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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 14 14
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,833 3,139 3,238
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.38% 11.25% 10.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.23% 12.38% 11.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,339 2,218 2,175
10th Percentile £381 £363 £387
25th Percentile £438 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 21 55
10th Percentile £37.25 £42.50 £46.18
25th Percentile £58.63 £56.75 £65.00
Median hourly rate £68.75 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% -4.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £78.63 £88.75 -
90th Percentile £94.25 £95.00 £79.95
UK median hourly rate £69.00 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +2.99% -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 39,523 25,365 27,653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.90% 90.87% 86.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,845 16,097 16,849
10th Percentile £325 £293 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,022 1,590 1,111
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.36 £17.87 £20.27
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £67.44 £44.80 £66.80
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.28 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -10.11%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 13 October 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 2,581 £550 - 2,072
North of England -4 794 £500 +4.17% 631
South East -11 452 £544 +8.75% 487
Midlands -7 417 £488 -5.34% 239
Yorkshire -3 377 £500 - 210
West Midlands -8 341 £490 -6.67% 145
South West +7 326 £550 - 220
North West -6 321 £519 +15.37% 323
East of England +1 147 £505 -4.94% 200
North East +9 110 £450 -18.18% 103
East Midlands -10 74 £447 +6.43% 94
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
1 301 (6.23%) Confluence
2 141 (2.92%) SharePoint
3 122 (2.52%) Apache Spark
4 117 (2.42%) Apache Airflow
5 110 (2.28%) Apache
6 54 (1.12%) SAS
7 41 (0.85%) Jupyter
8 39 (0.81%) CMS
9 30 (0.62%) nginx
10 24 (0.50%) IIS
11 19 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
12 15 (0.31%) Camunda
13 13 (0.27%) OpenStack
14 9 (0.19%) Anypoint
14 9 (0.19%) Appian
14 9 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
14 9 (0.19%) WebSphere
15 8 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
15 8 (0.17%) Tomcat
16 7 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 68 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
2 53 (1.10%) MS Visio
3 38 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
5 14 (0.29%) Chatbot
6 9 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.17%) CPLEX
7 8 (0.17%) Windchill
8 5 (0.10%) Notion
8 5 (0.10%) Trello
9 3 (0.062%) Mingle
10 2 (0.041%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.041%) Gliffy
11 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.021%) Mozilla Thunderbird
11 1 (0.021%) Sketch
11 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 73 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 36 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
4 8 (0.17%) Magento
4 8 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 6 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
5 6 (0.12%) SAP MDG
6 5 (0.10%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.10%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
6 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
6 5 (0.10%) Temenos T24
7 4 (0.083%) Oracle Payroll
7 4 (0.083%) Teamcenter
8 3 (0.062%) Endur
8 3 (0.062%) Maximo
8 3 (0.062%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (0.062%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.062%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 2,618 (54.17%) Azure
2 1,673 (34.62%) AWS
3 1,523 (31.51%) Azure DevOps
4 836 (17.30%) GitHub
5 656 (13.57%) GCP
6 526 (10.88%) GitHub Actions
7 443 (9.17%) Power Platform
8 416 (8.61%) Serverless
9 259 (5.36%) Amazon S3
10 249 (5.15%) Entra ID
11 239 (4.95%) AWS Lambda
12 212 (4.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 212 (4.39%) Amazon EKS
13 189 (3.91%) Azure AKS
14 185 (3.83%) Azure Monitor
15 180 (3.72%) Dynamics 365
16 176 (3.64%) Azure Data Factory
17 170 (3.52%) AWS CloudFormation
18 168 (3.48%) Amazon EC2
19 161 (3.33%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 220 (4.55%) Firewall
2 158 (3.27%) DNS
3 114 (2.36%) Network Security
4 112 (2.32%) VPN
