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 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 15 17
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 -5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,123 2,624 3,284
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.16% 10.71% 8.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.91% 11.81% 9.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,883 1,909 2,323
10th Percentile £385 £400 £411
25th Percentile £438 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £556
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.08% -7.33%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £663
90th Percentile £716 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.91% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 20 92
10th Percentile £39.53 £35.20 £50.13
25th Percentile £45.46 £58.61 £60.94
Median hourly rate £66.25 £72.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.62% +11.54% -0.76%
75th Percentile £76.94 £80.75 £66.31
90th Percentile £93.75 £88.00 £85.52
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £73.23 £65.00
% change year-on-year -7.82% +12.65% -0.76%

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 31,926 22,217 32,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.44% 90.67% 86.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,427 14,455 21,796
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,975 819 2,151
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.14 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £31.00 £33.11 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.37% +1.88% -11.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 18 March 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 -2 2,077 £550 -5.17% 503
North of England +5 751 £500 -4.76% 324
South East 0 439 £525 -6.96% 316
Midlands +12 400 £499 +2.05% 135
Yorkshire +1 389 £500 -4.76% 95
West Midlands +11 323 £500 +2.04% 92
North West +3 307 £490 -6.67% 173
South West +14 274 £525 -12.50% 137
East of England +19 119 £575 +15.00% 76
East Midlands -4 75 £434 -8.68% 43
North East +3 60 £475 -9.52% 59
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
1 264 (6.40%) Confluence
2 109 (2.64%) Apache Spark
3 84 (2.04%) SharePoint
4 83 (2.01%) Apache
5 77 (1.87%) SAS
6 59 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
7 30 (0.73%) CMS
7 30 (0.73%) OpenStack
8 27 (0.65%) nginx
9 22 (0.53%) IIS
9 22 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
10 12 (0.29%) Mendix
10 12 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
11 11 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 11 (0.27%) HCL Notes
12 8 (0.19%) Camunda
12 8 (0.19%) GeoServer
12 8 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
12 8 (0.19%) Smallworld
13 7 (0.17%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 81 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 43 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
4 27 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
5 20 (0.49%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.29%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.19%) Weka
8 4 (0.097%) Trello
9 2 (0.049%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.049%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.024%) InDesign
10 1 (0.024%) Maya
10 1 (0.024%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 67 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.27%) Aladdin
4 10 (0.24%) Maximo
4 10 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
5 9 (0.22%) NEC Housing
6 7 (0.17%) Endur
7 6 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
7 6 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.15%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.097%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.097%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.073%) Findur
10 3 (0.073%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.073%) SAP BPC
10 3 (0.073%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.073%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.073%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.073%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2,156 (52.29%) Azure
2 1,396 (33.86%) AWS
3 1,182 (28.67%) Azure DevOps
4 765 (18.55%) GitHub
5 582 (14.12%) GCP
6 454 (11.01%) Serverless
7 403 (9.77%) GitHub Actions
8 345 (8.37%) Power Platform
9 221 (5.36%) Amazon S3
10 219 (5.31%) AWS CloudFormation
11 217 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
12 208 (5.04%) Azure Data Factory
