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 2 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 16 15
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,663 2,596 3,556
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.63% 10.05% 9.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.45% 11.03% 11.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,240 1,874 2,431
10th Percentile £388 £363 £400
25th Percentile £442 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 13 117
10th Percentile £38.89 £36.50 £56.50
25th Percentile £61.78 £51.25 £61.60
Median hourly rate £68.75 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -10.71% +6.70%
75th Percentile £77.88 £82.96 £75.00
90th Percentile £94.69 £91.75 £86.19
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £66.25 £70.00
% change year-on-year +5.66% -5.36% +6.70%

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 37,451 23,541 31,946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.35% 91.15% 85.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,583 15,155 20,721
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +2.08% -3.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,352 1,173 2,326
10th Percentile £15.26 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.79 £17.88 £16.06
Median hourly rate £46.62 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +85.35% -34.02% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.50 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £73.07
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.45%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 2 July 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 +4 2,394 £550 - 688
North of England +7 867 £500 +1.46% 322
Yorkshire +2 465 £511 +2.25% 92
South East -7 454 £525 +5.00% 360
Midlands -1 428 £499 -0.25% 132
West Midlands -2 338 £500 -2.44% 77
North West +2 327 £510 +7.37% 185
South West +18 293 £523 -5.00% 149
East of England +29 141 £525 +5.00% 90
North East +11 93 £444 -15.07% 48
East Midlands -4 85 £488 +8.33% 55
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
1 266 (5.70%) Confluence
2 122 (2.62%) Apache Spark
3 117 (2.51%) SharePoint
4 98 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
5 91 (1.95%) Apache
6 70 (1.50%) SAS
7 49 (1.05%) CMS
8 29 (0.62%) IIS
9 28 (0.60%) Jupyter
10 27 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
11 26 (0.56%) nginx
12 15 (0.32%) Camunda
13 14 (0.30%) OpenStack
13 14 (0.30%) WebSphere
14 13 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
15 11 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
16 9 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
17 8 (0.17%) Appian
18 7 (0.15%) Tomcat
19 6 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 66 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
3 40 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 36 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
5 34 (0.73%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.21%) CPLEX
7 7 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.086%) Notion
8 4 (0.086%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.064%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.064%) Trello
10 1 (0.021%) InDesign
10 1 (0.021%) Maya
10 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 63 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 30 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
4 9 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.17%) Aladdin
5 8 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
5 8 (0.17%) Maximo
6 7 (0.15%) Magento
7 6 (0.13%) Endur
7 6 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.11%) OpenText MBPM
8 5 (0.11%) Oracle BPM
8 5 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.086%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.064%) Findur
10 3 (0.064%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.064%) SAP BPC
10 3 (0.064%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.064%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2,472 (53.01%) Azure
2 1,612 (34.57%) AWS
3 1,371 (29.40%) Azure DevOps
4 745 (15.98%) GitHub
5 564 (12.10%) GCP
6 445 (9.54%) GitHub Actions
7 406 (8.71%) Serverless
8 400 (8.58%) Power Platform
9 260 (5.58%) Amazon S3
10 225 (4.83%) AWS Lambda
10 225 (4.83%) Entra ID
11 189 (4.05%) Azure AKS
12 186 (3.99%) AWS CloudFormation
13 170 (3.65%) Azure Data Factory
14 164 (3.52%) Amazon EKS
15 154 (3.30%) Amazon EC2
16 153 (3.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 151 (3.24%) Azure Monitor
18 146 (3.13%) OpenShift
19 140 (3.00%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 216 (4.63%) Firewall
