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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,865 2,923 3,331
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.67% 10.56% 10.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.54% 11.63% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,340 2,120 2,271
10th Percentile £385 £360 £400
25th Percentile £438 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £519 £550
% change year-on-year +1.25% -5.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 22 81
10th Percentile £35.90 £35.75 £56.25
25th Percentile £55.25 £51.69 £61.60
Median hourly rate £67.00 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -4.29% +6.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 £82.72 £74.44
90th Percentile £88.00 £94.75 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +0.75% -4.29% +6.87%

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 38,794 25,132 28,630
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.10% 90.79% 85.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,129 16,058 18,629
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,535 1,418 1,653
10th Percentile £14.56 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £41.08
% change year-on-year +68.99% -38.77% -1.96%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 2,536 £550 - 2,139
North of England 0 836 £500 +5.26% 525
South East -9 467 £525 +5.00% 475
Midlands -1 464 £488 -2.50% 243
Yorkshire -1 414 £500 +2.04% 134
West Midlands -3 381 £490 -4.85% 159
North West -4 328 £525 +11.11% 287
South West +11 318 £525 +0.96% 223
East of England +15 139 £505 +1.00% 132
North East +13 111 £425 -19.05% 108
East Midlands +3 78 £488 +7.26% 83
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
1 289 (5.94%) Confluence
2 125 (2.57%) SharePoint
3 120 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
3 120 (2.47%) Apache Spark
4 101 (2.08%) Apache
5 76 (1.56%) SAS
6 40 (0.82%) CMS
7 34 (0.70%) Jupyter
8 31 (0.64%) IIS
9 23 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
10 21 (0.43%) nginx
11 14 (0.29%) WebSphere
12 13 (0.27%) Camunda
13 12 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
14 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
15 10 (0.21%) OpenStack
16 9 (0.18%) Anypoint
16 9 (0.18%) Appian
17 7 (0.14%) Tomcat
17 7 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 61 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
2 54 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 35 (0.72%) MS Visio
4 31 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
5 26 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.18%) CPLEX
7 9 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.14%) Trello
9 5 (0.10%) Notion
10 1 (0.021%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
10 1 (0.021%) Gliffy
10 1 (0.021%) InDesign
10 1 (0.021%) Maya
10 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 62 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
4 10 (0.21%) Aladdin
5 9 (0.18%) Magento
6 8 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
6 8 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
7 7 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 5 (0.10%) Maximo
8 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
8 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
8 5 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.10%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.082%) Endur
9 4 (0.082%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.062%) Findur
10 3 (0.062%) SAP BPC
10 3 (0.062%) Teamcenter
10 3 (0.062%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2,617 (53.79%) Azure
2 1,679 (34.51%) AWS
3 1,515 (31.14%) Azure DevOps
4 815 (16.75%) GitHub
5 601 (12.35%) GCP
6 510 (10.48%) GitHub Actions
7 422 (8.67%) Power Platform
8 383 (7.87%) Serverless
9 246 (5.06%) Amazon S3
10 245 (5.04%) Entra ID
11 225 (4.62%) AWS Lambda
12 192 (3.95%) Azure AKS
13 184 (3.78%) AWS CloudFormation
14 182 (3.74%) Amazon EKS
15 181 (3.72%) Azure Data Factory
16 179 (3.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 170 (3.49%) Azure Monitor
18 152 (3.12%) Dynamics 365
19 151 (3.10%) Amazon EC2
20 147 (3.02%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 233 (4.79%) Firewall
2 143 (2.94%) DNS
3 114 (2.34%) VPN
4 106 (2.18%) Network Security
5 60 (1.23%) TCP/IP
6 50 (1.03%) WAN
7 42 (0.86%) SSL
8 38 (0.78%) DHCP
9 36 (0.74%) SD-WAN
10 32 (0.66%) Internet
11 31 (0.64%) BGP
12 28 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
