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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 14 17
Rank change year-on-year +2 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing DevOps 3,791 2,771 3,223
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.35% 10.54% 8.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.94% 11.76% 9.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,652 1,912 2,366
10th Percentile £375 £400 £413
25th Percentile £438 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +0.97% -5.08%
75th Percentile £615 £675 £675
90th Percentile £723 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £560 £550
% change year-on-year -7.14% +1.77% -7.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 20 102
10th Percentile - £38.23 £46.18
25th Percentile £45.46 £53.73 £56.65
Median hourly rate £50.00 £67.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +3.85% -0.76%
75th Percentile £79.75 £80.75 £76.32
90th Percentile £95.00 £81.43 £84.27
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £70.36 £65.00
% change year-on-year -21.83% +8.25% -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 29,288 23,559 32,969
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.67% 89.65% 87.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,737 14,462 22,056
10th Percentile £306 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £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 1,829 754 1,953
10th Percentile £15.16 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.88 £21.01 £16.66
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% - +1.21%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £61.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +9.38%

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 5 February 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 5 February 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 5 February 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 -3 1,893 £536 -10.75% 551
North of England +5 690 £500 -4.53% 306
South East +1 407 £525 -8.70% 352
Midlands +17 396 £515 +3.00% 118
Yorkshire 0 358 £500 -1.96% 99
West Midlands +21 319 £525 +3.75% 82
North West +3 284 £471 -10.38% 175
South West +8 244 £525 -12.50% 142
East of England +16 108 £575 +9.26% 72
East Midlands +13 77 £425 -10.53% 36
North East -3 51 £475 -15.93% 33
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
1 234 (6.17%) Confluence
2 82 (2.16%) SharePoint
3 81 (2.14%) Apache
4 79 (2.08%) Apache Spark
5 72 (1.90%) SAS
6 58 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
7 37 (0.98%) OpenStack
8 32 (0.84%) CMS
9 30 (0.79%) nginx
10 20 (0.53%) IIS
10 20 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
11 17 (0.45%) JBoss
12 11 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 11 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
12 11 (0.29%) WebLogic
13 10 (0.26%) CICS
13 10 (0.26%) HCL Notes
13 10 (0.26%) Mendix
14 8 (0.21%) Camunda
14 8 (0.21%) Smallworld
Applications
1 93 (2.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 35 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
4 29 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
5 18 (0.47%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.29%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.21%) Weka
8 7 (0.18%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 3 (0.079%) Trello
10 1 (0.026%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.026%) Revit
Business Applications
1 60 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.29%) Endur
4 9 (0.24%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.24%) Maximo
4 9 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.21%) NEC Housing
5 8 (0.21%) VisionPLUS
6 5 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.11%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.079%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.079%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.079%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.079%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.079%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.079%) SAP FI/CO
8 3 (0.079%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,936 (51.07%) Azure
2 1,316 (34.71%) AWS
3 1,038 (27.38%) Azure DevOps
4 701 (18.49%) GitHub
5 574 (15.14%) GCP
6 420 (11.08%) Serverless
7 379 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
8 310 (8.18%) Power Platform
9 202 (5.33%) AWS CloudFormation
10 198 (5.22%) AWS Lambda
11 196 (5.17%) Amazon S3
