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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 16 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,608 2,540 3,551
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.61% 10.12% 9.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.44% 11.07% 11.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,221 1,841 2,441
10th Percentile £388 £375 £400
25th Percentile £440 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £703 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 11 116
10th Percentile £39.53 £35.00 £56.50
25th Percentile £61.87 £46.88 £61.51
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% +2.89%
75th Percentile £78.25 £85.86 £75.63
90th Percentile £94.81 £92.50 £86.32
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £76.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -7.89% +8.57% +6.70%

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 37,051 22,942 31,995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.33% 91.40% 85.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,408 14,828 20,735
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £416 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £514 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.78% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,328 1,099 2,362
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.76
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £26.45 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +77.69% -29.47% +6.72%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.48
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +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 25 June 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 25 June 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 25 June 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 +4 2,360 £550 - 358
North of England +7 854 £500 - 227
Yorkshire +2 458 £513 +2.65% 63
South East -5 451 £513 +2.50% 263
Midlands 0 434 £492 -1.60% 95
West Midlands 0 343 £500 -2.44% 55
North West +2 323 £500 +2.09% 132
South West +12 289 £520 -5.45% 88
East of England +23 137 £525 +6.33% 65
North East +10 91 £450 -13.88% 36
East Midlands 0 87 £471 +4.72% 40
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
1 269 (5.84%) Confluence
2 126 (2.73%) Apache Spark
3 116 (2.52%) SharePoint
4 98 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
5 90 (1.95%) Apache
6 73 (1.58%) SAS
7 48 (1.04%) CMS
8 28 (0.61%) IIS
8 28 (0.61%) Jupyter
8 28 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
9 26 (0.56%) nginx
10 16 (0.35%) Camunda
11 14 (0.30%) OpenStack
12 13 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
12 13 (0.28%) WebSphere
13 11 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
14 9 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
15 7 (0.15%) Mendix
15 7 (0.15%) Tomcat
16 6 (0.13%) Appian
Applications
1 68 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
3 45 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 35 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
5 29 (0.63%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.22%) CPLEX
7 7 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.087%) Notion
9 3 (0.065%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.065%) Trello
10 2 (0.043%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.022%) InDesign
11 1 (0.022%) Maya
11 1 (0.022%) Weka
Business Applications
1 62 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
4 10 (0.22%) Maximo
5 9 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
6 8 (0.17%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
7 6 (0.13%) Magento
7 6 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.11%) Endur
8 5 (0.11%) OpenText MBPM
8 5 (0.11%) Oracle BPM
8 5 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.087%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.065%) Findur
10 3 (0.065%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.065%) SAP BPC
10 3 (0.065%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.065%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 2,438 (52.91%) Azure
2 1,603 (34.79%) AWS
3 1,348 (29.25%) Azure DevOps
4 736 (15.97%) GitHub
5 557 (12.09%) GCP
6 440 (9.55%) GitHub Actions
7 408 (8.85%) Serverless
8 394 (8.55%) Power Platform
9 263 (5.71%) Amazon S3
10 228 (4.95%) AWS Lambda
11 225 (4.88%) Entra ID
12 189 (4.10%) Azure AKS
13 187 (4.06%) AWS CloudFormation
14 173 (3.75%) Azure Data Factory
15 164 (3.56%) Amazon EKS
16 154 (3.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 151 (3.28%) Amazon EC2
