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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 14 14
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,804 3,081 3,246
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.32% 11.03% 10.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.18% 12.12% 11.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,301 2,186 2,164
10th Percentile £381 £360 £396
25th Percentile £438 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £553
Median % change year-on-year - -5.02% -4.70%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £712 £713 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 21 61
10th Percentile £37.25 £42.50 £52.50
25th Percentile £57.81 £56.75 £65.00
Median hourly rate £68.75 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% -4.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £79.00 £88.75 £74.00
90th Percentile £93.81 £95.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £69.00 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +2.99% -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 39,431 25,424 27,856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.70% 90.99% 86.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,955 16,149 17,033
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
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 2,897 1,546 1,199
10th Percentile £13.87 £14.42 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £46.55 £67.01
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +55.07% -40.82% -

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -1 2,531 £550 - 2,511
North of England -2 797 £500 +5.26% 755
South East -12 450 £525 +5.00% 624
Midlands -7 429 £488 -5.34% 332
Yorkshire -2 389 £500 +2.04% 219
West Midlands -8 344 £500 -4.76% 201
South West +5 328 £550 +0.46% 347
North West -3 313 £528 +16.45% 429
East of England +5 159 £505 -3.81% 249
North East +12 112 £450 -18.18% 113
East Midlands -3 82 £459 +1.94% 131
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 (6.08%) Confluence
2 143 (2.98%) SharePoint
3 118 (2.46%) Apache Spark
4 116 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
5 105 (2.19%) Apache
6 48 (1.00%) SAS
7 41 (0.85%) CMS
8 40 (0.83%) Jupyter
9 23 (0.48%) IIS
9 23 (0.48%) nginx
10 19 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
11 15 (0.31%) Camunda
12 13 (0.27%) OpenStack
13 9 (0.19%) Anypoint
13 9 (0.19%) Appian
13 9 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
13 9 (0.19%) WebSphere
14 8 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
14 8 (0.17%) Tomcat
14 8 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 62 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
3 49 (1.02%) MS Visio
4 32 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 29 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
6 14 (0.29%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.17%) CPLEX
7 8 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.17%) Windchill
8 5 (0.10%) Notion
8 5 (0.10%) Trello
9 3 (0.062%) Mingle
10 2 (0.042%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.042%) Gliffy
11 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.021%) Mozilla Thunderbird
11 1 (0.021%) Sketch
11 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 72 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 37 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 10 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.19%) Magento
6 8 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 6 (0.12%) Aladdin
7 6 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
7 6 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.12%) SAP MDG
8 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
8 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
8 5 (0.10%) Temenos T24
9 4 (0.083%) Oracle Payroll
10 3 (0.062%) Endur
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%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,578 (53.66%) Azure
2 1,679 (34.95%) AWS
3 1,493 (31.08%) Azure DevOps
4 806 (16.78%) GitHub
5 634 (13.20%) GCP
6 508 (10.57%) GitHub Actions
7 435 (9.05%) Power Platform
8 404 (8.41%) Serverless
9 258 (5.37%) Amazon S3
10 241 (5.02%) AWS Lambda
11 233 (4.85%) Entra ID
12 210 (4.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 202 (4.20%) Amazon EKS
14 181 (3.77%) Azure AKS
15 172 (3.58%) Azure Monitor
16 171 (3.56%) AWS CloudFormation
16 171 (3.56%) Dynamics 365
17 170 (3.54%) Azure Data Factory
18 165 (3.43%) Amazon EC2
