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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,278 2,484 3,323
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.73% 10.10% 8.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.60% 11.09% 10.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,007 1,837 2,294
10th Percentile £385 £400 £405
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 £713 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.28% -2.18% -5.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 15 99
10th Percentile £39.53 £41.50 £56.25
25th Percentile £45.46 £53.75 £61.25
Median hourly rate £63.73 £67.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +3.85% -0.76%
75th Percentile £75.00 £80.75 £80.95
90th Percentile £83.75 £88.68 £87.46
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 33,939 22,408 32,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.13% 91.13% 86.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,724 14,703 21,181
10th Percentile £316 £310 £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 £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.72% -0.05% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,107 917 2,235
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.73 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £15.97
Median hourly rate £42.69 £30.45 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.18% -13.00% -8.74%
75th Percentile £67.25 £63.75 £59.44
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £29.07 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.60% -16.94% -6.67%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +3 2,179 £539 -6.26% 430
North of England +5 748 £500 -3.82% 263
South East -1 455 £505 -8.18% 282
Yorkshire 0 408 £500 -3.80% 63
Midlands +4 393 £489 -2.25% 121
South West +13 300 £500 -9.09% 114
West Midlands +6 299 £500 -4.58% 67
North West +4 281 £500 -3.26% 144
East of England +17 128 £525 +1.94% 74
East Midlands 0 91 £465 -2.11% 53
North East +5 66 £475 -9.52% 56
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
1 246 (5.75%) Confluence
2 119 (2.78%) Apache Spark
3 102 (2.38%) SharePoint
4 84 (1.96%) Apache
5 69 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
5 69 (1.61%) SAS
6 34 (0.79%) CMS
7 32 (0.75%) nginx
8 27 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
9 25 (0.58%) OpenStack
10 22 (0.51%) IIS
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 9 (0.21%) WebSphere
14 7 (0.16%) ArcGIS
14 7 (0.16%) Camunda
14 7 (0.16%) WebLogic
15 6 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 71 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
3 48 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
5 22 (0.51%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.12%) Trello
7 5 (0.12%) Weka
8 3 (0.070%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.047%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.047%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.023%) InDesign
10 1 (0.023%) Maya
Business Applications
1 66 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.21%) Aladdin
3 9 (0.21%) Maximo
3 9 (0.21%) NEC Housing
3 9 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
4 7 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
4 7 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
5 6 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
6 5 (0.12%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.094%) Endur
7 4 (0.094%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.094%) SAP BPC
8 3 (0.070%) Findur
8 3 (0.070%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.070%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.047%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.047%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.047%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.047%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 2,311 (54.02%) Azure
2 1,435 (33.54%) AWS
3 1,271 (29.71%) Azure DevOps
4 722 (16.88%) GitHub
5 553 (12.93%) GCP
6 437 (10.22%) Serverless
7 411 (9.61%) GitHub Actions
8 357 (8.35%) Power Platform
9 235 (5.49%) Amazon S3
10 219 (5.12%) AWS CloudFormation
11 216 (5.05%) Entra ID
12 214 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
13 204 (4.77%) Azure Data Factory
14 198 (4.63%) Azure AKS
15 164 (3.83%) Azure Monitor
16 160 (3.74%) OpenShift
17 154 (3.60%) Amazon EKS
18 145 (3.39%) PaaS
19 143 (3.34%) Dynamics 365
20 133 (3.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 192 (4.49%) Firewall
2 104 (2.43%) DNS
