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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 17
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 -5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,050 2,629 3,273
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.19% 10.62% 8.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.92% 11.73% 9.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,832 1,893 2,318
10th Percentile £381 £400 £413
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £560
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +0.84% -6.62%
75th Percentile £614 £675 £663
90th Percentile £720 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 19 99
10th Percentile £44.87 £34.65 £49.35
25th Percentile £45.46 £57.82 £61.25
Median hourly rate £64.25 £74.44 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.69% +14.52% -0.76%
75th Percentile £77.31 £80.75 £71.57
90th Percentile £93.75 £88.50 £84.65
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £73.83 £65.00
% change year-on-year -11.96% +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 31,340 22,420 33,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.60% 90.56% 86.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,068 14,466 21,877
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 1,932 799 2,164
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.26 £13.02
25th Percentile £18.84 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -8.84%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.53
90th Percentile £74.26 £77.25 £71.83
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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -3 2,033 £550 -5.98% 417
North of England +6 733 £500 -4.76% 317
South East -1 436 £523 -9.13% 354
Midlands +12 413 £500 +3.68% 139
Yorkshire +1 384 £500 -4.76% 99
West Midlands +13 332 £506 +3.27% 96
North West +6 295 £500 -4.76% 172
South West +15 269 £525 -12.50% 152
East of England +13 108 £588 +15.76% 85
East Midlands 0 79 £438 -7.89% 42
North East 0 59 £475 -9.52% 49
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 (6.30%) Confluence
2 99 (2.44%) Apache Spark
3 85 (2.10%) SharePoint
4 82 (2.02%) Apache
4 82 (2.02%) SAS
5 57 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
6 30 (0.74%) OpenStack
7 28 (0.69%) CMS
7 28 (0.69%) nginx
8 23 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
9 17 (0.42%) IIS
10 12 (0.30%) Mendix
10 12 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
11 11 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 11 (0.27%) HCL Notes
11 11 (0.27%) WebLogic
12 10 (0.25%) JBoss
13 9 (0.22%) Camunda
14 8 (0.20%) GeoServer
14 8 (0.20%) Smallworld
Applications
1 86 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 40 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
4 27 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
5 23 (0.57%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.30%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.20%) Weka
8 4 (0.099%) 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 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.30%) Aladdin
4 11 (0.27%) Maximo
5 9 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
6 8 (0.20%) NEC Housing
7 7 (0.17%) Endur
8 6 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
8 6 (0.15%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 4 (0.099%) Oracle EBS
10 4 (0.099%) Payment Gateway
11 3 (0.074%) Salesforce CRM
11 3 (0.074%) SAP BPC
11 3 (0.074%) SAP CO
11 3 (0.074%) SAP FI
11 3 (0.074%) SAP FI/CO
11 3 (0.074%) Workday HCM
12 2 (0.049%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 2,082 (51.41%) Azure
2 1,392 (34.37%) AWS
3 1,142 (28.20%) Azure DevOps
4 738 (18.22%) GitHub
5 588 (14.52%) GCP
6 446 (11.01%) Serverless
7 394 (9.73%) GitHub Actions
8 336 (8.30%) Power Platform
9 214 (5.28%) Amazon S3
10 213 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
11 212 (5.23%) AWS CloudFormation
12 197 (4.86%) Azure Data Factory
13 195 (4.81%) Entra ID
14 181 (4.47%) OpenShift
15 179 (4.42%) Azure AKS
16 163 (4.02%) Amazon EKS
17 159 (3.93%) Azure Monitor
18 154 (3.80%) Dynamics 365
19 136 (3.36%) SaaS
20 132 (3.26%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 184 (4.54%) Firewall
2 96 (2.37%) DNS
3 78 (1.93%) Network Security
4 76 (1.88%) VPN
