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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 14 14
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,756 2,977 3,304
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.34% 10.80% 10.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.21% 11.88% 11.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,280 2,111 2,246
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% -5.66%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £703 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 21 67
10th Percentile £37.25 £42.50 £56.50
25th Percentile £55.88 £53.00 £65.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -4.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £88.75 £74.72
90th Percentile £94.00 £95.00 £85.41
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 38,948 25,051 28,234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.68% 90.90% 86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,873 15,912 17,703
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £648
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 2,701 1,483 1,330
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.65 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.73 £66.58
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% +1.18%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 2,517 £550 - 2,602
North of England -2 780 £500 +5.26% 774
South East -12 451 £525 +5.00% 577
Midlands -5 440 £488 -4.88% 299
Yorkshire -2 390 £500 +3.09% 207
West Midlands -7 346 £500 -4.76% 184
South West +6 315 £550 +4.76% 329
North West -6 299 £525 +13.51% 443
East of England +2 142 £505 -3.35% 234
North East +16 106 £425 -18.27% 130
East Midlands 0 91 £463 +10.12% 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
1 286 (6.01%) Confluence
2 142 (2.99%) SharePoint
3 122 (2.57%) Apache Airflow
4 109 (2.29%) Apache Spark
5 96 (2.02%) Apache
6 55 (1.16%) SAS
7 39 (0.82%) CMS
8 36 (0.76%) Jupyter
9 24 (0.50%) nginx
10 23 (0.48%) IIS
11 19 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
12 14 (0.29%) Camunda
13 12 (0.25%) OpenStack
14 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
15 9 (0.19%) Anypoint
15 9 (0.19%) Appian
15 9 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
16 8 (0.17%) WebLogic
16 8 (0.17%) WebSphere
17 7 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 63 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 55 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
3 44 (0.93%) MS Visio
4 32 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 31 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
6 12 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.19%) CPLEX
7 9 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.15%) Trello
9 5 (0.11%) Notion
9 5 (0.11%) Windchill
10 2 (0.042%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.042%) Mingle
11 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.021%) Gliffy
11 1 (0.021%) Mozilla Thunderbird
11 1 (0.021%) Sketch
11 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 67 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 30 (0.63%) 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 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
7 6 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.11%) Aladdin
8 5 (0.11%) OpenText MBPM
8 5 (0.11%) Oracle BPM
9 4 (0.084%) Endur
9 4 (0.084%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.063%) Maximo
10 3 (0.063%) Oracle EBS R12
10 3 (0.063%) Oracle ERP
10 3 (0.063%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.063%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 3 (0.063%) Teamcenter
11 2 (0.042%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2,569 (54.02%) Azure
2 1,662 (34.95%) AWS
3 1,485 (31.22%) Azure DevOps
4 816 (17.16%) GitHub
5 608 (12.78%) GCP
6 519 (10.91%) GitHub Actions
7 422 (8.87%) Power Platform
8 397 (8.35%) Serverless
9 248 (5.21%) Amazon S3
10 239 (5.03%) AWS Lambda
11 224 (4.71%) Entra ID
12 200 (4.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 184 (3.87%) Amazon EKS
14 183 (3.85%) Azure AKS
15 172 (3.62%) AWS CloudFormation
16 171 (3.60%) Azure Data Factory
17 169 (3.55%) Azure Monitor
18 163 (3.43%) Dynamics 365
19 156 (3.28%) Amazon EC2
20 153 (3.22%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 219 (4.60%) Firewall
2 144 (3.03%) DNS
3 110 (2.31%) VPN
4 102 (2.14%) Network Security
5 66 (1.39%) TCP/IP
