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 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 14 18
Rank change year-on-year +2 +4 -6
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,010 2,737 3,255
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.29% 10.66% 8.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.95% 11.81% 9.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,805 1,924 2,337
10th Percentile £381 £400 £413
25th Percentile £438 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £573 £568
Median % change year-on-year -8.30% +0.88% -5.42%
75th Percentile £614 £675 £674
90th Percentile £725 £779 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 19 97
10th Percentile - £37.95 £46.18
25th Percentile £45.46 £58.45 £57.50
Median hourly rate £63.50 £74.44 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.70% +14.52% -0.76%
75th Percentile £77.50 £80.75 £71.90
90th Percentile £92.33 £88.50 £84.90
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £73.83 £65.00
% change year-on-year -11.96% +13.59% -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 30,972 23,170 33,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.17% 90.22% 87.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,848 14,569 21,913
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,919 779 2,056
10th Percentile £15.24 £15.59 £13.42
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £34.77
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% +0.68% -0.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £59.93
90th Percentile £72.51 £75.30 £72.17
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £33.50
% change year-on-year -15.38% -2.99% -4.29%

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 28 February 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 28 February 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 28 February 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 -3 2,008 £540 -8.67% 465
North of England +5 733 £500 -4.76% 294
South East +2 425 £525 -8.70% 322
Midlands +14 415 £500 +1.52% 115
Yorkshire +1 383 £500 -4.76% 86
West Midlands +13 331 £517 +3.40% 77
North West +2 300 £490 -5.45% 162
South West +10 259 £525 -12.50% 122
East of England +21 116 £575 +13.30% 46
East Midlands +5 83 £430 -9.47% 37
North East -2 53 £488 -7.14% 51
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
1 251 (6.26%) Confluence
2 96 (2.39%) Apache Spark
3 85 (2.12%) Apache
4 80 (2.00%) SAS
4 80 (2.00%) SharePoint
5 57 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
6 32 (0.80%) OpenStack
7 30 (0.75%) nginx
8 29 (0.72%) CMS
9 20 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
10 17 (0.42%) IIS
11 14 (0.35%) JBoss
12 13 (0.32%) WebLogic
13 12 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 12 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
14 11 (0.27%) Mendix
15 10 (0.25%) HCL Notes
16 8 (0.20%) GeoServer
16 8 (0.20%) Smallworld
16 8 (0.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 85 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 38 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
4 26 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
5 21 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.30%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.20%) Weka
8 4 (0.100%) Trello
9 2 (0.050%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.050%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.025%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.025%) InDesign
10 1 (0.025%) Maya
10 1 (0.025%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 62 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.25%) Endur
3 10 (0.25%) Maximo
4 9 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.20%) Aladdin
5 8 (0.20%) NEC Housing
6 7 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
7 6 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.15%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.100%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.100%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.075%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.075%) SAP BPC
10 3 (0.075%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.075%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.075%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.075%) VisionPLUS
10 3 (0.075%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2,044 (50.97%) Azure
2 1,399 (34.89%) AWS
3 1,105 (27.56%) Azure DevOps
4 724 (18.05%) GitHub
5 596 (14.86%) GCP
6 444 (11.07%) Serverless
7 384 (9.58%) GitHub Actions
8 328 (8.18%) Power Platform
9 221 (5.51%) Amazon S3
