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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 15 14
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,809 2,997 3,306
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.38% 10.78% 10.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.24% 11.87% 11.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,308 2,138 2,253
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% -5.62%
75th Percentile £625 £626 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.01% -5.50% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 23 67
10th Percentile £37.24 £44.25 £55.60
25th Percentile £55.38 £56.50 £65.00
Median hourly rate £67.25 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.37% -4.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £85.86 £74.72
90th Percentile £94.31 £95.00 £85.41
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +0.75% -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 39,304 25,245 28,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.88% 90.83% 85.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,151 16,024 17,695
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.95% -2.87% -4.55%
75th Percentile £636 £625 £650
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 2,693 1,483 1,349
10th Percentile £14.01 £14.31 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.87 £20.22
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +2.87%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 2,546 £550 - 1,118
North of England -1 798 £500 +5.26% 378
South East -11 454 £525 +5.00% 334
Midlands -3 439 £488 -4.88% 161
Yorkshire -2 393 £500 +3.90% 117
West Midlands -6 344 £500 -4.76% 95
South West +9 316 £550 +5.26% 194
North West -3 313 £519 +15.37% 195
East of England +7 149 £505 -3.81% 103
North East +17 107 £425 -18.27% 69
East Midlands -1 92 £463 +2.78% 66
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 (6.03%) Confluence
2 133 (2.77%) SharePoint
3 126 (2.62%) Apache Airflow
4 118 (2.45%) Apache Spark
5 102 (2.12%) Apache
6 54 (1.12%) SAS
7 41 (0.85%) CMS
8 35 (0.73%) Jupyter
9 27 (0.56%) IIS
10 23 (0.48%) nginx
11 19 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
12 14 (0.29%) Camunda
13 13 (0.27%) OpenStack
14 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
15 10 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
15 10 (0.21%) WebSphere
16 9 (0.19%) Anypoint
16 9 (0.19%) Appian
17 8 (0.17%) WebLogic
18 7 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 61 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
3 42 (0.87%) MS Visio
4 32 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 30 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
6 9 (0.19%) Chatbot
6 9 (0.19%) CPLEX
6 9 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.15%) Trello
8 5 (0.10%) Notion
8 5 (0.10%) Windchill
9 2 (0.042%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.042%) Mingle
10 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
10 1 (0.021%) Gliffy
10 1 (0.021%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.021%) Sketch
10 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 65 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 10 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.19%) Magento
6 7 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 6 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
7 6 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.10%) Aladdin
8 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
8 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
9 4 (0.083%) Endur
9 4 (0.083%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.083%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.062%) Findur
10 3 (0.062%) Maximo
10 3 (0.062%) Oracle EBS R12
10 3 (0.062%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 3 (0.062%) Shopify
10 3 (0.062%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,618 (54.44%) Azure
2 1,683 (35.00%) AWS
3 1,506 (31.32%) Azure DevOps
4 828 (17.22%) GitHub
5 610 (12.68%) GCP
6 522 (10.85%) GitHub Actions
7 425 (8.84%) Power Platform
8 399 (8.30%) Serverless
9 254 (5.28%) Amazon S3
10 240 (4.99%) AWS Lambda
11 230 (4.78%) Entra ID
12 196 (4.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 184 (3.83%) Azure Data Factory
14 181 (3.76%) Amazon EKS
15 179 (3.72%) Azure AKS
16 175 (3.64%) Azure Monitor
17 174 (3.62%) AWS CloudFormation
18 161 (3.35%) Dynamics 365
19 158 (3.29%) Amazon EC2
20 146 (3.04%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 230 (4.78%) Firewall