13 26 (0.53%) HTTP
14 25 (0.51%) OSPF
15 19 (0.39%) SAN
15 19 (0.39%) VLAN
16 18 (0.37%) VXLAN
17 17 (0.35%) MPLS
17 17 (0.35%) SSH
18 16 (0.33%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 294 (6.04%) Power BI
2 253 (5.20%) SQL Server
3 229 (4.71%) PostgreSQL
4 179 (3.68%) Data Warehouse
5 164 (3.37%) NoSQL
6 152 (3.12%) Relational Database
7 148 (3.04%) Data Lake
8 138 (2.84%) MongoDB
9 102 (2.10%) Metadata
10 100 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
11 93 (1.91%) Azure SQL Database
12 85 (1.75%) Delta Lake
13 78 (1.60%) DynamoDB
14 75 (1.54%) Oracle Database
15 59 (1.21%) Big Data
15 59 (1.21%) Redis
16 58 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
17 52 (1.07%) BigQuery
18 51 (1.05%) MySQL
19 47 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 683 (14.04%) Jenkins
2 650 (13.36%) Git
3 574 (11.80%) JIRA
4 507 (10.42%) GitLab
5 107 (2.20%) Selenium
6 89 (1.83%) SonarQube
7 82 (1.69%) Postman
8 75 (1.54%) Bitbucket
9 74 (1.52%) JUnit
10 73 (1.50%) Maven
11 55 (1.13%) Cypress.io
12 54 (1.11%) JMeter
12 54 (1.11%) REST Assured
13 50 (1.03%) Cucumber
14 47 (0.97%) Gatling
15 43 (0.88%) Gradle
16 40 (0.82%) LoadRunner
17 37 (0.76%) Mockito
18 34 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
19 33 (0.68%) Artifactory
General
1 1,246 (25.61%) Social Skills
2 913 (18.77%) Finance
3 672 (13.81%) Public Sector
4 463 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 341 (7.01%) Banking
6 130 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 100 (2.06%) Retail
8 88 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
9 68 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
10 59 (1.21%) Legal
11 57 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
12 54 (1.11%) Marketing
13 48 (0.99%) Investment Banking
14 45 (0.92%) Aerospace
15 43 (0.88%) Military
16 40 (0.82%) Financial Institution
16 40 (0.82%) Front Office
16 40 (0.82%) Law
17 39 (0.80%) Telecoms
18 36 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 893 (18.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 763 (15.68%) Developer
3 723 (14.86%) Senior
4 549 (11.28%) Architect
5 492 (10.11%) Lead
6 295 (6.06%) Data Engineer
7 292 (6.00%) Azure Engineer
8 246 (5.06%) Analyst
9 210 (4.32%) AWS Engineer
10 198 (4.07%) Platform Engineer
11 183 (3.76%) Cloud Engineer
12 174 (3.58%) Senior DevOps
13 168 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
14 159 (3.27%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 151 (3.10%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 148 (3.04%) AWS DevOps
17 141 (2.90%) Java Developer
18 138 (2.84%) Software Engineer
19 135 (2.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
20 128 (2.63%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 485 (9.97%) REST
2 426 (8.76%) .NET
3 298 (6.13%) Kafka
4 256 (5.26%) RESTful
5 244 (5.02%) React
6 231 (4.75%) Spring
7 211 (4.34%) Spring Boot
8 177 (3.64%) Node.js
9 151 (3.10%) JSON
10 145 (2.98%) PySpark
11 137 (2.82%) OAuth
12 136 (2.80%) Playwright
13 130 (2.67%) AngularJS
14 128 (2.63%) .NET Framework
15 125 (2.57%) SOAP
16 111 (2.28%) HTML
17 106 (2.18%) YAML
18 95 (1.95%) OAuth2
19 94 (1.93%) CSS
20 89 (1.83%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 874 (17.97%) Cloud Native
2 348 (7.15%) Product Ownership
3 224 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
4 148 (3.04%) Onboarding
5 145 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
6 135 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
7 134 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
8 78 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
9 71 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
10 69 (1.42%) Management Information System
11 68 (1.40%) Security Posture
12 67 (1.38%) AI Agents
13 63 (1.29%) Public Cloud
14 62 (1.27%) Data Structures
15 59 (1.21%) Data Centre
16 54 (1.11%) Replication
17 49 (1.01%) Mobile App
18 48 (0.99%) Virtual Team
19 39 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
19 39 (0.80%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 449 (9.23%) Linux
2 273 (5.61%) Windows
3 105 (2.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 78 (1.60%) Unix
5 74 (1.52%) Windows Server
6 28 (0.58%) Ubuntu
7 27 (0.55%) Apple iOS
8 25 (0.51%) VMS
9 18 (0.37%) Android
10 9 (0.18%) Solaris
10 9 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.16%) AIX
11 8 (0.16%) Amazon Linux
11 8 (0.16%) zOS
12 7 (0.14%) CentOS
12 7 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