10 210 (5.24%) AWS CloudFormation
11 208 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
12 193 (4.81%) Azure Data Factory
13 183 (4.56%) OpenShift
14 181 (4.51%) Entra ID
15 175 (4.36%) Azure AKS
16 162 (4.04%) Amazon EKS
17 150 (3.74%) Dynamics 365
18 148 (3.69%) Azure Monitor
19 144 (3.59%) SaaS
20 132 (3.29%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 194 (4.84%) Firewall
2 109 (2.72%) DNS
3 84 (2.09%) VPN
4 83 (2.07%) Network Security
5 53 (1.32%) TCP/IP
6 33 (0.82%) SSL
7 26 (0.65%) HTTP
8 21 (0.52%) WAN
9 17 (0.42%) DHCP
9 17 (0.42%) SD-WAN
10 16 (0.40%) HTTPS
11 15 (0.37%) Kerberos
12 13 (0.32%) MPLS
13 12 (0.30%) BGP
13 12 (0.30%) SAN
14 11 (0.27%) Reverse Proxy
15 9 (0.22%) Internet
15 9 (0.22%) IPsec
15 9 (0.22%) LAN
16 8 (0.20%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 228 (5.69%) PostgreSQL
2 211 (5.26%) Power BI
3 162 (4.04%) SQL Server
4 155 (3.87%) NoSQL
5 123 (3.07%) Data Lake
6 102 (2.54%) Relational Database
7 101 (2.52%) Amazon RDS
8 96 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
9 94 (2.34%) MongoDB
10 76 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
10 76 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
11 74 (1.85%) Oracle Database
12 65 (1.62%) DynamoDB
13 58 (1.45%) Delta Lake
14 54 (1.35%) Redis
15 51 (1.27%) MySQL
16 48 (1.20%) Tableau
17 46 (1.15%) Metadata
18 42 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
18 42 (1.05%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 695 (17.33%) Jenkins
2 553 (13.79%) Git
3 539 (13.44%) JIRA
4 495 (12.34%) GitLab
5 118 (2.94%) Selenium
6 92 (2.29%) JUnit
7 77 (1.92%) Postman
8 65 (1.62%) Bitbucket
9 62 (1.55%) SonarQube
10 54 (1.35%) Cucumber
11 51 (1.27%) Maven
12 49 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
13 46 (1.15%) Cypress.io
14 45 (1.12%) Artifactory
15 42 (1.05%) REST Assured
16 36 (0.90%) Oracle APEX
17 35 (0.87%) Liquibase
18 33 (0.82%) JMeter
19 31 (0.77%) Gradle
20 28 (0.70%) CircleCI
General
1 1,210 (30.17%) Social Skills
2 757 (18.88%) Finance
3 490 (12.22%) Public Sector
4 351 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
5 321 (8.00%) Banking
6 145 (3.62%) Documentation Skills
7 74 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
8 68 (1.70%) Financial Institution
9 54 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 52 (1.30%) Retail
11 51 (1.27%) Marketing
12 46 (1.15%) Front Office
13 43 (1.07%) Investment Banking
13 43 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
14 38 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
14 38 (0.95%) Telecoms
15 32 (0.80%) Military
16 27 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
17 25 (0.62%) Law
17 25 (0.62%) Legal
Job Titles
1 740 (18.45%) DevOps Engineer
2 646 (16.11%) Developer
3 558 (13.92%) Senior
4 424 (10.57%) Architect
5 329 (8.20%) Lead
6 245 (6.11%) Azure Engineer
7 233 (5.81%) Data Engineer
8 228 (5.69%) Analyst
9 210 (5.24%) AWS Engineer
10 161 (4.01%) Cloud Engineer
11 160 (3.99%) AWS DevOps
12 150 (3.74%) Software Engineer
13 140 (3.49%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 139 (3.47%) Platform Engineer
15 129 (3.22%) Solutions Architect
16 124 (3.09%) Business Analyst
17 120 (2.99%) Senior Developer
18 117 (2.92%) Senior DevOps
19 109 (2.72%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 105 (2.62%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 443 (11.05%) REST
2 327 (8.15%) .NET
3 259 (6.46%) React
4 258 (6.43%) Node.js
5 225 (5.61%) Kafka
6 212 (5.29%) Spring
7 202 (5.04%) RESTful
8 193 (4.81%) Spring Boot
9 151 (3.77%) AngularJS
10 148 (3.69%) JSON
11 129 (3.22%) HTML
12 128 (3.19%) YAML
13 119 (2.97%) OAuth
14 118 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
15 116 (2.89%) Playwright
16 110 (2.74%) XML
17 108 (2.69%) SOAP
18 104 (2.59%) PySpark
19 102 (2.54%) Middleware
20 98 (2.44%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 588 (14.66%) Cloud Native
2 214 (5.34%) Product Ownership
3 143 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
4 108 (2.69%) Public Cloud
5 107 (2.67%) Onboarding
6 81 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
7 78 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
8 68 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
9 54 (1.35%) Management Information System
10 51 (1.27%) Security Posture
11 49 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
12 46 (1.15%) Virtual Team
13 44 (1.10%) Private Cloud
14 38 (0.95%) NHS
15 37 (0.92%) Replication
16 36 (0.90%) Data Centre
17 34 (0.85%) Data Structures
17 34 (0.85%) Mobile App
18 32 (0.80%) AI Agents
19 31 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 438 (10.92%) Linux
