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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,846 2,926 3,319
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.64% 10.51% 10.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.50% 11.58% 11.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,327 2,124 2,271
10th Percentile £385 £358 £400
25th Percentile £438 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £518 £550
% change year-on-year +1.32% -5.79% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 22 81
10th Percentile £35.45 £35.75 £56.25
25th Percentile £55.50 £51.69 £61.60
Median hourly rate £67.00 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -4.29% +6.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 £82.72 £74.44
90th Percentile £88.00 £94.75 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +0.75% -4.29% +6.87%

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 38,771 25,264 28,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.11% 90.78% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,101 16,147 18,629
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,535 1,418 1,654
10th Percentile £14.56 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.87 £18.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.19%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.05 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +68.99% -38.57% -3.67%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 10 August 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 2,524 £550 - 1,434
North of England 0 831 £500 +5.26% 394
South East -10 463 £525 +5.00% 394
Midlands 0 462 £488 -2.50% 192
Yorkshire +1 410 £500 +3.36% 113
West Midlands -2 380 £490 -4.85% 125
North West -3 327 £525 +10.53% 202
South West +9 319 £525 +0.48% 175
East of England +19 140 £505 +1.00% 89
North East +13 111 £425 -19.05% 81
East Midlands +1 77 £488 +7.26% 67
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
1 292 (6.03%) Confluence
2 125 (2.58%) SharePoint
3 120 (2.48%) Apache Spark
4 118 (2.43%) Apache Airflow
5 100 (2.06%) Apache
6 76 (1.57%) SAS
7 41 (0.85%) CMS
8 32 (0.66%) Jupyter
9 31 (0.64%) IIS
10 23 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
11 22 (0.45%) nginx
12 14 (0.29%) WebSphere
13 13 (0.27%) Camunda
14 12 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
15 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
16 10 (0.21%) OpenStack
17 9 (0.19%) Anypoint
17 9 (0.19%) Appian
18 7 (0.14%) Tomcat
18 7 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 61 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
2 53 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 35 (0.72%) MS Visio
4 30 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
5 26 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.19%) CPLEX
7 9 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.14%) Trello
9 5 (0.10%) Notion
10 1 (0.021%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
10 1 (0.021%) Gliffy
10 1 (0.021%) InDesign
10 1 (0.021%) Maya
10 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 62 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.21%) Aladdin
3 10 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
4 9 (0.19%) Magento
5 8 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
5 8 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
6 7 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 5 (0.10%) Maximo
7 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
7 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
7 5 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.10%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.083%) Endur
8 4 (0.083%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.062%) Findur
9 3 (0.062%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.062%) Shopify
9 3 (0.062%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2,608 (53.82%) Azure
2 1,665 (34.36%) AWS
3 1,508 (31.12%) Azure DevOps
4 809 (16.69%) GitHub
5 597 (12.32%) GCP
6 506 (10.44%) GitHub Actions
7 418 (8.63%) Power Platform
8 378 (7.80%) Serverless
9 242 (4.99%) Amazon S3
9 242 (4.99%) Entra ID
10 221 (4.56%) AWS Lambda
11 194 (4.00%) Azure AKS
12 182 (3.76%) AWS CloudFormation
13 180 (3.71%) Amazon EKS
14 175 (3.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 174 (3.59%) Azure Data Factory
16 171 (3.53%) Azure Monitor
17 150 (3.10%) Dynamics 365
18 147 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
18 147 (3.03%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 233 (4.81%) Firewall
2 145 (2.99%) DNS
