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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 14 18
Rank change year-on-year +1 +4 -7
Contract jobs citing DevOps 3,875 2,758 3,243
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.14% 10.67% 8.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.77% 11.84% 9.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,711 1,925 2,348
10th Percentile £376 £400 £413
25th Percentile £438 £463 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +0.97% -5.08%
75th Percentile £614 £675 £670
90th Percentile £719 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 18 96
10th Percentile - £37.68 £46.18
25th Percentile £45.46 £57.97 £57.29
Median hourly rate £60.00 £70.97 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.46% +9.18% -0.76%
75th Percentile £77.50 £80.75 £71.41
90th Percentile £93.75 £82.78 £85.02
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £73.23 £65.00
% change year-on-year -18.06% +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 30,350 23,294 33,147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.25% 90.10% 87.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,414 14,536 22,024
10th Percentile £313 £309 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £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 1,891 752 2,034
10th Percentile £15.22 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.21 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.26% - -
75th Percentile £63.32 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.48 £72.68
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £32.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.46% -6.26% -

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -2 1,938 £540 -8.09% 505
North of England +5 705 £500 -0.99% 325
South East -3 416 £525 -8.70% 370
Midlands +15 400 £504 +3.12% 136
Yorkshire +1 374 £500 -0.99% 95
West Midlands +14 320 £523 +4.50% 100
North West +3 281 £476 -4.80% 184
South West +12 248 £525 -12.50% 116
East of England +22 115 £575 +13.30% 49
East Midlands +2 79 £425 -9.33% 36
North East -5 53 £475 -9.52% 50
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
1 237 (6.12%) Confluence
2 92 (2.37%) Apache Spark
3 83 (2.14%) Apache
4 76 (1.96%) SharePoint
5 72 (1.86%) SAS
6 55 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
7 33 (0.85%) OpenStack
8 30 (0.77%) nginx
9 28 (0.72%) CMS
10 19 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
11 15 (0.39%) IIS
12 14 (0.36%) JBoss
13 13 (0.34%) WebLogic
14 12 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
15 11 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 10 (0.26%) HCL Notes
16 10 (0.26%) Mendix
17 8 (0.21%) GeoServer
17 8 (0.21%) Smallworld
17 8 (0.21%) WebSphere
Applications
1 84 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 35 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
4 27 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
5 20 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.34%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.21%) Weka
8 3 (0.077%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 3 (0.077%) Trello
9 2 (0.052%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.026%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.026%) Maya
10 1 (0.026%) Revit
10 1 (0.026%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 62 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.26%) Endur
2 10 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.23%) Maximo
4 8 (0.21%) NEC Housing
5 7 (0.18%) Aladdin
6 6 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.15%) SAP ERP
7 5 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
7 5 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
9 3 (0.077%) Oracle Assets
9 3 (0.077%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.077%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.077%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.077%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.077%) VisionPLUS
9 3 (0.077%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,975 (50.97%) Azure
2 1,360 (35.10%) AWS
3 1,059 (27.33%) Azure DevOps
4 707 (18.25%) GitHub
5 584 (15.07%) GCP
6 429 (11.07%) Serverless
7 377 (9.73%) GitHub Actions
8 313 (8.08%) Power Platform
9 217 (5.60%) Amazon S3
10 206 (5.32%) AWS CloudFormation
11 205 (5.29%) AWS Lambda
12 190 (4.90%) Azure Data Factory
13 177 (4.57%) OpenShift
14 172 (4.44%) Azure AKS
15 170 (4.39%) Entra ID
16 153 (3.95%) Amazon EKS
17 148 (3.82%) Azure Monitor
