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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,862 2,916 3,324
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.63% 10.56% 10.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.51% 11.63% 11.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,341 2,107 2,288
10th Percentile £385 £360 £400
25th Percentile £438 £425 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.78%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 23 78
10th Percentile £36.57 £36.50 £56.18
25th Percentile £55.13 £52.13 £61.34
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.75% -4.29% +6.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 £85.86 £74.33
90th Percentile £89.35 £95.00 £85.08
UK median hourly rate £68.22 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +1.81% -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 38,860 25,068 28,450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.96% 90.79% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,105 15,945 18,530
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £627 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,559 1,442 1,597
10th Percentile £14.28 £14.20 £14.15
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.87 £18.16
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +5.94%
75th Percentile £68.55 £50.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +67.00% -38.57% +0.86%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 18 August 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 0 2,535 £550 - 409
North of England 0 823 £500 +4.17% 251
South East -10 479 £525 +5.00% 291
Midlands -1 464 £488 -2.50% 123
Yorkshire 0 405 £500 +1.46% 64
West Midlands +1 377 £490 -4.85% 76
North West -4 323 £525 +11.11% 136
South West +8 317 £525 +0.96% 128
East of England +11 139 £505 +1.00% 54
North East +15 112 £425 -19.05% 54
East Midlands +2 83 £488 +6.85% 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
1 285 (5.86%) Confluence
2 128 (2.63%) SharePoint
3 119 (2.45%) Apache Spark
4 116 (2.39%) Apache Airflow
5 101 (2.08%) Apache
6 76 (1.56%) SAS
7 40 (0.82%) CMS
8 34 (0.70%) Jupyter
9 32 (0.66%) IIS
10 22 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
11 20 (0.41%) nginx
12 13 (0.27%) Camunda
13 11 (0.23%) OpenStack
13 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
13 11 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
13 11 (0.23%) WebSphere
14 9 (0.19%) Anypoint
14 9 (0.19%) Appian
15 7 (0.14%) Tomcat
15 7 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 61 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
2 58 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 38 (0.78%) MS Visio
4 30 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
4 30 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.21%) Chatbot
6 9 (0.19%) CPLEX
7 8 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.14%) Trello
9 5 (0.10%) Notion
10 3 (0.062%) Windchill
11 1 (0.021%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.021%) Gliffy
11 1 (0.021%) InDesign
11 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 61 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.23%) Aladdin
3 11 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
4 10 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
5 9 (0.19%) Magento
6 8 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
6 8 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 5 (0.10%) Maximo
8 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
8 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
9 4 (0.082%) Endur
9 4 (0.082%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.082%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.082%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.062%) Findur
10 3 (0.062%) SAP BPC
10 3 (0.062%) Teamcenter
10 3 (0.062%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2,637 (54.24%) Azure
2 1,680 (34.55%) AWS
3 1,533 (31.53%) Azure DevOps
4 812 (16.70%) GitHub
5 604 (12.42%) GCP
6 510 (10.49%) GitHub Actions
7 423 (8.70%) Power Platform
8 382 (7.86%) Serverless
9 243 (5.00%) Entra ID
10 236 (4.85%) Amazon S3
11 221 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
12 189 (3.89%) Azure AKS
13 183 (3.76%) AWS CloudFormation
13 183 (3.76%) Azure Data Factory
14 178 (3.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 178 (3.66%) Amazon EKS
15 170 (3.50%) Azure Monitor
16 154 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
17 152 (3.13%) Power Automate
18 145 (2.98%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 235 (4.83%) Firewall
2 142 (2.92%) DNS
3 116 (2.39%) VPN
4 103 (2.12%) Network Security
5 61 (1.25%) TCP/IP
6 52 (1.07%) WAN
7 42 (0.86%) SSL
8 38 (0.78%) SD-WAN
9 37 (0.76%) DHCP
10 32 (0.66%) BGP
10 32 (0.66%) Internet
11 29 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
12 26 (0.53%) HTTP
12 26 (0.53%) OSPF
13 21 (0.43%) VLAN
14 20 (0.41%) SAN
15 18 (0.37%) LAN
15 18 (0.37%) SSH
15 18 (0.37%) VXLAN
16 17 (0.35%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 293 (6.03%) Power BI
2 256 (5.27%) SQL Server
3 238 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
4 176 (3.62%) Data Warehouse
5 171 (3.52%) NoSQL
6 155 (3.19%) Relational Database
7 144 (2.96%) Data Lake
8 139 (2.86%) MongoDB
9 104 (2.14%) Metadata
10 101 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
