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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,389 2,383 3,428
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.57% 10.01% 9.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.47% 10.97% 10.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,071 1,740 2,393
10th Percentile £393 £393 £400
25th Percentile £447 £454 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £653 £650
90th Percentile £700 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 11 108
10th Percentile £39.53 £35.00 £56.50
25th Percentile £55.88 £51.25 £61.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.50 £65.25
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -0.38%
75th Percentile £77.75 £82.48 £77.81
90th Percentile £94.50 £92.50 £87.14
UK median hourly rate £69.25 £73.23 £65.25
% change year-on-year -5.43% +12.22% -0.38%

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 35,194 21,730 31,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.78% 91.29% 86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,373 14,199 20,591
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £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 2,179 923 2,284
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.22 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £15.99
Median hourly rate £45.59 £28.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.80% -23.29% -2.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.11
90th Percentile £81.01 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.28 £27.45 £36.00
% change year-on-year +54.01% -23.75% -3.49%

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 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 26 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 26 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 +4 2,233 £550 -1.79% 584
North of England +6 785 £500 - 302
South East +3 484 £513 +2.50% 258
Yorkshire +1 438 £500 - 81
Midlands +4 402 £488 -2.50% 102
West Midlands +1 313 £500 -4.58% 72
South West +16 287 £525 -4.55% 130
North West +2 286 £500 - 172
East of England +17 128 £525 +3.45% 69
East Midlands -1 85 £465 +0.54% 30
North East +6 77 £450 -16.28% 52
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
1 240 (5.47%) Confluence
2 120 (2.73%) Apache Spark
3 106 (2.42%) SharePoint
4 85 (1.94%) Apache
5 74 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
6 67 (1.53%) SAS
7 39 (0.89%) CMS
8 25 (0.57%) IIS
9 24 (0.55%) nginx
10 21 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
11 18 (0.41%) OpenStack
12 13 (0.30%) Jupyter
13 12 (0.27%) WebSphere
14 11 (0.25%) Camunda
14 11 (0.25%) Mendix
15 10 (0.23%) HCL Notes
15 10 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
16 9 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
17 8 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
18 6 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 64 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
3 43 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
5 23 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.091%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.091%) CPLEX
6 4 (0.091%) Trello
7 3 (0.068%) Notion
8 2 (0.046%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.046%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.023%) InDesign
9 1 (0.023%) Maya
9 1 (0.023%) Weka
Business Applications
1 54 (1.23%) 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 (0.091%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.091%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.068%) Findur
9 3 (0.068%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.068%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 2 (0.046%) Dynamics GP
10 2 (0.046%) OpenText MBPM
10 2 (0.046%) SAP MM
10 2 (0.046%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 2,341 (53.34%) Azure
2 1,470 (33.49%) AWS
3 1,274 (29.03%) Azure DevOps
4 709 (16.15%) GitHub
5 558 (12.71%) GCP
6 413 (9.41%) GitHub Actions
7 395 (9.00%) Serverless
8 371 (8.45%) Power Platform
9 237 (5.40%) Amazon S3
10 213 (4.85%) Entra ID
11 199 (4.53%) AWS Lambda
12 195 (4.44%) Azure Data Factory
13 193 (4.40%) AWS CloudFormation
14 185 (4.22%) Azure AKS
15 160 (3.65%) OpenShift
16 149 (3.39%) Amazon EKS
17 140 (3.19%) PaaS
18 138 (3.14%) Azure Monitor
19 133 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
20 129 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 201 (4.58%) Firewall
