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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,467 2,423 3,460
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.63% 10.08% 9.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.51% 11.04% 10.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,134 1,758 2,408
10th Percentile £393 £390 £400
25th Percentile £440 £450 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £523 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.43% -4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 11 110
10th Percentile £39.53 £35.00 £56.50
25th Percentile £56.38 £51.25 £61.34
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - +3.05% -
75th Percentile £77.88 £82.48 £77.50
90th Percentile £93.75 £92.50 £87.05
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £73.23 £65.50
% change year-on-year -4.40% +11.79% -

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 35,705 21,941 31,586
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.00% 91.32% 85.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,665 14,273 20,637
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,224 953 2,305
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.84
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.55 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +64.62% -23.21% -0.85%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.30 £27.97 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.26% -23.38% -1.35%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 30 May 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 2,273 £550 -0.18% 531
North of England +6 817 £500 - 273
South East +3 479 £523 +4.50% 238
Yorkshire +1 458 £500 - 70
Midlands +5 408 £488 -2.50% 116
West Midlands +1 319 £500 -4.31% 82
North West +1 294 £500 - 159
South West +16 284 £525 -4.55% 114
East of England +18 129 £525 +5.00% 64
East Midlands 0 85 £465 +0.54% 34
North East +8 81 £450 -14.29% 46
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
1 248 (5.55%) Confluence
2 124 (2.78%) Apache Spark
3 112 (2.51%) SharePoint
4 91 (2.04%) Apache
5 80 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
6 68 (1.52%) SAS
7 42 (0.94%) CMS
8 25 (0.56%) IIS
9 24 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
9 24 (0.54%) nginx
10 18 (0.40%) Jupyter
10 18 (0.40%) OpenStack
11 14 (0.31%) Camunda
12 12 (0.27%) WebSphere
13 11 (0.25%) Mendix
13 11 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
14 10 (0.22%) HCL Notes
15 9 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
16 8 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 8 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 68 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
3 47 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 33 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
5 24 (0.54%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.090%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.090%) CPLEX
6 4 (0.090%) Notion
7 3 (0.067%) Trello
8 2 (0.045%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.045%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.022%) InDesign
9 1 (0.022%) Maya
9 1 (0.022%) Weka
Business Applications
1 57 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 10 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
5 9 (0.20%) Maximo
6 8 (0.18%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
7 6 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.11%) Endur
8 5 (0.11%) Magento
8 5 (0.11%) NEC Housing
9 4 (0.090%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.067%) Findur
10 3 (0.067%) OpenText MBPM
10 3 (0.067%) Oracle BPM
10 3 (0.067%) SAP BPC
10 3 (0.067%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.067%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.067%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.067%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 2,392 (53.55%) Azure
2 1,511 (33.83%) AWS
3 1,301 (29.12%) Azure DevOps
4 730 (16.34%) GitHub
5 567 (12.69%) GCP
6 432 (9.67%) GitHub Actions
7 398 (8.91%) Serverless
8 380 (8.51%) Power Platform
9 243 (5.44%) Amazon S3
10 219 (4.90%) Entra ID
11 207 (4.63%) AWS Lambda
12 192 (4.30%) AWS CloudFormation
13 186 (4.16%) Azure AKS
13 186 (4.16%) Azure Data Factory
14 165 (3.69%) OpenShift
15 154 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
16 142 (3.18%) Azure Monitor
17 141 (3.16%) PaaS
18 138 (3.09%) Amazon EC2
19 137 (3.07%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 216 (4.84%) Firewall
2 115 (2.57%) DNS
3 94 (2.10%) Network Security
