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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 15 17
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 -5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,110 2,623 3,284
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.16% 10.68% 8.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.91% 11.78% 9.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,872 1,908 2,323
10th Percentile £385 £400 £411
25th Percentile £439 £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 £714 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.72% - -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 31,848 22,266 32,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.46% 90.63% 86.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,386 14,474 21,796
10th Percentile £313 £310 £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 £640 £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 1,978 815 2,152
10th Percentile £15.29 £15.18 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.79 £34.11 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.73% +4.95% -12.87%
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 17 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 17 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 17 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 2,069 £544 -6.61% 527
North of England +5 746 £500 -4.76% 336
South East -1 437 £525 -6.96% 343
Midlands +14 404 £500 +2.30% 151
Yorkshire +1 387 £500 -4.76% 105
West Midlands +13 325 £503 +2.65% 90
North West +1 304 £490 -6.67% 178
South West +13 271 £525 -12.50% 139
East of England +18 119 £575 +13.30% 80
East Midlands +1 77 £438 -7.89% 61
North East +3 60 £475 -9.52% 56
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
1 262 (6.37%) Confluence
2 109 (2.65%) Apache Spark
3 84 (2.04%) SharePoint
4 83 (2.02%) Apache
5 77 (1.87%) SAS
6 59 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
7 31 (0.75%) OpenStack
8 30 (0.73%) CMS
9 27 (0.66%) nginx
10 22 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
11 20 (0.49%) IIS
12 12 (0.29%) Mendix
12 12 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
13 11 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 11 (0.27%) HCL Notes
14 8 (0.19%) Camunda
14 8 (0.19%) GeoServer
14 8 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
14 8 (0.19%) Smallworld
15 7 (0.17%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 85 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 43 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
4 27 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
5 22 (0.54%) 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 14 (0.34%) 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 8 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
7 6 (0.15%) Endur
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%) 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
11 2 (0.049%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 2,153 (52.38%) Azure
2 1,393 (33.89%) AWS
3 1,183 (28.78%) Azure DevOps
4 763 (18.56%) GitHub
5 581 (14.14%) GCP
6 457 (11.12%) Serverless
7 404 (9.83%) GitHub Actions
8 348 (8.47%) Power Platform
9 220 (5.35%) Amazon S3
10 218 (5.30%) AWS CloudFormation
11 216 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
12 209 (5.09%) Azure Data Factory
13 196 (4.77%) Entra ID
14 180 (4.38%) OpenShift
15 174 (4.23%) Azure AKS
16 169 (4.11%) Amazon EKS
17 165 (4.01%) Azure Monitor
18 155 (3.77%) Dynamics 365
19 137 (3.33%) SaaS
20 136 (3.31%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 192 (4.67%) Firewall
2 103 (2.51%) DNS
3 83 (2.02%) Network Security
4 76 (1.85%) VPN
5 44 (1.07%) TCP/IP
6 27 (0.66%) WAN
7 25 (0.61%) SD-WAN
8 22 (0.54%) 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 (5.72%) PostgreSQL
2 221 (5.38%) Power BI
3 175 (4.26%) SQL Server
4 167 (4.06%) NoSQL