3 116 (2.39%) VPN
4 104 (2.15%) Network Security
5 62 (1.28%) TCP/IP
6 49 (1.01%) WAN
7 41 (0.85%) SSL
8 38 (0.78%) DHCP
9 36 (0.74%) SD-WAN
10 32 (0.66%) Internet
11 31 (0.64%) BGP
12 28 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
13 25 (0.52%) HTTP
13 25 (0.52%) OSPF
14 19 (0.39%) VLAN
15 18 (0.37%) SAN
15 18 (0.37%) VXLAN
16 17 (0.35%) MPLS
16 17 (0.35%) SSH
17 16 (0.33%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 292 (6.03%) Power BI
2 255 (5.26%) SQL Server
3 225 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
4 177 (3.65%) Data Warehouse
5 167 (3.45%) NoSQL
6 154 (3.18%) Relational Database
7 146 (3.01%) Data Lake
8 139 (2.87%) MongoDB
9 98 (2.02%) Metadata
10 95 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
11 93 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
12 85 (1.75%) Delta Lake
13 78 (1.61%) DynamoDB
14 76 (1.57%) Oracle Database
15 59 (1.22%) Big Data
15 59 (1.22%) Redis
16 58 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
17 51 (1.05%) MySQL
18 49 (1.01%) BigQuery
19 46 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 668 (13.78%) Jenkins
2 651 (13.43%) Git
3 577 (11.91%) JIRA
4 502 (10.36%) GitLab
5 106 (2.19%) Selenium
6 89 (1.84%) SonarQube
7 82 (1.69%) Postman
8 75 (1.55%) Bitbucket
9 74 (1.53%) JUnit
10 70 (1.44%) Maven
11 55 (1.13%) Cypress.io
11 55 (1.13%) JMeter
11 55 (1.13%) REST Assured
12 50 (1.03%) Cucumber
13 48 (0.99%) Gatling
14 42 (0.87%) Gradle
15 41 (0.85%) LoadRunner
16 37 (0.76%) Mockito
17 34 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
18 33 (0.68%) Artifactory
General
1 1,234 (25.46%) Social Skills
2 912 (18.82%) Finance
3 669 (13.81%) Public Sector
4 460 (9.49%) Analytical Skills
5 343 (7.08%) Banking
6 130 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 98 (2.02%) Retail
8 90 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
9 68 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
10 57 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
11 56 (1.16%) Legal
12 54 (1.11%) Marketing
13 49 (1.01%) Investment Banking
14 44 (0.91%) Aerospace
15 43 (0.89%) Military
16 41 (0.85%) Front Office
17 40 (0.83%) Financial Institution
17 40 (0.83%) Telecoms
18 38 (0.78%) Law
19 36 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 886 (18.28%) DevOps Engineer
2 773 (15.95%) Developer
3 720 (14.86%) Senior
4 556 (11.47%) Architect
5 485 (10.01%) Lead
6 293 (6.05%) Data Engineer
7 290 (5.98%) Azure Engineer
8 245 (5.06%) Analyst
9 208 (4.29%) AWS Engineer
10 195 (4.02%) Platform Engineer
11 180 (3.71%) Cloud Engineer
12 174 (3.59%) Senior DevOps
13 169 (3.49%) Solutions Architect
14 160 (3.30%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 148 (3.05%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 146 (3.01%) AWS DevOps
17 141 (2.91%) Java Developer
18 137 (2.83%) Software Engineer
19 133 (2.74%) AWS DevOps Engineer
20 128 (2.64%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 483 (9.97%) REST
2 430 (8.87%) .NET
3 293 (6.05%) Kafka
4 260 (5.37%) RESTful
5 247 (5.10%) React
6 231 (4.77%) Spring
7 211 (4.35%) Spring Boot
8 179 (3.69%) Node.js
9 150 (3.10%) JSON
10 145 (2.99%) PySpark
11 140 (2.89%) OAuth
12 136 (2.81%) Playwright
13 131 (2.70%) AngularJS
14 130 (2.68%) .NET Framework
15 125 (2.58%) SOAP
16 113 (2.33%) HTML
17 102 (2.10%) YAML
18 97 (2.00%) CSS
19 96 (1.98%) OAuth2
20 88 (1.82%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 867 (17.89%) Cloud Native
2 347 (7.16%) Product Ownership
3 226 (4.66%) Distributed Systems
4 148 (3.05%) Onboarding
5 142 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
6 136 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
7 127 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
8 78 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
9 71 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
10 70 (1.44%) Management Information System
11 67 (1.38%) AI Agents
12 65 (1.34%) Public Cloud
12 65 (1.34%) Security Posture
13 63 (1.30%) Data Structures
14 58 (1.20%) Data Centre
15 52 (1.07%) Replication
16 50 (1.03%) Mobile App
17 46 (0.95%) Virtual Team
18 39 (0.80%) PKI
19 38 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 436 (9.00%) Linux
2 270 (5.57%) Windows
3 100 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 75 (1.55%) Unix
5 74 (1.53%) Windows Server
6 28 (0.58%) Ubuntu
7 27 (0.56%) Apple iOS
8 25 (0.52%) VMS
9 18 (0.37%) Android
10 9 (0.19%) Solaris
10 9 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.17%) AIX
11 8 (0.17%) zOS
12 7 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