5 81 (1.68%) TCP/IP
6 50 (1.03%) SSL
7 45 (0.93%) DHCP
8 44 (0.91%) WAN
9 36 (0.74%) BGP
10 32 (0.66%) HTTP
11 31 (0.64%) Internet
12 27 (0.56%) SSH
13 26 (0.54%) OSPF
13 26 (0.54%) SD-WAN
14 19 (0.39%) LAN
14 19 (0.39%) VLAN
15 18 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
16 17 (0.35%) BIG-IP
16 17 (0.35%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 15 (0.31%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 288 (5.96%) Power BI
2 259 (5.36%) SQL Server
3 249 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
4 181 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
5 157 (3.25%) NoSQL
6 151 (3.12%) Data Lake
7 149 (3.08%) MongoDB
8 135 (2.79%) Relational Database
9 128 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
10 121 (2.50%) Metadata
11 86 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
12 79 (1.63%) Delta Lake
13 78 (1.61%) MySQL
14 76 (1.57%) DynamoDB
14 76 (1.57%) Oracle Database
15 70 (1.45%) Redis
16 57 (1.18%) Big Data
17 56 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 53 (1.10%) BigQuery
19 51 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 707 (14.63%) Git
2 693 (14.34%) Jenkins
3 566 (11.71%) GitLab
4 546 (11.30%) JIRA
5 130 (2.69%) Selenium
6 81 (1.68%) Maven
6 81 (1.68%) Postman
7 80 (1.66%) SonarQube
8 79 (1.63%) JUnit
9 75 (1.55%) Cucumber
10 63 (1.30%) Bitbucket
10 63 (1.30%) Cypress.io
11 60 (1.24%) REST Assured
12 55 (1.14%) Gradle
12 55 (1.14%) JMeter
13 41 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
14 40 (0.83%) Mockito
14 40 (0.83%) Visual Studio
15 38 (0.79%) Claude Code
15 38 (0.79%) Gatling
General
1 1,314 (27.19%) Social Skills
2 936 (19.37%) Finance
3 649 (13.43%) Public Sector
4 504 (10.43%) Analytical Skills
5 385 (7.97%) Banking
6 145 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 111 (2.30%) Retail
8 87 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
9 72 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
10 61 (1.26%) Aerospace
11 57 (1.18%) Marketing
12 54 (1.12%) Investment Banking
13 53 (1.10%) Military
14 49 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
14 49 (1.01%) Telecoms
15 47 (0.97%) Financial Institution
16 46 (0.95%) Local Government
16 46 (0.95%) Manufacturing
17 44 (0.91%) Legal
18 42 (0.87%) Law
Job Titles
1 918 (18.99%) DevOps Engineer
2 757 (15.66%) Senior
3 743 (15.37%) Developer
4 567 (11.73%) Architect
5 482 (9.97%) Lead
6 295 (6.10%) Azure Engineer
7 287 (5.94%) Data Engineer
8 221 (4.57%) Analyst
9 199 (4.12%) AWS Engineer
10 189 (3.91%) Platform Engineer
11 180 (3.72%) Senior DevOps
12 179 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
13 164 (3.39%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 161 (3.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 154 (3.19%) Solutions Architect
16 136 (2.81%) AWS DevOps
17 135 (2.79%) Java Developer
18 132 (2.73%) Software Engineer
19 126 (2.61%) Senior Developer
20 125 (2.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,470 (30.42%) Terraform
2 578 (11.96%) REST
3 432 (8.94%) .NET
4 342 (7.08%) Kafka
5 271 (5.61%) RESTful
6 259 (5.36%) React
7 235 (4.86%) Spring
8 232 (4.80%) Spring Boot
9 169 (3.50%) OAuth
10 160 (3.31%) JSON
11 143 (2.96%) Node.js
12 138 (2.86%) PySpark
13 134 (2.77%) Playwright
14 123 (2.55%) .NET Framework
15 121 (2.50%) HTML
16 119 (2.46%) SOAP
17 113 (2.34%) CSS
18 108 (2.23%) Middleware
18 108 (2.23%) OAuth2
19 99 (2.05%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 901 (18.64%) Cloud Native
2 374 (7.74%) Product Ownership
3 220 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
4 205 (4.24%) Enterprise Software
5 196 (4.06%) Onboarding
6 147 (3.04%) Hybrid Cloud
7 130 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
8 108 (2.23%) AI Agents
9 95 (1.97%) Management Information System
10 72 (1.49%) Security Posture
11 71 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
12 69 (1.43%) Public Cloud
13 65 (1.34%) Data Structures
14 64 (1.32%) Data Centre
15 61 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
16 60 (1.24%) Replication
17 53 (1.10%) PKI
18 50 (1.03%) Mobile App
19 49 (1.01%) Virtual Team
20 48 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 510 (10.55%) Linux
2 297 (6.15%) Windows
3 117 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 101 (2.09%) Unix
5 91 (1.88%) Windows Server
6 38 (0.79%) Ubuntu
7 30 (0.62%) VMS
8 26 (0.54%) Apple iOS
9 18 (0.37%) Android
10 16 (0.33%) CentOS
11 10 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
11 10 (0.21%) zOS
