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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 16
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,253 2,542 3,286
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.85% 10.42% 8.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.69% 11.45% 10.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,981 1,872 2,286
10th Percentile £385 £400 £408
25th Percentile £447 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £553
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -0.50% -7.88%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £662
90th Percentile £713 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -6.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 15 92
10th Percentile £39.53 £38.65 £56.25
25th Percentile £45.46 £61.25 £61.25
Median hourly rate £63.73 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.96% +7.69% -0.76%
75th Percentile £75.88 £80.75 £79.22
90th Percentile £85.80 £88.68 £87.46
UK median hourly rate £63.73 £73.23 £65.00
% change year-on-year -12.97% +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 33,504 22,203 32,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.48% 91.02% 86.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,453 14,593 21,161
10th Percentile £313 £313 £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 £613 £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 2,080 880 2,196
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.83 £12.85
25th Percentile £20.07 £18.51 £15.75
Median hourly rate £41.56 £31.76 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.84% -6.59% -9.33%
75th Percentile £66.50 £64.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.28 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £30.78 £33.07
% change year-on-year +20.21% -6.91% -8.79%

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 15 April 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 15 April 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 15 April 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 2,154 £548 -4.78% 542
North of England +5 739 £500 -4.76% 312
South East +1 455 £525 -4.55% 298
Midlands +6 412 £492 -1.60% 113
Yorkshire +1 393 £500 -4.76% 79
West Midlands +6 322 £500 - 78
South West +12 292 £500 -12.28% 145
North West 0 288 £500 -4.76% 166
East of England +28 124 £550 +8.37% 76
East Midlands +3 87 £455 -4.21% 35
North East +5 65 £475 -11.63% 68
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
1 255 (6.00%) Confluence
2 112 (2.63%) Apache Spark
3 99 (2.33%) SharePoint
4 93 (2.19%) SAS
5 83 (1.95%) Apache
6 65 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
7 34 (0.80%) CMS
8 29 (0.68%) nginx
9 28 (0.66%) OpenStack
10 26 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
11 22 (0.52%) IIS
12 12 (0.28%) Mendix
13 11 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 11 (0.26%) HCL Notes
13 11 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
14 8 (0.19%) WebLogic
15 7 (0.16%) ArcGIS
15 7 (0.16%) Camunda
15 7 (0.16%) WebSphere
16 6 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 76 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 49 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
4 28 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
5 22 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.14%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.14%) Weka
7 5 (0.12%) Trello
8 3 (0.071%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.047%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.047%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.024%) InDesign
10 1 (0.024%) Maya
Business Applications
1 70 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.24%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.21%) Maximo
4 9 (0.21%) NEC Housing
4 9 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.14%) Endur
5 6 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
5 6 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
5 6 (0.14%) SAP ERP
6 5 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.094%) Dynamics AX
7 4 (0.094%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.094%) SAP BPC
8 3 (0.071%) Findur
8 3 (0.071%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.071%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.071%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.071%) SAP FI/CO
8 3 (0.071%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 2,256 (53.04%) Azure
2 1,416 (33.29%) AWS
3 1,251 (29.41%) Azure DevOps
4 727 (17.09%) GitHub
5 549 (12.91%) GCP
6 439 (10.32%) Serverless
7 400 (9.41%) GitHub Actions
8 359 (8.44%) Power Platform
9 232 (5.45%) Amazon S3
10 219 (5.15%) AWS CloudFormation
