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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,759 2,723 3,594
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.64% 10.09% 9.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.45% 11.11% 11.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,299 1,964 2,459
10th Percentile £390 £363 £400
25th Percentile £445 £438 £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 £703 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 18 116
10th Percentile £38.25 £40.25 £56.50
25th Percentile £61.78 £51.69 £61.51
Median hourly rate £68.75 £66.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.38% -5.00% +6.78%
75th Percentile £77.88 £79.63 £75.63
90th Percentile £94.69 £89.88 £86.32
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% +6.78%

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 38,237 24,502 31,943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.52% 90.81% 85.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,096 15,746 20,754
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £733 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,381 1,253 2,276
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.98 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.07%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.01 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.37 £70.16 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -6.25%

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 9 July 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 9 July 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 9 July 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 2,446 £550 - 676
North of England +5 875 £500 - 349
Yorkshire +3 470 £500 - 88
South East -7 460 £525 +5.00% 302
Midlands -1 442 £499 -0.25% 135
West Midlands -1 351 £500 -2.34% 87
North West 0 327 £510 +7.37% 199
South West +14 302 £525 -4.55% 316
East of England +24 146 £525 +5.00% 92
North East +13 97 £425 -18.66% 63
East Midlands -2 86 £488 +8.33% 47
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
1 270 (5.67%) Confluence
2 124 (2.61%) Apache Spark
3 117 (2.46%) SharePoint
4 101 (2.12%) Apache Airflow
5 96 (2.02%) Apache
6 71 (1.49%) SAS
7 49 (1.03%) CMS
8 30 (0.63%) IIS
8 30 (0.63%) Jupyter
9 26 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
9 26 (0.55%) nginx
10 14 (0.29%) Camunda
10 14 (0.29%) OpenStack
10 14 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
10 14 (0.29%) WebSphere
11 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
12 9 (0.19%) Appian
12 9 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
13 7 (0.15%) Tomcat
14 6 (0.13%) WebLogic
Applications
1 69 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
3 41 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 35 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
5 34 (0.71%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.21%) CPLEX
7 9 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.15%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.084%) Notion
10 3 (0.063%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.063%) Trello
11 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.021%) InDesign
11 1 (0.021%) Maya
11 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 65 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.21%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
4 9 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
5 8 (0.17%) Magento
6 7 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.13%) Endur
7 6 (0.13%) Maximo
7 6 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.11%) OpenText MBPM
8 5 (0.11%) Oracle BPM
8 5 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.084%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.063%) SAP BPC
10 3 (0.063%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.063%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.063%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 3 (0.063%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2,526 (53.08%) Azure
2 1,656 (34.80%) AWS
3 1,402 (29.46%) Azure DevOps
4 762 (16.01%) GitHub
5 579 (12.17%) GCP
6 458 (9.62%) GitHub Actions
7 405 (8.51%) Power Platform
7 405 (8.51%) Serverless
8 267 (5.61%) Amazon S3
9 230 (4.83%) AWS Lambda
10 228 (4.79%) Entra ID
11 188 (3.95%) Azure AKS
12 187 (3.93%) AWS CloudFormation
13 170 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
14 164 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
15 157 (3.30%) Amazon EC2
16 156 (3.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 153 (3.21%) Azure Monitor
18 150 (3.15%) OpenShift
