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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 14 17
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing DevOps 3,739 2,747 3,291
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.23% 10.56% 8.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.84% 11.77% 9.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,614 1,895 2,412
10th Percentile £377 £400 £413
25th Percentile £438 £475 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £614 £675 £675
90th Percentile £719 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £552 £550
% change year-on-year -5.80% +0.36% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 19 103
10th Percentile - £37.95 £46.18
25th Percentile £45.46 £56.88 £56.65
Median hourly rate £50.00 £67.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +3.85% -0.76%
75th Percentile £77.50 £80.75 £76.53
90th Percentile £94.50 £82.10 £84.14
UK median hourly rate £53.75 £73.23 £65.00
% change year-on-year -26.60% +12.65% -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 29,128 23,342 33,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.51% 89.73% 87.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,638 14,331 22,291
10th Percentile £306 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £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 1,831 740 1,986
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.96 £21.03 £16.54
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% - -
75th Percentile £60.13 £64.50 £61.62
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.66 £34.36
% change year-on-year -22.98% -4.95% +5.71%

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 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 9 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 9 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 1,871 £538 -10.42% 481
North of England +4 676 £500 -4.31% 302
South East +2 407 £525 -8.70% 343
Midlands +23 382 £513 +2.50% 106
Yorkshire +1 353 £500 -2.44% 97
West Midlands +19 306 £525 +5.00% 75
North West +4 275 £463 -11.48% 175
South West +12 240 £525 -12.50% 136
East of England +18 112 £573 +8.79% 60
East Midlands +8 76 £425 -10.53% 32
North East -3 51 £475 -9.52% 32
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
1 234 (6.26%) Confluence
2 82 (2.19%) SharePoint
3 81 (2.17%) Apache
3 81 (2.17%) Apache Spark
4 57 (1.52%) SAS
5 55 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
6 36 (0.96%) OpenStack
7 30 (0.80%) nginx
8 29 (0.78%) CMS
9 20 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
10 18 (0.48%) IIS
11 15 (0.40%) JBoss
12 11 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 11 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
12 11 (0.29%) WebLogic
13 10 (0.27%) HCL Notes
13 10 (0.27%) Mendix
14 8 (0.21%) Camunda
14 8 (0.21%) CICS
14 8 (0.21%) Smallworld
Applications
1 92 (2.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (1.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 36 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
4 28 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
5 18 (0.48%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.29%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.21%) Weka
8 6 (0.16%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 3 (0.080%) Trello
10 2 (0.053%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.027%) CPLEX
11 1 (0.027%) Revit
Business Applications
1 59 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.29%) Endur
3 10 (0.27%) Maximo
4 9 (0.24%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
4 9 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.21%) NEC Housing
6 6 (0.16%) VisionPLUS
7 5 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
7 5 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.11%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.080%) Oracle Assets
9 3 (0.080%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.080%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.080%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.080%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.080%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.080%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,921 (51.38%) Azure
2 1,307 (34.96%) AWS
3 1,030 (27.55%) Azure DevOps
4 689 (18.43%) GitHub
5 563 (15.06%) GCP
6 423 (11.31%) Serverless
7 370 (9.90%) GitHub Actions
8 306 (8.18%) Power Platform
9 200 (5.35%) Amazon S3
9 200 (5.35%) AWS CloudFormation
10 199 (5.32%) AWS Lambda
11 182 (4.87%) Azure Data Factory
