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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,776 2,922 3,295
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.47% 10.68% 10.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.33% 11.76% 11.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,291 2,093 2,263
10th Percentile £385 £360 £400
25th Percentile £438 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -5.98%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £517 £550
% change year-on-year +1.55% -6.00% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 24 70
10th Percentile £37.24 £37.25 £55.90
25th Percentile £55.88 £52.56 £65.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.75% -4.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £84.41 £74.33
90th Percentile £94.75 £95.00 £85.29
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 38,735 24,846 28,143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.90% 90.77% 85.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,900 15,805 17,939
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £634 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £751
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,596 1,469 1,428
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.38 £17.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.01
90th Percentile £80.00 £69.65 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +2.41%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 2,516 £550 - 2,107
North of England 0 792 £500 +5.26% 578
South East -9 456 £525 +5.00% 452
Midlands -3 450 £488 -2.50% 233
Yorkshire -1 388 £500 +2.56% 157
West Midlands -4 354 £490 -5.50% 139
South West +8 311 £546 +5.05% 299
North West -3 311 £524 +16.44% 321
East of England +15 148 £505 -3.35% 181
North East +16 108 £425 -18.27% 102
East Midlands 0 92 £463 +2.78% 94
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
1 294 (6.16%) Confluence
2 132 (2.76%) SharePoint
3 122 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
4 115 (2.41%) Apache Spark
5 103 (2.16%) Apache
6 54 (1.13%) SAS
7 40 (0.84%) CMS
8 35 (0.73%) Jupyter
9 27 (0.57%) IIS
10 22 (0.46%) nginx
11 17 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
12 15 (0.31%) Camunda
13 13 (0.27%) OpenStack
14 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
14 11 (0.23%) WebSphere
15 10 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
16 9 (0.19%) Anypoint
16 9 (0.19%) Appian
17 6 (0.13%) Documentum
17 6 (0.13%) Mule
Applications
1 62 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
3 42 (0.88%) MS Visio
4 33 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 30 (0.63%) 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 1 (0.021%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
9 1 (0.021%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.021%) Mingle
9 1 (0.021%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 65 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 9 (0.19%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.19%) Magento
5 8 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 6 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
7 6 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
8 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
9 4 (0.084%) Endur
9 4 (0.084%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.084%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.063%) Findur
10 3 (0.063%) Maximo
10 3 (0.063%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.063%) Shopify
10 3 (0.063%) Teamcenter
11 2 (0.042%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 2,609 (54.63%) Azure
2 1,668 (34.92%) AWS
3 1,515 (31.72%) Azure DevOps
4 813 (17.02%) GitHub
5 598 (12.52%) GCP
6 513 (10.74%) GitHub Actions
7 428 (8.96%) Power Platform
8 394 (8.25%) Serverless
9 247 (5.17%) Amazon S3
10 236 (4.94%) AWS Lambda
11 231 (4.84%) Entra ID
12 192 (4.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 182 (3.81%) Azure AKS
14 181 (3.79%) Azure Data Factory
15 179 (3.75%) Amazon EKS
16 175 (3.66%) AWS CloudFormation
16 175 (3.66%) Azure Monitor
17 160 (3.35%) Dynamics 365
18 150 (3.14%) Amazon EC2
18 150 (3.14%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 234 (4.90%) Firewall
2 150 (3.14%) DNS
3 115 (2.41%) VPN
4 106 (2.22%) Network Security
5 67 (1.40%) TCP/IP
6 51 (1.07%) WAN
7 47 (0.98%) SSL
