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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,292 2,450 3,358
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.63% 10.06% 9.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.51% 11.04% 10.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,015 1,812 2,318
10th Percentile £385 £400 £400
25th Percentile £443 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £650
90th Percentile £713 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -3.53% -2.27% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 14 103
10th Percentile £39.53 £39.88 £56.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £52.50 £61.25
Median hourly rate £63.73 £67.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +3.85% -0.76%
75th Percentile £77.13 £81.69 £80.95
90th Percentile £93.50 £89.64 £87.37
UK median hourly rate £63.73 £71.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year -11.01% +10.17% -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 34,314 22,202 32,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.00% 91.20% 86.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,947 14,537 21,107
10th Percentile £318 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,131 918 2,248
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.69 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.38 £18.50 £16.02
Median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.53% -16.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.50 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.65
% change year-on-year +43.29% -18.65% -4.42%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 2,196 £539 -6.26% 517
North of England +6 739 £500 -3.80% 272
South East +2 461 £511 -7.05% 282
Yorkshire +3 410 £500 -3.80% 63
Midlands +2 404 £488 -2.50% 109
West Midlands +4 307 £500 -4.31% 60
South West +15 296 £500 -12.66% 114
North West +2 274 £500 - 153
East of England +27 129 £525 +1.94% 94
East Midlands +3 94 £465 -0.80% 49
North East +7 64 £475 -13.64% 56
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
1 237 (5.52%) Confluence
2 122 (2.84%) Apache Spark
3 104 (2.42%) SharePoint
4 84 (1.96%) Apache
5 70 (1.63%) SAS
6 63 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
7 34 (0.79%) CMS
8 26 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
9 25 (0.58%) nginx
10 24 (0.56%) IIS
11 23 (0.54%) OpenStack
12 12 (0.28%) Mendix
13 11 (0.26%) HCL Notes
13 11 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
14 10 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 9 (0.21%) WebSphere
16 8 (0.19%) Camunda
17 7 (0.16%) ArcGIS
18 6 (0.14%) Mattermost
18 6 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 65 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
3 42 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
5 22 (0.51%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.093%) Trello
7 4 (0.093%) Weka
8 3 (0.070%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.047%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.047%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.023%) InDesign
10 1 (0.023%) Maya
Business Applications
1 61 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
4 9 (0.21%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.21%) Maximo
4 9 (0.21%) NEC Housing
5 7 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
5 7 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.093%) Endur
7 4 (0.093%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.093%) SAP BPC
7 4 (0.093%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.070%) Findur
8 3 (0.070%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.070%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.047%) Magento
9 2 (0.047%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.047%) SAP MM
9 2 (0.047%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,320 (54.05%) Azure
2 1,441 (33.57%) AWS
3 1,265 (29.47%) Azure DevOps
4 721 (16.80%) GitHub
5 557 (12.98%) GCP
6 422 (9.83%) Serverless
7 415 (9.67%) GitHub Actions
8 359 (8.36%) Power Platform
9 232 (5.41%) Amazon S3
10 214 (4.99%) Entra ID
11 212 (4.94%) AWS CloudFormation
12 207 (4.82%) AWS Lambda
13 200 (4.66%) Azure Data Factory
14 196 (4.57%) Azure AKS
15 155 (3.61%) Azure Monitor
16 154 (3.59%) Amazon EKS
17 153 (3.56%) OpenShift
18 142 (3.31%) PaaS
19 138 (3.22%) Dynamics 365
20 131 (3.05%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 195 (4.54%) Firewall
2 107 (2.49%) DNS
3 83 (1.93%) VPN
4 82 (1.91%) Network Security
