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

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 14 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 3,586 3,139 3,518
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.51% 10.27% 9.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.87% 11.68% 10.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,527 2,134 2,613
10th Percentile £363 £400 £413
25th Percentile £425 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £623 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £523 £560 £563
% change year-on-year -6.70% -0.44% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 33 87
10th Percentile - £42.24 £46.18
25th Percentile £45.46 £56.25 £48.09
Median hourly rate £59.25 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.36% +7.69% -0.92%
75th Percentile £77.50 £74.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £80.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £59.25 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -15.36% +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 27,869 26,864 33,636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.46% 87.86% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,747 16,503 22,915
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £417 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,797 957 1,425
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.24 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.90%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.35 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.75 £43.63
% change year-on-year -23.21% -24.93% +24.64%

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 December 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 4 December 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 4 December 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 1,790 £550 -5.98% 581
North of England +3 629 £487 -4.98% 494
Midlands +15 377 £515 -1.90% 281
South East +1 376 £506 -15.63% 651
Yorkshire -1 329 £500 - 193
West Midlands +15 306 £525 -4.55% 170
North West +7 265 £453 -14.93% 240
South West +3 227 £538 -10.42% 246
East of England +28 110 £523 -9.13% 204
East Midlands +21 71 £418 -12.11% 96
North East -12 37 £520 -11.11% 63
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 (6.69%) Confluence
2 82 (2.29%) Apache
3 66 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
3 66 (1.84%) SharePoint
4 62 (1.73%) SAS
5 58 (1.62%) Apache Spark
6 35 (0.98%) CMS
7 34 (0.95%) nginx
8 29 (0.81%) OpenStack
9 26 (0.73%) IIS
10 25 (0.70%) JBoss
11 23 (0.64%) CICS
12 17 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
13 14 (0.39%) WebLogic
13 14 (0.39%) WebSphere
14 10 (0.28%) Mule
15 9 (0.25%) iPlanet
15 9 (0.25%) WebSphere Application Server
16 8 (0.22%) Anypoint
17 6 (0.17%) GeoServer
Applications
1 69 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 28 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
4 26 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
5 17 (0.47%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.36%) Chatbot
7 12 (0.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 8 (0.22%) Weka
9 7 (0.20%) Trello
10 1 (0.028%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.028%) Moqups
10 1 (0.028%) Revit
Business Applications
1 53 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.50%) Aladdin
2 18 (0.50%) Endur
2 18 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
4 14 (0.39%) VisionPLUS
5 9 (0.25%) Maximo
6 7 (0.20%) Oracle BPM
7 6 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
8 5 (0.14%) NEC Housing
8 5 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.11%) Fidessa
9 4 (0.11%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.11%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.11%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
9 4 (0.11%) thinkFolio
9 4 (0.11%) Workday HCM
10 3 (0.084%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.084%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,744 (48.63%) Azure
2 1,301 (36.28%) AWS
3 946 (26.38%) Azure DevOps
4 627 (17.48%) GitHub
5 527 (14.70%) GCP
6 392 (10.93%) Serverless
7 350 (9.76%) GitHub Actions
8 248 (6.92%) Power Platform
9 211 (5.88%) Amazon S3
10 198 (5.52%) AWS Lambda
11 196 (5.47%) AWS CloudFormation
12 163 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 151 (4.21%) Azure AKS
14 149 (4.16%) Amazon EC2
15 143 (3.99%) Azure Data Factory