8 42 (0.88%) DHCP
9 36 (0.75%) SD-WAN
10 31 (0.65%) BGP
10 31 (0.65%) Internet
11 29 (0.61%) HTTP
11 29 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
12 23 (0.48%) OSPF
12 23 (0.48%) SSH
13 20 (0.42%) VLAN
14 18 (0.38%) LAN
14 18 (0.38%) SAN
15 16 (0.34%) BIG-IP
15 16 (0.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 298 (6.24%) Power BI
2 259 (5.42%) SQL Server
3 243 (5.09%) PostgreSQL
4 185 (3.87%) Data Warehouse
5 165 (3.45%) NoSQL
6 150 (3.14%) Relational Database
7 148 (3.10%) Data Lake
8 140 (2.93%) MongoDB
9 113 (2.37%) Metadata
10 110 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
11 88 (1.84%) Azure SQL Database
11 88 (1.84%) Delta Lake
12 78 (1.63%) DynamoDB
13 75 (1.57%) Oracle Database
14 69 (1.44%) Redis
15 68 (1.42%) MySQL
16 55 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
17 53 (1.11%) Big Data
17 53 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 52 (1.09%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 655 (13.71%) Jenkins
2 650 (13.61%) Git
3 568 (11.89%) JIRA
4 525 (10.99%) GitLab
5 116 (2.43%) Selenium
6 85 (1.78%) SonarQube
7 82 (1.72%) Postman
8 78 (1.63%) JUnit
9 77 (1.61%) Maven
10 68 (1.42%) Bitbucket
11 61 (1.28%) JMeter
12 59 (1.24%) REST Assured
13 58 (1.21%) Cypress.io
14 52 (1.09%) Gradle
15 51 (1.07%) Cucumber
16 48 (1.01%) Gatling
17 41 (0.86%) LoadRunner
18 40 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
19 38 (0.80%) Mockito
20 32 (0.67%) Artifactory
General
1 1,256 (26.30%) Social Skills
2 888 (18.59%) Finance
3 646 (13.53%) Public Sector
4 469 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
5 335 (7.01%) Banking
6 141 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 100 (2.09%) Retail
8 85 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
9 74 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
10 55 (1.15%) Marketing
11 54 (1.13%) Legal
11 54 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
12 51 (1.07%) Aerospace
13 49 (1.03%) Investment Banking
14 48 (1.01%) Military
15 44 (0.92%) Telecoms
16 41 (0.86%) Law
17 39 (0.82%) Front Office
18 38 (0.80%) Financial Institution
19 37 (0.77%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 892 (18.68%) DevOps Engineer
2 743 (15.56%) Developer
3 724 (15.16%) Senior
4 554 (11.60%) Architect
5 474 (9.92%) Lead
6 292 (6.11%) Azure Engineer
7 280 (5.86%) Data Engineer
8 240 (5.03%) Analyst
9 195 (4.08%) AWS Engineer
9 195 (4.08%) Platform Engineer
10 175 (3.66%) Cloud Engineer
11 159 (3.33%) Senior DevOps
11 159 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
12 157 (3.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 147 (3.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 142 (2.97%) Java Developer
15 136 (2.85%) Senior Developer
16 132 (2.76%) AWS DevOps
17 131 (2.74%) Software Engineer
18 121 (2.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,381 (28.92%) Terraform
2 493 (10.32%) REST
3 410 (8.58%) .NET
4 323 (6.76%) Kafka
5 263 (5.51%) RESTful
6 248 (5.19%) React
7 239 (5.00%) Spring
8 226 (4.73%) Spring Boot
9 160 (3.35%) Node.js
10 159 (3.33%) JSON
11 146 (3.06%) PySpark
12 137 (2.87%) OAuth
13 135 (2.83%) Playwright
14 120 (2.51%) .NET Framework
15 115 (2.41%) HTML
16 111 (2.32%) CSS
17 110 (2.30%) SOAP
18 103 (2.16%) AngularJS
19 97 (2.03%) YAML
20 93 (1.95%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 875 (18.32%) Cloud Native
2 366 (7.66%) Product Ownership
3 224 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
4 163 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
5 161 (3.37%) Onboarding
6 138 (2.89%) Hybrid Cloud
7 132 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
8 87 (1.82%) AI Agents
9 75 (1.57%) Management Information System
10 70 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
11 69 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
12 65 (1.36%) Replication
12 65 (1.36%) Security Posture
13 63 (1.32%) Data Structures
13 63 (1.32%) Public Cloud
14 55 (1.15%) Data Centre
15 52 (1.09%) Virtual Team
16 50 (1.05%) Mobile App
17 39 (0.82%) PKI
18 38 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 454 (9.51%) Linux
2 273 (5.72%) Windows
3 108 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 95 (1.99%) Unix
5 86 (1.80%) Windows Server
6 32 (0.67%) Ubuntu
7 31 (0.65%) Apple iOS
7 31 (0.65%) VMS
8 21 (0.44%) Android
9 10 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
