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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,479 2,453 3,514
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.62% 10.15% 9.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.48% 11.11% 11.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,136 1,780 2,427
10th Percentile £391 £385 £400
25th Percentile £443 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £751 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 11 114
10th Percentile £39.53 £35.00 £56.55
25th Percentile £56.50 £51.25 £61.60
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - +3.05% -
75th Percentile £77.75 £82.48 £76.88
90th Percentile £93.50 £92.50 £86.59
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £71.61 £65.50
% change year-on-year -2.25% +9.33% -

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 35,884 22,080 31,645
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.08% 91.32% 85.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,739 14,300 20,579
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,242 984 2,330
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.82
25th Percentile £20.80 £18.12 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.53 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.52% -23.93% +1.99%
75th Percentile £68.00 £59.45 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.00 £74.63 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.76 £36.50
% change year-on-year +58.36% -23.95% +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 6 June 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 6 June 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 6 June 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 2,275 £550 - 681
North of England +6 827 £500 - 325
South East +1 473 £525 +5.00% 310
Yorkshire +2 455 £500 - 88
Midlands +4 417 £488 -2.50% 126
West Midlands +1 328 £500 -4.31% 88
North West +3 306 £500 - 192
South West +16 280 £525 -4.55% 138
East of England +24 128 £525 +7.69% 78
East Midlands +1 85 £465 +0.54% 38
North East +9 84 £450 -14.29% 46
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
1 247 (5.51%) Confluence
2 124 (2.77%) Apache Spark
3 110 (2.46%) SharePoint
4 92 (2.05%) Apache
5 89 (1.99%) Apache Airflow
6 76 (1.70%) SAS
7 44 (0.98%) CMS
8 26 (0.58%) IIS
8 26 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
8 26 (0.58%) nginx
9 21 (0.47%) Jupyter
10 16 (0.36%) OpenStack
11 14 (0.31%) Camunda
12 12 (0.27%) WebSphere
13 11 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
14 9 (0.20%) Mendix
14 9 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
15 8 (0.18%) HCL Notes
15 8 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
16 7 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 68 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
3 46 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 33 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
5 25 (0.56%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.16%) CPLEX
7 5 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.089%) Notion
9 3 (0.067%) Trello
10 2 (0.045%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.045%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.022%) InDesign
11 1 (0.022%) Maya
11 1 (0.022%) Weka
Business Applications
1 59 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 9 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.18%) Aladdin
5 8 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
5 8 (0.18%) Maximo
6 7 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.11%) Endur
7 5 (0.11%) Magento
8 4 (0.089%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.067%) Findur
9 3 (0.067%) NEC Housing
9 3 (0.067%) OpenText MBPM
9 3 (0.067%) Oracle BPM
9 3 (0.067%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.067%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.067%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.067%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.067%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 2,393 (53.43%) Azure
2 1,532 (34.20%) AWS
3 1,302 (29.07%) Azure DevOps
4 733 (16.37%) GitHub
5 568 (12.68%) GCP
6 434 (9.69%) GitHub Actions
7 398 (8.89%) Serverless
8 383 (8.55%) Power Platform
9 244 (5.45%) Amazon S3
10 221 (4.93%) Entra ID
11 214 (4.78%) AWS Lambda
12 189 (4.22%) AWS CloudFormation
13 182 (4.06%) Azure AKS
14 179 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
15 158 (3.53%) Amazon EKS
16 149 (3.33%) PaaS
17 148 (3.30%) OpenShift
18 139 (3.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 139 (3.10%) Amazon EC2