5 38 (0.89%) TCP/IP
6 31 (0.72%) WAN
7 28 (0.65%) SD-WAN
8 24 (0.56%) HTTP
9 22 (0.51%) BGP
10 21 (0.49%) DHCP
10 21 (0.49%) SSL
11 18 (0.42%) IPsec
11 18 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
12 16 (0.37%) OSPF
13 15 (0.35%) MPLS
13 15 (0.35%) SAN
14 14 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
15 13 (0.30%) LAN
16 12 (0.28%) Internet
17 11 (0.26%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 243 (5.66%) Power BI
2 219 (5.10%) PostgreSQL
3 215 (5.01%) SQL Server
4 162 (3.77%) NoSQL
5 150 (3.49%) Data Lake
6 122 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
6 122 (2.84%) Relational Database
7 95 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
8 91 (2.12%) MongoDB
9 88 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
10 82 (1.91%) Delta Lake
11 74 (1.72%) DynamoDB
12 69 (1.61%) Metadata
13 68 (1.58%) Oracle Database
14 67 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
15 60 (1.40%) Big Data
16 50 (1.16%) Redis
17 49 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
18 48 (1.12%) Tableau
19 45 (1.05%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 615 (14.33%) Jenkins
2 538 (12.53%) Git
3 523 (12.19%) JIRA
4 416 (9.69%) GitLab
5 85 (1.98%) Selenium
6 80 (1.86%) Postman
7 78 (1.82%) JUnit
8 69 (1.61%) SonarQube
9 68 (1.58%) Bitbucket
10 55 (1.28%) Maven
11 48 (1.12%) Artifactory
12 46 (1.07%) Cucumber
13 45 (1.05%) REST Assured
14 41 (0.96%) Cypress.io
15 39 (0.91%) JMeter
16 35 (0.82%) Mockito
17 34 (0.79%) Gatling
18 28 (0.65%) Gradle
19 27 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
20 25 (0.58%) TestRail
General
1 1,138 (26.51%) Social Skills
2 823 (19.18%) Finance
3 514 (11.98%) Public Sector
4 369 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
5 299 (6.97%) Banking
6 144 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
7 64 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 64 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
8 54 (1.26%) Retail
9 50 (1.16%) Financial Institution
10 49 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
11 48 (1.12%) Marketing
12 46 (1.07%) Legal
13 45 (1.05%) Front Office
14 42 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
15 40 (0.93%) Investment Banking
16 31 (0.72%) Telecoms
17 30 (0.70%) Military
18 23 (0.54%) Law
19 17 (0.40%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 824 (19.20%) DevOps Engineer
2 635 (14.79%) Developer
3 600 (13.98%) Senior
4 493 (11.49%) Architect
5 354 (8.25%) Lead
6 294 (6.85%) Azure Engineer
7 279 (6.50%) Data Engineer
8 256 (5.96%) Analyst
9 185 (4.31%) AWS Engineer
10 156 (3.63%) Cloud Engineer
11 154 (3.59%) Solutions Architect
12 153 (3.56%) Platform Engineer
13 137 (3.19%) AWS DevOps
14 136 (3.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 136 (3.17%) Software Engineer
15 132 (3.08%) Business Analyst
16 124 (2.89%) Senior DevOps
17 122 (2.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 116 (2.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 115 (2.68%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 387 (9.02%) REST
2 360 (8.39%) .NET
3 258 (6.01%) Kafka
4 245 (5.71%) Node.js
5 241 (5.62%) React
6 238 (5.55%) Spring
7 224 (5.22%) Spring Boot
8 198 (4.61%) RESTful
9 157 (3.66%) AngularJS
10 131 (3.05%) YAML
11 126 (2.94%) Playwright
12 123 (2.87%) JSON
13 121 (2.82%) PySpark
14 109 (2.54%) OAuth
15 105 (2.45%) HTML
16 104 (2.42%) Middleware
17 99 (2.31%) SOAP
18 92 (2.14%) CSS
19 90 (2.10%) .NET Framework
20 88 (2.05%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 682 (15.89%) Cloud Native
2 263 (6.13%) Product Ownership
3 158 (3.68%) Distributed Systems
4 116 (2.70%) Onboarding
5 91 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
6 88 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
7 83 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
7 83 (1.93%) Public Cloud
8 68 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
9 52 (1.21%) Management Information System
10 49 (1.14%) Virtual Team
11 43 (1.00%) Data Centre
11 43 (1.00%) Private Cloud
12 40 (0.93%) Replication
13 39 (0.91%) Security Posture
13 39 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
14 36 (0.84%) Data Structures
14 36 (0.84%) Mobile App
15 35 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
15 35 (0.82%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 382 (8.90%) Linux
2 225 (5.24%) Windows
3 67 (1.56%) Unix
4 65 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 39 (0.91%) Windows Server
6 35 (0.82%) VMS
7 21 (0.49%) Ubuntu
8 13 (0.30%) Android
