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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 14 15
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,803 2,925 3,327
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.49% 10.62% 10.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.37% 11.70% 11.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,304 2,099 2,284
10th Percentile £385 £360 £400
25th Percentile £438 £425 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £625 £633 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £518 £550
% change year-on-year +1.40% -5.86% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 23 74
10th Percentile £36.12 £36.50 £56.08
25th Percentile £55.00 £52.13 £62.45
Median hourly rate £67.00 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -4.29% +6.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 £82.48 £74.33
90th Percentile £94.06 £95.00 £85.18
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 38,831 25,009 28,459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.83% 90.78% 85.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,961 15,919 18,268
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,587 1,463 1,501
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.68 £17.87 £18.11
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £69.47 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -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 28 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 28 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 28 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 2,536 £550 - 2,058
North of England -1 797 £500 +5.26% 516
South East -8 463 £525 +5.00% 462
Midlands 0 447 £488 -2.50% 237
Yorkshire -1 392 £500 +2.04% 144
West Midlands -3 355 £490 -5.50% 140
South West +9 314 £550 +5.77% 291
North West -3 311 £510 +9.38% 277
East of England +12 142 £505 -3.81% 145
North East +16 111 £425 -18.27% 99
East Midlands +6 88 £459 +1.94% 97
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
1 290 (6.04%) Confluence
2 137 (2.85%) SharePoint
3 121 (2.52%) Apache Airflow
4 114 (2.37%) Apache Spark
5 102 (2.12%) Apache
6 56 (1.17%) SAS
7 40 (0.83%) CMS
8 35 (0.73%) Jupyter
9 30 (0.62%) IIS
10 22 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
10 22 (0.46%) nginx
11 15 (0.31%) Camunda
12 13 (0.27%) OpenStack
13 11 (0.23%) WebSphere
14 10 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
14 10 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
15 9 (0.19%) Anypoint
15 9 (0.19%) Appian
16 6 (0.12%) Documentum
16 6 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 61 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
3 41 (0.85%) MS Visio
4 31 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
4 31 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.19%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.19%) CPLEX
5 9 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.12%) Trello
7 5 (0.10%) Notion
8 4 (0.083%) Windchill
9 1 (0.021%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
9 1 (0.021%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.021%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 64 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
4 9 (0.19%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.19%) Magento
5 8 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
6 7 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 6 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
8 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
9 4 (0.083%) Endur
9 4 (0.083%) Maximo
9 4 (0.083%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.083%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.062%) Findur
10 3 (0.062%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.062%) Shopify
10 3 (0.062%) Teamcenter
11 2 (0.042%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 2,630 (54.76%) Azure
2 1,668 (34.73%) AWS
3 1,531 (31.88%) Azure DevOps
4 818 (17.03%) GitHub
5 595 (12.39%) GCP
6 517 (10.76%) GitHub Actions
7 427 (8.89%) Power Platform
8 391 (8.14%) Serverless
9 238 (4.96%) Amazon S3
10 235 (4.89%) Entra ID
11 230 (4.79%) AWS Lambda
12 191 (3.98%) Azure AKS
13 184 (3.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 181 (3.77%) Azure Data Factory
14 181 (3.77%) Azure Monitor
15 177 (3.69%) AWS CloudFormation
16 172 (3.58%) Amazon EKS
17 163 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
18 156 (3.25%) Power Automate
19 145 (3.02%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 230 (4.79%) Firewall