4 91 (2.04%) VPN
5 45 (1.01%) TCP/IP
6 41 (0.92%) WAN
7 35 (0.78%) SD-WAN
8 30 (0.67%) BGP
9 27 (0.60%) SSL
10 25 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
11 22 (0.49%) DHCP
11 22 (0.49%) OSPF
12 20 (0.45%) SAN
13 19 (0.43%) HTTP
14 18 (0.40%) IPsec
15 17 (0.38%) Internet
15 17 (0.38%) MPLS
16 16 (0.36%) LAN
16 16 (0.36%) VXLAN
17 14 (0.31%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 251 (5.62%) Power BI
2 228 (5.10%) SQL Server
3 212 (4.75%) PostgreSQL
4 158 (3.54%) NoSQL
5 157 (3.51%) Data Lake
6 133 (2.98%) Relational Database
7 125 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
8 114 (2.55%) MongoDB
9 96 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
10 92 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
11 84 (1.88%) Delta Lake
12 78 (1.75%) DynamoDB
13 71 (1.59%) Metadata
13 71 (1.59%) Oracle Database
14 61 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
15 55 (1.23%) Big Data
16 53 (1.19%) Redis
17 51 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
18 50 (1.12%) BigQuery
19 45 (1.01%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 622 (13.92%) Jenkins
2 552 (12.36%) Git
3 525 (11.75%) JIRA
4 459 (10.28%) GitLab
5 93 (2.08%) Selenium
6 91 (2.04%) Postman
7 75 (1.68%) SonarQube
8 73 (1.63%) JUnit
9 60 (1.34%) Bitbucket
10 58 (1.30%) Maven
10 58 (1.30%) REST Assured
11 53 (1.19%) Cucumber
12 48 (1.07%) Artifactory
13 44 (0.99%) JMeter
14 40 (0.90%) Cypress.io
14 40 (0.90%) Gatling
15 36 (0.81%) Gradle
16 35 (0.78%) Mockito
17 29 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
18 27 (0.60%) LoadRunner
General
1 1,128 (25.25%) Social Skills
2 843 (18.87%) Finance
3 546 (12.22%) Public Sector
4 369 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
5 307 (6.87%) Banking
6 136 (3.04%) Documentation Skills
7 75 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 70 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
9 62 (1.39%) Retail
10 54 (1.21%) Legal
11 49 (1.10%) Financial Institution
12 48 (1.07%) Marketing
13 47 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
14 39 (0.87%) Investment Banking
15 37 (0.83%) Military
15 37 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
16 34 (0.76%) Front Office
17 30 (0.67%) Law
18 23 (0.51%) Aerospace
19 20 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 883 (19.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 629 (14.08%) Senior
3 626 (14.01%) Developer
4 543 (12.16%) Architect
5 395 (8.84%) Lead
6 297 (6.65%) Azure Engineer
7 281 (6.29%) Data Engineer
8 271 (6.07%) Analyst
9 189 (4.23%) AWS Engineer
10 172 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
11 171 (3.83%) Solutions Architect
12 158 (3.54%) Platform Engineer
13 145 (3.25%) Senior DevOps
14 142 (3.18%) Business Analyst
15 141 (3.16%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 140 (3.13%) Software Engineer
17 132 (2.96%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 129 (2.89%) AWS DevOps
19 120 (2.69%) Java Developer
20 118 (2.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 401 (8.98%) REST
2 380 (8.51%) .NET
3 258 (5.78%) Kafka
4 257 (5.75%) React
5 239 (5.35%) Spring
6 230 (5.15%) Spring Boot
7 215 (4.81%) Node.js
8 197 (4.41%) RESTful
9 148 (3.31%) AngularJS
10 128 (2.87%) Playwright
10 128 (2.87%) PySpark
11 127 (2.84%) YAML
12 124 (2.78%) OAuth
13 122 (2.73%) JSON
14 104 (2.33%) SOAP
15 101 (2.26%) Middleware
16 97 (2.17%) HTML
17 95 (2.13%) .NET Framework
17 95 (2.13%) OpenID
18 86 (1.93%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 742 (16.61%) Cloud Native
2 279 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 177 (3.96%) Distributed Systems
4 116 (2.60%) Onboarding
5 105 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
6 94 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
7 91 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
8 83 (1.86%) Public Cloud
9 69 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
10 61 (1.37%) Data Centre
11 59 (1.32%) Management Information System
12 47 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
13 46 (1.03%) Security Posture
14 44 (0.99%) Mobile App
14 44 (0.99%) Replication
15 43 (0.96%) AI Agents
16 41 (0.92%) Private Cloud
17 40 (0.90%) Virtual Team
18 39 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
19 37 (0.83%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 402 (9.00%) Linux
2 234 (5.24%) Windows
3 86 (1.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 65 (1.46%) Unix
5 47 (1.05%) Windows Server
6 34 (0.76%) VMS
7 28 (0.63%) Ubuntu
8 18 (0.40%) Apple iOS
