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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 16 15
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,795 2,800 3,413
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.64% 10.21% 9.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.48% 11.25% 11.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,308 2,023 2,347
10th Percentile £387 £360 £400
25th Percentile £440 £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 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 21 88
10th Percentile £29.23 £35.00 £56.43
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.25 £61.60
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.75% -4.29% +6.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 £82.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £90.70 £92.50 £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 38,425 24,898 29,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.24% 90.75% 85.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,067 15,953 19,300
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £424 £405 £416
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 £521 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.10% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,400 1,362 1,833
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.21 £13.69
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £17.69
Median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +86.48% -37.63% -5.12%
75th Percentile £69.46 £51.65 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 28 July 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 2,466 £550 - 794
North of England +4 861 £500 +3.90% 337
Midlands +2 460 £490 +3.16% 160
South East -11 459 £525 +5.00% 293
Yorkshire +2 437 £500 +2.04% 83
West Midlands -2 373 £492 -1.57% 115
North West -1 338 £525 +10.53% 179
South West +14 319 £518 -1.43% 153
East of England +16 140 £510 +2.00% 64
North East +12 105 £425 -18.66% 77
East Midlands -2 82 £488 +7.26% 45
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
1 291 (6.07%) Confluence
2 123 (2.57%) SharePoint
3 118 (2.46%) Apache Spark
4 104 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
5 93 (1.94%) Apache
6 71 (1.48%) SAS
7 44 (0.92%) CMS
8 31 (0.65%) IIS
8 31 (0.65%) Jupyter
9 23 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
9 23 (0.48%) nginx
10 14 (0.29%) WebSphere
11 13 (0.27%) Camunda
12 12 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
13 11 (0.23%) OpenStack
13 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
14 9 (0.19%) Appian
15 7 (0.15%) Anypoint
15 7 (0.15%) Tomcat
15 7 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 60 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
2 52 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (0.67%) MS Visio
4 30 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
5 26 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.21%) CPLEX
7 9 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.15%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.13%) Trello
10 4 (0.083%) Notion
11 2 (0.042%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
12 1 (0.021%) InDesign
12 1 (0.021%) Maya
12 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 61 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.21%) Aladdin
3 10 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
4 9 (0.19%) Magento
4 9 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
5 8 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
5 8 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.13%) Maximo
7 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
7 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
7 5 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.083%) Endur
8 4 (0.083%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.083%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.063%) Findur
9 3 (0.063%) Shopify
9 3 (0.063%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.063%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2,555 (53.28%) Azure
2 1,666 (34.74%) AWS
3 1,463 (30.51%) Azure DevOps
4 780 (16.27%) GitHub
5 583 (12.16%) GCP
6 479 (9.99%) GitHub Actions
7 402 (8.38%) Power Platform
8 382 (7.97%) Serverless
9 248 (5.17%) Amazon S3
10 230 (4.80%) Entra ID
11 220 (4.59%) AWS Lambda
12 193 (4.03%) Azure AKS
13 180 (3.75%) AWS CloudFormation
14 176 (3.67%) Amazon EKS
15 166 (3.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 165 (3.44%) Azure Monitor
17 163 (3.40%) Azure Data Factory
18 148 (3.09%) Amazon EC2
19 147 (3.07%) Dynamics 365