2 151 (3.14%) DNS
3 112 (2.33%) VPN
4 105 (2.18%) Network Security
5 65 (1.35%) TCP/IP
6 47 (0.98%) SSL
6 47 (0.98%) WAN
7 40 (0.83%) DHCP
8 32 (0.67%) SD-WAN
9 29 (0.60%) BGP
9 29 (0.60%) HTTP
9 29 (0.60%) Internet
10 28 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
11 23 (0.48%) SSH
12 21 (0.44%) OSPF
13 19 (0.40%) SAN
13 19 (0.40%) VLAN
14 16 (0.33%) BIG-IP
14 16 (0.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 15 (0.31%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 293 (6.09%) Power BI
2 261 (5.43%) SQL Server
3 245 (5.09%) PostgreSQL
4 187 (3.89%) Data Warehouse
5 164 (3.41%) NoSQL
6 154 (3.20%) Data Lake
7 151 (3.14%) Relational Database
8 146 (3.04%) MongoDB
9 116 (2.41%) Metadata
10 115 (2.39%) Amazon RDS
11 88 (1.83%) Delta Lake
12 85 (1.77%) Azure SQL Database
13 81 (1.68%) DynamoDB
14 79 (1.64%) Oracle Database
15 71 (1.48%) MySQL
16 66 (1.37%) Redis
17 57 (1.19%) Big Data
18 56 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
19 52 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
20 51 (1.06%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 661 (13.75%) Jenkins
2 659 (13.70%) Git
3 561 (11.67%) JIRA
4 538 (11.19%) GitLab
5 115 (2.39%) Selenium
6 88 (1.83%) SonarQube
7 80 (1.66%) Maven
7 80 (1.66%) Postman
8 79 (1.64%) JUnit
9 68 (1.41%) Bitbucket
10 59 (1.23%) JMeter
10 59 (1.23%) REST Assured
11 58 (1.21%) Cypress.io
12 55 (1.14%) Gradle
13 52 (1.08%) Cucumber
14 45 (0.94%) Gatling
15 41 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
16 39 (0.81%) Mockito
17 38 (0.79%) LoadRunner
18 34 (0.71%) Claude Code
General
1 1,261 (26.22%) Social Skills
2 895 (18.61%) Finance
3 641 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 472 (9.81%) Analytical Skills
5 342 (7.11%) Banking
6 142 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 105 (2.18%) Retail
8 82 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
9 72 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
10 56 (1.16%) Marketing
11 54 (1.12%) Legal
11 54 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
12 51 (1.06%) Aerospace
13 50 (1.04%) Military
14 47 (0.98%) Investment Banking
15 44 (0.91%) Telecoms
16 42 (0.87%) Front Office
17 41 (0.85%) Law
18 38 (0.79%) Local Government
18 38 (0.79%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 898 (18.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 747 (15.53%) Developer
3 744 (15.47%) Senior
4 559 (11.62%) Architect
5 476 (9.90%) Lead
6 300 (6.24%) Azure Engineer
7 289 (6.01%) Data Engineer
8 237 (4.93%) Analyst
9 197 (4.10%) AWS Engineer
10 196 (4.08%) Platform Engineer
11 179 (3.72%) Cloud Engineer
12 166 (3.45%) Senior DevOps
13 163 (3.39%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 161 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
15 154 (3.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 145 (3.02%) Java Developer
17 138 (2.87%) Senior Developer
18 134 (2.79%) Software Engineer
19 131 (2.72%) AWS DevOps
20 120 (2.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,393 (28.97%) Terraform
2 503 (10.46%) REST
3 410 (8.53%) .NET
4 332 (6.90%) Kafka
5 270 (5.61%) RESTful
6 252 (5.24%) React
7 243 (5.05%) Spring
8 235 (4.89%) Spring Boot
9 160 (3.33%) JSON
10 154 (3.20%) Node.js
11 148 (3.08%) PySpark
12 139 (2.89%) OAuth
13 133 (2.77%) Playwright
14 120 (2.50%) .NET Framework
15 118 (2.45%) HTML
16 113 (2.35%) CSS
17 111 (2.31%) SOAP
18 102 (2.12%) AngularJS
19 95 (1.98%) YAML
20 93 (1.93%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 884 (18.38%) Cloud Native
2 374 (7.78%) Product Ownership
3 223 (4.64%) Distributed Systems
4 168 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
5 162 (3.37%) Onboarding
6 142 (2.95%) Hybrid Cloud
7 132 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
8 89 (1.85%) AI Agents
9 75 (1.56%) Management Information System
10 70 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
11 69 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
12 66 (1.37%) Replication
13 65 (1.35%) Data Structures
13 65 (1.35%) Security Posture
14 62 (1.29%) Public Cloud
15 55 (1.14%) Data Centre
16 54 (1.12%) Virtual Team
17 52 (1.08%) Mobile App
18 42 (0.87%) PKI
19 40 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 466 (9.69%) Linux
2 272 (5.66%) Windows
3 107 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 98 (2.04%) Unix
5 84 (1.75%) Windows Server
6 32 (0.67%) Apple iOS
7 31 (0.64%) Ubuntu
8 29 (0.60%) VMS
9 22 (0.46%) Android
10 10 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
11 9 (0.19%) CentOS
