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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 15 14
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,768 2,919 3,283
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.45% 10.72% 10.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.31% 11.81% 11.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,282 2,092 2,260
10th Percentile £385 £360 £400
25th Percentile £438 £425 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £625 £627 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £519 £550
% change year-on-year +1.25% -5.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 23 69
10th Percentile £37.24 £44.25 £55.80
25th Percentile £55.50 £56.50 £65.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.75% -4.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £85.86 £74.44
90th Percentile £94.25 £95.00 £85.33
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +0.75% -4.29% +7.69%

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 38,742 24,707 27,973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.90% 90.77% 85.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,892 15,711 17,811
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £636 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £751
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,598 1,453 1,393
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.41
25th Percentile £18.34 £17.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +2.41%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -1 2,509 £550 - 2,103
North of England -1 797 £500 +5.26% 558
South East -10 447 £525 +5.00% 436
Midlands -2 444 £488 -2.50% 227
Yorkshire -2 391 £500 +3.63% 152
West Midlands -4 348 £492 -5.11% 140
South West +8 317 £546 +5.05% 282
North West -2 312 £523 +16.22% 310
East of England +15 150 £505 -3.81% 180
North East +19 109 £425 -18.27% 99
East Midlands +2 92 £463 +2.78% 87
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
1 289 (6.06%) Confluence
2 132 (2.77%) SharePoint
3 125 (2.62%) Apache Airflow
4 116 (2.43%) Apache Spark
5 103 (2.16%) Apache
6 54 (1.13%) SAS
7 41 (0.86%) CMS
8 35 (0.73%) Jupyter
9 27 (0.57%) IIS
10 22 (0.46%) nginx
11 17 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
12 15 (0.31%) Camunda
13 13 (0.27%) OpenStack
14 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
15 10 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
15 10 (0.21%) WebSphere
16 9 (0.19%) Anypoint
16 9 (0.19%) Appian
17 7 (0.15%) WebLogic
18 6 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 61 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
3 42 (0.88%) MS Visio
4 32 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 30 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
6 9 (0.19%) Chatbot
6 9 (0.19%) CPLEX
6 9 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.15%) Trello
8 5 (0.10%) Notion
8 5 (0.10%) Windchill
9 1 (0.021%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
9 1 (0.021%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.021%) Mingle
9 1 (0.021%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 63 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 9 (0.19%) Magento
4 9 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 6 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
6 6 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.10%) Aladdin
7 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
7 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
8 4 (0.084%) Endur
8 4 (0.084%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.084%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.063%) Findur
9 3 (0.063%) Maximo
9 3 (0.063%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.063%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 3 (0.063%) Shopify
9 3 (0.063%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,604 (54.61%) Azure
2 1,664 (34.90%) AWS
3 1,515 (31.77%) Azure DevOps
4 816 (17.11%) GitHub
5 597 (12.52%) GCP
6 515 (10.80%) GitHub Actions
7 424 (8.89%) Power Platform
8 395 (8.28%) Serverless
9 247 (5.18%) Amazon S3
10 237 (4.97%) AWS Lambda
11 228 (4.78%) Entra ID
12 193 (4.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 183 (3.84%) Azure AKS
14 182 (3.82%) Azure Data Factory
15 178 (3.73%) Amazon EKS
16 176 (3.69%) Azure Monitor
17 175 (3.67%) AWS CloudFormation
18 158 (3.31%) Dynamics 365
19 150 (3.15%) Amazon EC2
20 146 (3.06%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 232 (4.87%) Firewall
2 148 (3.10%) DNS
3 113 (2.37%) VPN
4 105 (2.20%) Network Security
