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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 15 14
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,794 2,996 3,319
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.38% 10.80% 10.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.24% 11.88% 11.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,306 2,126 2,258
10th Percentile £383 £360 £400
25th Percentile £438 £425 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -5.66%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £703 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 22 67
10th Percentile £37.25 £43.38 £55.60
25th Percentile £55.88 £54.75 £65.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -4.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £87.06 £74.72
90th Percentile £94.00 £95.00 £85.41
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +0.75% -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 39,153 25,217 28,330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.77% 90.89% 86.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,009 16,021 17,785
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
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 2,713 1,491 1,342
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.30 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.65 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.75 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 2,532 £550 - 1,628
North of England -2 791 £500 +5.26% 459
South East -12 454 £525 +5.00% 408
Midlands -5 443 £488 -4.88% 190
Yorkshire -2 391 £500 +3.09% 131
West Midlands -7 347 £500 -4.76% 113
South West +8 317 £550 +4.76% 224
North West -4 309 £524 +14.47% 244
East of England +8 144 £505 -3.35% 135
North East +16 106 £425 -18.27% 87
East Midlands 0 93 £463 +10.12% 76
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
1 290 (6.05%) Confluence
2 142 (2.96%) SharePoint
3 122 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
4 110 (2.29%) Apache Spark
5 97 (2.02%) Apache
6 55 (1.15%) SAS
7 39 (0.81%) CMS
8 36 (0.75%) Jupyter
9 24 (0.50%) nginx
10 23 (0.48%) IIS
11 19 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
12 14 (0.29%) Camunda
13 12 (0.25%) OpenStack
14 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
15 9 (0.19%) Anypoint
15 9 (0.19%) Appian
15 9 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
15 9 (0.19%) WebSphere
16 8 (0.17%) WebLogic
17 7 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 63 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
3 44 (0.92%) MS Visio
4 32 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 31 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
6 12 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.19%) CPLEX
7 9 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.15%) Trello
9 5 (0.10%) Notion
9 5 (0.10%) Windchill
10 2 (0.042%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.042%) Mingle
11 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.021%) Gliffy
11 1 (0.021%) Mozilla Thunderbird
11 1 (0.021%) Sketch
11 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 67 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 30 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 10 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.19%) Magento
6 7 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 6 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
7 6 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.10%) Aladdin
8 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
8 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
9 4 (0.083%) Endur
9 4 (0.083%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.063%) Findur
10 3 (0.063%) Maximo
10 3 (0.063%) Oracle EBS R12
10 3 (0.063%) Oracle ERP
10 3 (0.063%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.063%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 3 (0.063%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,598 (54.19%) Azure
2 1,675 (34.94%) AWS
3 1,500 (31.29%) Azure DevOps
4 826 (17.23%) GitHub
5 616 (12.85%) GCP
6 527 (10.99%) GitHub Actions
7 424 (8.84%) Power Platform
8 403 (8.41%) Serverless
9 251 (5.24%) Amazon S3
10 241 (5.03%) AWS Lambda
11 228 (4.76%) Entra ID
12 201 (4.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 186 (3.88%) Amazon EKS
14 184 (3.84%) Azure AKS
15 175 (3.65%) AWS CloudFormation
16 174 (3.63%) Azure Data Factory
17 170 (3.55%) Azure Monitor
18 163 (3.40%) Dynamics 365
19 158 (3.30%) Amazon EC2
20 153 (3.19%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 222 (4.63%) Firewall