2 212 (5.29%) Windows
3 84 (2.09%) Unix
4 60 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 41 (1.02%) VMS
6 36 (0.90%) Windows Server
7 25 (0.62%) Ubuntu
8 17 (0.42%) CentOS
9 13 (0.32%) Android
10 12 (0.30%) Apple iOS
11 11 (0.27%) Windows 10
12 10 (0.25%) Solaris
13 7 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
14 6 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
15 4 (0.100%) Amazon Linux
15 4 (0.100%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.050%) Debian
16 2 (0.050%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.050%) zOS
17 1 (0.025%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,303 (57.43%) CI/CD
2 1,573 (39.23%) Agile
3 1,018 (25.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 773 (19.28%) Problem-Solving
5 748 (18.65%) Containerisation
6 597 (14.89%) Test Automation
7 585 (14.59%) Microservices
8 506 (12.62%) Analytics
9 503 (12.54%) Continuous Improvement
10 465 (11.60%) Migration
11 451 (11.25%) Scrum
12 435 (10.85%) AI
13 430 (10.72%) Observability
14 410 (10.22%) Stakeholder Management
15 380 (9.48%) Software Engineering
16 360 (8.98%) Data Modelling
17 340 (8.48%) Mentoring
18 289 (7.21%) Data Pipeline
19 285 (7.11%) Business Intelligence
20 277 (6.91%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,228 (30.62%) Python
2 847 (21.12%) SQL
3 524 (13.07%) Java
4 389 (9.70%) C#
5 387 (9.65%) JavaScript
6 317 (7.91%) PowerShell
7 316 (7.88%) Bash
8 273 (6.81%) TypeScript
9 133 (3.32%) Go
10 126 (3.14%) Bicep
11 83 (2.07%) PL/SQL
12 60 (1.50%) Scala
13 46 (1.15%) Shell Script
14 44 (1.10%) T-SQL
15 39 (0.97%) C++
16 38 (0.95%) Groovy
16 38 (0.95%) Ruby
17 27 (0.67%) Rust
18 21 (0.52%) Perl
18 21 (0.52%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,285 (32.04%) Security Cleared
2 1,049 (26.16%) SC Cleared
3 342 (8.53%) Degree
4 195 (4.86%) Azure Certification
5 183 (4.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 140 (3.49%) DV Cleared
7 130 (3.24%) AWS Certification
8 86 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
9 80 (2.00%) Master's Degree
10 75 (1.87%) CISSP
11 57 (1.42%) CISM
12 54 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
13 44 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 43 (1.07%) ISTQB
15 35 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
16 34 (0.85%) PMI Certification
17 28 (0.70%) PMP
18 27 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 23 (0.57%) IIBA
20 20 (0.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 349 (8.70%) QA
2 164 (4.09%) GDPR
3 160 (3.99%) Data Quality
4 121 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 113 (2.82%) NIST
6 92 (2.29%) Accessibility
7 66 (1.65%) NCSC
8 32 (0.80%) PCI DSS
9 31 (0.77%) WCAG
10 25 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 25 (0.62%) SLA
11 21 (0.52%) HIPAA
11 21 (0.52%) PMO
12 16 (0.40%) SOC 2
13 15 (0.37%) ISO 20022
14 13 (0.32%) PSD2
15 11 (0.27%) NIST 800
16 10 (0.25%) SEPA
17 8 (0.20%) GRC
17 8 (0.20%) HL7
System Software
1 953 (23.77%) Docker
2 163 (4.06%) Active Directory
3 73 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
4 69 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 41 (1.02%) vSphere
6 24 (0.60%) VMware NSX
7 14 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.27%) Lustre
8 11 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 11 (0.27%) Squid
9 9 (0.22%) GPFS
9 9 (0.22%) Postfix
9 9 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
10 7 (0.17%) Firmware
10 7 (0.17%) Hyper-V
10 7 (0.17%) NFS
11 6 (0.15%) DFS Replication
11 6 (0.15%) HDFS
12 5 (0.12%) RACF
12 5 (0.12%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 1,190 (29.68%) Terraform
2 1,144 (28.53%) Kubernetes
3 465 (11.60%) Ansible
4 283 (7.06%) Grafana
5 241 (6.01%) Prometheus
6 87 (2.17%) Argo
7 72 (1.80%) Puppet
8 61 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
9 44 (1.10%) Istio
10 32 (0.80%) Kibana
11 31 (0.77%) Progress Chef
12 29 (0.72%) Packer
13 23 (0.57%) vCenter Server
14 20 (0.50%) Podman
15 18 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 17 (0.42%) Consul
16 17 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
16 17 (0.42%) Rancher
17 16 (0.40%) FortiGate
18 13 (0.32%) logstash
Vendors
1 685 (17.08%) Microsoft
2 282 (7.03%) Oracle
3 248 (6.18%) Databricks
4 231 (5.76%) Google
5 202 (5.04%) Splunk
6 145 (3.62%) ServiceNow
7 137 (3.42%) Red Hat
8 117 (2.92%) VMware
9 101 (2.52%) Salesforce
10 95 (2.37%) SAP
11 69 (1.72%) OpenAI
12 58 (1.45%) Dynatrace
13 57 (1.42%) Atlassian
14 56 (1.40%) CyberArk
15 42 (1.05%) Talend
16 40 (1.00%) IBM
17 38 (0.95%) Denodo
18 36 (0.90%) F5
19 33 (0.82%) Foundry
20 30 (0.75%) Palo Alto