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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 14 14
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,795 3,054 3,289
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.30% 10.93% 10.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.17% 12.03% 11.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,298 2,171 2,200
10th Percentile £381 £363 £400
25th Percentile £438 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £561
Median % change year-on-year - -6.46% -3.24%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £711 £713 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 20 63
10th Percentile £37.35 £41.75 £53.50
25th Percentile £56.63 £58.25 £65.00
Median hourly rate £68.75 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% -4.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £79.00 £90.31 £74.22
90th Percentile £93.63 £96.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +4.48% -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 39,398 25,390 28,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.63% 90.87% 86.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,997 16,126 17,350
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,849 1,543 1,244
10th Percentile £13.90 £14.41 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.23% -41.51% -1.94%
75th Percentile £67.70 £47.50 £66.61
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 26 September 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 2,531 £550 - 2,384
North of England -2 785 £500 +5.26% 733
South East -13 449 £536 +7.20% 600
Midlands -6 431 £488 -4.88% 302
Yorkshire -2 388 £500 +2.56% 218
West Midlands -7 346 £500 -4.76% 182
South West +5 323 £550 +4.76% 327
North West -5 304 £528 +16.45% 414
East of England +7 158 £504 -4.00% 227
North East +10 108 £450 -18.18% 105
East Midlands -6 82 £459 +1.94% 120
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
1 289 (6.03%) Confluence
2 142 (2.96%) SharePoint
3 121 (2.52%) Apache Airflow
4 115 (2.40%) Apache Spark
5 98 (2.04%) Apache
6 56 (1.17%) SAS
7 42 (0.88%) CMS
8 40 (0.83%) Jupyter
9 24 (0.50%) nginx
10 20 (0.42%) IIS
11 19 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
12 15 (0.31%) Camunda
13 13 (0.27%) OpenStack
14 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
15 9 (0.19%) Anypoint
15 9 (0.19%) Appian
15 9 (0.19%) WebSphere
16 8 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
16 8 (0.17%) WebLogic
17 6 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 61 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (1.00%) MS Visio
3 46 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
4 32 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 29 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
6 13 (0.27%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.17%) CPLEX
7 8 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.17%) Windchill
8 5 (0.10%) Notion
8 5 (0.10%) Trello
9 2 (0.042%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.042%) Gliffy
9 2 (0.042%) Mingle
10 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
10 1 (0.021%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.021%) Sketch
10 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 70 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 35 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 10 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.19%) Magento
6 8 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 6 (0.13%) Aladdin
7 6 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
7 6 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.13%) SAP MDG
8 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
8 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
9 3 (0.063%) Endur
9 3 (0.063%) Maximo
9 3 (0.063%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.063%) Oracle Payroll
9 3 (0.063%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.063%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.063%) Temenos T24
9 3 (0.063%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2,570 (53.60%) Azure
2 1,678 (34.99%) AWS
3 1,484 (30.95%) Azure DevOps
4 806 (16.81%) GitHub
5 627 (13.08%) GCP
6 509 (10.62%) GitHub Actions
7 432 (9.01%) Power Platform
8 400 (8.34%) Serverless
9 250 (5.21%) Amazon S3
10 240 (5.01%) AWS Lambda
11 232 (4.84%) Entra ID
12 203 (4.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 194 (4.05%) Amazon EKS
14 181 (3.77%) Azure AKS
15 170 (3.55%) Dynamics 365
16 169 (3.52%) AWS CloudFormation
16 169 (3.52%) Azure Data Factory
16 169 (3.52%) Azure Monitor
