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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 14 15
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,826 3,009 3,318
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.41% 10.82% 10.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.27% 11.90% 11.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,324 2,140 2,259
10th Percentile £385 £360 £400
25th Percentile £438 £425 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -5.66%
75th Percentile £625 £626 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 23 67
10th Percentile £37.24 £44.25 £55.60
25th Percentile £55.38 £56.50 £65.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -4.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £85.86 £74.72
90th Percentile £93.94 £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 39,332 25,280 28,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.86% 90.86% 86.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,139 16,057 17,805
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 2,708 1,495 1,348
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.36 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +0.58%
75th Percentile £68.00 £49.88 £66.53
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.65 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.92%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 2,553 £550 - 1,578
North of England -2 797 £500 +5.26% 456
South East -10 456 £525 +5.00% 400
Midlands -5 442 £488 -4.88% 193
Yorkshire -2 392 £500 +3.63% 128
West Midlands -8 347 £500 -4.76% 115
South West +5 319 £550 +4.76% 224
North West -4 312 £521 +15.41% 241
East of England +7 146 £505 -3.35% 134
North East +16 108 £425 -18.27% 90
East Midlands +1 92 £463 +10.12% 77
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
1 292 (6.05%) Confluence
2 143 (2.96%) SharePoint
3 125 (2.59%) Apache Airflow
4 112 (2.32%) Apache Spark
5 100 (2.07%) Apache
6 55 (1.14%) SAS
7 39 (0.81%) CMS
8 36 (0.75%) Jupyter
9 25 (0.52%) IIS
10 24 (0.50%) nginx
11 19 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
12 14 (0.29%) Camunda
13 13 (0.27%) 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 59 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
3 44 (0.91%) MS Visio
4 32 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 31 (0.64%) 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 (0.041%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.041%) 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 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 30 (0.62%) 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 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
7 6 (0.12%) 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 (0.062%) Findur
10 3 (0.062%) Maximo
10 3 (0.062%) Oracle EBS R12
10 3 (0.062%) Oracle ERP
10 3 (0.062%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.062%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 3 (0.062%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,622 (54.33%) Azure
2 1,686 (34.94%) AWS
3 1,514 (31.37%) Azure DevOps
4 833 (17.26%) GitHub
5 620 (12.85%) GCP
6 530 (10.98%) GitHub Actions
7 427 (8.85%) Power Platform
8 407 (8.43%) Serverless
9 252 (5.22%) Amazon S3
10 243 (5.04%) AWS Lambda
11 231 (4.79%) Entra ID
12 202 (4.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 187 (3.87%) Amazon EKS
14 184 (3.81%) Azure AKS
15 178 (3.69%) Azure Data Factory
16 176 (3.65%) AWS CloudFormation
17 172 (3.56%) Azure Monitor
18 164 (3.40%) Dynamics 365
19 159 (3.29%) Amazon EC2
20 153 (3.17%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 223 (4.62%) Firewall
2 148 (3.07%) DNS
3 110 (2.28%) VPN
4 103 (2.13%) Network Security
5 66 (1.37%) TCP/IP
6 48 (0.99%) WAN
7 47 (0.97%) SSL
8 41 (0.85%) DHCP
9 32 (0.66%) SD-WAN
10 30 (0.62%) BGP
11 28 (0.58%) HTTP
11 28 (0.58%) Internet
12 25 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
13 23 (0.48%) SSH
14 22 (0.46%) OSPF
15 19 (0.39%) SAN
15 19 (0.39%) VLAN
16 16 (0.33%) BIG-IP
