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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 16 15
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,765 2,741 3,519
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.65% 10.08% 9.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.46% 11.12% 11.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,295 1,976 2,410
10th Percentile £388 £363 £400
25th Percentile £443 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £703 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 18 111
10th Percentile £37.65 £40.25 £56.50
25th Percentile £61.00 £51.69 £61.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £66.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -5.00% +6.87%
75th Percentile £78.00 £79.63 £77.50
90th Percentile £94.75 £89.88 £87.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% +6.87%

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 38,234 24,648 31,320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.43% 90.68% 85.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,071 15,798 20,362
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,374 1,309 2,214
10th Percentile £15.57 £14.39 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.98 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -8.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.70 £73.60
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.29%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +3 2,452 £550 - 455
North of England +5 866 £500 +2.04% 249
Yorkshire +2 458 £500 - 51
South East -8 458 £525 +5.00% 259
Midlands +1 446 £492 -0.61% 133
West Midlands -2 356 £500 - 95
North West -2 331 £519 +9.27% 152
South West +16 307 £518 -5.69% 133
East of England +19 146 £525 +5.00% 57
North East +13 96 £425 -18.66% 47
East Midlands -4 85 £488 +5.41% 38
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
1 278 (5.83%) Confluence
2 122 (2.56%) Apache Spark
3 121 (2.54%) SharePoint
4 102 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
5 94 (1.97%) Apache
6 68 (1.43%) SAS
7 48 (1.01%) CMS
8 31 (0.65%) IIS
8 31 (0.65%) Jupyter
9 29 (0.61%) nginx
10 24 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
11 15 (0.31%) Camunda
12 14 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
12 14 (0.29%) WebSphere
13 13 (0.27%) OpenStack
14 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
15 9 (0.19%) Appian
15 9 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
16 7 (0.15%) Tomcat
17 6 (0.13%) Documentum
Applications
1 67 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
3 39 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 38 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
5 34 (0.71%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.21%) CPLEX
7 9 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.15%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.084%) Notion
9 4 (0.084%) Trello
10 2 (0.042%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.021%) InDesign
11 1 (0.021%) Maya
11 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 64 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.21%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.19%) Magento
4 9 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
4 9 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
6 7 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.13%) Maximo
8 5 (0.10%) Endur
8 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
8 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
8 5 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.084%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.063%) Findur
10 3 (0.063%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.063%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.063%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 3 (0.063%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2,537 (53.24%) Azure
2 1,661 (34.86%) AWS
3 1,428 (29.97%) Azure DevOps
4 773 (16.22%) GitHub
5 577 (12.11%) GCP
6 472 (9.91%) GitHub Actions
7 401 (8.42%) Power Platform
8 398 (8.35%) Serverless
9 264 (5.54%) Amazon S3
10 230 (4.83%) AWS Lambda
11 219 (4.60%) Entra ID
12 182 (3.82%) AWS CloudFormation
13 181 (3.80%) Azure AKS
14 170 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
15 163 (3.42%) Azure Data Factory
16 160 (3.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 160 (3.36%) Amazon EC2
17 152 (3.19%) Azure Monitor
18 148 (3.11%) OpenShift
19 147 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 220 (4.62%) Firewall
2 128 (2.69%) DNS
3 104 (2.18%) VPN
4 103 (2.16%) Network Security