20 139 (2.90%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 222 (4.63%) Firewall
2 132 (2.75%) DNS
3 110 (2.29%) VPN
4 108 (2.25%) Network Security
5 53 (1.11%) TCP/IP
6 49 (1.02%) WAN
7 39 (0.81%) SSL
8 36 (0.75%) SD-WAN
9 31 (0.65%) BGP
10 30 (0.63%) Internet
11 28 (0.58%) DHCP
12 27 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
13 25 (0.52%) OSPF
14 21 (0.44%) HTTP
15 18 (0.38%) VXLAN
16 17 (0.35%) MPLS
16 17 (0.35%) SAN
16 17 (0.35%) VLAN
17 16 (0.33%) BIG-IP
17 16 (0.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 276 (5.76%) Power BI
2 254 (5.30%) SQL Server
3 229 (4.78%) PostgreSQL
4 166 (3.46%) NoSQL
5 156 (3.25%) Relational Database
6 154 (3.21%) Data Warehouse
7 142 (2.96%) Data Lake
7 142 (2.96%) MongoDB
8 95 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
9 87 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
10 86 (1.79%) Metadata
11 82 (1.71%) DynamoDB
12 81 (1.69%) Delta Lake
13 77 (1.61%) Oracle Database
14 57 (1.19%) Big Data
14 57 (1.19%) Redis
15 54 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
16 47 (0.98%) Amazon Athena
16 47 (0.98%) MySQL
17 45 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 667 (13.91%) Jenkins
2 622 (12.97%) Git
3 572 (11.93%) JIRA
4 489 (10.20%) GitLab
5 106 (2.21%) Selenium
6 86 (1.79%) SonarQube
7 83 (1.73%) JUnit
7 83 (1.73%) Postman
8 72 (1.50%) Bitbucket
9 68 (1.42%) Maven
10 58 (1.21%) REST Assured
11 53 (1.11%) JMeter
12 52 (1.08%) Cucumber
13 49 (1.02%) Cypress.io
14 45 (0.94%) Gatling
15 40 (0.83%) Mockito
16 39 (0.81%) Gradle
17 36 (0.75%) LoadRunner
18 34 (0.71%) Artifactory
19 31 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,202 (25.07%) Social Skills
2 900 (18.77%) Finance
3 663 (13.83%) Public Sector
4 431 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
5 333 (6.94%) Banking
6 115 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 97 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
8 88 (1.84%) Retail
9 64 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
10 58 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
11 56 (1.17%) Marketing
12 54 (1.13%) Legal
13 44 (0.92%) Military
14 43 (0.90%) Investment Banking
15 39 (0.81%) Law
16 37 (0.77%) Financial Institution
17 36 (0.75%) Front Office
17 36 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
17 36 (0.75%) Telecoms
18 31 (0.65%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 905 (18.87%) DevOps Engineer
2 763 (15.91%) Developer
3 685 (14.29%) Senior
4 551 (11.49%) Architect
5 474 (9.89%) Lead
6 289 (6.03%) Azure Engineer
7 281 (5.86%) Data Engineer
8 251 (5.23%) Analyst
9 212 (4.42%) AWS Engineer
10 204 (4.25%) Platform Engineer
11 179 (3.73%) Cloud Engineer
12 171 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
13 170 (3.55%) Senior DevOps
14 156 (3.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 155 (3.23%) Java Developer
16 149 (3.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 148 (3.09%) AWS DevOps
18 136 (2.84%) Software Engineer
19 135 (2.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
20 126 (2.63%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 476 (9.93%) REST
2 423 (8.82%) .NET
3 281 (5.86%) Kafka
4 252 (5.26%) Spring
5 250 (5.21%) RESTful
6 245 (5.11%) React
7 234 (4.88%) Spring Boot
8 178 (3.71%) Node.js
9 144 (3.00%) JSON
10 142 (2.96%) PySpark
11 137 (2.86%) AngularJS
11 137 (2.86%) OAuth
12 128 (2.67%) Playwright
12 128 (2.67%) SOAP
13 127 (2.65%) .NET Framework
14 108 (2.25%) HTML
15 99 (2.06%) YAML
16 94 (1.96%) OAuth2
17 93 (1.94%) CSS
18 88 (1.84%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 847 (17.66%) Cloud Native
2 338 (7.05%) Product Ownership
3 228 (4.75%) Distributed Systems
4 143 (2.98%) Onboarding
5 135 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
6 133 (2.77%) Enterprise Software
7 116 (2.42%) Hybrid Cloud
8 76 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
9 72 (1.50%) Public Cloud
9 72 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
10 66 (1.38%) Management Information System
11 64 (1.33%) Security Posture
12 62 (1.29%) Data Centre
12 62 (1.29%) Data Structures
13 59 (1.23%) AI Agents
14 53 (1.11%) Replication
15 48 (1.00%) Virtual Team
16 47 (0.98%) Mobile App
17 40 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
18 37 (0.77%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 421 (8.78%) Linux
2 256 (5.34%) Windows
3 94 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 71 (1.48%) Unix
5 64 (1.33%) Windows Server
6 27 (0.56%) Ubuntu
7 25 (0.52%) VMS
8 24 (0.50%) Apple iOS
9 16 (0.33%) Android
10 9 (0.19%) Solaris
