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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 14 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 3,519 3,206 3,635
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.58% 10.20% 9.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.86% 11.71% 10.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,474 2,162 2,692
10th Percentile £363 £400 £413
25th Percentile £425 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £770
UK median daily rate £525 £560 £565
% change year-on-year -6.25% -0.88% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 35 96
10th Percentile - £43.22 £46.18
25th Percentile £45.46 £58.45 £50.94
Median hourly rate £61.25 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +7.69% -0.92%
75th Percentile £82.50 £74.72 £75.67
90th Percentile £95.00 £80.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £61.25 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -12.50% +7.69% -0.92%

All Process and 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 27,360 27,372 34,995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.00% 87.10% 88.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,349 16,711 23,948
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £417 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £648 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £532
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.22% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,809 1,012 1,477
10th Percentile £14.97 £15.10 £14.52
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.23 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.75 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.65% -19.66% +25.35%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £43.85
% change year-on-year -26.03% -22.46% +25.29%

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 23 November 2025.

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 23 November 2025.

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 23 November 2025. 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 1,761 £550 -5.98% 476
North of England +3 610 £492 -3.05% 201
South East +1 372 £500 -16.67% 408
Midlands +15 369 £515 -6.36% 119
Yorkshire -1 324 £500 - 63
West Midlands +13 299 £525 -8.70% 78
North West +6 258 £457 -14.27% 110
South West +1 222 £538 -10.42% 138
East of England +25 105 £520 -0.95% 71
East Midlands +23 70 £418 -12.11% 37
North East -10 30 £550 -5.98% 29
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
1 235 (6.68%) Confluence
2 89 (2.53%) Apache
3 65 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
4 62 (1.76%) SAS
4 62 (1.76%) SharePoint
5 53 (1.51%) Apache Spark
6 38 (1.08%) CMS
7 37 (1.05%) nginx
8 28 (0.80%) JBoss
8 28 (0.80%) OpenStack
9 26 (0.74%) IIS
10 25 (0.71%) CICS
11 17 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
11 17 (0.48%) WebSphere
12 14 (0.40%) WebLogic
13 11 (0.31%) WebSphere Application Server
14 10 (0.28%) Mule
15 9 (0.26%) iPlanet
16 8 (0.23%) Anypoint
17 7 (0.20%) Jupyter
Applications
1 70 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 28 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
4 25 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (0.48%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.37%) Chatbot
7 12 (0.34%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 8 (0.23%) Weka
9 6 (0.17%) Trello
10 1 (0.028%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.028%) Moqups
10 1 (0.028%) Revit
Business Applications
1 56 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.57%) Endur
3 19 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (0.48%) Aladdin
5 16 (0.45%) VisionPLUS
6 15 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
7 10 (0.28%) Maximo
8 8 (0.23%) Oracle BPM
9 6 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
10 5 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 4 (0.11%) Fidessa
11 4 (0.11%) NEC Housing
11 4 (0.11%) SAP CO
11 4 (0.11%) SAP ERP
11 4 (0.11%) SAP FI
11 4 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
11 4 (0.11%) thinkFolio
11 4 (0.11%) Workday HCM
12 3 (0.085%) Oracle EBS
12 3 (0.085%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,705 (48.45%) Azure
2 1,274 (36.20%) AWS
3 940 (26.71%) Azure DevOps
4 608 (17.28%) GitHub
5 510 (14.49%) GCP
6 377 (10.71%) Serverless
7 331 (9.41%) GitHub Actions
8 244 (6.93%) Power Platform
9 210 (5.97%) Amazon S3
10 195 (5.54%) AWS Lambda
11 186 (5.29%) AWS CloudFormation
12 166 (4.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 152 (4.32%) Amazon EC2
