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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,294 2,471 3,320
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.69% 10.10% 8.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.58% 11.09% 10.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,017 1,830 2,291
10th Percentile £385 £400 £404
25th Percentile £439 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £650
90th Percentile £713 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.28% -2.18% -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 16 100
10th Percentile £39.53 £43.13 £56.25
25th Percentile £45.46 £55.00 £61.25
Median hourly rate £63.73 £68.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.30% +5.77% -0.76%
75th Percentile £75.00 £81.06 £84.55
90th Percentile £83.75 £87.73 £87.46
UK median hourly rate £63.73 £73.23 £65.00
% change year-on-year -12.97% +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 34,120 22,289 31,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.96% 91.13% 86.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,809 14,625 20,976
10th Percentile £318 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,143 919 2,227
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.74 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.38 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £44.00 £30.45 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.50% -13.00% -6.67%
75th Percentile £67.25 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £40.25 £29.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +38.08% -16.71% -6.27%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 +5 2,193 £540 -6.09% 581
North of England +4 751 £500 -3.82% 323
South East +1 451 £505 -8.18% 343
Yorkshire 0 409 £500 -3.80% 68
Midlands +1 398 £488 -2.50% 141
West Midlands +6 302 £500 -4.58% 82
South West +14 298 £500 -11.50% 143
North West +4 285 £500 -3.26% 195
East of England +21 130 £525 +1.94% 83
East Midlands +1 93 £465 -2.11% 57
North East +5 66 £475 -9.52% 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
1 250 (5.82%) Confluence
2 119 (2.77%) Apache Spark
3 104 (2.42%) SharePoint
4 83 (1.93%) Apache
5 70 (1.63%) SAS
6 68 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
7 34 (0.79%) CMS
8 33 (0.77%) nginx
9 27 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
10 25 (0.58%) OpenStack
11 22 (0.51%) IIS
12 12 (0.28%) Mendix
13 11 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 11 (0.26%) HCL Notes
13 11 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
14 9 (0.21%) WebSphere
15 7 (0.16%) ArcGIS
15 7 (0.16%) Camunda
15 7 (0.16%) WebLogic
16 6 (0.14%) Mattermost
Applications
1 71 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
3 48 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
5 22 (0.51%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.12%) Trello
7 5 (0.12%) Weka
8 3 (0.070%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.047%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.047%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.023%) InDesign
10 1 (0.023%) Maya
Business Applications
1 64 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.30%) 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 7 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
5 7 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.093%) Endur
7 4 (0.093%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.093%) SAP BPC
7 4 (0.093%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.070%) Findur
8 3 (0.070%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.070%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.047%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.047%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.047%) SAP MM
9 2 (0.047%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 2,317 (53.96%) Azure
2 1,443 (33.61%) AWS
3 1,272 (29.62%) Azure DevOps
4 728 (16.95%) GitHub
5 550 (12.81%) GCP
6 438 (10.20%) Serverless
7 415 (9.66%) GitHub Actions
8 358 (8.34%) Power Platform
9 236 (5.50%) Amazon S3
10 219 (5.10%) AWS CloudFormation
11 217 (5.05%) AWS Lambda
11 217 (5.05%) Entra ID
12 202 (4.70%) Azure Data Factory
13 197 (4.59%) Azure AKS
14 161 (3.75%) Azure Monitor
14 161 (3.75%) OpenShift
15 156 (3.63%) Amazon EKS
16 144 (3.35%) PaaS
17 141 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
18 133 (3.10%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 199 (4.63%) Firewall
2 108 (2.52%) DNS
3 86 (2.00%) VPN
4 82 (1.91%) Network Security
5 39 (0.91%) TCP/IP