3 82 (1.92%) Network Security
3 82 (1.92%) VPN
4 39 (0.91%) TCP/IP
5 26 (0.61%) WAN
6 25 (0.58%) HTTP
7 23 (0.54%) SD-WAN
7 23 (0.54%) SSL
8 22 (0.51%) DHCP
9 17 (0.40%) IPsec
10 16 (0.37%) BGP
11 15 (0.35%) MPLS
11 15 (0.35%) SAN
12 14 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
13 13 (0.30%) LAN
14 12 (0.28%) Internet
14 12 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
15 11 (0.26%) OpenVPN
16 10 (0.23%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 235 (5.49%) Power BI
2 219 (5.12%) PostgreSQL
3 210 (4.91%) SQL Server
4 165 (3.86%) NoSQL
5 150 (3.51%) Data Lake
6 121 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
7 120 (2.81%) Relational Database
8 94 (2.20%) Azure SQL Database
8 94 (2.20%) MongoDB
9 89 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
10 80 (1.87%) Delta Lake
11 76 (1.78%) DynamoDB
12 68 (1.59%) Metadata
13 67 (1.57%) Oracle Database
14 66 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
15 58 (1.36%) Big Data
16 53 (1.24%) Tableau
17 48 (1.12%) Redis
18 47 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
19 44 (1.03%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 613 (14.33%) Jenkins
2 540 (12.62%) Git
2 540 (12.62%) JIRA
3 410 (9.58%) GitLab
4 89 (2.08%) Selenium
5 80 (1.87%) Postman
6 79 (1.85%) JUnit
7 72 (1.68%) Bitbucket
8 70 (1.64%) SonarQube
9 54 (1.26%) Maven
10 49 (1.15%) Cucumber
11 48 (1.12%) Artifactory
12 46 (1.08%) REST Assured
13 41 (0.96%) Cypress.io
14 37 (0.86%) JMeter
15 34 (0.79%) Gatling
16 33 (0.77%) Mockito
17 30 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
18 28 (0.65%) Oracle APEX
18 28 (0.65%) TestRail
General
1 1,156 (27.02%) Social Skills
2 809 (18.91%) Finance
3 516 (12.06%) Public Sector
4 369 (8.63%) Analytical Skills
5 306 (7.15%) Banking
6 144 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
7 63 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
8 60 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 56 (1.31%) Retail
10 51 (1.19%) Marketing
11 50 (1.17%) Financial Institution
12 47 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
13 46 (1.08%) Front Office
14 44 (1.03%) Legal
15 43 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
16 42 (0.98%) Investment Banking
17 33 (0.77%) Telecoms
18 30 (0.70%) Military
19 23 (0.54%) Law
20 16 (0.37%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 815 (19.05%) DevOps Engineer
2 634 (14.82%) Developer
3 593 (13.86%) Senior
4 496 (11.59%) Architect
5 356 (8.32%) Lead
6 296 (6.92%) Azure Engineer
7 271 (6.33%) Data Engineer
8 251 (5.87%) Analyst
9 195 (4.56%) AWS Engineer
10 159 (3.72%) Cloud Engineer
10 159 (3.72%) Solutions Architect
11 152 (3.55%) Platform Engineer
12 149 (3.48%) AWS DevOps
13 137 (3.20%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 136 (3.18%) Software Engineer
15 134 (3.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 131 (3.06%) Business Analyst
17 126 (2.95%) Senior DevOps
18 118 (2.76%) Senior Developer
18 118 (2.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 394 (9.21%) REST
2 362 (8.46%) .NET
3 254 (5.94%) Kafka
4 250 (5.84%) Node.js
5 237 (5.54%) React
6 236 (5.52%) Spring
7 221 (5.17%) Spring Boot
8 193 (4.51%) RESTful
9 157 (3.67%) AngularJS
10 133 (3.11%) YAML
11 128 (2.99%) Playwright
12 127 (2.97%) JSON
13 119 (2.78%) PySpark
14 116 (2.71%) OAuth
15 109 (2.55%) HTML
16 103 (2.41%) Middleware
17 100 (2.34%) SOAP
18 92 (2.15%) CSS
19 88 (2.06%) OpenTelemetry
20 87 (2.03%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 659 (15.40%) Cloud Native
2 260 (6.08%) Product Ownership
3 159 (3.72%) Distributed Systems
4 112 (2.62%) Onboarding
5 92 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
6 90 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
7 87 (2.03%) Public Cloud
8 82 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
9 64 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
10 54 (1.26%) Virtual Team
11 52 (1.22%) Management Information System
12 45 (1.05%) Private Cloud
13 40 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
14 38 (0.89%) Data Centre
14 38 (0.89%) Replication
15 36 (0.84%) AI Agents
15 36 (0.84%) Data Structures
15 36 (0.84%) Security Posture
16 35 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
16 35 (0.82%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 382 (8.93%) Linux
2 220 (5.14%) Windows
3 70 (1.64%) Unix
4 67 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 40 (0.94%) Windows Server
6 37 (0.86%) VMS
7 22 (0.51%) Ubuntu
8 12 (0.28%) Android
8 12 (0.28%) CentOS