11 9 (0.19%) zOS
12 8 (0.17%) Solaris
12 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
12 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
13 7 (0.15%) AIX
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 2,837 (58.99%) CI/CD
2 1,951 (40.57%) Agile
3 1,373 (28.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 818 (17.01%) Continuous Improvement
5 799 (16.61%) Stakeholder Management
6 777 (16.16%) Containerisation
7 770 (16.01%) Problem-Solving
8 753 (15.66%) AI
8 753 (15.66%) Test Automation
9 706 (14.68%) Microservices
10 656 (13.64%) Observability
11 639 (13.29%) Software Engineering
12 625 (13.00%) Platform Engineering
13 592 (12.31%) Scrum
14 581 (12.08%) Migration
15 525 (10.92%) Analytics
16 520 (10.81%) Technical Leadership
17 456 (9.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 439 (9.13%) Roadmaps
19 421 (8.75%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,414 (29.40%) Python
2 883 (18.36%) SQL
3 701 (14.58%) Java
4 440 (9.15%) PowerShell
5 426 (8.86%) C#
6 415 (8.63%) Bash
7 380 (7.90%) JavaScript
8 263 (5.47%) TypeScript
9 214 (4.45%) Bicep
10 75 (1.56%) Go
11 68 (1.41%) Shell Script
12 58 (1.21%) T-SQL
13 56 (1.16%) Scala
14 54 (1.12%) Groovy
15 49 (1.02%) Apex Code
15 49 (1.02%) PL/SQL
16 33 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 31 (0.64%) Perl
18 29 (0.60%) C++
19 24 (0.50%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,532 (31.86%) Security Cleared
2 1,281 (26.64%) SC Cleared
3 318 (6.61%) Degree
4 208 (4.33%) Azure Certification
5 198 (4.12%) DV Cleared
6 163 (3.39%) AWS Certification
7 140 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
8 119 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
9 102 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
10 72 (1.50%) CISSP
11 47 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
11 47 (0.98%) ISTQB
12 44 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 40 (0.83%) PMP
14 35 (0.73%) PMI Certification
15 33 (0.69%) Master's Degree
16 29 (0.60%) CISM
17 21 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 21 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
18 20 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 485 (10.09%) QA
2 257 (5.34%) Data Quality
3 159 (3.31%) Accessibility
4 115 (2.39%) GDPR
5 90 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 78 (1.62%) NIST
6 78 (1.62%) WCAG
7 49 (1.02%) PMO
8 45 (0.94%) NCSC
9 34 (0.71%) SLA
10 29 (0.60%) PCI DSS
11 27 (0.56%) GRC
12 21 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 16 (0.33%) ISO 20022
14 12 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
15 10 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
15 10 (0.21%) HIPAA
16 9 (0.19%) HL7
16 9 (0.19%) SEPA
17 8 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 972 (20.21%) Docker
2 154 (3.20%) Active Directory
3 72 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
4 69 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 22 (0.46%) Hyper-V
5 22 (0.46%) vSphere
6 20 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
7 17 (0.35%) VMware NSX
8 16 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (0.27%) Squid
10 11 (0.23%) IAG
11 9 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
11 9 (0.19%) Postfix
12 7 (0.15%) KVM
13 6 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 6 (0.12%) Corosync
13 6 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
14 5 (0.10%) Firmware
15 4 (0.083%) Embedded Firmware
15 4 (0.083%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,253 (26.06%) Kubernetes
2 479 (9.96%) Ansible
3 311 (6.47%) Grafana
4 261 (5.43%) Prometheus
5 71 (1.48%) Argo
6 56 (1.16%) Puppet
7 49 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
8 47 (0.98%) Progress Chef
9 42 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
10 30 (0.62%) Packer
11 23 (0.48%) Kibana
12 21 (0.44%) Istio
13 19 (0.40%) Kustomize
13 19 (0.40%) vCenter Server
14 18 (0.37%) Kubeflow
14 18 (0.37%) SCCM
15 14 (0.29%) HP ALM
15 14 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
16 13 (0.27%) SCOM
16 13 (0.27%) systemd
Vendors
1 959 (19.94%) Microsoft
2 269 (5.59%) Databricks
3 249 (5.18%) Oracle
4 234 (4.87%) Google
5 188 (3.91%) ServiceNow
6 165 (3.43%) Splunk
7 144 (2.99%) Salesforce
8 127 (2.64%) Dynatrace
9 105 (2.18%) VMware
10 102 (2.12%) Red Hat
11 94 (1.95%) SAP
12 63 (1.31%) IBM
13 51 (1.06%) OpenAI
14 50 (1.04%) Informatica
15 42 (0.87%) Cisco
15 42 (0.87%) Foundry
16 41 (0.85%) AppDynamics
17 36 (0.75%) Atlassian
18 34 (0.71%) MuleSoft
19 32 (0.67%) CyberArk