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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 14 14
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,803 3,022 3,300
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.32% 10.87% 10.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.18% 11.95% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,303 2,137 2,228
10th Percentile £381 £360 £400
25th Percentile £438 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -5.17%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £706 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 21 67
10th Percentile £37.25 £42.50 £56.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £53.00 £65.00
Median hourly rate £68.00 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -4.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £78.00 £88.75 £74.72
90th Percentile £93.50 £95.00 £85.41
UK median hourly rate £68.75 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +2.61% -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 39,448 25,281 28,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.75% 90.90% 86.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,130 16,062 17,635
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £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 2,805 1,509 1,303
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.55
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -1.91%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 2,541 £550 - 2,364
North of England -2 777 £500 +5.26% 727
South East -10 454 £535 +7.00% 563
Midlands -5 439 £488 -2.74% 288
Yorkshire -2 389 £500 +3.09% 192
West Midlands -6 345 £500 -4.58% 173
South West +6 323 £550 +4.76% 298
North West -5 294 £525 +13.51% 416
East of England +10 154 £504 -4.00% 210
North East +12 109 £450 -13.46% 122
East Midlands +1 91 £464 +3.06% 115
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
1 284 (5.91%) Confluence
2 146 (3.04%) SharePoint
3 123 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
4 114 (2.37%) Apache Spark
5 99 (2.06%) Apache
6 56 (1.17%) SAS
7 41 (0.85%) CMS
8 38 (0.79%) Jupyter
9 25 (0.52%) 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
16 8 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
16 8 (0.17%) WebLogic
16 8 (0.17%) WebSphere
17 7 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 66 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
3 47 (0.98%) MS Visio
4 33 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 29 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
6 12 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
8 8 (0.17%) CPLEX
9 6 (0.12%) Trello
9 6 (0.12%) Windchill
10 5 (0.10%) Notion
11 2 (0.042%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.042%) Mingle
12 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
12 1 (0.021%) Gliffy
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 31 (0.65%) 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%) Aladdin
7 6 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
7 6 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.12%) SAP MDG
8 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
8 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
9 3 (0.062%) Endur
9 3 (0.062%) Maximo
9 3 (0.062%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.062%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.062%) Oracle Payroll
9 3 (0.062%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.062%) Teamcenter
10 2 (0.042%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 2,592 (53.97%) Azure
2 1,688 (35.14%) AWS
3 1,498 (31.19%) Azure DevOps
4 815 (16.97%) GitHub
5 627 (13.05%) GCP
6 517 (10.76%) GitHub Actions
7 427 (8.89%) Power Platform
8 403 (8.39%) Serverless
9 250 (5.21%) Amazon S3
10 240 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
11 233 (4.85%) Entra ID
12 203 (4.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 189 (3.94%) Amazon EKS
14 183 (3.81%) Azure AKS
15 171 (3.56%) Azure Data Factory
15 171 (3.56%) Azure Monitor
16 170 (3.54%) AWS CloudFormation
17 169 (3.52%) Dynamics 365
18 160 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
19 154 (3.21%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 224 (4.66%) Firewall
2 144 (3.00%) DNS
3 113 (2.35%) VPN
4 106 (2.21%) Network Security
