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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 16 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,689 2,673 3,567
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.57% 10.06% 9.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.38% 11.06% 11.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,247 1,931 2,438
10th Percentile £392 £363 £400
25th Percentile £445 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £624 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 13 116
10th Percentile £38.25 £36.50 £56.50
25th Percentile £61.38 £51.25 £61.51
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -10.71% +6.70%
75th Percentile £77.75 £82.96 £75.63
90th Percentile £94.63 £91.75 £86.32
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £66.25 £70.00
% change year-on-year +5.66% -5.36% +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 37,874 24,162 31,847
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.36% 90.93% 85.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,840 15,529 20,666
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.80% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £517 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +2.28% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,373 1,216 2,288
10th Percentile £15.32 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.95 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -4.70%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -3.85%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +3 2,412 £550 - 577
North of England +5 869 £500 +1.54% 383
Yorkshire +2 468 £501 +0.20% 108
South East -6 450 £525 +5.00% 367
Midlands 0 433 £500 - 179
West Midlands -2 343 £500 -2.34% 97
North West +1 324 £510 +7.37% 209
South West +17 295 £515 -6.36% 161
East of England +23 143 £525 +5.00% 134
North East +10 96 £431 -17.46% 68
East Midlands -1 85 £488 +8.33% 81
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
1 263 (5.61%) Confluence
2 123 (2.62%) Apache Spark
3 114 (2.43%) SharePoint
4 100 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
5 93 (1.98%) Apache
6 70 (1.49%) SAS
7 49 (1.04%) CMS
8 30 (0.64%) IIS
9 28 (0.60%) Jupyter
10 26 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
10 26 (0.55%) nginx
11 14 (0.30%) Camunda
11 14 (0.30%) OpenStack
11 14 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
11 14 (0.30%) WebSphere
12 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
13 9 (0.19%) Appian
13 9 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
14 7 (0.15%) Tomcat
15 6 (0.13%) Documentum
Applications
1 63 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
3 37 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
5 33 (0.70%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.21%) CPLEX
7 7 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.085%) Notion
8 4 (0.085%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.064%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.064%) Trello
10 1 (0.021%) InDesign
10 1 (0.021%) Maya
10 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 64 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.21%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
4 9 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
6 7 (0.15%) Magento
7 6 (0.13%) Endur
7 6 (0.13%) Maximo
7 6 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.11%) OpenText MBPM
8 5 (0.11%) Oracle BPM
8 5 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.085%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.064%) Findur
10 3 (0.064%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.064%) SAP BPC
10 3 (0.064%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.064%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2,487 (53.04%) Azure
2 1,634 (34.85%) AWS
3 1,378 (29.39%) Azure DevOps
4 753 (16.06%) GitHub
5 573 (12.22%) GCP
6 454 (9.68%) GitHub Actions
7 404 (8.62%) Serverless
8 397 (8.47%) Power Platform
9 263 (5.61%) Amazon S3
10 229 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
11 225 (4.80%) Entra ID
12 188 (4.01%) Azure AKS
13 186 (3.97%) AWS CloudFormation
14 169 (3.60%) Amazon EKS
15 165 (3.52%) Azure Data Factory
16 155 (3.31%) Amazon EC2
17 153 (3.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 150 (3.20%) Azure Monitor
18 150 (3.20%) OpenShift
19 140 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 215 (4.59%) Firewall
2 122 (2.60%) DNS
3 100 (2.13%) Network Security
3 100 (2.13%) VPN
4 50 (1.07%) WAN
5 41 (0.87%) TCP/IP
6 37 (0.79%) SD-WAN
7 35 (0.75%) SSL