10 9 (0.19%) CentOS
11 8 (0.17%) AIX
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 (0.084%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (0.084%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,813 (58.90%) CI/CD
2 1,951 (40.85%) Agile
3 1,352 (28.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 806 (16.88%) Continuous Improvement
5 787 (16.48%) Stakeholder Management
6 768 (16.08%) Containerisation
7 763 (15.98%) Problem-Solving
8 745 (15.60%) Test Automation
9 742 (15.54%) AI
10 699 (14.64%) Microservices
11 648 (13.57%) Observability
12 621 (13.00%) Software Engineering
13 618 (12.94%) Platform Engineering
14 586 (12.27%) Scrum
15 571 (11.96%) Migration
16 521 (10.91%) Analytics
17 508 (10.64%) Technical Leadership
18 457 (9.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 440 (9.21%) Roadmaps
20 414 (8.67%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,405 (29.42%) Python
2 885 (18.53%) SQL
3 697 (14.59%) Java
4 436 (9.13%) PowerShell
5 426 (8.92%) C#
6 415 (8.69%) Bash
7 379 (7.94%) JavaScript
8 261 (5.46%) TypeScript
9 212 (4.44%) Bicep
10 74 (1.55%) Go
11 67 (1.40%) Shell Script
12 59 (1.24%) T-SQL
13 56 (1.17%) Groovy
13 56 (1.17%) Scala
14 49 (1.03%) Apex Code
15 47 (0.98%) PL/SQL
16 32 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 31 (0.65%) Perl
18 29 (0.61%) C++
19 22 (0.46%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,523 (31.89%) Security Cleared
2 1,280 (26.80%) SC Cleared
3 320 (6.70%) Degree
4 204 (4.27%) Azure Certification
5 190 (3.98%) DV Cleared
6 161 (3.37%) AWS Certification
7 139 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
8 121 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
9 103 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
10 72 (1.51%) CISSP
11 48 (1.01%) ISTQB
12 47 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
13 46 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 39 (0.82%) PMP
15 35 (0.73%) PMI Certification
16 33 (0.69%) Master's Degree
17 30 (0.63%) CISM
18 21 (0.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 21 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
19 20 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 475 (9.95%) QA
2 250 (5.23%) Data Quality
3 159 (3.33%) Accessibility
4 119 (2.49%) GDPR
5 93 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 79 (1.65%) NIST
7 77 (1.61%) WCAG
8 49 (1.03%) PMO
9 45 (0.94%) NCSC
10 33 (0.69%) SLA
11 30 (0.63%) PCI DSS
12 28 (0.59%) GRC
13 22 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 14 (0.29%) ISO 20022
15 12 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
16 10 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
17 9 (0.19%) HIPAA
17 9 (0.19%) HL7
17 9 (0.19%) SEPA
18 8 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 963 (20.16%) Docker
2 157 (3.29%) Active Directory
3 74 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
4 72 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 24 (0.50%) Hyper-V
6 22 (0.46%) vSphere
7 20 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
8 17 (0.36%) 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 (0.13%) Corosync
14 6 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
15 5 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 5 (0.10%) Firmware
16 4 (0.084%) Embedded Firmware
16 4 (0.084%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,245 (26.07%) Kubernetes
2 475 (9.95%) Ansible
3 311 (6.51%) Grafana
4 263 (5.51%) Prometheus
5 72 (1.51%) Argo
6 57 (1.19%) Puppet
7 50 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
8 47 (0.98%) Progress Chef
9 41 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
10 30 (0.63%) Packer
11 23 (0.48%) Istio
11 23 (0.48%) Kibana
12 19 (0.40%) vCenter Server
13 18 (0.38%) Kustomize
13 18 (0.38%) SCCM
14 17 (0.36%) Kubeflow
15 14 (0.29%) HP ALM
16 13 (0.27%) SCOM
17 12 (0.25%) Control-M
17 12 (0.25%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 958 (20.06%) Microsoft
2 263 (5.51%) Databricks
3 246 (5.15%) Oracle
4 230 (4.82%) Google
5 189 (3.96%) ServiceNow
6 166 (3.48%) Splunk
7 143 (2.99%) Salesforce
8 131 (2.74%) Dynatrace
9 105 (2.20%) VMware
10 100 (2.09%) Red Hat
11 96 (2.01%) SAP
12 62 (1.30%) IBM
13 52 (1.09%) Informatica
14 51 (1.07%) OpenAI
15 44 (0.92%) AppDynamics
15 44 (0.92%) Cisco
16 41 (0.86%) Foundry
17 37 (0.77%) Atlassian
18 34 (0.71%) MuleSoft
19 33 (0.69%) CyberArk