5 44 (1.09%) TCP/IP
6 24 (0.59%) WAN
7 22 (0.54%) SD-WAN
8 21 (0.52%) SSL
9 20 (0.49%) HTTP
10 19 (0.47%) DHCP
11 15 (0.37%) HTTPS
12 14 (0.35%) BGP
12 14 (0.35%) MPLS
13 13 (0.32%) SAN
14 12 (0.30%) Internet
14 12 (0.30%) Kerberos
15 11 (0.27%) Reverse Proxy
16 10 (0.25%) LAN
16 10 (0.25%) OpenVPN
17 9 (0.22%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 234 (5.78%) PostgreSQL
2 212 (5.23%) Power BI
3 168 (4.15%) SQL Server
4 159 (3.93%) NoSQL
5 127 (3.14%) Data Lake
6 104 (2.57%) Relational Database
7 99 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
8 97 (2.40%) MongoDB
9 94 (2.32%) Data Warehouse
10 83 (2.05%) Azure SQL Database
11 71 (1.75%) Oracle Database
12 70 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
13 66 (1.63%) DynamoDB
14 62 (1.53%) Delta Lake
15 56 (1.38%) Redis
16 51 (1.26%) Tableau
17 50 (1.23%) MySQL
18 48 (1.19%) Metadata
19 44 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
20 43 (1.06%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 673 (16.62%) Jenkins
2 551 (13.60%) Git
3 539 (13.31%) JIRA
4 475 (11.73%) GitLab
5 117 (2.89%) Selenium
6 93 (2.30%) JUnit
7 78 (1.93%) Postman
8 67 (1.65%) Bitbucket
9 57 (1.41%) SonarQube
10 56 (1.38%) Cucumber
11 46 (1.14%) Artifactory
12 45 (1.11%) Maven
13 44 (1.09%) Cypress.io
14 42 (1.04%) REST Assured
15 41 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
16 35 (0.86%) Oracle APEX
17 33 (0.81%) JMeter
18 28 (0.69%) CircleCI
19 27 (0.67%) Gradle
19 27 (0.67%) Liquibase
General
1 1,188 (29.33%) Social Skills
2 783 (19.33%) Finance
3 505 (12.47%) Public Sector
4 356 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
5 321 (7.93%) Banking
6 144 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
7 75 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
8 65 (1.60%) Financial Institution
9 53 (1.31%) Retail
10 51 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 49 (1.21%) Marketing
12 47 (1.16%) Front Office
13 43 (1.06%) Investment Banking
13 43 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
14 38 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
15 37 (0.91%) Telecoms
16 29 (0.72%) Legal
17 28 (0.69%) Military
17 28 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
18 25 (0.62%) Law
Job Titles
1 724 (17.88%) DevOps Engineer
2 658 (16.25%) Developer
3 549 (13.56%) Senior
4 439 (10.84%) Architect
5 341 (8.42%) Lead
6 247 (6.10%) Azure Engineer
7 237 (5.85%) Data Engineer
8 231 (5.70%) Analyst
9 201 (4.96%) AWS Engineer
10 160 (3.95%) Cloud Engineer
11 157 (3.88%) AWS DevOps
12 145 (3.58%) Software Engineer
13 139 (3.43%) Platform Engineer
14 135 (3.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 131 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
16 124 (3.06%) Business Analyst
17 119 (2.94%) Senior Developer
18 108 (2.67%) Senior DevOps
19 107 (2.64%) Full-Stack Developer
20 105 (2.59%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 445 (10.99%) REST
2 332 (8.20%) .NET
3 264 (6.52%) Node.js
4 255 (6.30%) React
5 229 (5.65%) Kafka
6 220 (5.43%) Spring
7 196 (4.84%) Spring Boot
8 192 (4.74%) RESTful
9 155 (3.83%) AngularJS
10 147 (3.63%) JSON
11 133 (3.28%) YAML
12 128 (3.16%) HTML
13 116 (2.86%) OAuth
14 115 (2.84%) SOAP
15 113 (2.79%) Playwright
16 110 (2.72%) Elastic Stack
17 105 (2.59%) PySpark
17 105 (2.59%) XML
18 100 (2.47%) CSS
19 99 (2.44%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 584 (14.42%) Cloud Native
2 222 (5.48%) Product Ownership
3 141 (3.48%) Distributed Systems
4 113 (2.79%) Onboarding
5 102 (2.52%) Public Cloud
6 88 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
7 79 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
8 68 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
9 53 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
10 51 (1.26%) Management Information System
11 47 (1.16%) Virtual Team
12 45 (1.11%) Security Posture
13 41 (1.01%) Private Cloud
14 40 (0.99%) Data Centre
15 35 (0.86%) AI Agents
15 35 (0.86%) Data Structures
15 35 (0.86%) NHS
16 33 (0.81%) Mobile App
17 32 (0.79%) Replication
17 32 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 417 (10.30%) Linux
2 213 (5.26%) Windows
3 74 (1.83%) Unix
4 59 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 38 (0.94%) VMS
5 38 (0.94%) Windows Server
6 22 (0.54%) Ubuntu
7 16 (0.40%) CentOS
8 11 (0.27%) Android
