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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,465 2,473 3,549
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.57% 10.11% 9.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.42% 11.06% 11.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,120 1,786 2,449
10th Percentile £390 £379 £400
25th Percentile £443 £447 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £615 £650 £650
90th Percentile £703 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 12 114
10th Percentile £39.53 £36.63 £56.55
25th Percentile £56.75 £51.25 £61.60
Median hourly rate £67.50 £68.75 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +4.96% -
75th Percentile £77.50 £84.41 £76.88
90th Percentile £94.75 £92.13 £86.59
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £66.50
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +1.53%

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 35,948 22,351 32,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.10% 91.35% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,764 14,463 20,809
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,246 1,016 2,371
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.81
25th Percentile £20.75 £18.12 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +67.86% -25.33% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.28 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.14% -25.26% +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 10 June 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 10 June 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 10 June 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 2,283 £550 - 457
North of England +7 820 £500 - 279
South East -1 466 £513 +2.50% 285
Yorkshire +2 448 £501 +0.20% 85
Midlands +4 416 £488 -2.50% 109
West Midlands +3 328 £500 -4.58% 70
North West +1 306 £500 +1.27% 158
South West +14 275 £520 -5.45% 117
East of England +22 128 £525 +6.33% 79
North East +10 84 £450 -16.28% 41
East Midlands -3 84 £465 +0.54% 39
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
1 254 (5.69%) Confluence
2 124 (2.78%) Apache Spark
3 110 (2.46%) SharePoint
4 91 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
5 87 (1.95%) Apache
6 76 (1.70%) SAS
7 46 (1.03%) CMS
8 26 (0.58%) IIS
8 26 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
8 26 (0.58%) nginx
9 23 (0.52%) Jupyter
10 16 (0.36%) OpenStack
11 14 (0.31%) Camunda
12 13 (0.29%) WebSphere
13 11 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
14 9 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
15 8 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
16 7 (0.16%) Mendix
16 7 (0.16%) Tomcat
17 6 (0.13%) Mattermost
Applications
1 69 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
3 46 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 33 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
5 25 (0.56%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.16%) CPLEX
7 5 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.090%) Notion
9 3 (0.067%) Trello
10 2 (0.045%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.045%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.022%) InDesign
11 1 (0.022%) Maya
11 1 (0.022%) Weka
Business Applications
1 58 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 10 (0.22%) Maximo
5 9 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.18%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
7 7 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.11%) Endur
8 5 (0.11%) Magento
9 4 (0.090%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.090%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 3 (0.067%) Findur
10 3 (0.067%) NEC Housing
10 3 (0.067%) OpenText MBPM
10 3 (0.067%) Oracle BPM
10 3 (0.067%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.067%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.067%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.067%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 2,378 (53.26%) Azure
2 1,526 (34.18%) AWS
3 1,300 (29.12%) Azure DevOps
4 723 (16.19%) GitHub
5 557 (12.47%) GCP
6 430 (9.63%) GitHub Actions
7 395 (8.85%) Serverless
8 379 (8.49%) Power Platform
9 245 (5.49%) Amazon S3
10 218 (4.88%) Entra ID
11 214 (4.79%) AWS Lambda
12 191 (4.28%) AWS CloudFormation
13 182 (4.08%) Azure AKS
14 174 (3.90%) Azure Data Factory
15 162 (3.63%) Amazon EKS
16 144 (3.23%) PaaS
17 142 (3.18%) OpenShift
18 140 (3.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 139 (3.11%) Amazon EC2
