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 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 14 18
Rank change year-on-year +2 +4 -7
Contract jobs citing DevOps 3,957 2,719 3,210
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.22% 10.63% 8.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.85% 11.80% 9.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,770 1,907 2,316
10th Percentile £380 £400 £413
25th Percentile £438 £464 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £568
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +0.44% -5.42%
75th Percentile £614 £675 £673
90th Percentile £724 £780 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 18 96
10th Percentile - £37.68 £46.18
25th Percentile £45.46 £57.97 £59.38
Median hourly rate £59.25 £70.97 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.51% +9.18% -0.76%
75th Percentile £77.50 £80.75 £71.41
90th Percentile £93.28 £82.78 £85.02
UK median hourly rate £59.25 £73.23 £65.00
% change year-on-year -19.09% +12.65% -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 30,789 23,051 32,723
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.31% 90.11% 87.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,727 14,450 21,724
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,908 755 2,031
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +2.19% -2.14%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £59.95
90th Percentile £72.15 £75.40 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £25.94 £33.00 £33.07
% change year-on-year -21.39% -0.20% -5.53%

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 25 February 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 25 February 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 25 February 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 1,971 £539 -8.30% 483
North of England +6 720 £500 -2.20% 307
South East +3 425 £525 -8.70% 344
Midlands +15 416 £502 +2.61% 127
Yorkshire +1 381 £500 -1.96% 93
West Midlands +11 331 £520 +4.00% 89
North West +3 288 £488 -3.83% 173
South West +11 257 £525 -12.50% 115
East of England +20 116 £575 +13.30% 49
East Midlands +4 84 £428 -8.80% 37
North East -4 54 £475 -9.52% 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
1 247 (6.24%) Confluence
2 94 (2.38%) Apache Spark
3 84 (2.12%) Apache
4 80 (2.02%) SAS
5 77 (1.95%) SharePoint
6 55 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
7 33 (0.83%) OpenStack
8 31 (0.78%) nginx
9 29 (0.73%) CMS
10 19 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
11 15 (0.38%) IIS
12 14 (0.35%) JBoss
13 13 (0.33%) WebLogic
14 12 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 12 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
15 10 (0.25%) HCL Notes
15 10 (0.25%) Mendix
16 8 (0.20%) GeoServer
16 8 (0.20%) Smallworld
16 8 (0.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 87 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 36 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
4 28 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
5 21 (0.53%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.33%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.20%) Weka
8 4 (0.10%) Trello
9 3 (0.076%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 2 (0.051%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.025%) CPLEX
11 1 (0.025%) Maya
11 1 (0.025%) Revit
11 1 (0.025%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 62 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.25%) Endur
3 10 (0.25%) Maximo
3 10 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
4 8 (0.20%) Aladdin
4 8 (0.20%) NEC Housing
5 6 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
5 6 (0.15%) SAP ERP
6 5 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.076%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.076%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.076%) SAP BPC
8 3 (0.076%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.076%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.076%) SAP FI/CO
8 3 (0.076%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 2,012 (50.85%) Azure
2 1,385 (35.00%) AWS
3 1,082 (27.34%) Azure DevOps
4 718 (18.15%) GitHub
5 588 (14.86%) GCP
6 435 (10.99%) Serverless
7 380 (9.60%) GitHub Actions
8 321 (8.11%) Power Platform
9 222 (5.61%) Amazon S3
10 207 (5.23%) AWS CloudFormation
10 207 (5.23%) AWS Lambda
11 193 (4.88%) Azure Data Factory
12 180 (4.55%) OpenShift
13 174 (4.40%) Entra ID
14 173 (4.37%) Azure AKS
15 155 (3.92%) Amazon EKS
