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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 17
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 -5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,062 2,624 3,272
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.15% 10.65% 8.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.89% 11.75% 9.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,833 1,896 2,316
10th Percentile £382 £400 £412
25th Percentile £443 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £553
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +1.76% -7.88%
75th Percentile £614 £675 £663
90th Percentile £719 £775 £749
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 19 98
10th Percentile £41.31 £34.65 £49.03
25th Percentile £45.46 £57.82 £61.25
Median hourly rate £66.25 £74.44 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.00% +14.52% -0.76%
75th Percentile £77.31 £80.75 £70.94
90th Percentile £93.75 £88.50 £84.77
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £73.83 £65.00
% change year-on-year -8.58% +13.59% -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 31,521 22,327 33,048
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.61% 86.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,160 14,432 21,853
10th Percentile £313 £308 £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 £615 £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 1,961 797 2,159
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.63 £70.53
UK median hourly rate £29.61 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -8.89% - -7.14%

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 12 March 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 12 March 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 12 March 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 -2 2,046 £548 -6.41% 545
North of England +5 731 £500 -4.76% 337
South East -1 435 £525 -8.70% 348
Midlands +14 408 £500 +2.04% 147
Yorkshire +1 386 £500 -4.76% 107
West Midlands +13 330 £500 +1.52% 100
North West +2 292 £500 -4.76% 178
South West +14 268 £525 -12.50% 141
East of England +15 113 £575 +13.30% 66
East Midlands +4 76 £438 -7.89% 47
North East +3 58 £475 -9.52% 54
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 (6.28%) Confluence
2 105 (2.58%) Apache Spark
3 84 (2.07%) SharePoint
4 81 (1.99%) Apache
5 77 (1.90%) SAS
6 56 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
7 30 (0.74%) CMS
7 30 (0.74%) OpenStack
8 27 (0.66%) nginx
9 22 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
10 18 (0.44%) IIS
11 12 (0.30%) Mendix
11 12 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
12 11 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 11 (0.27%) HCL Notes
12 11 (0.27%) WebLogic
13 9 (0.22%) Camunda
13 9 (0.22%) JBoss
14 8 (0.20%) GeoServer
14 8 (0.20%) Smallworld
Applications
1 85 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 39 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
4 27 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
5 22 (0.54%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.30%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.20%) Weka
8 4 (0.098%) Trello
9 2 (0.049%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.025%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.025%) InDesign
10 1 (0.025%) Maya
10 1 (0.025%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 67 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.30%) Aladdin
4 11 (0.27%) Maximo
5 10 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
6 8 (0.20%) NEC Housing
7 6 (0.15%) Endur
7 6 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.15%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.098%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.098%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.074%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.074%) SAP BPC
10 3 (0.074%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.074%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.074%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.074%) Workday HCM
11 2 (0.049%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 2,098 (51.65%) Azure
2 1,393 (34.29%) AWS
3 1,147 (28.24%) Azure DevOps
4 751 (18.49%) GitHub
5 586 (14.43%) GCP
6 447 (11.00%) Serverless
7 398 (9.80%) GitHub Actions
8 341 (8.39%) Power Platform
9 215 (5.29%) Amazon S3
10 212 (5.22%) AWS CloudFormation
11 211 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
12 202 (4.97%) Azure Data Factory
13 193 (4.75%) Entra ID
