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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
7 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 14 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 3,551 3,106 3,550
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.47% 10.24% 9.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.84% 11.65% 10.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,501 2,122 2,641
10th Percentile £363 £400 £413
25th Percentile £425 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £623 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £523 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -5.04% -2.18% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 29 87
10th Percentile - £40.70 £46.18
25th Percentile £45.46 £46.18 £48.09
Median hourly rate £59.25 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.36% +7.69% -0.92%
75th Percentile £77.50 £77.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £80.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £59.25 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -15.36% +7.69% -0.92%

All Process and 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 27,655 26,658 34,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.31% 87.92% 88.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,614 16,424 23,309
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £406 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £648 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,796 941 1,445
10th Percentile £14.92 £15.25 £14.85
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.24 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%

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 7 December 2025.

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 7 December 2025.

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 7 December 2025. 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 0 1,782 £550 -5.98% 606
North of England +2 621 £487 -6.35% 389
Midlands +16 372 £515 -1.81% 187
South East 0 363 £513 -14.58% 516
Yorkshire 0 325 £500 - 148
West Midlands +15 303 £525 - 118
North West +6 261 £453 -13.71% 187
South West +2 224 £538 -10.42% 201
East of England +26 110 £523 -9.13% 142
East Midlands +21 69 £420 -11.58% 63
North East -8 37 £518 -10.00% 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 (6.67%) Confluence
2 81 (2.28%) Apache
3 65 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
3 65 (1.83%) SharePoint
4 62 (1.75%) SAS
5 58 (1.63%) Apache Spark
6 34 (0.96%) CMS
7 32 (0.90%) nginx
8 28 (0.79%) OpenStack
9 27 (0.76%) IIS
10 24 (0.68%) JBoss
11 21 (0.59%) CICS
12 17 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
13 15 (0.42%) WebLogic
14 14 (0.39%) WebSphere
15 10 (0.28%) Mule
16 9 (0.25%) iPlanet
16 9 (0.25%) WebSphere Application Server
17 8 (0.23%) Anypoint
18 6 (0.17%) GeoServer
Applications
1 67 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 29 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
4 26 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
5 17 (0.48%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.37%) Chatbot
7 11 (0.31%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 8 (0.23%) Weka
9 7 (0.20%) Trello
10 1 (0.028%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.028%) Moqups
10 1 (0.028%) Revit
Business Applications
1 51 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 17 (0.48%) Aladdin
3 17 (0.48%) Endur
4 15 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
5 14 (0.39%) VisionPLUS
6 8 (0.23%) Maximo
7 7 (0.20%) Oracle BPM
8 6 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
8 6 (0.17%) NEC Housing
9 5 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 4 (0.11%) Fidessa
10 4 (0.11%) SAP CO
10 4 (0.11%) SAP ERP
10 4 (0.11%) SAP FI
10 4 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
10 4 (0.11%) thinkFolio
10 4 (0.11%) Workday HCM
11 3 (0.084%) Oracle Payables
11 3 (0.084%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1,722 (48.49%) Azure
2 1,281 (36.07%) AWS
3 941 (26.50%) Azure DevOps
4 621 (17.49%) GitHub
5 522 (14.70%) GCP
6 392 (11.04%) Serverless
7 349 (9.83%) GitHub Actions
8 247 (6.96%) Power Platform
9 211 (5.94%) Amazon S3
10 201 (5.66%) AWS Lambda
11 193 (5.44%) AWS CloudFormation
12 161 (4.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 155 (4.36%) Azure AKS
14 147 (4.14%) Amazon EC2
15 145 (4.08%) Azure Data Factory
16 142 (4.00%) SaaS
17 138 (3.89%) Entra ID
18 134 (3.77%) OpenShift