16 16 (0.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 15 (0.31%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 290 (6.01%) Power BI
2 261 (5.41%) SQL Server
3 248 (5.14%) PostgreSQL
4 188 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
5 163 (3.38%) NoSQL
6 153 (3.17%) Relational Database
7 152 (3.15%) Data Lake
8 146 (3.03%) MongoDB
9 117 (2.42%) Metadata
10 116 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
11 86 (1.78%) Delta Lake
12 84 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
13 80 (1.66%) DynamoDB
14 79 (1.64%) Oracle Database
15 73 (1.51%) MySQL
16 66 (1.37%) Redis
17 56 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
18 54 (1.12%) Big Data
19 52 (1.08%) BigQuery
19 52 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 673 (13.95%) Git
2 672 (13.92%) Jenkins
3 559 (11.58%) JIRA
4 541 (11.21%) GitLab
5 115 (2.38%) Selenium
6 92 (1.91%) SonarQube
7 81 (1.68%) Maven
8 79 (1.64%) JUnit
9 78 (1.62%) Postman
10 67 (1.39%) Bitbucket
11 59 (1.22%) Cypress.io
11 59 (1.22%) REST Assured
12 56 (1.16%) Gradle
12 56 (1.16%) JMeter
13 54 (1.12%) Cucumber
14 43 (0.89%) Gatling
15 41 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
16 39 (0.81%) Mockito
17 36 (0.75%) Artifactory
17 36 (0.75%) LoadRunner
General
1 1,274 (26.40%) Social Skills
2 904 (18.73%) Finance
3 641 (13.28%) Public Sector
4 476 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
5 347 (7.19%) Banking
6 145 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 104 (2.15%) Retail
8 80 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
9 76 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
10 54 (1.12%) Marketing
11 53 (1.10%) Legal
11 53 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
12 51 (1.06%) Aerospace
12 51 (1.06%) Military
13 48 (0.99%) Investment Banking
14 44 (0.91%) Telecoms
15 42 (0.87%) Front Office
16 41 (0.85%) Law
17 39 (0.81%) Manufacturing
18 38 (0.79%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 915 (18.96%) DevOps Engineer
2 748 (15.50%) Developer
3 746 (15.46%) Senior
4 566 (11.73%) Architect
5 478 (9.90%) Lead
6 297 (6.15%) Azure Engineer
7 283 (5.86%) Data Engineer
8 234 (4.85%) Analyst
9 197 (4.08%) Platform Engineer
10 196 (4.06%) AWS Engineer
11 180 (3.73%) Cloud Engineer
12 168 (3.48%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 166 (3.44%) Senior DevOps
14 162 (3.36%) Solutions Architect
15 155 (3.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 144 (2.98%) Java Developer
17 140 (2.90%) Senior Developer
18 133 (2.76%) Software Engineer
19 131 (2.71%) AWS DevOps
20 119 (2.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,410 (29.22%) Terraform
2 509 (10.55%) REST
3 409 (8.47%) .NET
4 333 (6.90%) Kafka
5 269 (5.57%) RESTful
6 252 (5.22%) React
7 243 (5.04%) Spring
8 237 (4.91%) Spring Boot
9 161 (3.34%) JSON
10 155 (3.21%) Node.js
11 144 (2.98%) PySpark
12 143 (2.96%) OAuth
13 134 (2.78%) Playwright
14 119 (2.47%) HTML
15 118 (2.45%) .NET Framework
16 113 (2.34%) CSS
17 111 (2.30%) SOAP
18 102 (2.11%) AngularJS
19 95 (1.97%) YAML
20 94 (1.95%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 878 (18.19%) Cloud Native
2 380 (7.87%) Product Ownership
3 225 (4.66%) Distributed Systems
4 175 (3.63%) Enterprise Software
5 165 (3.42%) Onboarding
6 140 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
7 127 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
8 91 (1.89%) AI Agents
9 79 (1.64%) Management Information System
10 69 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
11 68 (1.41%) Replication
12 67 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
13 65 (1.35%) Security Posture
14 64 (1.33%) Data Structures
14 64 (1.33%) Public Cloud
15 58 (1.20%) Data Centre
16 57 (1.18%) Virtual Team
17 52 (1.08%) Mobile App
18 42 (0.87%) PKI
19 41 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 478 (9.90%) Linux
2 275 (5.70%) Windows
3 112 (2.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 98 (2.03%) Unix
5 82 (1.70%) Windows Server
6 34 (0.70%) Ubuntu