2 144 (3.00%) DNS
3 110 (2.29%) VPN
4 103 (2.15%) Network Security
5 66 (1.38%) TCP/IP
6 47 (0.98%) SSL
6 47 (0.98%) WAN
7 40 (0.83%) DHCP
8 31 (0.65%) SD-WAN
9 29 (0.60%) BGP
10 28 (0.58%) Internet
11 27 (0.56%) HTTP
12 25 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
13 23 (0.48%) SSH
14 21 (0.44%) OSPF
15 19 (0.40%) VLAN
16 18 (0.38%) SAN
17 16 (0.33%) BIG-IP
17 16 (0.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
18 14 (0.29%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 288 (6.01%) Power BI
2 259 (5.40%) SQL Server
3 247 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
4 185 (3.86%) Data Warehouse
5 162 (3.38%) NoSQL
6 153 (3.19%) Relational Database
7 147 (3.07%) Data Lake
8 145 (3.02%) MongoDB
9 115 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
10 113 (2.36%) Metadata
11 83 (1.73%) Delta Lake
12 81 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
13 79 (1.65%) DynamoDB
14 77 (1.61%) Oracle Database
15 73 (1.52%) MySQL
16 66 (1.38%) Redis
17 56 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
18 53 (1.11%) Big Data
19 52 (1.08%) BigQuery
19 52 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 672 (14.02%) Jenkins
2 668 (13.93%) Git
3 554 (11.56%) JIRA
4 542 (11.31%) GitLab
5 114 (2.38%) Selenium
6 91 (1.90%) SonarQube
7 81 (1.69%) Maven
8 78 (1.63%) JUnit
8 78 (1.63%) Postman
9 66 (1.38%) Bitbucket
10 59 (1.23%) Cypress.io
10 59 (1.23%) REST Assured
11 56 (1.17%) Gradle
11 56 (1.17%) JMeter
12 54 (1.13%) Cucumber
13 43 (0.90%) Gatling
14 41 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
15 39 (0.81%) Mockito
16 36 (0.75%) Artifactory
16 36 (0.75%) LoadRunner
General
1 1,267 (26.43%) Social Skills
2 894 (18.65%) Finance
3 636 (13.27%) Public Sector
4 471 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
5 347 (7.24%) Banking
6 145 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 103 (2.15%) Retail
8 80 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
9 76 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
10 54 (1.13%) Marketing
11 53 (1.11%) Legal
11 53 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
12 51 (1.06%) Aerospace
13 50 (1.04%) Military
14 48 (1.00%) Investment Banking
15 42 (0.88%) Front Office
15 42 (0.88%) Telecoms
16 40 (0.83%) Law
17 39 (0.81%) Manufacturing
18 37 (0.77%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 911 (19.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 744 (15.52%) Developer
3 742 (15.48%) Senior
4 560 (11.68%) Architect
5 476 (9.93%) Lead
6 293 (6.11%) Azure Engineer
7 277 (5.78%) Data Engineer
8 235 (4.90%) Analyst
9 197 (4.11%) Platform Engineer
10 194 (4.05%) AWS Engineer
11 180 (3.75%) Cloud Engineer
12 166 (3.46%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 166 (3.46%) Senior DevOps
13 161 (3.36%) Solutions Architect
14 155 (3.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 144 (3.00%) Java Developer
16 139 (2.90%) Senior Developer
17 132 (2.75%) Software Engineer
18 130 (2.71%) AWS DevOps
19 118 (2.46%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,404 (29.29%) Terraform
2 505 (10.53%) REST
3 408 (8.51%) .NET
4 331 (6.90%) Kafka
5 267 (5.57%) RESTful
6 250 (5.21%) React
7 240 (5.01%) Spring
8 235 (4.90%) Spring Boot
9 161 (3.36%) JSON
10 154 (3.21%) Node.js
11 142 (2.96%) OAuth
12 140 (2.92%) PySpark
13 134 (2.80%) Playwright
14 118 (2.46%) HTML
15 117 (2.44%) .NET Framework
16 112 (2.34%) CSS
17 111 (2.32%) SOAP
18 100 (2.09%) AngularJS
19 95 (1.98%) YAML
20 94 (1.96%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 869 (18.13%) Cloud Native
2 379 (7.91%) Product Ownership
3 225 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
4 175 (3.65%) Enterprise Software
5 165 (3.44%) Onboarding
6 139 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
7 122 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
8 90 (1.88%) AI Agents
9 77 (1.61%) Management Information System
10 69 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
11 67 (1.40%) Replication
12 65 (1.36%) Security Posture
13 64 (1.34%) Public Cloud
13 64 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
14 63 (1.31%) Data Structures
15 57 (1.19%) Data Centre
15 57 (1.19%) Virtual Team
16 52 (1.08%) Mobile App
17 42 (0.88%) PKI
18 41 (0.86%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 471 (9.82%) Linux
2 273 (5.69%) Windows
3 112 (2.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 95 (1.98%) Unix
5 80 (1.67%) Windows Server
6 34 (0.71%) Ubuntu
7 32 (0.67%) Apple iOS
8 29 (0.60%) VMS
9 22 (0.46%) Android
10 11 (0.23%) CentOS
