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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,446 2,433 3,471
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.64% 10.14% 9.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.52% 11.10% 11.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,117 1,759 2,409
10th Percentile £393 £388 £400
25th Percentile £443 £450 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £752 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 11 110
10th Percentile £39.53 £35.00 £56.50
25th Percentile £59.94 £51.25 £61.34
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - +3.05% -
75th Percentile £78.25 £82.48 £77.50
90th Percentile £94.25 £92.50 £87.05
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £71.61 £65.50
% change year-on-year -2.25% +9.33% -

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 35,523 21,911 31,466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.02% 91.34% 85.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,505 14,200 20,503
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.55% -0.36% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,228 974 2,317
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.83
25th Percentile £20.69 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.53 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.77% -23.93% +0.54%
75th Percentile £68.00 £59.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.71 £27.64 £36.50
% change year-on-year +54.50% -24.27% +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 4 June 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 4 June 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 4 June 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 +3 2,263 £550 - 704
North of England +7 813 £500 - 326
South East +1 471 £525 +5.00% 294
Yorkshire +2 448 £500 - 91
Midlands +3 415 £488 -2.50% 129
West Midlands +2 327 £500 -4.58% 89
North West +3 301 £500 - 190
South West +15 278 £523 -5.00% 146
East of England +21 128 £525 +5.00% 85
East Midlands 0 84 £465 +0.54% 40
North East +8 82 £450 -14.29% 46
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
1 248 (5.58%) Confluence
2 124 (2.79%) Apache Spark
3 109 (2.45%) SharePoint
4 92 (2.07%) Apache
5 87 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
6 74 (1.66%) SAS
7 44 (0.99%) CMS
8 26 (0.58%) IIS
8 26 (0.58%) nginx
9 24 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
10 21 (0.47%) Jupyter
11 16 (0.36%) OpenStack
12 14 (0.31%) Camunda
13 12 (0.27%) WebSphere
14 11 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
15 9 (0.20%) Mendix
15 9 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
16 8 (0.18%) HCL Notes
16 8 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
17 7 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 67 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
3 46 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 33 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
5 25 (0.56%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.11%) CPLEX
7 4 (0.090%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.090%) Notion
8 3 (0.067%) Trello
9 2 (0.045%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.045%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.022%) InDesign
10 1 (0.022%) Maya
10 1 (0.022%) Weka
Business Applications
1 59 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 9 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.18%) Aladdin
5 8 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
5 8 (0.18%) Maximo
6 7 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.11%) Endur
7 5 (0.11%) Magento
8 4 (0.090%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.067%) Findur
9 3 (0.067%) NEC Housing
9 3 (0.067%) OpenText MBPM
9 3 (0.067%) Oracle BPM
9 3 (0.067%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.067%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.067%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.067%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.067%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 2,378 (53.49%) Azure
2 1,510 (33.96%) AWS
3 1,290 (29.01%) Azure DevOps
4 730 (16.42%) GitHub
5 556 (12.51%) GCP
6 431 (9.69%) GitHub Actions
7 395 (8.88%) Serverless
8 380 (8.55%) Power Platform
9 242 (5.44%) Amazon S3
10 216 (4.86%) Entra ID
11 212 (4.77%) AWS Lambda
12 187 (4.21%) AWS CloudFormation
13 184 (4.14%) Azure AKS
14 180 (4.05%) Azure Data Factory
15 158 (3.55%) Amazon EKS
16 147 (3.31%) PaaS
17 145 (3.26%) OpenShift
18 138 (3.10%) Amazon EC2
