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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 14 14
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,776 3,132 3,278
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.33% 11.15% 10.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.18% 12.27% 11.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,295 2,208 2,187
10th Percentile £381 £361 £394
25th Percentile £438 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £713 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 21 61
10th Percentile £37.25 £42.50 £46.18
25th Percentile £58.63 £56.75 £65.00
Median hourly rate £68.75 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% -4.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £78.63 £88.75 £74.44
90th Percentile £94.25 £95.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £68.88 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +2.80% -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 39,199 25,531 28,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.82% 90.87% 86.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,678 16,181 17,100
10th Percentile £325 £294 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,975 1,587 1,157
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.36 £17.79 £20.19
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -4.49%
75th Percentile £67.47 £45.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £74.92
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -8.31%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 9 October 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 2,543 £550 - 2,560
North of England -3 790 £500 +5.15% 741
South East -8 447 £535 +7.00% 552
Midlands -8 404 £488 -5.34% 294
Yorkshire -5 375 £500 +0.70% 228
South West +6 327 £550 - 275
West Midlands -9 327 £500 -4.76% 182
North West -3 320 £523 +16.22% 397
East of England +4 148 £504 -7.31% 235
North East +10 109 £450 -18.18% 120
East Midlands -12 75 £449 +6.79% 111
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
1 293 (6.13%) Confluence
2 139 (2.91%) SharePoint
3 120 (2.51%) Apache Spark
4 116 (2.43%) Apache Airflow
5 108 (2.26%) Apache
6 46 (0.96%) SAS
7 40 (0.84%) Jupyter
8 38 (0.80%) CMS
9 30 (0.63%) nginx
10 24 (0.50%) IIS
11 20 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
12 15 (0.31%) Camunda
13 13 (0.27%) OpenStack
14 9 (0.19%) Anypoint
14 9 (0.19%) Appian
14 9 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
14 9 (0.19%) WebSphere
15 8 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
15 8 (0.17%) Tomcat
16 7 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 66 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
3 48 (1.01%) MS Visio
4 36 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 32 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
6 14 (0.29%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.17%) CPLEX
7 8 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.17%) Windchill
8 5 (0.10%) Notion
8 5 (0.10%) Trello
9 3 (0.063%) Mingle
10 2 (0.042%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.042%) Gliffy
11 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.021%) Mozilla Thunderbird
11 1 (0.021%) Sketch
11 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 72 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 36 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
4 8 (0.17%) Magento
4 8 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 6 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
5 6 (0.13%) SAP MDG
6 5 (0.10%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.10%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
6 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
6 5 (0.10%) Temenos T24
7 4 (0.084%) Oracle Payroll
7 4 (0.084%) Teamcenter
8 3 (0.063%) Endur
8 3 (0.063%) Maximo
8 3 (0.063%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (0.063%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.063%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 2,587 (54.17%) Azure
2 1,660 (34.76%) AWS
3 1,498 (31.37%) Azure DevOps
4 825 (17.27%) GitHub
5 650 (13.61%) GCP
6 519 (10.87%) GitHub Actions
7 440 (9.21%) Power Platform
8 407 (8.52%) Serverless
9 255 (5.34%) Amazon S3
10 244 (5.11%) Entra ID
11 235 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
12 210 (4.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 208 (4.36%) Amazon EKS
14 186 (3.89%) Azure AKS
15 182 (3.81%) Azure Monitor
16 177 (3.71%) Dynamics 365
17 174 (3.64%) Azure Data Factory
