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 12 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 15 17
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 -5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,269 2,542 3,320
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.89% 10.43% 8.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.72% 11.47% 10.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,991 1,877 2,309
10th Percentile £385 £400 £406
25th Percentile £447 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £656
90th Percentile £713 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -6.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 15 92
10th Percentile £39.53 £38.65 £56.25
25th Percentile £45.46 £61.25 £61.25
Median hourly rate £63.73 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.96% +7.69% -0.76%
75th Percentile £75.44 £80.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £90.75 £88.68 £87.41
UK median hourly rate £63.73 £73.23 £65.00
% change year-on-year -12.97% +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 33,552 22,163 32,396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.57% 90.95% 86.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,495 14,584 21,337
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £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 2,072 874 2,199
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.84 £12.91
25th Percentile £19.98 £18.51 £15.85
Median hourly rate £40.54 £32.00 £34.21
Median % change year-on-year +26.69% -6.46% -8.77%
75th Percentile £66.00 £64.50 £58.70
90th Percentile £78.70 £75.43 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £30.81 £34.00
% change year-on-year +20.11% -9.40% -5.88%

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 12 April 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 12 April 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 12 April 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 0 2,160 £540 -6.01% 512
North of England +4 748 £500 -4.76% 306
South East -2 455 £525 -4.55% 307
Midlands +6 416 £492 -1.59% 142
Yorkshire +1 399 £500 -4.76% 86
West Midlands +7 325 £500 - 98
South West +13 292 £500 -12.28% 165
North West +2 289 £500 -4.76% 159
East of England +22 123 £550 +8.37% 92
East Midlands +3 88 £455 -6.67% 44
North East +6 67 £475 -11.63% 63
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
1 259 (6.07%) Confluence
2 109 (2.55%) Apache Spark
3 98 (2.30%) SharePoint
4 91 (2.13%) SAS
5 83 (1.94%) Apache
6 63 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
7 33 (0.77%) CMS
8 29 (0.68%) nginx
9 28 (0.66%) OpenStack
10 26 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
11 22 (0.52%) IIS
12 12 (0.28%) Mendix
13 11 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 11 (0.26%) HCL Notes
13 11 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
14 8 (0.19%) WebLogic
15 7 (0.16%) ArcGIS
15 7 (0.16%) Camunda
15 7 (0.16%) WebSphere
16 6 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 76 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 51 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
4 28 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
5 22 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.14%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.14%) Weka
7 5 (0.12%) Trello
8 2 (0.047%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.047%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.047%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.023%) InDesign
9 1 (0.023%) Maya
Business Applications
1 70 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.23%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.21%) Maximo
4 9 (0.21%) NEC Housing
4 9 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.14%) Endur
5 6 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
5 6 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.12%) SAP ERP
6 5 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.094%) Dynamics AX
7 4 (0.094%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.094%) SAP BPC
8 3 (0.070%) Findur
8 3 (0.070%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.070%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.070%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.070%) SAP FI/CO
8 3 (0.070%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 2,271 (53.20%) Azure
2 1,427 (33.43%) AWS
3 1,255 (29.40%) Azure DevOps
4 734 (17.19%) GitHub
5 556 (13.02%) GCP
6 443 (10.38%) Serverless
7 402 (9.42%) GitHub Actions
8 356 (8.34%) Power Platform
9 230 (5.39%) Amazon S3
10 219 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
10 219 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
