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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 14 14
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,791 3,022 3,233
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.29% 10.95% 10.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.15% 12.05% 11.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,296 2,141 2,177
10th Percentile £381 £363 £400
25th Percentile £440 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £551
Median % change year-on-year - -4.63% -5.09%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £706 £720 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 20 63
10th Percentile £37.25 £41.75 £55.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £58.25 £65.00
Median hourly rate £68.22 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.81% -4.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £78.13 £90.31 £74.22
90th Percentile £93.75 £96.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £68.88 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +2.80% -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 39,416 25,077 27,731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.69% 90.84% 86.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,046 15,915 17,172
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% -2.61% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £626 £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 2,836 1,513 1,250
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.72 £17.87 £20.14
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.27%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.12 £66.58
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 23 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 23 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 23 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 2,537 £550 - 2,012
North of England -3 779 £500 +5.26% 719
South East -12 450 £536 +7.20% 557
Midlands -6 433 £488 -2.50% 293
Yorkshire -2 386 £500 +3.09% 213
West Midlands -7 345 £500 -3.85% 177
South West +2 319 £550 +4.76% 298
North West -4 300 £525 +14.69% 399
East of England +4 156 £503 -3.73% 201
North East +11 108 £450 -18.18% 111
East Midlands -5 85 £470 +4.44% 116
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
1 285 (5.95%) Confluence
2 145 (3.03%) SharePoint
3 123 (2.57%) Apache Airflow
4 114 (2.38%) Apache Spark
5 98 (2.05%) 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 63 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
3 46 (0.96%) MS Visio
4 33 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 27 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
6 13 (0.27%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.17%) CPLEX
7 8 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.15%) Windchill
9 6 (0.13%) Trello
10 5 (0.10%) Notion
11 2 (0.042%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.042%) Gliffy
11 2 (0.042%) Mingle
12 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
12 1 (0.021%) Mozilla Thunderbird
12 1 (0.021%) Sketch
12 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 71 (1.48%) 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 2,581 (53.87%) Azure
2 1,679 (35.04%) AWS
3 1,493 (31.16%) Azure DevOps
4 805 (16.80%) GitHub
5 626 (13.07%) GCP
6 511 (10.67%) GitHub Actions
7 430 (8.98%) Power Platform
8 400 (8.35%) Serverless
9 250 (5.22%) Amazon S3
10 241 (5.03%) AWS Lambda
11 236 (4.93%) Entra ID
12 205 (4.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 191 (3.99%) Amazon EKS
14 183 (3.82%) Azure AKS
15 172 (3.59%) AWS CloudFormation
15 172 (3.59%) Azure Monitor
16 168 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
16 168 (3.51%) Dynamics 365
17 158 (3.30%) Amazon EC2
18 154 (3.21%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 222 (4.63%) Firewall
2 144 (3.01%) DNS
3 110 (2.30%) VPN
4 106 (2.21%) 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
3 245 (5.11%) PostgreSQL
4 184 (3.84%) Data Warehouse
5 159 (3.32%) NoSQL
6 149 (3.11%) Data Lake
7 146 (3.05%) MongoDB
8 144 (3.01%) Relational Database
9 117 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
9 117 (2.44%) Metadata
10 82 (1.71%) Delta Lake
11 80 (1.67%) DynamoDB
12 77 (1.61%) Oracle Database
13 75 (1.57%) MySQL
14 73 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
15 69 (1.44%) Redis
16 56 (1.17%) 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 (14.30%) Git
2 656 (13.69%) Jenkins
3 548 (11.44%) GitLab
4 538 (11.23%) JIRA
5 126 (2.63%) Selenium
6 89 (1.86%) SonarQube
7 81 (1.69%) JUnit
7 81 (1.69%) Maven
8 79 (1.65%) Postman
9 66 (1.38%) 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 37 (0.77%) Visual Studio
16 36 (0.75%) Claude Code
17 35 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,258 (26.26%) Social Skills
2 884 (18.45%) Finance
3 628 (13.11%) Public Sector
4 474 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
5 349 (7.28%) Banking
6 148 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 105 (2.19%) Retail
8 83 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
9 77 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
10 56 (1.17%) Aerospace
10 56 (1.17%) Marketing
11 52 (1.09%) Legal
11 52 (1.09%) Military
12 51 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
13 45 (0.94%) Telecoms
14 43 (0.90%) Investment Banking
15 41 (0.86%) Law
15 41 (0.86%) Manufacturing
16 39 (0.81%) Local Government
17 37 (0.77%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 911 (19.01%) DevOps Engineer
2 746 (15.57%) Senior