18 166 (3.48%) AWS CloudFormation
19 165 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
20 157 (3.29%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 219 (4.59%) Firewall
2 152 (3.18%) DNS
3 112 (2.35%) Network Security
4 111 (2.32%) VPN
5 80 (1.68%) TCP/IP
6 50 (1.05%) SSL
7 44 (0.92%) DHCP
8 43 (0.90%) WAN
9 35 (0.73%) BGP
10 32 (0.67%) HTTP
11 30 (0.63%) Internet
12 26 (0.54%) OSPF
12 26 (0.54%) SSH
13 25 (0.52%) SD-WAN
14 19 (0.40%) LAN
14 19 (0.40%) VLAN
14 19 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
15 17 (0.36%) BIG-IP
15 17 (0.36%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 15 (0.31%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 288 (6.03%) Power BI
2 259 (5.42%) SQL Server
3 246 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
4 183 (3.83%) Data Warehouse
5 158 (3.31%) NoSQL
6 150 (3.14%) Data Lake
7 147 (3.08%) MongoDB
8 134 (2.81%) Relational Database
9 126 (2.64%) Amazon RDS
10 119 (2.49%) Metadata
11 84 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
12 78 (1.63%) Delta Lake
13 77 (1.61%) MySQL
14 76 (1.59%) DynamoDB
15 75 (1.57%) Oracle Database
16 71 (1.49%) Redis
17 57 (1.19%) Big Data
18 56 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 53 (1.11%) BigQuery
20 51 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 696 (14.57%) Git
2 677 (14.18%) Jenkins
3 564 (11.81%) GitLab
4 532 (11.14%) JIRA
5 129 (2.70%) Selenium
6 81 (1.70%) Maven
7 80 (1.68%) Postman
7 80 (1.68%) SonarQube
8 79 (1.65%) JUnit
9 73 (1.53%) Cucumber
10 63 (1.32%) Cypress.io
11 62 (1.30%) Bitbucket
12 59 (1.24%) REST Assured
13 55 (1.15%) JMeter
14 54 (1.13%) Gradle
15 41 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
16 40 (0.84%) Mockito
17 39 (0.82%) Visual Studio
18 38 (0.80%) Claude Code
18 38 (0.80%) Gatling
General
1 1,294 (27.09%) Social Skills
2 919 (19.24%) Finance
3 641 (13.42%) Public Sector
4 494 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
5 374 (7.83%) Banking
6 142 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 109 (2.28%) Retail
8 87 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
9 72 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
10 61 (1.28%) Aerospace
11 56 (1.17%) Marketing
12 53 (1.11%) Military
13 52 (1.09%) Investment Banking
14 48 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
15 47 (0.98%) Telecoms
16 46 (0.96%) Local Government
16 46 (0.96%) Manufacturing
17 44 (0.92%) Legal
18 42 (0.88%) Financial Institution
19 41 (0.86%) Law
Job Titles
1 912 (19.10%) DevOps Engineer
2 749 (15.68%) Senior
3 741 (15.52%) Developer
4 559 (11.70%) Architect
5 477 (9.99%) Lead
6 288 (6.03%) Azure Engineer
7 278 (5.82%) Data Engineer
8 218 (4.56%) Analyst
9 197 (4.12%) AWS Engineer
10 186 (3.89%) Platform Engineer
11 177 (3.71%) Senior DevOps
12 176 (3.69%) Cloud Engineer
13 161 (3.37%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 160 (3.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 154 (3.22%) Solutions Architect
16 136 (2.85%) AWS DevOps
17 135 (2.83%) Java Developer
18 133 (2.78%) Software Engineer
19 125 (2.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 125 (2.62%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,446 (30.28%) Terraform
2 569 (11.91%) REST
3 429 (8.98%) .NET
4 339 (7.10%) Kafka
5 272 (5.70%) RESTful
6 259 (5.42%) React
7 232 (4.86%) Spring
8 229 (4.79%) Spring Boot
9 168 (3.52%) OAuth
10 160 (3.35%) JSON
11 145 (3.04%) Node.js
12 137 (2.87%) PySpark
13 134 (2.81%) Playwright
14 122 (2.55%) .NET Framework
14 122 (2.55%) HTML
15 117 (2.45%) SOAP
16 114 (2.39%) CSS
17 108 (2.26%) Middleware
17 108 (2.26%) OAuth2
18 100 (2.09%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 883 (18.49%) Cloud Native
2 365 (7.64%) Product Ownership
3 218 (4.56%) Distributed Systems
4 204 (4.27%) Enterprise Software
5 192 (4.02%) Onboarding
6 145 (3.04%) Hybrid Cloud
7 125 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
8 106 (2.22%) AI Agents
9 96 (2.01%) Management Information System
10 72 (1.51%) Security Posture
10 72 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
11 66 (1.38%) Public Cloud
12 65 (1.36%) Data Structures
13 62 (1.30%) Data Centre
14 61 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
14 61 (1.28%) Replication
15 53 (1.11%) PKI
16 49 (1.03%) Mobile App
16 49 (1.03%) Virtual Team
17 46 (0.96%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 506 (10.59%) Linux
2 293 (6.13%) Windows
3 117 (2.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 97 (2.03%) Unix
5 90 (1.88%) Windows Server
6 37 (0.77%) Ubuntu