19 146 (3.07%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 218 (4.58%) Firewall
2 125 (2.63%) DNS
3 103 (2.16%) Network Security
4 102 (2.14%) VPN
5 50 (1.05%) WAN
6 41 (0.86%) TCP/IP
7 37 (0.78%) SD-WAN
8 35 (0.74%) SSL
9 32 (0.67%) BGP
10 28 (0.59%) Internet
11 27 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
12 24 (0.50%) OSPF
13 21 (0.44%) DHCP
13 21 (0.44%) HTTP
14 18 (0.38%) LAN
15 17 (0.36%) MPLS
15 17 (0.36%) SAN
15 17 (0.36%) VXLAN
16 16 (0.34%) BIG-IP
16 16 (0.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 271 (5.69%) Power BI
2 246 (5.17%) SQL Server
3 227 (4.77%) PostgreSQL
4 165 (3.47%) NoSQL
5 156 (3.28%) Relational Database
6 145 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
7 137 (2.88%) Data Lake
7 137 (2.88%) MongoDB
8 100 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
9 86 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
10 82 (1.72%) Delta Lake
11 78 (1.64%) DynamoDB
11 78 (1.64%) Metadata
12 74 (1.55%) Oracle Database
13 59 (1.24%) Redis
14 57 (1.20%) Big Data
15 56 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
15 56 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
16 54 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
17 43 (0.90%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 670 (14.08%) Jenkins
2 609 (12.80%) Git
3 567 (11.91%) JIRA
4 491 (10.32%) GitLab
5 104 (2.19%) Selenium
6 95 (2.00%) Postman
7 85 (1.79%) JUnit
8 82 (1.72%) SonarQube
9 67 (1.41%) Bitbucket
9 67 (1.41%) REST Assured
10 65 (1.37%) Maven
11 53 (1.11%) Cucumber
12 51 (1.07%) JMeter
13 45 (0.95%) Gatling
14 44 (0.92%) Cypress.io
15 41 (0.86%) Gradle
16 36 (0.76%) Artifactory
16 36 (0.76%) Mockito
17 34 (0.71%) LoadRunner
18 33 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,208 (25.38%) Social Skills
2 920 (19.33%) Finance
3 626 (13.15%) Public Sector
4 419 (8.80%) Analytical Skills
5 333 (7.00%) Banking
6 127 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
7 100 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 78 (1.64%) Retail
9 69 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
10 56 (1.18%) Marketing
11 54 (1.13%) Legal
12 53 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
13 43 (0.90%) Investment Banking
14 42 (0.88%) Military
15 38 (0.80%) Financial Institution
16 37 (0.78%) Law
17 35 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
18 34 (0.71%) Front Office
19 29 (0.61%) Aerospace
20 27 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 915 (19.23%) DevOps Engineer
2 748 (15.72%) Developer
3 669 (14.06%) Senior
4 576 (12.10%) Architect
5 439 (9.22%) Lead
6 289 (6.07%) Azure Engineer
6 289 (6.07%) Data Engineer
7 263 (5.53%) Analyst
8 211 (4.43%) AWS Engineer
9 186 (3.91%) Platform Engineer
10 180 (3.78%) Cloud Engineer
11 177 (3.72%) Solutions Architect
12 164 (3.45%) Senior DevOps
13 155 (3.26%) Java Developer
14 154 (3.24%) AWS DevOps
15 150 (3.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 144 (3.03%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 141 (2.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 141 (2.96%) Software Engineer
18 138 (2.90%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 455 (9.56%) REST
2 409 (8.59%) .NET
3 273 (5.74%) Kafka
4 269 (5.65%) Spring
5 250 (5.25%) React
6 246 (5.17%) Spring Boot
7 238 (5.00%) RESTful
8 195 (4.10%) Node.js
9 144 (3.03%) AngularJS
10 138 (2.90%) OAuth
11 136 (2.86%) Playwright
12 135 (2.84%) PySpark
13 131 (2.75%) JSON
14 119 (2.50%) .NET Framework
14 119 (2.50%) SOAP
15 109 (2.29%) HTML
16 100 (2.10%) YAML
17 95 (2.00%) CSS
17 95 (2.00%) OpenID
18 94 (1.98%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 845 (17.76%) Cloud Native
2 312 (6.56%) Product Ownership
3 210 (4.41%) Distributed Systems
4 140 (2.94%) Onboarding
5 127 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
6 122 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
7 104 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
8 77 (1.62%) Public Cloud
9 73 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
10 64 (1.34%) Management Information System
11 63 (1.32%) Data Centre
11 63 (1.32%) Security Posture
12 62 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
13 53 (1.11%) AI Agents
13 53 (1.11%) Mobile App
14 52 (1.09%) Data Structures
15 48 (1.01%) Replication
16 46 (0.97%) Virtual Team
17 43 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
18 35 (0.74%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 412 (8.66%) Linux
2 258 (5.42%) Windows
3 89 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 69 (1.45%) Unix
5 56 (1.18%) Windows Server
6 26 (0.55%) Ubuntu
6 26 (0.55%) VMS
