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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 14 14
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,785 3,077 3,238
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.33% 11.08% 10.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.19% 12.19% 11.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,293 2,175 2,164
10th Percentile £381 £360 £400
25th Percentile £440 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.59% -4.30%
75th Percentile £626 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 21 62
10th Percentile £37.25 £42.50 £46.81
25th Percentile £61.19 £56.75 £65.00
Median hourly rate £68.75 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% -4.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £78.81 £88.75 £74.33
90th Percentile £94.06 £95.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £69.00 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +2.99% -4.29% +7.69%

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 39,251 25,237 27,768
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.73% 90.91% 86.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,728 16,010 16,947
10th Percentile £325 £297 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £642
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,965 1,563 1,177
10th Percentile £13.82 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.57 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.47 £45.75 £66.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £25.15 £41.08
% change year-on-year +53.08% -38.77% -3.91%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 -1 2,538 £550 - 2,373
North of England -2 791 £500 +5.15% 771
South East -11 448 £525 +5.00% 603
Midlands -7 414 £488 -5.11% 325
Yorkshire -3 380 £500 +1.42% 236
West Midlands -9 332 £500 -4.76% 211
South West +5 330 £550 - 291
North West -3 317 £525 +16.67% 409
East of England 0 154 £505 -6.05% 238
North East +14 110 £450 -18.18% 131
East Midlands -1 80 £455 +8.33% 114
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
1 295 (6.17%) Confluence
2 141 (2.95%) SharePoint
3 121 (2.53%) Apache Spark
4 114 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
5 105 (2.19%) Apache
6 45 (0.94%) SAS
7 41 (0.86%) CMS
8 40 (0.84%) Jupyter
9 25 (0.52%) nginx
10 24 (0.50%) IIS
11 21 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
12 15 (0.31%) Camunda
13 13 (0.27%) OpenStack
14 9 (0.19%) Anypoint
14 9 (0.19%) Appian
14 9 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
14 9 (0.19%) WebSphere
15 8 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
15 8 (0.17%) Tomcat
16 7 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 63 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (1.07%) Microsoft Project
3 48 (1.00%) MS Visio
4 32 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 31 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
6 14 (0.29%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.17%) CPLEX
7 8 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.17%) Windchill
8 5 (0.10%) Notion
8 5 (0.10%) Trello
9 3 (0.063%) Mingle
10 2 (0.042%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.042%) Gliffy
11 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.021%) Mozilla Thunderbird
11 1 (0.021%) Sketch
11 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 73 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 37 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
4 8 (0.17%) Magento
4 8 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 6 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
5 6 (0.13%) SAP MDG
6 5 (0.10%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.10%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
6 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
6 5 (0.10%) Temenos T24
7 4 (0.084%) Oracle Payroll
7 4 (0.084%) Teamcenter
8 3 (0.063%) Endur
8 3 (0.063%) Maximo
8 3 (0.063%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (0.063%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.063%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 2,577 (53.86%) Azure
2 1,666 (34.82%) AWS
3 1,499 (31.33%) Azure DevOps
4 819 (17.12%) GitHub
5 647 (13.52%) GCP
6 513 (10.72%) GitHub Actions
7 434 (9.07%) Power Platform
8 401 (8.38%) Serverless
9 255 (5.33%) Amazon S3
10 238 (4.97%) Entra ID
11 233 (4.87%) AWS Lambda
12 209 (4.37%) Amazon EKS
13 207 (4.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 185 (3.87%) Azure AKS
15 178 (3.72%) Azure Monitor
16 174 (3.64%) Dynamics 365
17 173 (3.62%) Azure Data Factory
18 167 (3.49%) AWS CloudFormation
19 164 (3.43%) Amazon EC2