6 28 (0.65%) WAN
7 25 (0.58%) HTTP
7 25 (0.58%) SD-WAN
8 23 (0.54%) SSL
9 22 (0.51%) DHCP
10 18 (0.42%) BGP
11 17 (0.40%) IPsec
12 15 (0.35%) MPLS
12 15 (0.35%) SAN
12 15 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
13 14 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
14 13 (0.30%) LAN
15 12 (0.28%) Internet
15 12 (0.28%) OSPF
16 11 (0.26%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 239 (5.57%) Power BI
2 220 (5.12%) PostgreSQL
3 212 (4.94%) SQL Server
4 165 (3.84%) NoSQL
5 150 (3.49%) Data Lake
6 122 (2.84%) Relational Database
7 121 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
8 94 (2.19%) Azure SQL Database
9 93 (2.17%) MongoDB
10 89 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
11 81 (1.89%) Delta Lake
12 78 (1.82%) DynamoDB
13 69 (1.61%) Metadata
14 68 (1.58%) Oracle Database
15 67 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
16 58 (1.35%) Big Data
17 53 (1.23%) Tableau
18 48 (1.12%) Redis
19 47 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
20 43 (1.00%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 617 (14.37%) Jenkins
2 543 (12.65%) JIRA
3 542 (12.62%) Git
4 412 (9.59%) GitLab
5 89 (2.07%) Selenium
6 80 (1.86%) Postman
7 78 (1.82%) JUnit
8 73 (1.70%) Bitbucket
9 71 (1.65%) SonarQube
10 54 (1.26%) Maven
11 49 (1.14%) Cucumber
12 48 (1.12%) Artifactory
13 47 (1.09%) REST Assured
14 40 (0.93%) Cypress.io
15 36 (0.84%) JMeter
16 33 (0.77%) Gatling
16 33 (0.77%) Mockito
17 30 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
18 27 (0.63%) TestRail
19 26 (0.61%) Gradle
General
1 1,155 (26.90%) Social Skills
2 817 (19.03%) Finance
3 517 (12.04%) Public Sector
4 371 (8.64%) Analytical Skills
5 306 (7.13%) Banking
6 144 (3.35%) Documentation Skills
7 64 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
8 61 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 57 (1.33%) Retail
10 50 (1.16%) Financial Institution
10 50 (1.16%) Marketing
11 48 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
12 46 (1.07%) Front Office
13 44 (1.02%) Legal
14 43 (1.00%) Investment Banking
15 42 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
16 32 (0.75%) Telecoms
17 31 (0.72%) Military
18 22 (0.51%) Law
19 15 (0.35%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 821 (19.12%) DevOps Engineer
2 637 (14.83%) Developer
3 594 (13.83%) Senior
4 496 (11.55%) Architect
5 357 (8.31%) Lead
6 298 (6.94%) Azure Engineer
7 274 (6.38%) Data Engineer
8 252 (5.87%) Analyst
9 192 (4.47%) AWS Engineer
10 159 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
11 157 (3.66%) Cloud Engineer
12 151 (3.52%) Platform Engineer
13 146 (3.40%) AWS DevOps
14 139 (3.24%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 133 (3.10%) Software Engineer
16 132 (3.07%) Business Analyst
17 131 (3.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 125 (2.91%) Senior DevOps
19 117 (2.72%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 116 (2.70%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 395 (9.20%) REST
2 364 (8.48%) .NET
3 254 (5.92%) Kafka
4 250 (5.82%) Node.js
5 237 (5.52%) React
6 236 (5.50%) Spring
7 221 (5.15%) Spring Boot
8 193 (4.49%) RESTful
9 156 (3.63%) AngularJS
10 133 (3.10%) YAML
11 128 (2.98%) Playwright
12 127 (2.96%) JSON
13 120 (2.79%) PySpark
14 116 (2.70%) OAuth
15 108 (2.52%) HTML
16 103 (2.40%) Middleware
17 102 (2.38%) SOAP
18 91 (2.12%) CSS
19 90 (2.10%) .NET Framework
20 87 (2.03%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 665 (15.49%) Cloud Native
2 265 (6.17%) Product Ownership
3 159 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
4 115 (2.68%) Onboarding
5 92 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
6 90 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
7 85 (1.98%) Public Cloud
8 83 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
9 66 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
10 54 (1.26%) Virtual Team
11 52 (1.21%) Management Information System
12 45 (1.05%) Private Cloud
13 40 (0.93%) Data Centre
13 40 (0.93%) Replication
13 40 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
14 36 (0.84%) Data Structures
14 36 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
14 36 (0.84%) Security Posture
15 35 (0.82%) Mobile App
15 35 (0.82%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 382 (8.90%) Linux
2 220 (5.12%) Windows
3 71 (1.65%) Unix
4 67 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 40 (0.93%) Windows Server
6 37 (0.86%) VMS
7 22 (0.51%) Ubuntu
8 12 (0.28%) Android
8 12 (0.28%) CentOS
9 10 (0.23%) Apple iOS