19 128 (3.60%) Dynamics 365
20 124 (3.49%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 176 (4.96%) Firewall
2 117 (3.29%) DNS
3 75 (2.11%) VPN
4 65 (1.83%) Network Security
5 61 (1.72%) SSL
6 56 (1.58%) TCP/IP
7 44 (1.24%) HTTP
8 29 (0.82%) HTTPS
8 29 (0.82%) SSH
9 26 (0.73%) SMTP
9 26 (0.73%) WAN
10 22 (0.62%) FTP
11 19 (0.54%) BGP
12 17 (0.48%) MPLS
13 15 (0.42%) OpenLDAP
14 14 (0.39%) LAN
14 14 (0.39%) SD-WAN
15 13 (0.37%) DHCP
15 13 (0.37%) Kerberos
16 11 (0.31%) IMAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 224 (6.31%) PostgreSQL
2 160 (4.51%) Power BI
3 145 (4.08%) NoSQL
4 128 (3.60%) SQL Server
5 119 (3.35%) Amazon RDS
6 100 (2.82%) MongoDB
7 81 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
8 79 (2.22%) Relational Database
9 78 (2.20%) Data Lake
10 72 (2.03%) Oracle Database
11 59 (1.66%) Azure SQL Database
12 51 (1.44%) Redis
13 50 (1.41%) DynamoDB
13 50 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
14 47 (1.32%) MySQL
15 41 (1.15%) Delta Lake
15 41 (1.15%) Metadata
16 37 (1.04%) Big Data
17 35 (0.99%) Pentaho
17 35 (0.99%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 669 (18.84%) Jenkins
2 561 (15.80%) Git
3 540 (15.21%) JIRA
4 456 (12.84%) GitLab
5 120 (3.38%) Selenium
6 90 (2.53%) SonarQube
7 81 (2.28%) JUnit
8 77 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
9 70 (1.97%) Bitbucket
10 65 (1.83%) Postman
11 51 (1.44%) Cucumber
12 49 (1.38%) Liquibase
13 47 (1.32%) Cypress.io
14 44 (1.24%) Maven
15 40 (1.13%) Gradle
16 39 (1.10%) Artifactory
17 36 (1.01%) Oracle APEX
18 33 (0.93%) CircleCI
19 29 (0.82%) TeamCity
20 28 (0.79%) JMeter
General
1 1,143 (32.19%) Social Skills
2 654 (18.42%) Finance
3 430 (12.11%) Public Sector
4 325 (9.15%) Banking
5 276 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
6 101 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
7 66 (1.86%) Financial Institution
8 61 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 59 (1.66%) Investment Banking
9 59 (1.66%) Marketing
10 52 (1.46%) Telecoms
11 51 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
12 48 (1.35%) Retail
13 45 (1.27%) Front Office
14 38 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
15 31 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
16 30 (0.84%) Back Office
17 27 (0.76%) Military
18 25 (0.70%) Manufacturing
19 23 (0.65%) Law
Job Titles
1 668 (18.81%) Developer
2 624 (17.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 489 (13.77%) Senior
4 297 (8.36%) Architect
5 264 (7.43%) Lead
6 217 (6.11%) AWS Engineer
7 180 (5.07%) Analyst
8 171 (4.82%) Data Engineer
9 170 (4.79%) Azure Engineer
10 165 (4.65%) AWS DevOps
11 139 (3.91%) Software Engineer
12 138 (3.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 136 (3.83%) Cloud Engineer
14 135 (3.80%) Senior Developer
15 133 (3.75%) Platform Engineer
16 98 (2.76%) Business Analyst
17 95 (2.68%) Consultant
17 95 (2.68%) Senior DevOps
18 94 (2.65%) Java Developer
18 94 (2.65%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 387 (10.90%) REST
2 299 (8.42%) .NET
3 239 (6.73%) RESTful
4 214 (6.03%) React
5 212 (5.97%) Node.js
6 199 (5.60%) Kafka
7 182 (5.13%) JSON
8 157 (4.42%) Spring
9 144 (4.06%) SOAP
10 141 (3.97%) Spring Boot
11 138 (3.89%) HTML
12 132 (3.72%) Elastic Stack
13 127 (3.58%) AngularJS
14 120 (3.38%) XML
15 111 (3.13%) OAuth
16 107 (3.01%) YAML
17 92 (2.59%) CSS
18 77 (2.17%) Playwright
19 72 (2.03%) GraphQL
20 71 (2.00%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 485 (13.66%) Cloud Native
2 193 (5.44%) Product Ownership
3 146 (4.11%) Distributed Systems
4 110 (3.10%) Onboarding
5 82 (2.31%) Public Cloud
6 81 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
7 70 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
8 59 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
8 59 (1.66%) Mobile App
9 58 (1.63%) Replication
10 50 (1.41%) Security Posture
11 47 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
12 44 (1.24%) Virtual Team
13 41 (1.15%) Data Centre
14 38 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
15 37 (1.04%) Algorithms
15 37 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
16 36 (1.01%) Management Information System
17 35 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 33 (0.93%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 427 (12.02%) Linux
2 207 (5.83%) Windows
3 89 (2.51%) Unix
4 56 (1.58%) Windows Server
5 52 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 46 (1.30%) Android
7 45 (1.27%) VMS
8 40 (1.13%) Apple iOS
9 26 (0.73%) Ubuntu