2 111 (2.53%) DNS
3 88 (2.01%) Network Security
4 86 (1.96%) VPN
5 43 (0.98%) TCP/IP
6 39 (0.89%) WAN
7 34 (0.77%) SD-WAN
8 29 (0.66%) BGP
9 26 (0.59%) SSL
10 24 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
11 21 (0.48%) DHCP
11 21 (0.48%) HTTP
11 21 (0.48%) OSPF
12 18 (0.41%) IPsec
12 18 (0.41%) SAN
13 17 (0.39%) MPLS
14 16 (0.36%) VXLAN
15 15 (0.34%) Internet
15 15 (0.34%) LAN
16 14 (0.32%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 248 (5.65%) Power BI
2 217 (4.94%) SQL Server
3 216 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
4 162 (3.69%) NoSQL
5 155 (3.53%) Data Lake
6 137 (3.12%) Relational Database
7 122 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
8 116 (2.64%) MongoDB
9 90 (2.05%) Azure SQL Database
10 88 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
11 87 (1.98%) Delta Lake
12 75 (1.71%) DynamoDB
13 71 (1.62%) Metadata
14 68 (1.55%) Oracle Database
15 62 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
16 54 (1.23%) Big Data
16 54 (1.23%) Redis
17 49 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
18 48 (1.09%) BigQuery
19 45 (1.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 615 (14.01%) Jenkins
2 549 (12.51%) Git
3 513 (11.69%) JIRA
4 442 (10.07%) GitLab
5 91 (2.07%) Selenium
6 90 (2.05%) Postman
7 73 (1.66%) SonarQube
8 72 (1.64%) JUnit
9 58 (1.32%) Bitbucket
9 58 (1.32%) REST Assured
10 57 (1.30%) Maven
11 50 (1.14%) Cucumber
12 46 (1.05%) Artifactory
13 44 (1.00%) JMeter
14 41 (0.93%) Cypress.io
15 40 (0.91%) Gatling
16 33 (0.75%) Gradle
16 33 (0.75%) Mockito
17 27 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
18 26 (0.59%) LoadRunner
General
1 1,103 (25.13%) Social Skills
2 826 (18.82%) Finance
3 528 (12.03%) Public Sector
4 364 (8.29%) Analytical Skills
5 306 (6.97%) Banking
6 131 (2.98%) Documentation Skills
7 71 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
8 68 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 61 (1.39%) Retail
10 53 (1.21%) Legal
11 52 (1.18%) Financial Institution
12 49 (1.12%) Marketing
12 49 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
13 38 (0.87%) Front Office
13 38 (0.87%) Investment Banking
13 38 (0.87%) Military
14 37 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
15 26 (0.59%) Law
16 23 (0.52%) Aerospace
17 20 (0.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 875 (19.94%) DevOps Engineer
2 616 (14.04%) Developer
3 605 (13.78%) Senior
4 524 (11.94%) Architect
5 380 (8.66%) Lead
6 300 (6.84%) Azure Engineer
7 282 (6.43%) Data Engineer
8 262 (5.97%) Analyst
9 184 (4.19%) AWS Engineer
10 166 (3.78%) Cloud Engineer
10 166 (3.78%) Solutions Architect
11 155 (3.53%) Platform Engineer
12 143 (3.26%) Senior DevOps
13 139 (3.17%) Software Engineer
14 138 (3.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 137 (3.12%) Business Analyst
16 131 (2.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 130 (2.96%) AWS DevOps
18 122 (2.78%) Java Developer
19 118 (2.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 394 (8.98%) REST
2 373 (8.50%) .NET
3 265 (6.04%) Kafka
4 249 (5.67%) React
5 240 (5.47%) Spring
6 229 (5.22%) Spring Boot
7 216 (4.92%) Node.js
8 199 (4.53%) RESTful
9 147 (3.35%) AngularJS
10 134 (3.05%) PySpark
11 127 (2.89%) YAML
12 126 (2.87%) Playwright
13 124 (2.83%) JSON
14 119 (2.71%) OAuth
15 102 (2.32%) SOAP
16 98 (2.23%) Middleware
17 94 (2.14%) HTML
18 92 (2.10%) .NET Framework
19 88 (2.01%) OpenID
20 86 (1.96%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 704 (16.04%) Cloud Native
2 273 (6.22%) Product Ownership
3 175 (3.99%) Distributed Systems
4 115 (2.62%) Onboarding
5 100 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
6 89 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
7 87 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
8 78 (1.78%) Public Cloud
9 71 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
10 55 (1.25%) Data Centre
11 50 (1.14%) Management Information System
12 46 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
13 43 (0.98%) AI Agents
14 40 (0.91%) Mobile App
14 40 (0.91%) Replication
15 39 (0.89%) Data Structures
15 39 (0.89%) Private Cloud
15 39 (0.89%) Virtual Team
16 37 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
17 36 (0.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 382 (8.70%) Linux
2 222 (5.06%) Windows
3 69 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 65 (1.48%) Unix
