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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,254 2,409 3,364
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.55% 9.99% 9.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.46% 10.95% 10.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,986 1,778 2,332
10th Percentile £385 £400 £400
25th Percentile £447 £458 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £669 £650
90th Percentile £710 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 13 105
10th Percentile £39.53 £38.25 £56.35
25th Percentile £55.25 £51.25 £61.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -0.76%
75th Percentile £77.75 £82.00 £78.75
90th Percentile £95.00 £90.59 £87.28
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £73.23 £65.00
% change year-on-year -7.82% +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 34,138 22,003 31,618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.68% 91.23% 86.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,766 14,379 20,694
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £516 £525
% change year-on-year -2.13% -1.71% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,120 924 2,243
10th Percentile £15.31 £14.42 £12.88
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.47 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £29.02 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.96% -20.49% -2.25%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.60 £36.50
% change year-on-year +48.60% -21.64% +1.39%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 13 May 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 +4 2,168 £550 -3.08% 557
North of England +9 737 £500 -2.82% 281
South East +3 474 £513 - 290
Yorkshire +4 403 £500 -2.44% 76
Midlands +4 398 £490 -2.00% 105
West Midlands +2 308 £500 -4.31% 57
South West +13 278 £525 -4.55% 117
North West +4 276 £500 - 150
East of England +27 128 £525 +3.45% 77
East Midlands -1 87 £466 -1.84% 48
North East +8 69 £453 -13.81% 58
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
1 236 (5.55%) Confluence
2 118 (2.77%) Apache Spark
3 103 (2.42%) SharePoint
4 80 (1.88%) Apache
5 70 (1.65%) SAS
6 62 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
7 37 (0.87%) CMS
8 25 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
9 24 (0.56%) nginx
10 22 (0.52%) IIS
11 21 (0.49%) OpenStack
12 11 (0.26%) Mendix
13 10 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 10 (0.24%) HCL Notes
14 9 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
14 9 (0.21%) WebSphere
15 8 (0.19%) Camunda
15 8 (0.19%) Jupyter
16 7 (0.16%) ArcGIS
16 7 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 66 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
3 44 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
5 22 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.094%) CPLEX
6 4 (0.094%) Trello
7 3 (0.071%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.047%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.047%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.024%) InDesign
9 1 (0.024%) Maya
9 1 (0.024%) Weka
Business Applications
1 56 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
4 9 (0.21%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.21%) Maximo
4 9 (0.21%) NEC Housing
5 7 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
6 6 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
6 6 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.094%) Endur
7 4 (0.094%) Magento
7 4 (0.094%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.094%) SAP BPC
8 3 (0.071%) Findur
8 3 (0.071%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.071%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.047%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.047%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.047%) SAP MM
9 2 (0.047%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 2,287 (53.76%) Azure
2 1,433 (33.69%) AWS
3 1,237 (29.08%) Azure DevOps
4 690 (16.22%) GitHub
5 555 (13.05%) GCP
6 405 (9.52%) Serverless
7 397 (9.33%) GitHub Actions
8 359 (8.44%) Power Platform
9 235 (5.52%) Amazon S3
10 205 (4.82%) AWS Lambda
10 205 (4.82%) Entra ID
11 199 (4.68%) AWS CloudFormation
12 192 (4.51%) Azure Data Factory
13 183 (4.30%) Azure AKS
14 155 (3.64%) OpenShift
15 154 (3.62%) Amazon EKS
16 143 (3.36%) PaaS
17 142 (3.34%) Azure Monitor
18 132 (3.10%) Dynamics 365
19 129 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 200 (4.70%) Firewall
2 106 (2.49%) DNS
3 87 (2.05%) Network Security