16 150 (3.79%) Azure Monitor
17 148 (3.74%) Dynamics 365
17 148 (3.74%) SaaS
18 133 (3.36%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 194 (4.90%) Firewall
2 108 (2.73%) DNS
3 84 (2.12%) Network Security
3 84 (2.12%) VPN
4 53 (1.34%) TCP/IP
5 35 (0.88%) SSL
6 27 (0.68%) HTTP
7 20 (0.51%) HTTPS
8 19 (0.48%) WAN
9 17 (0.43%) DHCP
10 15 (0.38%) Kerberos
10 15 (0.38%) SD-WAN
11 11 (0.28%) MPLS
11 11 (0.28%) Reverse Proxy
11 11 (0.28%) SAN
12 10 (0.25%) Internet
13 9 (0.23%) 5G
13 9 (0.23%) BGP
13 9 (0.23%) IPsec
13 9 (0.23%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 227 (5.74%) PostgreSQL
2 205 (5.18%) Power BI
3 157 (3.97%) SQL Server
4 149 (3.77%) NoSQL
5 125 (3.16%) Data Lake
6 103 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
7 99 (2.50%) Relational Database
8 94 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
9 88 (2.22%) MongoDB
10 76 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
10 76 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
11 74 (1.87%) Oracle Database
12 63 (1.59%) DynamoDB
13 59 (1.49%) Delta Lake
14 55 (1.39%) Redis
15 51 (1.29%) MySQL
16 48 (1.21%) Tableau
17 47 (1.19%) Metadata
18 42 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
19 41 (1.04%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 690 (17.44%) Jenkins
2 545 (13.77%) Git
3 527 (13.32%) JIRA
4 493 (12.46%) GitLab
5 119 (3.01%) Selenium
6 93 (2.35%) JUnit
7 80 (2.02%) Postman
8 62 (1.57%) Bitbucket
8 62 (1.57%) SonarQube
9 53 (1.34%) Maven
10 52 (1.31%) Sonatype Nexus
11 51 (1.29%) Cucumber
12 47 (1.19%) Cypress.io
13 46 (1.16%) Artifactory
14 42 (1.06%) REST Assured
15 36 (0.91%) Liquibase
15 36 (0.91%) Oracle APEX
16 34 (0.86%) JMeter
17 33 (0.83%) Gradle
18 27 (0.68%) CircleCI
General
1 1,207 (30.50%) Social Skills
2 734 (18.55%) Finance
3 482 (12.18%) Public Sector
4 345 (8.72%) Analytical Skills
5 315 (7.96%) Banking
6 145 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
7 76 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
8 69 (1.74%) Financial Institution
9 55 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 54 (1.36%) Marketing
11 49 (1.24%) Retail
12 45 (1.14%) Investment Banking
13 43 (1.09%) Front Office
14 42 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
15 39 (0.99%) Telecoms
16 37 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
17 33 (0.83%) Military
18 26 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
19 25 (0.63%) Law
19 25 (0.63%) Legal
Job Titles
1 736 (18.60%) DevOps Engineer
2 631 (15.95%) Developer
3 552 (13.95%) Senior
4 416 (10.51%) Architect
5 320 (8.09%) Lead
6 249 (6.29%) Azure Engineer
7 230 (5.81%) Analyst
8 227 (5.74%) Data Engineer
9 208 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
10 161 (4.07%) Cloud Engineer
11 156 (3.94%) AWS DevOps
12 153 (3.87%) Software Engineer
13 137 (3.46%) Platform Engineer
14 136 (3.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 128 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
16 123 (3.11%) Business Analyst
17 121 (3.06%) Senior Developer
18 112 (2.83%) Senior DevOps
19 109 (2.75%) Azure DevOps Engineer
20 105 (2.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 445 (11.25%) REST
2 312 (7.88%) .NET
3 260 (6.57%) React
4 253 (6.39%) Node.js
5 223 (5.64%) Kafka
6 215 (5.43%) Spring
7 204 (5.16%) RESTful
8 196 (4.95%) Spring Boot
9 148 (3.74%) JSON
10 141 (3.56%) AngularJS
11 128 (3.23%) YAML
12 121 (3.06%) HTML
13 120 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
14 118 (2.98%) OAuth
15 113 (2.86%) Playwright
16 111 (2.81%) SOAP
17 109 (2.75%) XML
18 102 (2.58%) PySpark
19 101 (2.55%) Middleware
20 99 (2.50%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 577 (14.58%) Cloud Native
2 205 (5.18%) Product Ownership
3 142 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
4 109 (2.75%) Public Cloud
5 104 (2.63%) Onboarding
6 80 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
7 77 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
8 68 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
9 54 (1.36%) Management Information System
9 54 (1.36%) Security Posture
10 46 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
11 45 (1.14%) Private Cloud
11 45 (1.14%) Virtual Team
12 38 (0.96%) NHS
13 36 (0.91%) Replication
14 35 (0.88%) Data Centre
15 34 (0.86%) Data Structures
15 34 (0.86%) Mobile App
16 32 (0.81%) AI Agents
17 30 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 442 (11.17%) Linux
2 211 (5.33%) Windows
3 84 (2.12%) Unix
4 60 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 42 (1.06%) VMS
