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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,815 2,928 3,333
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.54% 10.63% 10.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.43% 11.70% 11.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,310 2,105 2,279
10th Percentile £385 £360 £400
25th Percentile £438 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.78%
75th Percentile £625 £634 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.01% -5.50% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 23 76
10th Percentile £35.90 £36.50 £56.13
25th Percentile £55.00 £52.13 £61.51
Median hourly rate £67.00 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -4.29% +6.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 £85.86 £74.44
90th Percentile £93.63 £95.00 £85.13
UK median hourly rate £67.60 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +0.90% -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 38,748 25,020 28,500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.82% 90.83% 85.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,949 15,925 18,341
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.74% -2.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £627 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,582 1,471 1,520
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.25 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.87 £18.13
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +65.23% -38.57% -3.67%

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 August 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 25 August 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 25 August 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 2,544 £550 - 465
North of England +1 801 £500 +4.17% 268
South East -10 464 £525 +5.00% 285
Midlands 0 447 £488 -2.50% 125
Yorkshire 0 391 £500 +1.63% 79
West Midlands -3 355 £490 -5.50% 72
North West -2 317 £519 +10.46% 141
South West +6 309 £525 +1.45% 197
East of England +11 140 £505 -3.35% 53
North East +14 110 £425 -19.05% 51
East Midlands +6 88 £455 -1.62% 53
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
1 290 (6.02%) Confluence
2 134 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 120 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
4 114 (2.37%) Apache Spark
5 99 (2.06%) Apache
6 55 (1.14%) SAS
7 40 (0.83%) CMS
8 34 (0.71%) Jupyter
9 32 (0.66%) IIS
10 22 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
11 21 (0.44%) nginx
12 16 (0.33%) Camunda
13 12 (0.25%) OpenStack
14 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
14 11 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
14 11 (0.23%) WebSphere
15 9 (0.19%) Anypoint
15 9 (0.19%) Appian
16 6 (0.12%) Documentum
16 6 (0.12%) Mule
Applications
1 60 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
2 58 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 40 (0.83%) MS Visio
4 30 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
4 30 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.19%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.19%) CPLEX
5 9 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.12%) Trello
7 5 (0.10%) Notion
8 4 (0.083%) Windchill
9 1 (0.021%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
9 1 (0.021%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.021%) InDesign
9 1 (0.021%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 64 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 30 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
4 9 (0.19%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
4 9 (0.19%) Magento
5 8 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 6 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
8 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
9 4 (0.083%) Endur
9 4 (0.083%) Maximo
9 4 (0.083%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.083%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.062%) Findur
10 3 (0.062%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.062%) Shopify
10 3 (0.062%) Teamcenter
11 2 (0.042%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 2,639 (54.81%) Azure
2 1,666 (34.60%) AWS
3 1,534 (31.86%) Azure DevOps
4 810 (16.82%) GitHub
5 598 (12.42%) GCP
6 514 (10.67%) GitHub Actions
7 423 (8.79%) Power Platform
8 396 (8.22%) Serverless
9 238 (4.94%) Entra ID
10 235 (4.88%) Amazon S3
11 232 (4.82%) AWS Lambda
12 199 (4.13%) Azure AKS
13 182 (3.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 181 (3.76%) AWS CloudFormation