6 47 (0.99%) SSL
6 47 (0.99%) WAN
7 40 (0.84%) DHCP
8 31 (0.65%) SD-WAN
9 29 (0.61%) BGP
10 28 (0.59%) Internet
11 27 (0.57%) HTTP
12 25 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
13 23 (0.48%) SSH
14 21 (0.44%) OSPF
15 19 (0.40%) VLAN
16 18 (0.38%) SAN
17 16 (0.34%) BIG-IP
17 16 (0.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
18 14 (0.29%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 288 (6.06%) Power BI
2 258 (5.42%) SQL Server
3 243 (5.11%) PostgreSQL
4 184 (3.87%) Data Warehouse
5 161 (3.39%) NoSQL
6 152 (3.20%) Relational Database
7 145 (3.05%) Data Lake
8 143 (3.01%) MongoDB
9 113 (2.38%) Metadata
10 112 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
11 82 (1.72%) Delta Lake
12 79 (1.66%) Azure SQL Database
12 79 (1.66%) DynamoDB
13 77 (1.62%) Oracle Database
14 72 (1.51%) MySQL
15 66 (1.39%) Redis
16 56 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
17 53 (1.11%) Big Data
18 52 (1.09%) BigQuery
18 52 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 665 (13.98%) Jenkins
2 660 (13.88%) Git
3 547 (11.50%) JIRA
4 539 (11.33%) GitLab
5 112 (2.35%) Selenium
6 88 (1.85%) SonarQube
7 81 (1.70%) Maven
8 76 (1.60%) Postman
9 75 (1.58%) JUnit
10 66 (1.39%) Bitbucket
11 57 (1.20%) Cypress.io
11 57 (1.20%) REST Assured
12 56 (1.18%) Gradle
13 54 (1.14%) JMeter
14 53 (1.11%) Cucumber
15 43 (0.90%) Gatling
16 40 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
17 39 (0.82%) Mockito
18 35 (0.74%) Artifactory
19 34 (0.71%) LoadRunner
General
1 1,257 (26.43%) Social Skills
2 884 (18.59%) Finance
3 633 (13.31%) Public Sector
4 468 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
5 342 (7.19%) Banking
6 144 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 102 (2.14%) Retail
8 79 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
9 76 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
10 54 (1.14%) Marketing
11 53 (1.11%) Legal
11 53 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
12 51 (1.07%) Aerospace
13 50 (1.05%) Military
14 47 (0.99%) Investment Banking
15 42 (0.88%) Telecoms
16 41 (0.86%) Front Office
17 40 (0.84%) Law
18 38 (0.80%) Manufacturing
19 37 (0.78%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 907 (19.07%) DevOps Engineer
2 740 (15.56%) Developer
3 736 (15.48%) Senior
4 558 (11.73%) Architect
5 466 (9.80%) Lead
6 291 (6.12%) Azure Engineer
7 275 (5.78%) Data Engineer
8 235 (4.94%) Analyst
9 195 (4.10%) Platform Engineer
10 193 (4.06%) AWS Engineer
11 177 (3.72%) Cloud Engineer
12 166 (3.49%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 164 (3.45%) Senior DevOps
14 159 (3.34%) Solutions Architect
15 153 (3.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 142 (2.99%) Java Developer
17 137 (2.88%) Senior Developer
18 130 (2.73%) AWS DevOps
19 129 (2.71%) Software Engineer
20 118 (2.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,389 (29.21%) Terraform
2 498 (10.47%) REST
3 406 (8.54%) .NET
4 330 (6.94%) Kafka
5 266 (5.59%) RESTful
6 250 (5.26%) React
7 236 (4.96%) Spring
8 232 (4.88%) Spring Boot
9 160 (3.36%) JSON
10 151 (3.17%) Node.js
11 140 (2.94%) OAuth
12 139 (2.92%) PySpark
13 132 (2.78%) Playwright
14 118 (2.48%) HTML
15 117 (2.46%) .NET Framework
16 112 (2.35%) CSS
17 110 (2.31%) SOAP
18 99 (2.08%) AngularJS
19 95 (2.00%) YAML
20 94 (1.98%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 864 (18.17%) Cloud Native
2 375 (7.88%) Product Ownership
3 226 (4.75%) Distributed Systems
4 173 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
5 165 (3.47%) Onboarding
6 138 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
7 122 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
8 90 (1.89%) AI Agents
9 77 (1.62%) Management Information System
10 68 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
11 66 (1.39%) Replication
12 65 (1.37%) Security Posture
13 64 (1.35%) Public Cloud
14 63 (1.32%) Data Structures
15 62 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
16 56 (1.18%) Data Centre
16 56 (1.18%) Virtual Team
17 52 (1.09%) Mobile App
18 42 (0.88%) PKI
19 40 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 467 (9.82%) Linux
2 271 (5.70%) Windows
3 110 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 95 (2.00%) Unix
5 80 (1.68%) Windows Server
6 34 (0.71%) Ubuntu
7 32 (0.67%) Apple iOS
8 28 (0.59%) VMS
9 22 (0.46%) Android
10 11 (0.23%) CentOS
11 10 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
12 9 (0.19%) zOS
13 8 (0.17%) Solaris
