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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
25 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 14 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 3,522 3,157 3,629
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.56% 10.22% 9.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.85% 11.71% 10.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,479 2,125 2,685
10th Percentile £363 £400 £413
25th Percentile £425 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £560 £563
% change year-on-year -6.25% -0.44% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 34 95
10th Percentile - £42.73 £46.18
25th Percentile £45.46 £57.97 £51.63
Median hourly rate £61.25 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +7.69% -0.92%
75th Percentile £82.50 £74.33 £75.67
90th Percentile £95.00 £80.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £61.25 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -12.50% +7.69% -0.92%

All Process and 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 27,406 26,969 34,678
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.94% 87.30% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,388 16,451 23,708
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £649 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,797 990 1,453
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.10 £14.59
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.24 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.14% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%

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 25 November 2025.

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 25 November 2025.

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 25 November 2025. 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 1,766 £550 -5.98% 574
North of England +4 607 £493 -1.40% 213
South East +2 370 £513 -14.58% 485
Midlands +14 369 £515 -6.36% 140
Yorkshire -1 320 £500 - 70
West Midlands +13 299 £525 -5.15% 91
North West +5 259 £453 -14.93% 108
South West +2 222 £538 -10.42% 151
East of England +25 105 £520 -0.95% 77
East Midlands +21 70 £418 -12.11% 45
North East -11 30 £550 -5.98% 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
1 236 (6.70%) Confluence
2 87 (2.47%) Apache
3 65 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
4 62 (1.76%) SAS
4 62 (1.76%) SharePoint
5 54 (1.53%) Apache Spark
6 38 (1.08%) CMS
7 37 (1.05%) nginx
8 28 (0.80%) JBoss
8 28 (0.80%) OpenStack
9 26 (0.74%) IIS
10 25 (0.71%) CICS
11 17 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
11 17 (0.48%) WebSphere
12 14 (0.40%) WebLogic
13 11 (0.31%) WebSphere Application Server
14 10 (0.28%) Mule
15 9 (0.26%) iPlanet
16 8 (0.23%) Anypoint
17 7 (0.20%) Smallworld
Applications
1 70 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 28 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
4 25 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (0.48%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.37%) Chatbot
7 12 (0.34%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 8 (0.23%) Weka
9 6 (0.17%) Trello
10 1 (0.028%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.028%) Moqups
10 1 (0.028%) Revit
Business Applications
1 56 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.57%) Endur
3 19 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (0.48%) Aladdin
5 16 (0.45%) VisionPLUS
6 15 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
7 8 (0.23%) Maximo
7 8 (0.23%) Oracle BPM
8 6 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
9 5 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 4 (0.11%) Fidessa
10 4 (0.11%) NEC Housing
10 4 (0.11%) SAP CO
10 4 (0.11%) SAP ERP
10 4 (0.11%) SAP FI
10 4 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
10 4 (0.11%) thinkFolio
10 4 (0.11%) Workday HCM
11 3 (0.085%) Salesforce CRM
11 3 (0.085%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,709 (48.52%) Azure
2 1,274 (36.17%) AWS
3 946 (26.86%) Azure DevOps
4 615 (17.46%) GitHub
5 513 (14.57%) GCP
6 378 (10.73%) Serverless
7 337 (9.57%) GitHub Actions
8 243 (6.90%) Power Platform
9 211 (5.99%) Amazon S3
10 197 (5.59%) AWS Lambda
11 188 (5.34%) AWS CloudFormation
12 167 (4.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 152 (4.32%) Amazon EC2
14 148 (4.20%) Azure AKS
15 143 (4.06%) SaaS
16 138 (3.92%) Azure Data Factory
17 135 (3.83%) Entra ID
18 130 (3.69%) Dynamics 365
