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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 14 13
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,793 3,045 3,264
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.29% 10.94% 10.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.15% 12.04% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,295 2,163 2,185
10th Percentile £381 £363 £400
25th Percentile £440 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £555
Median % change year-on-year - -5.41% -4.31%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £709 £720 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 20 63
10th Percentile £37.35 £41.75 £55.50
25th Percentile £56.63 £58.25 £65.00
Median hourly rate £68.75 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% -4.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £79.00 £90.31 £74.22
90th Percentile £93.63 £96.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +4.48% -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 39,443 25,283 28,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.68% 90.86% 86.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,053 16,051 17,283
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,529 1,252
10th Percentile £13.99 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.72 £17.87 £20.09
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.39%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.12 £66.61
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 2,538 £550 - 2,304
North of England -2 783 £500 +5.26% 716
South East -12 449 £535 +7.00% 556
Midlands -6 431 £488 -2.50% 289
Yorkshire -2 387 £500 +3.09% 212
West Midlands -8 345 £500 -3.94% 180
South West +5 322 £550 +4.76% 301
North West -2 302 £528 +16.45% 402
East of England +4 155 £505 -3.35% 207
North East +8 109 £450 -18.18% 106
East Midlands -6 83 £464 +3.06% 109
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
1 288 (6.01%) Confluence
2 145 (3.03%) SharePoint
3 122 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
4 115 (2.40%) Apache Spark
5 99 (2.07%) Apache
6 56 (1.17%) SAS
7 42 (0.88%) CMS
8 38 (0.79%) Jupyter
9 24 (0.50%) nginx
10 20 (0.42%) IIS
11 19 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
12 14 (0.29%) Camunda
13 13 (0.27%) OpenStack
14 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
15 9 (0.19%) Anypoint
15 9 (0.19%) Appian
15 9 (0.19%) WebSphere
16 8 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
16 8 (0.17%) WebLogic
17 7 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 62 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (1.00%) MS Visio
3 47 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
4 33 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 28 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
6 13 (0.27%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.17%) CPLEX
7 8 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.15%) Windchill
9 5 (0.10%) Notion
9 5 (0.10%) Trello
10 2 (0.042%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.042%) Gliffy
10 2 (0.042%) Mingle
11 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.021%) Mozilla Thunderbird
11 1 (0.021%) Sketch
11 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 70 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 34 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 10 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.19%) Magento
6 8 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 6 (0.13%) Aladdin
7 6 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
7 6 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.13%) SAP MDG
8 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
8 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
9 3 (0.063%) Endur
9 3 (0.063%) Maximo
9 3 (0.063%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.063%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.063%) Oracle Payroll
9 3 (0.063%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.063%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.063%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2,582 (53.87%) Azure
2 1,687 (35.20%) AWS
3 1,490 (31.09%) Azure DevOps
4 803 (16.75%) GitHub
5 631 (13.17%) GCP
6 509 (10.62%) GitHub Actions
7 431 (8.99%) Power Platform
8 400 (8.35%) Serverless
9 250 (5.22%) Amazon S3
10 241 (5.03%) AWS Lambda
11 237 (4.94%) Entra ID
12 206 (4.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 192 (4.01%) Amazon EKS
14 183 (3.82%) Azure AKS
15 171 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
15 171 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
16 170 (3.55%) Azure Data Factory