14 148 (4.21%) Azure AKS
15 143 (4.06%) SaaS
16 136 (3.86%) Entra ID
17 135 (3.84%) Azure Data Factory
18 130 (3.69%) Dynamics 365
19 120 (3.41%) Azure Monitor
20 115 (3.27%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 189 (5.37%) Firewall
2 122 (3.47%) DNS
3 75 (2.13%) VPN
4 65 (1.85%) Network Security
4 65 (1.85%) TCP/IP
5 61 (1.73%) SSL
6 42 (1.19%) HTTP
7 34 (0.97%) SSH
8 30 (0.85%) HTTPS
8 30 (0.85%) SMTP
9 29 (0.82%) WAN
10 24 (0.68%) FTP
11 19 (0.54%) BGP
12 17 (0.48%) DHCP
13 16 (0.45%) LAN
13 16 (0.45%) OpenLDAP
14 15 (0.43%) MPLS
14 15 (0.43%) SD-WAN
15 14 (0.40%) Kerberos
16 12 (0.34%) IMAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 229 (6.51%) PostgreSQL
2 152 (4.32%) Power BI
3 141 (4.01%) NoSQL
4 136 (3.86%) SQL Server
5 125 (3.55%) Amazon RDS
6 97 (2.76%) MongoDB
7 83 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
8 82 (2.33%) Relational Database
9 79 (2.24%) Data Lake
10 73 (2.07%) Oracle Database
11 58 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
12 54 (1.53%) Redis
13 50 (1.42%) DynamoDB
14 49 (1.39%) MySQL
15 48 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
16 42 (1.19%) Metadata
17 40 (1.14%) Delta Lake
18 37 (1.05%) Amazon Aurora
19 35 (0.99%) Pentaho
20 33 (0.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 665 (18.90%) Jenkins
2 566 (16.08%) Git
3 537 (15.26%) JIRA
4 440 (12.50%) GitLab
5 118 (3.35%) Selenium
6 93 (2.64%) SonarQube
7 85 (2.42%) JUnit
8 82 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
9 73 (2.07%) Bitbucket
10 69 (1.96%) Postman
11 56 (1.59%) Maven
12 53 (1.51%) Liquibase
13 50 (1.42%) Cucumber
14 46 (1.31%) Cypress.io
14 46 (1.31%) Gradle
15 44 (1.25%) Artifactory
16 36 (1.02%) Oracle APEX
17 32 (0.91%) CircleCI
18 31 (0.88%) TeamCity
19 28 (0.80%) Mockito
General
1 1,144 (32.51%) Social Skills
2 640 (18.19%) Finance
3 420 (11.94%) Public Sector
4 323 (9.18%) Banking
5 290 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
6 106 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
7 67 (1.90%) Investment Banking
8 61 (1.73%) Financial Institution
8 61 (1.73%) Marketing
9 59 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 58 (1.65%) Telecoms
11 51 (1.45%) Retail
12 49 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
13 39 (1.11%) Front Office
14 38 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
15 31 (0.88%) Back Office
15 31 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
16 28 (0.80%) Law
17 27 (0.77%) Manufacturing
18 26 (0.74%) Military
Job Titles
1 692 (19.66%) Developer
2 602 (17.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 482 (13.70%) Senior
4 291 (8.27%) Architect
5 277 (7.87%) Lead
6 218 (6.19%) AWS Engineer
7 180 (5.12%) Analyst
8 169 (4.80%) Azure Engineer
9 167 (4.75%) AWS DevOps
10 162 (4.60%) Data Engineer
11 141 (4.01%) Senior Developer
11 141 (4.01%) Software Engineer
12 140 (3.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 138 (3.92%) Cloud Engineer
14 130 (3.69%) Platform Engineer
15 106 (3.01%) Business Analyst
16 101 (2.87%) Java Developer
17 98 (2.78%) Consultant
18 90 (2.56%) Senior DevOps
19 85 (2.42%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 399 (11.34%) REST
2 305 (8.67%) .NET
3 242 (6.88%) RESTful
4 216 (6.14%) React
5 202 (5.74%) Node.js
6 189 (5.37%) Kafka
7 172 (4.89%) JSON
8 147 (4.18%) SOAP
9 145 (4.12%) Spring
10 144 (4.09%) HTML
11 134 (3.81%) Spring Boot
12 129 (3.67%) AngularJS
13 128 (3.64%) Elastic Stack
14 113 (3.21%) XML
15 112 (3.18%) OAuth
16 106 (3.01%) YAML
17 97 (2.76%) CSS
18 73 (2.07%) .NET Core
19 72 (2.05%) GraphQL
20 69 (1.96%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 463 (13.16%) Cloud Native
2 181 (5.14%) Product Ownership
3 144 (4.09%) Distributed Systems
4 108 (3.07%) Onboarding
5 88 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
6 82 (2.33%) Public Cloud
7 66 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
7 66 (1.88%) Mobile App
8 58 (1.65%) Replication
9 57 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
10 49 (1.39%) Security Posture
11 47 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
12 42 (1.19%) Algorithms
12 42 (1.19%) Virtual Team
13 39 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 39 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
13 39 (1.11%) Management Information System
13 39 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
14 38 (1.08%) Data Centre
15 32 (0.91%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 437 (12.42%) Linux
2 215 (6.11%) Windows
3 93 (2.64%) Unix