20 136 (3.05%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 224 (5.02%) Firewall
2 122 (2.73%) DNS
3 96 (2.15%) Network Security
4 95 (2.13%) VPN
5 45 (1.01%) TCP/IP
5 45 (1.01%) WAN
6 37 (0.83%) SD-WAN
7 31 (0.69%) BGP
8 27 (0.60%) SSL
8 27 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
9 24 (0.54%) DHCP
9 24 (0.54%) OSPF
10 22 (0.49%) Internet
11 19 (0.43%) SAN
12 18 (0.40%) IPsec
13 17 (0.38%) HTTP
13 17 (0.38%) VXLAN
14 16 (0.36%) LAN
14 16 (0.36%) MPLS
15 15 (0.34%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 251 (5.62%) Power BI
2 229 (5.13%) SQL Server
3 212 (4.75%) PostgreSQL
4 158 (3.54%) NoSQL
5 152 (3.40%) Data Lake
6 137 (3.07%) Relational Database
7 126 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
8 119 (2.67%) MongoDB
9 96 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
10 89 (1.99%) Azure SQL Database
11 83 (1.86%) Delta Lake
12 75 (1.68%) DynamoDB
13 74 (1.66%) Metadata
14 67 (1.50%) Oracle Database
15 58 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
15 58 (1.30%) Redis
16 54 (1.21%) Big Data
17 51 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
18 49 (1.10%) BigQuery
19 43 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 615 (13.77%) Jenkins
2 554 (12.41%) Git
3 520 (11.65%) JIRA
4 460 (10.30%) GitLab
5 92 (2.06%) Selenium
6 90 (2.02%) Postman
7 77 (1.72%) SonarQube
8 70 (1.57%) JUnit
9 60 (1.34%) Bitbucket
9 60 (1.34%) REST Assured
10 58 (1.30%) Maven
11 50 (1.12%) Cucumber
12 45 (1.01%) JMeter
13 43 (0.96%) Artifactory
14 40 (0.90%) Gatling
15 36 (0.81%) Cypress.io
15 36 (0.81%) Gradle
16 34 (0.76%) Mockito
17 29 (0.65%) LoadRunner
18 28 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,140 (25.53%) Social Skills
2 840 (18.81%) Finance
3 560 (12.54%) Public Sector
4 370 (8.29%) Analytical Skills
5 301 (6.74%) Banking
6 136 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
7 81 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 73 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
9 63 (1.41%) Retail
10 53 (1.19%) Legal
11 52 (1.16%) Marketing
12 48 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
13 47 (1.05%) Financial Institution
14 42 (0.94%) Military
15 36 (0.81%) Investment Banking
15 36 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
16 30 (0.67%) Front Office
16 30 (0.67%) Law
17 23 (0.52%) Aerospace
18 22 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 888 (19.89%) DevOps Engineer
2 633 (14.18%) Senior
3 631 (14.13%) Developer
4 548 (12.27%) Architect
5 415 (9.29%) Lead
6 297 (6.65%) Azure Engineer
7 275 (6.16%) Data Engineer
8 269 (6.02%) Analyst
9 195 (4.37%) AWS Engineer
10 174 (3.90%) Cloud Engineer
11 173 (3.87%) Solutions Architect
12 168 (3.76%) Platform Engineer
13 147 (3.29%) Senior DevOps
14 145 (3.25%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 144 (3.23%) Business Analyst
16 138 (3.09%) AWS DevOps
17 135 (3.02%) Software Engineer
18 133 (2.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 128 (2.87%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 128 (2.87%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 408 (9.14%) REST
2 374 (8.38%) .NET
3 255 (5.71%) Kafka
4 249 (5.58%) React
5 242 (5.42%) Spring
6 232 (5.20%) Spring Boot
7 200 (4.48%) Node.js
7 200 (4.48%) RESTful
8 148 (3.31%) AngularJS
9 131 (2.93%) PySpark
10 126 (2.82%) OAuth
11 120 (2.69%) Playwright
12 119 (2.67%) JSON
13 118 (2.64%) YAML
14 106 (2.37%) SOAP
15 101 (2.26%) .NET Framework
16 97 (2.17%) HTML
17 96 (2.15%) OpenID
18 91 (2.04%) Middleware
19 85 (1.90%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 759 (17.00%) Cloud Native
2 276 (6.18%) Product Ownership
3 184 (4.12%) Distributed Systems
4 119 (2.67%) Onboarding
5 110 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
6 96 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
7 94 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
8 86 (1.93%) Public Cloud
9 67 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
10 66 (1.48%) Data Centre
11 57 (1.28%) Management Information System
12 49 (1.10%) Mobile App
12 49 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
13 48 (1.08%) Security Posture
14 46 (1.03%) AI Agents
15 41 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
16 40 (0.90%) Private Cloud
16 40 (0.90%) Virtual Team
17 39 (0.87%) Replication
18 36 (0.81%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 384 (8.60%) Linux
2 233 (5.22%) Windows
3 86 (1.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 65 (1.46%) Unix
5 49 (1.10%) Windows Server
6 32 (0.72%) VMS
7 26 (0.58%) Ubuntu
8 21 (0.47%) Apple iOS