19 156 (3.25%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 219 (4.56%) Firewall
2 144 (3.00%) DNS
3 112 (2.33%) VPN
4 108 (2.25%) Network Security
5 72 (1.50%) TCP/IP
6 50 (1.04%) SSL
7 43 (0.90%) WAN
8 39 (0.81%) DHCP
9 33 (0.69%) BGP
10 30 (0.62%) HTTP
11 28 (0.58%) Internet
12 25 (0.52%) OSPF
12 25 (0.52%) SD-WAN
12 25 (0.52%) SSH
13 23 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
14 19 (0.40%) LAN
14 19 (0.40%) VLAN
15 17 (0.35%) SAN
16 16 (0.33%) BIG-IP
16 16 (0.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 292 (6.08%) Power BI
2 253 (5.27%) SQL Server
3 246 (5.12%) PostgreSQL
4 184 (3.83%) Data Warehouse
5 158 (3.29%) NoSQL
6 151 (3.14%) Data Lake
7 145 (3.02%) MongoDB
8 133 (2.77%) Relational Database
9 122 (2.54%) Amazon RDS
10 119 (2.48%) Metadata
11 80 (1.67%) Delta Lake
12 78 (1.62%) DynamoDB
13 77 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
14 75 (1.56%) MySQL
15 74 (1.54%) Oracle Database
16 70 (1.46%) Redis
17 55 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
17 55 (1.14%) Big Data
17 55 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 53 (1.10%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 692 (14.40%) Git
2 657 (13.68%) Jenkins
3 554 (11.53%) GitLab
4 544 (11.32%) JIRA
5 125 (2.60%) Selenium
6 84 (1.75%) SonarQube
7 83 (1.73%) Maven
8 80 (1.67%) JUnit
9 78 (1.62%) Postman
10 69 (1.44%) Cucumber
11 60 (1.25%) Bitbucket
12 59 (1.23%) REST Assured
13 58 (1.21%) Cypress.io
14 56 (1.17%) Gradle
14 56 (1.17%) JMeter
15 41 (0.85%) Gatling
16 40 (0.83%) Mockito
17 39 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
18 37 (0.77%) Claude Code
18 37 (0.77%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,268 (26.39%) Social Skills
2 907 (18.88%) Finance
3 634 (13.20%) Public Sector
4 481 (10.01%) Analytical Skills
5 363 (7.56%) Banking
6 146 (3.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 106 (2.21%) Retail
8 86 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
9 75 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
10 58 (1.21%) Aerospace
11 56 (1.17%) Marketing
12 53 (1.10%) Military
13 48 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
14 47 (0.98%) Investment Banking
14 47 (0.98%) Telecoms
15 46 (0.96%) Legal
16 45 (0.94%) Manufacturing
17 41 (0.85%) Local Government
18 39 (0.81%) Law
19 38 (0.79%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 912 (18.98%) DevOps Engineer
2 748 (15.57%) Senior
3 743 (15.47%) Developer
4 570 (11.87%) Architect
5 472 (9.83%) Lead
6 291 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
7 274 (5.70%) Data Engineer
8 240 (5.00%) Analyst
9 196 (4.08%) AWS Engineer
10 187 (3.89%) Platform Engineer
11 173 (3.60%) Cloud Engineer
12 171 (3.56%) Senior DevOps
13 165 (3.43%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 156 (3.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 155 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
16 139 (2.89%) Java Developer
17 135 (2.81%) AWS DevOps
18 134 (2.79%) Software Engineer
19 125 (2.60%) Senior Developer
20 124 (2.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,426 (29.68%) Terraform
2 542 (11.28%) REST
3 411 (8.56%) .NET
4 337 (7.01%) Kafka
5 275 (5.72%) RESTful
6 257 (5.35%) React
7 238 (4.95%) Spring
8 235 (4.89%) Spring Boot
9 159 (3.31%) JSON
10 155 (3.23%) OAuth
11 150 (3.12%) Node.js
12 134 (2.79%) PySpark
13 128 (2.66%) Playwright
14 123 (2.56%) HTML
15 122 (2.54%) .NET Framework
16 121 (2.52%) SOAP
17 115 (2.39%) CSS
18 101 (2.10%) Middleware
18 101 (2.10%) OAuth2
19 97 (2.02%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 885 (18.42%) Cloud Native
2 371 (7.72%) Product Ownership
3 220 (4.58%) Distributed Systems
4 188 (3.91%) Enterprise Software
5 185 (3.85%) Onboarding
6 139 (2.89%) Hybrid Cloud
7 127 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
8 102 (2.12%) AI Agents
9 86 (1.79%) Management Information System
10 71 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
11 69 (1.44%) Security Posture
12 67 (1.39%) Public Cloud
13 64 (1.33%) Replication
14 63 (1.31%) Data Structures
15 61 (1.27%) Data Centre
15 61 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
16 53 (1.10%) Virtual Team
17 52 (1.08%) Mobile App
18 47 (0.98%) PKI
19 44 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 491 (10.22%) Linux
2 280 (5.83%) Windows
3 117 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 96 (2.00%) Unix
5 84 (1.75%) Windows Server
6 38 (0.79%) Ubuntu
7 30 (0.62%) Apple iOS
8 29 (0.60%) VMS
9 21 (0.44%) Android
10 15 (0.31%) CentOS
11 10 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