15 178 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
15 178 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
16 177 (3.68%) Azure Data Factory
17 164 (3.41%) Dynamics 365
18 156 (3.24%) Power Automate
19 146 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 228 (4.74%) Firewall
2 146 (3.03%) DNS
3 113 (2.35%) VPN
4 102 (2.12%) Network Security
5 63 (1.31%) TCP/IP
6 54 (1.12%) WAN
7 42 (0.87%) SSL
8 39 (0.81%) SD-WAN
9 38 (0.79%) DHCP
10 35 (0.73%) BGP
11 32 (0.66%) Internet
12 29 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
13 28 (0.58%) HTTP
14 26 (0.54%) OSPF
15 22 (0.46%) SSH
16 20 (0.42%) VLAN
17 19 (0.39%) SAN
18 18 (0.37%) LAN
18 18 (0.37%) MPLS
18 18 (0.37%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 293 (6.09%) Power BI
2 258 (5.36%) SQL Server
3 242 (5.03%) PostgreSQL
4 180 (3.74%) Data Warehouse
5 171 (3.55%) NoSQL
6 153 (3.18%) Relational Database
7 143 (2.97%) Data Lake
8 142 (2.95%) MongoDB
9 108 (2.24%) Metadata
10 105 (2.18%) Amazon RDS
11 92 (1.91%) Azure SQL Database
12 78 (1.62%) Delta Lake
13 77 (1.60%) DynamoDB
14 76 (1.58%) Oracle Database
15 68 (1.41%) Redis
16 57 (1.18%) MySQL
17 56 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
18 53 (1.10%) Big Data
19 51 (1.06%) BigQuery
20 50 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 658 (13.67%) Jenkins
2 643 (13.35%) Git
3 571 (11.86%) JIRA
4 514 (10.67%) GitLab
5 114 (2.37%) Selenium
6 83 (1.72%) Postman
6 83 (1.72%) SonarQube
7 75 (1.56%) JUnit
8 73 (1.52%) Bitbucket
9 71 (1.47%) Maven
10 58 (1.20%) Cypress.io
10 58 (1.20%) JMeter
10 58 (1.20%) REST Assured
11 49 (1.02%) Cucumber
11 49 (1.02%) Gradle
12 48 (1.00%) Gatling
13 41 (0.85%) LoadRunner
14 37 (0.77%) Mockito
15 36 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
16 33 (0.69%) Artifactory
General
1 1,254 (26.04%) Social Skills
2 906 (18.82%) Finance
3 658 (13.67%) Public Sector
4 464 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
5 335 (6.96%) Banking
6 137 (2.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 102 (2.12%) Retail
8 87 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
9 68 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
10 57 (1.18%) Legal
11 55 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
12 54 (1.12%) Marketing
13 47 (0.98%) Aerospace
13 47 (0.98%) Investment Banking
14 43 (0.89%) Military
15 41 (0.85%) Front Office
15 41 (0.85%) Law
15 41 (0.85%) Telecoms
16 37 (0.77%) Financial Institution
17 35 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 892 (18.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 768 (15.95%) Developer
3 722 (14.99%) Senior
4 558 (11.59%) Architect
5 479 (9.95%) Lead
6 296 (6.15%) Azure Engineer
7 276 (5.73%) Data Engineer
8 234 (4.86%) Analyst
9 196 (4.07%) AWS Engineer
10 195 (4.05%) Platform Engineer
11 173 (3.59%) Cloud Engineer
12 169 (3.51%) Senior DevOps
13 162 (3.36%) Solutions Architect
14 157 (3.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 155 (3.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 138 (2.87%) Java Developer
17 136 (2.82%) AWS DevOps
18 134 (2.78%) Software Engineer
19 131 (2.72%) Senior Developer
20 124 (2.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,376 (28.58%) Terraform
2 497 (10.32%) REST
3 431 (8.95%) .NET
4 312 (6.48%) Kafka
5 263 (5.46%) RESTful
6 242 (5.03%) React
7 230 (4.78%) Spring
8 216 (4.49%) Spring Boot
9 164 (3.41%) Node.js
10 161 (3.34%) JSON
11 143 (2.97%) PySpark
12 142 (2.95%) OAuth
13 136 (2.82%) Playwright
14 130 (2.70%) .NET Framework
15 119 (2.47%) SOAP
16 118 (2.45%) AngularJS
17 117 (2.43%) HTML
18 105 (2.18%) CSS
19 102 (2.12%) YAML
20 98 (2.04%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 876 (18.19%) Cloud Native
2 365 (7.58%) Product Ownership
3 228 (4.74%) Distributed Systems
4 160 (3.32%) Enterprise Software
5 156 (3.24%) Onboarding
6 139 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
7 134 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
8 80 (1.66%) AI Agents
9 78 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
10 71 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
11 68 (1.41%) Management Information System
12 66 (1.37%) Data Structures
13 60 (1.25%) Public Cloud
14 59 (1.23%) Data Centre
14 59 (1.23%) Security Posture
15 58 (1.20%) Replication
16 52 (1.08%) Mobile App
17 50 (1.04%) Virtual Team
18 38 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
18 38 (0.79%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 439 (9.12%) Linux
2 269 (5.59%) Windows
3 99 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 85 (1.77%) Unix
5 76 (1.58%) Windows Server
6 31 (0.64%) Ubuntu
7 30 (0.62%) Apple iOS