9 11 (0.26%) Apple iOS
9 11 (0.26%) CentOS
10 10 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (0.16%) Windows 10
12 6 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (0.12%) Solaris
14 4 (0.093%) Amazon Linux
14 4 (0.093%) Windows Server 2008
14 4 (0.093%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.070%) Debian
15 3 (0.070%) Mac OS
15 3 (0.070%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,380 (55.45%) CI/CD
2 1,618 (37.70%) Agile
3 1,060 (24.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 712 (16.59%) Problem-Solving
5 711 (16.57%) Containerisation
6 623 (14.52%) Microservices
7 607 (14.14%) Test Automation
8 554 (12.91%) Continuous Improvement
9 521 (12.14%) Migration
10 510 (11.88%) Analytics
11 499 (11.63%) Observability
12 473 (11.02%) Stakeholder Management
13 471 (10.97%) Scrum
14 447 (10.41%) AI
15 421 (9.81%) Software Engineering
16 401 (9.34%) Data Modelling
17 357 (8.32%) Platform Engineering
18 351 (8.18%) Mentoring
19 336 (7.83%) Data Pipeline
20 332 (7.74%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,190 (27.73%) Python
2 906 (21.11%) SQL
3 570 (13.28%) Java
4 424 (9.88%) C#
5 337 (7.85%) JavaScript
6 305 (7.11%) PowerShell
7 293 (6.83%) Bash
8 248 (5.78%) TypeScript
9 145 (3.38%) Bicep
10 98 (2.28%) Go
11 71 (1.65%) PL/SQL
12 67 (1.56%) Scala
13 51 (1.19%) Shell Script
14 41 (0.96%) T-SQL
15 40 (0.93%) Groovy
16 35 (0.82%) Apex Code
17 30 (0.70%) C++
18 27 (0.63%) Ruby
19 23 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 21 (0.49%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,399 (32.60%) Security Cleared
2 1,155 (26.91%) SC Cleared
3 301 (7.01%) Degree
4 196 (4.57%) Azure Certification
5 143 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 141 (3.29%) DV Cleared
7 118 (2.75%) AWS Certification
8 110 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 65 (1.51%) CISSP
10 49 (1.14%) Master's Degree
10 49 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
11 47 (1.10%) CISM
11 47 (1.10%) ISTQB
12 40 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 40 (0.93%) PMI Certification
13 38 (0.89%) PMP
14 36 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
15 21 (0.49%) IIBA
15 21 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
15 21 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 389 (9.06%) QA
2 197 (4.59%) Data Quality
3 165 (3.84%) GDPR
4 122 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 114 (2.66%) NIST
6 95 (2.21%) Accessibility
7 60 (1.40%) NCSC
8 42 (0.98%) PCI DSS
9 40 (0.93%) WCAG
10 31 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 31 (0.72%) SLA
11 27 (0.63%) PMO
12 17 (0.40%) GRC
13 16 (0.37%) HIPAA
14 15 (0.35%) ISO 20022
15 14 (0.33%) NIST 800
16 12 (0.28%) PSD2
17 11 (0.26%) SOC 2
18 10 (0.23%) SEPA
19 8 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 856 (19.94%) Docker
2 164 (3.82%) Active Directory
3 69 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
4 62 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 32 (0.75%) vSphere
6 24 (0.56%) VMware NSX
7 14 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 13 (0.30%) Hyper-V
9 12 (0.28%) Postfix
9 12 (0.28%) Squid
10 10 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
11 8 (0.19%) Firmware
12 7 (0.16%) Lustre
12 7 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 6 (0.14%) Corosync
13 6 (0.14%) HDFS
14 5 (0.12%) GPFS
14 5 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
14 5 (0.12%) RACF
15 4 (0.093%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,199 (27.94%) Terraform
2 1,131 (26.35%) Kubernetes
3 434 (10.11%) Ansible
4 280 (6.52%) Grafana
5 235 (5.48%) Prometheus
6 88 (2.05%) Argo
7 68 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
8 61 (1.42%) Puppet
9 47 (1.10%) Istio
10 25 (0.58%) Packer
11 23 (0.54%) Progress Chef
12 22 (0.51%) Kibana
12 22 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
12 22 (0.51%) vCenter Server
13 20 (0.47%) Rancher
14 19 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 16 (0.37%) HP ALM
16 15 (0.35%) FortiGate
17 14 (0.33%) Consul
18 12 (0.28%) SCCM
Vendors
1 774 (18.03%) Microsoft
2 277 (6.45%) Oracle
3 245 (5.71%) Databricks
4 193 (4.50%) Google
5 177 (4.12%) Splunk
6 159 (3.70%) ServiceNow
7 130 (3.03%) Red Hat
8 123 (2.87%) Salesforce
9 112 (2.61%) VMware
10 103 (2.40%) SAP
11 86 (2.00%) Dynatrace
12 66 (1.54%) OpenAI
13 57 (1.33%) CyberArk
14 51 (1.19%) Atlassian
15 42 (0.98%) IBM
16 36 (0.84%) AppDynamics
17 34 (0.79%) Foundry
17 34 (0.79%) Informatica
18 33 (0.77%) Denodo
19 31 (0.72%) Cisco