19 119 (3.38%) Azure Monitor
20 116 (3.29%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 189 (5.37%) Firewall
2 122 (3.46%) DNS
3 75 (2.13%) VPN
4 66 (1.87%) Network Security
5 65 (1.85%) TCP/IP
6 61 (1.73%) SSL
7 42 (1.19%) HTTP
8 34 (0.97%) SSH
9 30 (0.85%) HTTPS
9 30 (0.85%) SMTP
10 29 (0.82%) WAN
11 24 (0.68%) FTP
12 19 (0.54%) BGP
13 17 (0.48%) DHCP
14 16 (0.45%) LAN
14 16 (0.45%) OpenLDAP
15 15 (0.43%) MPLS
15 15 (0.43%) SD-WAN
16 14 (0.40%) Kerberos
17 12 (0.34%) IMAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 230 (6.53%) PostgreSQL
2 151 (4.29%) Power BI
3 139 (3.95%) NoSQL
4 137 (3.89%) SQL Server
5 125 (3.55%) Amazon RDS
6 97 (2.75%) MongoDB
7 84 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
8 80 (2.27%) Data Lake
8 80 (2.27%) Relational Database
9 73 (2.07%) Oracle Database
10 60 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
11 54 (1.53%) Redis
12 51 (1.45%) DynamoDB
13 49 (1.39%) MySQL
14 46 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
15 42 (1.19%) Metadata
16 39 (1.11%) Delta Lake
17 37 (1.05%) Amazon Aurora
18 35 (0.99%) Pentaho
19 33 (0.94%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 669 (18.99%) Jenkins
2 564 (16.01%) Git
3 539 (15.30%) JIRA
4 443 (12.58%) GitLab
5 119 (3.38%) Selenium
6 92 (2.61%) SonarQube
7 86 (2.44%) JUnit
8 81 (2.30%) Sonatype Nexus
9 73 (2.07%) Bitbucket
10 70 (1.99%) Postman
11 56 (1.59%) Maven
12 53 (1.50%) Liquibase
13 50 (1.42%) Cucumber
14 46 (1.31%) Cypress.io
14 46 (1.31%) Gradle
15 44 (1.25%) Artifactory
16 36 (1.02%) Oracle APEX
17 32 (0.91%) CircleCI
18 31 (0.88%) TeamCity
19 28 (0.80%) Mockito
General
1 1,142 (32.42%) Social Skills
2 638 (18.11%) Finance
3 422 (11.98%) Public Sector
4 318 (9.03%) Banking
5 288 (8.18%) Analytical Skills
6 107 (3.04%) Documentation Skills
7 66 (1.87%) Investment Banking
8 61 (1.73%) Marketing
9 60 (1.70%) Financial Institution
10 58 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 58 (1.65%) Telecoms
11 52 (1.48%) Retail
12 49 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
13 38 (1.08%) Front Office
13 38 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
14 31 (0.88%) Back Office
14 31 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
15 28 (0.80%) Law
16 27 (0.77%) Manufacturing
17 26 (0.74%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 693 (19.68%) Developer
2 606 (17.21%) DevOps Engineer
3 487 (13.83%) Senior
4 291 (8.26%) Architect
5 272 (7.72%) Lead
6 216 (6.13%) AWS Engineer
7 180 (5.11%) Analyst
8 171 (4.86%) Azure Engineer
9 165 (4.68%) AWS DevOps
10 162 (4.60%) Data Engineer
11 143 (4.06%) Senior Developer
12 139 (3.95%) Software Engineer
13 138 (3.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 137 (3.89%) Cloud Engineer
15 130 (3.69%) Platform Engineer
16 105 (2.98%) Business Analyst
17 101 (2.87%) Java Developer
18 98 (2.78%) Consultant
19 91 (2.58%) Senior DevOps
20 85 (2.41%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 397 (11.27%) REST
2 307 (8.72%) .NET
3 243 (6.90%) RESTful
4 213 (6.05%) React
5 203 (5.76%) Node.js
6 189 (5.37%) Kafka
7 172 (4.88%) JSON
8 148 (4.20%) Spring
9 147 (4.17%) SOAP
10 144 (4.09%) HTML
11 136 (3.86%) Spring Boot
12 130 (3.69%) AngularJS
12 130 (3.69%) Elastic Stack
13 113 (3.21%) XML
14 112 (3.18%) OAuth
15 106 (3.01%) YAML
16 97 (2.75%) CSS
17 73 (2.07%) .NET Core
18 71 (2.02%) GraphQL
19 69 (1.96%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 464 (13.17%) Cloud Native
2 182 (5.17%) Product Ownership
3 145 (4.12%) Distributed Systems
4 108 (3.07%) Onboarding
5 88 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
6 81 (2.30%) Public Cloud
7 66 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
8 63 (1.79%) Mobile App
9 58 (1.65%) Replication
10 57 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
11 49 (1.39%) Security Posture
12 47 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
13 42 (1.19%) Virtual Team
14 41 (1.16%) Algorithms
15 39 (1.11%) Data Centre
15 39 (1.11%) Management Information System
15 39 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
16 38 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 38 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
17 32 (0.91%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 437 (12.41%) Linux
2 217 (6.16%) Windows
3 92 (2.61%) Unix
4 60 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 57 (1.62%) Windows Server
6 51 (1.45%) Android
7 45 (1.28%) VMS
8 44 (1.25%) Apple iOS
9 26 (0.74%) Amazon Linux