20 155 (3.24%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 221 (4.62%) Firewall
2 145 (3.03%) DNS
3 110 (2.30%) Network Security
4 109 (2.28%) VPN
5 75 (1.57%) TCP/IP
6 50 (1.04%) SSL
7 43 (0.90%) WAN
8 40 (0.84%) DHCP
9 35 (0.73%) BGP
10 32 (0.67%) HTTP
11 29 (0.61%) Internet
12 26 (0.54%) OSPF
13 25 (0.52%) SD-WAN
13 25 (0.52%) SSH
14 21 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
15 19 (0.40%) LAN
16 18 (0.38%) VLAN
17 17 (0.36%) BIG-IP
17 17 (0.36%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 17 (0.36%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 287 (6.00%) Power BI
2 257 (5.37%) SQL Server
3 249 (5.20%) PostgreSQL
4 184 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
5 158 (3.30%) NoSQL
6 150 (3.13%) Data Lake
7 145 (3.03%) MongoDB
8 136 (2.84%) Relational Database
9 121 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
10 119 (2.49%) Metadata
11 83 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
12 82 (1.71%) Delta Lake
13 74 (1.55%) MySQL
13 74 (1.55%) Oracle Database
14 73 (1.53%) DynamoDB
15 71 (1.48%) Redis
16 56 (1.17%) Big Data
16 56 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 53 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
17 53 (1.11%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 697 (14.57%) Git
2 663 (13.86%) Jenkins
3 557 (11.64%) GitLab
4 540 (11.29%) JIRA
5 123 (2.57%) Selenium
6 82 (1.71%) SonarQube
7 79 (1.65%) Maven
8 78 (1.63%) JUnit
9 76 (1.59%) Postman
10 73 (1.53%) Cucumber
11 62 (1.30%) Bitbucket
12 59 (1.23%) REST Assured
13 57 (1.19%) Cypress.io
14 55 (1.15%) JMeter
15 53 (1.11%) Gradle
16 40 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
17 39 (0.82%) Gatling
17 39 (0.82%) Mockito
18 38 (0.79%) Claude Code
18 38 (0.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,273 (26.60%) Social Skills
2 914 (19.10%) Finance
3 633 (13.23%) Public Sector
4 482 (10.07%) Analytical Skills
5 372 (7.77%) Banking
6 145 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 108 (2.26%) Retail
8 86 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
9 73 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
10 59 (1.23%) Aerospace
11 57 (1.19%) Marketing
12 53 (1.11%) Military
13 50 (1.04%) Investment Banking
14 47 (0.98%) Manufacturing
14 47 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
14 47 (0.98%) Telecoms
15 43 (0.90%) Legal
16 42 (0.88%) Financial Institution
16 42 (0.88%) Local Government
17 41 (0.86%) Law
Job Titles
1 923 (19.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 753 (15.74%) Senior
3 738 (15.42%) Developer
4 562 (11.75%) Architect
5 472 (9.86%) Lead
6 290 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
7 276 (5.77%) Data Engineer
8 230 (4.81%) Analyst
9 197 (4.12%) AWS Engineer
10 186 (3.89%) Platform Engineer
11 177 (3.70%) Senior DevOps
12 175 (3.66%) Cloud Engineer
13 164 (3.43%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 161 (3.36%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 153 (3.20%) Solutions Architect
16 136 (2.84%) AWS DevOps
16 136 (2.84%) Java Developer
17 133 (2.78%) Software Engineer
18 125 (2.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 121 (2.53%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,442 (30.14%) Terraform
2 551 (11.52%) REST
3 417 (8.71%) .NET
4 338 (7.06%) Kafka
5 270 (5.64%) RESTful
6 255 (5.33%) React
7 235 (4.91%) Spring
8 231 (4.83%) Spring Boot
9 162 (3.39%) JSON
10 161 (3.36%) OAuth
11 144 (3.01%) Node.js
12 135 (2.82%) PySpark
13 127 (2.65%) Playwright
14 124 (2.59%) HTML
15 122 (2.55%) .NET Framework
16 116 (2.42%) CSS
17 113 (2.36%) SOAP
18 105 (2.19%) Middleware
19 103 (2.15%) OAuth2
20 98 (2.05%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 887 (18.54%) Cloud Native
2 359 (7.50%) Product Ownership
3 219 (4.58%) Distributed Systems
4 200 (4.18%) Enterprise Software
5 187 (3.91%) Onboarding
6 139 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
7 128 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
8 105 (2.19%) AI Agents
9 92 (1.92%) Management Information System
10 71 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
11 69 (1.44%) Security Posture
12 68 (1.42%) Public Cloud
13 65 (1.36%) Replication
14 64 (1.34%) Data Structures
15 62 (1.30%) Data Centre
15 62 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
16 55 (1.15%) PKI
17 52 (1.09%) Mobile App
18 50 (1.04%) Virtual Team
19 43 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 500 (10.45%) Linux
2 285 (5.96%) Windows
3 118 (2.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 96 (2.01%) Unix
5 86 (1.80%) Windows Server
6 37 (0.77%) Ubuntu
7 30 (0.63%) VMS
8 29 (0.61%) Apple iOS