17 157 (3.27%) Amazon EC2
17 157 (3.27%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 222 (4.63%) Firewall
2 143 (2.98%) DNS
3 110 (2.29%) VPN
4 106 (2.21%) Network Security
5 71 (1.48%) TCP/IP
6 54 (1.13%) SSL
7 44 (0.92%) WAN
8 40 (0.83%) DHCP
9 34 (0.71%) BGP
10 31 (0.65%) HTTP
11 28 (0.58%) Internet
12 26 (0.54%) OSPF
12 26 (0.54%) SD-WAN
13 25 (0.52%) SSH
14 23 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
15 19 (0.40%) LAN
15 19 (0.40%) VLAN
16 17 (0.35%) SAN
17 16 (0.33%) BIG-IP
17 16 (0.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 290 (6.05%) Power BI
2 254 (5.30%) SQL Server
3 246 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
4 186 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
5 159 (3.32%) NoSQL
6 150 (3.13%) Data Lake
7 144 (3.00%) MongoDB
8 139 (2.90%) Relational Database
9 118 (2.46%) Metadata
10 115 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
11 83 (1.73%) Delta Lake
12 78 (1.63%) DynamoDB
13 77 (1.61%) Oracle Database
14 74 (1.54%) MySQL
15 72 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
16 70 (1.46%) Redis
17 55 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 54 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
19 53 (1.11%) Big Data
19 53 (1.11%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 690 (14.39%) Git
2 650 (13.56%) Jenkins
3 548 (11.43%) GitLab
4 539 (11.24%) JIRA
5 125 (2.61%) Selenium
6 83 (1.73%) SonarQube
7 80 (1.67%) Postman
8 79 (1.65%) Maven
9 78 (1.63%) JUnit
10 66 (1.38%) Cucumber
11 61 (1.27%) Bitbucket
12 59 (1.23%) Cypress.io
12 59 (1.23%) REST Assured
13 58 (1.21%) JMeter
14 56 (1.17%) Gradle
15 42 (0.88%) Gatling
16 40 (0.83%) Mockito
17 38 (0.79%) Visual Studio
18 37 (0.77%) Claude Code
19 36 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,256 (26.19%) Social Skills
2 896 (18.69%) Finance
3 630 (13.14%) Public Sector
4 474 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
5 354 (7.38%) Banking
6 147 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 106 (2.21%) Retail
8 83 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
9 77 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
10 59 (1.23%) Aerospace
11 55 (1.15%) Marketing
12 52 (1.08%) Military
13 51 (1.06%) Legal
14 49 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
15 45 (0.94%) Telecoms
16 44 (0.92%) Manufacturing
17 43 (0.90%) Investment Banking
18 40 (0.83%) Law
19 39 (0.81%) Local Government
20 36 (0.75%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 911 (19.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 747 (15.58%) Developer
3 745 (15.54%) Senior
4 568 (11.85%) Architect
5 469 (9.78%) Lead
6 295 (6.15%) Azure Engineer
7 276 (5.76%) Data Engineer
8 237 (4.94%) Analyst
9 197 (4.11%) AWS Engineer
10 190 (3.96%) Platform Engineer
11 176 (3.67%) Cloud Engineer
12 170 (3.55%) Senior DevOps
13 167 (3.48%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 158 (3.30%) Solutions Architect
15 157 (3.27%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 140 (2.92%) Java Developer
17 134 (2.79%) AWS DevOps
18 133 (2.77%) Software Engineer
19 130 (2.71%) Senior Developer
20 123 (2.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,412 (29.45%) Terraform
2 529 (11.03%) REST
3 407 (8.49%) .NET
4 330 (6.88%) Kafka
5 275 (5.74%) RESTful
6 260 (5.42%) React
7 238 (4.96%) Spring
8 236 (4.92%) Spring Boot
9 159 (3.32%) OAuth
10 157 (3.27%) JSON
11 155 (3.23%) Node.js
12 139 (2.90%) PySpark
13 129 (2.69%) Playwright
14 122 (2.54%) HTML
15 120 (2.50%) .NET Framework
15 120 (2.50%) SOAP
16 114 (2.38%) CSS
17 106 (2.21%) OAuth2
18 101 (2.11%) Middleware
19 96 (2.00%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 879 (18.33%) Cloud Native
2 372 (7.76%) Product Ownership
3 220 (4.59%) Distributed Systems
4 184 (3.84%) Onboarding
5 183 (3.82%) Enterprise Software
6 137 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
7 124 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
8 101 (2.11%) AI Agents
9 86 (1.79%) Management Information System
10 72 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
11 69 (1.44%) Security Posture
12 67 (1.40%) Public Cloud
13 65 (1.36%) Data Structures
13 65 (1.36%) Replication
14 61 (1.27%) Data Centre
15 59 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
16 55 (1.15%) Virtual Team
17 50 (1.04%) Mobile App
18 46 (0.96%) PKI
19 44 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 485 (10.11%) Linux
2 278 (5.80%) Windows
3 116 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 92 (1.92%) Unix
5 84 (1.75%) Windows Server
6 36 (0.75%) Ubuntu
7 30 (0.63%) Apple iOS
8 27 (0.56%) VMS