19 135 (3.01%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 221 (4.93%) Firewall
2 119 (2.66%) DNS
3 95 (2.12%) Network Security
4 93 (2.08%) VPN
5 45 (1.00%) TCP/IP
6 44 (0.98%) WAN
7 36 (0.80%) SD-WAN
8 29 (0.65%) BGP
9 26 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
10 25 (0.56%) SSL
11 24 (0.54%) DHCP
12 23 (0.51%) OSPF
13 20 (0.45%) Internet
14 19 (0.42%) HTTP
14 19 (0.42%) SAN
15 18 (0.40%) IPsec
16 17 (0.38%) VXLAN
17 16 (0.36%) LAN
18 15 (0.33%) MPLS
19 14 (0.31%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 253 (5.65%) Power BI
2 232 (5.18%) SQL Server
3 214 (4.78%) PostgreSQL
4 157 (3.51%) NoSQL
5 155 (3.46%) Data Lake
6 136 (3.04%) Relational Database
7 128 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
8 119 (2.66%) MongoDB
9 101 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
10 92 (2.05%) Azure SQL Database
11 83 (1.85%) Delta Lake
12 77 (1.72%) DynamoDB
13 74 (1.65%) Metadata
13 74 (1.65%) Oracle Database
14 60 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
15 56 (1.25%) Redis
16 55 (1.23%) Big Data
17 51 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
18 49 (1.09%) BigQuery
19 44 (0.98%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 623 (13.91%) Jenkins
2 553 (12.35%) Git
3 518 (11.57%) JIRA
4 465 (10.38%) GitLab
5 92 (2.05%) Selenium
6 89 (1.99%) Postman
7 79 (1.76%) SonarQube
8 72 (1.61%) JUnit
9 61 (1.36%) Bitbucket
10 59 (1.32%) Maven
10 59 (1.32%) REST Assured
11 50 (1.12%) Cucumber
12 49 (1.09%) Artifactory
13 45 (1.00%) JMeter
14 40 (0.89%) Cypress.io
14 40 (0.89%) Gatling
15 36 (0.80%) Gradle
16 35 (0.78%) Mockito
17 29 (0.65%) LoadRunner
17 29 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,143 (25.52%) Social Skills
2 843 (18.82%) Finance
3 560 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 371 (8.28%) Analytical Skills
5 303 (6.76%) Banking
6 138 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
7 78 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 71 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
9 62 (1.38%) Retail
10 54 (1.21%) Legal
11 50 (1.12%) Marketing
12 49 (1.09%) Financial Institution
13 47 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
14 39 (0.87%) Investment Banking
15 38 (0.85%) Military
16 36 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
17 31 (0.69%) Front Office
18 30 (0.67%) Law
19 24 (0.54%) Aerospace
20 22 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 889 (19.85%) DevOps Engineer
2 630 (14.07%) Developer
3 626 (13.98%) Senior
4 548 (12.23%) Architect
5 407 (9.09%) Lead
6 299 (6.68%) Azure Engineer
7 276 (6.16%) Data Engineer
8 268 (5.98%) Analyst
9 192 (4.29%) AWS Engineer
10 173 (3.86%) Solutions Architect
11 172 (3.84%) Cloud Engineer
12 161 (3.59%) Platform Engineer
13 146 (3.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 145 (3.24%) Senior DevOps
15 144 (3.22%) Business Analyst
16 138 (3.08%) Software Engineer
17 134 (2.99%) AWS DevOps
18 131 (2.92%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 123 (2.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 123 (2.75%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 408 (9.11%) REST
2 378 (8.44%) .NET
3 257 (5.74%) Kafka
4 254 (5.67%) React
5 240 (5.36%) Spring
6 230 (5.14%) Spring Boot
7 210 (4.69%) Node.js
8 197 (4.40%) RESTful
9 150 (3.35%) AngularJS
10 131 (2.92%) PySpark
11 125 (2.79%) OAuth
12 124 (2.77%) Playwright
12 124 (2.77%) YAML
13 120 (2.68%) JSON
14 102 (2.28%) SOAP
15 97 (2.17%) .NET Framework
16 96 (2.14%) HTML
17 95 (2.12%) OpenID
18 94 (2.10%) Middleware
19 85 (1.90%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 757 (16.90%) Cloud Native
2 276 (6.16%) Product Ownership
3 181 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
4 118 (2.63%) Onboarding
5 107 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
6 97 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
7 91 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
8 85 (1.90%) Public Cloud
9 69 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
10 63 (1.41%) Data Centre
11 59 (1.32%) Management Information System
12 47 (1.05%) Mobile App
12 47 (1.05%) Security Posture
12 47 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
13 43 (0.96%) AI Agents
14 41 (0.92%) Replication
15 40 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
15 40 (0.89%) Private Cloud
16 39 (0.87%) Virtual Team
17 37 (0.83%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 395 (8.82%) Linux
2 238 (5.31%) Windows
3 88 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 65 (1.45%) Unix
5 50 (1.12%) Windows Server