12 171 (4.57%) Azure AKS
13 163 (4.36%) OpenShift
14 162 (4.33%) Entra ID
15 149 (3.99%) Dynamics 365
16 147 (3.93%) Amazon EKS
17 142 (3.80%) SaaS
18 141 (3.77%) Azure Monitor
19 129 (3.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 181 (4.84%) Firewall
2 103 (2.75%) DNS
3 80 (2.14%) VPN
4 77 (2.06%) Network Security
5 50 (1.34%) TCP/IP
6 42 (1.12%) SSL
7 29 (0.78%) HTTP
8 28 (0.75%) HTTPS
9 21 (0.56%) WAN
10 18 (0.48%) DHCP
11 16 (0.43%) Kerberos
12 14 (0.37%) BGP
12 14 (0.37%) SD-WAN
13 13 (0.35%) MPLS
14 11 (0.29%) FTP
14 11 (0.29%) LAN
15 10 (0.27%) Internet
15 10 (0.27%) SSH
16 9 (0.24%) Reverse Proxy
16 9 (0.24%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 211 (5.64%) PostgreSQL
2 200 (5.35%) Power BI
3 144 (3.85%) NoSQL
4 140 (3.74%) SQL Server
5 112 (3.00%) Data Lake
6 104 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
7 90 (2.41%) Relational Database
8 87 (2.33%) MongoDB
9 81 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
10 73 (1.95%) Oracle Database
11 71 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
12 70 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
13 56 (1.50%) DynamoDB
14 50 (1.34%) Redis
15 49 (1.31%) MySQL
16 48 (1.28%) Tableau
17 46 (1.23%) Delta Lake
18 44 (1.18%) Metadata
19 36 (0.96%) Amazon Athena
20 35 (0.94%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 650 (17.38%) Jenkins
2 508 (13.59%) JIRA
3 500 (13.37%) Git
4 480 (12.84%) GitLab
5 111 (2.97%) Selenium
6 83 (2.22%) JUnit
7 78 (2.09%) Postman
8 59 (1.58%) SonarQube
9 57 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
10 51 (1.36%) Bitbucket
11 49 (1.31%) Cucumber
12 46 (1.23%) Artifactory
13 45 (1.20%) Cypress.io
14 43 (1.15%) Maven
15 38 (1.02%) Gradle
15 38 (1.02%) REST Assured
16 36 (0.96%) Oracle APEX
17 33 (0.88%) JMeter
18 32 (0.86%) Liquibase
19 29 (0.78%) CircleCI
General
1 1,173 (31.37%) Social Skills
2 684 (18.29%) Finance
3 447 (11.96%) Public Sector
4 325 (8.69%) Analytical Skills
5 303 (8.10%) Banking
6 135 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
7 75 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
8 65 (1.74%) Financial Institution
9 57 (1.52%) Marketing
10 55 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 46 (1.23%) Retail
12 45 (1.20%) Front Office
13 42 (1.12%) Investment Banking
13 42 (1.12%) Telecoms
14 41 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
15 32 (0.86%) Military
16 29 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
17 26 (0.70%) Law
17 26 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
18 24 (0.64%) Legal
Job Titles
1 714 (19.10%) DevOps Engineer
2 622 (16.64%) Developer
3 504 (13.48%) Senior
4 381 (10.19%) Architect
5 294 (7.86%) Lead
6 230 (6.15%) Azure Engineer
7 201 (5.38%) Analyst
7 201 (5.38%) AWS Engineer
8 196 (5.24%) Data Engineer
9 153 (4.09%) AWS DevOps
10 142 (3.80%) Cloud Engineer
11 140 (3.74%) Software Engineer
12 133 (3.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 130 (3.48%) Platform Engineer
14 120 (3.21%) Senior Developer
15 118 (3.16%) Solutions Architect
16 116 (3.10%) Business Analyst
17 103 (2.75%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 100 (2.67%) Senior DevOps
19 94 (2.51%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 434 (11.61%) REST
2 301 (8.05%) .NET
3 244 (6.53%) Node.js
4 243 (6.50%) React
5 220 (5.88%) Kafka
6 202 (5.40%) Spring
7 191 (5.11%) RESTful
8 185 (4.95%) Spring Boot
9 155 (4.15%) JSON
10 122 (3.26%) AngularJS
10 122 (3.26%) YAML
11 120 (3.21%) Elastic Stack
12 118 (3.16%) XML
13 116 (3.10%) OAuth
13 116 (3.10%) SOAP
14 111 (2.97%) HTML
15 99 (2.65%) Playwright
16 95 (2.54%) Middleware
17 92 (2.46%) CSS
18 86 (2.30%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 540 (14.44%) Cloud Native
2 200 (5.35%) Product Ownership
3 136 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
4 108 (2.89%) Onboarding
5 101 (2.70%) Public Cloud
6 75 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
7 70 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
8 65 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
9 49 (1.31%) Management Information System
10 45 (1.20%) Security Posture
10 45 (1.20%) Virtual Team
11 44 (1.18%) Private Cloud
12 42 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
12 42 (1.12%) Replication
13 37 (0.99%) NHS
14 36 (0.96%) Data Centre
14 36 (0.96%) Mobile App
15 33 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
16 32 (0.86%) AI Agents
17 30 (0.80%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 422 (11.29%) Linux
2 209 (5.59%) Windows
3 82 (2.19%) Unix
