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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 16 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,654 2,631 3,561
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.60% 10.08% 9.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.41% 11.07% 11.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,229 1,900 2,435
10th Percentile £390 £363 £400
25th Percentile £440 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £701 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 13 117
10th Percentile £38.89 £36.50 £56.50
25th Percentile £61.78 £51.25 £61.60
Median hourly rate £68.75 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -10.71% +6.70%
75th Percentile £77.88 £82.96 £75.00
90th Percentile £94.69 £91.75 £86.19
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £66.25 £70.00
% change year-on-year +5.66% -5.36% +6.70%

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 37,490 23,760 31,971
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.37% 91.05% 85.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,605 15,276 20,748
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,362 1,184 2,308
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.23 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.79 £17.95 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.45%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 +3 2,397 £550 - 654
North of England +6 863 £500 +1.63% 315
Yorkshire +1 463 £501 +0.20% 90
South East -5 447 £525 +5.00% 349
Midlands -2 427 £500 - 134
West Midlands -2 338 £500 -2.44% 80
North West 0 325 £510 +7.37% 183
South West +17 293 £525 -4.55% 138
East of England +26 139 £525 +5.00% 85
North East +9 93 £431 -17.46% 46
East Midlands -1 84 £488 +8.33% 54
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
1 262 (5.63%) Confluence
2 121 (2.60%) Apache Spark
3 114 (2.45%) SharePoint
4 98 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
5 91 (1.96%) Apache
6 70 (1.50%) SAS
7 49 (1.05%) CMS
8 30 (0.64%) IIS
9 28 (0.60%) Jupyter
10 26 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
10 26 (0.56%) nginx
11 14 (0.30%) Camunda
11 14 (0.30%) OpenStack
11 14 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
11 14 (0.30%) WebSphere
12 11 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
13 9 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
14 8 (0.17%) Appian
15 7 (0.15%) Tomcat
16 6 (0.13%) Documentum
Applications
1 65 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
3 39 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 36 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
5 34 (0.73%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.21%) CPLEX
7 7 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.086%) Notion
8 4 (0.086%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.064%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.064%) Trello
10 1 (0.021%) InDesign
10 1 (0.021%) Maya
10 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 64 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
3 9 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
4 8 (0.17%) Aladdin
4 8 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
5 7 (0.15%) Magento
6 6 (0.13%) Endur
6 6 (0.13%) Maximo
6 6 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.11%) OpenText MBPM
7 5 (0.11%) Oracle BPM
7 5 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.086%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.064%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.064%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.064%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.064%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 3 (0.064%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2,469 (53.05%) Azure
2 1,617 (34.74%) AWS
3 1,368 (29.39%) Azure DevOps
4 743 (15.96%) GitHub
5 567 (12.18%) GCP
6 447 (9.60%) GitHub Actions
7 402 (8.64%) Serverless
8 397 (8.53%) Power Platform
9 260 (5.59%) Amazon S3
10 226 (4.86%) AWS Lambda
11 221 (4.75%) Entra ID
12 188 (4.04%) Azure AKS
13 187 (4.02%) AWS CloudFormation
14 170 (3.65%) Azure Data Factory
15 166 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
16 154 (3.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 154 (3.31%) Amazon EC2
17 147 (3.16%) Azure Monitor
18 144 (3.09%) OpenShift
19 139 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 214 (4.60%) Firewall
2 120 (2.58%) DNS
3 102 (2.19%) Network Security
4 95 (2.04%) VPN
5 49 (1.05%) WAN
6 40 (0.86%) TCP/IP
7 36 (0.77%) SD-WAN
