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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,412 2,388 3,426
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.59% 10.04% 9.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.49% 11.00% 10.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,089 1,743 2,392
10th Percentile £393 £390 £400
25th Percentile £447 £454 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.58% -3.01% -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £654 £650
90th Percentile £703 £773 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 11 108
10th Percentile £39.53 £35.00 £56.50
25th Percentile £56.06 £51.25 £61.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.50 £65.25
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -0.38%
75th Percentile £77.63 £82.48 £77.81
90th Percentile £94.25 £92.50 £87.14
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £73.23 £65.25
% change year-on-year -4.40% +12.22% -0.38%

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 35,337 21,704 31,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.82% 91.29% 85.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,449 14,185 20,585
10th Percentile £325 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £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 £512 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.14% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,203 923 2,285
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £15.95
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.71% -23.29% -2.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £27.45 £36.02
% change year-on-year +52.79% -23.80% -2.64%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 +4 2,251 £550 -2.22% 580
North of England +7 786 £500 - 307
South East +3 484 £513 +2.65% 253
Yorkshire +2 445 £500 - 83
Midlands +5 405 £488 -2.50% 114
West Midlands +1 316 £500 -4.58% 79
South West +16 288 £525 -4.55% 126
North West +1 285 £500 - 178
East of England +20 128 £525 +3.45% 69
East Midlands +1 85 £465 +0.54% 35
North East +3 72 £450 -16.28% 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
1 242 (5.49%) Confluence
2 122 (2.77%) Apache Spark
3 107 (2.43%) SharePoint
4 86 (1.95%) Apache
5 74 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
6 67 (1.52%) SAS
7 41 (0.93%) CMS
8 25 (0.57%) IIS
9 24 (0.54%) nginx
10 21 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
11 18 (0.41%) OpenStack
12 13 (0.29%) Camunda
12 13 (0.29%) Jupyter
13 12 (0.27%) WebSphere
14 11 (0.25%) Mendix
14 11 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
15 10 (0.23%) HCL Notes
16 9 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
17 8 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
18 6 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 65 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
3 43 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
5 24 (0.54%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.091%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.091%) CPLEX
6 4 (0.091%) Trello
7 3 (0.068%) Notion
8 2 (0.045%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.045%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.023%) InDesign
9 1 (0.023%) Maya
9 1 (0.023%) Weka
Business Applications
1 54 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
3 10 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
4 9 (0.20%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.20%) Maximo
5 8 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
6 6 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.11%) Endur
7 5 (0.11%) Magento
7 5 (0.11%) NEC Housing
8 4 (0.091%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.091%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.068%) Findur
9 3 (0.068%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.068%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.068%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.068%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 2 (0.045%) Salesforce CRM
10 2 (0.045%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 2,362 (53.54%) Azure
2 1,476 (33.45%) AWS
3 1,284 (29.10%) Azure DevOps
4 714 (16.18%) GitHub
5 558 (12.65%) GCP
6 416 (9.43%) GitHub Actions
7 389 (8.82%) Serverless
8 373 (8.45%) Power Platform
9 237 (5.37%) Amazon S3
10 212 (4.81%) Entra ID
11 200 (4.53%) AWS Lambda
12 192 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
13 191 (4.33%) AWS CloudFormation
14 183 (4.15%) Azure AKS
15 163 (3.69%) OpenShift
16 152 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
17 140 (3.17%) PaaS
