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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,283 2,409 3,364
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.54% 9.99% 9.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.45% 10.95% 10.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,003 1,778 2,332
10th Percentile £385 £400 £400
25th Percentile £447 £458 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £669 £650
90th Percentile £709 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 13 105
10th Percentile £39.53 £38.25 £56.35
25th Percentile £55.38 £51.25 £61.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -0.76%
75th Percentile £77.63 £82.00 £78.75
90th Percentile £95.00 £90.59 £87.28
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 34,393 22,003 31,618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.67% 91.23% 86.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,924 14,379 20,694
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £516 £525
% change year-on-year -2.13% -1.71% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,131 924 2,243
10th Percentile £15.34 £14.42 £12.88
25th Percentile £20.36 £18.47 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £29.02 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.96% -20.49% -2.25%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.60 £36.50
% change year-on-year +48.60% -21.64% +1.39%

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 14 May 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 14 May 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 14 May 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 2,191 £550 -3.08% 552
North of England +9 738 £500 -2.82% 273
South East +3 477 £513 - 313
Yorkshire +4 403 £500 -2.44% 68
Midlands +4 398 £490 -2.00% 100
West Midlands +3 308 £500 -4.31% 59
South West +13 280 £525 -4.55% 117
North West +3 277 £500 - 147
East of England +26 128 £525 +3.45% 84
East Midlands -1 87 £466 -1.84% 41
North East +8 69 £453 -13.81% 60
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
1 236 (5.51%) Confluence
2 118 (2.76%) Apache Spark
3 104 (2.43%) SharePoint
4 81 (1.89%) Apache
5 70 (1.63%) SAS
6 62 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
7 38 (0.89%) CMS
8 25 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
9 24 (0.56%) nginx
10 23 (0.54%) IIS
11 21 (0.49%) OpenStack
12 11 (0.26%) Mendix
12 11 (0.26%) WebSphere
13 10 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 10 (0.23%) HCL Notes
14 9 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
15 8 (0.19%) Camunda
15 8 (0.19%) Jupyter
16 7 (0.16%) ArcGIS
16 7 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 66 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
3 44 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
5 22 (0.51%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.093%) CPLEX
6 4 (0.093%) Trello
7 3 (0.070%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.047%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.047%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.023%) InDesign
9 1 (0.023%) Maya
9 1 (0.023%) Weka
Business Applications
1 56 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
4 9 (0.21%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.21%) Maximo
4 9 (0.21%) NEC Housing
5 8 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
6 6 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
6 6 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.093%) Endur
7 4 (0.093%) Magento
7 4 (0.093%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.093%) SAP BPC
8 3 (0.070%) Findur
8 3 (0.070%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.070%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.047%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.047%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.047%) Summit
9 2 (0.047%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 2,303 (53.77%) Azure
2 1,439 (33.60%) AWS
3 1,241 (28.98%) Azure DevOps
4 697 (16.27%) GitHub
5 558 (13.03%) GCP
6 406 (9.48%) Serverless
7 402 (9.39%) GitHub Actions
8 362 (8.45%) Power Platform
9 236 (5.51%) Amazon S3
10 206 (4.81%) AWS Lambda
10 206 (4.81%) Entra ID
11 201 (4.69%) AWS CloudFormation
12 193 (4.51%) Azure Data Factory
13 186 (4.34%) Azure AKS
14 155 (3.62%) Amazon EKS
14 155 (3.62%) OpenShift
15 143 (3.34%) Azure Monitor
15 143 (3.34%) PaaS
16 133 (3.11%) Dynamics 365
17 130 (3.04%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 200 (4.67%) Firewall
2 108 (2.52%) DNS
3 87 (2.03%) Network Security
