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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 16 15
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,664 2,577 3,537
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.64% 10.05% 9.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.47% 11.03% 11.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,240 1,857 2,414
10th Percentile £388 £363 £400
25th Percentile £440 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £622 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 12 116
10th Percentile £38.89 £35.75 £56.50
25th Percentile £61.78 £49.06 £61.51
Median hourly rate £68.75 £66.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -5.36% +6.70%
75th Percentile £77.88 £84.41 £75.63
90th Percentile £94.69 £92.13 £86.32
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +6.70%

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 37,409 23,372 31,772
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.35% 91.17% 85.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,567 15,052 20,589
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £418 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.79% -4.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,348 1,165 2,330
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.97 £17.88 £16.06
Median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.48% -34.02% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.50 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £72.93
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.81%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 1 July 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 2,389 £550 - 692
North of England +6 869 £500 - 322
Yorkshire +2 466 £510 +2.00% 96
South East -3 456 £525 +5.00% 367
Midlands 0 431 £492 -1.60% 132
West Midlands -2 339 £500 -2.44% 81
North West +2 327 £500 +4.17% 178
South West +18 293 £523 -5.00% 141
East of England +27 140 £525 +5.00% 89
North East +9 94 £450 -13.88% 51
East Midlands +2 88 £475 +5.56% 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
1 269 (5.77%) Confluence
2 123 (2.64%) Apache Spark
3 116 (2.49%) SharePoint
4 98 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
5 91 (1.95%) Apache
6 70 (1.50%) SAS
7 49 (1.05%) CMS
8 29 (0.62%) IIS
9 28 (0.60%) Jupyter
10 27 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
11 26 (0.56%) nginx
12 15 (0.32%) Camunda
13 14 (0.30%) OpenStack
13 14 (0.30%) WebSphere
14 13 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
15 11 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
16 9 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
17 8 (0.17%) Appian
18 7 (0.15%) Tomcat
19 6 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 67 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 55 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
3 42 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 35 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
5 33 (0.71%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.21%) CPLEX
7 7 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.086%) Notion
8 4 (0.086%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.064%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.064%) Trello
10 1 (0.021%) InDesign
10 1 (0.021%) Maya
10 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 64 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
4 9 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.17%) Aladdin
5 8 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
5 8 (0.17%) Maximo
6 6 (0.13%) Magento
6 6 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.11%) Endur
7 5 (0.11%) OpenText MBPM
7 5 (0.11%) Oracle BPM
7 5 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.086%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.086%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.064%) Findur
9 3 (0.064%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.064%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.064%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 3 (0.064%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2,473 (53.02%) Azure
2 1,616 (34.65%) AWS
3 1,372 (29.42%) Azure DevOps
4 746 (15.99%) GitHub
5 563 (12.07%) GCP
6 446 (9.56%) GitHub Actions
7 408 (8.75%) Serverless
8 400 (8.58%) Power Platform
9 259 (5.55%) Amazon S3
10 225 (4.82%) Entra ID
11 224 (4.80%) AWS Lambda
12 189 (4.05%) Azure AKS
13 186 (3.99%) AWS CloudFormation
14 171 (3.67%) Azure Data Factory
15 165 (3.54%) Amazon EKS
16 154 (3.30%) Amazon EC2
17 152 (3.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 149 (3.19%) Azure Monitor