7 32 (0.66%) 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 2,861 (59.28%) CI/CD
2 1,966 (40.74%) Agile
3 1,397 (28.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 835 (17.30%) Continuous Improvement
5 823 (17.05%) Stakeholder Management
6 784 (16.25%) Containerisation
7 781 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
8 762 (15.79%) AI
9 760 (15.75%) Test Automation
10 709 (14.69%) Microservices
11 666 (13.80%) Observability
12 641 (13.28%) Software Engineering
13 634 (13.14%) Platform Engineering
14 590 (12.23%) Scrum
15 579 (12.00%) Migration
16 528 (10.94%) Technical Leadership
17 522 (10.82%) Analytics
18 458 (9.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 447 (9.26%) Roadmaps
20 420 (8.70%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,420 (29.42%) Python
2 876 (18.15%) SQL
3 709 (14.69%) Java
4 449 (9.30%) PowerShell
5 429 (8.89%) Bash
6 427 (8.85%) C#
7 384 (7.96%) JavaScript
8 265 (5.49%) TypeScript
9 220 (4.56%) Bicep
10 78 (1.62%) Go
11 67 (1.39%) Shell Script
12 58 (1.20%) T-SQL
13 57 (1.18%) Groovy
14 56 (1.16%) Scala
15 48 (0.99%) Apex Code
15 48 (0.99%) PL/SQL
16 32 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 30 (0.62%) Perl
18 29 (0.60%) C++
19 24 (0.50%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,549 (32.10%) Security Cleared
2 1,293 (26.79%) SC Cleared
3 322 (6.67%) Degree
4 211 (4.37%) Azure Certification
5 204 (4.23%) DV Cleared
6 163 (3.38%) AWS Certification
7 140 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 121 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
9 106 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
10 74 (1.53%) CISSP
11 47 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
11 47 (0.97%) ISTQB
12 44 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 41 (0.85%) PMP
14 36 (0.75%) PMI Certification
15 35 (0.73%) Master's Degree
16 31 (0.64%) CISM
17 21 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 21 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 21 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 490 (10.15%) QA
2 255 (5.28%) Data Quality
3 162 (3.36%) Accessibility
4 118 (2.45%) GDPR
5 89 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 81 (1.68%) WCAG
7 80 (1.66%) NIST
8 47 (0.97%) NCSC
9 46 (0.95%) PMO
10 34 (0.70%) 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
1 980 (20.31%) Docker
2 155 (3.21%) Active Directory
3 73 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
4 67 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 22 (0.46%) Hyper-V
6 21 (0.44%) vSphere
7 20 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
8 16 (0.33%) VMware NSX
9 15 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
10 13 (0.27%) Squid
11 11 (0.23%) IAG
12 9 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
12 9 (0.19%) Postfix
13 6 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 6 (0.12%) Corosync
13 6 (0.12%) KVM
13 6 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
14 5 (0.10%) NFS
15 4 (0.083%) Firmware
16 3 (0.062%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 1,263 (26.17%) Kubernetes
2 488 (10.11%) Ansible
3 317 (6.57%) Grafana
4 268 (5.55%) Prometheus
5 68 (1.41%) Argo
6 61 (1.26%) Puppet
7 50 (1.04%) Progress Chef
7 50 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
8 45 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
9 31 (0.64%) Packer
10 23 (0.48%) Kibana
11 22 (0.46%) Istio
12 19 (0.39%) Kustomize
13 18 (0.37%) Kubeflow
13 18 (0.37%) SCCM
13 18 (0.37%) vCenter Server
14 15 (0.31%) HP ALM
15 14 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
16 13 (0.27%) SCOM
16 13 (0.27%) systemd
Vendors
1 968 (20.06%) Microsoft
2 265 (5.49%) Databricks
3 248 (5.14%) Oracle
4 239 (4.95%) Google
5 192 (3.98%) ServiceNow
6 164 (3.40%) Splunk
7 143 (2.96%) Salesforce
8 132 (2.74%) Dynatrace
9 105 (2.18%) VMware
10 101 (2.09%) Red Hat
11 97 (2.01%) SAP
12 63 (1.31%) IBM
13 53 (1.10%) OpenAI
14 49 (1.02%) Informatica
15 44 (0.91%) Foundry
16 43 (0.89%) Cisco
17 39 (0.81%) AppDynamics
18 36 (0.75%) Atlassian
19 35 (0.73%) MuleSoft
20 32 (0.66%) CyberArk