17 148 (3.82%) Dynamics 365
18 145 (3.74%) SaaS
19 131 (3.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 187 (4.83%) Firewall
2 106 (2.74%) DNS
3 85 (2.19%) Network Security
4 82 (2.12%) VPN
5 52 (1.34%) TCP/IP
6 36 (0.93%) SSL
7 28 (0.72%) HTTP
8 20 (0.52%) HTTPS
9 19 (0.49%) WAN
10 17 (0.44%) DHCP
11 15 (0.39%) Kerberos
11 15 (0.39%) SD-WAN
12 11 (0.28%) MPLS
13 10 (0.26%) Internet
13 10 (0.26%) Reverse Proxy
14 9 (0.23%) BGP
14 9 (0.23%) FTP
14 9 (0.23%) IPsec
14 9 (0.23%) LAN
14 9 (0.23%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (5.57%) PostgreSQL
2 201 (5.19%) Power BI
3 152 (3.92%) SQL Server
4 148 (3.82%) NoSQL
5 123 (3.17%) Data Lake
6 102 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
7 97 (2.50%) Relational Database
8 92 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
9 88 (2.27%) MongoDB
10 75 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
11 74 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
11 74 (1.91%) Oracle Database
12 59 (1.52%) DynamoDB
13 58 (1.50%) Delta Lake
14 53 (1.37%) Redis
15 48 (1.24%) MySQL
15 48 (1.24%) Tableau
16 46 (1.19%) Metadata
17 41 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
18 39 (1.01%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 674 (17.39%) Jenkins
2 529 (13.65%) Git
3 512 (13.21%) JIRA
4 489 (12.62%) GitLab
5 119 (3.07%) Selenium
6 91 (2.35%) JUnit
7 80 (2.06%) Postman
8 59 (1.52%) SonarQube
9 56 (1.45%) Bitbucket
10 52 (1.34%) Sonatype Nexus
11 50 (1.29%) Cucumber
12 49 (1.26%) Maven
13 47 (1.21%) Cypress.io
14 45 (1.16%) Artifactory
15 42 (1.08%) REST Assured
16 36 (0.93%) Liquibase
16 36 (0.93%) Oracle APEX
17 34 (0.88%) JMeter
18 33 (0.85%) Gradle
19 27 (0.70%) CircleCI
General
1 1,194 (30.81%) Social Skills
2 714 (18.43%) Finance
3 467 (12.05%) Public Sector
4 342 (8.83%) Analytical Skills
5 305 (7.87%) Banking
6 141 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
7 75 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
8 67 (1.73%) Financial Institution
9 55 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 53 (1.37%) Marketing
11 49 (1.26%) Retail
12 44 (1.14%) Investment Banking
13 43 (1.11%) Front Office
14 41 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
15 39 (1.01%) Telecoms
16 35 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
17 32 (0.83%) Military
18 26 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
19 25 (0.65%) Law
19 25 (0.65%) Legal
Job Titles
1 728 (18.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 620 (16.00%) Developer
3 539 (13.91%) Senior
4 410 (10.58%) Architect
5 312 (8.05%) Lead
6 245 (6.32%) Azure Engineer
7 227 (5.86%) Analyst
8 217 (5.60%) Data Engineer
9 203 (5.24%) AWS Engineer
10 154 (3.97%) Cloud Engineer
11 151 (3.90%) AWS DevOps
12 147 (3.79%) Software Engineer
13 137 (3.54%) Platform Engineer
14 132 (3.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 125 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
16 123 (3.17%) Business Analyst
17 117 (3.02%) Senior Developer
18 111 (2.86%) Senior DevOps
19 107 (2.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
20 104 (2.68%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 438 (11.30%) REST
2 305 (7.87%) .NET
3 255 (6.58%) React
4 249 (6.43%) Node.js
5 220 (5.68%) Kafka
6 211 (5.45%) Spring
7 198 (5.11%) RESTful
8 192 (4.95%) Spring Boot
9 148 (3.82%) JSON
10 133 (3.43%) AngularJS
11 127 (3.28%) YAML
12 121 (3.12%) Elastic Stack
13 117 (3.02%) OAuth
14 116 (2.99%) HTML
15 109 (2.81%) Playwright
15 109 (2.81%) SOAP
15 109 (2.81%) XML
16 99 (2.55%) Middleware
16 99 (2.55%) PySpark
17 98 (2.53%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 563 (14.53%) Cloud Native
2 204 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 139 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
4 108 (2.79%) Public Cloud
5 103 (2.66%) Onboarding
6 80 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
7 74 (1.91%) Hybrid Cloud
8 67 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
9 53 (1.37%) Management Information System
10 50 (1.29%) Security Posture
11 45 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
11 45 (1.16%) Private Cloud
12 44 (1.14%) Virtual Team
13 38 (0.98%) NHS
14 37 (0.95%) Replication
15 35 (0.90%) Data Centre
16 34 (0.88%) Data Structures
16 34 (0.88%) Mobile App
17 31 (0.80%) AI Agents
18 29 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 433 (11.17%) Linux
2 204 (5.26%) Windows
3 77 (1.99%) Unix
4 54 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 43 (1.11%) VMS
6 38 (0.98%) Windows Server