19 137 (3.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 135 (3.04%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 218 (4.90%) Firewall
2 118 (2.65%) DNS
3 96 (2.16%) Network Security
4 92 (2.07%) VPN
5 46 (1.03%) TCP/IP
6 44 (0.99%) WAN
7 36 (0.81%) SD-WAN
8 31 (0.70%) BGP
9 26 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
10 24 (0.54%) SSL
11 23 (0.52%) OSPF
12 22 (0.49%) DHCP
13 20 (0.45%) Internet
14 19 (0.43%) HTTP
14 19 (0.43%) SAN
15 18 (0.40%) IPsec
16 17 (0.38%) MPLS
16 17 (0.38%) VXLAN
17 16 (0.36%) LAN
18 15 (0.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 250 (5.62%) Power BI
2 230 (5.17%) SQL Server
3 212 (4.77%) PostgreSQL
4 157 (3.53%) NoSQL
5 155 (3.49%) Data Lake
6 134 (3.01%) Relational Database
7 129 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
8 119 (2.68%) MongoDB
9 97 (2.18%) Amazon RDS
10 92 (2.07%) Azure SQL Database
11 83 (1.87%) Delta Lake
12 75 (1.69%) DynamoDB
13 74 (1.66%) Oracle Database
14 71 (1.60%) Metadata
15 59 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
16 56 (1.26%) Redis
17 53 (1.19%) Big Data
18 51 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
19 49 (1.10%) BigQuery
20 44 (0.99%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 617 (13.88%) Jenkins
2 553 (12.44%) Git
3 518 (11.65%) JIRA
4 458 (10.30%) GitLab
5 91 (2.05%) Selenium
6 88 (1.98%) Postman
7 75 (1.69%) SonarQube
8 72 (1.62%) JUnit
9 61 (1.37%) Bitbucket
10 58 (1.30%) REST Assured
11 57 (1.28%) Maven
12 50 (1.12%) Cucumber
13 49 (1.10%) Artifactory
14 44 (0.99%) JMeter
15 40 (0.90%) Cypress.io
15 40 (0.90%) Gatling
16 36 (0.81%) Gradle
17 35 (0.79%) Mockito
18 29 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
19 28 (0.63%) LoadRunner
General
1 1,136 (25.55%) Social Skills
2 838 (18.85%) Finance
3 553 (12.44%) Public Sector
4 372 (8.37%) Analytical Skills
5 305 (6.86%) Banking
6 136 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
7 76 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 69 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
9 62 (1.39%) Retail
10 54 (1.21%) Legal
11 50 (1.12%) Marketing
12 49 (1.10%) Financial Institution
13 47 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
14 39 (0.88%) Investment Banking
15 37 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
16 36 (0.81%) Military
17 33 (0.74%) Front Office
18 30 (0.67%) Law
19 24 (0.54%) Aerospace
20 22 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 880 (19.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 623 (14.01%) Senior
3 622 (13.99%) Developer
4 545 (12.26%) Architect
5 398 (8.95%) Lead
6 299 (6.73%) Azure Engineer
7 276 (6.21%) Data Engineer
8 265 (5.96%) Analyst
9 190 (4.27%) AWS Engineer
10 173 (3.89%) Cloud Engineer
11 172 (3.87%) Solutions Architect
12 157 (3.53%) Platform Engineer
13 145 (3.26%) Senior DevOps
14 144 (3.24%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 143 (3.22%) Business Analyst
16 138 (3.10%) Software Engineer
17 131 (2.95%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 130 (2.92%) AWS DevOps
19 122 (2.74%) Java Developer
20 119 (2.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 406 (9.13%) REST
2 375 (8.43%) .NET
3 257 (5.78%) Kafka
4 252 (5.67%) React
5 239 (5.38%) Spring
6 229 (5.15%) Spring Boot
7 208 (4.68%) Node.js
8 195 (4.39%) RESTful
9 149 (3.35%) AngularJS
10 129 (2.90%) PySpark
11 124 (2.79%) OAuth
12 123 (2.77%) Playwright
13 122 (2.74%) YAML
14 118 (2.65%) JSON
15 103 (2.32%) SOAP
16 96 (2.16%) Middleware
17 95 (2.14%) .NET Framework
17 95 (2.14%) HTML
17 95 (2.14%) OpenID
18 84 (1.89%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 748 (16.82%) Cloud Native
2 275 (6.19%) Product Ownership
3 180 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
4 118 (2.65%) Onboarding
5 107 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
6 95 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
7 91 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
8 84 (1.89%) Public Cloud
9 69 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
10 61 (1.37%) Data Centre
11 59 (1.33%) Management Information System
12 47 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
13 46 (1.03%) Mobile App
13 46 (1.03%) Security Posture
14 43 (0.97%) AI Agents
15 42 (0.94%) Replication
16 40 (0.90%) Private Cloud
16 40 (0.90%) Virtual Team
17 39 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
18 38 (0.85%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 390 (8.77%) Linux
2 235 (5.29%) Windows
3 87 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 66 (1.48%) Unix
5 47 (1.06%) Windows Server
6 31 (0.70%) VMS