5 70 (1.46%) TCP/IP
6 52 (1.08%) SSL
7 46 (0.96%) WAN
8 40 (0.83%) DHCP
9 32 (0.67%) BGP
10 30 (0.62%) HTTP
11 29 (0.60%) SD-WAN
12 28 (0.58%) Internet
13 24 (0.50%) OSPF
13 24 (0.50%) SSH
13 24 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
14 19 (0.40%) VLAN
15 17 (0.35%) LAN
15 17 (0.35%) SAN
16 16 (0.33%) BIG-IP
16 16 (0.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 290 (6.04%) Power BI
2 257 (5.35%) SQL Server
3 245 (5.10%) PostgreSQL
4 185 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
5 160 (3.33%) NoSQL
6 149 (3.10%) Data Lake
7 143 (2.98%) MongoDB
7 143 (2.98%) Relational Database
8 118 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
8 118 (2.46%) Metadata
9 83 (1.73%) Delta Lake
10 81 (1.69%) DynamoDB
11 77 (1.60%) Oracle Database
12 75 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
13 74 (1.54%) MySQL
14 69 (1.44%) Redis
15 56 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
15 56 (1.17%) Big Data
16 55 (1.15%) BigQuery
17 53 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 687 (14.30%) Git
2 669 (13.93%) Jenkins
3 551 (11.47%) GitLab
4 546 (11.37%) JIRA
5 124 (2.58%) Selenium
6 90 (1.87%) SonarQube
7 82 (1.71%) Maven
8 79 (1.64%) Postman
9 78 (1.62%) JUnit
10 64 (1.33%) Cucumber
11 63 (1.31%) Bitbucket
12 59 (1.23%) Cypress.io
13 57 (1.19%) REST Assured
14 56 (1.17%) Gradle
15 55 (1.15%) JMeter
16 43 (0.90%) Gatling
17 40 (0.83%) Mockito
18 37 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
19 36 (0.75%) Artifactory
19 36 (0.75%) Claude Code
General
1 1,270 (26.44%) Social Skills
2 887 (18.47%) Finance
3 626 (13.03%) Public Sector
4 476 (9.91%) Analytical Skills
5 354 (7.37%) Banking
6 151 (3.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 103 (2.14%) Retail
8 81 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
9 78 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
10 55 (1.15%) Aerospace
10 55 (1.15%) Marketing
11 54 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
12 52 (1.08%) Legal
12 52 (1.08%) Military
13 46 (0.96%) Investment Banking
13 46 (0.96%) Telecoms
14 41 (0.85%) Law
15 39 (0.81%) Manufacturing
16 38 (0.79%) Front Office
17 37 (0.77%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 918 (19.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 748 (15.57%) Senior
3 740 (15.41%) Developer
4 570 (11.87%) Architect
5 468 (9.74%) Lead
6 294 (6.12%) Azure Engineer
7 276 (5.75%) Data Engineer
8 235 (4.89%) Analyst
9 201 (4.18%) AWS Engineer
10 195 (4.06%) Platform Engineer
11 180 (3.75%) Cloud Engineer
12 170 (3.54%) Senior DevOps
13 169 (3.52%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 159 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
15 157 (3.27%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 142 (2.96%) Java Developer
17 135 (2.81%) Software Engineer
18 134 (2.79%) AWS DevOps
19 133 (2.77%) Senior Developer
20 123 (2.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,410 (29.36%) Terraform
2 517 (10.76%) REST
3 406 (8.45%) .NET
4 332 (6.91%) Kafka
5 273 (5.68%) RESTful
6 250 (5.21%) React
7 242 (5.04%) Spring
8 239 (4.98%) Spring Boot
9 158 (3.29%) JSON
10 156 (3.25%) Node.js
11 152 (3.16%) OAuth
12 141 (2.94%) PySpark
13 131 (2.73%) Playwright
14 120 (2.50%) HTML
15 115 (2.39%) .NET Framework
15 115 (2.39%) SOAP
16 114 (2.37%) CSS
17 102 (2.12%) OAuth2
18 98 (2.04%) Middleware
19 97 (2.02%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 877 (18.26%) Cloud Native
2 368 (7.66%) Product Ownership
3 223 (4.64%) Distributed Systems
4 180 (3.75%) Onboarding
5 178 (3.71%) Enterprise Software
6 138 (2.87%) Hybrid Cloud
7 123 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
8 99 (2.06%) AI Agents
9 85 (1.77%) Management Information System
10 70 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
11 68 (1.42%) Security Posture
12 67 (1.39%) Replication
13 65 (1.35%) Public Cloud
14 64 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
14 64 (1.33%) Data Structures
15 58 (1.21%) Data Centre
15 58 (1.21%) Virtual Team
16 52 (1.08%) Mobile App
17 44 (0.92%) PKI
18 41 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 484 (10.08%) Linux
2 281 (5.85%) Windows
3 113 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 94 (1.96%) Unix
5 81 (1.69%) Windows Server
6 36 (0.75%) Ubuntu
7 32 (0.67%) Apple iOS
8 28 (0.58%) VMS