17 166 (3.46%) Dynamics 365
18 157 (3.28%) Amazon EC2
19 154 (3.21%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 222 (4.63%) Firewall
2 144 (3.00%) DNS
3 110 (2.30%) VPN
4 104 (2.17%) Network Security
5 69 (1.44%) TCP/IP
6 53 (1.11%) SSL
7 46 (0.96%) WAN
8 40 (0.83%) DHCP
9 32 (0.67%) BGP
10 30 (0.63%) HTTP
11 28 (0.58%) Internet
11 28 (0.58%) SD-WAN
12 25 (0.52%) SSH
13 24 (0.50%) OSPF
14 23 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
15 19 (0.40%) VLAN
16 17 (0.35%) LAN
16 17 (0.35%) SAN
17 16 (0.33%) BIG-IP
17 16 (0.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 292 (6.09%) Power BI
2 251 (5.24%) SQL Server
3 246 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
4 187 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
5 160 (3.34%) NoSQL
6 149 (3.11%) Data Lake
7 148 (3.09%) MongoDB
8 141 (2.94%) Relational Database
9 120 (2.50%) Metadata
10 116 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
11 82 (1.71%) Delta Lake
12 80 (1.67%) DynamoDB
13 77 (1.61%) Oracle Database
14 76 (1.59%) MySQL
15 72 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
16 70 (1.46%) Redis
17 55 (1.15%) Big Data
17 55 (1.15%) BigQuery
18 54 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
19 53 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 685 (14.29%) Git
2 652 (13.60%) Jenkins
3 548 (11.43%) GitLab
4 538 (11.22%) JIRA
5 126 (2.63%) Selenium
6 88 (1.84%) SonarQube
7 81 (1.69%) Maven
8 79 (1.65%) JUnit
8 79 (1.65%) Postman
9 65 (1.36%) Cucumber
10 61 (1.27%) Bitbucket
11 58 (1.21%) Cypress.io
12 57 (1.19%) REST Assured
13 55 (1.15%) Gradle
13 55 (1.15%) JMeter
14 41 (0.86%) Gatling
14 41 (0.86%) Mockito
15 38 (0.79%) Visual Studio
16 36 (0.75%) Claude Code
17 35 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,263 (26.35%) Social Skills
2 889 (18.55%) Finance
3 628 (13.10%) Public Sector
4 474 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
5 354 (7.39%) Banking
6 147 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 105 (2.19%) Retail
8 83 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
9 77 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
10 57 (1.19%) Aerospace
11 56 (1.17%) Marketing
12 52 (1.08%) Military
13 51 (1.06%) Legal
14 50 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
15 45 (0.94%) Telecoms
16 43 (0.90%) Investment Banking
17 42 (0.88%) Manufacturing
18 41 (0.86%) Law
19 39 (0.81%) Local Government
20 37 (0.77%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 913 (19.05%) DevOps Engineer
2 747 (15.59%) Senior
3 743 (15.50%) Developer
4 575 (12.00%) Architect
5 466 (9.72%) Lead
6 295 (6.15%) Azure Engineer
7 275 (5.74%) Data Engineer
8 235 (4.90%) Analyst
9 197 (4.11%) AWS Engineer
10 187 (3.90%) Platform Engineer
11 177 (3.69%) Cloud Engineer
12 169 (3.53%) Senior DevOps
13 168 (3.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 162 (3.38%) Solutions Architect
15 156 (3.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 141 (2.94%) Java Developer
17 134 (2.80%) AWS DevOps
18 132 (2.75%) Senior Developer
19 131 (2.73%) Software Engineer
20 123 (2.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,409 (29.40%) Terraform
2 525 (10.95%) REST
3 403 (8.41%) .NET
4 334 (6.97%) Kafka
5 275 (5.74%) RESTful
6 253 (5.28%) React
7 241 (5.03%) Spring
8 238 (4.97%) Spring Boot
9 161 (3.36%) JSON
10 159 (3.32%) Node.js
11 158 (3.30%) OAuth
12 138 (2.88%) PySpark
13 129 (2.69%) Playwright
14 118 (2.46%) HTML
14 118 (2.46%) SOAP
15 117 (2.44%) .NET Framework
16 112 (2.34%) CSS
17 106 (2.21%) OAuth2
18 99 (2.07%) Middleware
19 97 (2.02%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 877 (18.30%) Cloud Native
2 369 (7.70%) Product Ownership
3 223 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
4 183 (3.82%) Enterprise Software
4 183 (3.82%) Onboarding
5 137 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
6 123 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
7 100 (2.09%) AI Agents
8 86 (1.79%) Management Information System
9 69 (1.44%) Security Posture
10 68 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
11 66 (1.38%) Public Cloud
12 64 (1.34%) Data Structures
12 64 (1.34%) Replication
13 62 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
14 60 (1.25%) Data Centre
15 56 (1.17%) Virtual Team
16 51 (1.06%) Mobile App
17 46 (0.96%) PKI
18 43 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 482 (10.06%) Linux
2 277 (5.78%) Windows
3 114 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 95 (1.98%) Unix
5 82 (1.71%) Windows Server
6 36 (0.75%) Ubuntu
7 31 (0.65%) Apple iOS
8 28 (0.58%) VMS
9 21 (0.44%) Android
10 14 (0.29%) CentOS