5 50 (1.05%) WAN
6 49 (1.03%) TCP/IP
7 37 (0.78%) SD-WAN
8 36 (0.76%) SSL
9 32 (0.67%) BGP
10 29 (0.61%) Internet
11 27 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
12 24 (0.50%) OSPF
13 23 (0.48%) DHCP
14 21 (0.44%) HTTP
15 19 (0.40%) SAN
16 18 (0.38%) LAN
17 17 (0.36%) MPLS
17 17 (0.36%) VXLAN
18 16 (0.34%) BIG-IP
18 16 (0.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 269 (5.65%) Power BI
2 248 (5.20%) SQL Server
3 223 (4.68%) PostgreSQL
4 158 (3.32%) NoSQL
5 154 (3.23%) Relational Database
6 150 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
7 139 (2.92%) Data Lake
8 134 (2.81%) MongoDB
9 100 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
10 84 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
11 81 (1.70%) DynamoDB
11 81 (1.70%) Metadata
12 79 (1.66%) Delta Lake
13 77 (1.62%) Oracle Database
14 57 (1.20%) Big Data
15 56 (1.18%) Redis
16 55 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
17 54 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
18 51 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
19 43 (0.90%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 668 (14.02%) Jenkins
2 625 (13.12%) Git
3 569 (11.94%) JIRA
4 481 (10.09%) GitLab
5 110 (2.31%) Selenium
6 88 (1.85%) Postman
7 87 (1.83%) JUnit
7 87 (1.83%) SonarQube
8 70 (1.47%) Maven
9 66 (1.39%) Bitbucket
9 66 (1.39%) REST Assured
10 53 (1.11%) Cucumber
11 48 (1.01%) Cypress.io
12 47 (0.99%) JMeter
13 44 (0.92%) Gradle
14 42 (0.88%) Gatling
15 38 (0.80%) Mockito
16 34 (0.71%) Artifactory
17 31 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
18 30 (0.63%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,202 (25.23%) Social Skills
2 915 (19.20%) Finance
3 638 (13.39%) Public Sector
4 429 (9.00%) Analytical Skills
5 322 (6.76%) Banking
6 121 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
7 101 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 83 (1.74%) Retail
9 71 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
10 57 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
11 55 (1.15%) Marketing
12 53 (1.11%) Legal
13 42 (0.88%) Military
14 40 (0.84%) Investment Banking
15 38 (0.80%) Law
16 37 (0.78%) Financial Institution
17 34 (0.71%) Telecoms
18 32 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
19 31 (0.65%) Front Office
20 29 (0.61%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 918 (19.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 751 (15.76%) Developer
3 666 (13.98%) Senior
4 564 (11.84%) Architect
5 454 (9.53%) Lead
6 294 (6.17%) Azure Engineer
7 283 (5.94%) Data Engineer
8 264 (5.54%) Analyst
9 214 (4.49%) AWS Engineer
10 191 (4.01%) Platform Engineer
11 180 (3.78%) Cloud Engineer
12 173 (3.63%) Solutions Architect
13 164 (3.44%) Senior DevOps
14 155 (3.25%) AWS DevOps
14 155 (3.25%) Java Developer
15 151 (3.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 150 (3.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 142 (2.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 137 (2.88%) Business Analyst
19 132 (2.77%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 459 (9.63%) REST
2 409 (8.58%) .NET
3 274 (5.75%) Kafka
4 266 (5.58%) Spring
5 258 (5.41%) React
6 245 (5.14%) Spring Boot
7 235 (4.93%) RESTful
8 193 (4.05%) Node.js
9 141 (2.96%) AngularJS
10 137 (2.88%) PySpark
11 133 (2.79%) JSON
11 133 (2.79%) Playwright
12 132 (2.77%) OAuth
13 121 (2.54%) .NET Framework
14 118 (2.48%) SOAP
15 110 (2.31%) HTML
16 97 (2.04%) YAML
17 94 (1.97%) CSS
18 92 (1.93%) OAuth2
19 87 (1.83%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 835 (17.52%) Cloud Native
2 317 (6.65%) Product Ownership
3 218 (4.58%) Distributed Systems
4 146 (3.06%) Onboarding
5 133 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
6 124 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
7 105 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
8 78 (1.64%) Public Cloud
9 75 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
10 66 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
11 64 (1.34%) Security Posture
12 63 (1.32%) Data Centre
13 59 (1.24%) Management Information System
14 56 (1.18%) Data Structures
15 54 (1.13%) AI Agents
16 52 (1.09%) Mobile App
17 51 (1.07%) Replication
18 47 (0.99%) Virtual Team
19 44 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
20 35 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 405 (8.50%) Linux
2 252 (5.29%) Windows
3 91 (1.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 67 (1.41%) Unix
5 56 (1.18%) Windows Server
6 27 (0.57%) Ubuntu
7 26 (0.55%) VMS
8 25 (0.52%) Apple iOS
9 17 (0.36%) Android
10 9 (0.19%) Solaris