8 32 (0.68%) BGP
9 27 (0.58%) Internet
9 27 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
10 24 (0.51%) OSPF
11 21 (0.45%) DHCP
12 19 (0.41%) HTTP
13 18 (0.38%) LAN
14 17 (0.36%) MPLS
14 17 (0.36%) SAN
14 17 (0.36%) VXLAN
15 16 (0.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 16 (0.34%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 265 (5.65%) Power BI
2 246 (5.25%) SQL Server
3 224 (4.78%) PostgreSQL
4 165 (3.52%) NoSQL
5 153 (3.26%) Relational Database
6 144 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
7 137 (2.92%) Data Lake
7 137 (2.92%) MongoDB
8 99 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
9 86 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
10 82 (1.75%) Delta Lake
11 78 (1.66%) DynamoDB
12 77 (1.64%) Metadata
13 75 (1.60%) Oracle Database
14 58 (1.24%) Redis
15 56 (1.19%) Big Data
15 56 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
16 55 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
17 54 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
18 43 (0.92%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 665 (14.18%) Jenkins
2 600 (12.80%) Git
3 547 (11.67%) JIRA
4 488 (10.41%) GitLab
5 101 (2.15%) Selenium
6 92 (1.96%) Postman
7 84 (1.79%) JUnit
8 82 (1.75%) SonarQube
9 67 (1.43%) Bitbucket
10 66 (1.41%) REST Assured
11 65 (1.39%) Maven
12 52 (1.11%) Cucumber
13 50 (1.07%) JMeter
14 44 (0.94%) Gatling
15 41 (0.87%) Cypress.io
15 41 (0.87%) Gradle
16 36 (0.77%) Artifactory
16 36 (0.77%) Mockito
17 34 (0.73%) LoadRunner
18 32 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,186 (25.29%) Social Skills
2 916 (19.54%) Finance
3 619 (13.20%) Public Sector
4 410 (8.74%) Analytical Skills
5 331 (7.06%) Banking
6 121 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
7 98 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 77 (1.64%) Retail
9 69 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
10 55 (1.17%) Marketing
11 54 (1.15%) Legal
12 52 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
13 43 (0.92%) Investment Banking
14 41 (0.87%) Military
15 40 (0.85%) Financial Institution
16 36 (0.77%) Law
17 34 (0.73%) Front Office
17 34 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
18 29 (0.62%) Aerospace
19 27 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 901 (19.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 732 (15.61%) Developer
3 657 (14.01%) Senior
4 574 (12.24%) Architect
5 432 (9.21%) Lead
6 288 (6.14%) Data Engineer
7 286 (6.10%) Azure Engineer
8 255 (5.44%) Analyst
9 208 (4.44%) AWS Engineer
10 180 (3.84%) Platform Engineer
11 178 (3.80%) Cloud Engineer
12 177 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
13 158 (3.37%) Senior DevOps
14 153 (3.26%) Java Developer
15 151 (3.22%) AWS DevOps
16 144 (3.07%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 142 (3.03%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 139 (2.96%) Software Engineer
19 138 (2.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
20 132 (2.82%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 448 (9.55%) REST
2 404 (8.62%) .NET
3 267 (5.69%) Kafka
4 266 (5.67%) Spring
5 248 (5.29%) React
6 244 (5.20%) Spring Boot
7 233 (4.97%) RESTful
8 194 (4.14%) Node.js
9 143 (3.05%) AngularJS
10 134 (2.86%) OAuth
10 134 (2.86%) Playwright
10 134 (2.86%) PySpark
11 126 (2.69%) JSON
12 119 (2.54%) .NET Framework
13 118 (2.52%) SOAP
14 108 (2.30%) HTML
15 98 (2.09%) YAML
16 95 (2.03%) OpenID
17 94 (2.00%) CSS
18 92 (1.96%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 831 (17.72%) Cloud Native
2 305 (6.50%) Product Ownership
3 208 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
4 133 (2.84%) Onboarding
5 120 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
6 118 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
7 103 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
8 76 (1.62%) Public Cloud
9 70 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
10 63 (1.34%) Data Centre
10 63 (1.34%) Management Information System
10 63 (1.34%) Security Posture
11 60 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
12 52 (1.11%) Data Structures
13 51 (1.09%) Mobile App
14 49 (1.04%) AI Agents
15 47 (1.00%) Replication
16 46 (0.98%) Virtual Team
17 43 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
18 35 (0.75%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 409 (8.72%) Linux
2 257 (5.48%) Windows
3 89 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 66 (1.41%) Unix
5 56 (1.19%) Windows Server
6 26 (0.55%) Ubuntu
6 26 (0.55%) VMS
7 23 (0.49%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.32%) Android
