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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 14 14
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,754 3,022 3,300
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.30% 10.87% 10.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.15% 11.95% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,266 2,137 2,228
10th Percentile £381 £360 £400
25th Percentile £438 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -5.17%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £703 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 21 67
10th Percentile £37.25 £42.50 £56.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £53.00 £65.00
Median hourly rate £67.85 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% -4.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £78.06 £88.75 £74.72
90th Percentile £93.63 £95.00 £85.41
UK median hourly rate £68.75 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +2.61% -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 39,123 25,281 28,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.74% 90.90% 86.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,918 16,062 17,635
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,776 1,509 1,303
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.55
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -1.91%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 2,515 £550 - 2,292
North of England -2 768 £500 +5.26% 757
South East -10 450 £525 +5.00% 572
Midlands -5 436 £488 -2.74% 300
Yorkshire -2 387 £500 +3.09% 202
West Midlands -6 343 £500 -4.58% 173
South West +6 322 £550 +4.76% 301
North West -5 289 £525 +13.51% 432
East of England +6 149 £505 -3.81% 202
North East +11 107 £444 -14.66% 126
East Midlands 0 90 £465 +3.33% 127
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
1 283 (5.95%) Confluence
2 145 (3.05%) SharePoint
3 123 (2.59%) Apache Airflow
4 114 (2.40%) Apache Spark
5 99 (2.08%) Apache
6 56 (1.18%) SAS
7 41 (0.86%) CMS
8 38 (0.80%) Jupyter
9 25 (0.53%) nginx
10 20 (0.42%) IIS
11 19 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
12 13 (0.27%) Camunda
12 13 (0.27%) OpenStack
13 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
14 9 (0.19%) Anypoint
14 9 (0.19%) Appian
15 8 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
15 8 (0.17%) WebLogic
15 8 (0.17%) WebSphere
16 7 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 65 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (1.07%) Microsoft Project
3 47 (0.99%) MS Visio
4 33 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 29 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
6 12 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
8 8 (0.17%) CPLEX
9 6 (0.13%) Trello
9 6 (0.13%) Windchill
10 5 (0.11%) Notion
11 2 (0.042%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.042%) Mingle
12 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
12 1 (0.021%) Gliffy
12 1 (0.021%) Mozilla Thunderbird
12 1 (0.021%) Sketch
12 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 70 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 10 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.19%) Magento
6 7 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 6 (0.13%) Aladdin
7 6 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
7 6 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.13%) SAP MDG
8 5 (0.11%) OpenText MBPM
8 5 (0.11%) Oracle BPM
9 3 (0.063%) Endur
9 3 (0.063%) Maximo
9 3 (0.063%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.063%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.063%) Oracle Payroll
9 3 (0.063%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.063%) Teamcenter
10 2 (0.042%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2,561 (53.87%) Azure
2 1,666 (35.04%) AWS
3 1,480 (31.13%) Azure DevOps
4 809 (17.02%) GitHub
5 617 (12.98%) GCP
6 516 (10.85%) GitHub Actions
7 423 (8.90%) Power Platform
8 394 (8.29%) Serverless
9 249 (5.24%) Amazon S3
10 236 (4.96%) AWS Lambda
11 230 (4.84%) Entra ID
12 202 (4.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 187 (3.93%) Amazon EKS
14 183 (3.85%) Azure AKS
15 171 (3.60%) Azure Monitor
16 170 (3.58%) Azure Data Factory
17 168 (3.53%) Dynamics 365
18 165 (3.47%) AWS CloudFormation
19 159 (3.34%) Amazon EC2
20 153 (3.22%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 223 (4.69%) Firewall
2 144 (3.03%) DNS
3 112 (2.36%) VPN
4 105 (2.21%) Network Security