10 9 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (0.15%) CentOS
12 6 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
12 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
12 6 (0.13%) zOS
13 5 (0.10%) AIX
13 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.084%) Data ONTAP
14 4 (0.084%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,723 (57.15%) CI/CD
2 1,865 (39.14%) Agile
3 1,255 (26.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 760 (15.95%) Containerisation
5 740 (15.53%) Problem-Solving
6 698 (14.65%) Continuous Improvement
7 693 (14.54%) Test Automation
8 688 (14.44%) Microservices
9 634 (13.31%) Stakeholder Management
10 628 (13.18%) AI
11 580 (12.17%) Observability
12 579 (12.15%) Scrum
13 574 (12.05%) Migration
14 542 (11.37%) Software Engineering
15 526 (11.04%) Platform Engineering
16 511 (10.72%) Analytics
17 416 (8.73%) Data Modelling
18 411 (8.63%) Technical Leadership
19 407 (8.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 403 (8.46%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,332 (27.95%) Python
2 898 (18.85%) SQL
3 673 (14.12%) Java
4 431 (9.05%) C#
5 367 (7.70%) Bash
6 356 (7.47%) PowerShell
7 353 (7.41%) JavaScript
8 253 (5.31%) TypeScript
9 155 (3.25%) Bicep
10 94 (1.97%) Go
11 58 (1.22%) PL/SQL
12 57 (1.20%) Scala
13 56 (1.18%) T-SQL
14 55 (1.15%) Shell Script
15 51 (1.07%) Apex Code
16 47 (0.99%) Groovy
17 26 (0.55%) Kotlin
18 25 (0.52%) C++
19 22 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 20 (0.42%) C
Qualifications
1 1,517 (31.84%) Security Cleared
2 1,267 (26.59%) SC Cleared
3 298 (6.25%) Degree
4 189 (3.97%) Azure Certification
5 169 (3.55%) DV Cleared
6 160 (3.36%) AWS Certification
7 124 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
8 112 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
9 71 (1.49%) CISSP
10 70 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
11 52 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
12 47 (0.99%) ISTQB
13 44 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 38 (0.80%) PMP
15 37 (0.78%) Master's Degree
16 35 (0.73%) PMI Certification
17 32 (0.67%) CISM
18 25 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 24 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
20 22 (0.46%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 428 (8.98%) QA
2 220 (4.62%) Data Quality
3 149 (3.13%) Accessibility
4 144 (3.02%) GDPR
5 94 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 92 (1.93%) NIST
7 68 (1.43%) WCAG
8 59 (1.24%) NCSC
9 39 (0.82%) PCI DSS
10 35 (0.73%) PMO
11 31 (0.65%) SLA
12 25 (0.52%) GRC
13 23 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 13 (0.27%) HIPAA
15 10 (0.21%) SOC 2
16 9 (0.19%) ISO 20022
16 9 (0.19%) PSD2
17 8 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
17 8 (0.17%) SEPA
18 7 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 914 (19.18%) Docker
2 160 (3.36%) Active Directory
3 75 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
4 65 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 27 (0.57%) vSphere
6 22 (0.46%) VMware NSX
7 19 (0.40%) Squid
8 18 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
9 16 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
10 14 (0.29%) Postfix
11 13 (0.27%) Hyper-V
12 9 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
13 8 (0.17%) KVM
14 7 (0.15%) IAG
15 6 (0.13%) Corosync
15 6 (0.13%) RACF
16 5 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
16 5 (0.10%) NFS
16 5 (0.10%) SRDF
17 4 (0.084%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,341 (28.14%) Terraform
2 1,188 (24.93%) Kubernetes
3 456 (9.57%) Ansible
4 314 (6.59%) Grafana
5 269 (5.65%) Prometheus
6 83 (1.74%) Argo
7 69 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
8 56 (1.18%) Puppet
9 36 (0.76%) Progress Chef
10 32 (0.67%) Istio
11 31 (0.65%) Packer
12 27 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
13 26 (0.55%) vCenter Server
14 20 (0.42%) Kibana
15 17 (0.36%) Consul
16 16 (0.34%) HP ALM
17 15 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 15 (0.31%) Kustomize
18 14 (0.29%) Kubeflow
19 12 (0.25%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 866 (18.17%) Microsoft
2 256 (5.37%) Oracle
3 237 (4.97%) Databricks
4 208 (4.37%) Google
5 182 (3.82%) ServiceNow
6 170 (3.57%) Splunk
7 147 (3.08%) Salesforce
8 115 (2.41%) Dynatrace
9 112 (2.35%) SAP
10 104 (2.18%) Red Hat
11 99 (2.08%) VMware
12 56 (1.18%) IBM
13 53 (1.11%) OpenAI
14 49 (1.03%) Atlassian
15 47 (0.99%) Informatica
16 44 (0.92%) CyberArk
17 43 (0.90%) Foundry
18 39 (0.82%) Cisco
19 33 (0.69%) AppDynamics
20 31 (0.65%) Okta