6 34 (0.76%) VMS
7 26 (0.58%) Ubuntu
8 21 (0.47%) Apple iOS
9 16 (0.36%) Android
10 13 (0.29%) CentOS
11 10 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
12 9 (0.20%) Solaris
13 7 (0.16%) Windows 10
14 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
14 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
16 4 (0.089%) Alpine Linux
16 4 (0.089%) Data ONTAP
16 4 (0.089%) Windows Server 2012
17 3 (0.067%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,539 (56.69%) CI/CD
2 1,620 (36.17%) Agile
3 1,162 (25.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 693 (15.47%) Containerisation
5 672 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
6 636 (14.20%) Microservices
7 626 (13.98%) Test Automation
8 605 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
9 554 (12.37%) Migration
9 554 (12.37%) Observability
10 538 (12.01%) Stakeholder Management
11 523 (11.68%) Analytics
12 518 (11.57%) AI
13 502 (11.21%) Scrum
14 462 (10.31%) Software Engineering
15 433 (9.67%) Platform Engineering
16 411 (9.18%) Data Modelling
17 375 (8.37%) Mentoring
18 371 (8.28%) Roadmaps
19 367 (8.19%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1,231 (27.48%) Python
2 894 (19.96%) SQL
3 613 (13.69%) Java
4 408 (9.11%) C#
5 339 (7.57%) PowerShell
6 325 (7.26%) Bash
7 318 (7.10%) JavaScript
8 226 (5.05%) TypeScript
9 148 (3.30%) Bicep
10 91 (2.03%) Go
11 62 (1.38%) Scala
12 56 (1.25%) Shell Script
13 47 (1.05%) PL/SQL
14 45 (1.00%) T-SQL
15 44 (0.98%) Apex Code
16 38 (0.85%) Groovy
17 25 (0.56%) C++
17 25 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 24 (0.54%) Kotlin
19 23 (0.51%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,440 (32.15%) Security Cleared
2 1,182 (26.39%) SC Cleared
3 294 (6.56%) Degree
4 200 (4.47%) Azure Certification
5 152 (3.39%) DV Cleared
6 131 (2.92%) AWS Certification
7 126 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 115 (2.57%) BPSS Clearance
9 74 (1.65%) CISSP
10 59 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
11 44 (0.98%) CISM
12 43 (0.96%) ISTQB
13 42 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
14 39 (0.87%) Master's Degree
15 37 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 37 (0.83%) PMI Certification
16 36 (0.80%) PMP
17 23 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
18 21 (0.47%) IIBA
18 21 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 384 (8.57%) QA
2 206 (4.60%) Data Quality
3 163 (3.64%) GDPR
4 118 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 114 (2.55%) Accessibility
6 113 (2.52%) NIST
7 61 (1.36%) NCSC
8 54 (1.21%) WCAG
9 45 (1.00%) PCI DSS
10 40 (0.89%) SLA
11 29 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 27 (0.60%) PMO
13 21 (0.47%) GRC
14 15 (0.33%) HIPAA
15 13 (0.29%) NIST 800
15 13 (0.29%) SOC 2
16 12 (0.27%) ISO 20022
16 12 (0.27%) PSD2
17 9 (0.20%) SEPA
18 7 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 855 (19.09%) Docker
2 167 (3.73%) Active Directory
3 69 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
4 66 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 33 (0.74%) vSphere
6 23 (0.51%) VMware NSX
7 18 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
8 17 (0.38%) Squid
9 16 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
10 14 (0.31%) Postfix
11 13 (0.29%) Hyper-V
12 7 (0.16%) Firmware
12 7 (0.16%) RACF
13 6 (0.13%) Corosync
13 6 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
14 5 (0.11%) HDFS
14 5 (0.11%) SRDF
15 4 (0.089%) Microsoft App-V
15 4 (0.089%) NFS
15 4 (0.089%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,265 (28.24%) Terraform
2 1,123 (25.07%) Kubernetes
3 449 (10.02%) Ansible
4 302 (6.74%) Grafana
5 257 (5.74%) Prometheus
6 83 (1.85%) Argo
7 72 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
8 61 (1.36%) Puppet
9 45 (1.00%) Istio
10 30 (0.67%) Progress Chef
11 28 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
12 26 (0.58%) Packer
13 24 (0.54%) vCenter Server
14 22 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 19 (0.42%) Kibana
16 16 (0.36%) Consul
16 16 (0.36%) HP ALM
17 14 (0.31%) Kustomize
18 13 (0.29%) FortiGate
18 13 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 799 (17.84%) Microsoft
2 250 (5.58%) Oracle
3 249 (5.56%) Databricks
4 207 (4.62%) Google
5 173 (3.86%) Splunk
6 163 (3.64%) ServiceNow
7 138 (3.08%) Red Hat
8 135 (3.01%) Salesforce
9 108 (2.41%) VMware
10 102 (2.28%) SAP
11 98 (2.19%) Dynatrace
12 58 (1.29%) OpenAI
13 47 (1.05%) Atlassian
13 47 (1.05%) CyberArk
14 46 (1.03%) IBM
15 39 (0.87%) Informatica
16 38 (0.85%) AppDynamics
17 37 (0.83%) Foundry
18 36 (0.80%) Cisco
19 30 (0.67%) Okta