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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 15 14
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,829 3,001 3,330
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.41% 10.79% 10.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.26% 11.87% 11.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,320 2,135 2,270
10th Percentile £385 £360 £400
25th Percentile £438 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -5.66%
75th Percentile £625 £626 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.01% -5.50% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 23 67
10th Percentile £37.24 £44.25 £55.60
25th Percentile £55.50 £56.50 £65.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -4.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £85.86 £74.72
90th Percentile £93.88 £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 39,380 25,274 28,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.88% 90.84% 85.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,176 16,039 17,819
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 £634 £625 £650
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 2,707 1,489 1,353
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.33 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.30 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.19% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +3.61%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 2,557 £550 - 1,368
North of England -1 798 £500 +5.26% 417
South East -12 456 £525 +5.00% 365
Midlands -3 442 £488 -4.88% 182
Yorkshire -2 392 £500 +3.36% 119
West Midlands -6 347 £500 -4.76% 110
South West +5 321 £550 +5.77% 211
North West -3 313 £519 +15.37% 220
East of England +8 150 £506 -3.62% 118
North East +15 108 £425 -18.27% 81
East Midlands +4 92 £463 +2.78% 72
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
1 291 (6.03%) Confluence
2 142 (2.94%) SharePoint
3 126 (2.61%) Apache Airflow
4 114 (2.36%) Apache Spark
5 101 (2.09%) Apache
6 54 (1.12%) SAS
7 40 (0.83%) CMS
8 35 (0.72%) Jupyter
9 26 (0.54%) IIS
10 23 (0.48%) nginx
11 19 (0.39%) 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
15 9 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
15 9 (0.19%) WebSphere
16 8 (0.17%) WebLogic
17 7 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 61 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
3 43 (0.89%) MS Visio
4 32 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 30 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
6 12 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.19%) CPLEX
7 9 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.14%) Trello
9 5 (0.10%) Notion
9 5 (0.10%) Windchill
10 2 (0.041%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.041%) 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 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 30 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 10 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.19%) Magento
6 7 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 6 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
7 6 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.10%) Aladdin
8 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
8 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
9 4 (0.083%) Endur
9 4 (0.083%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.062%) Findur
10 3 (0.062%) Maximo
10 3 (0.062%) Oracle EBS R12
10 3 (0.062%) Oracle ERP
10 3 (0.062%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.062%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 3 (0.062%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,630 (54.46%) Azure
2 1,688 (34.96%) AWS
3 1,518 (31.44%) Azure DevOps
4 834 (17.27%) GitHub
5 621 (12.86%) GCP
6 528 (10.93%) GitHub Actions
7 430 (8.90%) Power Platform
8 405 (8.39%) Serverless
9 253 (5.24%) Amazon S3
10 242 (5.01%) AWS Lambda
11 230 (4.76%) Entra ID
12 199 (4.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 185 (3.83%) Amazon EKS
14 184 (3.81%) Azure AKS
15 181 (3.75%) Azure Data Factory
16 177 (3.67%) AWS CloudFormation
17 175 (3.62%) Azure Monitor
18 163 (3.38%) Dynamics 365
19 159 (3.29%) Amazon EC2
20 153 (3.17%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 228 (4.72%) Firewall
2 150 (3.11%) DNS
3 112 (2.32%) VPN
4 104 (2.15%) Network Security
5 65 (1.35%) TCP/IP
6 47 (0.97%) SSL
