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 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 16 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,531 2,485 3,561
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.58% 10.06% 9.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.43% 11.01% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,178 1,800 2,450
10th Percentile £390 £376 £400
25th Percentile £440 £447 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £618 £650 £650
90th Percentile £703 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 11 116
10th Percentile £39.53 £35.00 £56.58
25th Percentile £61.00 £51.25 £61.60
Median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £66.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +5.26% +1.36%
75th Percentile £77.50 £85.86 £75.63
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 £86.32
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £76.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year -7.89% +12.59% +2.97%

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 36,463 22,562 32,057
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.13% 91.37% 85.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,069 14,583 20,746
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £507 £525
% change year-on-year +1.08% -3.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,280 1,047 2,378
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.81 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.50 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year +70.91% -27.15% +7.43%
75th Percentile £68.00 £57.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £26.75 £37.18
% change year-on-year +64.34% -28.05% +6.23%

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 15 June 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 15 June 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 15 June 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 +4 2,327 £550 - 658
North of England +7 832 £500 - 312
South East -3 459 £513 +2.50% 296
Yorkshire +2 450 £501 +0.20% 98
Midlands +4 420 £488 -2.50% 138
West Midlands -1 331 £500 -2.44% 91
North West +1 310 £500 +1.63% 169
South West +16 284 £525 -4.55% 130
East of England +23 131 £525 +7.69% 88
North East +11 90 £450 -16.28% 50
East Midlands -2 85 £465 +0.54% 47
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
1 260 (5.74%) Confluence
2 126 (2.78%) Apache Spark
3 111 (2.45%) SharePoint
4 94 (2.07%) Apache Airflow
5 89 (1.96%) Apache
6 76 (1.68%) SAS
7 46 (1.02%) CMS
8 27 (0.60%) Jupyter
8 27 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
9 26 (0.57%) IIS
9 26 (0.57%) nginx
10 15 (0.33%) OpenStack
11 14 (0.31%) Camunda
12 13 (0.29%) WebSphere
13 11 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
14 9 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
15 8 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
16 7 (0.15%) Mendix
16 7 (0.15%) Tomcat
17 6 (0.13%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 69 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
3 46 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
5 26 (0.57%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.18%) CPLEX
7 7 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.088%) Notion
9 3 (0.066%) Trello
10 2 (0.044%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.044%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.022%) InDesign
11 1 (0.022%) Maya
11 1 (0.022%) Weka
Business Applications
1 59 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
4 10 (0.22%) Maximo
5 9 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
6 8 (0.18%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
7 7 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
8 6 (0.13%) Endur
9 5 (0.11%) Magento
10 4 (0.088%) Oracle EBS
10 4 (0.088%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 3 (0.066%) Findur
11 3 (0.066%) NEC Housing
11 3 (0.066%) OpenText MBPM
11 3 (0.066%) Oracle BPM
11 3 (0.066%) Salesforce CRM
11 3 (0.066%) SAP BPC
11 3 (0.066%) SAP ERP
11 3 (0.066%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 2,408 (53.15%) Azure
2 1,559 (34.41%) AWS
3 1,324 (29.22%) Azure DevOps
4 740 (16.33%) GitHub
5 562 (12.40%) GCP
6 440 (9.71%) GitHub Actions
7 403 (8.89%) Serverless
8 388 (8.56%) Power Platform
9 251 (5.54%) Amazon S3
10 221 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
11 216 (4.77%) Entra ID
12 192 (4.24%) AWS CloudFormation
13 184 (4.06%) Azure AKS
14 175 (3.86%) Azure Data Factory
15 162 (3.58%) Amazon EKS
16 148 (3.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 145 (3.20%) OpenShift
