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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,259 2,520 3,296
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.74% 10.27% 8.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.61% 11.28% 10.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,988 1,863 2,281
10th Percentile £390 £400 £406
25th Percentile £447 £461 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £650
90th Percentile £713 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -4.17% -1.82% -5.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 15 97
10th Percentile £39.53 £41.50 £56.25
25th Percentile £45.46 £61.25 £61.25
Median hourly rate £63.73 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.96% +7.69% -0.76%
75th Percentile £75.00 £80.75 £84.40
90th Percentile £85.00 £88.68 £87.46
UK median hourly rate £63.73 £73.23 £65.00
% change year-on-year -12.97% +12.65% -0.76%

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 33,784 22,346 32,054
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.23% 91.09% 86.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,591 14,669 21,080
10th Percentile £315 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.89% -0.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,113 899 2,221
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.82 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £15.89
Median hourly rate £42.00 £31.64 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.74% -9.60% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67.25 £64.50 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.10 £72.45
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.00% -14.29% -6.67%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 22 April 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 2,174 £540 -6.09% 579
North of England +5 747 £500 -4.31% 348
South East 0 451 £510 -7.27% 285
Yorkshire +2 408 £500 -4.76% 87
Midlands 0 391 £492 -1.60% 134
South West +14 299 £500 -12.28% 151
West Midlands +7 299 £500 -2.34% 71
North West +1 282 £500 -1.38% 194
East of England +22 121 £525 +1.94% 96
East Midlands 0 89 £464 -2.37% 63
North East +6 64 £475 -9.52% 68
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
1 250 (5.87%) Confluence
2 119 (2.79%) Apache Spark
3 102 (2.39%) SharePoint
4 88 (2.07%) Apache
5 68 (1.60%) SAS
6 67 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
7 34 (0.80%) CMS
8 32 (0.75%) nginx
9 26 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
10 24 (0.56%) OpenStack
11 22 (0.52%) IIS
12 12 (0.28%) Mendix
13 11 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 11 (0.26%) HCL Notes
13 11 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
14 9 (0.21%) WebLogic
14 9 (0.21%) WebSphere
15 7 (0.16%) ArcGIS
15 7 (0.16%) Camunda
16 6 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 69 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
3 49 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
5 22 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.12%) Trello
7 5 (0.12%) Weka
8 3 (0.070%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.047%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.047%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.023%) InDesign
10 1 (0.023%) Maya
Business Applications
1 68 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.21%) Aladdin
3 9 (0.21%) Maximo
3 9 (0.21%) NEC Housing
3 9 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
5 5 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (0.12%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.094%) Endur
6 4 (0.094%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.094%) SAP BPC
7 3 (0.070%) Findur
7 3 (0.070%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.070%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 3 (0.070%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.047%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.047%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.047%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 2,287 (53.70%) Azure
2 1,425 (33.46%) AWS
3 1,265 (29.70%) Azure DevOps
4 728 (17.09%) GitHub
5 547 (12.84%) GCP
6 438 (10.28%) Serverless
7 408 (9.58%) GitHub Actions
8 356 (8.36%) Power Platform
9 234 (5.49%) Amazon S3
10 218 (5.12%) AWS CloudFormation
10 218 (5.12%) Entra ID
11 216 (5.07%) AWS Lambda
12 206 (4.84%) Azure Data Factory
13 196 (4.60%) Azure AKS
14 162 (3.80%) Azure Monitor
14 162 (3.80%) OpenShift
15 158 (3.71%) Amazon EKS
16 144 (3.38%) PaaS
17 142 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
18 132 (3.10%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 194 (4.56%) Firewall