5 70 (1.47%) TCP/IP
6 51 (1.07%) SSL
7 46 (0.97%) WAN
8 40 (0.84%) DHCP
9 32 (0.67%) BGP
10 30 (0.63%) HTTP
11 29 (0.61%) SD-WAN
12 28 (0.59%) Internet
13 24 (0.50%) OSPF
13 24 (0.50%) SSH
13 24 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
14 19 (0.40%) VLAN
15 17 (0.36%) LAN
15 17 (0.36%) SAN
16 16 (0.34%) BIG-IP
16 16 (0.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 288 (6.06%) Power BI
2 256 (5.38%) SQL Server
3 243 (5.11%) PostgreSQL
4 183 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
5 159 (3.34%) NoSQL
6 146 (3.07%) Data Lake
7 142 (2.99%) Relational Database
8 141 (2.97%) MongoDB
9 118 (2.48%) Metadata
10 116 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
11 83 (1.75%) Delta Lake
12 80 (1.68%) DynamoDB
13 76 (1.60%) Oracle Database
14 74 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
14 74 (1.56%) MySQL
15 68 (1.43%) Redis
16 56 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
16 56 (1.18%) Big Data
17 54 (1.14%) BigQuery
18 53 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 679 (14.28%) Git
2 666 (14.01%) Jenkins
3 550 (11.57%) GitLab
4 542 (11.40%) JIRA
5 121 (2.55%) Selenium
6 90 (1.89%) SonarQube
7 80 (1.68%) Maven
8 78 (1.64%) Postman
9 74 (1.56%) JUnit
10 63 (1.33%) Bitbucket
11 59 (1.24%) Cucumber
12 58 (1.22%) Cypress.io
13 57 (1.20%) REST Assured
14 55 (1.16%) Gradle
14 55 (1.16%) JMeter
15 43 (0.90%) Gatling
16 38 (0.80%) Mockito
17 37 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
18 36 (0.76%) Artifactory
18 36 (0.76%) Claude Code
General
1 1,259 (26.48%) Social Skills
2 878 (18.47%) Finance
3 623 (13.10%) Public Sector
4 473 (9.95%) Analytical Skills
5 348 (7.32%) Banking
6 147 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 103 (2.17%) Retail
8 79 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
9 78 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
10 55 (1.16%) Aerospace
10 55 (1.16%) Marketing
11 54 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
12 52 (1.09%) Legal
13 51 (1.07%) Military
14 46 (0.97%) Investment Banking
15 44 (0.93%) Telecoms
16 40 (0.84%) Law
17 39 (0.82%) Manufacturing
18 38 (0.80%) Front Office
19 37 (0.78%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 914 (19.23%) DevOps Engineer
2 738 (15.52%) Senior
3 734 (15.44%) Developer
4 562 (11.82%) Architect
5 464 (9.76%) Lead
6 292 (6.14%) Azure Engineer
7 275 (5.78%) Data Engineer
8 232 (4.88%) Analyst
9 197 (4.14%) AWS Engineer
10 195 (4.10%) Platform Engineer
11 179 (3.77%) Cloud Engineer
12 168 (3.53%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 167 (3.51%) Senior DevOps
14 157 (3.30%) Solutions Architect
15 156 (3.28%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 141 (2.97%) Java Developer
17 132 (2.78%) AWS DevOps
17 132 (2.78%) Senior Developer
17 132 (2.78%) Software Engineer
18 121 (2.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,398 (29.41%) Terraform
2 509 (10.71%) REST
3 401 (8.44%) .NET
4 328 (6.90%) Kafka
5 269 (5.66%) RESTful
6 249 (5.24%) React
7 240 (5.05%) Spring
8 237 (4.99%) Spring Boot
9 158 (3.32%) JSON
10 156 (3.28%) Node.js
11 148 (3.11%) OAuth
12 140 (2.94%) PySpark
13 131 (2.76%) Playwright
14 119 (2.50%) HTML
15 113 (2.38%) .NET Framework
15 113 (2.38%) CSS
16 112 (2.36%) SOAP
17 100 (2.10%) OAuth2
18 97 (2.04%) AngularJS
19 94 (1.98%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 866 (18.22%) Cloud Native
2 364 (7.66%) Product Ownership
3 223 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
4 176 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
4 176 (3.70%) Onboarding
5 137 (2.88%) Hybrid Cloud
6 123 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
7 95 (2.00%) AI Agents
8 84 (1.77%) Management Information System
9 68 (1.43%) Security Posture
9 68 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
10 66 (1.39%) Replication
11 64 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
11 64 (1.35%) Data Structures
12 62 (1.30%) Public Cloud
13 58 (1.22%) Data Centre
13 58 (1.22%) Virtual Team
14 52 (1.09%) Mobile App
15 43 (0.90%) PKI
16 41 (0.86%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 477 (10.03%) Linux
2 277 (5.83%) Windows
3 113 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 92 (1.94%) Unix
5 80 (1.68%) Windows Server
6 36 (0.76%) Ubuntu
7 32 (0.67%) Apple iOS
8 28 (0.59%) VMS
9 22 (0.46%) Android
10 13 (0.27%) CentOS
11 10 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
12 9 (0.19%) zOS
13 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