10 9 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.17%) zOS
12 7 (0.15%) AIX
13 6 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
13 6 (0.13%) CentOS
13 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
13 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
15 4 (0.083%) Alpine Linux
15 4 (0.083%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,750 (57.35%) CI/CD
2 1,912 (39.87%) Agile
3 1,272 (26.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 781 (16.29%) Containerisation
5 743 (15.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 743 (15.50%) Problem-Solving
6 706 (14.72%) Test Automation
7 700 (14.60%) Microservices
8 665 (13.87%) Stakeholder Management
9 662 (13.81%) AI
10 607 (12.66%) Observability
11 601 (12.53%) Scrum
12 580 (12.10%) Software Engineering
13 573 (11.95%) Migration
14 562 (11.72%) Platform Engineering
15 539 (11.24%) Analytics
16 432 (9.01%) Technical Leadership
17 425 (8.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 419 (8.74%) Data Modelling
19 416 (8.68%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,352 (28.20%) Python
2 892 (18.60%) SQL
3 681 (14.20%) Java
4 440 (9.18%) C#
5 389 (8.11%) Bash
6 374 (7.80%) PowerShell
7 362 (7.55%) JavaScript
8 254 (5.30%) TypeScript
9 177 (3.69%) Bicep
10 91 (1.90%) Go
11 57 (1.19%) PL/SQL
12 56 (1.17%) T-SQL
13 55 (1.15%) Shell Script
14 51 (1.06%) Apex Code
15 48 (1.00%) Groovy
15 48 (1.00%) Scala
16 29 (0.60%) C++
17 26 (0.54%) Kotlin
18 23 (0.48%) C
19 22 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1,523 (31.76%) Security Cleared
2 1,263 (26.34%) SC Cleared
3 297 (6.19%) Degree
4 196 (4.09%) Azure Certification
5 184 (3.84%) DV Cleared
6 161 (3.36%) AWS Certification
7 124 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
8 105 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 79 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 71 (1.48%) CISSP
11 51 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
12 46 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 44 (0.92%) ISTQB
14 39 (0.81%) PMP
15 35 (0.73%) Master's Degree
16 34 (0.71%) PMI Certification
17 30 (0.63%) CISM
18 24 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 24 (0.50%) CCNP
19 22 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 439 (9.16%) QA
2 227 (4.73%) Data Quality
3 152 (3.17%) Accessibility
4 139 (2.90%) GDPR
5 77 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 75 (1.56%) NIST
7 71 (1.48%) WCAG
8 45 (0.94%) NCSC
9 41 (0.86%) PMO
10 38 (0.79%) PCI DSS
11 28 (0.58%) SLA
12 27 (0.56%) GRC
13 23 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 11 (0.23%) PSD2
15 10 (0.21%) HIPAA
15 10 (0.21%) ISO 20022
15 10 (0.21%) SEPA
16 9 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
17 8 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
17 8 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 930 (19.40%) Docker
2 164 (3.42%) Active Directory
3 76 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
4 65 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 27 (0.56%) vSphere
6 23 (0.48%) VMware NSX
7 17 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
8 15 (0.31%) Hyper-V
8 15 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
9 14 (0.29%) Postfix
9 14 (0.29%) Squid
10 10 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
11 8 (0.17%) KVM
12 7 (0.15%) IAG
13 6 (0.13%) Corosync
14 5 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
14 5 (0.10%) NFS
14 5 (0.10%) RACF
14 5 (0.10%) SRDF
15 4 (0.083%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1,358 (28.32%) Terraform
2 1,207 (25.17%) Kubernetes
3 468 (9.76%) Ansible
4 316 (6.59%) Grafana
5 263 (5.48%) Prometheus
6 86 (1.79%) Argo
7 57 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
8 56 (1.17%) Puppet
9 40 (0.83%) Progress Chef
10 33 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
11 30 (0.63%) Packer
12 28 (0.58%) Istio
13 26 (0.54%) vCenter Server
14 17 (0.35%) Kibana
15 15 (0.31%) Kustomize
15 15 (0.31%) SCCM
16 13 (0.27%) HP ALM
16 13 (0.27%) Kubeflow
16 13 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
17 12 (0.25%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 878 (18.31%) Microsoft
2 255 (5.32%) Oracle
3 237 (4.94%) Databricks
4 219 (4.57%) Google
5 188 (3.92%) ServiceNow
6 163 (3.40%) Splunk
7 151 (3.15%) Salesforce
8 120 (2.50%) Dynatrace
9 112 (2.34%) SAP
10 100 (2.09%) VMware
11 99 (2.06%) Red Hat
12 60 (1.25%) IBM
13 54 (1.13%) OpenAI
14 53 (1.11%) Atlassian
15 46 (0.96%) Informatica
16 43 (0.90%) Cisco
17 40 (0.83%) Foundry
18 38 (0.79%) AppDynamics
19 31 (0.65%) MuleSoft
19 31 (0.65%) Okta