13 6 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
14 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
15 4 (0.082%) Alpine Linux
15 4 (0.082%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,817 (57.90%) CI/CD
2 1,962 (40.33%) Agile
3 1,319 (27.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 800 (16.44%) Continuous Improvement
5 771 (15.85%) Containerisation
6 762 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
7 750 (15.42%) Test Automation
8 718 (14.76%) Stakeholder Management
9 708 (14.55%) AI
10 691 (14.20%) Microservices
11 620 (12.74%) Observability
12 607 (12.48%) Scrum
13 603 (12.39%) Software Engineering
14 587 (12.07%) Platform Engineering
15 580 (11.92%) Migration
16 555 (11.41%) Analytics
17 473 (9.72%) Technical Leadership
18 456 (9.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 437 (8.98%) Data Modelling
20 417 (8.57%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,405 (28.88%) Python
2 917 (18.85%) SQL
3 677 (13.92%) Java
4 445 (9.15%) C#
5 422 (8.67%) PowerShell
6 412 (8.47%) Bash
7 389 (8.00%) JavaScript
8 267 (5.49%) TypeScript
9 196 (4.03%) Bicep
10 80 (1.64%) Go
11 59 (1.21%) Shell Script
12 57 (1.17%) T-SQL
13 56 (1.15%) Scala
14 55 (1.13%) PL/SQL
15 52 (1.07%) Groovy
16 51 (1.05%) Apex Code
17 35 (0.72%) C++
18 28 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 27 (0.55%) Perl
20 25 (0.51%) C
Qualifications
1 1,560 (32.07%) Security Cleared
2 1,311 (26.95%) SC Cleared
3 303 (6.23%) Degree
4 197 (4.05%) Azure Certification
5 183 (3.76%) DV Cleared
6 163 (3.35%) AWS Certification
7 135 (2.77%) BPSS Clearance
8 110 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
9 83 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
10 75 (1.54%) CISSP
11 51 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
12 48 (0.99%) ISTQB
13 43 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 41 (0.84%) PMP
15 36 (0.74%) PMI Certification
16 31 (0.64%) Master's Degree
17 30 (0.62%) CISM
18 24 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 24 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
19 22 (0.45%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 456 (9.37%) QA
2 252 (5.18%) Data Quality
3 157 (3.23%) Accessibility
4 134 (2.75%) GDPR
5 86 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 76 (1.56%) NIST
7 75 (1.54%) WCAG
8 48 (0.99%) NCSC
9 42 (0.86%) PMO
10 36 (0.74%) PCI DSS
11 31 (0.64%) SLA
12 26 (0.53%) GRC
13 25 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 11 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
14 11 (0.23%) HIPAA
14 11 (0.23%) ISO 20022
15 10 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
16 8 (0.16%) PSD2
16 8 (0.16%) SEPA
17 7 (0.14%) HL7
System Software
1 949 (19.51%) Docker
2 171 (3.51%) Active Directory
3 72 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 70 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (0.47%) Hyper-V
6 21 (0.43%) vSphere
7 17 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
8 16 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 16 (0.33%) VMware NSX
9 12 (0.25%) Postfix
9 12 (0.25%) Squid
10 11 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
11 9 (0.18%) IAG
12 8 (0.16%) KVM
13 6 (0.12%) Corosync
13 6 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
14 5 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 5 (0.10%) Firmware
14 5 (0.10%) NFS
14 5 (0.10%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 1,388 (28.53%) Terraform
2 1,233 (25.34%) Kubernetes
3 478 (9.83%) Ansible
4 311 (6.39%) Grafana
5 265 (5.45%) Prometheus
6 75 (1.54%) Argo
7 62 (1.27%) Puppet
8 56 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
9 46 (0.95%) Progress Chef
10 36 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
11 32 (0.66%) Packer
12 30 (0.62%) Istio
13 18 (0.37%) vCenter Server
14 17 (0.35%) Kibana
14 17 (0.35%) SCCM
15 16 (0.33%) Kubeflow
15 16 (0.33%) Kustomize
16 14 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
17 12 (0.25%) Control-M
17 12 (0.25%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 930 (19.12%) Microsoft
2 252 (5.18%) Oracle
3 246 (5.06%) Databricks
4 228 (4.69%) Google
5 192 (3.95%) ServiceNow
6 156 (3.21%) Splunk
7 150 (3.08%) Salesforce
8 128 (2.63%) Dynatrace
9 106 (2.18%) SAP
10 105 (2.16%) Red Hat
11 98 (2.01%) VMware
12 62 (1.27%) IBM
13 51 (1.05%) Informatica
14 48 (0.99%) Atlassian
15 45 (0.92%) Cisco
16 43 (0.88%) OpenAI
17 40 (0.82%) AppDynamics
18 37 (0.76%) Foundry
19 35 (0.72%) Denodo
20 34 (0.70%) MuleSoft