9 9 (0.19%) Solaris
9 9 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.17%) CentOS
11 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
12 5 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
12 5 (0.11%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.11%) zOS
13 4 (0.085%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (0.085%) Data ONTAP
13 4 (0.085%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,697 (57.52%) CI/CD
2 1,801 (38.41%) Agile
3 1,225 (26.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 761 (16.23%) Containerisation
5 735 (15.67%) Problem-Solving
6 678 (14.46%) Test Automation
7 676 (14.42%) Microservices
8 670 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 598 (12.75%) Stakeholder Management
10 593 (12.65%) AI
11 568 (12.11%) Observability
12 565 (12.05%) Migration
13 559 (11.92%) Scrum
14 521 (11.11%) Analytics
15 513 (10.94%) Software Engineering
16 512 (10.92%) Platform Engineering
17 415 (8.85%) Data Modelling
18 399 (8.51%) Roadmaps
19 390 (8.32%) Technical Leadership
20 387 (8.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,307 (27.87%) Python
2 897 (19.13%) SQL
3 660 (14.08%) Java
4 436 (9.30%) C#
5 354 (7.55%) Bash
6 344 (7.34%) PowerShell
7 339 (7.23%) JavaScript
8 247 (5.27%) TypeScript
9 163 (3.48%) Bicep
10 93 (1.98%) Go
11 64 (1.36%) Scala
12 56 (1.19%) Shell Script
13 53 (1.13%) PL/SQL
13 53 (1.13%) T-SQL
14 51 (1.09%) Apex Code
15 45 (0.96%) Groovy
16 30 (0.64%) C++
17 24 (0.51%) Kotlin
18 20 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 19 (0.41%) C
Qualifications
1 1,498 (31.95%) Security Cleared
2 1,247 (26.59%) SC Cleared
3 298 (6.36%) Degree
4 182 (3.88%) Azure Certification
5 162 (3.45%) DV Cleared
6 146 (3.11%) AWS Certification
7 117 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 116 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
9 72 (1.54%) CISSP
10 68 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
11 47 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
12 43 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 43 (0.92%) ISTQB
13 39 (0.83%) PMP
14 37 (0.79%) Master's Degree
14 37 (0.79%) PMI Certification
15 34 (0.73%) CISM
16 22 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
17 21 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 21 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 408 (8.70%) QA
2 217 (4.63%) Data Quality
3 148 (3.16%) GDPR
4 141 (3.01%) Accessibility
5 104 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 97 (2.07%) NIST
7 66 (1.41%) WCAG
8 60 (1.28%) NCSC
9 45 (0.96%) PCI DSS
10 34 (0.73%) SLA
11 29 (0.62%) PMO
12 26 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 25 (0.53%) GRC
14 16 (0.34%) HIPAA
15 13 (0.28%) SOC 2
16 11 (0.23%) ISO 20022
16 11 (0.23%) PSD2
17 10 (0.21%) SEPA
18 7 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
18 7 (0.15%) HL7
System Software
1 911 (19.43%) Docker
2 163 (3.48%) Active Directory
3 74 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
4 63 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 27 (0.58%) vSphere
6 22 (0.47%) VMware NSX
7 19 (0.41%) Squid
8 18 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
9 15 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
10 14 (0.30%) Hyper-V
10 14 (0.30%) Postfix
11 7 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
12 6 (0.13%) Corosync
12 6 (0.13%) KVM
12 6 (0.13%) RACF
13 5 (0.11%) IAG
13 5 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.11%) NFS
13 5 (0.11%) SRDF
14 4 (0.085%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1,326 (28.28%) Terraform
2 1,189 (25.36%) Kubernetes
3 455 (9.70%) Ansible
4 312 (6.65%) Grafana
5 270 (5.76%) Prometheus
6 79 (1.68%) Argo
7 68 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
8 59 (1.26%) Puppet
9 35 (0.75%) Progress Chef
10 33 (0.70%) Istio
11 30 (0.64%) Packer
12 26 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
12 26 (0.55%) vCenter Server
13 21 (0.45%) Kibana
14 17 (0.36%) Consul
15 16 (0.34%) HP ALM
16 15 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 15 (0.32%) Kustomize
17 12 (0.26%) HAProxy
17 12 (0.26%) Rancher
Vendors
1 835 (17.81%) Microsoft
2 251 (5.35%) Oracle
3 240 (5.12%) Databricks
4 212 (4.52%) Google
5 185 (3.95%) ServiceNow
6 172 (3.67%) Splunk
7 145 (3.09%) Salesforce
8 113 (2.41%) Dynatrace
9 110 (2.35%) SAP
10 102 (2.18%) Red Hat
11 98 (2.09%) VMware
12 57 (1.22%) OpenAI
13 52 (1.11%) IBM
14 48 (1.02%) Atlassian
15 46 (0.98%) Informatica
16 45 (0.96%) CyberArk
17 42 (0.90%) Foundry
18 35 (0.75%) Cisco
19 33 (0.70%) AppDynamics
19 33 (0.70%) Okta