7 23 (0.48%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.32%) Android
9 9 (0.19%) Solaris
9 9 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.17%) CentOS
11 6 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
11 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
12 5 (0.11%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.11%) zOS
13 4 (0.084%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (0.084%) Data ONTAP
13 4 (0.084%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,733 (57.43%) CI/CD
2 1,834 (38.54%) Agile
3 1,252 (26.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 775 (16.28%) Containerisation
5 746 (15.68%) Problem-Solving
6 692 (14.54%) Test Automation
7 685 (14.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 682 (14.33%) Microservices
9 614 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
10 607 (12.75%) AI
11 578 (12.15%) Observability
12 570 (11.98%) Scrum
13 569 (11.96%) Migration
14 527 (11.07%) Platform Engineering
14 527 (11.07%) Software Engineering
15 524 (11.01%) Analytics
16 416 (8.74%) Data Modelling
17 406 (8.53%) Roadmaps
18 401 (8.43%) Technical Leadership
19 399 (8.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,329 (27.93%) Python
2 905 (19.02%) SQL
3 674 (14.16%) Java
4 439 (9.22%) C#
5 360 (7.56%) Bash
6 350 (7.35%) PowerShell
7 346 (7.27%) JavaScript
8 251 (5.27%) TypeScript
9 163 (3.43%) Bicep
10 94 (1.98%) Go
11 65 (1.37%) Scala
12 56 (1.18%) PL/SQL
12 56 (1.18%) Shell Script
13 53 (1.11%) T-SQL
14 51 (1.07%) Apex Code
15 46 (0.97%) Groovy
16 30 (0.63%) C++
17 26 (0.55%) Kotlin
18 22 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 19 (0.40%) C
Qualifications
1 1,524 (32.02%) Security Cleared
2 1,272 (26.73%) SC Cleared
3 301 (6.32%) Degree
4 185 (3.89%) Azure Certification
5 168 (3.53%) DV Cleared
6 149 (3.13%) AWS Certification
7 120 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 116 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 73 (1.53%) CISSP
9 73 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
10 48 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
11 46 (0.97%) ISTQB
12 43 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 39 (0.82%) PMP
14 38 (0.80%) Master's Degree
15 37 (0.78%) PMI Certification
16 35 (0.74%) CISM
17 23 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
18 21 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 21 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 418 (8.78%) QA
2 220 (4.62%) Data Quality
3 149 (3.13%) GDPR
4 146 (3.07%) Accessibility
5 102 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 96 (2.02%) NIST
7 67 (1.41%) WCAG
8 61 (1.28%) NCSC
9 44 (0.92%) PCI DSS
10 33 (0.69%) PMO
10 33 (0.69%) SLA
11 25 (0.53%) GRC
11 25 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 16 (0.34%) HIPAA
13 13 (0.27%) SOC 2
14 11 (0.23%) ISO 20022
14 11 (0.23%) PSD2
15 10 (0.21%) SEPA
16 8 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
17 7 (0.15%) HL7
System Software
1 919 (19.31%) Docker
2 165 (3.47%) Active Directory
3 74 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
4 64 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 27 (0.57%) vSphere
6 22 (0.46%) VMware NSX
7 19 (0.40%) Squid
8 18 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
9 16 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
10 14 (0.29%) Hyper-V
10 14 (0.29%) Postfix
11 7 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
12 6 (0.13%) Corosync
12 6 (0.13%) IAG
12 6 (0.13%) KVM
12 6 (0.13%) RACF
13 5 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.11%) NFS
13 5 (0.11%) SRDF
14 4 (0.084%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,349 (28.35%) Terraform
2 1,207 (25.36%) Kubernetes
3 461 (9.69%) Ansible
4 315 (6.62%) Grafana
5 273 (5.74%) Prometheus
6 80 (1.68%) Argo
7 68 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
8 59 (1.24%) Puppet
9 35 (0.74%) Progress Chef
10 33 (0.69%) Istio
11 31 (0.65%) Packer
12 26 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
12 26 (0.55%) vCenter Server
13 22 (0.46%) Kibana
14 17 (0.36%) Consul
15 16 (0.34%) HP ALM
15 16 (0.34%) Kustomize
16 15 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 13 (0.27%) Kubeflow
18 12 (0.25%) Rancher
Vendors
1 856 (17.99%) Microsoft
2 254 (5.34%) Oracle
3 239 (5.02%) Databricks
4 214 (4.50%) Google
5 186 (3.91%) ServiceNow
6 172 (3.61%) Splunk
7 146 (3.07%) Salesforce
8 114 (2.40%) Dynatrace
9 111 (2.33%) SAP
10 102 (2.14%) Red Hat
11 99 (2.08%) VMware
12 57 (1.20%) OpenAI
13 54 (1.13%) IBM
14 48 (1.01%) Atlassian
15 47 (0.99%) Informatica
16 45 (0.95%) CyberArk
17 44 (0.92%) Foundry
18 35 (0.74%) Cisco
19 33 (0.69%) AppDynamics
19 33 (0.69%) Okta