8 29 (0.60%) VMS
9 20 (0.42%) Android
10 10 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
11 8 (0.17%) AIX
11 8 (0.17%) CentOS
11 8 (0.17%) Solaris
11 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.17%) zOS
12 7 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
14 4 (0.083%) Alpine Linux
14 4 (0.083%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,804 (58.23%) CI/CD
2 1,952 (40.54%) Agile
3 1,338 (27.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 813 (16.88%) Continuous Improvement
5 773 (16.05%) Containerisation
6 767 (15.93%) Problem-Solving
7 762 (15.83%) Stakeholder Management
8 750 (15.58%) Test Automation
9 708 (14.70%) AI
10 703 (14.60%) Microservices
11 639 (13.27%) Observability
12 608 (12.63%) Software Engineering
13 603 (12.52%) Platform Engineering
14 584 (12.13%) Scrum
15 581 (12.07%) Migration
16 528 (10.97%) Analytics
17 497 (10.32%) Technical Leadership
18 457 (9.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 424 (8.81%) Roadmaps
20 413 (8.58%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,379 (28.64%) Python
2 898 (18.65%) SQL
3 687 (14.27%) Java
4 442 (9.18%) C#
5 434 (9.01%) PowerShell
6 403 (8.37%) Bash
7 380 (7.89%) JavaScript
8 259 (5.38%) TypeScript
9 215 (4.47%) Bicep
10 75 (1.56%) Go
11 64 (1.33%) Shell Script
12 56 (1.16%) T-SQL
13 55 (1.14%) Groovy
14 53 (1.10%) Scala
15 51 (1.06%) Apex Code
15 51 (1.06%) PL/SQL
16 31 (0.64%) C++
17 29 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 29 (0.60%) Perl
18 21 (0.44%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,544 (32.07%) Security Cleared
2 1,301 (27.02%) SC Cleared
3 306 (6.36%) Degree
4 200 (4.15%) Azure Certification
5 181 (3.76%) DV Cleared
6 156 (3.24%) AWS Certification
7 130 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 113 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
9 90 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
10 67 (1.39%) CISSP
11 51 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
12 48 (1.00%) ISTQB
13 44 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 38 (0.79%) PMP
15 34 (0.71%) PMI Certification
16 33 (0.69%) Master's Degree
17 28 (0.58%) CISM
18 25 (0.52%) CCNP
19 22 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 22 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 468 (9.72%) QA
2 245 (5.09%) Data Quality
3 157 (3.26%) Accessibility
4 116 (2.41%) GDPR
5 89 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 75 (1.56%) NIST
7 72 (1.50%) WCAG
8 46 (0.96%) NCSC
9 45 (0.93%) PMO
10 35 (0.73%) SLA
11 31 (0.64%) PCI DSS
12 28 (0.58%) GRC
13 24 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 13 (0.27%) ISO 20022
15 11 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
16 10 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
17 9 (0.19%) HIPAA
17 9 (0.19%) HL7
17 9 (0.19%) SEPA
18 6 (0.12%) PSD2
System Software
1 944 (19.61%) Docker
2 158 (3.28%) Active Directory
3 72 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 71 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (0.48%) Hyper-V
6 22 (0.46%) vSphere
7 20 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
8 17 (0.35%) VMware NSX
9 14 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
10 13 (0.27%) Squid
11 10 (0.21%) IAG
11 10 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
11 10 (0.21%) Postfix
12 8 (0.17%) KVM
13 6 (0.12%) Corosync
13 6 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
14 5 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 5 (0.10%) Firmware
14 5 (0.10%) NFS
15 4 (0.083%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,231 (25.57%) Kubernetes
2 472 (9.80%) Ansible
3 308 (6.40%) Grafana
4 262 (5.44%) Prometheus
5 73 (1.52%) Argo
6 57 (1.18%) Puppet
7 52 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
8 43 (0.89%) Progress Chef
9 37 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
10 31 (0.64%) Packer
11 27 (0.56%) Istio
12 20 (0.42%) Kibana
13 19 (0.39%) vCenter Server
14 18 (0.37%) Kustomize
14 18 (0.37%) SCCM
15 17 (0.35%) Kubeflow
16 13 (0.27%) Control-M
16 13 (0.27%) HP ALM
16 13 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
17 12 (0.25%) systemd
Vendors
1 956 (19.85%) Microsoft
2 253 (5.25%) Databricks
3 245 (5.09%) Oracle
4 223 (4.63%) Google
5 187 (3.88%) ServiceNow
6 163 (3.39%) Splunk
7 142 (2.95%) Salesforce
8 128 (2.66%) Dynatrace
9 100 (2.08%) VMware
10 97 (2.01%) SAP
11 93 (1.93%) Red Hat
12 61 (1.27%) IBM
13 51 (1.06%) Informatica
14 48 (1.00%) Cisco
15 45 (0.93%) OpenAI
16 44 (0.91%) AppDynamics
17 43 (0.89%) Atlassian
18 38 (0.79%) Foundry
19 35 (0.73%) MuleSoft
20 32 (0.66%) CyberArk