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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
16 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 14 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 3,485 3,163 3,728
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.60% 10.16% 9.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.85% 11.71% 10.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,454 2,128 2,774
10th Percentile £363 £400 £413
25th Percentile £425 £475 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £625 £673 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -4.55% -3.51% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 36 97
10th Percentile - £43.72 £46.18
25th Percentile £45.46 £58.92 £51.25
Median hourly rate £58.50 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.43% +7.69% -0.92%
75th Percentile £72.13 £74.00 £76.53
90th Percentile £94.00 £80.38 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £58.50 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -16.43% +7.69% -0.92%

All Process and 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 27,129 27,014 35,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.29% 86.78% 88.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,216 16,502 24,361
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £642 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,789 972 1,496
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.10 £14.42
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.28 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -15.73% +27.14%
75th Percentile £46.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.72 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.33
% change year-on-year -28.14% -19.22% +23.80%

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 16 November 2025.

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 16 November 2025.

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 16 November 2025. 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 1,739 £550 -4.76% 1,251
North of England +4 608 £492 -1.60% 391
South East +2 370 £515 -12.30% 449
Midlands +13 365 £515 -6.36% 178
Yorkshire -1 326 £500 - 98
West Midlands +12 294 £525 -8.70% 126
North West +4 252 £453 -13.71% 252
South West +2 211 £543 -9.58% 198
East of England +28 110 £525 +5.00% 123
East Midlands +17 71 £418 -6.18% 51
North East -11 32 £550 -6.78% 42
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
1 231 (6.63%) Confluence
2 92 (2.64%) Apache
3 67 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
4 57 (1.64%) SAS
4 57 (1.64%) SharePoint
5 52 (1.49%) Apache Spark
6 38 (1.09%) CMS
7 37 (1.06%) nginx
8 29 (0.83%) IIS
9 28 (0.80%) JBoss
10 26 (0.75%) CICS
10 26 (0.75%) OpenStack
11 20 (0.57%) WebSphere
12 14 (0.40%) WebLogic
13 13 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
14 11 (0.32%) WebSphere Application Server
15 10 (0.29%) Mule
16 9 (0.26%) iPlanet
17 8 (0.23%) Anypoint
18 7 (0.20%) Jupyter
Applications
1 66 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 28 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
4 26 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (0.43%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.40%) Chatbot
7 12 (0.34%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 8 (0.23%) Weka
9 6 (0.17%) Trello
10 1 (0.029%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.029%) Moqups
10 1 (0.029%) Revit
Business Applications
1 57 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.63%) Endur
3 19 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (0.49%) VisionPLUS
5 16 (0.46%) Aladdin
6 15 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
7 13 (0.37%) Maximo
8 11 (0.32%) Oracle BPM
9 6 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
9 6 (0.17%) FLEXCUBE
9 6 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
10 5 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 4 (0.11%) Fidessa
11 4 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
11 4 (0.11%) SAP ERP
11 4 (0.11%) thinkFolio
11 4 (0.11%) Workday HCM
12 3 (0.086%) Salesforce CRM
12 3 (0.086%) SAP FI
12 3 (0.086%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,685 (48.35%) Azure
2 1,258 (36.10%) AWS
3 927 (26.60%) Azure DevOps
4 586 (16.81%) GitHub
5 495 (14.20%) GCP
6 370 (10.62%) Serverless
7 313 (8.98%) GitHub Actions
8 239 (6.86%) Power Platform
9 210 (6.03%) Amazon S3
10 191 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
11 182 (5.22%) AWS CloudFormation
12 166 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 155 (4.45%) Amazon EC2
14 142 (4.07%) Azure AKS