18 139 (3.15%) Azure Monitor
19 133 (3.01%) Amazon EC2
20 131 (2.97%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 202 (4.58%) Firewall
2 111 (2.52%) DNS
3 87 (1.97%) Network Security
3 87 (1.97%) VPN
4 43 (0.97%) TCP/IP
5 39 (0.88%) WAN
6 34 (0.77%) SD-WAN
7 29 (0.66%) BGP
8 26 (0.59%) SSL
9 24 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
10 21 (0.48%) DHCP
10 21 (0.48%) OSPF
11 20 (0.45%) HTTP
12 18 (0.41%) IPsec
12 18 (0.41%) SAN
13 17 (0.39%) MPLS
14 16 (0.36%) Internet
14 16 (0.36%) VXLAN
15 15 (0.34%) LAN
16 14 (0.32%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 249 (5.64%) Power BI
2 222 (5.03%) SQL Server
3 216 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
4 160 (3.63%) NoSQL
5 158 (3.58%) Data Lake
6 135 (3.06%) Relational Database
7 122 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
8 114 (2.58%) MongoDB
9 90 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
10 88 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
10 88 (1.99%) Delta Lake
11 75 (1.70%) DynamoDB
12 72 (1.63%) Metadata
13 68 (1.54%) Oracle Database
14 62 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
15 56 (1.27%) Big Data
16 54 (1.22%) Redis
17 48 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
17 48 (1.09%) BigQuery
18 45 (1.02%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 617 (13.98%) Jenkins
2 551 (12.49%) Git
3 516 (11.70%) JIRA
4 447 (10.13%) GitLab
5 91 (2.06%) Postman
5 91 (2.06%) Selenium
6 75 (1.70%) SonarQube
7 73 (1.65%) JUnit
8 59 (1.34%) Bitbucket
8 59 (1.34%) REST Assured
9 58 (1.31%) Maven
10 51 (1.16%) Cucumber
11 46 (1.04%) Artifactory
12 44 (1.00%) JMeter
13 41 (0.93%) Cypress.io
14 40 (0.91%) Gatling
15 34 (0.77%) Gradle
15 34 (0.77%) Mockito
16 29 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
17 26 (0.59%) LoadRunner
General
1 1,117 (25.32%) Social Skills
2 833 (18.88%) Finance
3 535 (12.13%) Public Sector
4 366 (8.30%) Analytical Skills
5 307 (6.96%) Banking
6 133 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
7 72 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
8 68 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 61 (1.38%) Retail
10 55 (1.25%) Legal
11 53 (1.20%) Financial Institution
12 50 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
13 48 (1.09%) Marketing
14 38 (0.86%) Front Office
14 38 (0.86%) Investment Banking
14 38 (0.86%) Military
15 37 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
16 26 (0.59%) Law
17 23 (0.52%) Aerospace
18 20 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 879 (19.92%) DevOps Engineer
2 618 (14.01%) Developer
3 614 (13.92%) Senior
4 526 (11.92%) Architect
5 390 (8.84%) Lead
6 302 (6.84%) Azure Engineer
7 282 (6.39%) Data Engineer
8 265 (6.01%) Analyst
9 187 (4.24%) AWS Engineer
10 167 (3.79%) Solutions Architect
11 165 (3.74%) Cloud Engineer
12 154 (3.49%) Platform Engineer
13 144 (3.26%) Senior DevOps
14 141 (3.20%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 140 (3.17%) Business Analyst
16 138 (3.13%) Software Engineer
17 131 (2.97%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 130 (2.95%) AWS DevOps
19 121 (2.74%) Java Developer
20 119 (2.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 397 (9.00%) REST
2 376 (8.52%) .NET
3 265 (6.01%) Kafka
4 253 (5.73%) React
5 237 (5.37%) Spring
6 228 (5.17%) Spring Boot
7 215 (4.87%) Node.js
8 197 (4.47%) RESTful
9 148 (3.35%) AngularJS
10 133 (3.01%) PySpark
11 128 (2.90%) Playwright
11 128 (2.90%) YAML
12 122 (2.77%) JSON
13 119 (2.70%) OAuth
14 104 (2.36%) SOAP
15 100 (2.27%) Middleware
16 96 (2.18%) HTML
17 94 (2.13%) .NET Framework
18 90 (2.04%) OpenID
19 86 (1.95%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 710 (16.09%) Cloud Native
2 277 (6.28%) Product Ownership
3 174 (3.94%) Distributed Systems
4 116 (2.63%) Onboarding
5 101 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
6 92 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
7 88 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
8 81 (1.84%) Public Cloud
9 72 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
10 54 (1.22%) Data Centre
11 52 (1.18%) Management Information System
12 46 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
13 43 (0.97%) AI Agents
14 42 (0.95%) Mobile App
15 41 (0.93%) Private Cloud
15 41 (0.93%) Replication
16 39 (0.88%) Data Structures
16 39 (0.88%) Virtual Team
17 37 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
18 35 (0.79%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 386 (8.75%) Linux
2 224 (5.08%) Windows
3 70 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 65 (1.47%) Unix
5 42 (0.95%) Windows Server