2 149 (3.10%) DNS
3 116 (2.42%) VPN
4 105 (2.19%) Network Security
5 67 (1.39%) TCP/IP
6 52 (1.08%) WAN
7 42 (0.87%) SSL
8 41 (0.85%) DHCP
9 37 (0.77%) SD-WAN
10 32 (0.67%) BGP
10 32 (0.67%) Internet
11 29 (0.60%) HTTP
11 29 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
12 24 (0.50%) OSPF
13 23 (0.48%) SSH
14 20 (0.42%) VLAN
15 19 (0.40%) SAN
16 18 (0.37%) LAN
17 16 (0.33%) BIG-IP
17 16 (0.33%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 296 (6.16%) Power BI
2 258 (5.37%) SQL Server
3 241 (5.02%) PostgreSQL
4 184 (3.83%) Data Warehouse
5 169 (3.52%) NoSQL
6 153 (3.19%) Relational Database
7 145 (3.02%) Data Lake
8 141 (2.94%) MongoDB
9 111 (2.31%) Metadata
10 108 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
11 91 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
12 85 (1.77%) Delta Lake
13 77 (1.60%) DynamoDB
14 75 (1.56%) Oracle Database
15 70 (1.46%) Redis
16 60 (1.25%) MySQL
17 54 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
18 52 (1.08%) BigQuery
19 51 (1.06%) Big Data
20 49 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 662 (13.78%) Jenkins
2 650 (13.53%) Git
3 562 (11.70%) JIRA
4 521 (10.85%) GitLab
5 117 (2.44%) Selenium
6 85 (1.77%) SonarQube
7 84 (1.75%) Postman
8 78 (1.62%) JUnit
9 75 (1.56%) Maven
10 70 (1.46%) Bitbucket
11 59 (1.23%) REST Assured
12 58 (1.21%) Cypress.io
12 58 (1.21%) JMeter
13 50 (1.04%) Gradle
14 49 (1.02%) Cucumber
15 48 (1.00%) Gatling
16 41 (0.85%) LoadRunner
17 38 (0.79%) Mockito
17 38 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
18 34 (0.71%) Artifactory
General
1 1,257 (26.17%) Social Skills
2 901 (18.76%) Finance
3 654 (13.62%) Public Sector
4 464 (9.66%) Analytical Skills
5 333 (6.93%) Banking
6 138 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 99 (2.06%) Retail
8 85 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
9 69 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
10 57 (1.19%) Legal
11 55 (1.15%) Marketing
12 54 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
13 50 (1.04%) Aerospace
14 47 (0.98%) Investment Banking
15 45 (0.94%) Military
16 42 (0.87%) Telecoms
17 41 (0.85%) Law
18 39 (0.81%) Front Office
19 38 (0.79%) Financial Institution
20 35 (0.73%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 891 (18.55%) DevOps Engineer
2 759 (15.80%) Developer
3 726 (15.12%) Senior
4 556 (11.58%) Architect
5 478 (9.95%) Lead
6 297 (6.18%) Azure Engineer
7 280 (5.83%) Data Engineer
8 240 (5.00%) Analyst
9 195 (4.06%) AWS Engineer
9 195 (4.06%) Platform Engineer
10 174 (3.62%) Cloud Engineer
11 164 (3.41%) Senior DevOps
12 159 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
13 158 (3.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 151 (3.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 141 (2.94%) Java Developer
16 135 (2.81%) AWS DevOps
16 135 (2.81%) Senior Developer
17 134 (2.79%) Software Engineer
18 126 (2.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,394 (29.02%) Terraform
2 492 (10.24%) REST
3 420 (8.74%) .NET
4 322 (6.70%) Kafka
5 263 (5.48%) RESTful
6 249 (5.18%) React
7 238 (4.96%) Spring
8 224 (4.66%) Spring Boot
9 166 (3.46%) Node.js
10 157 (3.27%) JSON
11 145 (3.02%) PySpark
12 138 (2.87%) OAuth
13 135 (2.81%) Playwright
14 128 (2.67%) .NET Framework
15 115 (2.39%) SOAP
16 112 (2.33%) HTML
17 108 (2.25%) CSS
18 106 (2.21%) AngularJS
19 102 (2.12%) YAML
20 94 (1.96%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 873 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 360 (7.50%) Product Ownership
3 225 (4.68%) Distributed Systems
4 158 (3.29%) Enterprise Software
5 157 (3.27%) Onboarding
6 138 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
7 137 (2.85%) Hybrid Cloud
8 83 (1.73%) AI Agents
9 75 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
10 71 (1.48%) Management Information System
11 69 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
12 65 (1.35%) Data Structures
13 62 (1.29%) Public Cloud
13 62 (1.29%) Security Posture
14 58 (1.21%) Data Centre
15 57 (1.19%) Replication
16 52 (1.08%) Mobile App
17 50 (1.04%) Virtual Team
18 40 (0.83%) PKI
19 38 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 449 (9.35%) Linux
2 272 (5.66%) Windows
3 104 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 88 (1.83%) Unix
5 80 (1.67%) Windows Server
6 32 (0.67%) Ubuntu
7 31 (0.65%) Apple iOS
8 29 (0.60%) VMS
9 21 (0.44%) Android
10 10 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
11 8 (0.17%) AIX
11 8 (0.17%) CentOS
11 8 (0.17%) Solaris