18 144 (3.18%) Amazon EC2
19 141 (3.11%) PaaS
20 137 (3.02%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 225 (4.97%) Firewall
2 125 (2.76%) DNS
3 99 (2.18%) Network Security
4 96 (2.12%) VPN
5 46 (1.02%) WAN
6 45 (0.99%) TCP/IP
7 36 (0.79%) SD-WAN
8 31 (0.68%) BGP
9 28 (0.62%) SSL
10 27 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
11 24 (0.53%) DHCP
11 24 (0.53%) OSPF
12 22 (0.49%) Internet
13 19 (0.42%) SAN
14 17 (0.38%) HTTP
14 17 (0.38%) IPsec
14 17 (0.38%) VXLAN
15 16 (0.35%) LAN
15 16 (0.35%) MPLS
16 15 (0.33%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 255 (5.63%) Power BI
2 226 (4.99%) SQL Server
3 222 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
4 160 (3.53%) NoSQL
5 153 (3.38%) Data Lake
6 142 (3.13%) Relational Database
7 132 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
8 125 (2.76%) MongoDB
9 99 (2.18%) Amazon RDS
10 87 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
11 83 (1.83%) Delta Lake
12 76 (1.68%) DynamoDB
13 75 (1.66%) Metadata
14 68 (1.50%) Oracle Database
15 64 (1.41%) Redis
16 59 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
17 56 (1.24%) Big Data
18 55 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
19 48 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
19 48 (1.06%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 623 (13.75%) Jenkins
2 570 (12.58%) Git
3 532 (11.74%) JIRA
4 471 (10.40%) GitLab
5 88 (1.94%) Selenium
6 81 (1.79%) Postman
7 80 (1.77%) SonarQube
8 77 (1.70%) JUnit
9 63 (1.39%) Bitbucket
10 61 (1.35%) Maven
11 57 (1.26%) REST Assured
12 48 (1.06%) Cucumber
13 45 (0.99%) JMeter
14 42 (0.93%) Artifactory
15 41 (0.90%) Gatling
16 39 (0.86%) Gradle
17 36 (0.79%) Cypress.io
18 35 (0.77%) Mockito
19 30 (0.66%) LoadRunner
19 30 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,158 (25.56%) Social Skills
2 872 (19.25%) Finance
3 576 (12.71%) Public Sector
4 381 (8.41%) Analytical Skills
5 313 (6.91%) Banking
6 135 (2.98%) Documentation Skills
7 86 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 72 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
9 69 (1.52%) Retail
10 53 (1.17%) Legal
10 53 (1.17%) Marketing
11 49 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
12 47 (1.04%) Financial Institution
13 41 (0.90%) Military
14 39 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
15 36 (0.79%) Investment Banking
16 35 (0.77%) Law
17 29 (0.64%) Front Office
18 25 (0.55%) Aerospace
19 23 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 898 (19.82%) DevOps Engineer
2 655 (14.46%) Developer
3 641 (14.15%) Senior
4 557 (12.29%) Architect
5 420 (9.27%) Lead
6 299 (6.60%) Azure Engineer
7 281 (6.20%) Data Engineer
8 274 (6.05%) Analyst
9 199 (4.39%) AWS Engineer
10 177 (3.91%) Cloud Engineer
11 175 (3.86%) Solutions Architect
12 169 (3.73%) Platform Engineer
13 150 (3.31%) Senior DevOps
14 147 (3.24%) Business Analyst
15 146 (3.22%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 141 (3.11%) AWS DevOps
17 136 (3.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 135 (2.98%) Java Developer
19 133 (2.94%) Software Engineer
20 131 (2.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 412 (9.09%) REST
2 372 (8.21%) .NET
3 263 (5.80%) Kafka
4 254 (5.61%) React
4 254 (5.61%) Spring
5 241 (5.32%) Spring Boot
6 209 (4.61%) RESTful
7 202 (4.46%) Node.js
8 147 (3.24%) AngularJS
9 134 (2.96%) PySpark
10 126 (2.78%) OAuth
11 120 (2.65%) Playwright
12 119 (2.63%) YAML
13 117 (2.58%) JSON
14 106 (2.34%) SOAP
15 100 (2.21%) .NET Framework
16 98 (2.16%) HTML
17 96 (2.12%) Middleware
18 91 (2.01%) OpenID
19 85 (1.88%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 776 (17.13%) Cloud Native
2 284 (6.27%) Product Ownership
3 191 (4.22%) Distributed Systems
4 122 (2.69%) Onboarding
5 113 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
6 103 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
7 99 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
8 83 (1.83%) Public Cloud
9 68 (1.50%) Data Centre
9 68 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
10 58 (1.28%) Management Information System
11 52 (1.15%) Mobile App
12 50 (1.10%) Security Posture
12 50 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
13 47 (1.04%) AI Agents
14 41 (0.90%) Data Structures
14 41 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
15 40 (0.88%) Replication
16 39 (0.86%) Virtual Team
17 38 (0.84%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 389 (8.59%) Linux
2 232 (5.12%) Windows
3 91 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 68 (1.50%) Unix
5 50 (1.10%) Windows Server
6 29 (0.64%) Ubuntu
7 28 (0.62%) VMS
8 22 (0.49%) Apple iOS