4 60 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 57 (1.62%) Windows Server
6 51 (1.45%) Android
7 44 (1.25%) Apple iOS
7 44 (1.25%) VMS
8 26 (0.74%) Amazon Linux
9 24 (0.68%) Ubuntu
10 19 (0.54%) CentOS
11 16 (0.45%) Solaris
11 16 (0.45%) Windows 10
12 11 (0.31%) zOS
13 8 (0.23%) Mac OS
14 6 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
15 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
16 3 (0.085%) AIX
16 3 (0.085%) Debian
16 3 (0.085%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,938 (55.07%) CI/CD
2 1,550 (44.05%) Agile
3 874 (24.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 703 (19.98%) Problem-Solving
5 660 (18.76%) Containerisation
6 545 (15.49%) Test Automation
7 510 (14.49%) Microservices
8 448 (12.73%) Scrum
9 383 (10.88%) Migration
10 376 (10.68%) Continuous Improvement
11 373 (10.60%) Analytics
12 355 (10.09%) Software Engineering
13 319 (9.07%) AI
14 293 (8.33%) Observability
15 281 (7.99%) Stakeholder Management
16 267 (7.59%) Mentoring
17 239 (6.79%) SDLC
18 238 (6.76%) DevSecOps
19 235 (6.68%) Data Pipeline
19 235 (6.68%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,140 (32.40%) Python
2 689 (19.58%) SQL
3 487 (13.84%) Java
4 381 (10.83%) JavaScript
5 345 (9.80%) C#
6 328 (9.32%) Bash
7 324 (9.21%) PowerShell
8 236 (6.71%) TypeScript
9 161 (4.58%) Go
10 103 (2.93%) Bicep
11 69 (1.96%) PL/SQL
12 63 (1.79%) Groovy
13 62 (1.76%) Shell Script
14 51 (1.45%) C++
15 44 (1.25%) Perl
16 39 (1.11%) Scala
17 38 (1.08%) Ruby
18 31 (0.88%) Kotlin
18 31 (0.88%) T-SQL
19 25 (0.71%) PHP
Qualifications
1 978 (27.79%) Security Cleared
2 811 (23.05%) SC Cleared
3 303 (8.61%) Degree
4 165 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 139 (3.95%) Azure Certification
6 123 (3.50%) AWS Certification
7 118 (3.35%) DV Cleared
8 67 (1.90%) Master's Degree
9 61 (1.73%) CISSP
10 55 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
11 52 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
12 41 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 40 (1.14%) CISM
14 33 (0.94%) ISTQB
15 31 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
16 27 (0.77%) PMI Certification
17 22 (0.63%) PMP
18 21 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 17 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
20 15 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 312 (8.87%) QA
2 134 (3.81%) GDPR
3 108 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 101 (2.87%) Data Quality
5 91 (2.59%) NIST
6 83 (2.36%) Accessibility
7 42 (1.19%) NCSC
8 23 (0.65%) HIPAA
9 22 (0.63%) PCI DSS
10 19 (0.54%) WCAG
11 16 (0.45%) SLA
12 14 (0.40%) MiFID
12 14 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 13 (0.37%) PSD2
14 12 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
14 12 (0.34%) ISO 20022
14 12 (0.34%) SEPA
14 12 (0.34%) SOC 2
15 11 (0.31%) EU AI Act
15 11 (0.31%) PMO
System Software
1 890 (25.29%) Docker
2 174 (4.94%) Active Directory
3 76 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 55 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (0.74%) vSphere
6 24 (0.68%) DFS Replication
7 15 (0.43%) Postfix
8 14 (0.40%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.37%) Squid
10 12 (0.34%) Dovecot
10 12 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
11 11 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
12 8 (0.23%) GPFS
12 8 (0.23%) Hyper-V
12 8 (0.23%) Lustre
12 8 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 8 (0.23%) Tivoli Directory Server
12 8 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
13 7 (0.20%) NFS
13 7 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1,052 (29.89%) Terraform
2 992 (28.19%) Kubernetes
3 464 (13.19%) Ansible
4 255 (7.25%) Grafana
5 249 (7.08%) Prometheus
6 80 (2.27%) Puppet
7 66 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
8 65 (1.85%) Argo
9 50 (1.42%) Progress Chef
10 42 (1.19%) Kibana
11 39 (1.11%) Packer
12 25 (0.71%) Istio
13 21 (0.60%) ITRS Geneos
14 20 (0.57%) Podman
15 17 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
15 17 (0.48%) Proxmox
15 17 (0.48%) SCCM
16 16 (0.45%) CA Endevor
16 16 (0.45%) Nessus
17 15 (0.43%) logstash
Vendors
1 615 (17.48%) Microsoft
2 259 (7.36%) Oracle
3 203 (5.77%) Google
4 182 (5.17%) Splunk
5 163 (4.63%) Databricks
6 148 (4.21%) ServiceNow
7 104 (2.96%) VMware
8 98 (2.78%) Salesforce
9 94 (2.67%) SAP
10 91 (2.59%) Red Hat
11 56 (1.59%) Dynatrace
12 48 (1.36%) IBM
12 48 (1.36%) MuleSoft
13 45 (1.28%) F5
14 41 (1.17%) Atlassian
15 39 (1.11%) OpenAI
16 38 (1.08%) Palo Alto
17 36 (1.02%) CyberArk
17 36 (1.02%) Talend
18 34 (0.97%) Denodo