11 218 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
12 215 (5.06%) Entra ID
13 206 (4.84%) Azure Data Factory
14 187 (4.40%) Azure AKS
15 177 (4.16%) OpenShift
16 163 (3.83%) Azure Monitor
17 157 (3.69%) Amazon EKS
18 147 (3.46%) Dynamics 365
19 144 (3.39%) PaaS
20 138 (3.24%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 193 (4.54%) Firewall
2 104 (2.45%) DNS
3 88 (2.07%) Network Security
4 75 (1.76%) VPN
5 37 (0.87%) TCP/IP
6 23 (0.54%) WAN
7 22 (0.52%) HTTP
7 22 (0.52%) SD-WAN
7 22 (0.52%) SSL
8 21 (0.49%) DHCP
9 17 (0.40%) BGP
9 17 (0.40%) IPsec
10 16 (0.38%) MPLS
11 15 (0.35%) SAN
12 14 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
13 12 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
14 11 (0.26%) 5G
14 11 (0.26%) Internet
14 11 (0.26%) LAN
14 11 (0.26%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 231 (5.43%) Power BI
2 220 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
3 199 (4.68%) SQL Server
4 166 (3.90%) NoSQL
5 144 (3.39%) Data Lake
6 119 (2.80%) Relational Database
7 118 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
8 94 (2.21%) MongoDB
9 93 (2.19%) Azure SQL Database
10 86 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
11 74 (1.74%) DynamoDB
11 74 (1.74%) Oracle Database
12 73 (1.72%) Delta Lake
13 70 (1.65%) Metadata
14 66 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
15 54 (1.27%) Big Data
15 54 (1.27%) Tableau
16 49 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
16 49 (1.15%) Redis
17 44 (1.03%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 634 (14.91%) Jenkins
2 558 (13.12%) Git
3 554 (13.03%) JIRA
4 425 (9.99%) GitLab
5 110 (2.59%) Selenium
6 98 (2.30%) JUnit
7 81 (1.90%) Postman
8 70 (1.65%) SonarQube
9 65 (1.53%) Bitbucket
10 52 (1.22%) Maven
11 51 (1.20%) Cucumber
12 48 (1.13%) Artifactory
13 47 (1.11%) REST Assured
14 40 (0.94%) Cypress.io
15 39 (0.92%) JMeter
16 35 (0.82%) Mockito
17 33 (0.78%) Oracle APEX
18 32 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
19 28 (0.66%) Gatling
20 26 (0.61%) TestRail
General
1 1,175 (27.63%) Social Skills
2 798 (18.76%) Finance
3 516 (12.13%) Public Sector
4 371 (8.72%) Analytical Skills
5 309 (7.27%) Banking
6 147 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
7 68 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
8 56 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 55 (1.29%) Retail
10 54 (1.27%) Marketing
11 50 (1.18%) Financial Institution
12 49 (1.15%) Front Office
12 49 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
13 42 (0.99%) Investment Banking
13 42 (0.99%) Legal
13 42 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
14 35 (0.82%) Telecoms
15 31 (0.73%) Military
16 23 (0.54%) Law
17 18 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 770 (18.10%) DevOps Engineer
2 645 (15.17%) Developer
3 594 (13.97%) Senior
4 485 (11.40%) Architect
5 362 (8.51%) Lead
6 286 (6.72%) Azure Engineer
7 268 (6.30%) Data Engineer
8 256 (6.02%) Analyst
9 191 (4.49%) AWS Engineer
10 154 (3.62%) Cloud Engineer
11 153 (3.60%) Platform Engineer
12 147 (3.46%) AWS DevOps
13 144 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
14 139 (3.27%) Software Engineer
15 135 (3.17%) Business Analyst
16 130 (3.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 127 (2.99%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 125 (2.94%) Senior Developer
19 121 (2.85%) Senior DevOps
20 114 (2.68%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 419 (9.85%) REST
2 347 (8.16%) .NET
3 258 (6.07%) Node.js
4 256 (6.02%) Kafka
5 242 (5.69%) React
6 239 (5.62%) Spring
7 221 (5.20%) Spring Boot
8 200 (4.70%) RESTful
9 153 (3.60%) AngularJS
10 138 (3.24%) YAML
11 133 (3.13%) JSON
12 118 (2.77%) PySpark
13 117 (2.75%) Playwright
14 114 (2.68%) OAuth
15 110 (2.59%) HTML
16 105 (2.47%) SOAP
17 103 (2.42%) Middleware
18 91 (2.14%) CSS
19 86 (2.02%) XML
20 84 (1.98%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 634 (14.91%) Cloud Native
2 257 (6.04%) Product Ownership
3 151 (3.55%) Distributed Systems
4 109 (2.56%) Onboarding
5 89 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
5 89 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
5 89 (2.09%) Public Cloud
6 84 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
7 62 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
8 54 (1.27%) Virtual Team
9 51 (1.20%) Management Information System
10 42 (0.99%) Private Cloud
11 39 (0.92%) Security Posture
11 39 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
12 38 (0.89%) Data Centre
12 38 (0.89%) Data Structures
13 37 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
14 36 (0.85%) AI Agents
14 36 (0.85%) NHS
15 33 (0.78%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 391 (9.19%) Linux