9 10 (0.23%) Apple iOS
9 10 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.16%) Windows 10
11 6 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.12%) Solaris
13 4 (0.094%) Amazon Linux
13 4 (0.094%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (0.094%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.070%) Debian
14 3 (0.070%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.070%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,363 (55.24%) CI/CD
2 1,617 (37.80%) Agile
3 1,050 (24.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 717 (16.76%) Problem-Solving
5 704 (16.46%) Containerisation
6 624 (14.59%) Microservices
7 595 (13.91%) Test Automation
8 555 (12.97%) Continuous Improvement
9 528 (12.34%) Analytics
10 525 (12.27%) Migration
11 488 (11.41%) Observability
12 471 (11.01%) Scrum
13 464 (10.85%) Stakeholder Management
14 460 (10.75%) AI
15 414 (9.68%) Software Engineering
16 399 (9.33%) Data Modelling
17 354 (8.27%) Mentoring
18 352 (8.23%) Platform Engineering
19 332 (7.76%) Data Pipeline
20 327 (7.64%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,193 (27.89%) Python
2 913 (21.34%) SQL
3 558 (13.04%) Java
4 425 (9.93%) C#
5 345 (8.06%) JavaScript
6 311 (7.27%) PowerShell
7 291 (6.80%) Bash
8 241 (5.63%) TypeScript
9 150 (3.51%) Bicep
10 96 (2.24%) Go
11 82 (1.92%) PL/SQL
12 67 (1.57%) Scala
13 51 (1.19%) Shell Script
14 42 (0.98%) T-SQL
15 39 (0.91%) Groovy
16 34 (0.79%) Apex Code
17 31 (0.72%) C++
18 27 (0.63%) Ruby
19 22 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 22 (0.51%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,386 (32.40%) Security Cleared
2 1,145 (26.76%) SC Cleared
3 306 (7.15%) Degree
4 196 (4.58%) Azure Certification
5 145 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 141 (3.30%) DV Cleared
7 119 (2.78%) AWS Certification
8 112 (2.62%) BPSS Clearance
9 70 (1.64%) CISSP
10 51 (1.19%) CISM
11 50 (1.17%) Master's Degree
11 50 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
12 47 (1.10%) ISTQB
13 41 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 39 (0.91%) PMI Certification
15 37 (0.86%) PMP
16 36 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
17 22 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 21 (0.49%) IIBA
18 21 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 383 (8.95%) QA
2 193 (4.51%) Data Quality
3 165 (3.86%) GDPR
4 123 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 116 (2.71%) NIST
6 89 (2.08%) Accessibility
7 60 (1.40%) NCSC
8 38 (0.89%) PCI DSS
8 38 (0.89%) WCAG
9 31 (0.72%) SLA
10 27 (0.63%) PMO
10 27 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 15 (0.35%) GRC
11 15 (0.35%) ISO 20022
12 14 (0.33%) HIPAA
12 14 (0.33%) NIST 800
13 12 (0.28%) PSD2
13 12 (0.28%) SOC 2
14 10 (0.23%) SEPA
15 8 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 870 (20.34%) Docker
2 166 (3.88%) Active Directory
3 66 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
4 64 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 33 (0.77%) vSphere
6 25 (0.58%) VMware NSX
7 14 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 13 (0.30%) Hyper-V
9 12 (0.28%) Postfix
9 12 (0.28%) Squid
10 11 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
11 8 (0.19%) Firmware
11 8 (0.19%) Lustre
11 8 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 6 (0.14%) GPFS
12 6 (0.14%) HDFS
13 5 (0.12%) Corosync
13 5 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
13 5 (0.12%) RACF
14 4 (0.094%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,198 (28.00%) Terraform
2 1,130 (26.41%) Kubernetes
3 428 (10.00%) Ansible
4 270 (6.31%) Grafana
5 227 (5.31%) Prometheus
6 90 (2.10%) Argo
7 67 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
8 61 (1.43%) Puppet
9 48 (1.12%) Istio
10 28 (0.65%) Packer
11 24 (0.56%) vCenter Server
12 23 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
12 23 (0.54%) Progress Chef
13 21 (0.49%) Kibana
14 20 (0.47%) Rancher
15 19 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 17 (0.40%) Consul
17 15 (0.35%) FortiGate
17 15 (0.35%) HP ALM
18 12 (0.28%) SCCM
Vendors
1 773 (18.07%) Microsoft
2 287 (6.71%) Oracle
3 251 (5.87%) Databricks
4 194 (4.53%) Google
5 178 (4.16%) Splunk
6 156 (3.65%) ServiceNow
7 131 (3.06%) Red Hat
8 120 (2.81%) Salesforce
9 113 (2.64%) VMware
10 100 (2.34%) SAP
11 79 (1.85%) Dynatrace
12 70 (1.64%) OpenAI
13 59 (1.38%) Atlassian
14 55 (1.29%) CyberArk
15 41 (0.96%) IBM
16 34 (0.79%) Foundry
17 32 (0.75%) AppDynamics
17 32 (0.75%) Cisco
18 31 (0.72%) Denodo
19 30 (0.70%) Informatica