8 33 (0.71%) SSL
9 32 (0.69%) BGP
10 27 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
11 26 (0.56%) Internet
12 24 (0.52%) OSPF
13 20 (0.43%) DHCP
14 19 (0.41%) HTTP
15 17 (0.37%) LAN
15 17 (0.37%) MPLS
15 17 (0.37%) SAN
15 17 (0.37%) VXLAN
16 16 (0.34%) BIG-IP
16 16 (0.34%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 264 (5.67%) Power BI
2 243 (5.22%) SQL Server
3 223 (4.79%) PostgreSQL
4 165 (3.55%) NoSQL
5 149 (3.20%) Relational Database
6 142 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
7 137 (2.94%) Data Lake
7 137 (2.94%) MongoDB
8 96 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
9 87 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
10 81 (1.74%) Delta Lake
11 78 (1.68%) DynamoDB
12 77 (1.65%) Metadata
13 74 (1.59%) Oracle Database
14 59 (1.27%) Redis
15 56 (1.20%) Big Data
15 56 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
16 55 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
17 54 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
18 43 (0.92%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 660 (14.18%) Jenkins
2 598 (12.85%) Git
3 546 (11.73%) JIRA
4 487 (10.46%) GitLab
5 100 (2.15%) Selenium
6 92 (1.98%) Postman
7 84 (1.80%) JUnit
8 82 (1.76%) SonarQube
9 66 (1.42%) Bitbucket
10 65 (1.40%) Maven
10 65 (1.40%) REST Assured
11 52 (1.12%) Cucumber
12 51 (1.10%) JMeter
13 44 (0.95%) Gatling
14 41 (0.88%) Gradle
15 39 (0.84%) Cypress.io
16 37 (0.80%) Artifactory
17 36 (0.77%) Mockito
18 34 (0.73%) LoadRunner
19 32 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,178 (25.31%) Social Skills
2 904 (19.42%) Finance
3 614 (13.19%) Public Sector
4 406 (8.72%) Analytical Skills
5 326 (7.00%) Banking
6 121 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
7 97 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 77 (1.65%) Retail
9 70 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
10 55 (1.18%) Marketing
11 53 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
12 52 (1.12%) Legal
13 43 (0.92%) Investment Banking
14 40 (0.86%) Financial Institution
14 40 (0.86%) Military
15 35 (0.75%) Law
15 35 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
16 32 (0.69%) Front Office
17 27 (0.58%) Aerospace
17 27 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 898 (19.30%) DevOps Engineer
2 718 (15.43%) Developer
3 652 (14.01%) Senior
4 565 (12.14%) Architect
5 432 (9.28%) Lead
6 285 (6.12%) Azure Engineer
6 285 (6.12%) Data Engineer
7 260 (5.59%) Analyst
8 210 (4.51%) AWS Engineer
9 178 (3.82%) Cloud Engineer
9 178 (3.82%) Platform Engineer
10 175 (3.76%) Solutions Architect
11 155 (3.33%) Senior DevOps
12 153 (3.29%) AWS DevOps
13 150 (3.22%) Java Developer
14 141 (3.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 140 (3.01%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 140 (3.01%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 136 (2.92%) Business Analyst
16 136 (2.92%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 442 (9.50%) REST
2 400 (8.59%) .NET
3 267 (5.74%) Kafka
4 264 (5.67%) Spring
5 245 (5.26%) React
6 242 (5.20%) Spring Boot
7 230 (4.94%) RESTful
8 192 (4.13%) Node.js
9 142 (3.05%) AngularJS
10 135 (2.90%) PySpark
11 131 (2.81%) OAuth
11 131 (2.81%) Playwright
12 125 (2.69%) JSON
13 117 (2.51%) .NET Framework
13 117 (2.51%) SOAP
14 105 (2.26%) HTML
15 98 (2.11%) YAML
16 94 (2.02%) OpenID
17 91 (1.96%) CSS
18 89 (1.91%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 828 (17.79%) Cloud Native
2 303 (6.51%) Product Ownership
3 204 (4.38%) Distributed Systems
4 133 (2.86%) Onboarding
5 119 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
6 115 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
7 102 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
8 78 (1.68%) Public Cloud
9 68 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
10 65 (1.40%) Data Centre
11 63 (1.35%) Management Information System
11 63 (1.35%) Security Posture
12 58 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
13 51 (1.10%) Data Structures
13 51 (1.10%) Mobile App
14 48 (1.03%) AI Agents
15 46 (0.99%) Replication
16 45 (0.97%) Virtual Team
17 43 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
18 34 (0.73%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 404 (8.68%) Linux
2 255 (5.48%) Windows
3 89 (1.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 66 (1.42%) Unix
5 56 (1.20%) Windows Server
6 28 (0.60%) VMS
7 26 (0.56%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.49%) Apple iOS
9 15 (0.32%) Android
10 9 (0.19%) Solaris
