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

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 15 14
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,805 2,948 3,301
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.45% 10.78% 10.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.32% 11.88% 11.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,305 2,104 2,263
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% -5.98%
75th Percentile £625 £626 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £518 £550
% change year-on-year +1.32% -5.79% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 23 69
10th Percentile £37.24 £44.25 £55.80
25th Percentile £55.69 £56.50 £65.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.75% -4.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £85.86 £74.44
90th Percentile £94.81 £95.00 £85.33
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 39,005 24,820 27,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.83% 90.75% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,032 15,769 17,764
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £637 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £752
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,622 1,447 1,355
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.28 £14.84
25th Percentile £18.31 £17.87 £20.40
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.38 £50.00 £66.55
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% +3.24%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 2,531 £550 - 2,157
North of England -1 800 £500 +5.26% 537
South East -12 453 £525 +5.00% 444
Midlands -4 445 £488 -2.50% 224
Yorkshire -2 392 £500 +4.17% 151
West Midlands -5 349 £492 -5.55% 137
South West +6 319 £550 +5.77% 280
North West -3 314 £521 +15.80% 300
East of England +11 150 £505 -3.81% 188
North East +17 109 £425 -18.27% 90
East Midlands +2 92 £463 +2.78% 87
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
1 291 (6.06%) Confluence
2 132 (2.75%) SharePoint
3 125 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
4 119 (2.48%) Apache Spark
5 104 (2.16%) Apache
6 54 (1.12%) SAS
7 41 (0.85%) CMS
8 35 (0.73%) Jupyter
9 27 (0.56%) IIS
10 23 (0.48%) nginx
11 17 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
12 15 (0.31%) Camunda
13 13 (0.27%) OpenStack
14 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
15 10 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
15 10 (0.21%) WebSphere
16 9 (0.19%) Anypoint
16 9 (0.19%) Appian
17 7 (0.15%) WebLogic
18 6 (0.12%) Mule
Applications
1 61 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
3 42 (0.87%) MS Visio
4 32 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 30 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
6 9 (0.19%) Chatbot
6 9 (0.19%) CPLEX
6 9 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.15%) Trello
8 5 (0.10%) Notion
8 5 (0.10%) Windchill
9 2 (0.042%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
10 1 (0.021%) Gliffy
10 1 (0.021%) Mingle
10 1 (0.021%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.021%) Sketch
10 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 65 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 9 (0.19%) Magento
4 9 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 6 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
6 6 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.10%) Aladdin
7 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
7 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
8 4 (0.083%) Endur
8 4 (0.083%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.083%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.062%) Findur
9 3 (0.062%) Maximo
9 3 (0.062%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.062%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 3 (0.062%) Shopify
9 3 (0.062%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,624 (54.61%) Azure
2 1,674 (34.84%) AWS
3 1,525 (31.74%) Azure DevOps
4 826 (17.19%) GitHub
5 601 (12.51%) GCP
6 518 (10.78%) GitHub Actions
7 428 (8.91%) Power Platform
8 400 (8.32%) Serverless
9 248 (5.16%) Amazon S3
10 239 (4.97%) AWS Lambda
11 231 (4.81%) Entra ID
12 195 (4.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 183 (3.81%) Azure AKS
13 183 (3.81%) Azure Data Factory
14 179 (3.73%) Amazon EKS
15 177 (3.68%) Azure Monitor
16 175 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
17 160 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
18 152 (3.16%) Amazon EC2
19 146 (3.04%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 233 (4.85%) Firewall
2 151 (3.14%) DNS