19 145 (3.11%) OpenShift
20 141 (3.02%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 216 (4.63%) Firewall
2 119 (2.55%) DNS
3 104 (2.23%) Network Security
4 97 (2.08%) VPN
5 49 (1.05%) WAN
6 40 (0.86%) TCP/IP
7 36 (0.77%) SD-WAN
8 33 (0.71%) SSL
9 32 (0.69%) BGP
10 27 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
11 26 (0.56%) Internet
12 24 (0.51%) OSPF
13 20 (0.43%) DHCP
14 19 (0.41%) HTTP
15 17 (0.36%) LAN
15 17 (0.36%) MPLS
15 17 (0.36%) SAN
15 17 (0.36%) VXLAN
16 16 (0.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 16 (0.34%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 268 (5.75%) Power BI
2 245 (5.25%) SQL Server
3 223 (4.78%) PostgreSQL
4 165 (3.54%) NoSQL
5 153 (3.28%) Relational Database
6 142 (3.04%) Data Lake
7 141 (3.02%) Data Warehouse
8 138 (2.96%) MongoDB
9 97 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
10 89 (1.91%) Azure SQL Database
11 81 (1.74%) Delta Lake
12 77 (1.65%) DynamoDB
12 77 (1.65%) Metadata
13 73 (1.57%) Oracle Database
14 58 (1.24%) Redis
15 56 (1.20%) Big Data
15 56 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
16 55 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
17 54 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
18 42 (0.90%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 655 (14.04%) Jenkins
2 600 (12.86%) Git
3 551 (11.81%) JIRA
4 485 (10.40%) GitLab
5 100 (2.14%) Selenium
6 91 (1.95%) Postman
7 85 (1.82%) JUnit
8 82 (1.76%) SonarQube
9 66 (1.42%) Bitbucket
9 66 (1.42%) Maven
10 65 (1.39%) REST Assured
11 53 (1.14%) Cucumber
12 49 (1.05%) JMeter
13 42 (0.90%) Gatling
13 42 (0.90%) Gradle
14 40 (0.86%) Cypress.io
15 37 (0.79%) Artifactory
15 37 (0.79%) Mockito
16 33 (0.71%) LoadRunner
17 32 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,183 (25.36%) Social Skills
2 907 (19.45%) Finance
3 610 (13.08%) Public Sector
4 405 (8.68%) Analytical Skills
5 330 (7.08%) Banking
6 126 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
7 97 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 73 (1.57%) Retail
9 71 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
10 55 (1.18%) Marketing
11 53 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
12 52 (1.11%) Legal
13 43 (0.92%) Investment Banking
14 42 (0.90%) Financial Institution
15 41 (0.88%) Military
16 36 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
17 35 (0.75%) Law
18 32 (0.69%) Front Office
19 27 (0.58%) Telecoms
20 26 (0.56%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 901 (19.32%) DevOps Engineer
2 716 (15.35%) Developer
3 654 (14.02%) Senior
4 569 (12.20%) Architect
5 433 (9.28%) Lead
6 291 (6.24%) Azure Engineer
7 285 (6.11%) Data Engineer
8 263 (5.64%) Analyst
9 210 (4.50%) AWS Engineer
10 179 (3.84%) Cloud Engineer
10 179 (3.84%) Platform Engineer
11 176 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
12 156 (3.34%) Senior DevOps
13 153 (3.28%) AWS DevOps
14 147 (3.15%) Java Developer
15 143 (3.07%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 142 (3.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 140 (3.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 139 (2.98%) Software Engineer
19 138 (2.96%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 438 (9.39%) REST
2 401 (8.60%) .NET
3 269 (5.77%) Kafka
4 264 (5.66%) Spring
5 248 (5.32%) React
6 244 (5.23%) Spring Boot
7 229 (4.91%) RESTful
8 191 (4.10%) Node.js
9 145 (3.11%) AngularJS
10 137 (2.94%) PySpark
11 132 (2.83%) OAuth
12 130 (2.79%) Playwright
13 125 (2.68%) JSON
14 117 (2.51%) .NET Framework
15 115 (2.47%) SOAP
16 109 (2.34%) HTML
17 104 (2.23%) YAML
18 95 (2.04%) CSS
19 94 (2.02%) OpenID
20 91 (1.95%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 827 (17.73%) Cloud Native
2 307 (6.58%) Product Ownership
3 205 (4.40%) Distributed Systems
4 132 (2.83%) Onboarding
5 119 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
6 118 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
7 104 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
8 80 (1.72%) Public Cloud
9 68 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
10 65 (1.39%) Data Centre
11 64 (1.37%) Management Information System
12 62 (1.33%) Security Posture
13 57 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
14 52 (1.11%) Data Structures
15 51 (1.09%) Mobile App
16 49 (1.05%) AI Agents
17 46 (0.99%) Replication
18 45 (0.96%) Virtual Team
19 43 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
20 34 (0.73%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 406 (8.70%) Linux
2 252 (5.40%) Windows
3 92 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 66 (1.42%) Unix