13 198 (4.80%) Entra ID
14 181 (4.39%) OpenShift
15 174 (4.22%) Azure AKS
16 169 (4.10%) Amazon EKS
17 165 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
18 152 (3.69%) Dynamics 365
19 137 (3.32%) SaaS
20 135 (3.27%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 192 (4.66%) Firewall
2 105 (2.55%) DNS
3 83 (2.01%) Network Security
4 76 (1.84%) VPN
5 43 (1.04%) TCP/IP
6 27 (0.65%) WAN
7 25 (0.61%) SD-WAN
8 22 (0.53%) HTTP
9 20 (0.49%) DHCP
9 20 (0.49%) SSL
10 15 (0.36%) BGP
10 15 (0.36%) MPLS
11 13 (0.32%) Internet
11 13 (0.32%) IPsec
11 13 (0.32%) SAN
12 12 (0.29%) HTTPS
13 11 (0.27%) LAN
13 11 (0.27%) Reverse Proxy
14 10 (0.24%) 5G
14 10 (0.24%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 235 (5.70%) PostgreSQL
2 221 (5.36%) Power BI
3 176 (4.27%) SQL Server
4 168 (4.07%) NoSQL
5 144 (3.49%) Data Lake
6 107 (2.60%) Relational Database
7 102 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
8 99 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
9 95 (2.30%) MongoDB
10 93 (2.26%) Azure SQL Database
11 70 (1.70%) Delta Lake
11 70 (1.70%) Oracle Database
12 66 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
13 65 (1.58%) DynamoDB
14 55 (1.33%) Redis
15 53 (1.29%) Tableau
16 52 (1.26%) Metadata
17 48 (1.16%) Big Data
18 45 (1.09%) MySQL
19 44 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 667 (16.18%) Jenkins
2 550 (13.34%) JIRA
3 544 (13.19%) Git
4 464 (11.25%) GitLab
5 112 (2.72%) Selenium
6 93 (2.26%) JUnit
7 79 (1.92%) Postman
8 71 (1.72%) Bitbucket
9 56 (1.36%) SonarQube
10 55 (1.33%) Cucumber
11 46 (1.12%) Artifactory
12 44 (1.07%) REST Assured
13 43 (1.04%) Cypress.io
14 42 (1.02%) Maven
15 39 (0.95%) JMeter
16 36 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
17 34 (0.82%) Oracle APEX
18 29 (0.70%) Liquibase
18 29 (0.70%) Mockito
19 26 (0.63%) Gradle
General
1 1,199 (29.08%) Social Skills
2 799 (19.38%) Finance
3 521 (12.64%) Public Sector
4 363 (8.80%) Analytical Skills
5 322 (7.81%) Banking
6 147 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
7 70 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
8 64 (1.55%) Financial Institution
9 56 (1.36%) Retail
10 51 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 48 (1.16%) Front Office
11 48 (1.16%) Marketing
12 44 (1.07%) Investment Banking
12 44 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
13 41 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
14 35 (0.85%) Telecoms
15 31 (0.75%) Legal
16 28 (0.68%) Military
17 25 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
18 24 (0.58%) Law
Job Titles
1 717 (17.39%) DevOps Engineer
2 657 (15.93%) Developer
3 561 (13.61%) Senior
4 448 (10.87%) Architect
5 360 (8.73%) Lead
6 260 (6.31%) Azure Engineer
7 255 (6.18%) Data Engineer
8 233 (5.65%) Analyst
9 200 (4.85%) AWS Engineer
10 163 (3.95%) Cloud Engineer
11 157 (3.81%) AWS DevOps
12 142 (3.44%) Platform Engineer
13 141 (3.42%) Software Engineer
14 134 (3.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 132 (3.20%) Solutions Architect
16 123 (2.98%) Business Analyst
17 122 (2.96%) Senior Developer
18 112 (2.72%) Senior DevOps
19 110 (2.67%) Full-Stack Developer
20 104 (2.52%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 445 (10.79%) REST
2 331 (8.03%) .NET
3 261 (6.33%) Node.js
4 255 (6.18%) React
5 244 (5.92%) Kafka
6 226 (5.48%) Spring
7 202 (4.90%) Spring Boot
8 192 (4.66%) RESTful
9 161 (3.90%) AngularJS
10 145 (3.52%) JSON
11 132 (3.20%) YAML
12 122 (2.96%) HTML
13 117 (2.84%) Playwright
14 114 (2.76%) PySpark
15 113 (2.74%) SOAP
16 111 (2.69%) OAuth
17 104 (2.52%) Elastic Stack
18 103 (2.50%) Middleware
19 101 (2.45%) XML
20 100 (2.43%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 598 (14.50%) Cloud Native
2 239 (5.80%) Product Ownership
3 143 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
4 104 (2.52%) Onboarding
5 103 (2.50%) Public Cloud
6 97 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
7 86 (2.09%) Hybrid Cloud
8 71 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
9 59 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
10 52 (1.26%) Management Information System
11 47 (1.14%) Virtual Team
12 43 (1.04%) Security Posture
13 41 (0.99%) Data Centre
13 41 (0.99%) Private Cloud
14 39 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
15 38 (0.92%) Data Structures
16 36 (0.87%) AI Agents
17 33 (0.80%) Mobile App
17 33 (0.80%) NHS
18 32 (0.78%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 410 (9.94%) Linux
2 216 (5.24%) Windows
3 70 (1.70%) Unix