15 143 (3.99%) SaaS
16 141 (3.93%) Entra ID
17 136 (3.79%) OpenShift
18 130 (3.63%) Dynamics 365
19 125 (3.49%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 179 (4.99%) Firewall
2 120 (3.35%) DNS
3 75 (2.09%) VPN
4 67 (1.87%) Network Security
5 62 (1.73%) SSL
6 56 (1.56%) TCP/IP
7 44 (1.23%) HTTP
8 30 (0.84%) SSH
9 29 (0.81%) HTTPS
10 28 (0.78%) SMTP
11 26 (0.73%) WAN
12 23 (0.64%) FTP
13 17 (0.47%) BGP
14 16 (0.45%) DHCP
14 16 (0.45%) OpenLDAP
15 15 (0.42%) MPLS
16 14 (0.39%) Kerberos
16 14 (0.39%) LAN
16 14 (0.39%) SD-WAN
17 12 (0.33%) IMAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 230 (6.41%) PostgreSQL
2 160 (4.46%) Power BI
3 145 (4.04%) NoSQL
4 132 (3.68%) SQL Server
5 122 (3.40%) Amazon RDS
6 99 (2.76%) MongoDB
7 83 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
8 81 (2.26%) Data Lake
8 81 (2.26%) Relational Database
9 73 (2.04%) Oracle Database
10 60 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
11 54 (1.51%) Redis
12 50 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
13 49 (1.37%) DynamoDB
14 47 (1.31%) MySQL
15 41 (1.14%) Delta Lake
15 41 (1.14%) Metadata
16 37 (1.03%) Amazon Aurora
16 37 (1.03%) Big Data
17 35 (0.98%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 674 (18.80%) Jenkins
2 559 (15.59%) Git
3 542 (15.11%) JIRA
4 453 (12.63%) GitLab
5 121 (3.37%) Selenium
6 91 (2.54%) SonarQube
7 83 (2.31%) JUnit
8 78 (2.18%) Sonatype Nexus
9 68 (1.90%) Bitbucket
10 64 (1.78%) Postman
11 51 (1.42%) Cucumber
12 50 (1.39%) Liquibase
13 48 (1.34%) Maven
14 47 (1.31%) Cypress.io
15 42 (1.17%) Gradle
16 39 (1.09%) Artifactory
17 36 (1.00%) Oracle APEX
18 32 (0.89%) CircleCI
19 29 (0.81%) TeamCity
20 28 (0.78%) JMeter
General
1 1,154 (32.18%) Social Skills
2 658 (18.35%) Finance
3 431 (12.02%) Public Sector
4 325 (9.06%) Banking
5 278 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
6 101 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
7 67 (1.87%) Financial Institution
8 62 (1.73%) Investment Banking
9 60 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 59 (1.65%) Marketing
11 53 (1.48%) Telecoms
12 51 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
13 49 (1.37%) Retail
14 42 (1.17%) Front Office
15 37 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
16 32 (0.89%) Back Office
17 31 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
18 27 (0.75%) Military
19 26 (0.73%) Law
20 25 (0.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 676 (18.85%) Developer
2 627 (17.48%) DevOps Engineer
3 488 (13.61%) Senior
4 307 (8.56%) Architect
5 272 (7.59%) Lead
6 220 (6.13%) AWS Engineer
7 182 (5.08%) Analyst
8 175 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
9 170 (4.74%) Data Engineer
10 168 (4.68%) AWS DevOps
11 142 (3.96%) Software Engineer
12 140 (3.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 137 (3.82%) Cloud Engineer
14 134 (3.74%) Senior Developer
15 132 (3.68%) Platform Engineer
16 98 (2.73%) Business Analyst
17 97 (2.70%) Consultant
17 97 (2.70%) Java Developer
18 95 (2.65%) Senior DevOps
19 94 (2.62%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 397 (11.07%) REST
2 305 (8.51%) .NET
3 243 (6.78%) RESTful
4 217 (6.05%) React
5 211 (5.88%) Node.js
6 201 (5.61%) Kafka
7 179 (4.99%) JSON
8 160 (4.46%) Spring
9 146 (4.07%) SOAP
10 145 (4.04%) Spring Boot
11 139 (3.88%) HTML
12 134 (3.74%) Elastic Stack
13 130 (3.63%) AngularJS
14 116 (3.23%) XML
15 113 (3.15%) OAuth
16 110 (3.07%) YAML
17 94 (2.62%) CSS
18 76 (2.12%) Playwright
19 73 (2.04%) GraphQL
20 72 (2.01%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 488 (13.61%) Cloud Native
2 194 (5.41%) Product Ownership
3 148 (4.13%) Distributed Systems
4 110 (3.07%) Onboarding
5 83 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
6 82 (2.29%) Public Cloud
7 70 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
8 62 (1.73%) Mobile App
9 58 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
9 58 (1.62%) Replication
10 52 (1.45%) Security Posture
11 47 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
12 43 (1.20%) Virtual Team
13 42 (1.17%) Data Centre
14 40 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
15 39 (1.09%) Algorithms
16 38 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
17 37 (1.03%) Management Information System
18 36 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 34 (0.95%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 438 (12.21%) Linux
2 210 (5.86%) Windows
3 91 (2.54%) Unix
4 55 (1.53%) Windows Server