2 120 (2.57%) DNS
3 103 (2.21%) Network Security
4 97 (2.08%) VPN
5 49 (1.05%) WAN
6 40 (0.86%) TCP/IP
7 36 (0.77%) SD-WAN
8 33 (0.71%) SSL
9 32 (0.69%) BGP
10 27 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
11 26 (0.56%) Internet
12 24 (0.51%) OSPF
13 20 (0.43%) DHCP
14 19 (0.41%) HTTP
15 17 (0.36%) LAN
15 17 (0.36%) MPLS
15 17 (0.36%) SAN
15 17 (0.36%) VXLAN
16 16 (0.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 16 (0.34%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 266 (5.70%) Power BI
2 243 (5.21%) SQL Server
3 222 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
4 164 (3.52%) NoSQL
5 151 (3.24%) Relational Database
6 141 (3.02%) Data Warehouse
7 140 (3.00%) Data Lake
8 137 (2.94%) MongoDB
9 98 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
10 88 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
11 80 (1.72%) Delta Lake
12 78 (1.67%) DynamoDB
13 77 (1.65%) Metadata
14 74 (1.59%) Oracle Database
15 58 (1.24%) Redis
16 56 (1.20%) Big Data
16 56 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
17 55 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
18 54 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
19 43 (0.92%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 657 (14.09%) Jenkins
2 600 (12.87%) Git
3 548 (11.75%) JIRA
4 484 (10.38%) GitLab
5 100 (2.14%) Selenium
6 91 (1.95%) Postman
7 85 (1.82%) JUnit
8 82 (1.76%) SonarQube
9 66 (1.42%) Bitbucket
9 66 (1.42%) Maven
10 65 (1.39%) REST Assured
11 53 (1.14%) Cucumber
12 49 (1.05%) JMeter
13 42 (0.90%) Gatling
13 42 (0.90%) Gradle
14 40 (0.86%) Cypress.io
15 37 (0.79%) Artifactory
15 37 (0.79%) Mockito
16 33 (0.71%) LoadRunner
17 32 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,179 (25.28%) Social Skills
2 908 (19.47%) Finance
3 611 (13.10%) Public Sector
4 405 (8.69%) Analytical Skills
5 327 (7.01%) Banking
6 124 (2.66%) Documentation Skills
7 97 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 75 (1.61%) Retail
9 70 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
10 56 (1.20%) Marketing
11 53 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
12 51 (1.09%) Legal
13 43 (0.92%) Investment Banking
14 42 (0.90%) Financial Institution
15 41 (0.88%) Military
16 35 (0.75%) Law
16 35 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
17 32 (0.69%) Front Office
18 27 (0.58%) Aerospace
18 27 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 899 (19.28%) DevOps Engineer
2 716 (15.35%) Developer
3 653 (14.00%) Senior
4 567 (12.16%) Architect
5 433 (9.29%) Lead
6 289 (6.20%) Azure Engineer
7 284 (6.09%) Data Engineer
8 263 (5.64%) Analyst
9 209 (4.48%) AWS Engineer
10 181 (3.88%) Cloud Engineer
11 178 (3.82%) Platform Engineer
12 173 (3.71%) Solutions Architect
13 154 (3.30%) Senior DevOps
14 152 (3.26%) AWS DevOps
15 149 (3.20%) Java Developer
16 141 (3.02%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 140 (3.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 139 (2.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 138 (2.96%) Business Analyst
19 138 (2.96%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 441 (9.46%) REST
2 401 (8.60%) .NET
3 267 (5.73%) Kafka
4 264 (5.66%) Spring
5 247 (5.30%) React
6 244 (5.23%) Spring Boot
7 230 (4.93%) RESTful
8 192 (4.12%) Node.js
9 143 (3.07%) AngularJS
10 135 (2.90%) PySpark
11 131 (2.81%) OAuth
12 130 (2.79%) Playwright
13 125 (2.68%) JSON
14 116 (2.49%) .NET Framework
14 116 (2.49%) SOAP
15 106 (2.27%) HTML
16 103 (2.21%) YAML
17 93 (1.99%) OpenID
18 92 (1.97%) CSS
19 89 (1.91%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 827 (17.74%) Cloud Native
2 306 (6.56%) Product Ownership
3 205 (4.40%) Distributed Systems
4 132 (2.83%) Onboarding
5 118 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
5 118 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
6 104 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
7 79 (1.69%) Public Cloud
8 68 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
9 65 (1.39%) Data Centre
10 64 (1.37%) Management Information System
11 63 (1.35%) Security Posture
12 58 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
13 51 (1.09%) Data Structures
13 51 (1.09%) Mobile App
14 48 (1.03%) AI Agents
15 46 (0.99%) Replication
16 45 (0.97%) Virtual Team
17 43 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
18 34 (0.73%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 407 (8.73%) Linux
2 254 (5.45%) Windows
3 91 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 66 (1.42%) Unix
5 55 (1.18%) Windows Server
6 28 (0.60%) Ubuntu
6 28 (0.60%) VMS
7 23 (0.49%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.32%) Android
