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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 16 15
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,363 2,411 3,414
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.58% 9.96% 9.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.50% 10.91% 10.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,065 1,768 2,375
10th Percentile £393 £399 £400
25th Percentile £447 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £539 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% -2.00% -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £663 £650
90th Percentile £702 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.76% -4.55% -5.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 13 106
10th Percentile £39.53 £38.25 £56.38
25th Percentile £55.50 £51.25 £61.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -0.76%
75th Percentile £77.50 £82.00 £78.44
90th Percentile £95.00 £90.59 £87.23
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £73.23 £65.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.65% -0.76%

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 34,902 22,108 31,434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.66% 91.30% 86.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,235 14,434 20,613
10th Percentile £325 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,141 960 2,249
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.42 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.22 £16.00
Median hourly rate £46.80 £28.75 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.78% -21.23% -0.11%
75th Percentile £67.84 £62.24 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.79% -23.29% +1.39%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 21 May 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 +5 2,225 £550 -2.22% 525
North of England +7 772 £500 - 282
South East +5 483 £514 +2.80% 281
Yorkshire +1 427 £500 -1.96% 83
Midlands +5 402 £488 -2.50% 100
West Midlands 0 311 £500 -4.58% 66
South West +17 287 £525 -4.55% 119
North West +3 283 £500 - 154
East of England +25 126 £525 +6.33% 81
East Midlands -1 87 £465 -0.80% 34
North East +6 76 £450 -14.29% 48
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
1 241 (5.52%) Confluence
2 121 (2.77%) Apache Spark
3 107 (2.45%) SharePoint
4 83 (1.90%) Apache
5 67 (1.54%) SAS
6 66 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
7 39 (0.89%) CMS
8 24 (0.55%) IIS
8 24 (0.55%) nginx
9 23 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
10 18 (0.41%) OpenStack
11 12 (0.28%) WebSphere
12 11 (0.25%) Mendix
13 10 (0.23%) Camunda
13 10 (0.23%) HCL Notes
13 10 (0.23%) Jupyter
14 9 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 9 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
15 7 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
16 6 (0.14%) Mattermost
Applications
1 65 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (1.24%) Microsoft Project
3 42 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
5 23 (0.53%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.092%) CPLEX
6 4 (0.092%) Trello
7 3 (0.069%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.046%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.046%) Notion
8 2 (0.046%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.023%) InDesign
9 1 (0.023%) Maya
9 1 (0.023%) Weka
Business Applications
1 56 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
3 10 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
4 9 (0.21%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.21%) Maximo
5 8 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
6 6 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.11%) Endur
7 5 (0.11%) Magento
7 5 (0.11%) NEC Housing
8 4 (0.092%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.092%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.069%) Findur
9 3 (0.069%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.069%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 2 (0.046%) Dynamics GP
10 2 (0.046%) SAP MM
10 2 (0.046%) Summit
10 2 (0.046%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 2,325 (53.29%) Azure
2 1,460 (33.46%) AWS
3 1,257 (28.81%) Azure DevOps
4 711 (16.30%) GitHub
5 558 (12.79%) GCP
6 413 (9.47%) GitHub Actions
7 406 (9.31%) Serverless
8 369 (8.46%) Power Platform
9 238 (5.45%) Amazon S3
10 209 (4.79%) Entra ID
11 205 (4.70%) AWS Lambda
12 195 (4.47%) AWS CloudFormation
13 193 (4.42%) Azure Data Factory
14 187 (4.29%) Azure AKS
15 159 (3.64%) OpenShift
16 153 (3.51%) Amazon EKS
17 138 (3.16%) Azure Monitor