13 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
13 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
14 7 (0.15%) AIX
15 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
16 4 (0.084%) Alpine Linux
16 4 (0.084%) Data ONTAP
16 4 (0.084%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,814 (59.17%) CI/CD
2 1,939 (40.77%) Agile
3 1,378 (28.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 821 (17.26%) Continuous Improvement
5 814 (17.12%) Stakeholder Management
6 776 (16.32%) Containerisation
7 769 (16.17%) Problem-Solving
8 753 (15.83%) AI
9 746 (15.69%) Test Automation
10 699 (14.70%) Microservices
11 658 (13.84%) Observability
12 635 (13.35%) Software Engineering
13 631 (13.27%) Platform Engineering
14 582 (12.24%) Scrum
15 564 (11.86%) Migration
16 520 (10.93%) Technical Leadership
17 510 (10.72%) Analytics
18 457 (9.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 440 (9.25%) Roadmaps
20 415 (8.73%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,393 (29.29%) Python
2 859 (18.06%) SQL
3 695 (14.61%) Java
4 441 (9.27%) PowerShell
5 424 (8.92%) Bash
5 424 (8.92%) C#
6 382 (8.03%) JavaScript
7 264 (5.55%) TypeScript
8 215 (4.52%) Bicep
9 77 (1.62%) Go
10 64 (1.35%) Shell Script
11 58 (1.22%) T-SQL
12 56 (1.18%) Groovy
13 53 (1.11%) Scala
14 48 (1.01%) PL/SQL
15 47 (0.99%) Apex Code
16 32 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 30 (0.63%) Perl
18 29 (0.61%) C++
19 24 (0.50%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,532 (32.21%) Security Cleared
2 1,279 (26.89%) SC Cleared
3 316 (6.64%) Degree
4 208 (4.37%) Azure Certification
5 203 (4.27%) DV Cleared
6 161 (3.39%) AWS Certification
7 140 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 119 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
9 106 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
10 73 (1.53%) CISSP
11 47 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
12 46 (0.97%) ISTQB
13 43 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 39 (0.82%) PMP
15 35 (0.74%) Master's Degree
16 33 (0.69%) PMI Certification
17 30 (0.63%) 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
1 483 (10.16%) QA
2 248 (5.21%) Data Quality
3 161 (3.39%) Accessibility
4 116 (2.44%) GDPR
5 83 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 80 (1.68%) WCAG
7 75 (1.58%) NIST
8 46 (0.97%) NCSC
8 46 (0.97%) PMO
9 32 (0.67%) SLA
10 28 (0.59%) PCI DSS
11 27 (0.57%) GRC
12 21 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 17 (0.36%) ISO 20022
14 13 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
15 11 (0.23%) SEPA
16 10 (0.21%) HIPAA
17 9 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
17 9 (0.19%) HL7
18 8 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 962 (20.23%) Docker
2 148 (3.11%) Active Directory
3 71 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
4 66 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (0.44%) Hyper-V
5 21 (0.44%) vSphere
6 20 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (0.34%) VMware NSX
8 15 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (0.27%) Squid
10 11 (0.23%) IAG
11 9 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
11 9 (0.19%) Postfix
12 6 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 6 (0.13%) Corosync
12 6 (0.13%) KVM
12 6 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.11%) NFS
14 4 (0.084%) Firmware
15 3 (0.063%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 1,250 (26.28%) Kubernetes
2 480 (10.09%) Ansible
3 314 (6.60%) Grafana
4 265 (5.57%) Prometheus
5 68 (1.43%) Argo
6 61 (1.28%) Puppet
7 50 (1.05%) Progress Chef
8 47 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
9 45 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
10 32 (0.67%) Packer
11 23 (0.48%) Kibana
12 21 (0.44%) Istio
13 19 (0.40%) Kustomize
14 18 (0.38%) Kubeflow
14 18 (0.38%) SCCM
14 18 (0.38%) vCenter Server
15 14 (0.29%) HP ALM
15 14 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
16 13 (0.27%) HAProxy
16 13 (0.27%) SCOM
Vendors
1 957 (20.12%) Microsoft
2 258 (5.42%) Databricks
3 243 (5.11%) Oracle
4 235 (4.94%) Google
5 189 (3.97%) ServiceNow
6 162 (3.41%) Splunk
7 141 (2.96%) Salesforce
8 131 (2.75%) Dynatrace
9 104 (2.19%) VMware
10 98 (2.06%) Red Hat
11 96 (2.02%) SAP
12 62 (1.30%) IBM
13 52 (1.09%) OpenAI
14 48 (1.01%) Informatica
15 43 (0.90%) Cisco
15 43 (0.90%) Foundry
16 39 (0.82%) AppDynamics
17 34 (0.71%) Atlassian
17 34 (0.71%) MuleSoft
18 29 (0.61%) CyberArk