5 66 (1.38%) TCP/IP
6 49 (1.03%) WAN
7 47 (0.99%) SSL
8 41 (0.86%) DHCP
9 34 (0.71%) SD-WAN
10 30 (0.63%) Internet
11 29 (0.61%) BGP
11 29 (0.61%) HTTP
12 28 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
13 23 (0.48%) SSH
14 21 (0.44%) OSPF
15 19 (0.40%) VLAN
16 18 (0.38%) SAN
17 17 (0.36%) LAN
18 16 (0.34%) BIG-IP
18 16 (0.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 297 (6.23%) Power BI
2 258 (5.41%) SQL Server
3 242 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
4 187 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
5 165 (3.46%) NoSQL
6 151 (3.17%) Data Lake
7 150 (3.15%) Relational Database
8 141 (2.96%) MongoDB
9 113 (2.37%) Metadata
10 112 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
11 91 (1.91%) Delta Lake
12 88 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
13 79 (1.66%) DynamoDB
14 76 (1.59%) Oracle Database
15 68 (1.43%) MySQL
15 68 (1.43%) Redis
16 56 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
17 53 (1.11%) Big Data
18 52 (1.09%) BigQuery
18 52 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 655 (13.74%) Jenkins
2 650 (13.63%) Git
3 562 (11.79%) JIRA
4 528 (11.07%) GitLab
5 115 (2.41%) Selenium
6 87 (1.82%) SonarQube
7 82 (1.72%) Postman
8 78 (1.64%) JUnit
9 77 (1.61%) Maven
10 68 (1.43%) Bitbucket
11 61 (1.28%) JMeter
12 59 (1.24%) REST Assured
13 58 (1.22%) Cypress.io
14 52 (1.09%) Gradle
15 51 (1.07%) Cucumber
16 48 (1.01%) Gatling
17 41 (0.86%) LoadRunner
18 40 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
19 38 (0.80%) Mockito
20 31 (0.65%) Artifactory
General
1 1,246 (26.13%) Social Skills
2 878 (18.41%) Finance
3 643 (13.49%) Public Sector
4 467 (9.79%) Analytical Skills
5 331 (6.94%) Banking
6 142 (2.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 104 (2.18%) Retail
8 82 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
9 71 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
10 56 (1.17%) Marketing
11 54 (1.13%) Legal
11 54 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
12 51 (1.07%) Aerospace
13 49 (1.03%) Military
14 47 (0.99%) Investment Banking
15 43 (0.90%) Telecoms
16 41 (0.86%) Law
17 39 (0.82%) Front Office
18 37 (0.78%) Local Government
19 36 (0.76%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 899 (18.85%) DevOps Engineer
2 736 (15.44%) Developer
3 728 (15.27%) Senior
4 551 (11.56%) Architect
5 473 (9.92%) Lead
6 294 (6.17%) Azure Engineer
7 281 (5.89%) Data Engineer
8 240 (5.03%) Analyst
9 197 (4.13%) AWS Engineer
10 195 (4.09%) Platform Engineer
11 176 (3.69%) Cloud Engineer
12 162 (3.40%) Senior DevOps
13 159 (3.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 158 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
15 150 (3.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 142 (2.98%) Java Developer
17 136 (2.85%) Senior Developer
18 133 (2.79%) AWS DevOps
19 131 (2.75%) Software Engineer
20 122 (2.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,384 (29.03%) Terraform
2 495 (10.38%) REST
3 407 (8.54%) .NET
4 323 (6.77%) Kafka
5 266 (5.58%) RESTful
6 248 (5.20%) React
7 237 (4.97%) Spring
8 226 (4.74%) Spring Boot
9 159 (3.33%) JSON
10 157 (3.29%) Node.js
11 146 (3.06%) PySpark
12 139 (2.92%) OAuth
13 133 (2.79%) Playwright
14 119 (2.50%) .NET Framework
15 115 (2.41%) HTML
16 111 (2.33%) SOAP
17 110 (2.31%) CSS
18 103 (2.16%) AngularJS
19 95 (1.99%) YAML
20 93 (1.95%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 874 (18.33%) Cloud Native
2 366 (7.68%) Product Ownership
3 222 (4.66%) Distributed Systems
4 165 (3.46%) Enterprise Software
5 159 (3.33%) Onboarding
6 138 (2.89%) Hybrid Cloud
7 131 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
8 86 (1.80%) AI Agents
9 75 (1.57%) Management Information System
10 69 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
10 69 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
11 65 (1.36%) Replication
12 64 (1.34%) Data Structures
12 64 (1.34%) Security Posture
13 62 (1.30%) Public Cloud
14 54 (1.13%) Data Centre
15 51 (1.07%) Virtual Team
16 50 (1.05%) Mobile App
17 40 (0.84%) PKI
18 39 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 455 (9.54%) Linux
2 271 (5.68%) Windows
3 107 (2.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 95 (1.99%) Unix
5 85 (1.78%) Windows Server
6 32 (0.67%) Ubuntu
7 31 (0.65%) Apple iOS
8 29 (0.61%) VMS
9 21 (0.44%) Android
10 10 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
11 9 (0.19%) CentOS
12 8 (0.17%) Solaris
12 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
12 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
12 8 (0.17%) zOS
13 7 (0.15%) AIX
