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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,441 2,403 3,451
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.62% 10.04% 9.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.51% 11.00% 10.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,112 1,748 2,407
10th Percentile £393 £391 £400
25th Percentile £442 £450 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £522 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.62% -4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 11 108
10th Percentile £39.53 £35.00 £56.50
25th Percentile £56.38 £51.25 £61.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.50 £65.25
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -0.38%
75th Percentile £77.88 £82.48 £77.81
90th Percentile £93.75 £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 35,508 21,848 31,547
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.90% 91.31% 85.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,529 14,223 20,659
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £622 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £512 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.10% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,216 949 2,294
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.84
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.18 £36.84
Median % change year-on-year +66.78% -23.51% -1.29%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.30 £27.59 £36.50
% change year-on-year +53.34% -24.42% +1.04%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 +3 2,266 £550 -1.08% 308
North of England +7 803 £500 - 211
South East +3 476 £513 +2.50% 212
Yorkshire +2 456 £500 - 51
Midlands +4 407 £488 -2.50% 96
West Midlands +3 318 £500 -4.31% 65
North West 0 287 £500 - 126
South West +15 285 £525 -4.55% 88
East of England +19 128 £525 +5.00% 59
East Midlands -1 85 £465 +0.54% 31
North East +5 76 £450 -14.29% 36
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 (5.56%) Confluence
2 121 (2.72%) Apache Spark
3 111 (2.50%) SharePoint
4 88 (1.98%) Apache
5 76 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
6 67 (1.51%) SAS
7 42 (0.95%) CMS
8 25 (0.56%) IIS
9 24 (0.54%) nginx
10 23 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
11 18 (0.41%) OpenStack
12 15 (0.34%) Jupyter
13 14 (0.32%) Camunda
14 12 (0.27%) WebSphere
15 11 (0.25%) Mendix
15 11 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
16 10 (0.23%) HCL Notes
17 9 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
18 8 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
18 8 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 68 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
3 47 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 33 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
5 24 (0.54%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.090%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.090%) CPLEX
6 4 (0.090%) Notion
7 3 (0.068%) Trello
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 57 (1.28%) 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%) Maximo
5 8 (0.18%) Aladdin
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 (0.090%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.068%) Findur
9 3 (0.068%) OpenText MBPM
9 3 (0.068%) Oracle BPM
9 3 (0.068%) SAP BPC
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
Cloud Services
1 2,375 (53.48%) Azure
2 1,494 (33.64%) AWS
3 1,296 (29.18%) Azure DevOps
4 724 (16.30%) GitHub
5 563 (12.68%) GCP
6 427 (9.61%) GitHub Actions
7 393 (8.85%) Serverless
8 378 (8.51%) Power Platform
9 241 (5.43%) Amazon S3
10 217 (4.89%) Entra ID
11 205 (4.62%) AWS Lambda
12 191 (4.30%) AWS CloudFormation
13 186 (4.19%) Azure Data Factory
14 185 (4.17%) Azure AKS
15 164 (3.69%) OpenShift
16 152 (3.42%) Amazon EKS
17 142 (3.20%) Azure Monitor
18 140 (3.15%) PaaS
19 137 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
20 136 (3.06%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 213 (4.80%) Firewall
2 115 (2.59%) DNS
3 92 (2.07%) Network Security
4 91 (2.05%) VPN
5 45 (1.01%) TCP/IP
6 40 (0.90%) WAN
7 35 (0.79%) SD-WAN
8 30 (0.68%) BGP
9 27 (0.61%) SSL
10 24 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
11 22 (0.50%) DHCP
11 22 (0.50%) OSPF
12 20 (0.45%) SAN