15 139 (3.99%) SaaS
16 136 (3.90%) Entra ID
17 133 (3.82%) Azure Data Factory
18 126 (3.62%) Dynamics 365
19 116 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
20 113 (3.24%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 192 (5.51%) Firewall
2 125 (3.59%) DNS
3 76 (2.18%) VPN
4 67 (1.92%) SSL
4 67 (1.92%) TCP/IP
5 64 (1.84%) Network Security
6 43 (1.23%) HTTP
7 34 (0.98%) SSH
8 32 (0.92%) HTTPS
9 31 (0.89%) SMTP
10 30 (0.86%) WAN
11 23 (0.66%) FTP
12 20 (0.57%) BGP
13 17 (0.49%) DHCP
13 17 (0.49%) LAN
14 16 (0.46%) MPLS
14 16 (0.46%) OpenLDAP
15 15 (0.43%) SD-WAN
16 13 (0.37%) Kerberos
17 12 (0.34%) IMAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 233 (6.69%) PostgreSQL
2 148 (4.25%) Power BI
3 143 (4.10%) SQL Server
4 142 (4.07%) NoSQL
5 127 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
6 99 (2.84%) MongoDB
7 84 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
8 81 (2.32%) Relational Database
9 76 (2.18%) Data Lake
10 71 (2.04%) Oracle Database
11 59 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
12 55 (1.58%) Redis
13 52 (1.49%) DynamoDB
14 50 (1.43%) MySQL
15 48 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
16 40 (1.15%) Metadata
17 38 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
17 38 (1.09%) Delta Lake
18 32 (0.92%) Tableau
19 31 (0.89%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 649 (18.62%) Jenkins
2 560 (16.07%) Git
3 520 (14.92%) JIRA
4 429 (12.31%) GitLab
5 121 (3.47%) Selenium
6 98 (2.81%) SonarQube
7 88 (2.53%) JUnit
8 85 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
9 70 (2.01%) Bitbucket
10 68 (1.95%) Postman
11 58 (1.66%) Maven
12 53 (1.52%) Liquibase
13 49 (1.41%) Cucumber
14 47 (1.35%) Cypress.io
15 46 (1.32%) Gradle
16 43 (1.23%) Artifactory
17 36 (1.03%) Oracle APEX
18 32 (0.92%) TeamCity
19 30 (0.86%) Mockito
20 29 (0.83%) CircleCI
General
1 1,131 (32.45%) Social Skills
2 620 (17.79%) Finance
3 411 (11.79%) Public Sector
4 326 (9.35%) Banking
5 287 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
6 100 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
7 69 (1.98%) Investment Banking
8 59 (1.69%) Financial Institution
9 58 (1.66%) Marketing
10 56 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 56 (1.61%) Telecoms
11 54 (1.55%) Retail
12 46 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
13 42 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
14 36 (1.03%) Front Office
15 32 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
16 29 (0.83%) Military
17 28 (0.80%) Back Office
18 27 (0.77%) Law
19 25 (0.72%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 684 (19.63%) Developer
2 591 (16.96%) DevOps Engineer
3 470 (13.49%) Senior
4 295 (8.46%) Architect
5 283 (8.12%) Lead
6 219 (6.28%) AWS Engineer
7 172 (4.94%) Azure Engineer
8 170 (4.88%) Analyst
9 167 (4.79%) AWS DevOps
10 155 (4.45%) Data Engineer
11 142 (4.07%) Software Engineer
12 140 (4.02%) Cloud Engineer
13 139 (3.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 137 (3.93%) Senior Developer
15 128 (3.67%) Platform Engineer
16 102 (2.93%) Consultant
17 101 (2.90%) Java Developer
18 100 (2.87%) Business Analyst
19 87 (2.50%) Senior DevOps
20 81 (2.32%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 392 (11.25%) REST
2 303 (8.69%) .NET
3 238 (6.83%) RESTful
4 214 (6.14%) React
5 198 (5.68%) Node.js
6 180 (5.16%) Kafka
7 170 (4.88%) JSON
8 150 (4.30%) SOAP
9 144 (4.13%) HTML
10 138 (3.96%) Spring
11 128 (3.67%) Spring Boot
12 126 (3.62%) AngularJS
13 124 (3.56%) Elastic Stack
14 114 (3.27%) XML
15 108 (3.10%) OAuth
16 103 (2.96%) YAML
17 98 (2.81%) CSS
18 74 (2.12%) Web Services
19 73 (2.09%) ARM Templates
20 71 (2.04%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 449 (12.88%) Cloud Native
2 176 (5.05%) Product Ownership
3 140 (4.02%) Distributed Systems
4 105 (3.01%) Onboarding
5 88 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
6 77 (2.21%) Public Cloud
7 64 (1.84%) Mobile App
8 62 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
9 54 (1.55%) Replication
10 53 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
11 49 (1.41%) Security Posture
12 46 (1.32%) Algorithms
13 44 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
14 42 (1.21%) Virtual Team
15 39 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 39 (1.12%) Management Information System
16 38 (1.09%) Data Centre
16 38 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
17 37 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
18 34 (0.98%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 435 (12.48%) Linux
2 215 (6.17%) Windows
3 94 (2.70%) Unix