4 49 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 44 (1.18%) VMS
6 41 (1.10%) Windows Server
7 29 (0.78%) Ubuntu
8 19 (0.51%) Android
8 19 (0.51%) Windows 10
9 18 (0.48%) Apple iOS
10 17 (0.45%) CentOS
11 8 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
11 8 (0.21%) Solaris
12 7 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
13 5 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.080%) zOS
16 2 (0.053%) Debian
17 1 (0.027%) Embedded Linux
17 1 (0.027%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,136 (57.13%) CI/CD
2 1,472 (39.37%) Agile
3 956 (25.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 737 (19.71%) Problem-Solving
5 714 (19.10%) Containerisation
6 557 (14.90%) Test Automation
7 551 (14.74%) Microservices
8 444 (11.87%) Continuous Improvement
9 443 (11.85%) Analytics
10 434 (11.61%) Migration
11 401 (10.72%) Scrum
12 388 (10.38%) Observability
13 386 (10.32%) AI
14 371 (9.92%) Stakeholder Management
15 338 (9.04%) Software Engineering
16 307 (8.21%) Mentoring
17 290 (7.76%) Data Modelling
18 258 (6.90%) Business Intelligence
19 256 (6.85%) Validation
20 249 (6.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,128 (30.17%) Python
2 755 (20.19%) SQL
3 490 (13.11%) Java
4 359 (9.60%) JavaScript
5 344 (9.20%) C#
6 320 (8.56%) PowerShell
7 294 (7.86%) Bash
8 260 (6.95%) TypeScript
9 128 (3.42%) Go
10 126 (3.37%) Bicep
11 75 (2.01%) PL/SQL
12 57 (1.52%) Scala
13 43 (1.15%) Groovy
13 43 (1.15%) Shell Script
14 38 (1.02%) Ruby
14 38 (1.02%) T-SQL
15 36 (0.96%) C++
16 24 (0.64%) Rust
17 22 (0.59%) Perl
18 21 (0.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,191 (31.85%) Security Cleared
2 978 (26.16%) SC Cleared
3 333 (8.91%) Degree
4 176 (4.71%) Azure Certification
4 176 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 133 (3.56%) DV Cleared
6 112 (3.00%) AWS Certification
7 80 (2.14%) Master's Degree
8 76 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
9 67 (1.79%) CISSP
10 59 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
11 54 (1.44%) CISM
12 39 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 39 (1.04%) ISTQB
13 33 (0.88%) PMI Certification
14 26 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
14 26 (0.70%) PMP
15 23 (0.62%) IIBA
16 22 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 19 (0.51%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 323 (8.64%) QA
2 159 (4.25%) GDPR
3 128 (3.42%) Data Quality
4 121 (3.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 111 (2.97%) NIST
6 90 (2.41%) Accessibility
7 66 (1.77%) NCSC
8 30 (0.80%) PCI DSS
9 28 (0.75%) WCAG
10 26 (0.70%) SLA
11 25 (0.67%) HIPAA
12 23 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 18 (0.48%) PMO
13 18 (0.48%) PSD2
13 18 (0.48%) SOC 2
14 16 (0.43%) ISO 20022
15 14 (0.37%) SEPA
16 10 (0.27%) NIST 800
17 8 (0.21%) HL7
18 7 (0.19%) MiFID
System Software
1 909 (24.31%) Docker
2 156 (4.17%) Active Directory
3 66 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
3 66 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (0.99%) vSphere
5 22 (0.59%) VMware NSX
6 17 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (0.37%) Squid
8 11 (0.29%) DFS Replication
8 11 (0.29%) Lustre
8 11 (0.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 9 (0.24%) GPFS
9 9 (0.24%) Hyper-V
10 8 (0.21%) Postfix
11 7 (0.19%) Firmware
11 7 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
12 6 (0.16%) Dovecot
12 6 (0.16%) KVM
12 6 (0.16%) NFS
12 6 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,137 (30.41%) Terraform
2 1,104 (29.53%) Kubernetes
3 446 (11.93%) Ansible
4 265 (7.09%) Grafana
5 238 (6.37%) Prometheus
6 81 (2.17%) Argo
7 68 (1.82%) Puppet
8 60 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
9 38 (1.02%) Istio
10 35 (0.94%) Kibana
11 30 (0.80%) Packer
12 29 (0.78%) Progress Chef
13 20 (0.53%) Podman
14 19 (0.51%) vCenter Server
15 16 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 16 (0.43%) Rancher
16 15 (0.40%) Consul
16 15 (0.40%) logstash
16 15 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
17 14 (0.37%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 659 (17.63%) Microsoft
2 259 (6.93%) Oracle
3 217 (5.80%) Databricks
3 217 (5.80%) Google
4 197 (5.27%) Splunk
5 140 (3.74%) ServiceNow
6 122 (3.26%) Red Hat
7 112 (3.00%) VMware
8 94 (2.51%) Salesforce
9 90 (2.41%) SAP
10 67 (1.79%) OpenAI
11 55 (1.47%) Dynatrace
12 53 (1.42%) CyberArk
13 44 (1.18%) Atlassian
14 40 (1.07%) F5
14 40 (1.07%) IBM
15 33 (0.88%) Palo Alto
16 29 (0.78%) Talend
17 28 (0.75%) Foundry
18 27 (0.72%) MuleSoft