2 223 (5.24%) Windows
3 69 (1.62%) Unix
4 64 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 38 (0.89%) VMS
6 37 (0.87%) Windows Server
7 23 (0.54%) Ubuntu
8 13 (0.31%) CentOS
9 11 (0.26%) Android
10 8 (0.19%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.19%) Windows 10
11 7 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.094%) Solaris
12 4 (0.094%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.071%) Debian
13 3 (0.071%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.071%) Oracle Linux
13 3 (0.071%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.071%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.047%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,353 (55.33%) CI/CD
2 1,640 (38.56%) Agile
3 1,034 (24.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 759 (17.85%) Problem-Solving
5 720 (16.93%) Containerisation
6 627 (14.74%) Microservices
7 609 (14.32%) Test Automation
8 559 (13.14%) Continuous Improvement
9 544 (12.79%) Analytics
10 514 (12.09%) Migration
11 484 (11.38%) Scrum
12 477 (11.22%) Observability
13 467 (10.98%) Stakeholder Management
14 459 (10.79%) AI
15 405 (9.52%) Data Modelling
16 394 (9.26%) Software Engineering
17 357 (8.39%) Mentoring
18 341 (8.02%) Data Pipeline
19 338 (7.95%) Platform Engineering
20 318 (7.48%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1,220 (28.69%) Python
2 924 (21.73%) SQL
3 554 (13.03%) Java
4 419 (9.85%) C#
5 357 (8.39%) JavaScript
6 316 (7.43%) PowerShell
7 298 (7.01%) Bash
8 245 (5.76%) TypeScript
9 146 (3.43%) Bicep
10 95 (2.23%) Go
11 85 (2.00%) PL/SQL
12 66 (1.55%) Scala
13 46 (1.08%) Shell Script
14 43 (1.01%) T-SQL
15 35 (0.82%) Groovy
16 32 (0.75%) Apex Code
16 32 (0.75%) C++
17 30 (0.71%) Ruby
18 22 (0.52%) Rust
19 20 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1,375 (32.33%) Security Cleared
2 1,130 (26.57%) SC Cleared
3 302 (7.10%) Degree
4 191 (4.49%) Azure Certification
5 145 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 138 (3.24%) DV Cleared
7 112 (2.63%) AWS Certification
8 109 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 70 (1.65%) CISSP
10 51 (1.20%) CISM
11 50 (1.18%) Master's Degree
12 49 (1.15%) ISTQB
13 47 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
14 41 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 38 (0.89%) PMI Certification
16 36 (0.85%) PMP
17 33 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
18 22 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 21 (0.49%) IIBA
19 21 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 386 (9.08%) QA
2 196 (4.61%) Data Quality
3 160 (3.76%) GDPR
4 126 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 117 (2.75%) NIST
6 89 (2.09%) Accessibility
7 64 (1.50%) NCSC
8 36 (0.85%) PCI DSS
8 36 (0.85%) WCAG
9 28 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 28 (0.66%) SLA
10 24 (0.56%) PMO
11 15 (0.35%) ISO 20022
12 14 (0.33%) GRC
12 14 (0.33%) HIPAA
12 14 (0.33%) NIST 800
13 12 (0.28%) PSD2
13 12 (0.28%) SOC 2
14 10 (0.24%) SEPA
15 9 (0.21%) HL7
System Software
1 903 (21.23%) Docker
2 168 (3.95%) Active Directory
3 73 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 65 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
5 45 (1.06%) vSphere
6 31 (0.73%) VMware NSX
7 13 (0.31%) Hyper-V
8 12 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (0.26%) Postfix
9 11 (0.26%) Squid
10 10 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
11 9 (0.21%) Lustre
11 9 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 8 (0.19%) Firmware
13 7 (0.16%) GPFS
14 6 (0.14%) HDFS
15 5 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
15 5 (0.12%) RACF
16 4 (0.094%) KVM
16 4 (0.094%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,187 (27.91%) Terraform
2 1,143 (26.88%) Kubernetes
3 429 (10.09%) Ansible
4 264 (6.21%) Grafana
5 220 (5.17%) Prometheus
6 94 (2.21%) Argo
7 67 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
8 63 (1.48%) Puppet
9 50 (1.18%) Istio
10 30 (0.71%) vCenter Server
11 29 (0.68%) Packer
12 22 (0.52%) Kibana
12 22 (0.52%) Progress Chef
13 21 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 19 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
14 19 (0.45%) Rancher
15 18 (0.42%) Consul
15 18 (0.42%) FortiGate
16 15 (0.35%) HP ALM
17 11 (0.26%) linkerd
Vendors
1 751 (17.66%) Microsoft
2 303 (7.12%) Oracle
3 254 (5.97%) Databricks
4 201 (4.73%) Google
5 176 (4.14%) Splunk
6 150 (3.53%) ServiceNow
7 134 (3.15%) Red Hat
8 122 (2.87%) VMware
9 117 (2.75%) Salesforce
10 100 (2.35%) SAP
11 72 (1.69%) OpenAI
12 68 (1.60%) Dynatrace
13 65 (1.53%) Atlassian
14 55 (1.29%) CyberArk
15 42 (0.99%) Talend
16 39 (0.92%) Denodo
17 38 (0.89%) IBM
18 34 (0.80%) Foundry
19 32 (0.75%) Cisco
20 30 (0.71%) AppDynamics