12 183 (4.83%) Azure Data Factory
13 167 (4.41%) Azure AKS
13 167 (4.41%) OpenShift
14 162 (4.27%) Entra ID
15 148 (3.90%) Dynamics 365
16 147 (3.88%) SaaS
17 144 (3.80%) Amazon EKS
18 139 (3.67%) Azure Monitor
19 134 (3.53%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 184 (4.85%) Firewall
2 106 (2.80%) DNS
3 79 (2.08%) VPN
4 78 (2.06%) Network Security
5 50 (1.32%) TCP/IP
6 42 (1.11%) SSL
7 32 (0.84%) HTTP
8 28 (0.74%) HTTPS
9 22 (0.58%) WAN
10 19 (0.50%) DHCP
11 17 (0.45%) Kerberos
12 16 (0.42%) SD-WAN
13 15 (0.40%) BGP
14 14 (0.37%) MPLS
14 14 (0.37%) SSH
15 13 (0.34%) FTP
16 12 (0.32%) LAN
16 12 (0.32%) SMTP
17 10 (0.26%) Internet
18 9 (0.24%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 207 (5.46%) PostgreSQL
2 203 (5.35%) Power BI
3 146 (3.85%) NoSQL
4 145 (3.82%) SQL Server
5 112 (2.95%) Data Lake
6 105 (2.77%) Amazon RDS
7 93 (2.45%) Relational Database
8 86 (2.27%) MongoDB
9 82 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
10 75 (1.98%) Oracle Database
11 71 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
12 69 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
13 53 (1.40%) DynamoDB
14 50 (1.32%) Redis
15 49 (1.29%) MySQL
15 49 (1.29%) Tableau
16 46 (1.21%) Metadata
17 45 (1.19%) Delta Lake
18 36 (0.95%) Big Data
18 36 (0.95%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 668 (17.62%) Jenkins
2 524 (13.82%) JIRA
3 520 (13.72%) Git
4 485 (12.79%) GitLab
5 112 (2.95%) Selenium
6 84 (2.22%) JUnit
7 81 (2.14%) Postman
8 63 (1.66%) SonarQube
9 61 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
10 52 (1.37%) Bitbucket
11 49 (1.29%) Cucumber
12 46 (1.21%) Cypress.io
13 45 (1.19%) Artifactory
14 43 (1.13%) Maven
15 40 (1.06%) Gradle
16 38 (1.00%) REST Assured
17 36 (0.95%) Oracle APEX
18 34 (0.90%) JMeter
19 32 (0.84%) Liquibase
20 30 (0.79%) CircleCI
General
1 1,189 (31.36%) Social Skills
2 703 (18.54%) Finance
3 452 (11.92%) Public Sector
4 325 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
5 311 (8.20%) Banking
6 144 (3.80%) Documentation Skills
7 75 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
8 65 (1.71%) Financial Institution
9 58 (1.53%) Marketing
10 55 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 47 (1.24%) Retail
12 46 (1.21%) Front Office
13 44 (1.16%) Investment Banking
14 43 (1.13%) Telecoms
15 42 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
16 34 (0.90%) Military
17 29 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
18 28 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
19 26 (0.69%) Law
20 24 (0.63%) Legal
Job Titles
1 713 (18.81%) DevOps Engineer
2 631 (16.64%) Developer
3 509 (13.43%) Senior
4 383 (10.10%) Architect
5 293 (7.73%) Lead
6 226 (5.96%) Azure Engineer
7 203 (5.35%) Analyst
7 203 (5.35%) AWS Engineer
8 199 (5.25%) Data Engineer
9 154 (4.06%) AWS DevOps
10 143 (3.77%) Software Engineer
11 142 (3.75%) Cloud Engineer
12 135 (3.56%) Platform Engineer
13 134 (3.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 124 (3.27%) Senior Developer
15 118 (3.11%) Solutions Architect
16 116 (3.06%) Business Analyst
17 100 (2.64%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 99 (2.61%) Senior DevOps
19 93 (2.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 438 (11.55%) REST
2 309 (8.15%) .NET
3 245 (6.46%) React
4 240 (6.33%) Node.js
5 220 (5.80%) Kafka
6 199 (5.25%) Spring
7 195 (5.14%) RESTful
8 182 (4.80%) Spring Boot
9 160 (4.22%) JSON
10 125 (3.30%) AngularJS
11 124 (3.27%) YAML
12 120 (3.17%) Elastic Stack
12 120 (3.17%) XML
13 118 (3.11%) OAuth
14 114 (3.01%) SOAP
15 110 (2.90%) HTML
16 99 (2.61%) Playwright
17 95 (2.51%) Middleware
18 91 (2.40%) CSS
19 85 (2.24%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 541 (14.27%) Cloud Native
2 202 (5.33%) Product Ownership
3 137 (3.61%) Distributed Systems
4 110 (2.90%) Onboarding
5 102 (2.69%) Public Cloud
6 75 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
7 71 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
8 67 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
9 49 (1.29%) Management Information System
10 48 (1.27%) Virtual Team
11 46 (1.21%) Security Posture
12 45 (1.19%) Replication
13 44 (1.16%) Private Cloud
14 42 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
15 40 (1.06%) Data Centre
16 37 (0.98%) Mobile App
16 37 (0.98%) NHS
17 35 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
18 33 (0.87%) AI Agents
19 29 (0.76%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 424 (11.18%) Linux
2 215 (5.67%) Windows
3 83 (2.19%) Unix
4 50 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 46 (1.21%) VMS