4 85 (2.00%) VPN
5 39 (0.92%) TCP/IP
6 35 (0.82%) WAN
7 31 (0.73%) SD-WAN
8 24 (0.56%) BGP
8 24 (0.56%) SSL
9 21 (0.49%) DHCP
9 21 (0.49%) HTTP
10 20 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
11 18 (0.42%) IPsec
12 17 (0.40%) OSPF
12 17 (0.40%) SAN
13 16 (0.38%) MPLS
14 14 (0.33%) LAN
14 14 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
15 13 (0.31%) Internet
16 12 (0.28%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 241 (5.67%) Power BI
2 210 (4.94%) PostgreSQL
3 205 (4.82%) SQL Server
4 155 (3.64%) NoSQL
5 150 (3.53%) Data Lake
6 126 (2.96%) Relational Database
7 118 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
8 96 (2.26%) MongoDB
9 89 (2.09%) Azure SQL Database
10 87 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
11 81 (1.90%) Delta Lake
12 74 (1.74%) DynamoDB
13 68 (1.60%) Metadata
14 65 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
15 64 (1.50%) Oracle Database
16 56 (1.32%) Big Data
17 51 (1.20%) Redis
18 48 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
19 47 (1.10%) Tableau
20 44 (1.03%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 609 (14.32%) Jenkins
2 539 (12.67%) Git
3 514 (12.08%) JIRA
4 421 (9.90%) GitLab
5 82 (1.93%) Postman
6 78 (1.83%) Selenium
7 71 (1.67%) JUnit
8 70 (1.65%) SonarQube
9 64 (1.50%) Bitbucket
10 56 (1.32%) Maven
11 49 (1.15%) Artifactory
12 43 (1.01%) REST Assured
13 41 (0.96%) JMeter
14 40 (0.94%) Cucumber
15 37 (0.87%) Cypress.io
16 34 (0.80%) Gatling
17 31 (0.73%) Mockito
18 30 (0.71%) Gradle
19 25 (0.59%) LoadRunner
19 25 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,075 (25.27%) Social Skills
2 804 (18.90%) Finance
3 511 (12.01%) Public Sector
4 363 (8.53%) Analytical Skills
5 289 (6.79%) Banking
6 135 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
7 66 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
8 63 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 53 (1.25%) Retail
10 51 (1.20%) Marketing
11 49 (1.15%) Financial Institution
11 49 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
12 48 (1.13%) Legal
13 41 (0.96%) Front Office
14 40 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
15 37 (0.87%) Investment Banking
16 33 (0.78%) Military
17 26 (0.61%) Telecoms
18 20 (0.47%) Aerospace
18 20 (0.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 842 (19.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 606 (14.25%) Developer
3 595 (13.99%) Senior
4 510 (11.99%) Architect
5 348 (8.18%) Lead
6 293 (6.89%) Azure Engineer
7 279 (6.56%) Data Engineer
8 262 (6.16%) Analyst
9 177 (4.16%) AWS Engineer
10 162 (3.81%) Solutions Architect
11 158 (3.71%) Cloud Engineer
12 149 (3.50%) Platform Engineer
13 140 (3.29%) Software Engineer
14 134 (3.15%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 134 (3.15%) Senior DevOps
15 132 (3.10%) Business Analyst
16 128 (3.01%) AWS DevOps
17 125 (2.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 115 (2.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 113 (2.66%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 372 (8.74%) REST
2 349 (8.20%) .NET
3 255 (5.99%) Kafka
4 237 (5.57%) Spring
5 232 (5.45%) React
6 224 (5.27%) Node.js
7 222 (5.22%) Spring Boot
8 191 (4.49%) RESTful
9 151 (3.55%) AngularJS
10 126 (2.96%) PySpark
10 126 (2.96%) YAML
11 121 (2.84%) JSON
12 118 (2.77%) Playwright
13 107 (2.52%) OAuth
14 103 (2.42%) Middleware
15 102 (2.40%) HTML
16 96 (2.26%) SOAP
17 87 (2.05%) CSS
18 83 (1.95%) .NET Framework
18 83 (1.95%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 676 (15.89%) Cloud Native
2 263 (6.18%) Product Ownership
3 163 (3.83%) Distributed Systems
4 110 (2.59%) Onboarding
5 93 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
6 84 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
7 83 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
8 79 (1.86%) Public Cloud
9 71 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
10 49 (1.15%) Management Information System
11 45 (1.06%) Data Centre
12 43 (1.01%) Replication
13 40 (0.94%) Private Cloud
14 38 (0.89%) Virtual Team
15 37 (0.87%) Data Structures
15 37 (0.87%) Mobile App
15 37 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
16 36 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
17 35 (0.82%) AI Agents
17 35 (0.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 378 (8.89%) Linux
2 219 (5.15%) Windows
3 67 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 66 (1.55%) Unix
5 39 (0.92%) Windows Server
6 34 (0.80%) VMS
7 21 (0.49%) Ubuntu
8 16 (0.38%) Apple iOS