3 114 (2.37%) VPN
4 106 (2.21%) Network Security
5 66 (1.37%) TCP/IP
6 49 (1.02%) WAN
7 48 (1.00%) SSL
8 41 (0.85%) DHCP
9 34 (0.71%) SD-WAN
10 30 (0.62%) BGP
10 30 (0.62%) Internet
11 29 (0.60%) HTTP
12 28 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
13 23 (0.48%) SSH
14 22 (0.46%) OSPF
15 19 (0.40%) VLAN
16 18 (0.37%) SAN
17 17 (0.35%) LAN
18 16 (0.33%) BIG-IP
18 16 (0.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 298 (6.20%) Power BI
2 260 (5.41%) SQL Server
3 245 (5.10%) PostgreSQL
4 188 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
5 165 (3.43%) NoSQL
6 153 (3.18%) Data Lake
7 151 (3.14%) Relational Database
8 143 (2.98%) MongoDB
9 115 (2.39%) Amazon RDS
9 115 (2.39%) Metadata
10 90 (1.87%) Delta Lake
11 88 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
12 81 (1.69%) DynamoDB
13 77 (1.60%) Oracle Database
14 70 (1.46%) MySQL
15 68 (1.42%) Redis
16 56 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
16 56 (1.17%) Big Data
17 52 (1.08%) BigQuery
17 52 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 659 (13.71%) Jenkins
2 656 (13.65%) Git
3 565 (11.76%) JIRA
4 534 (11.11%) GitLab
5 116 (2.41%) Selenium
6 87 (1.81%) SonarQube
7 82 (1.71%) Postman
8 78 (1.62%) JUnit
8 78 (1.62%) Maven
9 68 (1.42%) Bitbucket
10 62 (1.29%) JMeter
11 59 (1.23%) REST Assured
12 58 (1.21%) Cypress.io
13 52 (1.08%) Gradle
14 51 (1.06%) Cucumber
15 48 (1.00%) Gatling
16 41 (0.85%) LoadRunner
16 41 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
17 38 (0.79%) Mockito
18 31 (0.65%) Artifactory
General
1 1,259 (26.20%) Social Skills
2 886 (18.44%) Finance
3 647 (13.47%) Public Sector
4 472 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
5 337 (7.01%) Banking
6 142 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 104 (2.16%) Retail
8 82 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
9 71 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
10 56 (1.17%) Marketing
11 54 (1.12%) Legal
11 54 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
12 51 (1.06%) Aerospace
13 50 (1.04%) Military
14 47 (0.98%) Investment Banking
15 43 (0.89%) Telecoms
16 41 (0.85%) Law
17 39 (0.81%) Front Office
18 37 (0.77%) Local Government
19 36 (0.75%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 905 (18.83%) DevOps Engineer
2 742 (15.44%) Developer
3 735 (15.30%) Senior
4 559 (11.63%) Architect
5 476 (9.91%) Lead
6 297 (6.18%) Azure Engineer
7 283 (5.89%) Data Engineer
8 240 (4.99%) Analyst
9 199 (4.14%) AWS Engineer
10 195 (4.06%) Platform Engineer
11 177 (3.68%) Cloud Engineer
12 165 (3.43%) Senior DevOps
13 162 (3.37%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 162 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
14 153 (3.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 142 (2.96%) Java Developer
16 136 (2.83%) Senior Developer
17 134 (2.79%) AWS DevOps
18 132 (2.75%) Software Engineer
19 123 (2.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,398 (29.09%) Terraform
2 500 (10.41%) REST
3 409 (8.51%) .NET
4 326 (6.78%) Kafka
5 266 (5.54%) RESTful
6 251 (5.22%) React
7 238 (4.95%) Spring
8 227 (4.72%) Spring Boot
9 161 (3.35%) JSON
10 156 (3.25%) Node.js
11 146 (3.04%) PySpark
12 140 (2.91%) OAuth
13 133 (2.77%) Playwright
14 120 (2.50%) .NET Framework
15 117 (2.43%) HTML
16 112 (2.33%) CSS
17 111 (2.31%) SOAP
18 103 (2.14%) AngularJS
19 98 (2.04%) YAML
20 94 (1.96%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 880 (18.31%) Cloud Native
2 372 (7.74%) Product Ownership
3 223 (4.64%) Distributed Systems
4 165 (3.43%) Enterprise Software
5 161 (3.35%) Onboarding
6 141 (2.93%) Hybrid Cloud
7 132 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
8 86 (1.79%) AI Agents
9 75 (1.56%) Management Information System
10 70 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
11 69 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
12 65 (1.35%) Data Structures
12 65 (1.35%) Replication
13 64 (1.33%) Security Posture
14 62 (1.29%) Public Cloud
15 54 (1.12%) Data Centre
16 52 (1.08%) Virtual Team
17 50 (1.04%) Mobile App
18 40 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
18 40 (0.83%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 460 (9.57%) Linux
2 273 (5.68%) Windows
3 108 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 95 (1.98%) Unix
5 85 (1.77%) Windows Server
6 32 (0.67%) Ubuntu
7 31 (0.65%) Apple iOS
8 29 (0.60%) VMS
9 21 (0.44%) Android
10 10 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
11 9 (0.19%) CentOS
11 9 (0.19%) zOS
12 8 (0.17%) Solaris
12 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
12 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