9 16 (0.36%) Android
10 13 (0.29%) CentOS
11 10 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (0.16%) Windows 10
13 6 (0.13%) Solaris
13 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
15 4 (0.090%) Alpine Linux
15 4 (0.090%) Data ONTAP
15 4 (0.090%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.090%) Windows Server 2012
16 3 (0.067%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,523 (56.48%) CI/CD
2 1,615 (36.15%) Agile
3 1,141 (25.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 693 (15.51%) Containerisation
5 683 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
6 636 (14.24%) Microservices
7 623 (13.95%) Test Automation
8 594 (13.30%) Continuous Improvement
9 553 (12.38%) Migration
10 552 (12.36%) Observability
11 524 (11.73%) Stakeholder Management
12 519 (11.62%) Analytics
13 513 (11.48%) AI
14 501 (11.22%) Scrum
15 455 (10.19%) Software Engineering
16 423 (9.47%) Platform Engineering
17 413 (9.25%) Data Modelling
18 376 (8.42%) Mentoring
19 373 (8.35%) Roadmaps
20 366 (8.19%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1,227 (27.47%) Python
2 898 (20.10%) SQL
3 610 (13.66%) Java
4 413 (9.25%) C#
5 336 (7.52%) PowerShell
6 330 (7.39%) Bash
7 318 (7.12%) JavaScript
8 232 (5.19%) TypeScript
9 151 (3.38%) Bicep
10 91 (2.04%) Go
11 63 (1.41%) Scala
12 55 (1.23%) Shell Script
13 49 (1.10%) PL/SQL
14 45 (1.01%) Apex Code
14 45 (1.01%) T-SQL
15 40 (0.90%) Groovy
16 27 (0.60%) C++
16 27 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 23 (0.51%) Kotlin
17 23 (0.51%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,420 (31.79%) Security Cleared
2 1,163 (26.04%) SC Cleared
3 294 (6.58%) Degree
4 197 (4.41%) Azure Certification
5 147 (3.29%) DV Cleared
6 126 (2.82%) AWS Certification
6 126 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 113 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 77 (1.72%) CISSP
9 60 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
10 48 (1.07%) CISM
11 44 (0.99%) ISTQB
12 43 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
13 41 (0.92%) Master's Degree
14 38 (0.85%) PMI Certification
15 37 (0.83%) PMP
16 36 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 23 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
18 21 (0.47%) IIBA
18 21 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 383 (8.57%) QA
2 206 (4.61%) Data Quality
3 165 (3.69%) GDPR
4 118 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 115 (2.57%) NIST
6 112 (2.51%) Accessibility
7 61 (1.37%) NCSC
8 52 (1.16%) WCAG
9 44 (0.99%) PCI DSS
10 39 (0.87%) SLA
11 29 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 28 (0.63%) PMO
13 20 (0.45%) GRC
14 15 (0.34%) HIPAA
15 13 (0.29%) NIST 800
15 13 (0.29%) SOC 2
16 12 (0.27%) ISO 20022
16 12 (0.27%) PSD2
17 9 (0.20%) SEPA
18 7 (0.16%) COBIT
System Software
1 851 (19.05%) Docker
2 162 (3.63%) Active Directory
3 69 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
4 60 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 33 (0.74%) vSphere
6 22 (0.49%) VMware NSX
7 17 (0.38%) Squid
7 17 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.31%) Postfix
9 12 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
10 10 (0.22%) Hyper-V
11 8 (0.18%) Firmware
12 7 (0.16%) RACF
13 6 (0.13%) Corosync
14 5 (0.11%) HDFS
14 5 (0.11%) NFS
14 5 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
14 5 (0.11%) SRDF
15 4 (0.090%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 4 (0.090%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,256 (28.12%) Terraform
2 1,138 (25.48%) Kubernetes
3 455 (10.19%) Ansible
4 303 (6.78%) Grafana
5 257 (5.75%) Prometheus
6 84 (1.88%) Argo
7 70 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
8 63 (1.41%) Puppet
9 45 (1.01%) Istio
10 32 (0.72%) Progress Chef
11 27 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
12 26 (0.58%) Packer
13 22 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 22 (0.49%) Kibana
13 22 (0.49%) vCenter Server
14 16 (0.36%) Consul
14 16 (0.36%) HP ALM
15 14 (0.31%) FortiGate
16 13 (0.29%) Rancher
17 12 (0.27%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 803 (17.98%) Microsoft
2 257 (5.75%) Databricks
3 250 (5.60%) Oracle
4 203 (4.54%) Google
5 177 (3.96%) Splunk
6 165 (3.69%) ServiceNow
7 139 (3.11%) Red Hat
8 136 (3.04%) Salesforce
9 101 (2.26%) VMware
10 99 (2.22%) SAP
11 94 (2.10%) Dynatrace
12 60 (1.34%) OpenAI
13 47 (1.05%) Atlassian
13 47 (1.05%) CyberArk
14 45 (1.01%) IBM
15 37 (0.83%) Foundry
15 37 (0.83%) Informatica
16 36 (0.81%) AppDynamics
16 36 (0.81%) Cisco
17 30 (0.67%) Okta