7 26 (0.67%) Ubuntu
8 16 (0.41%) CentOS
9 13 (0.34%) Android
10 12 (0.31%) Apple iOS
10 12 (0.31%) Windows 10
11 10 (0.26%) Solaris
12 9 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
13 7 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
14 6 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
15 4 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.052%) Debian
16 2 (0.052%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.052%) zOS
17 1 (0.026%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,225 (57.42%) CI/CD
2 1,517 (39.15%) Agile
3 992 (25.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 759 (19.59%) Problem-Solving
5 737 (19.02%) Containerisation
6 580 (14.97%) Test Automation
7 570 (14.71%) Microservices
8 480 (12.39%) Analytics
9 479 (12.36%) Continuous Improvement
10 441 (11.38%) Migration
11 425 (10.97%) AI
12 423 (10.92%) Scrum
13 417 (10.76%) Observability
14 389 (10.04%) Stakeholder Management
15 361 (9.32%) Software Engineering
16 337 (8.70%) Data Modelling
17 323 (8.34%) Mentoring
18 278 (7.17%) Data Pipeline
19 273 (7.05%) Business Intelligence
20 268 (6.92%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,182 (30.50%) Python
2 801 (20.67%) SQL
3 512 (13.21%) Java
4 367 (9.47%) JavaScript
5 362 (9.34%) C#
6 308 (7.95%) PowerShell
7 300 (7.74%) Bash
8 262 (6.76%) TypeScript
9 133 (3.43%) Go
10 128 (3.30%) Bicep
11 75 (1.94%) PL/SQL
12 60 (1.55%) Scala
13 42 (1.08%) Shell Script
14 40 (1.03%) C++
14 40 (1.03%) Groovy
14 40 (1.03%) T-SQL
15 37 (0.95%) Ruby
16 26 (0.67%) Rust
17 22 (0.57%) Perl
18 21 (0.54%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,226 (31.64%) Security Cleared
2 999 (25.78%) SC Cleared
3 342 (8.83%) Degree
4 187 (4.83%) Azure Certification
5 183 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 141 (3.64%) DV Cleared
7 117 (3.02%) AWS Certification
8 82 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
9 81 (2.09%) Master's Degree
10 71 (1.83%) CISSP
11 56 (1.45%) CISM
12 55 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
13 43 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 42 (1.08%) ISTQB
15 32 (0.83%) PMI Certification
16 30 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
17 26 (0.67%) PMP
18 23 (0.59%) IIBA
19 22 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
20 20 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 334 (8.62%) QA
2 162 (4.18%) GDPR
3 151 (3.90%) Data Quality
4 123 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 112 (2.89%) NIST
6 90 (2.32%) Accessibility
7 65 (1.68%) NCSC
8 30 (0.77%) PCI DSS
8 30 (0.77%) WCAG
9 24 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 23 (0.59%) SLA
11 21 (0.54%) PMO
12 20 (0.52%) HIPAA
13 16 (0.41%) SOC 2
14 15 (0.39%) ISO 20022
15 13 (0.34%) PSD2
16 11 (0.28%) NIST 800
17 10 (0.26%) SEPA
18 8 (0.21%) HL7
19 7 (0.18%) MiFID
System Software
1 949 (24.49%) Docker
2 158 (4.08%) Active Directory
3 72 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
4 65 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
5 40 (1.03%) vSphere
6 24 (0.62%) VMware NSX
7 14 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.28%) Lustre
8 11 (0.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 11 (0.28%) Squid
9 9 (0.23%) GPFS
10 8 (0.21%) DFS Replication
10 8 (0.21%) Postfix
10 8 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
11 7 (0.18%) Firmware
12 6 (0.15%) Hyper-V
12 6 (0.15%) NFS
13 5 (0.13%) RACF
13 5 (0.13%) Tivoli Directory Server
13 5 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1,179 (30.43%) Terraform
2 1,139 (29.39%) Kubernetes
3 450 (11.61%) Ansible
4 274 (7.07%) Grafana
5 238 (6.14%) Prometheus
6 84 (2.17%) Argo
7 69 (1.78%) Puppet
8 64 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
9 40 (1.03%) Istio
10 32 (0.83%) Kibana
11 30 (0.77%) Packer
12 29 (0.75%) Progress Chef
13 23 (0.59%) vCenter Server
14 21 (0.54%) Podman
15 18 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 17 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
17 16 (0.41%) Consul
18 15 (0.39%) FortiGate
18 15 (0.39%) Rancher
19 13 (0.34%) logstash
Vendors
1 663 (17.11%) Microsoft
2 267 (6.89%) Oracle
3 241 (6.22%) Databricks
4 226 (5.83%) Google
5 198 (5.11%) Splunk
6 135 (3.48%) ServiceNow
7 132 (3.41%) Red Hat
8 113 (2.92%) VMware
9 105 (2.71%) Salesforce
10 94 (2.43%) SAP
11 69 (1.78%) OpenAI
12 56 (1.45%) Dynatrace
13 55 (1.42%) CyberArk
14 49 (1.26%) Atlassian
15 40 (1.03%) IBM
16 37 (0.95%) F5
17 36 (0.93%) Talend
18 32 (0.83%) Denodo
19 30 (0.77%) Foundry
19 30 (0.77%) Palo Alto