2 101 (2.37%) DNS
3 84 (1.97%) Network Security
4 80 (1.88%) VPN
5 38 (0.89%) TCP/IP
6 25 (0.59%) WAN
7 24 (0.56%) HTTP
8 23 (0.54%) SD-WAN
9 22 (0.52%) DHCP
9 22 (0.52%) SSL
10 18 (0.42%) BGP
11 17 (0.40%) IPsec
11 17 (0.40%) MPLS
12 15 (0.35%) SAN
13 14 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
14 12 (0.28%) Internet
14 12 (0.28%) LAN
14 12 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
15 11 (0.26%) OpenVPN
16 10 (0.23%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 231 (5.42%) Power BI
2 224 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
3 209 (4.91%) SQL Server
4 166 (3.90%) NoSQL
5 149 (3.50%) Data Lake
6 120 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
6 120 (2.82%) Relational Database
7 98 (2.30%) MongoDB
8 95 (2.23%) Azure SQL Database
9 87 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
10 80 (1.88%) Delta Lake
11 74 (1.74%) DynamoDB
12 71 (1.67%) Metadata
13 67 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
13 67 (1.57%) Oracle Database
14 57 (1.34%) Big Data
15 54 (1.27%) Tableau
16 50 (1.17%) Redis
17 48 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
18 44 (1.03%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 615 (14.44%) Jenkins
2 546 (12.82%) JIRA
3 544 (12.77%) Git
4 409 (9.60%) GitLab
5 90 (2.11%) Selenium
6 81 (1.90%) JUnit
6 81 (1.90%) Postman
7 70 (1.64%) SonarQube
8 69 (1.62%) Bitbucket
9 54 (1.27%) Maven
10 49 (1.15%) Artifactory
11 48 (1.13%) Cucumber
12 46 (1.08%) REST Assured
13 42 (0.99%) Cypress.io
14 38 (0.89%) JMeter
15 34 (0.80%) Gatling
16 33 (0.77%) Mockito
17 32 (0.75%) Oracle APEX
18 30 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
19 27 (0.63%) TestRail
General
1 1,155 (27.12%) Social Skills
2 807 (18.95%) Finance
3 513 (12.05%) Public Sector
4 368 (8.64%) Analytical Skills
5 305 (7.16%) Banking
6 145 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
7 67 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
8 58 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 57 (1.34%) Retail
10 52 (1.22%) Marketing
11 50 (1.17%) Financial Institution
12 48 (1.13%) Front Office
13 47 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
14 43 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
15 42 (0.99%) Investment Banking
15 42 (0.99%) Legal
16 32 (0.75%) Telecoms
17 31 (0.73%) Military
18 22 (0.52%) Law
19 17 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 806 (18.92%) DevOps Engineer
2 638 (14.98%) Developer
3 597 (14.02%) Senior
4 486 (11.41%) Architect
5 356 (8.36%) Lead
6 294 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
7 270 (6.34%) Data Engineer
8 249 (5.85%) Analyst
9 191 (4.48%) AWS Engineer
10 160 (3.76%) Cloud Engineer
11 153 (3.59%) Platform Engineer
12 152 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
13 149 (3.50%) AWS DevOps
14 141 (3.31%) Software Engineer
15 137 (3.22%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 133 (3.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 131 (3.08%) Business Analyst
18 122 (2.86%) Senior Developer
18 122 (2.86%) Senior DevOps
19 115 (2.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 392 (9.20%) REST
2 363 (8.52%) .NET
3 257 (6.03%) Kafka
4 253 (5.94%) Node.js
5 239 (5.61%) React
6 233 (5.47%) Spring
7 216 (5.07%) Spring Boot
8 194 (4.56%) RESTful
9 153 (3.59%) AngularJS
10 137 (3.22%) YAML
11 131 (3.08%) JSON
12 127 (2.98%) Playwright
13 122 (2.86%) PySpark
14 118 (2.77%) OAuth
15 109 (2.56%) HTML
16 104 (2.44%) Middleware
17 96 (2.25%) SOAP
18 91 (2.14%) CSS
19 85 (2.00%) .NET Framework
19 85 (2.00%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 652 (15.31%) Cloud Native
2 260 (6.10%) Product Ownership
3 157 (3.69%) Distributed Systems
4 111 (2.61%) Onboarding
5 93 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
6 90 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
7 89 (2.09%) Public Cloud
8 81 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
9 63 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
10 54 (1.27%) Virtual Team
11 51 (1.20%) Management Information System
12 45 (1.06%) Private Cloud
13 42 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
14 38 (0.89%) Data Centre
14 38 (0.89%) Data Structures
15 37 (0.87%) Replication
16 36 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
16 36 (0.85%) NHS
17 35 (0.82%) AI Agents
17 35 (0.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 384 (9.02%) Linux
2 221 (5.19%) Windows
3 71 (1.67%) Unix
4 68 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 40 (0.94%) Windows Server
6 37 (0.87%) VMS
7 22 (0.52%) Ubuntu
8 12 (0.28%) Android