11 216 (5.06%) Entra ID
12 209 (4.90%) Azure Data Factory
13 187 (4.38%) Azure AKS
14 179 (4.19%) OpenShift
15 164 (3.84%) Azure Monitor
16 159 (3.72%) Amazon EKS
17 148 (3.47%) Dynamics 365
18 144 (3.37%) PaaS
19 139 (3.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 196 (4.59%) Firewall
2 106 (2.48%) DNS
3 89 (2.08%) Network Security
4 76 (1.78%) VPN
5 37 (0.87%) TCP/IP
6 23 (0.54%) WAN
7 22 (0.52%) HTTP
7 22 (0.52%) SD-WAN
7 22 (0.52%) SSL
8 21 (0.49%) DHCP
9 17 (0.40%) BGP
9 17 (0.40%) IPsec
10 16 (0.37%) MPLS
11 15 (0.35%) SAN
12 14 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
13 12 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
14 11 (0.26%) 5G
14 11 (0.26%) Internet
14 11 (0.26%) LAN
14 11 (0.26%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 228 (5.34%) Power BI
2 223 (5.22%) PostgreSQL
3 199 (4.66%) SQL Server
4 160 (3.75%) NoSQL
5 144 (3.37%) Data Lake
6 119 (2.79%) Relational Database
7 114 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
8 93 (2.18%) Azure SQL Database
9 91 (2.13%) MongoDB
10 89 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
11 74 (1.73%) Delta Lake
11 74 (1.73%) DynamoDB
11 74 (1.73%) Oracle Database
12 69 (1.62%) Metadata
13 67 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
14 53 (1.24%) Big Data
14 53 (1.24%) Tableau
15 51 (1.19%) Redis
16 48 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
17 46 (1.08%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 640 (14.99%) Jenkins
2 561 (13.14%) Git
3 557 (13.05%) JIRA
4 428 (10.03%) GitLab
5 110 (2.58%) Selenium
6 97 (2.27%) JUnit
7 81 (1.90%) Postman
8 69 (1.62%) SonarQube
9 66 (1.55%) Bitbucket
10 52 (1.22%) Cucumber
11 51 (1.19%) Maven
12 49 (1.15%) Artifactory
13 48 (1.12%) REST Assured
14 39 (0.91%) Cypress.io
15 38 (0.89%) JMeter
16 34 (0.80%) Mockito
17 33 (0.77%) Oracle APEX
18 32 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
19 27 (0.63%) Gatling
20 25 (0.59%) TestRail
General
1 1,183 (27.71%) Social Skills
2 806 (18.88%) Finance
3 520 (12.18%) Public Sector
4 371 (8.69%) Analytical Skills
5 314 (7.36%) Banking
6 152 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
7 66 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
8 58 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 55 (1.29%) Marketing
10 54 (1.26%) Retail
11 51 (1.19%) Financial Institution
12 49 (1.15%) Front Office
12 49 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
13 43 (1.01%) Investment Banking
14 42 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
15 41 (0.96%) Legal
16 36 (0.84%) Telecoms
17 32 (0.75%) Military
18 23 (0.54%) Law
19 18 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 763 (17.87%) DevOps Engineer
2 654 (15.32%) Developer
3 599 (14.03%) Senior
4 483 (11.31%) Architect
5 363 (8.50%) Lead
6 287 (6.72%) Azure Engineer
7 270 (6.32%) Data Engineer
8 254 (5.95%) Analyst
9 190 (4.45%) AWS Engineer
10 155 (3.63%) Cloud Engineer
11 154 (3.61%) Platform Engineer
12 148 (3.47%) AWS DevOps
13 145 (3.40%) Solutions Architect
14 139 (3.26%) Software Engineer
15 135 (3.16%) Business Analyst
16 129 (3.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 128 (3.00%) Senior Developer
18 126 (2.95%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 120 (2.81%) Senior DevOps
20 113 (2.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 428 (10.03%) REST
2 349 (8.18%) .NET
3 260 (6.09%) Node.js
4 256 (6.00%) Kafka
5 243 (5.69%) React
6 239 (5.60%) Spring
7 220 (5.15%) Spring Boot
8 199 (4.66%) RESTful
9 153 (3.58%) AngularJS
10 139 (3.26%) YAML
11 137 (3.21%) JSON
12 119 (2.79%) PySpark
13 116 (2.72%) Playwright
14 114 (2.67%) OAuth
15 112 (2.62%) HTML
16 109 (2.55%) SOAP
17 105 (2.46%) Middleware
18 93 (2.18%) CSS
19 90 (2.11%) XML
20 84 (1.97%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 631 (14.78%) Cloud Native
2 258 (6.04%) Product Ownership
3 151 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
4 109 (2.55%) Onboarding
5 89 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
5 89 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
5 89 (2.08%) Public Cloud
6 86 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
7 63 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
8 55 (1.29%) Virtual Team
9 50 (1.17%) Management Information System
10 41 (0.96%) Private Cloud
11 40 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
12 38 (0.89%) Data Centre
12 38 (0.89%) Data Structures
12 38 (0.89%) Security Posture
13 36 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
13 36 (0.84%) NHS
14 35 (0.82%) AI Agents
15 34 (0.80%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 390 (9.14%) Linux
2 224 (5.25%) Windows