9 17 (0.38%) Android
10 14 (0.31%) CentOS
11 10 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
12 9 (0.20%) Solaris
13 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
13 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
15 4 (0.088%) Alpine Linux
15 4 (0.088%) Data ONTAP
15 4 (0.088%) Windows 10
16 3 (0.066%) Oracle Linux
16 3 (0.066%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,574 (56.81%) CI/CD
2 1,659 (36.61%) Agile
3 1,195 (26.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 714 (15.76%) Containerisation
5 691 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
6 651 (14.37%) Microservices
7 625 (13.79%) Test Automation
8 619 (13.66%) Continuous Improvement
9 566 (12.49%) Stakeholder Management
10 561 (12.38%) Observability
11 554 (12.23%) Migration
12 552 (12.18%) AI
13 532 (11.74%) Analytics
14 513 (11.32%) Scrum
15 474 (10.46%) Software Engineering
16 460 (10.15%) Platform Engineering
17 416 (9.18%) Data Modelling
18 380 (8.39%) Mentoring
18 380 (8.39%) Roadmaps
19 377 (8.32%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1,263 (27.87%) Python
2 882 (19.47%) SQL
3 631 (13.93%) Java
4 409 (9.03%) C#
5 335 (7.39%) PowerShell
6 330 (7.28%) Bash
7 314 (6.93%) JavaScript
8 222 (4.90%) TypeScript
9 150 (3.31%) Bicep
10 91 (2.01%) Go
11 61 (1.35%) Scala
12 56 (1.24%) Shell Script
13 48 (1.06%) Apex Code
14 47 (1.04%) T-SQL
15 45 (0.99%) PL/SQL
16 39 (0.86%) Groovy
17 25 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 24 (0.53%) Kotlin
19 23 (0.51%) C++
20 22 (0.49%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,452 (32.05%) Security Cleared
2 1,209 (26.68%) SC Cleared
3 288 (6.36%) Degree
4 193 (4.26%) Azure Certification
5 148 (3.27%) DV Cleared
6 145 (3.20%) AWS Certification
7 118 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
8 117 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
9 74 (1.63%) CISSP
10 66 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
11 43 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
11 43 (0.95%) CISM
12 42 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 42 (0.93%) ISTQB
13 37 (0.82%) Master's Degree
13 37 (0.82%) PMI Certification
14 36 (0.79%) PMP
15 23 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
16 22 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
17 21 (0.46%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 377 (8.32%) QA
2 216 (4.77%) Data Quality
3 158 (3.49%) GDPR
4 121 (2.67%) Accessibility
5 116 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 111 (2.45%) NIST
7 65 (1.43%) NCSC
8 58 (1.28%) WCAG
9 48 (1.06%) PCI DSS
10 40 (0.88%) SLA
11 29 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 25 (0.55%) GRC
13 24 (0.53%) PMO
14 16 (0.35%) HIPAA
15 14 (0.31%) SOC 2
16 12 (0.26%) ISO 20022
16 12 (0.26%) PSD2
17 11 (0.24%) NIST 800
18 10 (0.22%) SEPA
19 7 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 875 (19.31%) Docker
2 165 (3.64%) Active Directory
3 68 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
4 66 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 31 (0.68%) vSphere
6 22 (0.49%) VMware NSX
7 18 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
8 17 (0.38%) Squid
8 17 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
9 14 (0.31%) Hyper-V
9 14 (0.31%) Postfix
10 7 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
10 7 (0.15%) RACF
11 6 (0.13%) Corosync
11 6 (0.13%) Firmware
12 5 (0.11%) KVM
12 5 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
12 5 (0.11%) SRDF
13 4 (0.088%) NFS
13 4 (0.088%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,289 (28.45%) Terraform
2 1,135 (25.05%) Kubernetes
3 457 (10.09%) Ansible
4 306 (6.75%) Grafana
5 263 (5.80%) Prometheus
6 85 (1.88%) Argo
7 73 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
8 63 (1.39%) Puppet
9 46 (1.02%) Istio
10 29 (0.64%) Progress Chef
11 28 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
11 28 (0.62%) Packer
12 25 (0.55%) vCenter Server
13 22 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 18 (0.40%) Kibana
15 16 (0.35%) Consul
16 14 (0.31%) HP ALM
16 14 (0.31%) Kustomize
17 13 (0.29%) FortiGate
18 12 (0.26%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 808 (17.83%) Microsoft
2 247 (5.45%) Databricks
3 239 (5.27%) Oracle
4 210 (4.63%) Google
5 172 (3.80%) Splunk
6 168 (3.71%) ServiceNow
7 138 (3.05%) Salesforce
8 127 (2.80%) Red Hat
9 106 (2.34%) Dynatrace
9 106 (2.34%) VMware
10 105 (2.32%) SAP
11 61 (1.35%) OpenAI
12 50 (1.10%) IBM
13 47 (1.04%) Atlassian
14 45 (0.99%) CyberArk
15 41 (0.90%) Informatica
16 38 (0.84%) AppDynamics
17 37 (0.82%) Foundry
18 34 (0.75%) Cisco
19 31 (0.68%) Okta