6 47 (0.97%) WAN
7 41 (0.85%) DHCP
8 32 (0.66%) SD-WAN
9 29 (0.60%) BGP
9 29 (0.60%) Internet
10 28 (0.58%) HTTP
11 27 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
12 23 (0.48%) SSH
13 21 (0.43%) OSPF
14 19 (0.39%) SAN
14 19 (0.39%) VLAN
15 16 (0.33%) BIG-IP
15 16 (0.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 15 (0.31%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 292 (6.05%) Power BI
2 260 (5.38%) SQL Server
3 249 (5.16%) PostgreSQL
4 187 (3.87%) Data Warehouse
5 164 (3.40%) NoSQL
6 153 (3.17%) Data Lake
7 152 (3.15%) Relational Database
8 147 (3.04%) MongoDB
9 117 (2.42%) Metadata
10 116 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
11 87 (1.80%) Delta Lake
12 84 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
13 81 (1.68%) DynamoDB
14 79 (1.64%) Oracle Database
15 73 (1.51%) MySQL
16 66 (1.37%) Redis
17 56 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
18 55 (1.14%) Big Data
19 52 (1.08%) BigQuery
19 52 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 675 (13.98%) Git
2 670 (13.87%) Jenkins
3 561 (11.62%) JIRA
4 543 (11.24%) GitLab
5 113 (2.34%) Selenium
6 91 (1.88%) SonarQube
7 81 (1.68%) Maven
8 80 (1.66%) JUnit
9 77 (1.59%) Postman
10 67 (1.39%) Bitbucket
11 59 (1.22%) REST Assured
12 57 (1.18%) Cypress.io
13 56 (1.16%) Gradle
13 56 (1.16%) JMeter
14 53 (1.10%) Cucumber
15 43 (0.89%) Gatling
16 41 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
17 40 (0.83%) Mockito
18 36 (0.75%) LoadRunner
19 35 (0.72%) Artifactory
General
1 1,269 (26.28%) Social Skills
2 902 (18.68%) Finance
3 640 (13.25%) Public Sector
4 476 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
5 346 (7.17%) Banking
6 144 (2.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 106 (2.20%) Retail
8 82 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
9 73 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
10 55 (1.14%) Marketing
11 54 (1.12%) Legal
12 53 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
13 51 (1.06%) Aerospace
13 51 (1.06%) Military
14 48 (0.99%) Investment Banking
15 44 (0.91%) Telecoms
16 42 (0.87%) Front Office
17 41 (0.85%) Law
18 39 (0.81%) Manufacturing
19 38 (0.79%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 913 (18.91%) DevOps Engineer
2 750 (15.53%) Developer
3 744 (15.41%) Senior
4 563 (11.66%) Architect
5 479 (9.92%) Lead
6 302 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
7 286 (5.92%) Data Engineer
8 237 (4.91%) Analyst
9 198 (4.10%) AWS Engineer
10 197 (4.08%) Platform Engineer
11 180 (3.73%) Cloud Engineer
12 168 (3.48%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 166 (3.44%) Senior DevOps
14 161 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
15 154 (3.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 145 (3.00%) Java Developer
17 140 (2.90%) Senior Developer
18 134 (2.77%) Software Engineer
19 133 (2.75%) AWS DevOps
20 121 (2.51%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,407 (29.14%) Terraform
2 508 (10.52%) REST
3 411 (8.51%) .NET
4 332 (6.88%) Kafka
5 271 (5.61%) RESTful
6 253 (5.24%) React
7 244 (5.05%) Spring
8 237 (4.91%) Spring Boot
9 161 (3.33%) JSON
10 155 (3.21%) Node.js
11 146 (3.02%) PySpark
12 140 (2.90%) OAuth
13 132 (2.73%) Playwright
14 119 (2.46%) .NET Framework
14 119 (2.46%) HTML
15 113 (2.34%) CSS
15 113 (2.34%) SOAP
16 103 (2.13%) AngularJS
17 94 (1.95%) OAuth2
17 94 (1.95%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 882 (18.26%) Cloud Native
2 382 (7.91%) Product Ownership
3 222 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
4 172 (3.56%) Enterprise Software
5 165 (3.42%) Onboarding
6 141 (2.92%) Hybrid Cloud
7 131 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
8 90 (1.86%) AI Agents
9 77 (1.59%) Management Information System
10 70 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
11 69 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
12 68 (1.41%) Replication
13 65 (1.35%) Data Structures
13 65 (1.35%) Security Posture
14 63 (1.30%) Public Cloud
15 56 (1.16%) Data Centre
15 56 (1.16%) Virtual Team
16 52 (1.08%) Mobile App
17 42 (0.87%) PKI
18 40 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 473 (9.79%) Linux
2 274 (5.67%) Windows
3 111 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 98 (2.03%) Unix
5 83 (1.72%) Windows Server
6 34 (0.70%) Ubuntu
7 32 (0.66%) Apple iOS
8 29 (0.60%) VMS
9 22 (0.46%) Android
10 10 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
10 10 (0.21%) CentOS