10 25 (0.71%) Ubuntu
11 19 (0.54%) CentOS
12 16 (0.45%) Solaris
12 16 (0.45%) Windows 10
13 11 (0.31%) zOS
14 8 (0.23%) Mac OS
15 6 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
16 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
17 3 (0.085%) AIX
17 3 (0.085%) Debian
17 3 (0.085%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,946 (55.25%) CI/CD
2 1,547 (43.92%) Agile
3 878 (24.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 705 (20.02%) Problem-Solving
5 668 (18.97%) Containerisation
6 544 (15.45%) Test Automation
7 515 (14.62%) Microservices
8 449 (12.75%) Scrum
9 383 (10.87%) Migration
10 377 (10.70%) Continuous Improvement
11 371 (10.53%) Analytics
12 355 (10.08%) Software Engineering
13 321 (9.11%) AI
14 294 (8.35%) Observability
15 282 (8.01%) Stakeholder Management
16 262 (7.44%) Mentoring
17 237 (6.73%) DevSecOps
17 237 (6.73%) Infrastructure Automation
17 237 (6.73%) SDLC
18 235 (6.67%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 1,140 (32.37%) Python
2 692 (19.65%) SQL
3 488 (13.86%) Java
4 379 (10.76%) JavaScript
5 348 (9.88%) C#
6 331 (9.40%) Bash
7 327 (9.28%) PowerShell
8 233 (6.62%) TypeScript
9 161 (4.57%) Go
10 102 (2.90%) Bicep
11 71 (2.02%) PL/SQL
12 63 (1.79%) Groovy
13 61 (1.73%) Shell Script
14 51 (1.45%) C++
15 44 (1.25%) Perl
16 38 (1.08%) Ruby
16 38 (1.08%) Scala
17 31 (0.88%) T-SQL
18 28 (0.80%) Kotlin
19 26 (0.74%) PHP
Qualifications
1 980 (27.83%) Security Cleared
2 811 (23.03%) SC Cleared
3 305 (8.66%) Degree
4 165 (4.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 137 (3.89%) Azure Certification
6 121 (3.44%) AWS Certification
7 118 (3.35%) DV Cleared
8 67 (1.90%) Master's Degree
9 61 (1.73%) CISSP
10 55 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
11 52 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
12 40 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 40 (1.14%) CISM
13 31 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
13 31 (0.88%) ISTQB
14 27 (0.77%) PMI Certification
15 22 (0.62%) PMP
16 21 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 17 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
18 15 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 313 (8.89%) QA
2 136 (3.86%) GDPR
3 108 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 99 (2.81%) Data Quality
5 90 (2.56%) NIST
6 83 (2.36%) Accessibility
7 42 (1.19%) NCSC
8 24 (0.68%) HIPAA
9 22 (0.62%) PCI DSS
10 19 (0.54%) WCAG
11 16 (0.45%) SLA
12 14 (0.40%) MiFID
12 14 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 13 (0.37%) PSD2
14 12 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
14 12 (0.34%) ISO 20022
14 12 (0.34%) SEPA
14 12 (0.34%) SOC 2
15 11 (0.31%) EU AI Act
15 11 (0.31%) PMO
System Software
1 895 (25.41%) Docker
2 173 (4.91%) Active Directory
3 76 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 57 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (0.71%) vSphere
6 24 (0.68%) DFS Replication
7 15 (0.43%) Postfix
8 14 (0.40%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.37%) Squid
10 12 (0.34%) Dovecot
10 12 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
11 11 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
12 8 (0.23%) GPFS
12 8 (0.23%) Hyper-V
12 8 (0.23%) Lustre
12 8 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 8 (0.23%) Tivoli Directory Server
12 8 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
13 7 (0.20%) NFS
13 7 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1,056 (29.98%) Terraform
2 996 (28.28%) Kubernetes
3 466 (13.23%) Ansible
4 256 (7.27%) Grafana
5 250 (7.10%) Prometheus
6 81 (2.30%) Puppet
7 66 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
8 65 (1.85%) Argo
9 51 (1.45%) Progress Chef
10 41 (1.16%) Kibana
11 40 (1.14%) Packer
12 25 (0.71%) Istio
13 21 (0.60%) ITRS Geneos
14 20 (0.57%) Podman
15 17 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
15 17 (0.48%) Nessus
15 17 (0.48%) Proxmox
15 17 (0.48%) SCCM
16 16 (0.45%) CA Endevor
17 15 (0.43%) logstash
Vendors
1 615 (17.46%) Microsoft
2 261 (7.41%) Oracle
3 206 (5.85%) Google
4 184 (5.22%) Splunk
5 165 (4.68%) Databricks
6 148 (4.20%) ServiceNow
7 105 (2.98%) VMware
8 97 (2.75%) Salesforce
9 94 (2.67%) SAP
10 91 (2.58%) Red Hat
11 56 (1.59%) Dynatrace
12 48 (1.36%) MuleSoft
13 46 (1.31%) IBM
14 45 (1.28%) F5
15 41 (1.16%) Atlassian
16 40 (1.14%) OpenAI
17 38 (1.08%) Palo Alto
18 37 (1.05%) Talend
19 36 (1.02%) CyberArk
20 34 (0.97%) Denodo
1,375 DevOps jobs in England