18 150 (3.26%) OpenShift
19 143 (3.10%) Azure Monitor
20 137 (2.97%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 220 (4.77%) Firewall
2 120 (2.60%) DNS
3 102 (2.21%) Network Security
4 99 (2.15%) VPN
5 48 (1.04%) WAN
6 40 (0.87%) TCP/IP
7 36 (0.78%) SD-WAN
8 32 (0.69%) BGP
9 28 (0.61%) SSL
10 27 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
11 24 (0.52%) OSPF
12 23 (0.50%) Internet
13 20 (0.43%) DHCP
14 18 (0.39%) HTTP
15 17 (0.37%) LAN
15 17 (0.37%) MPLS
15 17 (0.37%) VXLAN
16 16 (0.35%) BIG-IP
16 16 (0.35%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 16 (0.35%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 261 (5.66%) Power BI
2 230 (4.99%) SQL Server
3 224 (4.86%) PostgreSQL
4 165 (3.58%) NoSQL
5 152 (3.30%) Relational Database
6 146 (3.17%) Data Lake
7 135 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
8 134 (2.91%) MongoDB
9 103 (2.24%) Amazon RDS
10 90 (1.95%) Azure SQL Database
11 81 (1.76%) Delta Lake
12 80 (1.74%) DynamoDB
13 76 (1.65%) Metadata
14 72 (1.56%) Oracle Database
15 63 (1.37%) Redis
16 58 (1.26%) Big Data
17 56 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
18 55 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
18 55 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
19 42 (0.91%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 647 (14.04%) Jenkins
2 582 (12.63%) Git
3 547 (11.87%) JIRA
4 482 (10.46%) GitLab
5 95 (2.06%) Selenium
6 88 (1.91%) Postman
7 82 (1.78%) SonarQube
8 80 (1.74%) JUnit
9 65 (1.41%) Bitbucket
10 63 (1.37%) Maven
11 61 (1.32%) REST Assured
12 53 (1.15%) Cucumber
13 48 (1.04%) JMeter
14 41 (0.89%) Gatling
14 41 (0.89%) Gradle
15 38 (0.82%) Mockito
16 37 (0.80%) Artifactory
16 37 (0.80%) Cypress.io
17 30 (0.65%) LoadRunner
17 30 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,179 (25.59%) Social Skills
2 899 (19.51%) Finance
3 606 (13.15%) Public Sector
4 389 (8.44%) Analytical Skills
5 323 (7.01%) Banking
6 126 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
7 97 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 72 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
9 70 (1.52%) Retail
10 56 (1.22%) Marketing
11 52 (1.13%) Legal
12 51 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
13 44 (0.95%) Financial Institution
14 43 (0.93%) Military
15 41 (0.89%) Investment Banking
16 36 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
17 34 (0.74%) Law
18 30 (0.65%) Front Office
19 27 (0.59%) Aerospace
20 24 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 892 (19.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 683 (14.82%) Developer
3 653 (14.17%) Senior
4 566 (12.28%) Architect
5 428 (9.29%) Lead
6 293 (6.36%) Azure Engineer
7 286 (6.21%) Data Engineer
8 267 (5.79%) Analyst
9 204 (4.43%) AWS Engineer
10 182 (3.95%) Cloud Engineer
11 175 (3.80%) Solutions Architect
12 168 (3.65%) Platform Engineer
13 156 (3.39%) Senior DevOps
14 147 (3.19%) AWS DevOps
15 144 (3.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 142 (3.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 141 (3.06%) Business Analyst
17 141 (3.06%) Software Engineer
18 140 (3.04%) Java Developer
19 134 (2.91%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 429 (9.31%) REST
2 383 (8.31%) .NET
3 265 (5.75%) Kafka
4 257 (5.58%) Spring
5 252 (5.47%) React
6 242 (5.25%) Spring Boot
7 223 (4.84%) RESTful
8 189 (4.10%) Node.js
9 142 (3.08%) AngularJS
10 138 (2.99%) PySpark
11 133 (2.89%) OAuth
12 124 (2.69%) JSON
13 122 (2.65%) Playwright
14 112 (2.43%) SOAP
15 111 (2.41%) .NET Framework
16 107 (2.32%) YAML
17 104 (2.26%) HTML
18 96 (2.08%) OpenID
19 92 (2.00%) Middleware
20 89 (1.93%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 816 (17.71%) Cloud Native
2 306 (6.64%) Product Ownership
3 204 (4.43%) Distributed Systems
4 128 (2.78%) Onboarding
5 117 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
6 111 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
7 101 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
8 83 (1.80%) Public Cloud
9 67 (1.45%) Data Centre
9 67 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
10 65 (1.41%) Management Information System
11 61 (1.32%) Security Posture
12 55 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
13 51 (1.11%) Mobile App
14 49 (1.06%) Data Structures
15 48 (1.04%) AI Agents
16 46 (1.00%) Virtual Team
17 42 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
18 41 (0.89%) Replication
19 35 (0.76%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 399 (8.66%) Linux
2 241 (5.23%) Windows
3 94 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 66 (1.43%) Unix