3 87 (2.03%) VPN
4 40 (0.93%) TCP/IP
5 36 (0.84%) WAN
6 31 (0.72%) SD-WAN
7 24 (0.56%) BGP
7 24 (0.56%) SSL
8 22 (0.51%) HTTP
9 21 (0.49%) DHCP
10 20 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
11 18 (0.42%) IPsec
12 17 (0.40%) OSPF
12 17 (0.40%) SAN
13 16 (0.37%) MPLS
14 14 (0.33%) LAN
14 14 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
15 13 (0.30%) Internet
16 12 (0.28%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 243 (5.67%) Power BI
2 212 (4.95%) PostgreSQL
3 209 (4.88%) SQL Server
4 158 (3.69%) NoSQL
5 151 (3.53%) Data Lake
6 128 (2.99%) Relational Database
7 118 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
8 100 (2.33%) MongoDB
9 89 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
10 87 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
11 82 (1.91%) Delta Lake
12 74 (1.73%) DynamoDB
13 68 (1.59%) Metadata
14 65 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
14 65 (1.52%) Oracle Database
15 56 (1.31%) Big Data
16 52 (1.21%) Redis
17 48 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
18 47 (1.10%) Tableau
19 44 (1.03%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 614 (14.34%) Jenkins
2 544 (12.70%) Git
3 515 (12.02%) JIRA
4 425 (9.92%) GitLab
5 83 (1.94%) Postman
6 79 (1.84%) Selenium
7 72 (1.68%) JUnit
8 71 (1.66%) SonarQube
9 64 (1.49%) Bitbucket
10 56 (1.31%) Maven
11 49 (1.14%) Artifactory
12 43 (1.00%) REST Assured
13 42 (0.98%) JMeter
14 41 (0.96%) Cucumber
15 37 (0.86%) Cypress.io
16 34 (0.79%) Gatling
17 31 (0.72%) Mockito
18 30 (0.70%) Gradle
19 26 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
20 25 (0.58%) LoadRunner
General
1 1,079 (25.19%) Social Skills
2 808 (18.87%) Finance
3 512 (11.95%) Public Sector
4 364 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
5 292 (6.82%) Banking
6 135 (3.15%) Documentation Skills
7 66 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
8 63 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 55 (1.28%) Retail
10 51 (1.19%) Marketing
11 49 (1.14%) Financial Institution
11 49 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
12 48 (1.12%) Legal
13 42 (0.98%) Front Office
14 40 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
15 37 (0.86%) Investment Banking
16 33 (0.77%) Military
17 27 (0.63%) Telecoms
18 20 (0.47%) Aerospace
18 20 (0.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 846 (19.75%) DevOps Engineer
2 608 (14.20%) Developer
3 598 (13.96%) Senior
4 514 (12.00%) Architect
5 350 (8.17%) Lead
6 296 (6.91%) Azure Engineer
7 281 (6.56%) Data Engineer
8 265 (6.19%) Analyst
9 177 (4.13%) AWS Engineer
10 164 (3.83%) Solutions Architect
11 159 (3.71%) Cloud Engineer
12 149 (3.48%) Platform Engineer
13 141 (3.29%) Software Engineer
14 136 (3.18%) Senior DevOps
15 135 (3.15%) Business Analyst
16 134 (3.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 128 (2.99%) AWS DevOps
18 126 (2.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 115 (2.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
20 113 (2.64%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 376 (8.78%) REST
2 352 (8.22%) .NET
3 259 (6.05%) Kafka
4 239 (5.58%) Spring
5 233 (5.44%) React
6 225 (5.25%) Node.js
7 224 (5.23%) Spring Boot
8 195 (4.55%) RESTful
9 152 (3.55%) AngularJS
10 126 (2.94%) PySpark
10 126 (2.94%) YAML
11 123 (2.87%) JSON
12 118 (2.76%) Playwright
13 108 (2.52%) OAuth
14 104 (2.43%) Middleware
15 103 (2.40%) HTML
16 96 (2.24%) SOAP
17 88 (2.05%) CSS
18 85 (1.98%) .NET Framework
19 84 (1.96%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 678 (15.83%) Cloud Native
2 264 (6.16%) Product Ownership
3 165 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
4 110 (2.57%) Onboarding
5 93 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
6 84 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
7 83 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
8 80 (1.87%) Public Cloud
9 71 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
10 49 (1.14%) Management Information System
11 45 (1.05%) Data Centre
12 43 (1.00%) Replication
13 40 (0.93%) Private Cloud
14 38 (0.89%) Virtual Team
15 37 (0.86%) AI Agents
15 37 (0.86%) Data Structures
15 37 (0.86%) Mobile App
15 37 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
16 36 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
17 35 (0.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 379 (8.85%) Linux
2 220 (5.14%) Windows
3 67 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 66 (1.54%) Unix
5 39 (0.91%) Windows Server
6 34 (0.79%) VMS
7 21 (0.49%) Ubuntu
8 16 (0.37%) Apple iOS
