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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 16 15
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,793 2,777 3,461
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.66% 10.15% 9.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.49% 11.19% 11.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,299 2,003 2,379
10th Percentile £387 £363 £400
25th Percentile £440 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.01% -5.50% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 20 94
10th Percentile £36.13 £41.75 £56.55
25th Percentile £57.81 £52.56 £62.45
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.75% -4.29% +6.87%
75th Percentile £77.88 £82.24 £78.44
90th Percentile £94.69 £92.75 £86.92
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +4.48% -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 38,365 24,818 30,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.35% 90.70% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,059 15,915 19,627
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £633 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,375 1,336 1,933
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.23 £13.60
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.98 £17.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -37.13% -8.32%
75th Percentile £69.63 £52.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.35 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -6.98%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 24 July 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 +2 2,456 £550 - 767
North of England +4 868 £500 +2.83% 330
South East -9 461 £525 +5.00% 268
Midlands +1 453 £490 +3.16% 156
Yorkshire +2 446 £500 - 83
West Midlands -1 365 £500 - 109
North West 0 340 £524 +10.32% 181
South West +14 323 £518 -1.43% 152
East of England +21 139 £510 +2.00% 65
North East +11 101 £425 -18.66% 68
East Midlands 0 83 £488 +5.41% 47
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
2 121 (2.52%) SharePoint
3 120 (2.50%) Apache Spark
4 104 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
5 95 (1.98%) Apache
6 70 (1.46%) SAS
7 43 (0.90%) CMS
8 31 (0.65%) Jupyter
9 30 (0.63%) IIS
10 23 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
10 23 (0.48%) nginx
11 14 (0.29%) WebSphere
12 13 (0.27%) Camunda
13 12 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
14 11 (0.23%) OpenStack
14 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
15 9 (0.19%) Appian
16 7 (0.15%) Tomcat
16 7 (0.15%) WebLogic
17 6 (0.13%) Documentum
Applications
1 59 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 59 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
2 32 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 32 (0.67%) MS Visio
3 10 (0.21%) CPLEX
4 9 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
5 7 (0.15%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.13%) Trello
7 4 (0.083%) Notion
8 2 (0.042%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
9 1 (0.021%) InDesign
9 1 (0.021%) Maya
9 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 60 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.21%) Aladdin
3 10 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
4 9 (0.19%) Magento
4 9 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
5 8 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
5 8 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.13%) Maximo
6 6 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
7 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
7 5 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.083%) Endur
8 4 (0.083%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.083%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.063%) Findur
9 3 (0.063%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.063%) Shopify
9 3 (0.063%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2,546 (53.12%) Azure
2 1,675 (34.95%) AWS
3 1,444 (30.13%) Azure DevOps
4 778 (16.23%) GitHub
5 585 (12.21%) GCP
6 477 (9.95%) GitHub Actions
7 397 (8.28%) Power Platform
8 388 (8.10%) Serverless
9 254 (5.30%) Amazon S3
10 233 (4.86%) Entra ID
11 226 (4.72%) AWS Lambda
12 194 (4.05%) Azure AKS
13 182 (3.80%) AWS CloudFormation
14 176 (3.67%) Amazon EKS
15 166 (3.46%) Azure Monitor
16 163 (3.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 162 (3.38%) Azure Data Factory
18 151 (3.15%) Amazon EC2
19 143 (2.98%) Dynamics 365
20 139 (2.90%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 221 (4.61%) Firewall