3 743 (15.51%) Developer
4 572 (11.94%) Architect
5 467 (9.75%) Lead
6 295 (6.16%) Azure Engineer
7 274 (5.72%) Data Engineer
8 235 (4.91%) Analyst
9 198 (4.13%) AWS Engineer
10 187 (3.90%) Platform Engineer
11 178 (3.72%) Cloud Engineer
12 168 (3.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 168 (3.51%) Senior DevOps
13 161 (3.36%) Solutions Architect
14 155 (3.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 141 (2.94%) Java Developer
16 134 (2.80%) AWS DevOps
17 133 (2.78%) Software Engineer
18 132 (2.76%) Senior Developer
19 123 (2.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,407 (29.37%) Terraform
2 523 (10.92%) REST
3 402 (8.39%) .NET
4 332 (6.93%) Kafka
5 273 (5.70%) RESTful
6 252 (5.26%) React
7 243 (5.07%) Spring
8 240 (5.01%) Spring Boot
9 160 (3.34%) JSON
9 160 (3.34%) Node.js
10 156 (3.26%) OAuth
11 139 (2.90%) PySpark
12 129 (2.69%) Playwright
13 118 (2.46%) HTML
14 117 (2.44%) .NET Framework
14 117 (2.44%) SOAP
15 112 (2.34%) CSS
16 105 (2.19%) OAuth2
17 99 (2.07%) Middleware
18 98 (2.05%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 877 (18.31%) Cloud Native
2 369 (7.70%) Product Ownership
3 222 (4.63%) Distributed Systems
4 181 (3.78%) Enterprise Software
4 181 (3.78%) Onboarding
5 137 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
6 123 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
7 100 (2.09%) AI Agents
8 85 (1.77%) Management Information System
9 69 (1.44%) Security Posture
10 68 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
11 65 (1.36%) Public Cloud
12 64 (1.34%) Replication
13 63 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
13 63 (1.31%) Data Structures
14 60 (1.25%) Data Centre
15 56 (1.17%) Virtual Team
16 51 (1.06%) Mobile App
17 45 (0.94%) PKI
18 42 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 480 (10.02%) Linux
2 277 (5.78%) Windows
3 114 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 93 (1.94%) 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 2,867 (59.84%) CI/CD
2 1,953 (40.76%) Agile
3 1,404 (29.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 840 (17.53%) Stakeholder Management
5 825 (17.22%) Continuous Improvement
6 791 (16.51%) AI
7 778 (16.24%) Containerisation
8 769 (16.05%) Test Automation
9 761 (15.88%) Problem-Solving
10 704 (14.69%) Microservices
11 685 (14.30%) Observability
12 649 (13.55%) Software Engineering
13 640 (13.36%) Platform Engineering
14 592 (12.36%) Scrum
15 577 (12.04%) Migration
16 546 (11.40%) Technical Leadership
17 517 (10.79%) Analytics
18 455 (9.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 446 (9.31%) Roadmaps
20 425 (8.87%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,407 (29.37%) Python
2 845 (17.64%) SQL
3 705 (14.72%) Java
4 435 (9.08%) PowerShell
5 434 (9.06%) C#
6 415 (8.66%) Bash
7 392 (8.18%) JavaScript
8 272 (5.68%) TypeScript
9 219 (4.57%) Bicep
10 88 (1.84%) Go
11 64 (1.34%) Shell Script
12 57 (1.19%) Groovy
13 56 (1.17%) T-SQL
14 54 (1.13%) Scala
15 47 (0.98%) PL/SQL
16 45 (0.94%) Apex Code
17 34 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 30 (0.63%) C++
18 30 (0.63%) Perl
19 24 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1,541 (32.16%) Security Cleared
2 1,290 (26.93%) SC Cleared
3 335 (6.99%) Degree
4 218 (4.55%) Azure Certification
5 212 (4.42%) DV Cleared
6 169 (3.53%) AWS Certification
7 142 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 127 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 110 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 75 (1.57%) CISSP
11 50 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
11 50 (1.04%) ISTQB
12 44 (0.92%) PMP
13 43 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 41 (0.86%) Master's Degree
15 37 (0.77%) PMI Certification
16 31 (0.65%) CISM
17 21 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 20 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 20 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 483 (10.08%) QA
2 252 (5.26%) 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 75 (1.57%) NIST
8 48 (1.00%) NCSC
9 46 (0.96%) PMO
10 32 (0.67%) SLA
11 27 (0.56%) GRC
11 27 (0.56%) PCI DSS
12 20 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 19 (0.40%) ISO 20022
14 15 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
15 14 (0.29%) HIPAA
16 12 (0.25%) SEPA
16 12 (0.25%) SOC 2
17 11 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
18 9 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 960 (20.04%) Docker
2 146 (3.05%) 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 1,256 (26.22%) Kubernetes
2 476 (9.94%) Ansible
3 309 (6.45%) Grafana
4 264 (5.51%) Prometheus
5 63 (1.31%) Argo
6 54 (1.13%) Puppet
7 47 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
8 46 (0.96%) Progress Chef
8 46 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
9 32 (0.67%) Packer
10 28 (0.58%) Kibana
11 20 (0.42%) Kubeflow
12 19 (0.40%) Istio
12 19 (0.40%) Kustomize
13 16 (0.33%) SCCM
14 15 (0.31%) HP ALM
14 15 (0.31%) vCenter Server
15 13 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
15 13 (0.27%) SCOM
15 13 (0.27%) systemd
Vendors
1 967 (20.18%) Microsoft
2 266 (5.55%) Databricks
3 248 (5.18%) Google
4 240 (5.01%) Oracle
5 197 (4.11%) ServiceNow
6 167 (3.49%) Splunk
7 142 (2.96%) Salesforce
8 130 (2.71%) Dynatrace
9 103 (2.15%) VMware
10 97 (2.02%) SAP
11 94 (1.96%) Red Hat
12 68 (1.42%) IBM
13 59 (1.23%) OpenAI
14 48 (1.00%) Foundry
15 47 (0.98%) Cisco
16 41 (0.86%) Informatica
17 39 (0.81%) AppDynamics
18 35 (0.73%) MuleSoft
19 33 (0.69%) Atlassian
19 33 (0.69%) Okta