11 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
11 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.17%) zOS
12 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (0.083%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (0.083%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,803 (58.36%) CI/CD
2 1,945 (40.50%) Agile
3 1,352 (28.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 811 (16.89%) Continuous Improvement
5 778 (16.20%) Stakeholder Management
6 773 (16.09%) Containerisation
7 765 (15.93%) Problem-Solving
8 747 (15.55%) Test Automation
9 724 (15.07%) AI
10 707 (14.72%) Microservices
11 652 (13.57%) Observability
12 616 (12.83%) Platform Engineering
13 615 (12.80%) Software Engineering
14 579 (12.05%) Scrum
15 574 (11.95%) Migration
16 528 (10.99%) Analytics
17 503 (10.47%) Technical Leadership
18 459 (9.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 437 (9.10%) Roadmaps
20 409 (8.52%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,400 (29.15%) Python
2 892 (18.57%) SQL
3 691 (14.39%) Java
4 441 (9.18%) PowerShell
5 432 (8.99%) C#
6 411 (8.56%) Bash
7 372 (7.75%) JavaScript
8 259 (5.39%) TypeScript
9 216 (4.50%) Bicep
10 76 (1.58%) Go
11 64 (1.33%) Shell Script
12 55 (1.15%) Groovy
13 54 (1.12%) Scala
13 54 (1.12%) T-SQL
14 50 (1.04%) Apex Code
15 47 (0.98%) PL/SQL
16 32 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 32 (0.67%) Perl
17 31 (0.65%) C++
18 22 (0.46%) C
Qualifications
1 1,536 (31.98%) Security Cleared
2 1,294 (26.94%) SC Cleared
3 312 (6.50%) Degree
4 201 (4.18%) Azure Certification
5 188 (3.91%) DV Cleared
6 158 (3.29%) AWS Certification
7 133 (2.77%) BPSS Clearance
8 118 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
9 99 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
10 70 (1.46%) CISSP
11 49 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
11 49 (1.02%) ISTQB
12 45 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 39 (0.81%) PMP
14 36 (0.75%) PMI Certification
15 33 (0.69%) Master's Degree
16 30 (0.62%) CISM
17 23 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
18 21 (0.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 20 (0.42%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 465 (9.68%) QA
2 247 (5.14%) Data Quality
3 159 (3.31%) Accessibility
4 118 (2.46%) GDPR
5 92 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 79 (1.64%) NIST
7 76 (1.58%) WCAG
8 49 (1.02%) PMO
9 47 (0.98%) NCSC
10 33 (0.69%) PCI DSS
10 33 (0.69%) SLA
11 27 (0.56%) GRC
12 22 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 14 (0.29%) ISO 20022
14 12 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
15 10 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
16 9 (0.19%) HIPAA
16 9 (0.19%) HL7
16 9 (0.19%) SEPA
17 6 (0.12%) PSD2
System Software
1 957 (19.93%) Docker
2 160 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 74 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 69 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (0.50%) Hyper-V
6 21 (0.44%) vSphere
7 19 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
8 17 (0.35%) VMware NSX
9 14 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
10 13 (0.27%) Squid
11 11 (0.23%) IAG
12 9 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
12 9 (0.19%) Postfix
13 7 (0.15%) KVM
14 6 (0.12%) Corosync
14 6 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
15 5 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 5 (0.10%) Firmware
16 4 (0.083%) Embedded Firmware
16 4 (0.083%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,247 (25.96%) Kubernetes
2 480 (9.99%) Ansible
3 310 (6.45%) Grafana
4 265 (5.52%) Prometheus
5 72 (1.50%) Argo
6 58 (1.21%) Puppet
7 51 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
8 46 (0.96%) Progress Chef
9 39 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
10 33 (0.69%) Packer
11 26 (0.54%) Istio
12 22 (0.46%) Kibana
13 19 (0.40%) Kustomize
13 19 (0.40%) SCCM
13 19 (0.40%) vCenter Server
14 17 (0.35%) Kubeflow
15 14 (0.29%) HP ALM
16 13 (0.27%) Control-M
17 12 (0.25%) Oracle RMAN
17 12 (0.25%) systemd
Vendors
1 968 (20.15%) Microsoft
2 256 (5.33%) Databricks
3 240 (5.00%) Oracle
4 224 (4.66%) Google
5 182 (3.79%) ServiceNow
6 165 (3.44%) Splunk
7 143 (2.98%) Salesforce
8 130 (2.71%) Dynatrace
9 104 (2.17%) VMware
10 98 (2.04%) Red Hat
11 96 (2.00%) SAP
12 62 (1.29%) IBM
13 51 (1.06%) Informatica
14 47 (0.98%) OpenAI
15 46 (0.96%) Cisco
16 43 (0.90%) AppDynamics
17 39 (0.81%) Atlassian
18 37 (0.77%) Foundry
19 35 (0.73%) MuleSoft
20 33 (0.69%) CyberArk