6 34 (0.77%) VMS
7 23 (0.52%) Ubuntu
8 17 (0.39%) Apple iOS
9 14 (0.32%) Android
10 12 (0.27%) CentOS
11 10 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (0.16%) Windows 10
13 6 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
14 5 (0.11%) Solaris
15 4 (0.091%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.091%) Windows Server 2012
16 3 (0.068%) Mac OS
16 3 (0.068%) Oracle Linux
16 3 (0.068%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,485 (56.32%) CI/CD
2 1,595 (36.15%) Agile
3 1,115 (25.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 683 (15.48%) Containerisation
5 677 (15.34%) Problem-Solving
6 632 (14.32%) Microservices
7 615 (13.94%) Test Automation
8 590 (13.37%) Continuous Improvement
9 542 (12.28%) Migration
10 534 (12.10%) Observability
11 515 (11.67%) Analytics
12 508 (11.51%) Stakeholder Management
13 504 (11.42%) AI
14 486 (11.02%) Scrum
15 446 (10.11%) Software Engineering
16 414 (9.38%) Data Modelling
17 410 (9.29%) Platform Engineering
18 367 (8.32%) Mentoring
19 361 (8.18%) Roadmaps
20 354 (8.02%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1,196 (27.11%) Python
2 889 (20.15%) SQL
3 598 (13.55%) Java
4 410 (9.29%) C#
5 317 (7.18%) JavaScript
6 316 (7.16%) PowerShell
7 310 (7.03%) Bash
8 227 (5.15%) TypeScript
9 146 (3.31%) Bicep
10 92 (2.09%) Go
11 67 (1.52%) Scala
12 53 (1.20%) Shell Script
13 48 (1.09%) PL/SQL
14 45 (1.02%) Apex Code
15 42 (0.95%) T-SQL
16 40 (0.91%) Groovy
17 28 (0.63%) C++
18 27 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 23 (0.52%) Ruby
20 22 (0.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,410 (31.96%) Security Cleared
2 1,157 (26.22%) SC Cleared
3 287 (6.50%) Degree
4 190 (4.31%) Azure Certification
5 148 (3.35%) DV Cleared
6 125 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 114 (2.58%) AWS Certification
8 107 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
9 65 (1.47%) CISSP
10 55 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
11 46 (1.04%) CISM
12 45 (1.02%) ISTQB
13 42 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
14 40 (0.91%) Master's Degree
15 37 (0.84%) PMI Certification
16 36 (0.82%) PMP
17 35 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 23 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
19 21 (0.48%) IIBA
20 20 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 383 (8.68%) QA
2 209 (4.74%) Data Quality
3 163 (3.69%) GDPR
4 117 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 111 (2.52%) NIST
6 108 (2.45%) Accessibility
7 60 (1.36%) NCSC
8 51 (1.16%) WCAG
9 46 (1.04%) PCI DSS
10 37 (0.84%) SLA
11 31 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 28 (0.63%) PMO
13 20 (0.45%) GRC
14 13 (0.29%) HIPAA
14 13 (0.29%) NIST 800
15 12 (0.27%) ISO 20022
16 11 (0.25%) PSD2
16 11 (0.25%) SOC 2
17 9 (0.20%) SEPA
18 7 (0.16%) COBIT
System Software
1 836 (18.95%) Docker
2 158 (3.58%) Active Directory
3 66 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
4 58 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 31 (0.70%) vSphere
6 21 (0.48%) VMware NSX
7 17 (0.39%) Squid
7 17 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.32%) Postfix
9 10 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (0.20%) Hyper-V
11 8 (0.18%) Firmware
12 6 (0.14%) Corosync
12 6 (0.14%) RACF
13 5 (0.11%) HDFS
13 5 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
14 4 (0.091%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
14 4 (0.091%) NFS
14 4 (0.091%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 4 (0.091%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,229 (27.86%) Terraform
2 1,119 (25.36%) Kubernetes
3 451 (10.22%) Ansible
4 300 (6.80%) Grafana
5 253 (5.73%) Prometheus
6 85 (1.93%) Argo
7 69 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
8 63 (1.43%) Puppet
9 45 (1.02%) Istio
10 27 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
10 27 (0.61%) Packer
11 25 (0.57%) Progress Chef
12 22 (0.50%) Kibana
13 21 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 20 (0.45%) vCenter Server
15 16 (0.36%) Consul
15 16 (0.36%) HP ALM
16 14 (0.32%) FortiGate
16 14 (0.32%) Rancher
17 12 (0.27%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 785 (17.79%) Microsoft
2 259 (5.87%) Databricks
3 250 (5.67%) Oracle
4 192 (4.35%) Google
5 178 (4.03%) Splunk
6 168 (3.81%) ServiceNow
7 138 (3.13%) Salesforce
8 131 (2.97%) Red Hat
9 101 (2.29%) SAP
9 101 (2.29%) VMware
10 95 (2.15%) Dynatrace
11 61 (1.38%) OpenAI
12 47 (1.07%) Atlassian
13 45 (1.02%) CyberArk
14 44 (1.00%) IBM
15 37 (0.84%) Foundry
16 36 (0.82%) AppDynamics
16 36 (0.82%) Informatica
17 34 (0.77%) Cisco
18 28 (0.63%) Denodo