9 15 (0.35%) Android
10 11 (0.26%) CentOS
11 10 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (0.16%) Windows 10
13 6 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
14 5 (0.12%) Solaris
15 4 (0.094%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.094%) Windows Server 2012
16 3 (0.071%) Debian
16 3 (0.071%) Mac OS
16 3 (0.071%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,383 (56.02%) CI/CD
2 1,565 (36.79%) Agile
3 1,056 (24.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 703 (16.53%) Containerisation
5 692 (16.27%) Problem-Solving
6 618 (14.53%) Microservices
7 587 (13.80%) Test Automation
8 543 (12.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 519 (12.20%) Migration
10 503 (11.82%) Analytics
11 502 (11.80%) Observability
12 474 (11.14%) Stakeholder Management
13 454 (10.67%) Scrum
14 446 (10.48%) AI
15 419 (9.85%) Software Engineering
16 403 (9.47%) Data Modelling
17 366 (8.60%) Platform Engineering
18 340 (7.99%) Mentoring
19 338 (7.95%) Data Pipeline
20 332 (7.80%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,169 (27.48%) Python
2 869 (20.43%) SQL
3 566 (13.31%) Java
4 402 (9.45%) C#
5 307 (7.22%) PowerShell
6 304 (7.15%) JavaScript
7 297 (6.98%) Bash
8 228 (5.36%) TypeScript
9 140 (3.29%) Bicep
10 94 (2.21%) Go
11 66 (1.55%) Scala
12 55 (1.29%) PL/SQL
13 51 (1.20%) Shell Script
14 42 (0.99%) Groovy
15 40 (0.94%) T-SQL
16 36 (0.85%) Apex Code
17 31 (0.73%) C++
18 25 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 23 (0.54%) Ruby
20 21 (0.49%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,385 (32.56%) Security Cleared
2 1,139 (26.77%) SC Cleared
3 282 (6.63%) Degree
4 192 (4.51%) Azure Certification
5 140 (3.29%) DV Cleared
6 132 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 115 (2.70%) AWS Certification
8 106 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
9 66 (1.55%) CISSP
10 50 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
11 47 (1.10%) CISM
12 45 (1.06%) Master's Degree
13 42 (0.99%) ISTQB
14 39 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 39 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
15 37 (0.87%) PMI Certification
16 35 (0.82%) PMP
17 24 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
18 21 (0.49%) IIBA
19 20 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 381 (8.96%) QA
2 202 (4.75%) Data Quality
3 164 (3.86%) GDPR
4 119 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 115 (2.70%) NIST
6 99 (2.33%) Accessibility
7 59 (1.39%) NCSC
8 44 (1.03%) PCI DSS
8 44 (1.03%) WCAG
9 31 (0.73%) SLA
10 29 (0.68%) PMO
10 29 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 17 (0.40%) GRC
12 15 (0.35%) ISO 20022
13 14 (0.33%) HIPAA
13 14 (0.33%) PSD2
14 13 (0.31%) NIST 800
15 12 (0.28%) SEPA
16 11 (0.26%) SOC 2
17 8 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 834 (19.61%) Docker
2 161 (3.78%) Active Directory
3 71 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
4 60 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 30 (0.71%) vSphere
6 21 (0.49%) VMware NSX
7 17 (0.40%) Squid
8 16 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.28%) Postfix
10 10 (0.24%) Hyper-V
10 10 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
11 8 (0.19%) Firmware
12 6 (0.14%) Corosync
12 6 (0.14%) HDFS
13 5 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
13 5 (0.12%) RACF
14 4 (0.094%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
14 4 (0.094%) Lustre
14 4 (0.094%) NFS
14 4 (0.094%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1,186 (27.88%) Terraform
2 1,105 (25.98%) Kubernetes
3 434 (10.20%) Ansible
4 277 (6.51%) Grafana
5 229 (5.38%) Prometheus
6 85 (2.00%) Argo
7 65 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
8 62 (1.46%) Puppet
9 46 (1.08%) Istio
10 24 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
10 24 (0.56%) Packer
10 24 (0.56%) Progress Chef
11 22 (0.52%) Kibana
12 20 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 20 (0.47%) vCenter Server
13 17 (0.40%) HP ALM
13 17 (0.40%) Rancher
14 14 (0.33%) FortiGate
15 13 (0.31%) Consul
16 12 (0.28%) SCCM
Vendors
1 747 (17.56%) Microsoft
2 253 (5.95%) Oracle
3 248 (5.83%) Databricks
4 193 (4.54%) Google
5 173 (4.07%) Splunk
6 154 (3.62%) ServiceNow
7 129 (3.03%) Red Hat
8 126 (2.96%) Salesforce
9 102 (2.40%) VMware
10 100 (2.35%) SAP
11 89 (2.09%) Dynatrace
12 59 (1.39%) OpenAI
13 51 (1.20%) CyberArk
14 45 (1.06%) Atlassian
15 39 (0.92%) IBM
16 36 (0.85%) AppDynamics
16 36 (0.85%) Informatica
17 34 (0.80%) Foundry
18 33 (0.78%) Denodo
19 32 (0.75%) Cisco