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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 14 14
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,831 3,110 3,235
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.38% 11.13% 10.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.24% 12.24% 11.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,334 2,189 2,162
10th Percentile £381 £360 £400
25th Percentile £440 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.59% -4.30%
75th Percentile £626 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £713 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 21 62
10th Percentile £37.25 £42.50 £46.81
25th Percentile £61.00 £56.75 £65.00
Median hourly rate £68.75 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% -4.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £79.00 £88.75 £74.33
90th Percentile £94.13 £95.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £69.50 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +3.73% -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 39,476 25,411 27,744
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.80% 90.93% 86.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,882 16,117 16,935
10th Percentile £325 £295 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £642
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,976 1,567 1,167
10th Percentile £13.81 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £17.87 £20.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.47 £45.75 £67.01
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.35 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £37.87 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +50.56% -39.40% -2.92%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 7 October 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 -1 2,560 £550 - 2,484
North of England -2 802 £500 +5.04% 769
South East -10 455 £525 +5.00% 652
Midlands -7 414 £488 -5.34% 321
Yorkshire -3 383 £500 +0.70% 231
South West +5 333 £550 - 293
West Midlands -9 332 £500 -4.76% 207
North West -2 320 £525 +16.67% 411
East of England +3 154 £505 -6.05% 250
North East +13 115 £450 -18.18% 132
East Midlands -7 80 £455 +9.31% 114
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
1 299 (6.19%) Confluence
2 144 (2.98%) SharePoint
3 121 (2.50%) Apache Spark
4 114 (2.36%) Apache Airflow
5 105 (2.17%) Apache
6 46 (0.95%) SAS
7 41 (0.85%) CMS
8 40 (0.83%) Jupyter
9 30 (0.62%) nginx
10 24 (0.50%) IIS
11 21 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
12 15 (0.31%) Camunda
13 13 (0.27%) OpenStack
14 9 (0.19%) Anypoint
14 9 (0.19%) Appian
14 9 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
14 9 (0.19%) WebSphere
15 8 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
15 8 (0.17%) Tomcat
16 7 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 66 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
3 50 (1.03%) MS Visio
4 35 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 32 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
6 14 (0.29%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.17%) CPLEX
7 8 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.17%) Windchill
8 5 (0.10%) Notion
8 5 (0.10%) Trello
9 3 (0.062%) Mingle
10 2 (0.041%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.041%) Gliffy
11 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.021%) Mozilla Thunderbird
11 1 (0.021%) Sketch
11 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 74 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 37 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
4 8 (0.17%) Magento
4 8 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 6 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
5 6 (0.12%) SAP MDG
6 5 (0.10%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.10%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
6 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
6 5 (0.10%) Temenos T24
7 4 (0.083%) Oracle Payroll
7 4 (0.083%) Teamcenter
8 3 (0.062%) Endur
8 3 (0.062%) Maximo
8 3 (0.062%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (0.062%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.062%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2,606 (53.94%) Azure
2 1,684 (34.86%) AWS
3 1,516 (31.38%) Azure DevOps
4 826 (17.10%) GitHub
5 653 (13.52%) GCP
6 517 (10.70%) GitHub Actions
7 439 (9.09%) Power Platform
8 405 (8.38%) Serverless
9 258 (5.34%) Amazon S3
10 241 (4.99%) Entra ID
11 236 (4.89%) AWS Lambda
12 213 (4.41%) Amazon EKS
13 209 (4.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 187 (3.87%) Azure AKS
15 180 (3.73%) Azure Monitor
16 176 (3.64%) Dynamics 365