2 134 (2.80%) DNS
3 109 (2.27%) Network Security
3 109 (2.27%) VPN
4 53 (1.11%) TCP/IP
5 48 (1.00%) WAN
6 38 (0.79%) SSL
7 36 (0.75%) SD-WAN
8 31 (0.65%) BGP
9 30 (0.63%) DHCP
9 30 (0.63%) Internet
10 27 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
11 25 (0.52%) OSPF
12 21 (0.44%) HTTP
13 18 (0.38%) SAN
13 18 (0.38%) VXLAN
14 17 (0.35%) MPLS
14 17 (0.35%) VLAN
15 16 (0.33%) BIG-IP
15 16 (0.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 275 (5.74%) Power BI
2 248 (5.17%) SQL Server
3 229 (4.78%) PostgreSQL
4 164 (3.42%) NoSQL
5 155 (3.23%) Relational Database
6 152 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
7 142 (2.96%) Data Lake
7 142 (2.96%) MongoDB
8 100 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
9 86 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
9 86 (1.79%) Metadata
10 85 (1.77%) DynamoDB
11 78 (1.63%) Delta Lake
12 77 (1.61%) Oracle Database
13 58 (1.21%) Big Data
13 58 (1.21%) Redis
14 54 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
15 49 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
16 46 (0.96%) MySQL
17 45 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 667 (13.92%) Jenkins
2 624 (13.02%) Git
3 570 (11.89%) JIRA
4 485 (10.12%) GitLab
5 107 (2.23%) Selenium
6 85 (1.77%) SonarQube
7 84 (1.75%) JUnit
8 83 (1.73%) Postman
9 69 (1.44%) Maven
10 68 (1.42%) Bitbucket
11 60 (1.25%) REST Assured
12 51 (1.06%) Cucumber
13 50 (1.04%) JMeter
14 47 (0.98%) Cypress.io
15 45 (0.94%) Gatling
16 42 (0.88%) Gradle
17 40 (0.83%) Mockito
18 34 (0.71%) LoadRunner
19 33 (0.69%) Artifactory
19 33 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,197 (24.97%) Social Skills
2 908 (18.94%) Finance
3 654 (13.64%) Public Sector
4 429 (8.95%) Analytical Skills
5 330 (6.89%) Banking
6 109 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 103 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
8 89 (1.86%) Retail
9 65 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
10 60 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
11 55 (1.15%) Marketing
12 53 (1.11%) Legal
13 46 (0.96%) Military
14 42 (0.88%) Investment Banking
15 40 (0.83%) Law
16 37 (0.77%) Financial Institution
16 37 (0.77%) Front Office
17 36 (0.75%) Telecoms
18 34 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
19 30 (0.63%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 918 (19.15%) DevOps Engineer
2 758 (15.81%) Developer
3 687 (14.33%) Senior
4 553 (11.54%) Architect
5 465 (9.70%) Lead
6 291 (6.07%) Azure Engineer
7 277 (5.78%) Data Engineer
8 258 (5.38%) Analyst
9 215 (4.49%) AWS Engineer
10 201 (4.19%) Platform Engineer
11 181 (3.78%) Cloud Engineer
12 172 (3.59%) Solutions Architect
13 170 (3.55%) Senior DevOps
14 156 (3.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 155 (3.23%) Java Developer
16 154 (3.21%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 149 (3.11%) AWS DevOps
18 136 (2.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 135 (2.82%) Software Engineer
20 130 (2.71%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 475 (9.91%) REST
2 411 (8.58%) .NET
3 283 (5.90%) Kafka
4 261 (5.45%) Spring
5 248 (5.17%) React
6 247 (5.15%) RESTful
7 244 (5.09%) Spring Boot
8 183 (3.82%) Node.js
9 142 (2.96%) JSON
10 139 (2.90%) PySpark
11 136 (2.84%) OAuth
12 134 (2.80%) AngularJS
13 130 (2.71%) Playwright
14 127 (2.65%) SOAP
15 125 (2.61%) .NET Framework
16 109 (2.27%) HTML
17 100 (2.09%) YAML
18 94 (1.96%) CSS
19 92 (1.92%) OAuth2
20 89 (1.86%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 850 (17.73%) Cloud Native
2 334 (6.97%) Product Ownership
3 229 (4.78%) Distributed Systems
4 141 (2.94%) Onboarding
5 136 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
6 131 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
7 114 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
8 78 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
9 72 (1.50%) Public Cloud
10 71 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
11 68 (1.42%) Security Posture
12 66 (1.38%) Management Information System
13 62 (1.29%) Data Centre
14 61 (1.27%) Data Structures
15 58 (1.21%) AI Agents
16 52 (1.08%) Replication
17 49 (1.02%) Virtual Team
18 48 (1.00%) Mobile App
19 41 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
20 37 (0.77%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 420 (8.76%) Linux
2 255 (5.32%) Windows
3 95 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 71 (1.48%) Unix
5 63 (1.31%) Windows Server
6 26 (0.54%) Ubuntu
7 25 (0.52%) VMS
8 24 (0.50%) Apple iOS
9 16 (0.33%) Android
10 9 (0.19%) Solaris