10 21 (0.59%) Amazon Linux
11 17 (0.48%) CentOS
12 16 (0.45%) Windows 10
13 12 (0.34%) Solaris
14 11 (0.31%) zOS
15 6 (0.17%) Mac OS
16 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
16 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
17 3 (0.084%) Debian
18 1 (0.028%) Mac OS X
18 1 (0.028%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,997 (56.24%) CI/CD
2 1,539 (43.34%) Agile
3 873 (24.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 707 (19.91%) Problem-Solving
5 702 (19.77%) Containerisation
6 547 (15.40%) Test Automation
7 533 (15.01%) Microservices
8 449 (12.64%) Scrum
9 385 (10.84%) Migration
10 378 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 368 (10.36%) Analytics
12 353 (9.94%) Software Engineering
13 334 (9.41%) AI
14 304 (8.56%) Observability
15 291 (8.19%) Stakeholder Management
16 267 (7.52%) Mentoring
17 241 (6.79%) Data Pipeline
18 238 (6.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 237 (6.67%) SDLC
20 235 (6.62%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 1,144 (32.22%) Python
2 681 (19.18%) SQL
3 501 (14.11%) Java
4 371 (10.45%) JavaScript
5 344 (9.69%) C#
6 321 (9.04%) Bash
7 315 (8.87%) PowerShell
8 242 (6.81%) TypeScript
9 161 (4.53%) Go
10 101 (2.84%) Bicep
11 74 (2.08%) PL/SQL
12 60 (1.69%) Groovy
13 59 (1.66%) Shell Script
14 52 (1.46%) C++
15 42 (1.18%) Scala
16 40 (1.13%) Perl
17 38 (1.07%) Ruby
18 32 (0.90%) T-SQL
19 27 (0.76%) Kotlin
20 25 (0.70%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,006 (28.33%) Security Cleared
2 834 (23.49%) SC Cleared
3 317 (8.93%) Degree
4 174 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 142 (4.00%) Azure Certification
6 123 (3.46%) AWS Certification
7 118 (3.32%) DV Cleared
8 74 (2.08%) Master's Degree
9 60 (1.69%) CISSP
10 55 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
11 51 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
12 41 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 39 (1.10%) CISM
14 34 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
14 34 (0.96%) ISTQB
15 28 (0.79%) PMI Certification
16 23 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 23 (0.65%) PMP
17 15 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
17 15 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 328 (9.24%) QA
2 140 (3.94%) GDPR
3 109 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 104 (2.93%) Data Quality
5 90 (2.53%) NIST
6 80 (2.25%) Accessibility
7 42 (1.18%) NCSC
8 27 (0.76%) PCI DSS
9 26 (0.73%) HIPAA
10 20 (0.56%) WCAG
11 18 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 15 (0.42%) MiFID
13 14 (0.39%) PSD2
13 14 (0.39%) SLA
14 13 (0.37%) ISO 20022
14 13 (0.37%) SEPA
15 12 (0.34%) PMO
16 11 (0.31%) EU AI Act
16 11 (0.31%) SOC 2
17 9 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 920 (25.91%) Docker
2 162 (4.56%) Active Directory
3 63 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 54 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (0.59%) vSphere
6 20 (0.56%) DFS Replication
7 14 (0.39%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.34%) Squid
9 11 (0.31%) Dovecot
9 11 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
9 11 (0.31%) Postfix
9 11 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
10 9 (0.25%) Lustre
10 9 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 8 (0.23%) GPFS
11 8 (0.23%) Hyper-V
11 8 (0.23%) NFS
11 8 (0.23%) Tivoli Directory Server
11 8 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
12 7 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1,068 (30.08%) Terraform
2 1,035 (29.15%) Kubernetes
3 471 (13.26%) Ansible
4 258 (7.27%) Grafana
5 249 (7.01%) Prometheus
6 73 (2.06%) Puppet
7 67 (1.89%) Argo
8 62 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
9 53 (1.49%) Progress Chef
10 40 (1.13%) Kibana
11 37 (1.04%) Packer
12 23 (0.65%) Istio
13 21 (0.59%) Podman
14 18 (0.51%) ITRS Geneos
15 17 (0.48%) Nessus
15 17 (0.48%) Proxmox
16 16 (0.45%) CA Endevor
16 16 (0.45%) logstash
17 15 (0.42%) Rancher
18 14 (0.39%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 598 (16.84%) Microsoft
2 271 (7.63%) Oracle
3 203 (5.72%) Google
4 187 (5.27%) Splunk
5 180 (5.07%) Databricks
6 153 (4.31%) ServiceNow
7 98 (2.76%) Salesforce
8 97 (2.73%) SAP
9 95 (2.68%) VMware
10 87 (2.45%) Red Hat
11 54 (1.52%) Dynatrace
12 47 (1.32%) F5
13 46 (1.30%) IBM
13 46 (1.30%) OpenAI
14 39 (1.10%) Palo Alto
15 37 (1.04%) MuleSoft
15 37 (1.04%) Talend
16 35 (0.99%) Atlassian
16 35 (0.99%) CyberArk
17 34 (0.96%) Denodo
1,820 DevOps jobs in England