9 9 (0.22%) Apple iOS
9 9 (0.22%) Windows 10
10 7 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
11 6 (0.15%) Solaris
11 6 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.099%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.049%) Debian
13 2 (0.049%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.049%) zOS
14 1 (0.025%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.025%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,301 (56.81%) CI/CD
2 1,586 (39.16%) Agile
3 1,001 (24.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 771 (19.04%) Problem-Solving
5 734 (18.12%) Containerisation
6 606 (14.96%) Test Automation
7 594 (14.67%) Microservices
8 525 (12.96%) Analytics
9 518 (12.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 478 (11.80%) Migration
11 461 (11.38%) Scrum
12 443 (10.94%) AI
13 440 (10.86%) Observability
14 436 (10.77%) Stakeholder Management
15 371 (9.16%) Software Engineering
16 365 (9.01%) Data Modelling
17 346 (8.54%) Mentoring
18 292 (7.21%) Data Pipeline
19 288 (7.11%) ETL
20 286 (7.06%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,217 (30.05%) Python
2 873 (21.56%) SQL
3 528 (13.04%) Java
4 397 (9.80%) C#
5 383 (9.46%) JavaScript
6 321 (7.93%) PowerShell
7 300 (7.41%) Bash
8 269 (6.64%) TypeScript
9 132 (3.26%) Bicep
10 123 (3.04%) Go
11 79 (1.95%) PL/SQL
12 61 (1.51%) Scala
13 45 (1.11%) T-SQL
14 41 (1.01%) C++
14 41 (1.01%) Shell Script
15 39 (0.96%) Ruby
16 33 (0.81%) Groovy
17 26 (0.64%) Rust
18 23 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
19 22 (0.54%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,308 (32.30%) Security Cleared
2 1,066 (26.32%) SC Cleared
3 340 (8.40%) Degree
4 194 (4.79%) Azure Certification
5 178 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 140 (3.46%) DV Cleared
7 121 (2.99%) AWS Certification
8 90 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
9 75 (1.85%) CISSP
10 74 (1.83%) Master's Degree
11 57 (1.41%) CISM
12 54 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
13 46 (1.14%) ISTQB
14 42 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 36 (0.89%) PMI Certification
16 34 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
17 29 (0.72%) PMP
18 25 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 23 (0.57%) IIBA
20 22 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 354 (8.74%) QA
2 168 (4.15%) Data Quality
3 166 (4.10%) GDPR
4 123 (3.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 113 (2.79%) NIST
6 90 (2.22%) Accessibility
7 67 (1.65%) NCSC
8 36 (0.89%) PCI DSS
9 31 (0.77%) WCAG
10 26 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 25 (0.62%) SLA
12 21 (0.52%) HIPAA
12 21 (0.52%) PMO
13 16 (0.40%) 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
1 928 (22.91%) Docker
2 164 (4.05%) Active Directory
3 73 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
4 69 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
5 40 (0.99%) vSphere
6 24 (0.59%) VMware NSX
7 13 (0.32%) 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 7 (0.17%) Firmware
10 7 (0.17%) Postfix
10 7 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
11 6 (0.15%) HDFS
12 5 (0.12%) NFS
12 5 (0.12%) RACF
13 4 (0.099%) KVM
13 4 (0.099%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1,174 (28.99%) Terraform
2 1,139 (28.12%) Kubernetes
3 448 (11.06%) Ansible
4 275 (6.79%) Grafana
5 232 (5.73%) Prometheus
6 88 (2.17%) Argo
7 72 (1.78%) Puppet
8 55 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
9 47 (1.16%) Istio
10 32 (0.79%) Packer
11 28 (0.69%) Kibana
12 27 (0.67%) Progress Chef
13 23 (0.57%) vCenter Server
14 19 (0.47%) Podman
15 18 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 18 (0.44%) Rancher
16 17 (0.42%) Consul
17 16 (0.40%) FortiGate
17 16 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
18 13 (0.32%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 704 (17.38%) Microsoft
2 275 (6.79%) Oracle
3 250 (6.17%) Databricks
4 227 (5.60%) Google
5 189 (4.67%) Splunk
6 143 (3.53%) ServiceNow
7 132 (3.26%) Red Hat
8 117 (2.89%) VMware
9 102 (2.52%) Salesforce
10 98 (2.42%) SAP
11 71 (1.75%) OpenAI
12 62 (1.53%) Atlassian
13 58 (1.43%) Dynatrace
14 56 (1.38%) CyberArk
15 43 (1.06%) Talend
16 39 (0.96%) Denodo
17 36 (0.89%) IBM
18 32 (0.79%) Foundry
19 31 (0.77%) Cisco
20 27 (0.67%) MuleSoft