14 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
14 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.084%) Alpine Linux
15 4 (0.084%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,808 (58.89%) CI/CD
2 1,942 (40.73%) Agile
3 1,355 (28.42%) Infrastructure as Code
4 804 (16.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 784 (16.44%) Stakeholder Management
6 766 (16.07%) Containerisation
7 760 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
8 747 (15.67%) Test Automation
9 743 (15.58%) AI
10 695 (14.58%) Microservices
11 652 (13.67%) Observability
12 621 (13.02%) Platform Engineering
12 621 (13.02%) Software Engineering
13 581 (12.19%) Scrum
14 571 (11.98%) Migration
15 523 (10.97%) Analytics
16 509 (10.68%) Technical Leadership
17 455 (9.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 437 (9.17%) Roadmaps
19 416 (8.72%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,398 (29.32%) Python
2 882 (18.50%) SQL
3 693 (14.53%) Java
4 436 (9.14%) PowerShell
5 422 (8.85%) C#
6 418 (8.77%) Bash
7 378 (7.93%) JavaScript
8 259 (5.43%) TypeScript
9 214 (4.49%) Bicep
10 73 (1.53%) Go
11 66 (1.38%) Shell Script
12 58 (1.22%) T-SQL
13 56 (1.17%) Groovy
13 56 (1.17%) Scala
14 49 (1.03%) Apex Code
15 48 (1.01%) PL/SQL
16 32 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 31 (0.65%) Perl
18 29 (0.61%) C++
19 23 (0.48%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,520 (31.88%) Security Cleared
2 1,276 (26.76%) SC Cleared
3 315 (6.61%) Degree
4 205 (4.30%) Azure Certification
5 192 (4.03%) DV Cleared
6 160 (3.36%) AWS Certification
7 139 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
8 116 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 103 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
10 71 (1.49%) CISSP
11 48 (1.01%) ISTQB
12 46 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
13 45 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 39 (0.82%) PMP
15 34 (0.71%) PMI Certification
16 32 (0.67%) Master's Degree
17 29 (0.61%) CISM
18 21 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
19 20 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 20 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 477 (10.00%) QA
2 251 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 159 (3.33%) Accessibility
4 116 (2.43%) GDPR
5 92 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 78 (1.64%) NIST
7 77 (1.61%) WCAG
8 49 (1.03%) PMO
9 45 (0.94%) NCSC
10 33 (0.69%) SLA
11 29 (0.61%) PCI DSS
12 27 (0.57%) GRC
13 21 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 14 (0.29%) ISO 20022
15 12 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
16 10 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
17 9 (0.19%) HIPAA
17 9 (0.19%) HL7
17 9 (0.19%) SEPA
18 8 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 958 (20.09%) Docker
2 155 (3.25%) Active Directory
3 74 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
4 70 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 23 (0.48%) Hyper-V
6 22 (0.46%) vSphere
7 20 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
8 17 (0.36%) VMware NSX
9 14 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
10 13 (0.27%) Squid
11 11 (0.23%) IAG
12 9 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
12 9 (0.19%) Postfix
13 7 (0.15%) KVM
14 6 (0.13%) Corosync
14 6 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
15 5 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 5 (0.10%) Firmware
16 4 (0.084%) Embedded Firmware
16 4 (0.084%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,243 (26.07%) Kubernetes
2 472 (9.90%) Ansible
3 308 (6.46%) Grafana
4 260 (5.45%) Prometheus
5 71 (1.49%) Argo
6 56 (1.17%) Puppet
7 50 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
8 47 (0.99%) Progress Chef
9 41 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
10 30 (0.63%) Packer
11 23 (0.48%) Kibana
12 22 (0.46%) Istio
13 19 (0.40%) Kustomize
13 19 (0.40%) vCenter Server
14 18 (0.38%) Kubeflow
14 18 (0.38%) SCCM
15 14 (0.29%) HP ALM
16 13 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
16 13 (0.27%) SCOM
17 12 (0.25%) Control-M
Vendors
1 957 (20.07%) Microsoft
2 266 (5.58%) Databricks
3 245 (5.14%) Oracle
4 231 (4.84%) Google
5 189 (3.96%) ServiceNow
6 167 (3.50%) Splunk
7 143 (3.00%) Salesforce
8 131 (2.75%) Dynatrace
9 104 (2.18%) VMware
10 101 (2.12%) Red Hat
11 97 (2.03%) SAP
12 62 (1.30%) IBM
13 52 (1.09%) Informatica
14 50 (1.05%) OpenAI
15 44 (0.92%) AppDynamics
16 41 (0.86%) Cisco
16 41 (0.86%) Foundry
17 35 (0.73%) Atlassian
18 34 (0.71%) MuleSoft
19 32 (0.67%) CyberArk