17 138 (3.16%) PaaS
18 132 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
19 130 (2.98%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 202 (4.63%) Firewall
2 109 (2.50%) DNS
3 90 (2.06%) Network Security
4 85 (1.95%) VPN
5 42 (0.96%) TCP/IP
6 36 (0.83%) WAN
7 32 (0.73%) SD-WAN
8 26 (0.60%) BGP
9 25 (0.57%) SSL
10 22 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
11 21 (0.48%) DHCP
11 21 (0.48%) HTTP
12 19 (0.44%) OSPF
13 18 (0.41%) IPsec
14 17 (0.39%) SAN
15 16 (0.37%) MPLS
16 14 (0.32%) Internet
16 14 (0.32%) LAN
16 14 (0.32%) Reverse Proxy
16 14 (0.32%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 246 (5.64%) Power BI
2 217 (4.97%) PostgreSQL
3 213 (4.88%) SQL Server
4 165 (3.78%) NoSQL
5 153 (3.51%) Data Lake
6 136 (3.12%) Relational Database
7 119 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
8 113 (2.59%) MongoDB
9 90 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
10 88 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
11 83 (1.90%) Delta Lake
12 77 (1.76%) DynamoDB
13 73 (1.67%) Metadata
14 66 (1.51%) Oracle Database
15 64 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
16 55 (1.26%) Big Data
17 52 (1.19%) Redis
18 48 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
19 46 (1.05%) BigQuery
19 46 (1.05%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 623 (14.28%) Jenkins
2 552 (12.65%) Git
3 513 (11.76%) JIRA
4 437 (10.02%) GitLab
5 92 (2.11%) Selenium
6 90 (2.06%) Postman
7 75 (1.72%) SonarQube
8 72 (1.65%) JUnit
9 61 (1.40%) Bitbucket
10 58 (1.33%) Maven
10 58 (1.33%) REST Assured
11 50 (1.15%) Cucumber
12 47 (1.08%) Artifactory
13 44 (1.01%) JMeter
14 42 (0.96%) Cypress.io
15 40 (0.92%) Gatling
16 33 (0.76%) Gradle
17 32 (0.73%) Mockito
18 28 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
19 25 (0.57%) LoadRunner
General
1 1,097 (25.14%) Social Skills
2 816 (18.70%) Finance
3 530 (12.15%) Public Sector
4 368 (8.43%) Analytical Skills
5 299 (6.85%) Banking
6 132 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
7 71 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
8 65 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 61 (1.40%) Retail
10 50 (1.15%) Financial Institution
10 50 (1.15%) Legal
11 48 (1.10%) Marketing
11 48 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
12 41 (0.94%) Front Office
12 41 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
13 38 (0.87%) Military
14 36 (0.83%) Investment Banking
15 24 (0.55%) Law
16 23 (0.53%) Aerospace
17 21 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 872 (19.99%) DevOps Engineer
2 617 (14.14%) Developer
3 608 (13.94%) Senior
4 525 (12.03%) Architect
5 373 (8.55%) Lead
6 299 (6.85%) Azure Engineer
7 273 (6.26%) Data Engineer
8 262 (6.01%) Analyst
9 179 (4.10%) AWS Engineer
10 168 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
11 160 (3.67%) Cloud Engineer
12 152 (3.48%) Platform Engineer
13 141 (3.23%) Senior DevOps
14 138 (3.16%) Software Engineer
15 137 (3.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 134 (3.07%) Business Analyst
17 130 (2.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 128 (2.93%) AWS DevOps
19 119 (2.73%) Java Developer
20 116 (2.66%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 390 (8.94%) REST
2 361 (8.27%) .NET
3 271 (6.21%) Kafka
4 248 (5.68%) React
4 248 (5.68%) Spring
5 234 (5.36%) Spring Boot
6 222 (5.09%) Node.js
7 203 (4.65%) RESTful
8 150 (3.44%) AngularJS
9 130 (2.98%) Playwright
10 128 (2.93%) PySpark
11 126 (2.89%) YAML
12 120 (2.75%) JSON
13 116 (2.66%) OAuth
14 102 (2.34%) Middleware
15 101 (2.31%) SOAP
16 98 (2.25%) HTML
17 89 (2.04%) OpenID
18 88 (2.02%) .NET Framework
19 86 (1.97%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 694 (15.91%) Cloud Native
2 271 (6.21%) Product Ownership
3 172 (3.94%) Distributed Systems
4 115 (2.64%) Onboarding
5 96 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
6 87 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
7 84 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
8 78 (1.79%) Public Cloud
9 69 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
10 52 (1.19%) Data Centre
11 49 (1.12%) Management Information System
12 43 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
13 40 (0.92%) AI Agents
13 40 (0.92%) Mobile App
13 40 (0.92%) Replication
13 40 (0.92%) Virtual Team
14 38 (0.87%) Data Structures
14 38 (0.87%) Private Cloud
15 37 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
16 36 (0.83%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 377 (8.64%) Linux
2 218 (5.00%) Windows
3 67 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 65 (1.49%) Unix