11 10 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
12 9 (0.19%) zOS
13 8 (0.17%) Solaris
13 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
13 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
14 7 (0.15%) AIX
15 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
16 4 (0.083%) Alpine Linux
16 4 (0.083%) Data ONTAP
16 4 (0.083%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,843 (59.30%) CI/CD
2 1,953 (40.74%) Agile
3 1,392 (29.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 828 (17.27%) Continuous Improvement
5 820 (17.10%) Stakeholder Management
6 782 (16.31%) Containerisation
7 775 (16.17%) Problem-Solving
8 758 (15.81%) AI
9 755 (15.75%) Test Automation
10 704 (14.69%) Microservices
11 663 (13.83%) Observability
12 639 (13.33%) Software Engineering
13 634 (13.22%) Platform Engineering
14 587 (12.24%) Scrum
15 567 (11.83%) Migration
16 524 (10.93%) Technical Leadership
17 514 (10.72%) Analytics
18 457 (9.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 444 (9.26%) Roadmaps
20 416 (8.68%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,405 (29.31%) Python
2 867 (18.09%) SQL
3 704 (14.69%) Java
4 446 (9.30%) PowerShell
5 427 (8.91%) Bash
6 426 (8.89%) C#
7 383 (7.99%) JavaScript
8 264 (5.51%) TypeScript
9 218 (4.55%) Bicep
10 77 (1.61%) Go
11 64 (1.34%) Shell Script
12 58 (1.21%) T-SQL
13 57 (1.19%) Groovy
14 54 (1.13%) Scala
15 48 (1.00%) Apex Code
15 48 (1.00%) PL/SQL
16 32 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 30 (0.63%) Perl
18 29 (0.60%) C++
19 24 (0.50%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,539 (32.10%) Security Cleared
2 1,283 (26.76%) SC Cleared
3 317 (6.61%) Degree
4 208 (4.34%) Azure Certification
5 205 (4.28%) DV Cleared
6 162 (3.38%) AWS Certification
7 140 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
8 120 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
9 106 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
10 74 (1.54%) CISSP
11 47 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
12 46 (0.96%) ISTQB
13 44 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 39 (0.81%) PMP
15 35 (0.73%) Master's Degree
16 33 (0.69%) 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%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 486 (10.14%) QA
2 250 (5.21%) Data Quality
3 162 (3.38%) Accessibility
4 117 (2.44%) GDPR
5 88 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 81 (1.69%) WCAG
7 79 (1.65%) NIST
8 47 (0.98%) NCSC
9 46 (0.96%) PMO
10 32 (0.67%) SLA
11 28 (0.58%) PCI DSS
12 27 (0.56%) GRC
13 21 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 17 (0.35%) ISO 20022
15 13 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
16 11 (0.23%) SEPA
17 10 (0.21%) HIPAA
18 9 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
18 9 (0.19%) HL7
19 8 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 973 (20.30%) Docker
2 151 (3.15%) Active Directory
3 73 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
4 66 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (0.44%) Hyper-V
5 21 (0.44%) vSphere
6 20 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (0.33%) VMware NSX
8 15 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (0.27%) Squid
10 11 (0.23%) IAG
11 9 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
11 9 (0.19%) Postfix
12 6 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 6 (0.13%) Corosync
12 6 (0.13%) KVM
12 6 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.10%) NFS
14 4 (0.083%) Firmware
15 3 (0.063%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 1,261 (26.30%) Kubernetes
2 485 (10.12%) Ansible
3 316 (6.59%) Grafana
4 267 (5.57%) Prometheus
5 69 (1.44%) Argo
6 61 (1.27%) Puppet
7 50 (1.04%) Progress Chef
7 50 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
8 45 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
9 32 (0.67%) Packer
10 23 (0.48%) Kibana
11 22 (0.46%) Istio
12 19 (0.40%) Kustomize
13 18 (0.38%) Kubeflow
13 18 (0.38%) SCCM
13 18 (0.38%) vCenter Server
14 14 (0.29%) HP ALM
14 14 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
15 13 (0.27%) HAProxy
15 13 (0.27%) SCOM
Vendors
1 963 (20.09%) Microsoft
2 259 (5.40%) Databricks
3 245 (5.11%) Oracle
4 237 (4.94%) Google
5 191 (3.98%) ServiceNow
6 163 (3.40%) Splunk
7 143 (2.98%) Salesforce
8 132 (2.75%) Dynatrace
9 104 (2.17%) VMware
10 101 (2.11%) Red Hat
11 96 (2.00%) SAP
12 63 (1.31%) IBM
13 52 (1.08%) OpenAI
14 48 (1.00%) Informatica
15 43 (0.90%) Cisco
15 43 (0.90%) Foundry
16 39 (0.81%) AppDynamics
17 34 (0.71%) Atlassian
17 34 (0.71%) MuleSoft
18 30 (0.63%) CyberArk