4 57 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 41 (0.99%) Windows Server
6 39 (0.95%) VMS
7 22 (0.53%) Ubuntu
8 15 (0.36%) CentOS
9 10 (0.24%) Android
9 10 (0.24%) Windows 10
10 7 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
11 6 (0.15%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.12%) Solaris
13 4 (0.097%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.073%) zOS
15 2 (0.049%) Debian
15 2 (0.049%) Oracle Linux
15 2 (0.049%) Rocky
15 2 (0.049%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,316 (56.17%) CI/CD
2 1,598 (38.76%) Agile
3 1,010 (24.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 768 (18.63%) Problem-Solving
5 735 (17.83%) Containerisation
6 615 (14.92%) Test Automation
7 607 (14.72%) Microservices
8 534 (12.95%) Analytics
9 527 (12.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 493 (11.96%) Migration
11 464 (11.25%) Scrum
12 454 (11.01%) Observability
12 454 (11.01%) Stakeholder Management
13 452 (10.96%) AI
14 373 (9.05%) Data Modelling
15 372 (9.02%) Software Engineering
16 344 (8.34%) Mentoring
17 311 (7.54%) Data Pipeline
18 296 (7.18%) ETL
19 289 (7.01%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,245 (30.20%) Python
2 890 (21.59%) SQL
3 532 (12.90%) Java
4 402 (9.75%) C#
5 376 (9.12%) JavaScript
6 328 (7.96%) PowerShell
7 303 (7.35%) Bash
8 259 (6.28%) TypeScript
9 137 (3.32%) Bicep
10 119 (2.89%) Go
11 79 (1.92%) PL/SQL
12 60 (1.46%) Scala
13 45 (1.09%) T-SQL
14 40 (0.97%) Shell Script
15 39 (0.95%) C++
15 39 (0.95%) Ruby
16 33 (0.80%) Groovy
17 26 (0.63%) Rust
18 24 (0.58%) Apex Code
19 22 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1,329 (32.23%) Security Cleared
2 1,076 (26.10%) SC Cleared
3 336 (8.15%) Degree
4 190 (4.61%) Azure Certification
5 173 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 138 (3.35%) DV Cleared
7 120 (2.91%) AWS Certification
8 91 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
9 74 (1.79%) CISSP
10 68 (1.65%) Master's Degree
11 57 (1.38%) CISM
12 49 (1.19%) ISTQB
13 48 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
14 42 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 41 (0.99%) PMI Certification
16 34 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
16 34 (0.82%) PMP
17 24 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 23 (0.56%) IIBA
19 20 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 370 (8.97%) QA
2 178 (4.32%) Data Quality
3 167 (4.05%) GDPR
4 133 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 118 (2.86%) NIST
6 87 (2.11%) Accessibility
7 67 (1.63%) NCSC
8 37 (0.90%) PCI DSS
9 31 (0.75%) WCAG
10 26 (0.63%) SLA
11 25 (0.61%) PMO
12 24 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 19 (0.46%) HIPAA
14 15 (0.36%) SOC 2
15 14 (0.34%) ISO 20022
16 12 (0.29%) PSD2
17 11 (0.27%) GRC
17 11 (0.27%) NIST 800
18 10 (0.24%) SEPA
19 8 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 925 (22.44%) Docker
2 162 (3.93%) Active Directory
3 73 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
4 67 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 43 (1.04%) vSphere
6 27 (0.65%) VMware NSX
7 14 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.27%) Lustre
8 11 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 10 (0.24%) Hyper-V
10 9 (0.22%) GPFS
10 9 (0.22%) Squid
11 8 (0.19%) Firmware
12 7 (0.17%) Postfix
13 6 (0.15%) HDFS
14 5 (0.12%) KVM
14 5 (0.12%) RACF
14 5 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
15 4 (0.097%) NFS
15 4 (0.097%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1,189 (28.84%) Terraform
2 1,135 (27.53%) Kubernetes
3 446 (10.82%) Ansible
4 278 (6.74%) Grafana
5 232 (5.63%) Prometheus
6 92 (2.23%) Argo
7 64 (1.55%) Puppet
8 56 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
9 49 (1.19%) Istio
10 30 (0.73%) Packer
11 26 (0.63%) vCenter Server
12 24 (0.58%) Kibana
13 22 (0.53%) Progress Chef
14 19 (0.46%) Rancher
15 18 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 18 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
16 17 (0.41%) Consul
16 17 (0.41%) Podman
17 16 (0.39%) FortiGate
18 14 (0.34%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 715 (17.34%) Microsoft
2 279 (6.77%) Oracle
3 256 (6.21%) Databricks
4 231 (5.60%) Google
5 184 (4.46%) Splunk
6 138 (3.35%) Red Hat
7 137 (3.32%) ServiceNow
8 115 (2.79%) VMware
9 102 (2.47%) Salesforce
10 93 (2.26%) SAP
11 74 (1.79%) OpenAI
12 65 (1.58%) Atlassian
13 63 (1.53%) Dynatrace
14 57 (1.38%) CyberArk
15 38 (0.92%) Talend
16 37 (0.90%) IBM
17 34 (0.82%) Denodo
17 34 (0.82%) Foundry
18 27 (0.65%) BeyondTrust
18 27 (0.65%) Cisco