10 9 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.17%) zOS
12 6 (0.13%) AIX
12 6 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
12 6 (0.13%) CentOS
12 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
12 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
14 4 (0.083%) Alpine Linux
14 4 (0.083%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,747 (57.31%) CI/CD
2 1,894 (39.52%) Agile
3 1,270 (26.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 777 (16.21%) Containerisation
5 738 (15.40%) Problem-Solving
6 728 (15.19%) Continuous Improvement
7 702 (14.65%) Test Automation
8 700 (14.60%) Microservices
9 661 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
10 655 (13.67%) AI
11 604 (12.60%) Observability
12 591 (12.33%) Scrum
13 574 (11.98%) Software Engineering
14 572 (11.93%) Migration
15 558 (11.64%) Platform Engineering
16 531 (11.08%) Analytics
17 423 (8.83%) Technical Leadership
18 419 (8.74%) Data Modelling
19 418 (8.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 417 (8.70%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,343 (28.02%) Python
2 892 (18.61%) SQL
3 685 (14.29%) Java
4 430 (8.97%) C#
5 388 (8.10%) Bash
6 378 (7.89%) PowerShell
7 354 (7.39%) JavaScript
8 252 (5.26%) TypeScript
9 174 (3.63%) Bicep
10 92 (1.92%) Go
11 57 (1.19%) PL/SQL
12 55 (1.15%) Shell Script
13 54 (1.13%) T-SQL
14 50 (1.04%) Apex Code
15 49 (1.02%) Groovy
16 47 (0.98%) Scala
17 27 (0.56%) C++
18 26 (0.54%) Kotlin
19 22 (0.46%) C
19 22 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1,515 (31.61%) Security Cleared
2 1,257 (26.23%) SC Cleared
3 299 (6.24%) Degree
4 197 (4.11%) Azure Certification
5 182 (3.80%) DV Cleared
6 158 (3.30%) AWS Certification
7 122 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 107 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
9 77 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
10 74 (1.54%) CISSP
11 52 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
12 43 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 43 (0.90%) ISTQB
13 38 (0.79%) PMP
14 36 (0.75%) Master's Degree
15 34 (0.71%) PMI Certification
16 33 (0.69%) CISM
17 24 (0.50%) CCNP
18 23 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
19 21 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 432 (9.01%) QA
2 226 (4.72%) Data Quality
3 151 (3.15%) Accessibility
4 147 (3.07%) GDPR
5 82 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 80 (1.67%) NIST
7 70 (1.46%) WCAG
8 46 (0.96%) NCSC
9 40 (0.83%) PMO
10 39 (0.81%) PCI DSS
11 30 (0.63%) SLA
12 28 (0.58%) GRC
13 23 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 10 (0.21%) HIPAA
14 10 (0.21%) ISO 20022
15 9 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.19%) PSD2
15 9 (0.19%) SOC 2
16 8 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
16 8 (0.17%) SEPA
System Software
1 930 (19.40%) Docker
2 169 (3.53%) Active Directory
3 75 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
4 66 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 27 (0.56%) vSphere
6 23 (0.48%) VMware NSX
7 17 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
8 15 (0.31%) Hyper-V
8 15 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
9 14 (0.29%) Postfix
9 14 (0.29%) Squid
10 9 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
11 8 (0.17%) KVM
12 7 (0.15%) IAG
13 6 (0.13%) Corosync
13 6 (0.13%) RACF
14 5 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
14 5 (0.10%) NFS
14 5 (0.10%) SRDF
15 4 (0.083%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,357 (28.31%) Terraform
2 1,203 (25.10%) Kubernetes
3 470 (9.81%) Ansible
4 315 (6.57%) Grafana
5 266 (5.55%) Prometheus
6 84 (1.75%) Argo
7 62 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
8 55 (1.15%) Puppet
9 39 (0.81%) Progress Chef
10 33 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
11 30 (0.63%) Packer
12 29 (0.61%) Istio
13 26 (0.54%) vCenter Server
14 17 (0.35%) Kibana
15 15 (0.31%) Kustomize
15 15 (0.31%) SCCM
16 14 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 13 (0.27%) HP ALM
17 13 (0.27%) Kubeflow
18 12 (0.25%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 877 (18.30%) Microsoft
2 259 (5.40%) Oracle
3 234 (4.88%) Databricks
4 215 (4.49%) Google
5 187 (3.90%) ServiceNow
6 166 (3.46%) Splunk
7 146 (3.05%) Salesforce
8 117 (2.44%) Dynatrace
9 112 (2.34%) SAP
10 100 (2.09%) Red Hat
10 100 (2.09%) VMware
11 59 (1.23%) IBM
12 54 (1.13%) OpenAI
13 49 (1.02%) Atlassian
14 46 (0.96%) Informatica
15 43 (0.90%) Cisco
16 39 (0.81%) Foundry
17 35 (0.73%) AppDynamics
18 33 (0.69%) CyberArk
19 31 (0.65%) Okta