10 9 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.17%) CentOS
12 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
13 5 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
13 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (0.11%) zOS
14 4 (0.086%) Alpine Linux
14 4 (0.086%) Data ONTAP
14 4 (0.086%) Mac OS
14 4 (0.086%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,672 (57.41%) CI/CD
2 1,783 (38.31%) Agile
3 1,223 (26.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 750 (16.12%) Containerisation
5 723 (15.54%) Problem-Solving
6 669 (14.37%) Continuous Improvement
6 669 (14.37%) Microservices
6 669 (14.37%) Test Automation
7 595 (12.78%) Stakeholder Management
8 586 (12.59%) AI
9 569 (12.23%) Migration
10 561 (12.05%) Observability
11 552 (11.86%) Scrum
12 523 (11.24%) Analytics
13 509 (10.94%) Platform Engineering
14 505 (10.85%) Software Engineering
15 413 (8.87%) Data Modelling
16 394 (8.47%) Roadmaps
17 385 (8.27%) Technical Leadership
18 379 (8.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,302 (27.98%) Python
2 892 (19.17%) SQL
3 655 (14.07%) Java
4 433 (9.30%) C#
5 351 (7.54%) Bash
6 340 (7.31%) PowerShell
7 335 (7.20%) JavaScript
8 245 (5.26%) TypeScript
9 162 (3.48%) Bicep
10 91 (1.96%) Go
11 63 (1.35%) Scala
12 55 (1.18%) Shell Script
12 55 (1.18%) T-SQL
13 52 (1.12%) PL/SQL
14 51 (1.10%) Apex Code
15 43 (0.92%) Groovy
16 28 (0.60%) C++
17 24 (0.52%) Kotlin
18 22 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 17 (0.37%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,483 (31.87%) Security Cleared
2 1,239 (26.62%) SC Cleared
3 301 (6.47%) Degree
4 181 (3.89%) Azure Certification
5 158 (3.39%) DV Cleared
6 146 (3.14%) AWS Certification
7 118 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 116 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
9 72 (1.55%) CISSP
10 67 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
11 47 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
12 44 (0.95%) ISTQB
13 42 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 39 (0.84%) PMP
15 38 (0.82%) PMI Certification
16 37 (0.80%) Master's Degree
17 34 (0.73%) CISM
18 23 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
19 21 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 21 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 408 (8.77%) QA
2 218 (4.68%) Data Quality
3 148 (3.18%) GDPR
4 139 (2.99%) Accessibility
5 103 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 97 (2.08%) NIST
7 65 (1.40%) WCAG
8 60 (1.29%) NCSC
9 45 (0.97%) PCI DSS
10 35 (0.75%) SLA
11 27 (0.58%) PMO
12 26 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 25 (0.54%) GRC
14 16 (0.34%) HIPAA
15 13 (0.28%) SOC 2
16 11 (0.24%) ISO 20022
16 11 (0.24%) PSD2
17 10 (0.21%) SEPA
18 7 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
18 7 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 899 (19.32%) Docker
2 161 (3.46%) Active Directory
3 75 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
4 63 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 27 (0.58%) vSphere
6 22 (0.47%) VMware NSX
7 19 (0.41%) Squid
8 18 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
9 15 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
10 14 (0.30%) Hyper-V
10 14 (0.30%) Postfix
11 7 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
12 6 (0.13%) Corosync
12 6 (0.13%) KVM
12 6 (0.13%) RACF
13 5 (0.11%) Firmware
13 5 (0.11%) IAG
13 5 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.11%) NFS
13 5 (0.11%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 1,323 (28.43%) Terraform
2 1,176 (25.27%) Kubernetes
3 456 (9.80%) Ansible
4 306 (6.57%) Grafana
5 264 (5.67%) Prometheus
6 79 (1.70%) Argo
7 67 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
8 57 (1.22%) Puppet
9 33 (0.71%) Istio
9 33 (0.71%) Progress Chef
10 30 (0.64%) Packer
11 26 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
11 26 (0.56%) vCenter Server
12 21 (0.45%) Kibana
13 17 (0.37%) Consul
14 16 (0.34%) HP ALM
15 15 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 15 (0.32%) Kustomize
16 12 (0.26%) HAProxy
16 12 (0.26%) Rancher
Vendors
1 834 (17.92%) Microsoft
2 245 (5.26%) Oracle
3 241 (5.18%) Databricks
4 215 (4.62%) Google
5 185 (3.98%) ServiceNow
6 166 (3.57%) Splunk
7 146 (3.14%) Salesforce
8 113 (2.43%) Dynatrace
9 111 (2.39%) SAP
10 102 (2.19%) Red Hat
11 98 (2.11%) VMware
12 57 (1.22%) OpenAI
13 53 (1.14%) IBM
14 48 (1.03%) Atlassian
15 46 (0.99%) Informatica
16 45 (0.97%) CyberArk
17 42 (0.90%) Foundry
18 35 (0.75%) Cisco
19 33 (0.71%) Okta
20 32 (0.69%) AppDynamics