14 180 (4.43%) OpenShift
15 177 (4.36%) Azure AKS
16 164 (4.04%) Amazon EKS
17 162 (3.99%) Azure Monitor
18 154 (3.79%) Dynamics 365
19 136 (3.35%) PaaS
19 136 (3.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 189 (4.65%) Firewall
2 100 (2.46%) DNS
3 80 (1.97%) Network Security
4 76 (1.87%) VPN
5 44 (1.08%) TCP/IP
6 24 (0.59%) WAN
7 22 (0.54%) SD-WAN
7 22 (0.54%) SSL
8 21 (0.52%) HTTP
9 19 (0.47%) DHCP
10 15 (0.37%) HTTPS
11 14 (0.34%) BGP
11 14 (0.34%) MPLS
12 13 (0.32%) Internet
13 12 (0.30%) IPsec
13 12 (0.30%) SAN
14 11 (0.27%) Kerberos
14 11 (0.27%) Reverse Proxy
15 10 (0.25%) LAN
15 10 (0.25%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 230 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
2 216 (5.32%) Power BI
3 172 (4.23%) SQL Server
4 162 (3.99%) NoSQL
5 132 (3.25%) Data Lake
6 103 (2.54%) Relational Database
7 98 (2.41%) MongoDB
8 97 (2.39%) Amazon RDS
9 95 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
10 84 (2.07%) Azure SQL Database
11 67 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
11 67 (1.65%) Oracle Database
12 65 (1.60%) DynamoDB
13 64 (1.58%) Delta Lake
14 57 (1.40%) Redis
15 51 (1.26%) Tableau
16 49 (1.21%) Metadata
17 47 (1.16%) Big Data
17 47 (1.16%) MySQL
18 44 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 668 (16.45%) Jenkins
2 545 (13.42%) Git
3 537 (13.22%) JIRA
4 473 (11.64%) GitLab
5 118 (2.90%) Selenium
6 94 (2.31%) JUnit
7 82 (2.02%) Postman
8 68 (1.67%) Bitbucket
9 57 (1.40%) SonarQube
10 56 (1.38%) Cucumber
11 46 (1.13%) Artifactory
12 45 (1.11%) Cypress.io
12 45 (1.11%) Maven
13 42 (1.03%) REST Assured
14 40 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
15 36 (0.89%) JMeter
16 35 (0.86%) Oracle APEX
17 27 (0.66%) CircleCI
17 27 (0.66%) Gradle
17 27 (0.66%) Mockito
General
1 1,183 (29.12%) Social Skills
2 783 (19.28%) Finance
3 507 (12.48%) Public Sector
4 359 (8.84%) Analytical Skills
5 321 (7.90%) Banking
6 145 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
7 75 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
8 65 (1.60%) Financial Institution
9 55 (1.35%) Retail
10 51 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 50 (1.23%) Marketing
12 47 (1.16%) Front Office
13 43 (1.06%) Investment Banking
13 43 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
14 39 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
15 35 (0.86%) Telecoms
16 30 (0.74%) Legal
17 29 (0.71%) Military
18 27 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
19 23 (0.57%) Law
Job Titles
1 718 (17.68%) DevOps Engineer
2 657 (16.17%) Developer
3 553 (13.61%) Senior
4 445 (10.96%) Architect
5 345 (8.49%) Lead
6 253 (6.23%) Azure Engineer
7 244 (6.01%) Data Engineer
8 231 (5.69%) Analyst
9 201 (4.95%) AWS Engineer
10 162 (3.99%) Cloud Engineer
11 157 (3.87%) AWS DevOps
12 141 (3.47%) Software Engineer
13 139 (3.42%) Platform Engineer
14 135 (3.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 132 (3.25%) Solutions Architect
16 122 (3.00%) Business Analyst
17 118 (2.90%) Senior Developer
18 109 (2.68%) Senior DevOps
19 108 (2.66%) Full-Stack Developer
20 104 (2.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 446 (10.98%) REST
2 330 (8.12%) .NET
3 263 (6.47%) Node.js
4 252 (6.20%) React
5 236 (5.81%) Kafka
6 223 (5.49%) Spring
7 197 (4.85%) Spring Boot
8 193 (4.75%) RESTful
9 157 (3.87%) AngularJS
10 149 (3.67%) JSON
11 134 (3.30%) YAML
12 126 (3.10%) HTML
13 118 (2.90%) SOAP
14 114 (2.81%) OAuth
15 112 (2.76%) Playwright
16 110 (2.71%) PySpark
17 106 (2.61%) Elastic Stack
17 106 (2.61%) XML
18 103 (2.54%) Middleware
19 101 (2.49%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 591 (14.55%) Cloud Native
2 226 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 142 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
4 111 (2.73%) Onboarding
5 103 (2.54%) Public Cloud
6 91 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
7 81 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
8 69 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
9 54 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
10 50 (1.23%) Management Information System
11 47 (1.16%) Virtual Team
12 46 (1.13%) Security Posture
13 41 (1.01%) Private Cloud
14 39 (0.96%) Data Centre
15 37 (0.91%) AI Agents
16 36 (0.89%) Data Structures
17 35 (0.86%) NHS
18 34 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
19 33 (0.81%) Mobile App
20 31 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 413 (10.17%) Linux
2 212 (5.22%) Windows
3 74 (1.82%) Unix
4 58 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 38 (0.94%) VMS