13 7 (0.15%) AIX
14 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
14 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.083%) Alpine Linux
15 4 (0.083%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,834 (58.98%) CI/CD
2 1,951 (40.60%) Agile
3 1,373 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 811 (16.88%) Continuous Improvement
5 797 (16.59%) Stakeholder Management
6 773 (16.09%) Containerisation
7 768 (15.98%) Problem-Solving
8 750 (15.61%) Test Automation
9 748 (15.57%) AI
10 699 (14.55%) Microservices
11 656 (13.65%) Observability
12 629 (13.09%) Software Engineering
13 622 (12.94%) Platform Engineering
14 588 (12.24%) Scrum
15 581 (12.09%) Migration
16 526 (10.95%) Analytics
17 514 (10.70%) Technical Leadership
18 456 (9.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 439 (9.14%) Roadmaps
20 419 (8.72%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,413 (29.41%) Python
2 887 (18.46%) SQL
3 695 (14.46%) Java
4 439 (9.14%) PowerShell
5 425 (8.84%) C#
6 418 (8.70%) Bash
7 381 (7.93%) JavaScript
8 262 (5.45%) TypeScript
9 216 (4.50%) Bicep
10 74 (1.54%) Go
11 67 (1.39%) Shell Script
12 58 (1.21%) T-SQL
13 56 (1.17%) Groovy
14 55 (1.14%) Scala
15 49 (1.02%) Apex Code
16 48 (1.00%) PL/SQL
17 33 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 31 (0.65%) Perl
19 29 (0.60%) C++
20 23 (0.48%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,529 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 1,280 (26.64%) SC Cleared
3 319 (6.64%) Degree
4 209 (4.35%) Azure Certification
5 196 (4.08%) DV Cleared
6 161 (3.35%) AWS Certification
7 140 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
8 119 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
9 103 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
10 71 (1.48%) CISSP
11 49 (1.02%) ISTQB
12 46 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
13 45 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 39 (0.81%) PMP
15 34 (0.71%) PMI Certification
16 33 (0.69%) Master's Degree
17 29 (0.60%) CISM
18 21 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
19 20 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 20 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 481 (10.01%) QA
2 256 (5.33%) Data Quality
3 161 (3.35%) Accessibility
4 117 (2.43%) GDPR
5 92 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 78 (1.62%) NIST
6 78 (1.62%) WCAG
7 49 (1.02%) PMO
8 45 (0.94%) NCSC
9 33 (0.69%) SLA
10 29 (0.60%) PCI DSS
11 27 (0.56%) GRC
12 21 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 15 (0.31%) ISO 20022
14 12 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
15 10 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
16 9 (0.19%) HIPAA
16 9 (0.19%) HL7
16 9 (0.19%) SEPA
17 8 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 964 (20.06%) Docker
2 155 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 74 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
4 70 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 23 (0.48%) Hyper-V
6 22 (0.46%) vSphere
7 20 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
8 17 (0.35%) VMware NSX
9 16 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
10 13 (0.27%) Squid
11 11 (0.23%) IAG
12 9 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
12 9 (0.19%) Postfix
13 7 (0.15%) KVM
14 6 (0.12%) Corosync
14 6 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
15 5 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 5 (0.10%) Firmware
16 4 (0.083%) Embedded Firmware
16 4 (0.083%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,249 (25.99%) Kubernetes
2 479 (9.97%) Ansible
3 310 (6.45%) Grafana
4 261 (5.43%) Prometheus
5 71 (1.48%) Argo
6 56 (1.17%) Puppet
7 50 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
8 47 (0.98%) Progress Chef
9 42 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
10 30 (0.62%) Packer
11 23 (0.48%) Kibana
12 22 (0.46%) Istio
13 19 (0.40%) Kustomize
13 19 (0.40%) vCenter Server
14 18 (0.37%) Kubeflow
14 18 (0.37%) SCCM
15 14 (0.29%) HP ALM
16 13 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
16 13 (0.27%) SCOM
17 12 (0.25%) systemd
Vendors
1 966 (20.10%) Microsoft
2 269 (5.60%) Databricks
3 246 (5.12%) Oracle
4 231 (4.81%) Google
5 189 (3.93%) ServiceNow
6 167 (3.48%) Splunk
7 143 (2.98%) Salesforce
8 131 (2.73%) Dynatrace
9 106 (2.21%) VMware
10 102 (2.12%) Red Hat
11 97 (2.02%) SAP
12 63 (1.31%) IBM
13 52 (1.08%) Informatica
14 50 (1.04%) OpenAI
15 44 (0.92%) AppDynamics
16 42 (0.87%) Cisco
16 42 (0.87%) Foundry
17 36 (0.75%) Atlassian
18 34 (0.71%) MuleSoft
19 32 (0.67%) CyberArk