11 10 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
11 10 (0.21%) zOS
12 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
12 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
13 7 (0.15%) AIX
13 7 (0.15%) Solaris
14 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.083%) Alpine Linux
15 4 (0.083%) Data ONTAP
15 4 (0.083%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,869 (59.86%) CI/CD
2 1,955 (40.79%) Agile
3 1,407 (29.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 842 (17.57%) Stakeholder Management
5 820 (17.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 796 (16.61%) AI
7 775 (16.17%) Containerisation
8 769 (16.04%) Test Automation
9 760 (15.86%) Problem-Solving
10 703 (14.67%) Microservices
11 683 (14.25%) Observability
12 646 (13.48%) Software Engineering
13 644 (13.44%) Platform Engineering
14 592 (12.35%) Scrum
15 581 (12.12%) Migration
16 549 (11.45%) Technical Leadership
17 520 (10.85%) Analytics
18 457 (9.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 447 (9.33%) Roadmaps
20 429 (8.95%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,415 (29.52%) Python
2 846 (17.65%) SQL
3 703 (14.67%) Java
4 437 (9.12%) PowerShell
5 435 (9.08%) C#
6 419 (8.74%) Bash
7 392 (8.18%) JavaScript
8 274 (5.72%) TypeScript
9 220 (4.59%) Bicep
10 89 (1.86%) Go
11 63 (1.31%) Shell Script
12 56 (1.17%) Groovy
12 56 (1.17%) T-SQL
13 55 (1.15%) Scala
14 47 (0.98%) PL/SQL
15 44 (0.92%) Apex Code
16 34 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 31 (0.65%) C++
18 30 (0.63%) Perl
19 25 (0.52%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,541 (32.15%) Security Cleared
2 1,292 (26.96%) SC Cleared
3 337 (7.03%) Degree
4 218 (4.55%) Azure Certification
5 213 (4.44%) DV Cleared
6 169 (3.53%) AWS Certification
7 142 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 128 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 110 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 74 (1.54%) CISSP
11 50 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
11 50 (1.04%) ISTQB
12 45 (0.94%) PMP
13 43 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 40 (0.83%) Master's Degree
15 38 (0.79%) PMI Certification
16 31 (0.65%) CISM
17 21 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 20 (0.42%) CCNP
18 20 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 481 (10.04%) QA
2 249 (5.20%) Data Quality
3 163 (3.40%) Accessibility
4 115 (2.40%) GDPR
5 87 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 78 (1.63%) WCAG
7 76 (1.59%) NIST
8 47 (0.98%) NCSC
9 45 (0.94%) PMO
10 32 (0.67%) SLA
11 27 (0.56%) GRC
11 27 (0.56%) PCI DSS
12 20 (0.42%) ISO 20022
12 20 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 15 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
14 14 (0.29%) HIPAA
15 12 (0.25%) SEPA
15 12 (0.25%) SOC 2
16 11 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
17 9 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 958 (19.99%) Docker
2 145 (3.03%) Active Directory
3 71 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
4 65 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (0.44%) Hyper-V
5 21 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (0.44%) vSphere
6 16 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
7 13 (0.27%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.25%) Squid
9 11 (0.23%) IAG
10 9 (0.19%) Postfix
11 8 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
12 6 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 6 (0.13%) Corosync
12 6 (0.13%) KVM
12 6 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.10%) NFS
13 5 (0.10%) RACF
14 4 (0.083%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1,254 (26.16%) Kubernetes
2 476 (9.93%) Ansible
3 308 (6.43%) Grafana
4 263 (5.49%) Prometheus
5 63 (1.31%) Argo
6 53 (1.11%) Puppet
7 47 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
8 46 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
9 44 (0.92%) Progress Chef
10 32 (0.67%) Packer
11 28 (0.58%) Kibana
12 20 (0.42%) Kubeflow
13 19 (0.40%) Istio
13 19 (0.40%) Kustomize
14 16 (0.33%) SCCM
15 15 (0.31%) HP ALM
15 15 (0.31%) vCenter Server
16 13 (0.27%) Control-M
16 13 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
16 13 (0.27%) SCOM
Vendors
1 969 (20.22%) Microsoft
2 268 (5.59%) Databricks
3 250 (5.22%) Google
4 240 (5.01%) Oracle
5 197 (4.11%) ServiceNow
6 168 (3.51%) Splunk
7 139 (2.90%) Salesforce
8 131 (2.73%) Dynatrace
9 103 (2.15%) VMware
10 95 (1.98%) SAP
11 94 (1.96%) Red Hat
12 69 (1.44%) IBM
13 59 (1.23%) OpenAI
14 48 (1.00%) Foundry
15 47 (0.98%) Cisco
16 39 (0.81%) AppDynamics
17 38 (0.79%) Informatica
18 35 (0.73%) MuleSoft
19 33 (0.69%) Atlassian
20 32 (0.67%) Okta