7 30 (0.63%) VMS
8 26 (0.54%) Apple iOS
9 18 (0.38%) Android
10 15 (0.31%) 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
14 6 (0.13%) Solaris
15 4 (0.084%) Alpine Linux
15 4 (0.084%) Windows Server 2008
16 3 (0.063%) Mac OS
16 3 (0.063%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,910 (60.93%) CI/CD
2 1,942 (40.66%) Agile
3 1,435 (30.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 882 (18.47%) Stakeholder Management
5 840 (17.59%) Continuous Improvement
6 833 (17.44%) AI
7 808 (16.92%) Test Automation
8 778 (16.29%) Problem-Solving
9 774 (16.21%) Containerisation
10 700 (14.66%) Microservices
10 700 (14.66%) Observability
11 664 (13.90%) Platform Engineering
12 662 (13.86%) Software Engineering
13 583 (12.21%) Migration
14 582 (12.19%) Scrum
15 557 (11.66%) Technical Leadership
16 513 (10.74%) Analytics
17 453 (9.48%) Roadmaps
18 449 (9.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 420 (8.79%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,455 (30.46%) Python
2 841 (17.61%) SQL
3 696 (14.57%) Java
4 464 (9.72%) PowerShell
5 456 (9.55%) C#
6 448 (9.38%) Bash
7 401 (8.40%) JavaScript
8 290 (6.07%) TypeScript
9 234 (4.90%) Bicep
10 93 (1.95%) Go
11 65 (1.36%) Shell Script
12 57 (1.19%) Groovy
12 57 (1.19%) T-SQL
13 54 (1.13%) Scala
14 42 (0.88%) PL/SQL
15 41 (0.86%) Apex Code
16 33 (0.69%) C++
17 32 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 29 (0.61%) Perl
19 28 (0.59%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,547 (32.39%) Security Cleared
2 1,287 (26.95%) SC Cleared
3 346 (7.24%) Degree
4 231 (4.84%) DV Cleared
5 218 (4.56%) Azure Certification
6 179 (3.75%) AWS Certification
7 148 (3.10%) BPSS Clearance
8 132 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
9 104 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
10 75 (1.57%) CISSP
11 55 (1.15%) ISTQB
12 52 (1.09%) PMP
13 51 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
14 46 (0.96%) PMI Certification
15 41 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 39 (0.82%) Master's Degree
17 31 (0.65%) CISM
18 24 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 21 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 21 (0.44%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 495 (10.36%) QA
2 250 (5.23%) Data Quality
3 171 (3.58%) Accessibility
4 108 (2.26%) GDPR
5 88 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 78 (1.63%) WCAG
7 64 (1.34%) NIST
8 45 (0.94%) NCSC
8 45 (0.94%) PMO
9 30 (0.63%) PCI DSS
10 29 (0.61%) SLA
11 25 (0.52%) GRC
12 19 (0.40%) ISO 20022
13 16 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 14 (0.29%) HIPAA
14 14 (0.29%) SOC 2
15 13 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
15 13 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
16 12 (0.25%) SEPA
17 9 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 967 (20.25%) Docker
2 152 (3.18%) Active Directory
3 71 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
4 63 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 22 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 22 (0.46%) vSphere
6 19 (0.40%) Hyper-V
7 17 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
8 11 (0.23%) Squid
8 11 (0.23%) VMware NSX
9 10 (0.21%) IAG
10 8 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
11 6 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 6 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
11 6 (0.13%) Postfix
12 5 (0.10%) Corosync
12 5 (0.10%) KVM
12 5 (0.10%) RACF
13 4 (0.084%) BitLocker
13 4 (0.084%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1,267 (26.53%) Kubernetes
2 486 (10.18%) Ansible
3 319 (6.68%) Grafana
4 267 (5.59%) Prometheus
5 61 (1.28%) Argo
6 54 (1.13%) Puppet
7 50 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
8 47 (0.98%) Progress Chef
9 38 (0.80%) Kibana
9 38 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
10 32 (0.67%) Packer
11 24 (0.50%) Kubeflow
12 23 (0.48%) Istio
13 20 (0.42%) Kustomize
14 19 (0.40%) SCCM
15 13 (0.27%) Control-M
15 13 (0.27%) HP ALM
15 13 (0.27%) SCOM
15 13 (0.27%) vCenter Server
16 12 (0.25%) systemd
Vendors
1 998 (20.90%) Microsoft
2 275 (5.76%) Databricks
3 272 (5.70%) Google
4 232 (4.86%) Oracle
5 182 (3.81%) ServiceNow
6 164 (3.43%) Splunk
7 140 (2.93%) Dynatrace
8 132 (2.76%) Salesforce
9 101 (2.11%) SAP
10 97 (2.03%) VMware
11 90 (1.88%) Red Hat
12 67 (1.40%) IBM
13 61 (1.28%) OpenAI
14 49 (1.03%) Foundry
15 44 (0.92%) Cisco
16 40 (0.84%) Informatica
16 40 (0.84%) MuleSoft
17 35 (0.73%) AppDynamics
18 32 (0.67%) Atlassian
19 31 (0.65%) Okta