9 16 (0.36%) Android
10 13 (0.29%) CentOS
11 10 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
12 9 (0.20%) Solaris
13 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
13 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
14 5 (0.11%) Windows 10
15 4 (0.090%) Alpine Linux
15 4 (0.090%) Data ONTAP
15 4 (0.090%) Windows Server 2012
16 3 (0.067%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,526 (56.57%) CI/CD
2 1,621 (36.30%) Agile
3 1,171 (26.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 693 (15.52%) Containerisation
5 674 (15.10%) Problem-Solving
6 636 (14.24%) Microservices
7 615 (13.77%) Test Automation
8 604 (13.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 556 (12.45%) Observability
10 548 (12.27%) Migration
11 543 (12.16%) Stakeholder Management
12 530 (11.87%) AI
13 523 (11.71%) Analytics
14 502 (11.24%) Scrum
15 462 (10.35%) Software Engineering
16 446 (9.99%) Platform Engineering
17 413 (9.25%) Data Modelling
18 376 (8.42%) Mentoring
19 375 (8.40%) Technical Leadership
20 370 (8.29%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,235 (27.66%) Python
2 880 (19.71%) SQL
3 617 (13.82%) Java
4 411 (9.20%) C#
5 332 (7.44%) PowerShell
6 323 (7.23%) Bash
7 313 (7.01%) JavaScript
8 222 (4.97%) TypeScript
9 148 (3.31%) Bicep
10 91 (2.04%) Go
11 61 (1.37%) Scala
12 53 (1.19%) Shell Script
13 45 (1.01%) Apex Code
13 45 (1.01%) T-SQL
14 44 (0.99%) PL/SQL
15 38 (0.85%) Groovy
16 26 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 25 (0.56%) C++
17 25 (0.56%) Kotlin
18 22 (0.49%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,437 (32.18%) Security Cleared
2 1,194 (26.74%) SC Cleared
3 285 (6.38%) Degree
4 193 (4.32%) Azure Certification
5 144 (3.23%) DV Cleared
6 137 (3.07%) AWS Certification
7 117 (2.62%) BPSS Clearance
7 117 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 74 (1.66%) CISSP
9 59 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
10 44 (0.99%) CISM
11 43 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
11 43 (0.96%) ISTQB
12 40 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 37 (0.83%) Master's Degree
13 37 (0.83%) PMI Certification
14 36 (0.81%) PMP
15 23 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
16 21 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 21 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 379 (8.49%) QA
2 209 (4.68%) Data Quality
3 160 (3.58%) GDPR
4 117 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 115 (2.58%) Accessibility
6 112 (2.51%) NIST
7 67 (1.50%) NCSC
8 54 (1.21%) WCAG
9 45 (1.01%) PCI DSS
10 40 (0.90%) SLA
11 28 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 27 (0.60%) PMO
13 24 (0.54%) GRC
14 15 (0.34%) HIPAA
15 13 (0.29%) SOC 2
16 12 (0.27%) ISO 20022
16 12 (0.27%) NIST 800
16 12 (0.27%) PSD2
17 10 (0.22%) SEPA
18 7 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 853 (19.10%) Docker
2 165 (3.70%) Active Directory
3 67 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
3 67 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (0.74%) vSphere
5 23 (0.52%) VMware NSX
6 18 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (0.38%) Squid
8 16 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
9 14 (0.31%) Postfix
10 13 (0.29%) Hyper-V
11 7 (0.16%) Firmware
11 7 (0.16%) RACF
12 6 (0.13%) Corosync
12 6 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
13 5 (0.11%) SRDF
14 4 (0.090%) HDFS
14 4 (0.090%) Microsoft App-V
14 4 (0.090%) NFS
14 4 (0.090%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,265 (28.33%) Terraform
2 1,117 (25.02%) Kubernetes
3 447 (10.01%) Ansible
4 300 (6.72%) Grafana
5 256 (5.73%) Prometheus
6 85 (1.90%) Argo
7 72 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
8 60 (1.34%) Puppet
9 45 (1.01%) Istio
10 29 (0.65%) Progress Chef
11 28 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
12 27 (0.60%) Packer
13 24 (0.54%) vCenter Server
14 23 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 18 (0.40%) Kibana
16 16 (0.36%) Consul
17 14 (0.31%) HP ALM
17 14 (0.31%) Kustomize
18 13 (0.29%) FortiGate
19 12 (0.27%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 791 (17.72%) Microsoft
2 247 (5.53%) Databricks
3 243 (5.44%) Oracle
4 204 (4.57%) Google
5 170 (3.81%) Splunk
6 165 (3.70%) ServiceNow
7 132 (2.96%) Salesforce
8 129 (2.89%) Red Hat
9 107 (2.40%) VMware
10 105 (2.35%) SAP
11 99 (2.22%) Dynatrace
12 58 (1.30%) OpenAI
13 49 (1.10%) IBM
14 47 (1.05%) Atlassian
15 46 (1.03%) CyberArk
16 38 (0.85%) AppDynamics
16 38 (0.85%) Informatica
17 36 (0.81%) Foundry
18 35 (0.78%) Cisco
19 30 (0.67%) Okta