13 19 (0.43%) HTTP
14 18 (0.41%) IPsec
15 17 (0.38%) Internet
15 17 (0.38%) MPLS
16 16 (0.36%) VXLAN
17 15 (0.34%) LAN
18 14 (0.32%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 249 (5.61%) Power BI
2 225 (5.07%) SQL Server
3 211 (4.75%) PostgreSQL
4 158 (3.56%) Data Lake
4 158 (3.56%) NoSQL
5 132 (2.97%) Relational Database
6 121 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
7 113 (2.54%) MongoDB
8 94 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
9 90 (2.03%) Azure SQL Database
10 85 (1.91%) Delta Lake
11 78 (1.76%) DynamoDB
12 71 (1.60%) Metadata
13 70 (1.58%) Oracle Database
14 61 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
15 55 (1.24%) Big Data
16 53 (1.19%) Redis
17 50 (1.13%) BigQuery
18 49 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
19 45 (1.01%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 619 (13.94%) Jenkins
2 550 (12.38%) Git
3 522 (11.75%) JIRA
4 453 (10.20%) GitLab
5 93 (2.09%) Selenium
6 91 (2.05%) Postman
7 75 (1.69%) SonarQube
8 73 (1.64%) JUnit
9 60 (1.35%) Bitbucket
10 58 (1.31%) Maven
10 58 (1.31%) REST Assured
11 53 (1.19%) Cucumber
12 48 (1.08%) Artifactory
13 44 (0.99%) JMeter
14 40 (0.90%) Cypress.io
14 40 (0.90%) Gatling
15 35 (0.79%) Gradle
15 35 (0.79%) Mockito
16 29 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
17 27 (0.61%) LoadRunner
General
1 1,121 (25.24%) Social Skills
2 834 (18.78%) Finance
3 539 (12.14%) Public Sector
4 365 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
5 305 (6.87%) Banking
6 135 (3.04%) Documentation Skills
7 70 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 69 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
9 61 (1.37%) Retail
10 54 (1.22%) Legal
11 49 (1.10%) Financial Institution
12 48 (1.08%) Marketing
13 47 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
14 39 (0.88%) Investment Banking
15 37 (0.83%) Military
15 37 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
16 34 (0.77%) Front Office
17 26 (0.59%) Law
18 23 (0.52%) Aerospace
19 20 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 881 (19.84%) DevOps Engineer
2 626 (14.10%) Senior
3 623 (14.03%) Developer
4 538 (12.11%) Architect
5 392 (8.83%) Lead
6 298 (6.71%) Azure Engineer
7 279 (6.28%) Data Engineer
8 270 (6.08%) Analyst
9 188 (4.23%) AWS Engineer
10 170 (3.83%) Cloud Engineer
10 170 (3.83%) Solutions Architect
11 156 (3.51%) Platform Engineer
12 145 (3.27%) Senior DevOps
13 142 (3.20%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 141 (3.17%) Business Analyst
15 139 (3.13%) Software Engineer
16 132 (2.97%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 129 (2.90%) AWS DevOps
18 120 (2.70%) Java Developer
19 118 (2.66%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 398 (8.96%) REST
2 378 (8.51%) .NET
3 257 (5.79%) Kafka
4 254 (5.72%) React
5 238 (5.36%) Spring
6 228 (5.13%) Spring Boot
7 214 (4.82%) Node.js
8 195 (4.39%) RESTful
9 148 (3.33%) AngularJS
10 128 (2.88%) PySpark
11 127 (2.86%) Playwright
12 126 (2.84%) YAML
13 121 (2.72%) JSON
13 121 (2.72%) OAuth
14 102 (2.30%) SOAP
15 100 (2.25%) Middleware
16 96 (2.16%) HTML
17 95 (2.14%) .NET Framework
18 92 (2.07%) OpenID
19 86 (1.94%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 729 (16.42%) Cloud Native
2 279 (6.28%) Product Ownership
3 175 (3.94%) Distributed Systems
4 116 (2.61%) Onboarding
5 104 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
6 92 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
7 91 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
8 82 (1.85%) Public Cloud
9 69 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
10 60 (1.35%) Data Centre
11 57 (1.28%) Management Information System
12 47 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
13 44 (0.99%) Replication
14 43 (0.97%) AI Agents
14 43 (0.97%) Mobile App
14 43 (0.97%) Security Posture
15 41 (0.92%) Private Cloud
16 40 (0.90%) Virtual Team
17 39 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
18 36 (0.81%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 397 (8.94%) Linux
2 231 (5.20%) Windows
3 83 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 64 (1.44%) Unix
5 46 (1.04%) Windows Server
6 34 (0.77%) VMS
7 28 (0.63%) Ubuntu
8 18 (0.41%) Apple iOS
9 14 (0.32%) Android
10 13 (0.29%) 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 (0.090%) Alpine Linux