5 143 (3.48%) Data Lake
6 108 (2.63%) Relational Database
7 101 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
8 99 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
9 94 (2.29%) MongoDB
10 93 (2.26%) Azure SQL Database
11 70 (1.70%) Delta Lake
12 69 (1.68%) Oracle Database
13 66 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
14 65 (1.58%) DynamoDB
15 55 (1.34%) Redis
16 52 (1.27%) Metadata
16 52 (1.27%) Tableau
17 48 (1.17%) Big Data
18 47 (1.14%) MySQL
19 44 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 667 (16.23%) Jenkins
2 551 (13.41%) Git
3 549 (13.36%) JIRA
4 465 (11.31%) GitLab
5 114 (2.77%) Selenium
6 94 (2.29%) JUnit
7 81 (1.97%) Postman
8 70 (1.70%) Bitbucket
9 57 (1.39%) SonarQube
10 55 (1.34%) Cucumber
11 47 (1.14%) Artifactory
12 44 (1.07%) Cypress.io
12 44 (1.07%) Maven
12 44 (1.07%) REST Assured
13 38 (0.92%) JMeter
13 38 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
14 34 (0.83%) Oracle APEX
15 29 (0.71%) Mockito
16 28 (0.68%) Liquibase
17 27 (0.66%) Gradle
General
1 1,188 (28.91%) Social Skills
2 795 (19.34%) Finance
3 520 (12.65%) Public Sector
4 364 (8.86%) Analytical Skills
5 323 (7.86%) Banking
6 146 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
7 71 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
8 64 (1.56%) Financial Institution
9 57 (1.39%) Retail
10 51 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 48 (1.17%) Front Office
11 48 (1.17%) Marketing
12 44 (1.07%) Investment Banking
13 42 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
14 39 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
15 35 (0.85%) Telecoms
16 30 (0.73%) Legal
17 29 (0.71%) Military
18 25 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
19 24 (0.58%) Law
Job Titles
1 720 (17.52%) DevOps Engineer
2 658 (16.01%) Developer
3 560 (13.63%) Senior
4 448 (10.90%) Architect
5 355 (8.64%) Lead
6 259 (6.30%) Azure Engineer
7 255 (6.20%) Data Engineer
8 231 (5.62%) Analyst
9 201 (4.89%) AWS Engineer
10 164 (3.99%) Cloud Engineer
11 158 (3.84%) AWS DevOps
12 142 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
13 140 (3.41%) Software Engineer
14 135 (3.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 132 (3.21%) Solutions Architect
16 122 (2.97%) Business Analyst
17 121 (2.94%) Senior Developer
18 112 (2.73%) Senior DevOps
19 109 (2.65%) Full-Stack Developer
20 104 (2.53%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 445 (10.83%) REST
2 331 (8.05%) .NET
3 261 (6.35%) Node.js
4 254 (6.18%) React
5 244 (5.94%) Kafka
6 226 (5.50%) Spring
7 202 (4.91%) Spring Boot
8 192 (4.67%) RESTful
9 160 (3.89%) AngularJS
10 145 (3.53%) JSON
11 133 (3.24%) YAML
12 122 (2.97%) HTML
13 117 (2.85%) Playwright
14 114 (2.77%) PySpark
15 113 (2.75%) SOAP
16 111 (2.70%) OAuth
17 104 (2.53%) Elastic Stack
18 102 (2.48%) Middleware
19 100 (2.43%) CSS
19 100 (2.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 598 (14.55%) Cloud Native
2 236 (5.74%) Product Ownership
3 142 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
4 103 (2.51%) Onboarding
5 102 (2.48%) Public Cloud
6 95 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
7 84 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
8 69 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
9 55 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
10 52 (1.27%) Management Information System
11 47 (1.14%) Virtual Team
12 43 (1.05%) Security Posture
13 41 (1.00%) Data Centre
13 41 (1.00%) Private Cloud
14 39 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
15 38 (0.92%) Data Structures
16 37 (0.90%) AI Agents
17 35 (0.85%) NHS
18 33 (0.80%) Mobile App
19 32 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 412 (10.02%) Linux
2 215 (5.23%) Windows
3 69 (1.68%) Unix
4 57 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 40 (0.97%) Windows Server
6 39 (0.95%) VMS
7 22 (0.54%) Ubuntu
8 15 (0.36%) CentOS
9 10 (0.24%) Android
10 9 (0.22%) Windows 10