9 21 (0.44%) Android
10 15 (0.31%) 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 (0.15%) AIX
13 7 (0.15%) Solaris
14 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
14 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.083%) Alpine Linux
15 4 (0.083%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,879 (60.04%) CI/CD
2 1,954 (40.75%) Agile
3 1,412 (29.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 847 (17.66%) Stakeholder Management
5 823 (17.16%) Continuous Improvement
6 809 (16.87%) AI
7 779 (16.25%) Test Automation
8 774 (16.14%) Containerisation
9 762 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
10 703 (14.66%) Microservices
11 690 (14.39%) Observability
12 652 (13.60%) Software Engineering
13 650 (13.56%) Platform Engineering
14 593 (12.37%) Scrum
15 588 (12.26%) Migration
16 552 (11.51%) Technical Leadership
17 520 (10.84%) Analytics
18 457 (9.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 447 (9.32%) Roadmaps
20 428 (8.93%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,416 (29.53%) Python
2 848 (17.69%) SQL
3 700 (14.60%) Java
4 437 (9.11%) PowerShell
5 436 (9.09%) C#
6 420 (8.76%) Bash
7 395 (8.24%) JavaScript
8 276 (5.76%) TypeScript
9 222 (4.63%) Bicep
10 91 (1.90%) Go
11 63 (1.31%) Shell Script
12 56 (1.17%) T-SQL
13 54 (1.13%) Scala
14 52 (1.08%) Groovy
15 47 (0.98%) PL/SQL
16 43 (0.90%) Apex Code
17 33 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 31 (0.65%) C++
19 29 (0.60%) Perl
20 25 (0.52%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,547 (32.26%) Security Cleared
2 1,294 (26.99%) SC Cleared
3 337 (7.03%) Degree
4 219 (4.57%) DV Cleared
5 216 (4.50%) Azure Certification
6 171 (3.57%) AWS Certification
7 145 (3.02%) BPSS Clearance
8 129 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
9 110 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 74 (1.54%) CISSP
11 52 (1.08%) ISTQB
12 51 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
13 45 (0.94%) PMP
14 43 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 41 (0.86%) Master's Degree
16 38 (0.79%) PMI Certification
17 31 (0.65%) CISM
18 21 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 21 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 21 (0.44%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 485 (10.11%) QA
2 249 (5.19%) Data Quality
3 163 (3.40%) Accessibility
4 114 (2.38%) GDPR
5 85 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 77 (1.61%) WCAG
7 71 (1.48%) NIST
8 46 (0.96%) NCSC
9 43 (0.90%) PMO
10 32 (0.67%) SLA
11 27 (0.56%) GRC
11 27 (0.56%) PCI DSS
12 20 (0.42%) ISO 20022
13 17 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 15 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
15 14 (0.29%) HIPAA
16 12 (0.25%) SEPA
16 12 (0.25%) SOC 2
17 11 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
18 9 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 960 (20.02%) Docker
2 143 (2.98%) Active Directory
3 71 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
4 67 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 23 (0.48%) vSphere
6 21 (0.44%) Hyper-V
7 20 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
8 16 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.25%) Squid
9 12 (0.25%) VMware NSX
10 10 (0.21%) IAG
11 9 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
12 8 (0.17%) Postfix
13 6 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 6 (0.13%) Corosync
13 6 (0.13%) KVM
13 6 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
14 5 (0.10%) NFS
14 5 (0.10%) RACF
15 4 (0.083%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1,252 (26.11%) Kubernetes
2 477 (9.95%) Ansible
3 308 (6.42%) Grafana
4 264 (5.51%) Prometheus
5 61 (1.27%) Argo
6 53 (1.11%) Puppet
7 48 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
8 44 (0.92%) Progress Chef
8 44 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
9 33 (0.69%) Packer
10 30 (0.63%) Kibana
11 22 (0.46%) Kubeflow
12 19 (0.40%) Istio
12 19 (0.40%) Kustomize
13 16 (0.33%) SCCM
14 15 (0.31%) HP ALM
14 15 (0.31%) vCenter Server
15 13 (0.27%) Control-M
15 13 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
15 13 (0.27%) SCOM
Vendors
1 971 (20.25%) Microsoft
2 268 (5.59%) Databricks
3 252 (5.26%) Google
4 238 (4.96%) Oracle
5 191 (3.98%) ServiceNow
6 170 (3.55%) Splunk
7 135 (2.82%) Salesforce
8 132 (2.75%) Dynatrace
9 104 (2.17%) VMware
10 96 (2.00%) SAP
11 93 (1.94%) Red Hat
12 70 (1.46%) IBM
13 60 (1.25%) OpenAI
14 49 (1.02%) Cisco
15 48 (1.00%) Foundry
16 38 (0.79%) AppDynamics
17 37 (0.77%) Informatica
18 35 (0.73%) MuleSoft
19 32 (0.67%) Okta
20 30 (0.63%) Atlassian