8 12 (0.28%) CentOS
9 10 (0.23%) Apple iOS
9 10 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.16%) Windows 10
11 6 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.12%) Solaris
13 4 (0.094%) Amazon Linux
13 4 (0.094%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (0.094%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.070%) Debian
14 3 (0.070%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.070%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,353 (55.25%) CI/CD
2 1,620 (38.04%) Agile
3 1,044 (24.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 723 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
5 702 (16.48%) Containerisation
6 624 (14.65%) Microservices
7 590 (13.85%) Test Automation
8 553 (12.98%) Continuous Improvement
9 523 (12.28%) Analytics
10 522 (12.26%) Migration
11 478 (11.22%) Observability
12 474 (11.13%) Scrum
13 463 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
14 457 (10.73%) AI
15 412 (9.67%) Software Engineering
16 400 (9.39%) Data Modelling
17 360 (8.45%) Mentoring
18 344 (8.08%) Platform Engineering
19 328 (7.70%) Data Pipeline
20 323 (7.58%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,202 (28.22%) Python
2 921 (21.62%) SQL
3 552 (12.96%) Java
4 426 (10.00%) C#
5 349 (8.19%) JavaScript
6 314 (7.37%) PowerShell
7 290 (6.81%) Bash
8 243 (5.71%) TypeScript
9 148 (3.47%) Bicep
10 95 (2.23%) Go
11 86 (2.02%) PL/SQL
12 71 (1.67%) Scala
13 51 (1.20%) Shell Script
14 42 (0.99%) T-SQL
15 37 (0.87%) Groovy
16 33 (0.77%) Apex Code
17 31 (0.73%) C++
18 28 (0.66%) Ruby
19 22 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 22 (0.52%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,372 (32.21%) Security Cleared
2 1,134 (26.63%) SC Cleared
3 307 (7.21%) Degree
4 196 (4.60%) Azure Certification
5 145 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 139 (3.26%) DV Cleared
7 118 (2.77%) AWS Certification
8 110 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
9 70 (1.64%) CISSP
10 51 (1.20%) CISM
11 50 (1.17%) Master's Degree
12 49 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
13 47 (1.10%) ISTQB
14 41 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 38 (0.89%) PMI Certification
16 36 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
16 36 (0.85%) PMP
17 22 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 21 (0.49%) IIBA
18 21 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 376 (8.83%) QA
2 194 (4.56%) Data Quality
3 162 (3.80%) GDPR
4 123 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 116 (2.72%) NIST
6 89 (2.09%) Accessibility
7 60 (1.41%) NCSC
8 37 (0.87%) PCI DSS
9 36 (0.85%) WCAG
10 29 (0.68%) SLA
11 27 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 25 (0.59%) PMO
13 15 (0.35%) ISO 20022
14 14 (0.33%) GRC
14 14 (0.33%) HIPAA
14 14 (0.33%) NIST 800
15 13 (0.31%) SOC 2
16 12 (0.28%) PSD2
17 10 (0.23%) SEPA
18 9 (0.21%) HL7
System Software
1 875 (20.54%) Docker
2 167 (3.92%) Active Directory
3 65 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
3 65 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (0.77%) vSphere
5 25 (0.59%) VMware NSX
6 14 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
7 13 (0.31%) Hyper-V
8 12 (0.28%) Postfix
8 12 (0.28%) Squid
9 11 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (0.19%) Firmware
10 8 (0.19%) Lustre
10 8 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 6 (0.14%) GPFS
11 6 (0.14%) HDFS
12 5 (0.12%) Corosync
12 5 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
12 5 (0.12%) RACF
13 4 (0.094%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,194 (28.03%) Terraform
2 1,127 (26.46%) Kubernetes
3 425 (9.98%) Ansible
4 265 (6.22%) Grafana
5 223 (5.24%) Prometheus
6 92 (2.16%) Argo
7 66 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
8 63 (1.48%) Puppet
9 50 (1.17%) Istio
10 29 (0.68%) Packer
11 24 (0.56%) vCenter Server
12 23 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
12 23 (0.54%) Progress Chef
13 20 (0.47%) Kibana
13 20 (0.47%) Rancher
14 19 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 18 (0.42%) FortiGate
16 16 (0.38%) Consul
17 15 (0.35%) HP ALM
18 12 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 768 (18.03%) Microsoft
2 288 (6.76%) Oracle
3 257 (6.03%) Databricks
4 196 (4.60%) Google
5 174 (4.09%) Splunk
6 157 (3.69%) ServiceNow
7 133 (3.12%) Red Hat
8 118 (2.77%) Salesforce
9 114 (2.68%) VMware
10 98 (2.30%) SAP
11 71 (1.67%) OpenAI
12 70 (1.64%) Dynatrace
13 61 (1.43%) Atlassian
14 55 (1.29%) CyberArk
15 41 (0.96%) IBM
16 33 (0.77%) Cisco
16 33 (0.77%) Foundry
17 31 (0.73%) AppDynamics
17 31 (0.73%) Talend
18 30 (0.70%) Denodo