11 9 (0.19%) zOS
12 8 (0.17%) Solaris
12 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
12 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
13 7 (0.14%) AIX
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 2,859 (59.20%) CI/CD
2 1,964 (40.67%) Agile
3 1,396 (28.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 828 (17.15%) Continuous Improvement
5 818 (16.94%) Stakeholder Management
6 785 (16.26%) Containerisation
7 782 (16.19%) Problem-Solving
8 758 (15.70%) AI
9 755 (15.63%) Test Automation
10 709 (14.68%) Microservices
11 665 (13.77%) Observability
12 641 (13.27%) Software Engineering
13 633 (13.11%) Platform Engineering
14 591 (12.24%) Scrum
15 581 (12.03%) Migration
16 527 (10.91%) Analytics
17 526 (10.89%) Technical Leadership
18 458 (9.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 447 (9.26%) Roadmaps
20 422 (8.74%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,416 (29.32%) Python
2 885 (18.33%) SQL
3 704 (14.58%) Java
4 448 (9.28%) PowerShell
5 428 (8.86%) C#
6 425 (8.80%) Bash
7 385 (7.97%) JavaScript
8 264 (5.47%) TypeScript
9 221 (4.58%) Bicep
10 76 (1.57%) Go
11 68 (1.41%) Shell Script
12 58 (1.20%) T-SQL
13 57 (1.18%) Groovy
14 56 (1.16%) Scala
15 49 (1.01%) Apex Code
15 49 (1.01%) PL/SQL
16 32 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 30 (0.62%) Perl
18 29 (0.60%) C++
19 24 (0.50%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,545 (31.99%) Security Cleared
2 1,290 (26.71%) SC Cleared
3 322 (6.67%) Degree
4 211 (4.37%) Azure Certification
5 203 (4.20%) DV Cleared
6 164 (3.40%) AWS Certification
7 139 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 121 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
9 105 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
10 73 (1.51%) CISSP
11 47 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
12 46 (0.95%) ISTQB
13 45 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 41 (0.85%) PMP
15 36 (0.75%) PMI Certification
16 35 (0.72%) Master's Degree
17 30 (0.62%) CISM
18 21 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 21 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 21 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 485 (10.04%) QA
2 257 (5.32%) Data Quality
3 161 (3.33%) Accessibility
4 117 (2.42%) GDPR
5 89 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 80 (1.66%) WCAG
7 79 (1.64%) NIST
8 47 (0.97%) PMO
9 46 (0.95%) NCSC
10 34 (0.70%) SLA
11 29 (0.60%) PCI DSS
12 27 (0.56%) GRC
13 21 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 17 (0.35%) ISO 20022
15 12 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
16 11 (0.23%) SEPA
17 10 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
17 10 (0.21%) HIPAA
18 9 (0.19%) HL7
19 8 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 982 (20.34%) Docker
2 154 (3.19%) Active Directory
3 73 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
4 67 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 22 (0.46%) Hyper-V
6 21 (0.43%) vSphere
7 20 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
8 16 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 16 (0.33%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.27%) Squid
10 11 (0.23%) IAG
11 9 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
11 9 (0.19%) Postfix
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%) Firmware
13 5 (0.10%) NFS
14 4 (0.083%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 1,264 (26.18%) Kubernetes
2 485 (10.04%) Ansible
3 314 (6.50%) Grafana
4 266 (5.51%) Prometheus
5 70 (1.45%) Argo
6 61 (1.26%) Puppet
7 50 (1.04%) Progress Chef
8 49 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
9 44 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
10 30 (0.62%) Packer
11 23 (0.48%) Kibana
12 21 (0.43%) Istio
13 19 (0.39%) Kustomize
14 18 (0.37%) Kubeflow
14 18 (0.37%) SCCM
14 18 (0.37%) vCenter Server
15 14 (0.29%) HP ALM
15 14 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
16 13 (0.27%) Control-M
16 13 (0.27%) SCOM
Vendors
1 970 (20.09%) Microsoft
2 267 (5.53%) Databricks
3 248 (5.14%) Oracle
4 240 (4.97%) Google
5 191 (3.96%) ServiceNow
6 162 (3.35%) Splunk
7 144 (2.98%) Salesforce
8 128 (2.65%) Dynatrace
9 105 (2.17%) VMware
10 101 (2.09%) Red Hat
11 97 (2.01%) SAP
12 63 (1.30%) IBM
13 54 (1.12%) OpenAI
14 49 (1.01%) Informatica
15 44 (0.91%) Foundry
16 42 (0.87%) Cisco
17 38 (0.79%) AppDynamics
18 36 (0.75%) Atlassian
19 35 (0.72%) MuleSoft
20 32 (0.66%) CyberArk