5 55 (1.18%) Windows Server
6 29 (0.62%) Ubuntu
7 28 (0.60%) VMS
8 23 (0.49%) Apple iOS
9 15 (0.32%) Android
10 11 (0.24%) CentOS
11 9 (0.19%) Solaris
11 9 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
13 5 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
13 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.086%) Alpine Linux
14 4 (0.086%) Data ONTAP
14 4 (0.086%) Mac OS
14 4 (0.086%) Windows 10
15 3 (0.064%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,674 (57.33%) CI/CD
2 1,782 (38.21%) Agile
3 1,217 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 744 (15.95%) Containerisation
5 727 (15.59%) Problem-Solving
6 670 (14.37%) Microservices
7 667 (14.30%) Test Automation
8 666 (14.28%) Continuous Improvement
9 596 (12.78%) Stakeholder Management
10 587 (12.59%) AI
11 567 (12.16%) Migration
12 558 (11.96%) Observability
13 552 (11.84%) Scrum
14 532 (11.41%) Analytics
15 507 (10.87%) Platform Engineering
16 506 (10.85%) Software Engineering
17 416 (8.92%) Data Modelling
18 392 (8.40%) Roadmaps
19 389 (8.34%) Technical Leadership
20 377 (8.08%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1,307 (28.02%) Python
2 896 (19.21%) SQL
3 648 (13.89%) Java
4 437 (9.37%) C#
5 350 (7.50%) Bash
6 342 (7.33%) PowerShell
7 336 (7.20%) JavaScript
8 241 (5.17%) TypeScript
9 165 (3.54%) Bicep
10 91 (1.95%) Go
11 61 (1.31%) Scala
12 54 (1.16%) Shell Script
12 54 (1.16%) T-SQL
13 52 (1.11%) PL/SQL
14 51 (1.09%) Apex Code
15 43 (0.92%) Groovy
16 28 (0.60%) C++
17 24 (0.51%) Kotlin
18 22 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 20 (0.43%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,488 (31.90%) Security Cleared
2 1,242 (26.63%) SC Cleared
3 303 (6.50%) Degree
4 187 (4.01%) Azure Certification
5 159 (3.41%) DV Cleared
6 146 (3.13%) AWS Certification
7 118 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 114 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
9 74 (1.59%) CISSP
10 69 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
11 47 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
12 43 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 43 (0.92%) ISTQB
13 39 (0.84%) PMP
14 38 (0.81%) Master's Degree
14 38 (0.81%) PMI Certification
15 36 (0.77%) CISM
16 22 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
17 21 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 21 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 407 (8.73%) QA
2 220 (4.72%) Data Quality
3 151 (3.24%) GDPR
4 137 (2.94%) Accessibility
5 106 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 101 (2.17%) NIST
7 63 (1.35%) NCSC
7 63 (1.35%) WCAG
8 45 (0.96%) PCI DSS
9 35 (0.75%) SLA
10 27 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 26 (0.56%) PMO
12 25 (0.54%) GRC
13 16 (0.34%) HIPAA
14 13 (0.28%) SOC 2
15 11 (0.24%) ISO 20022
15 11 (0.24%) PSD2
16 10 (0.21%) SEPA
17 8 (0.17%) NIST 800
18 7 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 902 (19.34%) Docker
2 163 (3.49%) Active Directory
3 75 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
4 63 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 27 (0.58%) vSphere
6 22 (0.47%) VMware NSX
7 19 (0.41%) Squid
8 18 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
9 16 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
10 14 (0.30%) Hyper-V
10 14 (0.30%) Postfix
11 7 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
12 6 (0.13%) Corosync
12 6 (0.13%) KVM
12 6 (0.13%) RACF
13 5 (0.11%) Firmware
13 5 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.11%) NFS
13 5 (0.11%) SRDF
14 4 (0.086%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1,323 (28.37%) Terraform
2 1,176 (25.21%) Kubernetes
3 459 (9.84%) Ansible
4 303 (6.50%) Grafana
5 263 (5.64%) Prometheus
6 78 (1.67%) Argo
7 68 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
8 60 (1.29%) Puppet
9 34 (0.73%) Istio
10 33 (0.71%) Progress Chef
11 30 (0.64%) Packer
12 26 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
12 26 (0.56%) vCenter Server
13 21 (0.45%) Kibana
14 17 (0.36%) Consul
15 16 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 16 (0.34%) HP ALM
16 15 (0.32%) Kustomize
17 12 (0.26%) HAProxy
17 12 (0.26%) Rancher
Vendors
1 838 (17.97%) Microsoft
2 244 (5.23%) Databricks
2 244 (5.23%) Oracle
3 213 (4.57%) Google
4 181 (3.88%) ServiceNow
5 165 (3.54%) Splunk
6 147 (3.15%) Salesforce
7 112 (2.40%) Dynatrace
8 111 (2.38%) Red Hat
9 108 (2.32%) SAP
10 99 (2.12%) VMware
11 59 (1.27%) OpenAI
12 53 (1.14%) IBM
13 49 (1.05%) Atlassian
14 45 (0.96%) CyberArk
14 45 (0.96%) Informatica
15 40 (0.86%) Foundry
16 36 (0.77%) Cisco
17 32 (0.69%) AppDynamics
17 32 (0.69%) Okta