11 10 (0.21%) zOS
12 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
12 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
13 7 (0.15%) AIX
14 6 (0.12%) Solaris
15 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
16 4 (0.083%) Alpine Linux
16 4 (0.083%) Data ONTAP
16 4 (0.083%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,894 (60.24%) CI/CD
2 1,968 (40.97%) Agile
3 1,418 (29.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 861 (17.92%) Stakeholder Management
5 828 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
6 822 (17.11%) AI
7 785 (16.34%) Test Automation
8 781 (16.26%) Containerisation
9 766 (15.95%) Problem-Solving
10 703 (14.63%) Microservices
11 687 (14.30%) Observability
12 657 (13.68%) Software Engineering
13 656 (13.66%) Platform Engineering
14 598 (12.45%) Scrum
15 587 (12.22%) Migration
16 553 (11.51%) Technical Leadership
17 515 (10.72%) Analytics
18 454 (9.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 442 (9.20%) Roadmaps
20 423 (8.81%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,431 (29.79%) Python
2 845 (17.59%) SQL
3 701 (14.59%) Java
4 439 (9.14%) PowerShell
5 438 (9.12%) C#
6 431 (8.97%) Bash
7 395 (8.22%) JavaScript
8 272 (5.66%) TypeScript
9 226 (4.70%) Bicep
10 95 (1.98%) Go
11 65 (1.35%) Shell Script
12 56 (1.17%) T-SQL
13 54 (1.12%) Scala
14 51 (1.06%) Groovy
15 45 (0.94%) PL/SQL
16 42 (0.87%) Apex Code
17 33 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 32 (0.67%) C++
19 29 (0.60%) Perl
20 25 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1,542 (32.10%) Security Cleared
2 1,284 (26.73%) SC Cleared
3 342 (7.12%) Degree
4 221 (4.60%) DV Cleared
5 218 (4.54%) Azure Certification
6 173 (3.60%) AWS Certification
7 149 (3.10%) BPSS Clearance
8 128 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
9 109 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 71 (1.48%) CISSP
11 52 (1.08%) ISTQB
12 50 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
13 49 (1.02%) PMP
14 41 (0.85%) PMI Certification
15 40 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 39 (0.81%) Master's Degree
17 28 (0.58%) CISM
18 22 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 21 (0.44%) CCNP
20 20 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 491 (10.22%) QA
2 247 (5.14%) Data Quality
3 168 (3.50%) Accessibility
4 108 (2.25%) GDPR
5 86 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 79 (1.64%) WCAG
7 69 (1.44%) NIST
8 46 (0.96%) NCSC
9 43 (0.90%) PMO
10 30 (0.62%) SLA
11 29 (0.60%) PCI DSS
12 27 (0.56%) GRC
13 20 (0.42%) ISO 20022
14 17 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 14 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
15 14 (0.29%) HIPAA
16 13 (0.27%) SOC 2
17 12 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
17 12 (0.25%) SEPA
18 9 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 959 (19.96%) Docker
2 142 (2.96%) Active Directory
3 71 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
4 66 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 24 (0.50%) vSphere
6 20 (0.42%) Hyper-V
6 20 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
7 17 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
8 13 (0.27%) VMware NSX
9 11 (0.23%) Squid
10 10 (0.21%) IAG
11 8 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
11 8 (0.17%) Postfix
12 6 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 6 (0.12%) Corosync
12 6 (0.12%) KVM
12 6 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.10%) NFS
13 5 (0.10%) RACF
14 4 (0.083%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1,266 (26.35%) Kubernetes
2 485 (10.10%) Ansible
3 314 (6.54%) Grafana
4 270 (5.62%) Prometheus
5 63 (1.31%) Argo
6 56 (1.17%) Puppet
7 48 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
8 45 (0.94%) Progress Chef
9 39 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
10 34 (0.71%) Packer
11 31 (0.65%) Kibana
12 22 (0.46%) Istio
12 22 (0.46%) Kubeflow
13 19 (0.40%) Kustomize
14 16 (0.33%) vCenter Server
15 15 (0.31%) SCCM
16 14 (0.29%) HP ALM
17 13 (0.27%) Control-M
17 13 (0.27%) SCOM
17 13 (0.27%) systemd
Vendors
1 970 (20.19%) Microsoft
2 266 (5.54%) Databricks
3 258 (5.37%) Google
4 229 (4.77%) Oracle
5 186 (3.87%) ServiceNow
6 169 (3.52%) Splunk
7 137 (2.85%) Salesforce
8 131 (2.73%) Dynatrace
9 103 (2.14%) VMware
10 98 (2.04%) SAP
11 92 (1.92%) Red Hat
12 67 (1.39%) IBM
13 61 (1.27%) OpenAI
14 48 (1.00%) Foundry
15 46 (0.96%) Cisco
16 38 (0.79%) AppDynamics
16 38 (0.79%) Informatica
17 36 (0.75%) MuleSoft
18 32 (0.67%) Atlassian
18 32 (0.67%) Okta