11 7 (0.17%) Apple iOS
11 7 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.097%) Solaris
13 4 (0.097%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.073%) zOS
15 2 (0.049%) Debian
15 2 (0.049%) Windows Server 2008
16 1 (0.024%) Embedded Linux
16 1 (0.024%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,315 (56.33%) CI/CD
2 1,593 (38.76%) Agile
3 1,005 (24.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 766 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
5 732 (17.81%) Containerisation
6 613 (14.91%) Test Automation
7 605 (14.72%) Microservices
8 537 (13.07%) Analytics
9 520 (12.65%) Continuous Improvement
10 492 (11.97%) Migration
11 465 (11.31%) Scrum
12 454 (11.05%) Observability
13 452 (11.00%) AI
14 449 (10.92%) Stakeholder Management
15 372 (9.05%) Data Modelling
15 372 (9.05%) Software Engineering
16 345 (8.39%) Mentoring
17 313 (7.62%) Data Pipeline
18 298 (7.25%) ETL
19 290 (7.06%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,243 (30.24%) Python
2 891 (21.68%) SQL
3 531 (12.92%) Java
4 402 (9.78%) C#
5 377 (9.17%) JavaScript
6 325 (7.91%) PowerShell
7 301 (7.32%) Bash
8 260 (6.33%) TypeScript
9 138 (3.36%) Bicep
10 119 (2.90%) Go
11 78 (1.90%) PL/SQL
12 60 (1.46%) Scala
13 47 (1.14%) 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 23 (0.56%) Apex Code
19 22 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1,327 (32.29%) Security Cleared
2 1,071 (26.06%) SC Cleared
3 336 (8.18%) Degree
4 192 (4.67%) Azure Certification
5 173 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 140 (3.41%) DV Cleared
7 120 (2.92%) AWS Certification
8 91 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
9 74 (1.80%) CISSP
10 69 (1.68%) Master's Degree
11 57 (1.39%) CISM
12 50 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
13 49 (1.19%) ISTQB
14 42 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 40 (0.97%) PMI Certification
16 34 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
16 34 (0.83%) PMP
17 24 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 23 (0.56%) IIBA
19 21 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 364 (8.86%) QA
2 178 (4.33%) Data Quality
3 167 (4.06%) GDPR
4 133 (3.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 118 (2.87%) NIST
6 86 (2.09%) Accessibility
7 67 (1.63%) NCSC
8 37 (0.90%) PCI DSS
9 30 (0.73%) 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%) ISO 20022
14 15 (0.36%) SOC 2
15 13 (0.32%) PSD2
16 11 (0.27%) NIST 800
16 11 (0.27%) SEPA
17 10 (0.24%) GRC
18 8 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 923 (22.46%) Docker
2 162 (3.94%) Active Directory
3 72 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
4 65 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 41 (1.00%) vSphere
6 25 (0.61%) 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%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1,188 (28.91%) Terraform
2 1,132 (27.54%) Kubernetes
3 446 (10.85%) Ansible
4 277 (6.74%) Grafana
5 233 (5.67%) Prometheus
6 90 (2.19%) Argo
7 65 (1.58%) Puppet
8 56 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
9 49 (1.19%) Istio
10 30 (0.73%) Packer
11 24 (0.58%) Kibana
11 24 (0.58%) vCenter Server
12 23 (0.56%) Progress Chef
13 19 (0.46%) Rancher
14 18 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 18 (0.44%) Podman
15 17 (0.41%) Consul
16 16 (0.39%) FortiGate
16 16 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
17 14 (0.34%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 716 (17.42%) Microsoft
2 278 (6.76%) Oracle
3 257 (6.25%) Databricks
4 231 (5.62%) Google
5 182 (4.43%) Splunk
6 137 (3.33%) ServiceNow
7 135 (3.28%) Red Hat
8 113 (2.75%) VMware
9 101 (2.46%) Salesforce
10 93 (2.26%) SAP
11 74 (1.80%) OpenAI
12 65 (1.58%) Atlassian
13 62 (1.51%) Dynatrace
14 58 (1.41%) CyberArk
15 38 (0.92%) Talend
16 37 (0.90%) IBM
17 34 (0.83%) Denodo
17 34 (0.83%) Foundry
18 27 (0.66%) BeyondTrust
18 27 (0.66%) Cisco