9 22 (0.46%) Android
10 13 (0.27%) 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 2,870 (59.75%) CI/CD
2 1,960 (40.81%) Agile
3 1,408 (29.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 832 (17.32%) Stakeholder Management
5 827 (17.22%) Continuous Improvement
6 788 (16.41%) AI
7 782 (16.28%) Containerisation
8 780 (16.24%) Problem-Solving
9 765 (15.93%) Test Automation
10 706 (14.70%) Microservices
11 687 (14.30%) Observability
12 654 (13.62%) Software Engineering
13 647 (13.47%) Platform Engineering
14 591 (12.30%) Scrum
15 576 (11.99%) Migration
16 542 (11.28%) Technical Leadership
17 521 (10.85%) Analytics
18 456 (9.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 448 (9.33%) Roadmaps
20 425 (8.85%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,420 (29.56%) Python
2 853 (17.76%) SQL
3 708 (14.74%) Java
4 440 (9.16%) PowerShell
5 435 (9.06%) C#
6 424 (8.83%) Bash
7 390 (8.12%) JavaScript
8 271 (5.64%) TypeScript
9 218 (4.54%) Bicep
10 85 (1.77%) Go
11 65 (1.35%) Shell Script
12 58 (1.21%) Groovy
13 56 (1.17%) Scala
13 56 (1.17%) T-SQL
14 48 (1.00%) PL/SQL
15 46 (0.96%) Apex Code
16 32 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 30 (0.62%) C++
17 30 (0.62%) Perl
18 26 (0.54%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,543 (32.13%) Security Cleared
2 1,289 (26.84%) SC Cleared
3 331 (6.89%) Degree
4 219 (4.56%) Azure Certification
5 212 (4.41%) DV Cleared
6 167 (3.48%) AWS Certification
7 142 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 126 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
9 110 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 76 (1.58%) CISSP
11 50 (1.04%) ISTQB
12 49 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
13 43 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 40 (0.83%) PMP
15 39 (0.81%) Master's Degree
16 34 (0.71%) PMI Certification
17 31 (0.65%) CISM
18 21 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 21 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 21 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 480 (9.99%) QA
2 251 (5.23%) Data Quality
3 163 (3.39%) Accessibility
4 117 (2.44%) GDPR
5 84 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 81 (1.69%) WCAG
7 75 (1.56%) NIST
8 47 (0.98%) NCSC
9 45 (0.94%) PMO
10 31 (0.65%) SLA
11 27 (0.56%) PCI DSS
12 26 (0.54%) GRC
13 21 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 20 (0.42%) ISO 20022
15 15 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
16 13 (0.27%) SEPA
17 12 (0.25%) HIPAA
18 10 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
18 10 (0.21%) SOC 2
19 9 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 971 (20.22%) Docker
2 147 (3.06%) Active Directory
3 71 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
4 64 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
6 20 (0.42%) Hyper-V
6 20 (0.42%) vSphere
7 17 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
8 13 (0.27%) Squid
8 13 (0.27%) VMware NSX
9 11 (0.23%) IAG
10 9 (0.19%) Postfix
11 8 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
12 6 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 6 (0.12%) Corosync
12 6 (0.12%) KVM
12 6 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.10%) NFS
13 5 (0.10%) RACF
14 4 (0.083%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1,267 (26.38%) Kubernetes
2 483 (10.06%) Ansible
3 317 (6.60%) Grafana
4 271 (5.64%) Prometheus
5 63 (1.31%) Argo
6 60 (1.25%) Puppet
7 50 (1.04%) Progress Chef
8 49 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
9 45 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
10 33 (0.69%) Packer
11 27 (0.56%) Kibana
12 20 (0.42%) Istio
12 20 (0.42%) Kubeflow
13 19 (0.40%) Kustomize
14 16 (0.33%) SCCM
15 15 (0.31%) HP ALM
15 15 (0.31%) vCenter Server
16 13 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
16 13 (0.27%) SCOM
16 13 (0.27%) systemd
Vendors
1 970 (20.20%) Microsoft
2 268 (5.58%) Databricks
3 247 (5.14%) Google
4 243 (5.06%) Oracle
5 197 (4.10%) ServiceNow
6 168 (3.50%) Splunk
7 142 (2.96%) Salesforce
8 132 (2.75%) Dynatrace
9 103 (2.14%) VMware
10 96 (2.00%) Red Hat
11 93 (1.94%) SAP
12 66 (1.37%) IBM
13 58 (1.21%) OpenAI
14 47 (0.98%) Foundry
15 46 (0.96%) Cisco
16 42 (0.87%) Informatica
17 38 (0.79%) AppDynamics
18 35 (0.73%) MuleSoft
19 33 (0.69%) Atlassian
20 31 (0.65%) Okta