12 7 (0.14%) CentOS
12 7 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
13 6 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
14 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
15 4 (0.083%) Alpine Linux
15 4 (0.083%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,799 (57.76%) CI/CD
2 1,946 (40.16%) Agile
3 1,303 (26.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 793 (16.36%) Continuous Improvement
5 770 (15.89%) Containerisation
6 765 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
7 749 (15.46%) Test Automation
8 707 (14.59%) AI
9 704 (14.53%) Stakeholder Management
10 695 (14.34%) Microservices
11 619 (12.77%) Observability
12 611 (12.61%) Scrum
13 602 (12.42%) Software Engineering
14 579 (11.95%) Platform Engineering
15 573 (11.82%) Migration
16 556 (11.47%) Analytics
17 464 (9.57%) Technical Leadership
18 456 (9.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 441 (9.10%) Data Modelling
20 420 (8.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,395 (28.79%) Python
2 915 (18.88%) SQL
3 675 (13.93%) Java
4 452 (9.33%) C#
5 410 (8.46%) PowerShell
6 404 (8.34%) Bash
7 391 (8.07%) JavaScript
8 268 (5.53%) TypeScript
9 192 (3.96%) Bicep
10 82 (1.69%) Go
11 58 (1.20%) Shell Script
12 57 (1.18%) T-SQL
13 55 (1.13%) PL/SQL
13 55 (1.13%) Scala
14 52 (1.07%) Apex Code
15 49 (1.01%) Groovy
16 33 (0.68%) C++
17 28 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 25 (0.52%) C
19 23 (0.47%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,548 (31.94%) Security Cleared
2 1,297 (26.76%) SC Cleared
3 303 (6.25%) Degree
4 199 (4.11%) Azure Certification
5 179 (3.69%) DV Cleared
6 162 (3.34%) AWS Certification
7 133 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 112 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
9 82 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
10 76 (1.57%) CISSP
11 53 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
12 46 (0.95%) ISTQB
13 45 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 41 (0.85%) PMP
15 36 (0.74%) PMI Certification
16 32 (0.66%) Master's Degree
17 31 (0.64%) CISM
18 24 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 23 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
20 22 (0.45%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 454 (9.37%) QA
2 251 (5.18%) Data Quality
3 157 (3.24%) Accessibility
4 134 (2.77%) GDPR
5 84 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 75 (1.55%) NIST
6 75 (1.55%) WCAG
7 48 (0.99%) NCSC
8 42 (0.87%) PMO
9 36 (0.74%) PCI DSS
10 30 (0.62%) SLA
11 26 (0.54%) GRC
12 24 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
13 10 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
13 10 (0.21%) HIPAA
13 10 (0.21%) ISO 20022
14 8 (0.17%) PSD2
14 8 (0.17%) SEPA
15 7 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 951 (19.62%) Docker
2 172 (3.55%) Active Directory
3 72 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
4 71 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 23 (0.47%) Hyper-V
6 20 (0.41%) vSphere
7 17 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
8 16 (0.33%) VMware NSX
9 14 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
10 13 (0.27%) Squid
11 12 (0.25%) Postfix
12 11 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
13 8 (0.17%) IAG
13 8 (0.17%) KVM
14 6 (0.12%) Corosync
15 5 (0.10%) Firmware
15 5 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
15 5 (0.10%) NFS
15 5 (0.10%) SRDF
16 4 (0.083%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1,368 (28.23%) Terraform
2 1,219 (25.15%) Kubernetes
3 474 (9.78%) Ansible
4 309 (6.38%) Grafana
5 264 (5.45%) Prometheus
6 74 (1.53%) Argo
7 59 (1.22%) Puppet
8 56 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
9 43 (0.89%) Progress Chef
10 34 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
11 32 (0.66%) Packer
12 30 (0.62%) Istio
13 18 (0.37%) vCenter Server
14 17 (0.35%) SCCM
15 16 (0.33%) Kibana
15 16 (0.33%) Kustomize
16 14 (0.29%) Kubeflow
16 14 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
17 12 (0.25%) Control-M
17 12 (0.25%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 917 (18.92%) Microsoft
2 251 (5.18%) Oracle
3 245 (5.06%) Databricks
4 225 (4.64%) Google
5 189 (3.90%) ServiceNow
6 156 (3.22%) Splunk
7 149 (3.07%) Salesforce
8 128 (2.64%) Dynatrace
9 108 (2.23%) SAP
10 100 (2.06%) Red Hat
11 97 (2.00%) VMware
12 61 (1.26%) IBM
13 50 (1.03%) Informatica
14 49 (1.01%) Atlassian
15 45 (0.93%) Cisco
15 45 (0.93%) OpenAI
16 41 (0.85%) AppDynamics
17 37 (0.76%) Foundry
18 35 (0.72%) Denodo
19 33 (0.68%) MuleSoft