6 38 (0.96%) Windows Server
7 26 (0.66%) Ubuntu
8 17 (0.43%) CentOS
9 13 (0.33%) Android
10 12 (0.30%) Apple iOS
10 12 (0.30%) Windows 10
11 10 (0.25%) Solaris
12 9 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
13 7 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
15 4 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.051%) Debian
16 2 (0.051%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.051%) zOS
17 1 (0.025%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,273 (57.44%) CI/CD
2 1,553 (39.25%) Agile
3 1,009 (25.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 767 (19.38%) Problem-Solving
5 748 (18.90%) Containerisation
6 597 (15.09%) Test Automation
7 581 (14.68%) Microservices
8 492 (12.43%) Analytics
9 488 (12.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 451 (11.40%) Migration
11 445 (11.25%) Scrum
12 436 (11.02%) AI
13 423 (10.69%) Observability
14 400 (10.11%) Stakeholder Management
15 372 (9.40%) Software Engineering
16 346 (8.74%) Data Modelling
17 324 (8.19%) Mentoring
18 286 (7.23%) Data Pipeline
19 280 (7.08%) Business Intelligence
20 270 (6.82%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,217 (30.76%) Python
2 828 (20.92%) SQL
3 521 (13.17%) Java
4 377 (9.53%) JavaScript
5 372 (9.40%) C#
6 316 (7.99%) PowerShell
7 310 (7.83%) Bash
8 269 (6.80%) TypeScript
9 135 (3.41%) Go
10 130 (3.29%) Bicep
11 79 (2.00%) PL/SQL
12 60 (1.52%) Scala
13 45 (1.14%) Shell Script
14 41 (1.04%) T-SQL
15 40 (1.01%) C++
16 39 (0.99%) Groovy
17 37 (0.94%) Ruby
18 28 (0.71%) Rust
19 21 (0.53%) Perl
19 21 (0.53%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,258 (31.79%) Security Cleared
2 1,027 (25.95%) SC Cleared
3 347 (8.77%) Degree
4 191 (4.83%) Azure Certification
5 186 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 143 (3.61%) DV Cleared
7 128 (3.23%) AWS Certification
8 87 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
9 82 (2.07%) Master's Degree
10 75 (1.90%) CISSP
11 57 (1.44%) CISM
12 55 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
13 44 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 43 (1.09%) ISTQB
15 33 (0.83%) PMI Certification
16 30 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
17 27 (0.68%) PMP
18 24 (0.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 23 (0.58%) IIBA
20 21 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 344 (8.69%) QA
2 168 (4.25%) GDPR
3 158 (3.99%) Data Quality
4 124 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 113 (2.86%) NIST
6 91 (2.30%) Accessibility
7 65 (1.64%) NCSC
8 32 (0.81%) PCI DSS
9 31 (0.78%) WCAG
10 24 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 23 (0.58%) SLA
12 21 (0.53%) HIPAA
12 21 (0.53%) PMO
13 16 (0.40%) SOC 2
14 15 (0.38%) ISO 20022
15 13 (0.33%) PSD2
16 11 (0.28%) NIST 800
17 10 (0.25%) SEPA
18 8 (0.20%) HL7
19 7 (0.18%) MiFID
System Software
1 959 (24.24%) Docker
2 161 (4.07%) Active Directory
3 72 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
4 68 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 40 (1.01%) vSphere
6 24 (0.61%) VMware NSX
7 14 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
8 12 (0.30%) Squid
9 11 (0.28%) Lustre
9 11 (0.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 9 (0.23%) GPFS
10 9 (0.23%) Postfix
11 8 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
12 7 (0.18%) DFS Replication
12 7 (0.18%) Firmware
13 6 (0.15%) HDFS
13 6 (0.15%) Hyper-V
13 6 (0.15%) NFS
14 5 (0.13%) RACF
14 5 (0.13%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 1,198 (30.28%) Terraform
2 1,151 (29.09%) Kubernetes
3 460 (11.62%) Ansible
4 283 (7.15%) Grafana
5 242 (6.12%) Prometheus
6 84 (2.12%) Argo
7 73 (1.84%) Puppet
8 65 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
9 41 (1.04%) Istio
10 33 (0.83%) Progress Chef
11 32 (0.81%) Kibana
12 30 (0.76%) Packer
13 23 (0.58%) vCenter Server
14 21 (0.53%) Podman
15 18 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 17 (0.43%) Consul
16 17 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
16 17 (0.43%) Rancher
17 16 (0.40%) FortiGate
18 13 (0.33%) logstash
Vendors
1 679 (17.16%) Microsoft
2 277 (7.00%) Oracle
3 246 (6.22%) Databricks
4 232 (5.86%) Google
5 199 (5.03%) Splunk
6 139 (3.51%) ServiceNow
7 137 (3.46%) Red Hat
8 116 (2.93%) VMware
9 108 (2.73%) Salesforce
10 95 (2.40%) SAP
11 70 (1.77%) OpenAI
12 58 (1.47%) Dynatrace
13 56 (1.42%) CyberArk
14 53 (1.34%) Atlassian
15 42 (1.06%) IBM
15 42 (1.06%) Talend
16 38 (0.96%) Denodo
17 37 (0.94%) F5
18 30 (0.76%) Foundry
18 30 (0.76%) Palo Alto