5 38 (0.94%) Windows Server
6 22 (0.54%) Ubuntu
7 16 (0.39%) CentOS
8 11 (0.27%) Android
9 9 (0.22%) Windows 10
10 8 (0.20%) Apple iOS
11 7 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (0.12%) Solaris
14 4 (0.098%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.049%) Debian
15 2 (0.049%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.049%) zOS
16 1 (0.025%) AIX
16 1 (0.025%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,305 (56.75%) CI/CD
2 1,582 (38.95%) Agile
3 1,001 (24.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 768 (18.91%) Problem-Solving
5 735 (18.09%) Containerisation
6 606 (14.92%) Test Automation
7 603 (14.84%) Microservices
8 529 (13.02%) Analytics
9 511 (12.58%) Continuous Improvement
10 485 (11.94%) Migration
11 457 (11.25%) Scrum
12 448 (11.03%) AI
13 446 (10.98%) Observability
14 436 (10.73%) Stakeholder Management
15 369 (9.08%) Software Engineering
16 367 (9.03%) Data Modelling
17 345 (8.49%) Mentoring
18 298 (7.34%) Data Pipeline
19 283 (6.97%) Business Intelligence
20 282 (6.94%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1,228 (30.23%) Python
2 882 (21.71%) SQL
3 529 (13.02%) Java
4 397 (9.77%) C#
5 383 (9.43%) JavaScript
6 322 (7.93%) PowerShell
7 298 (7.34%) Bash
8 264 (6.50%) TypeScript
9 134 (3.30%) Bicep
10 122 (3.00%) Go
11 80 (1.97%) PL/SQL
12 61 (1.50%) Scala
13 45 (1.11%) T-SQL
14 41 (1.01%) C++
14 41 (1.01%) Shell Script
15 39 (0.96%) Ruby
16 32 (0.79%) Groovy
17 26 (0.64%) Rust
18 23 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
19 22 (0.54%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 1,309 (32.23%) Security Cleared
2 1,062 (26.14%) SC Cleared
3 338 (8.32%) Degree
4 194 (4.78%) Azure Certification
5 176 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 140 (3.45%) DV Cleared
7 124 (3.05%) AWS Certification
8 91 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
9 73 (1.80%) CISSP
9 73 (1.80%) Master's Degree
10 55 (1.35%) CISM
11 53 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
12 48 (1.18%) ISTQB
13 43 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 36 (0.89%) PMI Certification
15 34 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
16 29 (0.71%) PMP
17 25 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 23 (0.57%) IIBA
18 23 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 358 (8.81%) QA
2 166 (4.09%) Data Quality
3 164 (4.04%) GDPR
4 125 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 111 (2.73%) NIST
6 89 (2.19%) Accessibility
7 67 (1.65%) NCSC
8 37 (0.91%) PCI DSS
9 30 (0.74%) WCAG
10 25 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 25 (0.62%) SLA
11 24 (0.59%) PMO
12 21 (0.52%) HIPAA
13 16 (0.39%) SOC 2
14 15 (0.37%) ISO 20022
15 13 (0.32%) PSD2
16 11 (0.27%) NIST 800
17 10 (0.25%) GRC
17 10 (0.25%) SEPA
18 8 (0.20%) HL7
System Software
1 921 (22.67%) Docker
2 157 (3.87%) Active Directory
3 73 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
4 64 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 41 (1.01%) vSphere
6 25 (0.62%) VMware NSX
7 14 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.27%) Lustre
8 11 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 9 (0.22%) GPFS
9 9 (0.22%) Hyper-V
9 9 (0.22%) Squid
10 8 (0.20%) Firmware
11 7 (0.17%) Postfix
12 6 (0.15%) HDFS
13 5 (0.12%) KVM
13 5 (0.12%) RACF
13 5 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
14 4 (0.098%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
14 4 (0.098%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,178 (29.00%) Terraform
2 1,136 (27.97%) Kubernetes
3 445 (10.96%) Ansible
4 277 (6.82%) Grafana
5 232 (5.71%) Prometheus
6 91 (2.24%) Argo
7 69 (1.70%) Puppet
8 55 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
9 47 (1.16%) Istio
10 32 (0.79%) Packer
11 25 (0.62%) Kibana
12 24 (0.59%) Progress Chef
12 24 (0.59%) vCenter Server
13 19 (0.47%) Podman
14 18 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 18 (0.44%) Rancher
15 17 (0.42%) Consul
16 16 (0.39%) FortiGate
16 16 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
17 13 (0.32%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 709 (17.45%) Microsoft
2 272 (6.70%) Oracle
3 254 (6.25%) Databricks
4 230 (5.66%) Google
5 187 (4.60%) Splunk
6 142 (3.50%) ServiceNow
7 133 (3.27%) Red Hat
8 112 (2.76%) VMware
9 100 (2.46%) Salesforce
10 97 (2.39%) SAP
11 73 (1.80%) OpenAI
12 62 (1.53%) Atlassian
13 60 (1.48%) Dynatrace
14 55 (1.35%) CyberArk
15 38 (0.94%) Talend
16 36 (0.89%) IBM
17 34 (0.84%) Denodo
18 33 (0.81%) Foundry
19 27 (0.66%) Cisco
20 26 (0.64%) BeyondTrust