4 60 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 59 (1.69%) Windows Server
6 51 (1.46%) Android
7 45 (1.29%) Apple iOS
7 45 (1.29%) VMS
8 26 (0.75%) Amazon Linux
9 23 (0.66%) Ubuntu
10 21 (0.60%) CentOS
11 16 (0.46%) Solaris
11 16 (0.46%) Windows 10
12 11 (0.32%) zOS
13 9 (0.26%) Mac OS
14 7 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
15 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
16 3 (0.086%) AIX
16 3 (0.086%) Debian
16 3 (0.086%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,906 (54.69%) CI/CD
2 1,531 (43.93%) Agile
3 852 (24.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 679 (19.48%) Problem-Solving
5 640 (18.36%) Containerisation
6 537 (15.41%) Test Automation
7 492 (14.12%) Microservices
8 448 (12.86%) Scrum
9 377 (10.82%) Migration
10 374 (10.73%) Continuous Improvement
11 367 (10.53%) Analytics
12 348 (9.99%) Software Engineering
13 318 (9.12%) AI
14 286 (8.21%) Observability
15 277 (7.95%) Stakeholder Management
16 265 (7.60%) Mentoring
17 236 (6.77%) Infrastructure Automation
18 234 (6.71%) SDLC
19 229 (6.57%) Data Pipeline
19 229 (6.57%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 1,119 (32.11%) Python
2 679 (19.48%) SQL
3 477 (13.69%) Java
4 379 (10.88%) JavaScript
5 336 (9.64%) C#
6 327 (9.38%) Bash
7 322 (9.24%) PowerShell
8 229 (6.57%) TypeScript
9 155 (4.45%) Go
10 102 (2.93%) Bicep
11 70 (2.01%) PL/SQL
12 66 (1.89%) Shell Script
13 60 (1.72%) Groovy
14 48 (1.38%) C++
15 45 (1.29%) Perl
16 42 (1.21%) Scala
17 36 (1.03%) Ruby
18 31 (0.89%) T-SQL
19 29 (0.83%) Kotlin
20 24 (0.69%) PHP
Qualifications
1 951 (27.29%) Security Cleared
2 788 (22.61%) SC Cleared
3 298 (8.55%) Degree
4 158 (4.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 133 (3.82%) Azure Certification
6 120 (3.44%) AWS Certification
7 116 (3.33%) DV Cleared
8 65 (1.87%) Master's Degree
9 56 (1.61%) CISSP
10 53 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
10 53 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
11 38 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 35 (1.00%) CISM
13 34 (0.98%) ISTQB
14 31 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
15 26 (0.75%) PMI Certification
16 22 (0.63%) PMP
17 19 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 17 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
19 15 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 306 (8.78%) QA
2 129 (3.70%) GDPR
3 104 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 99 (2.84%) Data Quality
5 88 (2.53%) NIST
6 83 (2.38%) Accessibility
7 41 (1.18%) NCSC
8 24 (0.69%) HIPAA
9 22 (0.63%) PCI DSS
10 18 (0.52%) WCAG
11 16 (0.46%) SLA
12 14 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 13 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
13 13 (0.37%) MiFID
13 13 (0.37%) SOC 2
14 12 (0.34%) SEPA
15 11 (0.32%) EU AI Act
15 11 (0.32%) PSD2
16 10 (0.29%) ISO 20022
17 9 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 868 (24.91%) Docker
2 172 (4.94%) Active Directory
3 76 (2.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 49 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
5 27 (0.77%) vSphere
6 24 (0.69%) DFS Replication
7 16 (0.46%) Postfix
8 14 (0.40%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.37%) Squid
10 12 (0.34%) Dovecot
10 12 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
11 11 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
12 8 (0.23%) GPFS
12 8 (0.23%) Lustre
12 8 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 8 (0.23%) Tivoli Directory Server
12 8 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
13 7 (0.20%) Hyper-V
13 7 (0.20%) NFS
13 7 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1,022 (29.33%) Terraform
2 970 (27.83%) Kubernetes
3 464 (13.31%) Ansible
4 255 (7.32%) Grafana
5 251 (7.20%) Prometheus
6 81 (2.32%) Puppet
7 67 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
8 61 (1.75%) Argo
9 50 (1.43%) Progress Chef
10 42 (1.21%) Kibana
11 38 (1.09%) Packer
12 21 (0.60%) Istio
13 19 (0.55%) ITRS Geneos
13 19 (0.55%) Podman
14 18 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
15 17 (0.49%) Proxmox
15 17 (0.49%) SCCM
16 16 (0.46%) CA Endevor
17 15 (0.43%) logstash
17 15 (0.43%) Nessus
Vendors
1 612 (17.56%) Microsoft
2 251 (7.20%) Oracle
3 200 (5.74%) Google
4 185 (5.31%) Splunk
5 160 (4.59%) Databricks
6 145 (4.16%) ServiceNow
7 102 (2.93%) VMware
8 95 (2.73%) Salesforce
9 89 (2.55%) Red Hat
9 89 (2.55%) SAP
10 52 (1.49%) Dynatrace
10 52 (1.49%) IBM
11 45 (1.29%) F5
12 44 (1.26%) MuleSoft
13 42 (1.21%) Atlassian
14 38 (1.09%) Palo Alto
15 37 (1.06%) OpenAI
16 32 (0.92%) Cisco
17 31 (0.89%) Talend
18 30 (0.86%) CyberArk
2,511 DevOps jobs in England