17 175 (3.62%) Azure Data Factory
18 170 (3.52%) Amazon EC2
19 169 (3.50%) AWS CloudFormation
20 155 (3.21%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 223 (4.62%) Firewall
2 147 (3.04%) DNS
3 114 (2.36%) VPN
4 113 (2.34%) Network Security
5 77 (1.59%) TCP/IP
6 50 (1.03%) SSL
7 43 (0.89%) WAN
8 42 (0.87%) DHCP
9 35 (0.72%) BGP
10 32 (0.66%) HTTP
11 29 (0.60%) Internet
12 27 (0.56%) SSH
13 26 (0.54%) OSPF
14 25 (0.52%) SD-WAN
15 21 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
16 19 (0.39%) LAN
17 18 (0.37%) VLAN
18 17 (0.35%) BIG-IP
18 17 (0.35%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
18 17 (0.35%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 290 (6.00%) Power BI
2 258 (5.34%) SQL Server
3 252 (5.22%) PostgreSQL
4 185 (3.83%) Data Warehouse
5 160 (3.31%) NoSQL
6 151 (3.13%) Data Lake
7 145 (3.00%) MongoDB
8 136 (2.82%) Relational Database
9 125 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
10 120 (2.48%) Metadata
11 85 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
12 82 (1.70%) Delta Lake
13 74 (1.53%) MySQL
13 74 (1.53%) Oracle Database
14 73 (1.51%) DynamoDB
15 71 (1.47%) Redis
16 56 (1.16%) Big Data
16 56 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 53 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
17 53 (1.10%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 702 (14.53%) Git
2 676 (13.99%) Jenkins
3 566 (11.72%) GitLab
4 546 (11.30%) JIRA
5 125 (2.59%) Selenium
6 82 (1.70%) SonarQube
7 80 (1.66%) Maven
8 79 (1.64%) Postman
9 78 (1.61%) JUnit
10 73 (1.51%) Cucumber
11 62 (1.28%) Bitbucket
12 60 (1.24%) Cypress.io
13 59 (1.22%) REST Assured
14 55 (1.14%) JMeter
15 53 (1.10%) Gradle
16 41 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
17 39 (0.81%) Mockito
18 38 (0.79%) Claude Code
18 38 (0.79%) Gatling
18 38 (0.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,288 (26.66%) Social Skills
2 924 (19.13%) Finance
3 640 (13.25%) Public Sector
4 489 (10.12%) Analytical Skills
5 374 (7.74%) Banking
6 145 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 109 (2.26%) Retail
8 87 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
9 73 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
10 62 (1.28%) Aerospace
11 57 (1.18%) Marketing
12 55 (1.14%) Military
13 51 (1.06%) Investment Banking
14 49 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
15 48 (0.99%) Telecoms
16 47 (0.97%) Manufacturing
17 43 (0.89%) Law
17 43 (0.89%) Legal
17 43 (0.89%) Local Government
18 42 (0.87%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 931 (19.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 762 (15.77%) Senior
3 743 (15.38%) Developer
4 566 (11.72%) Architect
5 478 (9.89%) Lead
6 290 (6.00%) Azure Engineer
7 278 (5.75%) Data Engineer
8 233 (4.82%) Analyst
9 200 (4.14%) AWS Engineer
10 186 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
11 181 (3.75%) Senior DevOps
12 176 (3.64%) Cloud Engineer
13 165 (3.42%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 163 (3.37%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 156 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
16 139 (2.88%) AWS DevOps
17 137 (2.84%) Java Developer
18 135 (2.79%) Software Engineer
19 128 (2.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
20 121 (2.50%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,458 (30.18%) Terraform
2 559 (11.57%) REST
3 425 (8.80%) .NET
4 340 (7.04%) Kafka
5 273 (5.65%) RESTful
6 259 (5.36%) React
7 237 (4.91%) Spring
8 233 (4.82%) Spring Boot
9 162 (3.35%) JSON
9 162 (3.35%) OAuth
10 149 (3.08%) Node.js
11 136 (2.82%) PySpark
12 132 (2.73%) Playwright
13 125 (2.59%) .NET Framework
14 124 (2.57%) HTML
15 116 (2.40%) CSS
16 113 (2.34%) SOAP
17 105 (2.17%) Middleware
18 104 (2.15%) OAuth2
19 98 (2.03%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 894 (18.51%) Cloud Native
2 366 (7.58%) Product Ownership
3 221 (4.57%) Distributed Systems
4 202 (4.18%) Enterprise Software
5 192 (3.97%) Onboarding
6 143 (2.96%) Hybrid Cloud
7 129 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
8 105 (2.17%) AI Agents
9 95 (1.97%) Management Information System
10 71 (1.47%) Security Posture
10 71 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
11 69 (1.43%) Public Cloud
12 65 (1.35%) Replication
13 64 (1.32%) Data Structures
14 63 (1.30%) Data Centre
14 63 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
15 55 (1.14%) PKI
16 52 (1.08%) Mobile App
17 50 (1.03%) Virtual Team
18 46 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 510 (10.56%) Linux
2 293 (6.06%) Windows
3 118 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 96 (1.99%) Unix
5 88 (1.82%) Windows Server
6 37 (0.77%) Ubuntu