5 53 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 47 (1.31%) Android
6 47 (1.31%) VMS
7 41 (1.14%) Apple iOS
8 27 (0.75%) Ubuntu
9 23 (0.64%) Amazon Linux
10 18 (0.50%) CentOS
11 16 (0.45%) Windows 10
12 12 (0.33%) Solaris
13 11 (0.31%) zOS
14 7 (0.20%) Mac OS
15 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
16 3 (0.084%) Debian
17 2 (0.056%) SUSE
18 1 (0.028%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,005 (55.91%) CI/CD
2 1,550 (43.22%) Agile
3 895 (24.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 716 (19.97%) Problem-Solving
5 709 (19.77%) Containerisation
6 555 (15.48%) Test Automation
7 537 (14.97%) Microservices
8 451 (12.58%) Scrum
9 388 (10.82%) Migration
10 381 (10.62%) Continuous Improvement
11 375 (10.46%) Analytics
12 357 (9.96%) Software Engineering
13 335 (9.34%) AI
14 306 (8.53%) Observability
15 292 (8.14%) Stakeholder Management
16 267 (7.45%) Mentoring
17 243 (6.78%) DevSecOps
18 242 (6.75%) Data Pipeline
19 240 (6.69%) SDLC
20 239 (6.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,148 (32.01%) Python
2 684 (19.07%) SQL
3 507 (14.14%) Java
4 375 (10.46%) JavaScript
5 344 (9.59%) C#
6 330 (9.20%) Bash
7 321 (8.95%) PowerShell
8 244 (6.80%) TypeScript
9 159 (4.43%) Go
10 108 (3.01%) Bicep
11 72 (2.01%) PL/SQL
12 62 (1.73%) Groovy
13 60 (1.67%) Shell Script
14 50 (1.39%) C++
15 42 (1.17%) Scala
16 41 (1.14%) Perl
17 38 (1.06%) Ruby
18 30 (0.84%) T-SQL
19 27 (0.75%) Kotlin
20 25 (0.70%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,007 (28.08%) Security Cleared
2 835 (23.28%) SC Cleared
3 314 (8.76%) Degree
4 173 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 141 (3.93%) Azure Certification
6 123 (3.43%) AWS Certification
7 119 (3.32%) DV Cleared
8 72 (2.01%) Master's Degree
9 62 (1.73%) CISSP
10 57 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
11 51 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
12 41 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 41 (1.14%) CISM
13 34 (0.95%) ISTQB
14 33 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
15 27 (0.75%) PMI Certification
16 22 (0.61%) PMP
17 21 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 15 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 14 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 326 (9.09%) QA
2 140 (3.90%) GDPR
3 112 (3.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 105 (2.93%) Data Quality
5 93 (2.59%) NIST
6 82 (2.29%) Accessibility
7 43 (1.20%) NCSC
8 27 (0.75%) PCI DSS
9 26 (0.73%) HIPAA
10 20 (0.56%) WCAG
11 18 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 16 (0.45%) SLA
13 15 (0.42%) MiFID
14 14 (0.39%) PSD2
15 13 (0.36%) ISO 20022
15 13 (0.36%) SEPA
16 12 (0.33%) PMO
16 12 (0.33%) SOC 2
17 11 (0.31%) EU AI Act
18 10 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 921 (25.68%) Docker
2 168 (4.68%) Active Directory
3 66 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 58 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (0.67%) vSphere
6 23 (0.64%) DFS Replication
7 14 (0.39%) VMware NSX
8 13 (0.36%) Postfix
8 13 (0.36%) Squid
9 12 (0.33%) Dovecot
10 11 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
10 11 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
11 9 (0.25%) Lustre
11 9 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 8 (0.22%) GPFS
12 8 (0.22%) Hyper-V
12 8 (0.22%) NFS
12 8 (0.22%) Tivoli Directory Server
12 8 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
13 7 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1,084 (30.23%) Terraform
2 1,035 (28.86%) Kubernetes
3 477 (13.30%) Ansible
4 261 (7.28%) Grafana
5 252 (7.03%) Prometheus
6 75 (2.09%) Puppet
7 66 (1.84%) Argo
8 64 (1.78%) Single Sign-On
9 51 (1.42%) Progress Chef
10 40 (1.12%) Kibana
11 39 (1.09%) Packer
12 23 (0.64%) Istio
13 21 (0.59%) Podman
14 19 (0.53%) ITRS Geneos
15 18 (0.50%) Nessus
16 17 (0.47%) Proxmox
17 16 (0.45%) CA Endevor
17 16 (0.45%) logstash
18 15 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
18 15 (0.42%) Rancher
Vendors
1 610 (17.01%) Microsoft
2 271 (7.56%) Oracle
3 206 (5.74%) Google
4 188 (5.24%) Splunk
5 182 (5.08%) Databricks
6 153 (4.27%) ServiceNow
7 98 (2.73%) Salesforce
7 98 (2.73%) VMware
8 96 (2.68%) SAP
9 93 (2.59%) Red Hat
10 54 (1.51%) Dynatrace
11 46 (1.28%) IBM
12 45 (1.25%) F5
12 45 (1.25%) OpenAI
13 38 (1.06%) Palo Alto
14 37 (1.03%) MuleSoft
14 37 (1.03%) Talend
15 36 (1.00%) Atlassian
15 36 (1.00%) CyberArk
16 34 (0.95%) Denodo