5 48 (1.04%) Windows Server
6 30 (0.65%) Ubuntu
7 28 (0.61%) VMS
8 23 (0.50%) Apple iOS
9 15 (0.33%) Android
10 13 (0.28%) CentOS
11 9 (0.20%) Solaris
11 9 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
13 5 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
13 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.087%) Alpine Linux
14 4 (0.087%) Data ONTAP
14 4 (0.087%) Mac OS
14 4 (0.087%) Windows 10
15 3 (0.065%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,632 (57.12%) CI/CD
2 1,752 (38.02%) Agile
3 1,194 (25.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 722 (15.67%) Containerisation
5 716 (15.54%) Problem-Solving
6 663 (14.39%) Microservices
7 652 (14.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 648 (14.06%) Test Automation
9 591 (12.83%) Stakeholder Management
10 574 (12.46%) AI
11 568 (12.33%) Migration
12 551 (11.96%) Observability
13 544 (11.81%) Analytics
14 541 (11.74%) Scrum
15 496 (10.76%) Software Engineering
16 485 (10.53%) Platform Engineering
17 422 (9.16%) Data Modelling
18 394 (8.55%) Roadmaps
18 394 (8.55%) Technical Leadership
19 384 (8.33%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1,290 (27.99%) Python
2 894 (19.40%) SQL
3 638 (13.85%) Java
4 426 (9.24%) C#
5 333 (7.23%) Bash
6 329 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 329 (7.14%) PowerShell
7 229 (4.97%) TypeScript
8 157 (3.41%) Bicep
9 92 (2.00%) Go
10 60 (1.30%) Scala
11 54 (1.17%) Shell Script
12 49 (1.06%) Apex Code
13 48 (1.04%) PL/SQL
13 48 (1.04%) T-SQL
14 42 (0.91%) Groovy
15 26 (0.56%) C++
16 25 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 23 (0.50%) Kotlin
18 21 (0.46%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,475 (32.01%) Security Cleared
2 1,230 (26.69%) SC Cleared
3 299 (6.49%) Degree
4 188 (4.08%) Azure Certification
5 154 (3.34%) DV Cleared
6 147 (3.19%) AWS Certification
7 119 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
8 112 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
9 74 (1.61%) CISSP
10 69 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
11 45 (0.98%) ISTQB
12 44 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
13 42 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 40 (0.87%) PMP
15 39 (0.85%) CISM
15 39 (0.85%) PMI Certification
16 37 (0.80%) Master's Degree
17 24 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
18 21 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 21 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 400 (8.68%) QA
2 222 (4.82%) Data Quality
3 153 (3.32%) GDPR
4 131 (2.84%) Accessibility
5 113 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 108 (2.34%) NIST
7 65 (1.41%) NCSC
8 60 (1.30%) WCAG
9 48 (1.04%) PCI DSS
10 36 (0.78%) SLA
11 28 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 25 (0.54%) GRC
13 24 (0.52%) PMO
14 16 (0.35%) HIPAA
15 13 (0.28%) SOC 2
16 11 (0.24%) ISO 20022
16 11 (0.24%) NIST 800
16 11 (0.24%) PSD2
17 10 (0.22%) SEPA
18 7 (0.15%) COBIT
System Software
1 884 (19.18%) Docker
2 165 (3.58%) Active Directory
3 72 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
4 61 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 26 (0.56%) vSphere
6 21 (0.46%) VMware NSX
7 17 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
8 16 (0.35%) Squid
9 14 (0.30%) Hyper-V
9 14 (0.30%) Postfix
10 7 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
11 6 (0.13%) Corosync
11 6 (0.13%) Firmware
11 6 (0.13%) KVM
11 6 (0.13%) RACF
12 5 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
12 5 (0.11%) SRDF
13 4 (0.087%) IAG
13 4 (0.087%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,299 (28.19%) Terraform
2 1,156 (25.09%) Kubernetes
3 457 (9.92%) Ansible
4 296 (6.42%) Grafana
5 257 (5.58%) Prometheus
6 75 (1.63%) Argo
7 68 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
8 61 (1.32%) Puppet
9 35 (0.76%) Istio
10 32 (0.69%) Progress Chef
11 29 (0.63%) Packer
12 26 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
13 25 (0.54%) vCenter Server
14 22 (0.48%) Kibana
15 17 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 16 (0.35%) Consul
16 16 (0.35%) HP ALM
17 14 (0.30%) Kustomize
18 12 (0.26%) FortiGate
18 12 (0.26%) Rancher
Vendors
1 825 (17.90%) Microsoft
2 245 (5.32%) Databricks
3 238 (5.16%) Oracle
4 215 (4.67%) Google
5 178 (3.86%) ServiceNow
6 163 (3.54%) Splunk
7 145 (3.15%) Salesforce
8 119 (2.58%) Red Hat
9 109 (2.37%) Dynatrace
10 107 (2.32%) SAP
11 96 (2.08%) VMware
12 62 (1.35%) OpenAI
13 54 (1.17%) IBM
14 51 (1.11%) Atlassian
15 45 (0.98%) CyberArk
16 44 (0.95%) Informatica
17 39 (0.85%) Foundry
18 34 (0.74%) Cisco
19 32 (0.69%) Okta
20 30 (0.65%) AppDynamics