7 30 (0.62%) VMS
8 29 (0.60%) Apple iOS
9 21 (0.43%) Android
10 15 (0.31%) CentOS
11 10 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
11 10 (0.21%) zOS
12 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
12 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
13 7 (0.14%) AIX
14 6 (0.12%) Solaris
15 4 (0.083%) Alpine Linux
15 4 (0.083%) Data ONTAP
15 4 (0.083%) Windows Server 2008
16 3 (0.062%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,931 (60.67%) CI/CD
2 1,970 (40.78%) Agile
3 1,444 (29.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 880 (18.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 845 (17.49%) Continuous Improvement
6 833 (17.24%) AI
7 803 (16.62%) Test Automation
8 781 (16.17%) Problem-Solving
9 780 (16.15%) Containerisation
10 711 (14.72%) Microservices
11 707 (14.63%) Observability
12 671 (13.89%) Platform Engineering
12 671 (13.89%) Software Engineering
13 597 (12.36%) Scrum
14 591 (12.23%) Migration
15 556 (11.51%) Technical Leadership
16 516 (10.68%) Analytics
17 456 (9.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 453 (9.38%) Roadmaps
19 423 (8.76%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,460 (30.22%) Python
2 853 (17.66%) SQL
3 695 (14.39%) Java
4 460 (9.52%) PowerShell
5 453 (9.38%) Bash
6 451 (9.34%) C#
7 399 (8.26%) JavaScript
8 284 (5.88%) TypeScript
9 233 (4.82%) Bicep
10 95 (1.97%) Go
11 65 (1.35%) Shell Script
12 58 (1.20%) T-SQL
13 57 (1.18%) Groovy
14 55 (1.14%) Scala
15 44 (0.91%) PL/SQL
16 41 (0.85%) Apex Code
17 33 (0.68%) C++
18 32 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 29 (0.60%) Perl
20 27 (0.56%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,564 (32.37%) Security Cleared
2 1,300 (26.91%) SC Cleared
3 348 (7.20%) Degree
4 229 (4.74%) DV Cleared
5 219 (4.53%) Azure Certification
6 180 (3.73%) AWS Certification
7 158 (3.27%) BPSS Clearance
8 133 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
9 108 (2.24%) Microsoft Certification
10 74 (1.53%) CISSP
11 53 (1.10%) PMP
12 52 (1.08%) ISTQB
13 50 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
14 46 (0.95%) PMI Certification
15 41 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 39 (0.81%) Master's Degree
17 31 (0.64%) CISM
18 24 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 21 (0.43%) CCNP
20 20 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 498 (10.31%) QA
2 254 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 174 (3.60%) Accessibility
4 108 (2.24%) GDPR
5 87 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 78 (1.61%) WCAG
7 68 (1.41%) NIST
8 46 (0.95%) NCSC
9 45 (0.93%) PMO
10 30 (0.62%) PCI DSS
10 30 (0.62%) SLA
11 26 (0.54%) GRC
12 19 (0.39%) ISO 20022
13 16 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 14 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
14 14 (0.29%) HIPAA
14 14 (0.29%) SOC 2
15 13 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
16 12 (0.25%) SEPA
17 9 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 979 (20.26%) Docker
2 147 (3.04%) Active Directory
3 70 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
4 68 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 24 (0.50%) vSphere
6 22 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
7 21 (0.43%) Hyper-V
8 19 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (0.23%) Squid
9 11 (0.23%) VMware NSX
10 10 (0.21%) IAG
11 8 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
12 6 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 6 (0.12%) Corosync
12 6 (0.12%) KVM
12 6 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
12 6 (0.12%) Postfix
13 5 (0.10%) RACF
14 4 (0.083%) Firmware
14 4 (0.083%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,283 (26.56%) Kubernetes
2 494 (10.23%) Ansible
3 320 (6.62%) Grafana
4 270 (5.59%) Prometheus
5 65 (1.35%) Argo
6 56 (1.16%) Puppet
7 50 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
8 47 (0.97%) Progress Chef
9 38 (0.79%) Kibana
10 36 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
11 33 (0.68%) Packer
12 23 (0.48%) Istio
12 23 (0.48%) Kubeflow
13 19 (0.39%) Kustomize
14 18 (0.37%) SCCM
15 15 (0.31%) vCenter Server
16 13 (0.27%) Control-M
16 13 (0.27%) HP ALM
16 13 (0.27%) SCOM
17 12 (0.25%) systemd
Vendors
1 994 (20.58%) Microsoft
2 277 (5.73%) Databricks
3 269 (5.57%) Google
4 227 (4.70%) Oracle
5 186 (3.85%) ServiceNow
6 164 (3.39%) Splunk
7 136 (2.82%) Dynatrace
8 134 (2.77%) Salesforce
9 103 (2.13%) VMware
10 98 (2.03%) SAP
11 91 (1.88%) Red Hat
12 66 (1.37%) IBM
13 61 (1.26%) OpenAI
14 49 (1.01%) Foundry
15 46 (0.95%) Cisco
16 40 (0.83%) Informatica
17 39 (0.81%) MuleSoft
18 36 (0.75%) AppDynamics
19 32 (0.66%) Atlassian
20 30 (0.62%) Okta