3 69 (1.62%) Unix
4 62 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 38 (0.89%) VMS
6 37 (0.87%) Windows Server
7 23 (0.54%) Ubuntu
8 13 (0.30%) CentOS
9 11 (0.26%) Android
10 9 (0.21%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.19%) Windows 10
12 7 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
13 4 (0.094%) Solaris
13 4 (0.094%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.070%) Debian
14 3 (0.070%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.070%) Oracle Linux
14 3 (0.070%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.070%) Windows Server 2016
14 3 (0.070%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,378 (55.70%) CI/CD
2 1,644 (38.51%) Agile
3 1,039 (24.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 767 (17.97%) Problem-Solving
5 723 (16.94%) Containerisation
6 628 (14.71%) Microservices
7 612 (14.34%) Test Automation
8 566 (13.26%) Continuous Improvement
9 545 (12.77%) Analytics
10 509 (11.92%) Migration
11 485 (11.36%) Scrum
12 478 (11.20%) Observability
13 468 (10.96%) Stakeholder Management
14 460 (10.78%) AI
15 401 (9.39%) Data Modelling
16 394 (9.23%) Software Engineering
17 357 (8.36%) Mentoring
18 338 (7.92%) Data Pipeline
19 336 (7.87%) Platform Engineering
20 313 (7.33%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1,233 (28.88%) Python
2 923 (21.62%) SQL
3 554 (12.98%) Java
4 426 (9.98%) C#
5 361 (8.46%) JavaScript
6 329 (7.71%) PowerShell
7 299 (7.00%) Bash
8 246 (5.76%) TypeScript
9 147 (3.44%) Bicep
10 98 (2.30%) Go
11 85 (1.99%) PL/SQL
12 66 (1.55%) Scala
13 46 (1.08%) Shell Script
14 45 (1.05%) T-SQL
15 40 (0.94%) Groovy
16 33 (0.77%) C++
17 32 (0.75%) Apex Code
18 30 (0.70%) Ruby
19 23 (0.54%) Rust
20 19 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1,377 (32.26%) Security Cleared
2 1,126 (26.38%) SC Cleared
3 304 (7.12%) Degree
4 193 (4.52%) Azure Certification
5 147 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 145 (3.40%) DV Cleared
7 112 (2.62%) AWS Certification
8 108 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
9 75 (1.76%) CISSP
10 56 (1.31%) CISM
11 51 (1.19%) Master's Degree
12 49 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
13 48 (1.12%) ISTQB
14 41 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 38 (0.89%) PMI Certification
16 36 (0.84%) PMP
17 33 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
18 22 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 21 (0.49%) IIBA
19 21 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 387 (9.07%) QA
2 193 (4.52%) Data Quality
3 167 (3.91%) GDPR
4 136 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 125 (2.93%) NIST
6 89 (2.08%) Accessibility
7 68 (1.59%) NCSC
8 37 (0.87%) PCI DSS
8 37 (0.87%) WCAG
9 28 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 28 (0.66%) SLA
10 24 (0.56%) PMO
11 15 (0.35%) HIPAA
11 15 (0.35%) ISO 20022
12 14 (0.33%) GRC
12 14 (0.33%) NIST 800
13 12 (0.28%) PSD2
13 12 (0.28%) SOC 2
14 10 (0.23%) SEPA
15 9 (0.21%) HL7
System Software
1 904 (21.18%) Docker
2 174 (4.08%) Active Directory
3 73 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 66 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
5 45 (1.05%) vSphere
6 31 (0.73%) VMware NSX
7 13 (0.30%) Hyper-V
8 12 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (0.26%) Squid
10 10 (0.23%) Postfix
10 10 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
11 9 (0.21%) Lustre
11 9 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 8 (0.19%) Firmware
13 7 (0.16%) GPFS
14 6 (0.14%) HDFS
15 5 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
15 5 (0.12%) RACF
16 4 (0.094%) KVM
16 4 (0.094%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,194 (27.97%) Terraform
2 1,148 (26.89%) Kubernetes
3 430 (10.07%) Ansible
4 263 (6.16%) Grafana
5 220 (5.15%) Prometheus
6 93 (2.18%) Argo
7 67 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
8 61 (1.43%) Puppet
9 50 (1.17%) Istio
10 30 (0.70%) vCenter Server
11 28 (0.66%) Packer
12 22 (0.52%) Progress Chef
13 21 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 21 (0.49%) Kibana
14 20 (0.47%) Rancher
15 19 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
16 18 (0.42%) FortiGate
17 17 (0.40%) Consul
18 14 (0.33%) HP ALM
18 14 (0.33%) Podman
Vendors
1 755 (17.69%) Microsoft
2 302 (7.07%) Oracle
3 258 (6.04%) Databricks
4 203 (4.76%) Google
5 176 (4.12%) Splunk
6 149 (3.49%) ServiceNow
7 135 (3.16%) Red Hat
8 122 (2.86%) VMware
9 117 (2.74%) Salesforce
10 97 (2.27%) SAP
11 72 (1.69%) OpenAI
12 68 (1.59%) Dynatrace
13 64 (1.50%) Atlassian
14 60 (1.41%) CyberArk
15 42 (0.98%) Talend
16 40 (0.94%) IBM
17 37 (0.87%) Denodo
18 34 (0.80%) Foundry
19 32 (0.75%) Cisco
20 30 (0.70%) Pure Storage