5 39 (0.89%) Windows Server
6 35 (0.80%) VMS
7 23 (0.53%) Ubuntu
8 17 (0.39%) Apple iOS
9 14 (0.32%) Android
10 12 (0.28%) CentOS
11 10 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (0.16%) Windows 10
13 6 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
14 5 (0.11%) Solaris
15 4 (0.092%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.092%) Windows Server 2012
16 3 (0.069%) Mac OS
16 3 (0.069%) Oracle Linux
16 3 (0.069%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,454 (56.25%) CI/CD
2 1,590 (36.44%) Agile
3 1,086 (24.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 709 (16.25%) Containerisation
5 682 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
6 640 (14.67%) Microservices
7 607 (13.91%) Test Automation
8 579 (13.27%) Continuous Improvement
9 533 (12.22%) Migration
10 531 (12.17%) Observability
11 502 (11.51%) Stakeholder Management
12 496 (11.37%) Analytics
13 481 (11.02%) AI
14 476 (10.91%) Scrum
15 429 (9.83%) Software Engineering
16 413 (9.47%) Data Modelling
17 395 (9.05%) Platform Engineering
18 361 (8.27%) Mentoring
19 345 (7.91%) Roadmaps
20 343 (7.86%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 1,170 (26.82%) Python
2 873 (20.01%) SQL
3 602 (13.80%) Java
4 407 (9.33%) C#
5 315 (7.22%) JavaScript
6 307 (7.04%) PowerShell
7 303 (6.94%) Bash
8 228 (5.23%) TypeScript
9 143 (3.28%) Bicep
10 92 (2.11%) Go
11 68 (1.56%) Scala
12 52 (1.19%) Shell Script
13 49 (1.12%) PL/SQL
14 42 (0.96%) Apex Code
15 41 (0.94%) Groovy
16 40 (0.92%) T-SQL
17 29 (0.66%) C++
18 25 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 22 (0.50%) Ruby
20 21 (0.48%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,412 (32.36%) Security Cleared
2 1,160 (26.59%) SC Cleared
3 287 (6.58%) Degree
4 191 (4.38%) Azure Certification
5 146 (3.35%) DV Cleared
6 128 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 114 (2.61%) AWS Certification
8 107 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 63 (1.44%) CISSP
10 53 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
11 46 (1.05%) ISTQB
12 44 (1.01%) CISM
12 44 (1.01%) Master's Degree
13 41 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
14 38 (0.87%) PMI Certification
15 36 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 36 (0.83%) PMP
16 24 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
17 21 (0.48%) IIBA
18 20 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 383 (8.78%) QA
2 201 (4.61%) Data Quality
3 160 (3.67%) GDPR
4 117 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 111 (2.54%) NIST
6 106 (2.43%) Accessibility
7 60 (1.38%) NCSC
8 48 (1.10%) WCAG
9 46 (1.05%) PCI DSS
10 34 (0.78%) SLA
11 31 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 28 (0.64%) PMO
13 19 (0.44%) GRC
14 15 (0.34%) HIPAA
15 13 (0.30%) ISO 20022
15 13 (0.30%) NIST 800
16 12 (0.28%) PSD2
17 11 (0.25%) SOC 2
18 10 (0.23%) SEPA
19 7 (0.16%) HL7
System Software
1 852 (19.53%) Docker
2 157 (3.60%) Active Directory
3 69 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
4 57 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 31 (0.71%) vSphere
6 21 (0.48%) VMware NSX
7 17 (0.39%) Squid
7 17 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
8 13 (0.30%) Postfix
9 10 (0.23%) Hyper-V
9 10 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (0.18%) Firmware
11 6 (0.14%) Corosync
11 6 (0.14%) RACF
12 5 (0.11%) HDFS
12 5 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
13 4 (0.092%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
13 4 (0.092%) Lustre
13 4 (0.092%) NFS
13 4 (0.092%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1,204 (27.60%) Terraform
2 1,129 (25.88%) Kubernetes
3 445 (10.20%) Ansible
4 294 (6.74%) Grafana
5 246 (5.64%) Prometheus
6 84 (1.93%) Argo
7 68 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
8 65 (1.49%) Puppet
9 46 (1.05%) Istio
10 26 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
11 25 (0.57%) Progress Chef
12 24 (0.55%) Packer
13 23 (0.53%) Kibana
14 20 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 20 (0.46%) vCenter Server
15 17 (0.39%) HP ALM
16 16 (0.37%) Consul
17 14 (0.32%) FortiGate
17 14 (0.32%) Rancher
18 12 (0.28%) SCCM
Vendors
1 774 (17.74%) Microsoft
2 254 (5.82%) Databricks
3 247 (5.66%) Oracle
4 192 (4.40%) Google
5 181 (4.15%) Splunk
6 168 (3.85%) ServiceNow
7 134 (3.07%) Salesforce
8 131 (3.00%) Red Hat
9 100 (2.29%) SAP
9 100 (2.29%) VMware
10 94 (2.15%) Dynatrace
11 60 (1.38%) OpenAI
12 47 (1.08%) Atlassian
13 45 (1.03%) CyberArk
14 43 (0.99%) IBM
15 36 (0.83%) AppDynamics
15 36 (0.83%) Foundry
15 36 (0.83%) Informatica
16 35 (0.80%) Cisco
17 28 (0.64%) Denodo