9 10 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.16%) Windows 10
11 6 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.12%) Solaris
13 4 (0.093%) Amazon Linux
13 4 (0.093%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (0.093%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.070%) Debian
14 3 (0.070%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.070%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,373 (55.26%) CI/CD
2 1,630 (37.96%) Agile
3 1,056 (24.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 718 (16.72%) Problem-Solving
5 711 (16.56%) Containerisation
6 622 (14.49%) Microservices
7 599 (13.95%) Test Automation
8 558 (12.99%) Continuous Improvement
9 528 (12.30%) Migration
10 526 (12.25%) Analytics
11 495 (11.53%) Observability
12 477 (11.11%) Scrum
13 469 (10.92%) Stakeholder Management
14 457 (10.64%) AI
15 414 (9.64%) Software Engineering
16 401 (9.34%) Data Modelling
17 355 (8.27%) Mentoring
18 353 (8.22%) Platform Engineering
19 334 (7.78%) Data Pipeline
20 331 (7.71%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,199 (27.92%) Python
2 912 (21.24%) SQL
3 561 (13.06%) Java
4 427 (9.94%) C#
5 341 (7.94%) JavaScript
6 309 (7.20%) PowerShell
7 292 (6.80%) Bash
8 243 (5.66%) TypeScript
9 148 (3.45%) Bicep
10 95 (2.21%) Go
11 77 (1.79%) PL/SQL
12 67 (1.56%) Scala
13 51 (1.19%) Shell Script
14 42 (0.98%) T-SQL
15 40 (0.93%) Groovy
16 35 (0.82%) Apex Code
17 31 (0.72%) C++
18 28 (0.65%) Ruby
19 22 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 22 (0.51%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,395 (32.49%) Security Cleared
2 1,153 (26.85%) SC Cleared
3 304 (7.08%) Degree
4 195 (4.54%) Azure Certification
5 144 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 141 (3.28%) DV Cleared
7 118 (2.75%) AWS Certification
8 112 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 70 (1.63%) CISSP
10 51 (1.19%) CISM
11 49 (1.14%) Master's Degree
11 49 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
12 46 (1.07%) ISTQB
13 41 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 39 (0.91%) PMI Certification
15 37 (0.86%) PMP
16 36 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
17 21 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 21 (0.49%) IIBA
17 21 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 387 (9.01%) QA
2 193 (4.49%) Data Quality
3 162 (3.77%) GDPR
4 123 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 116 (2.70%) NIST
6 90 (2.10%) Accessibility
7 60 (1.40%) NCSC
8 39 (0.91%) WCAG
9 38 (0.88%) PCI DSS
10 31 (0.72%) SLA
11 28 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 27 (0.63%) PMO
13 15 (0.35%) GRC
13 15 (0.35%) ISO 20022
14 14 (0.33%) HIPAA
14 14 (0.33%) NIST 800
15 12 (0.28%) PSD2
15 12 (0.28%) SOC 2
16 10 (0.23%) SEPA
17 8 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 875 (20.38%) Docker
2 164 (3.82%) Active Directory
3 67 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
4 64 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 33 (0.77%) vSphere
6 25 (0.58%) VMware NSX
7 14 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 13 (0.30%) Hyper-V
9 12 (0.28%) Postfix
9 12 (0.28%) Squid
10 11 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
11 8 (0.19%) Firmware
11 8 (0.19%) Lustre
11 8 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 6 (0.14%) GPFS
12 6 (0.14%) HDFS
13 5 (0.12%) Corosync
13 5 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
13 5 (0.12%) RACF
14 4 (0.093%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,202 (27.99%) Terraform
2 1,136 (26.46%) Kubernetes
3 432 (10.06%) Ansible
4 275 (6.40%) Grafana
5 231 (5.38%) Prometheus
6 89 (2.07%) Argo
7 67 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
8 61 (1.42%) Puppet
9 47 (1.09%) Istio
10 30 (0.70%) Packer
11 24 (0.56%) vCenter Server
12 23 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
12 23 (0.54%) Progress Chef
13 22 (0.51%) Kibana
14 20 (0.47%) Rancher
15 19 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 17 (0.40%) Consul
17 16 (0.37%) HP ALM
18 15 (0.35%) FortiGate
19 12 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 775 (18.05%) Microsoft
2 282 (6.57%) Oracle
3 248 (5.78%) Databricks
4 194 (4.52%) Google
5 181 (4.22%) Splunk
6 156 (3.63%) ServiceNow
7 131 (3.05%) Red Hat
8 120 (2.79%) Salesforce
9 113 (2.63%) VMware
10 99 (2.31%) SAP
11 84 (1.96%) Dynatrace
12 68 (1.58%) OpenAI
13 59 (1.37%) Atlassian
14 55 (1.28%) CyberArk
15 42 (0.98%) IBM
16 36 (0.84%) AppDynamics
17 34 (0.79%) Foundry
18 32 (0.75%) Cisco
18 32 (0.75%) Denodo
18 32 (0.75%) Informatica