12 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
12 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
13 7 (0.14%) AIX
13 7 (0.14%) macOS
14 6 (0.12%) Solaris
15 4 (0.083%) Alpine Linux
15 4 (0.083%) Windows Server 2008
16 3 (0.062%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,949 (61.02%) CI/CD
2 1,976 (40.89%) Agile
3 1,458 (30.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 897 (18.56%) Stakeholder Management
5 860 (17.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 845 (17.48%) AI
7 820 (16.97%) Test Automation
8 795 (16.45%) Problem-Solving
9 787 (16.28%) Containerisation
10 709 (14.67%) Observability
11 702 (14.53%) Microservices
12 677 (14.01%) Platform Engineering
13 672 (13.90%) Software Engineering
14 605 (12.52%) Migration
15 589 (12.19%) Scrum
16 564 (11.67%) Technical Leadership
17 513 (10.61%) Analytics
18 464 (9.60%) Roadmaps
19 454 (9.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 431 (8.92%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,478 (30.58%) Python
2 851 (17.61%) SQL
3 700 (14.48%) Java
4 470 (9.72%) PowerShell
5 455 (9.41%) C#
6 454 (9.39%) Bash
7 402 (8.32%) JavaScript
8 294 (6.08%) TypeScript
9 238 (4.92%) Bicep
10 95 (1.97%) Go
11 66 (1.37%) Shell Script
12 59 (1.22%) Groovy
13 57 (1.18%) T-SQL
14 53 (1.10%) Scala
15 42 (0.87%) PL/SQL
16 41 (0.85%) Apex Code
17 33 (0.68%) C++
18 32 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 30 (0.62%) Kotlin
20 29 (0.60%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,562 (32.32%) Security Cleared
2 1,299 (26.88%) SC Cleared
3 350 (7.24%) Degree
4 237 (4.90%) DV Cleared
5 221 (4.57%) Azure Certification
6 188 (3.89%) AWS Certification
7 152 (3.15%) BPSS Clearance
8 132 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
9 104 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
10 75 (1.55%) CISSP
11 58 (1.20%) ISTQB
12 55 (1.14%) PMP
13 51 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
14 49 (1.01%) PMI Certification
15 41 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 39 (0.81%) Master's Degree
17 31 (0.64%) CISM
18 23 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 21 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 21 (0.43%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 500 (10.35%) QA
2 260 (5.38%) Data Quality
3 171 (3.54%) Accessibility
4 116 (2.40%) GDPR
5 91 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 78 (1.61%) WCAG
7 63 (1.30%) NIST
8 46 (0.95%) PMO
9 45 (0.93%) NCSC
10 32 (0.66%) PCI DSS
11 30 (0.62%) SLA
12 24 (0.50%) GRC
13 19 (0.39%) ISO 20022
14 16 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 14 (0.29%) HIPAA
15 14 (0.29%) SOC 2
16 13 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
16 13 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
17 12 (0.25%) SEPA
18 9 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 984 (20.36%) Docker
2 153 (3.17%) Active Directory
3 72 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
4 64 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 23 (0.48%) vSphere
6 22 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
7 19 (0.39%) Hyper-V
8 17 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (0.23%) Squid
9 11 (0.23%) VMware NSX
10 10 (0.21%) IAG
11 8 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
12 6 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 6 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
12 6 (0.12%) Postfix
13 5 (0.10%) KVM
13 5 (0.10%) RACF
14 4 (0.083%) BitLocker
14 4 (0.083%) Firmware
14 4 (0.083%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1,290 (26.69%) Kubernetes
2 491 (10.16%) Ansible
3 320 (6.62%) Grafana
4 269 (5.57%) Prometheus
5 60 (1.24%) Argo
6 54 (1.12%) Puppet
7 51 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
8 47 (0.97%) Progress Chef
9 38 (0.79%) Kibana
9 38 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
10 33 (0.68%) Packer
11 25 (0.52%) Kubeflow
12 24 (0.50%) Istio
13 20 (0.41%) Kustomize
13 20 (0.41%) SCCM
14 13 (0.27%) Control-M
14 13 (0.27%) HP ALM
14 13 (0.27%) SCOM
14 13 (0.27%) vCenter Server
15 12 (0.25%) systemd
Vendors
1 1,011 (20.92%) Microsoft
2 279 (5.77%) Databricks
3 277 (5.73%) Google
4 235 (4.86%) Oracle
5 180 (3.72%) ServiceNow
6 164 (3.39%) Splunk
7 142 (2.94%) Dynatrace
8 133 (2.75%) Salesforce
9 99 (2.05%) VMware
10 98 (2.03%) SAP
11 91 (1.88%) Red Hat
12 66 (1.37%) IBM
13 63 (1.30%) OpenAI
14 51 (1.06%) Foundry
15 44 (0.91%) Cisco
16 40 (0.83%) Informatica
16 40 (0.83%) MuleSoft
17 34 (0.70%) AppDynamics
18 33 (0.68%) Atlassian
19 31 (0.64%) Okta