9 15 (0.35%) Android
10 11 (0.26%) CentOS
11 10 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (0.16%) Windows 10
13 6 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
14 5 (0.12%) Solaris
15 4 (0.093%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.093%) Windows Server 2012
16 3 (0.070%) Mac OS
16 3 (0.070%) Oracle Linux
16 3 (0.070%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,404 (56.13%) CI/CD
2 1,572 (36.70%) Agile
3 1,070 (24.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 707 (16.51%) Containerisation
5 694 (16.20%) Problem-Solving
6 622 (14.52%) Microservices
7 590 (13.78%) Test Automation
8 547 (12.77%) Continuous Improvement
9 521 (12.16%) Migration
10 506 (11.81%) Analytics
11 505 (11.79%) Observability
12 478 (11.16%) Stakeholder Management
13 456 (10.65%) Scrum
14 450 (10.51%) AI
15 422 (9.85%) Software Engineering
16 405 (9.46%) Data Modelling
17 370 (8.64%) Platform Engineering
18 343 (8.01%) Mentoring
19 339 (7.92%) Data Pipeline
20 334 (7.80%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,175 (27.43%) Python
2 871 (20.34%) SQL
3 569 (13.29%) Java
4 405 (9.46%) C#
5 310 (7.24%) PowerShell
6 306 (7.14%) JavaScript
7 300 (7.00%) Bash
8 230 (5.37%) TypeScript
9 142 (3.32%) Bicep
10 94 (2.19%) Go
11 66 (1.54%) Scala
12 55 (1.28%) PL/SQL
13 51 (1.19%) Shell Script
14 42 (0.98%) Groovy
15 40 (0.93%) T-SQL
16 36 (0.84%) Apex Code
17 31 (0.72%) C++
18 25 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 23 (0.54%) Ruby
20 21 (0.49%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,395 (32.57%) Security Cleared
2 1,148 (26.80%) SC Cleared
3 282 (6.58%) Degree
4 193 (4.51%) Azure Certification
5 142 (3.32%) DV Cleared
6 132 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 115 (2.69%) AWS Certification
8 106 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 68 (1.59%) CISSP
10 50 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
11 49 (1.14%) CISM
12 45 (1.05%) Master's Degree
13 42 (0.98%) ISTQB
14 39 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 39 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
15 37 (0.86%) PMI Certification
16 35 (0.82%) PMP
17 24 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
18 21 (0.49%) IIBA
19 20 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 384 (8.97%) QA
2 203 (4.74%) Data Quality
3 164 (3.83%) GDPR
4 121 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 117 (2.73%) NIST
6 99 (2.31%) Accessibility
7 61 (1.42%) NCSC
8 45 (1.05%) WCAG
9 44 (1.03%) PCI DSS
10 31 (0.72%) SLA
11 29 (0.68%) PMO
11 29 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 17 (0.40%) GRC
13 15 (0.35%) ISO 20022
14 14 (0.33%) HIPAA
14 14 (0.33%) PSD2
15 13 (0.30%) NIST 800
16 12 (0.28%) SEPA
17 11 (0.26%) SOC 2
18 8 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 842 (19.66%) Docker
2 163 (3.81%) Active Directory
3 72 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
4 60 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 30 (0.70%) vSphere
6 21 (0.49%) VMware NSX
7 17 (0.40%) Squid
8 16 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.28%) Postfix
10 10 (0.23%) Hyper-V
10 10 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
11 8 (0.19%) Firmware
12 6 (0.14%) Corosync
12 6 (0.14%) HDFS
12 6 (0.14%) RACF
13 5 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
14 4 (0.093%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
14 4 (0.093%) Lustre
14 4 (0.093%) NFS
14 4 (0.093%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1,195 (27.90%) Terraform
2 1,112 (25.96%) Kubernetes
3 436 (10.18%) Ansible
4 280 (6.54%) Grafana
5 231 (5.39%) Prometheus
6 85 (1.98%) Argo
7 65 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
8 62 (1.45%) Puppet
9 47 (1.10%) Istio
10 24 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
10 24 (0.56%) Packer
10 24 (0.56%) Progress Chef
11 22 (0.51%) Kibana
12 20 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 20 (0.47%) vCenter Server
13 17 (0.40%) HP ALM
13 17 (0.40%) Rancher
14 14 (0.33%) FortiGate
15 13 (0.30%) Consul
16 12 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 751 (17.53%) Microsoft
2 256 (5.98%) Oracle
3 251 (5.86%) Databricks
4 193 (4.51%) Google
5 174 (4.06%) Splunk
6 155 (3.62%) ServiceNow
7 129 (3.01%) Red Hat
7 129 (3.01%) Salesforce
8 102 (2.38%) VMware
9 100 (2.33%) SAP
10 90 (2.10%) Dynatrace
11 59 (1.38%) OpenAI
12 51 (1.19%) CyberArk
13 45 (1.05%) Atlassian
14 41 (0.96%) IBM
15 36 (0.84%) AppDynamics
15 36 (0.84%) Informatica
16 35 (0.82%) Foundry
17 33 (0.77%) Denodo
18 32 (0.75%) Cisco