13 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
14 7 (0.15%) AIX
14 7 (0.15%) Solaris
15 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
16 4 (0.084%) Alpine Linux
16 4 (0.084%) Data ONTAP
16 4 (0.084%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,841 (59.76%) CI/CD
2 1,937 (40.74%) Agile
3 1,394 (29.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 821 (17.27%) Stakeholder Management
5 817 (17.19%) Continuous Improvement
6 777 (16.34%) AI
7 774 (16.28%) Containerisation
8 771 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
9 751 (15.80%) Test Automation
10 700 (14.72%) Microservices
11 678 (14.26%) Observability
12 644 (13.55%) Software Engineering
13 642 (13.50%) Platform Engineering
14 582 (12.24%) Scrum
15 571 (12.01%) Migration
16 537 (11.30%) Technical Leadership
17 521 (10.96%) Analytics
18 453 (9.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 444 (9.34%) Roadmaps
20 420 (8.83%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,408 (29.62%) Python
2 846 (17.80%) SQL
3 695 (14.62%) Java
4 439 (9.23%) PowerShell
5 425 (8.94%) C#
6 423 (8.90%) Bash
7 386 (8.12%) JavaScript
8 268 (5.64%) TypeScript
9 218 (4.59%) Bicep
10 81 (1.70%) Go
11 64 (1.35%) Shell Script
12 57 (1.20%) Groovy
13 56 (1.18%) T-SQL
14 55 (1.16%) Scala
15 48 (1.01%) PL/SQL
16 46 (0.97%) Apex Code
17 32 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 30 (0.63%) Perl
19 29 (0.61%) C++
20 25 (0.53%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,532 (32.23%) Security Cleared
2 1,278 (26.88%) SC Cleared
3 325 (6.84%) Degree
4 217 (4.56%) Azure Certification
5 212 (4.46%) DV Cleared
6 163 (3.43%) AWS Certification
7 140 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 124 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
9 109 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 74 (1.56%) CISSP
11 49 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
12 48 (1.01%) ISTQB
13 42 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 39 (0.82%) PMP
15 37 (0.78%) Master's Degree
16 33 (0.69%) PMI Certification
17 31 (0.65%) CISM
18 21 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 21 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 21 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 475 (9.99%) QA
2 251 (5.28%) Data Quality
3 162 (3.41%) Accessibility
4 116 (2.44%) GDPR
5 84 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 80 (1.68%) WCAG
7 75 (1.58%) NIST
8 46 (0.97%) NCSC
9 45 (0.95%) PMO
10 31 (0.65%) SLA
11 27 (0.57%) PCI DSS
12 26 (0.55%) GRC
13 21 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 19 (0.40%) ISO 20022
15 15 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
16 12 (0.25%) HIPAA
16 12 (0.25%) SEPA
17 10 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
17 10 (0.21%) SOC 2
18 8 (0.17%) HL7
System Software
1 964 (20.28%) Docker
2 146 (3.07%) Active Directory
3 71 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
4 64 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
6 20 (0.42%) Hyper-V
6 20 (0.42%) vSphere
7 17 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
8 13 (0.27%) Squid
8 13 (0.27%) VMware NSX
9 11 (0.23%) IAG
10 9 (0.19%) Postfix
11 8 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
12 6 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 6 (0.13%) Corosync
12 6 (0.13%) KVM
12 6 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.11%) NFS
14 4 (0.084%) Firmware
14 4 (0.084%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1,258 (26.46%) Kubernetes
2 481 (10.12%) Ansible
3 315 (6.63%) Grafana
4 269 (5.66%) Prometheus
5 63 (1.33%) Argo
6 60 (1.26%) Puppet
7 50 (1.05%) Progress Chef
8 48 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
9 45 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
10 32 (0.67%) Packer
11 27 (0.57%) Kibana
12 20 (0.42%) Istio
12 20 (0.42%) Kubeflow
13 19 (0.40%) Kustomize
14 16 (0.34%) SCCM
15 15 (0.32%) HP ALM
15 15 (0.32%) vCenter Server
16 13 (0.27%) HAProxy
16 13 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
16 13 (0.27%) SCOM
Vendors
1 960 (20.19%) Microsoft
2 264 (5.55%) Databricks
3 240 (5.05%) Google
4 239 (5.03%) Oracle
5 195 (4.10%) ServiceNow
6 164 (3.45%) Splunk
7 140 (2.94%) Salesforce
8 131 (2.76%) Dynatrace
9 103 (2.17%) VMware
10 94 (1.98%) Red Hat
11 93 (1.96%) SAP
12 62 (1.30%) IBM
13 54 (1.14%) OpenAI
14 46 (0.97%) Cisco
15 44 (0.93%) Foundry
16 42 (0.88%) Informatica
17 38 (0.80%) AppDynamics
18 35 (0.74%) MuleSoft
19 33 (0.69%) Atlassian
20 31 (0.65%) Okta