7 26 (0.58%) Ubuntu
8 20 (0.45%) Apple iOS
9 16 (0.36%) Android
10 13 (0.29%) CentOS
11 10 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
12 9 (0.20%) Solaris
13 7 (0.16%) Windows 10
14 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
14 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
16 4 (0.090%) Alpine Linux
16 4 (0.090%) Data ONTAP
16 4 (0.090%) Windows Server 2012
17 3 (0.067%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,517 (56.61%) CI/CD
2 1,614 (36.30%) Agile
3 1,150 (25.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 683 (15.36%) Containerisation
5 672 (15.11%) Problem-Solving
6 629 (14.15%) Microservices
7 623 (14.01%) Test Automation
8 603 (13.56%) Continuous Improvement
9 553 (12.44%) Migration
10 548 (12.33%) Observability
11 532 (11.97%) Stakeholder Management
12 518 (11.65%) Analytics
13 509 (11.45%) AI
14 501 (11.27%) Scrum
15 462 (10.39%) Software Engineering
16 428 (9.63%) Platform Engineering
17 411 (9.24%) Data Modelling
18 372 (8.37%) Roadmaps
19 371 (8.34%) Mentoring
20 364 (8.19%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1,216 (27.35%) Python
2 891 (20.04%) SQL
3 607 (13.65%) Java
4 406 (9.13%) C#
5 335 (7.53%) PowerShell
6 323 (7.26%) Bash
7 315 (7.09%) JavaScript
8 224 (5.04%) TypeScript
9 148 (3.33%) Bicep
10 90 (2.02%) Go
11 62 (1.39%) Scala
12 55 (1.24%) Shell Script
13 47 (1.06%) PL/SQL
14 45 (1.01%) Apex Code
14 45 (1.01%) T-SQL
15 36 (0.81%) Groovy
16 26 (0.58%) C++
17 25 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 23 (0.52%) Kotlin
19 22 (0.49%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,423 (32.01%) Security Cleared
2 1,167 (26.25%) SC Cleared
3 292 (6.57%) Degree
4 197 (4.43%) Azure Certification
5 147 (3.31%) DV Cleared
6 127 (2.86%) AWS Certification
7 124 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 115 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 73 (1.64%) CISSP
10 59 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
11 44 (0.99%) CISM
12 43 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
13 42 (0.94%) ISTQB
14 40 (0.90%) Master's Degree
15 37 (0.83%) PMI Certification
16 36 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 36 (0.81%) PMP
17 23 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
18 21 (0.47%) IIBA
18 21 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 385 (8.66%) QA
2 205 (4.61%) Data Quality
3 163 (3.67%) GDPR
4 117 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 113 (2.54%) Accessibility
6 112 (2.52%) NIST
7 61 (1.37%) NCSC
8 53 (1.19%) WCAG
9 45 (1.01%) PCI DSS
10 40 (0.90%) SLA
11 29 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 27 (0.61%) PMO
13 21 (0.47%) GRC
14 15 (0.34%) HIPAA
15 13 (0.29%) NIST 800
15 13 (0.29%) SOC 2
16 12 (0.27%) ISO 20022
16 12 (0.27%) PSD2
17 9 (0.20%) SEPA
18 7 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 846 (19.03%) Docker
2 161 (3.62%) Active Directory
3 68 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
4 63 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 33 (0.74%) vSphere
6 22 (0.49%) VMware NSX
7 17 (0.38%) Squid
7 17 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.31%) Postfix
8 14 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (0.22%) Hyper-V
10 7 (0.16%) Firmware
10 7 (0.16%) RACF
11 6 (0.13%) Corosync
11 6 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
12 5 (0.11%) HDFS
12 5 (0.11%) SRDF
13 4 (0.090%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
13 4 (0.090%) NFS
13 4 (0.090%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,253 (28.18%) Terraform
2 1,111 (24.99%) Kubernetes
3 445 (10.01%) Ansible
4 299 (6.73%) Grafana
5 253 (5.69%) Prometheus
6 82 (1.84%) Argo
7 70 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
8 60 (1.35%) Puppet
9 45 (1.01%) Istio
10 31 (0.70%) Progress Chef
11 27 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
12 26 (0.58%) Packer
13 22 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 22 (0.49%) vCenter Server
14 20 (0.45%) Kibana
15 16 (0.36%) Consul
15 16 (0.36%) HP ALM
16 14 (0.31%) FortiGate
17 13 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
18 12 (0.27%) SCCM
Vendors
1 792 (17.81%) Microsoft
2 249 (5.60%) Oracle
3 246 (5.53%) Databricks
4 203 (4.57%) Google
5 173 (3.89%) Splunk
6 163 (3.67%) ServiceNow
7 137 (3.08%) Red Hat
8 136 (3.06%) Salesforce
9 104 (2.34%) VMware
10 102 (2.29%) SAP
11 97 (2.18%) Dynatrace
12 58 (1.30%) OpenAI
13 47 (1.06%) Atlassian
13 47 (1.06%) CyberArk
14 46 (1.03%) IBM
15 39 (0.88%) Informatica
16 38 (0.85%) AppDynamics
17 37 (0.83%) Foundry
18 36 (0.81%) Cisco
19 30 (0.67%) Okta