.77%) GDPR
5 83 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 75 (1.55%) WCAG
7 74 (1.53%) NIST
8 47 (0.97%) NCSC
9 42 (0.87%) PMO
10 37 (0.77%) PCI DSS
11 28 (0.58%) SLA
12 26 (0.54%) GRC
13 23 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 10 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
14 10 (0.21%) HIPAA
15 9 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
15 9 (0.19%) ISO 20022
16 8 (0.17%) PSD2
17 7 (0.14%) SEPA
17 7 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 941 (19.46%) Docker
2 170 (3.52%) Active Directory
3 74 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
4 67 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (0.43%) Hyper-V
5 21 (0.43%) vSphere
6 17 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (0.35%) VMware NSX
7 14 (0.29%) Postfix
7 14 (0.29%) Squid
8 13 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
10 8 (0.17%) IAG
10 8 (0.17%) KVM
11 6 (0.12%) Corosync
12 5 (0.10%) Firmware
12 5 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
12 5 (0.10%) NFS
12 5 (0.10%) SRDF
13 4 (0.083%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,360 (28.13%) Terraform
2 1,208 (24.98%) Kubernetes
3 471 (9.74%) Ansible
4 311 (6.43%) Grafana
5 261 (5.40%) Prometheus
6 76 (1.57%) Argo
7 57 (1.18%) Puppet
8 55 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
9 41 (0.85%) Progress Chef
10 34 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
11 30 (0.62%) Packer
12 29 (0.60%) Istio
13 19 (0.39%) vCenter Server
14 17 (0.35%) SCCM
15 15 (0.31%) Kibana
15 15 (0.31%) Kustomize
16 14 (0.29%) Kubeflow
16 14 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
17 12 (0.25%) HAProxy
18 11 (0.23%) systemd
Vendors
1 906 (18.74%) Microsoft
2 252 (5.21%) Oracle
3 246 (5.09%) Databricks
4 226 (4.67%) Google
5 188 (3.89%) ServiceNow
6 157 (3.25%) Splunk
7 152 (3.14%) Salesforce
8 127 (2.63%) Dynatrace
9 109 (2.25%) SAP
10 100 (2.07%) Red Hat
11 95 (1.96%) VMware
12 59 (1.22%) IBM
13 51 (1.05%) Atlassian
14 49 (1.01%) Informatica
15 45 (0.93%) OpenAI
16 44 (0.91%) Cisco
17 41 (0.85%) AppDynamics
18 35 (0.72%) Denodo
18 35 (0.72%) Foundry
19 32 (0.66%) MuleSoft