5 42 (0.96%) Windows Server
6 34 (0.77%) VMS
7 22 (0.50%) Ubuntu
8 17 (0.39%) Apple iOS
9 14 (0.32%) Android
10 12 (0.27%) 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 (0.091%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.091%) Windows Server 2012
16 3 (0.068%) Mac OS
16 3 (0.068%) Oracle Linux
16 3 (0.068%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,468 (56.23%) CI/CD
2 1,586 (36.14%) Agile
3 1,103 (25.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 685 (15.61%) Containerisation
5 672 (15.31%) Problem-Solving
6 629 (14.33%) Microservices
7 610 (13.90%) Test Automation
8 589 (13.42%) Continuous Improvement
9 536 (12.21%) Migration
10 527 (12.01%) Observability
11 510 (11.62%) Analytics
12 506 (11.53%) Stakeholder Management
13 500 (11.39%) AI
14 478 (10.89%) Scrum
15 439 (10.00%) Software Engineering
16 416 (9.48%) Data Modelling
17 405 (9.23%) Platform Engineering
18 365 (8.32%) Mentoring
19 352 (8.02%) Roadmaps
20 349 (7.95%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 1,188 (27.07%) Python
2 885 (20.16%) SQL
3 593 (13.51%) Java
4 409 (9.32%) C#
5 314 (7.15%) JavaScript
6 311 (7.09%) PowerShell
7 304 (6.93%) Bash
8 226 (5.15%) TypeScript
9 146 (3.33%) Bicep
10 92 (2.10%) Go
11 67 (1.53%) Scala
12 53 (1.21%) Shell Script
13 48 (1.09%) PL/SQL
14 43 (0.98%) Apex Code
15 42 (0.96%) T-SQL
16 40 (0.91%) Groovy
17 28 (0.64%) C++
18 27 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 23 (0.52%) Ruby
20 22 (0.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,408 (32.08%) Security Cleared
2 1,155 (26.32%) SC Cleared
3 282 (6.43%) Degree
4 190 (4.33%) Azure Certification
5 145 (3.30%) DV Cleared
6 123 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 114 (2.60%) AWS Certification
8 104 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
9 64 (1.46%) CISSP
10 55 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
11 45 (1.03%) CISM
11 45 (1.03%) ISTQB
12 42 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
13 40 (0.91%) Master's Degree
14 37 (0.84%) PMI Certification
15 36 (0.82%) PMP
16 35 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 23 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
18 21 (0.48%) IIBA
19 20 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 382 (8.70%) QA
2 206 (4.69%) Data Quality
3 160 (3.65%) GDPR
4 117 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 111 (2.53%) NIST
6 106 (2.42%) Accessibility
7 60 (1.37%) NCSC
8 48 (1.09%) WCAG
9 46 (1.05%) PCI DSS
10 37 (0.84%) SLA
11 31 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 28 (0.64%) PMO
13 20 (0.46%) GRC
14 14 (0.32%) HIPAA
15 13 (0.30%) ISO 20022
15 13 (0.30%) NIST 800
16 12 (0.27%) PSD2
17 11 (0.25%) SOC 2
18 10 (0.23%) SEPA
19 7 (0.16%) HL7
System Software
1 832 (18.96%) Docker
2 159 (3.62%) Active Directory
3 66 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
4 57 (1.30%) 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 14 (0.32%) Postfix
9 10 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (0.21%) Hyper-V
11 8 (0.18%) Firmware
12 6 (0.14%) Corosync
12 6 (0.14%) RACF
13 5 (0.11%) HDFS
13 5 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
14 4 (0.091%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
14 4 (0.091%) NFS
14 4 (0.091%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 4 (0.091%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,224 (27.89%) Terraform
2 1,114 (25.38%) Kubernetes
3 449 (10.23%) Ansible
4 294 (6.70%) Grafana
5 247 (5.63%) Prometheus
6 84 (1.91%) Argo
7 67 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
8 62 (1.41%) Puppet
9 44 (1.00%) Istio
10 27 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
11 26 (0.59%) Packer
12 25 (0.57%) Progress Chef
13 22 (0.50%) Kibana
14 21 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 20 (0.46%) vCenter Server
16 16 (0.36%) Consul
16 16 (0.36%) HP ALM
17 14 (0.32%) FortiGate
17 14 (0.32%) Rancher
18 12 (0.27%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 778 (17.73%) Microsoft
2 258 (5.88%) Databricks
3 250 (5.70%) Oracle
4 192 (4.37%) Google
5 178 (4.06%) Splunk
6 168 (3.83%) ServiceNow
7 135 (3.08%) Salesforce
8 133 (3.03%) Red Hat
9 100 (2.28%) VMware
10 99 (2.26%) SAP
11 95 (2.16%) Dynatrace
12 63 (1.44%) OpenAI
13 47 (1.07%) Atlassian
14 45 (1.03%) CyberArk
15 43 (0.98%) IBM
16 37 (0.84%) Foundry
17 36 (0.82%) AppDynamics
17 36 (0.82%) Informatica
18 34 (0.77%) Cisco
19 28 (0.64%) Denodo