5 46 (1.21%) Windows Server
6 30 (0.79%) Ubuntu
7 20 (0.53%) Android
8 19 (0.50%) Windows 10
9 18 (0.47%) Apple iOS
10 17 (0.45%) CentOS
11 10 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
12 9 (0.24%) Solaris
13 8 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
14 6 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
15 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.11%) zOS
16 2 (0.053%) Debian
17 1 (0.026%) Embedded Linux
17 1 (0.026%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,171 (57.27%) CI/CD
2 1,497 (39.49%) Agile
3 967 (25.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 746 (19.68%) Problem-Solving
5 723 (19.07%) Containerisation
6 579 (15.27%) Test Automation
7 552 (14.56%) Microservices
8 458 (12.08%) Analytics
9 450 (11.87%) Continuous Improvement
10 448 (11.82%) Migration
11 415 (10.95%) Scrum
12 391 (10.31%) Observability
13 390 (10.29%) AI
14 371 (9.79%) Stakeholder Management
15 342 (9.02%) Software Engineering
16 305 (8.05%) Mentoring
17 298 (7.86%) Data Modelling
18 268 (7.07%) Business Intelligence
19 261 (6.88%) Validation
20 258 (6.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,141 (30.10%) Python
2 776 (20.47%) SQL
3 495 (13.06%) Java
4 358 (9.44%) JavaScript
5 356 (9.39%) C#
6 323 (8.52%) PowerShell
7 297 (7.83%) Bash
8 257 (6.78%) TypeScript
9 129 (3.40%) Go
10 125 (3.30%) Bicep
11 74 (1.95%) PL/SQL
12 57 (1.50%) Scala
13 47 (1.24%) Groovy
14 46 (1.21%) Shell Script
15 40 (1.06%) T-SQL
16 39 (1.03%) Ruby
17 38 (1.00%) C++
18 24 (0.63%) Perl
19 22 (0.58%) Rust
20 21 (0.55%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,198 (31.60%) Security Cleared
2 985 (25.98%) SC Cleared
3 331 (8.73%) Degree
4 174 (4.59%) Azure Certification
5 172 (4.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 132 (3.48%) DV Cleared
7 113 (2.98%) AWS Certification
8 80 (2.11%) Master's Degree
9 79 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
10 68 (1.79%) CISSP
11 58 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
12 54 (1.42%) CISM
13 39 (1.03%) ISTQB
14 37 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 33 (0.87%) PMI Certification
16 27 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
17 26 (0.69%) PMP
18 24 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 23 (0.61%) IIBA
20 19 (0.50%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 325 (8.57%) QA
2 161 (4.25%) GDPR
3 140 (3.69%) Data Quality
4 125 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 115 (3.03%) NIST
6 93 (2.45%) Accessibility
7 68 (1.79%) NCSC
8 32 (0.84%) PCI DSS
9 28 (0.74%) WCAG
10 26 (0.69%) SLA
11 25 (0.66%) HIPAA
12 24 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 19 (0.50%) PSD2
14 18 (0.47%) PMO
14 18 (0.47%) SOC 2
15 17 (0.45%) ISO 20022
16 15 (0.40%) SEPA
17 10 (0.26%) NIST 800
18 8 (0.21%) HL7
19 7 (0.18%) MiFID
System Software
1 944 (24.90%) Docker
2 159 (4.19%) Active Directory
3 68 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 65 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
5 37 (0.98%) vSphere
6 22 (0.58%) VMware NSX
7 17 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.37%) Squid
9 13 (0.34%) DFS Replication
10 11 (0.29%) Lustre
10 11 (0.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 9 (0.24%) GPFS
11 9 (0.24%) Hyper-V
12 7 (0.18%) Dovecot
12 7 (0.18%) Firmware
12 7 (0.18%) NFS
12 7 (0.18%) Postfix
12 7 (0.18%) Tivoli Directory Server
12 7 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
12 7 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,147 (30.26%) Terraform
2 1,125 (29.68%) Kubernetes
3 455 (12.00%) Ansible
4 266 (7.02%) Grafana
5 241 (6.36%) Prometheus
6 83 (2.19%) Argo
7 69 (1.82%) Puppet
8 58 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
9 38 (1.00%) Istio
10 37 (0.98%) Kibana
11 34 (0.90%) Progress Chef
12 30 (0.79%) Packer
13 20 (0.53%) Podman
14 19 (0.50%) vCenter Server
15 16 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 16 (0.42%) Rancher
16 15 (0.40%) Consul
16 15 (0.40%) logstash
16 15 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
16 15 (0.40%) SCCM
Vendors
1 666 (17.57%) Microsoft
2 281 (7.41%) Oracle
3 225 (5.94%) Google
4 217 (5.72%) Databricks
5 203 (5.35%) Splunk
6 143 (3.77%) ServiceNow
7 124 (3.27%) Red Hat
8 114 (3.01%) VMware
9 99 (2.61%) Salesforce
10 92 (2.43%) SAP
11 66 (1.74%) OpenAI
12 58 (1.53%) Dynatrace
13 55 (1.45%) CyberArk
14 42 (1.11%) Atlassian
15 41 (1.08%) IBM
16 40 (1.06%) F5
17 39 (1.03%) Talend
18 35 (0.92%) Denodo
19 33 (0.87%) Palo Alto
20 28 (0.74%) Foundry