9 10 (0.21%) CentOS
10 9 (0.19%) Solaris
10 9 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
11 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
12 5 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
12 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.086%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (0.086%) Data ONTAP
13 4 (0.086%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.086%) Windows 10
13 4 (0.086%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,672 (57.30%) CI/CD
2 1,782 (38.22%) Agile
3 1,218 (26.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 747 (16.02%) Containerisation
5 727 (15.59%) Problem-Solving
6 669 (14.35%) Continuous Improvement
6 669 (14.35%) Microservices
7 664 (14.24%) Test Automation
8 596 (12.78%) Stakeholder Management
9 584 (12.52%) AI
10 570 (12.22%) Migration
11 558 (11.97%) Observability
12 554 (11.88%) Scrum
13 530 (11.37%) Analytics
14 507 (10.87%) Platform Engineering
15 505 (10.83%) Software Engineering
16 413 (8.86%) Data Modelling
17 393 (8.43%) Roadmaps
18 388 (8.32%) Technical Leadership
19 377 (8.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,303 (27.94%) Python
2 894 (19.17%) SQL
3 651 (13.96%) Java
4 435 (9.33%) C#
5 350 (7.51%) Bash
6 343 (7.36%) PowerShell
7 334 (7.16%) JavaScript
8 241 (5.17%) TypeScript
9 165 (3.54%) Bicep
10 92 (1.97%) Go
11 62 (1.33%) Scala
12 54 (1.16%) Shell Script
12 54 (1.16%) T-SQL
13 52 (1.12%) PL/SQL
14 51 (1.09%) Apex Code
15 43 (0.92%) Groovy
16 28 (0.60%) C++
17 24 (0.51%) Kotlin
18 22 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 19 (0.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,487 (31.89%) Security Cleared
2 1,242 (26.64%) SC Cleared
3 302 (6.48%) Degree
4 184 (3.95%) Azure Certification
5 159 (3.41%) DV Cleared
6 145 (3.11%) AWS Certification
7 117 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 116 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
9 74 (1.59%) CISSP
10 69 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
11 47 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
12 43 (0.92%) ISTQB
13 42 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 39 (0.84%) PMP
15 38 (0.81%) PMI Certification
16 37 (0.79%) Master's Degree
17 36 (0.77%) CISM
18 23 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
19 21 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 21 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 406 (8.71%) QA
2 218 (4.68%) Data Quality
3 149 (3.20%) GDPR
4 136 (2.92%) Accessibility
5 105 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 100 (2.14%) NIST
7 63 (1.35%) NCSC
8 62 (1.33%) WCAG
9 45 (0.97%) PCI DSS
10 35 (0.75%) SLA
11 28 (0.60%) PMO
12 27 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 25 (0.54%) GRC
14 16 (0.34%) HIPAA
15 13 (0.28%) SOC 2
16 11 (0.24%) ISO 20022
16 11 (0.24%) PSD2
17 10 (0.21%) SEPA
18 8 (0.17%) NIST 800
19 7 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 900 (19.30%) Docker
2 162 (3.47%) Active Directory
3 75 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
4 63 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 27 (0.58%) vSphere
6 22 (0.47%) VMware NSX
7 19 (0.41%) Squid
8 18 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
9 16 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
10 14 (0.30%) Hyper-V
10 14 (0.30%) Postfix
11 7 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
12 6 (0.13%) Corosync
12 6 (0.13%) KVM
12 6 (0.13%) RACF
13 5 (0.11%) Firmware
13 5 (0.11%) IAG
13 5 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.11%) NFS
13 5 (0.11%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 1,322 (28.35%) Terraform
2 1,179 (25.28%) Kubernetes
3 459 (9.84%) Ansible
4 303 (6.50%) Grafana
5 263 (5.64%) Prometheus
6 79 (1.69%) Argo
7 68 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
8 59 (1.27%) Puppet
9 34 (0.73%) Istio
10 33 (0.71%) Progress Chef
11 30 (0.64%) Packer
12 26 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
12 26 (0.56%) vCenter Server
13 21 (0.45%) Kibana
14 17 (0.36%) Consul
15 16 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 16 (0.34%) HP ALM
16 15 (0.32%) Kustomize
17 12 (0.26%) HAProxy
17 12 (0.26%) Rancher
Vendors
1 838 (17.97%) Microsoft
2 245 (5.25%) Oracle
3 242 (5.19%) Databricks
4 213 (4.57%) Google
5 184 (3.95%) ServiceNow
6 165 (3.54%) Splunk
7 147 (3.15%) Salesforce
8 112 (2.40%) Dynatrace
9 109 (2.34%) Red Hat
9 109 (2.34%) SAP
10 98 (2.10%) VMware
11 58 (1.24%) OpenAI
12 54 (1.16%) IBM
13 49 (1.05%) Atlassian
14 46 (0.99%) CyberArk
15 45 (0.97%) Informatica
16 40 (0.86%) Foundry
17 36 (0.77%) Cisco
18 32 (0.69%) Okta
19 31 (0.66%) AppDynamics