9 21 (0.44%) Android
10 15 (0.31%) CentOS
11 10 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
11 10 (0.21%) zOS
12 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
12 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
13 7 (0.15%) AIX
14 6 (0.13%) Solaris
15 4 (0.084%) Alpine Linux
15 4 (0.084%) Data ONTAP
15 4 (0.084%) Windows Server 2008
16 3 (0.063%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,898 (60.56%) CI/CD
2 1,947 (40.69%) Agile
3 1,430 (29.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 865 (18.08%) Stakeholder Management
5 826 (17.26%) AI
5 826 (17.26%) Continuous Improvement
6 790 (16.51%) Test Automation
7 774 (16.18%) Containerisation
7 774 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
8 700 (14.63%) Microservices
9 698 (14.59%) Observability
10 666 (13.92%) Platform Engineering
11 665 (13.90%) Software Engineering
12 588 (12.29%) Scrum
13 585 (12.23%) Migration
14 552 (11.54%) Technical Leadership
15 509 (10.64%) Analytics
16 452 (9.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 446 (9.32%) Roadmaps
18 422 (8.82%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,446 (30.22%) Python
2 849 (17.74%) SQL
3 693 (14.48%) Java
4 453 (9.47%) PowerShell
5 448 (9.36%) Bash
6 442 (9.24%) C#
7 393 (8.21%) JavaScript
8 278 (5.81%) TypeScript
9 230 (4.81%) Bicep
10 94 (1.96%) Go
11 65 (1.36%) Shell Script
12 58 (1.21%) T-SQL
13 54 (1.13%) Scala
14 52 (1.09%) Groovy
15 44 (0.92%) PL/SQL
16 41 (0.86%) Apex Code
17 33 (0.69%) C++
18 32 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 29 (0.61%) Perl
20 27 (0.56%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,544 (32.27%) Security Cleared
2 1,283 (26.81%) SC Cleared
3 342 (7.15%) Degree
4 226 (4.72%) DV Cleared
5 217 (4.54%) Azure Certification
6 178 (3.72%) AWS Certification
7 153 (3.20%) BPSS Clearance
8 131 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
9 108 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
10 73 (1.53%) CISSP
11 51 (1.07%) PMP
12 50 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
12 50 (1.04%) ISTQB
13 44 (0.92%) PMI Certification
14 40 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 39 (0.82%) Master's Degree
16 30 (0.63%) CISM
17 23 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 21 (0.44%) CCNP
19 20 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 489 (10.22%) QA
2 254 (5.31%) Data Quality
3 170 (3.55%) Accessibility
4 107 (2.24%) GDPR
5 85 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 78 (1.63%) WCAG
7 67 (1.40%) NIST
8 45 (0.94%) NCSC
8 45 (0.94%) PMO
9 30 (0.63%) SLA
10 29 (0.61%) PCI DSS
11 26 (0.54%) GRC
12 19 (0.40%) ISO 20022
13 16 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 14 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
14 14 (0.29%) HIPAA
14 14 (0.29%) SOC 2
15 13 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
16 12 (0.25%) SEPA
17 9 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 968 (20.23%) Docker
2 144 (3.01%) Active Directory
3 70 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
4 68 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 24 (0.50%) vSphere
6 20 (0.42%) Hyper-V
7 19 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 19 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
8 11 (0.23%) Squid
8 11 (0.23%) VMware NSX
9 10 (0.21%) IAG
10 8 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
11 6 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 6 (0.13%) Corosync
11 6 (0.13%) KVM
11 6 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
11 6 (0.13%) Postfix
12 5 (0.10%) RACF
13 4 (0.084%) Firmware
13 4 (0.084%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,277 (26.69%) Kubernetes
2 489 (10.22%) Ansible
3 319 (6.67%) Grafana
4 269 (5.62%) Prometheus
5 65 (1.36%) Argo
6 55 (1.15%) Puppet
7 48 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
8 46 (0.96%) Progress Chef
9 36 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
10 33 (0.69%) Kibana
10 33 (0.69%) Packer
11 23 (0.48%) Istio
11 23 (0.48%) Kubeflow
12 19 (0.40%) Kustomize
13 16 (0.33%) SCCM
14 15 (0.31%) vCenter Server
15 13 (0.27%) Control-M
15 13 (0.27%) HP ALM
15 13 (0.27%) SCOM
16 12 (0.25%) systemd
Vendors
1 982 (20.52%) Microsoft
2 274 (5.73%) Databricks
3 266 (5.56%) Google
4 227 (4.74%) Oracle
5 181 (3.78%) ServiceNow
6 165 (3.45%) Splunk
7 137 (2.86%) Dynatrace
8 133 (2.78%) Salesforce
9 103 (2.15%) VMware
10 97 (2.03%) SAP
11 91 (1.90%) Red Hat
12 66 (1.38%) IBM
13 61 (1.27%) OpenAI
14 49 (1.02%) Foundry
15 46 (0.96%) Cisco
16 40 (0.84%) Informatica
17 37 (0.77%) AppDynamics
17 37 (0.77%) MuleSoft
18 32 (0.67%) Atlassian
19 30 (0.63%) Okta