15 4 (0.090%) Data ONTAP
15 4 (0.090%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.090%) Windows Server 2012
16 3 (0.068%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,498 (56.25%) CI/CD
2 1,605 (36.14%) Agile
3 1,133 (25.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 683 (15.38%) Containerisation
5 677 (15.24%) Problem-Solving
6 631 (14.21%) Microservices
7 619 (13.94%) Test Automation
8 589 (13.26%) Continuous Improvement
9 547 (12.32%) Migration
9 547 (12.32%) Observability
10 515 (11.60%) Stakeholder Management
11 513 (11.55%) Analytics
12 505 (11.37%) AI
13 498 (11.21%) Scrum
14 454 (10.22%) Software Engineering
15 420 (9.46%) Platform Engineering
16 412 (9.28%) Data Modelling
17 371 (8.35%) Mentoring
18 368 (8.29%) Roadmaps
19 361 (8.13%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1,215 (27.36%) Python
2 891 (20.06%) SQL
3 604 (13.60%) Java
4 413 (9.30%) C#
5 328 (7.39%) PowerShell
6 323 (7.27%) Bash
7 317 (7.14%) JavaScript
8 230 (5.18%) TypeScript
9 149 (3.36%) Bicep
10 91 (2.05%) Go
11 63 (1.42%) Scala
12 54 (1.22%) Shell Script
13 49 (1.10%) PL/SQL
14 45 (1.01%) Apex Code
15 42 (0.95%) T-SQL
16 40 (0.90%) Groovy
17 27 (0.61%) C++
17 27 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 23 (0.52%) Ruby
19 21 (0.47%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,416 (31.88%) Security Cleared
2 1,159 (26.10%) SC Cleared
3 287 (6.46%) Degree
4 193 (4.35%) Azure Certification
5 147 (3.31%) DV Cleared
6 121 (2.72%) AWS Certification
6 121 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 112 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 74 (1.67%) CISSP
9 59 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 48 (1.08%) CISM
11 44 (0.99%) ISTQB
12 42 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
13 39 (0.88%) Master's Degree
14 38 (0.86%) PMI Certification
15 37 (0.83%) PMP
16 35 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 23 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
18 21 (0.47%) IIBA
18 21 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 380 (8.56%) QA
2 205 (4.62%) Data Quality
3 162 (3.65%) GDPR
4 118 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 115 (2.59%) NIST
6 110 (2.48%) Accessibility
7 60 (1.35%) NCSC
8 51 (1.15%) WCAG
9 43 (0.97%) PCI DSS
10 39 (0.88%) SLA
11 29 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 28 (0.63%) PMO
13 20 (0.45%) GRC
14 15 (0.34%) HIPAA
15 13 (0.29%) NIST 800
15 13 (0.29%) SOC 2
16 12 (0.27%) ISO 20022
17 11 (0.25%) PSD2
18 9 (0.20%) SEPA
19 7 (0.16%) COBIT
System Software
1 842 (18.96%) Docker
2 161 (3.63%) Active Directory
3 69 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
4 60 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 33 (0.74%) vSphere
6 22 (0.50%) VMware NSX
7 17 (0.38%) Squid
7 17 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.32%) Postfix
9 12 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
10 10 (0.23%) Hyper-V
11 8 (0.18%) Firmware
12 7 (0.16%) RACF
13 6 (0.14%) Corosync
14 5 (0.11%) HDFS
14 5 (0.11%) NFS
14 5 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
14 5 (0.11%) SRDF
15 4 (0.090%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 4 (0.090%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,245 (28.03%) Terraform
2 1,126 (25.35%) Kubernetes
3 453 (10.20%) Ansible
4 302 (6.80%) Grafana
5 255 (5.74%) Prometheus
6 84 (1.89%) Argo
7 70 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
8 63 (1.42%) Puppet
9 45 (1.01%) Istio
10 30 (0.68%) Progress Chef
11 27 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
12 26 (0.59%) Packer
13 22 (0.50%) Kibana
13 22 (0.50%) vCenter Server
14 21 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 16 (0.36%) Consul
15 16 (0.36%) HP ALM
16 14 (0.32%) FortiGate
17 13 (0.29%) Rancher
18 12 (0.27%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 797 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 255 (5.74%) Databricks
3 250 (5.63%) Oracle
4 200 (4.50%) Google
5 177 (3.99%) Splunk
6 163 (3.67%) ServiceNow
7 136 (3.06%) Red Hat
7 136 (3.06%) Salesforce
8 101 (2.27%) VMware
9 97 (2.18%) SAP
10 93 (2.09%) Dynatrace
11 59 (1.33%) OpenAI
12 47 (1.06%) Atlassian
13 46 (1.04%) CyberArk
14 45 (1.01%) IBM
15 37 (0.83%) Foundry
15 37 (0.83%) Informatica
16 36 (0.81%) AppDynamics
16 36 (0.81%) Cisco
17 30 (0.68%) Okta