11 94 (1.93%) Azure SQL Database
12 81 (1.67%) Delta Lake
13 77 (1.58%) DynamoDB
14 74 (1.52%) Oracle Database
15 61 (1.25%) Redis
16 58 (1.19%) Big Data
17 55 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
18 52 (1.07%) MySQL
19 51 (1.05%) BigQuery
20 47 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 682 (14.03%) Jenkins
2 661 (13.60%) Git
3 574 (11.81%) JIRA
4 515 (10.59%) GitLab
5 111 (2.28%) Selenium
6 87 (1.79%) SonarQube
7 80 (1.65%) Postman
8 78 (1.60%) JUnit
9 75 (1.54%) Bitbucket
10 73 (1.50%) Maven
11 55 (1.13%) Cypress.io
11 55 (1.13%) JMeter
12 54 (1.11%) REST Assured
13 49 (1.01%) Cucumber
14 48 (0.99%) Gatling
15 45 (0.93%) Gradle
16 41 (0.84%) LoadRunner
17 37 (0.76%) Mockito
18 35 (0.72%) Artifactory
19 34 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,254 (25.79%) Social Skills
2 922 (18.96%) Finance
3 663 (13.64%) Public Sector
4 460 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
5 342 (7.03%) Banking
6 137 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 102 (2.10%) Retail
8 90 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
9 66 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
10 57 (1.17%) Legal
11 55 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
12 53 (1.09%) Marketing
13 50 (1.03%) Investment Banking
14 48 (0.99%) Aerospace
15 42 (0.86%) Front Office
15 42 (0.86%) Military
16 40 (0.82%) Financial Institution
16 40 (0.82%) Law
17 39 (0.80%) Telecoms
18 34 (0.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 880 (18.10%) DevOps Engineer
2 775 (15.94%) Developer
3 721 (14.83%) Senior
4 548 (11.27%) Architect
5 489 (10.06%) Lead
6 295 (6.07%) Azure Engineer
7 292 (6.01%) Data Engineer
8 246 (5.06%) Analyst
9 202 (4.15%) AWS Engineer
10 195 (4.01%) Platform Engineer
11 181 (3.72%) Cloud Engineer
12 170 (3.50%) Senior DevOps
13 165 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
14 156 (3.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 150 (3.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 143 (2.94%) Java Developer
17 142 (2.92%) AWS DevOps
18 137 (2.82%) Software Engineer
19 135 (2.78%) Senior Developer
20 129 (2.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 498 (10.24%) REST
2 426 (8.76%) .NET
3 305 (6.27%) Kafka
4 263 (5.41%) RESTful
5 243 (5.00%) React
6 236 (4.85%) Spring
7 218 (4.48%) Spring Boot
8 171 (3.52%) Node.js
9 156 (3.21%) JSON
10 144 (2.96%) PySpark
11 138 (2.84%) OAuth
12 133 (2.74%) Playwright
13 127 (2.61%) .NET Framework
13 127 (2.61%) AngularJS
14 121 (2.49%) SOAP
15 113 (2.32%) HTML
16 105 (2.16%) YAML
17 98 (2.02%) CSS
18 96 (1.97%) OAuth2
19 86 (1.77%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 882 (18.14%) Cloud Native
2 345 (7.10%) Product Ownership
3 229 (4.71%) Distributed Systems
4 155 (3.19%) Onboarding
5 152 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
6 137 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
7 135 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
8 81 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
9 74 (1.52%) AI Agents
10 71 (1.46%) Management Information System
11 69 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
12 67 (1.38%) Security Posture
13 63 (1.30%) Data Structures
14 61 (1.25%) Public Cloud
15 57 (1.17%) Data Centre
16 54 (1.11%) Replication
17 51 (1.05%) Mobile App
18 48 (0.99%) Virtual Team
19 43 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
20 38 (0.78%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 452 (9.30%) Linux
2 280 (5.76%) Windows
3 106 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 88 (1.81%) Unix
5 76 (1.56%) Windows Server
6 29 (0.60%) Apple iOS
6 29 (0.60%) Ubuntu
7 25 (0.51%) VMS
8 18 (0.37%) Android
9 9 (0.19%) Solaris
9 9 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.16%) AIX
10 8 (0.16%) CentOS
10 8 (0.16%) zOS
11 7 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
11 7 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 6 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
13 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
14 4 (0.082%) Alpine Linux
14 4 (0.082%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,821 (58.02%) CI/CD
2 1,970 (40.52%) Agile
3 1,328 (27.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 803 (16.52%) Continuous Improvement
5 777 (15.98%) Containerisation
6 773 (15.90%) Problem-Solving
7 756 (15.55%) Test Automation
8 741 (15.24%) Stakeholder Management
9 705 (14.50%) AI
10 699 (14.38%) Microservices
11 626 (12.88%) Observability
12 601 (12.36%) Scrum
13 596 (12.26%) Software Engineering
14 590 (12.13%) Platform Engineering
15 580 (11.93%) Migration
16 552 (11.35%) Analytics
17 487 (10.02%) Technical Leadership
18 458 (9.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 436 (8.97%) Data Modelling
20 422 (8.68%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,399 (28.77%) Python
2 920 (18.92%) SQL
3 688 (14.15%) Java
4 443 (9.11%) C#
5 434 (8.93%) PowerShell
6 408 (8.39%) Bash
7 383 (7.88%) JavaScript
8 263 (5.41%) TypeScript
9 201 (4.13%) Bicep
10 78 (1.60%) Go
11 61 (1.25%) Shell Script
12 58 (1.19%) T-SQL
13 56 (1.15%) PL/SQL
14 54 (1.11%) Scala
15 51 (1.05%) Apex Code
15 51 (1.05%) Groovy
16 30 (0.62%) C++
17 29 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 27 (0.56%) Perl
19 21 (0.43%) C
Qualifications
1 1,562 (32.13%) Security Cleared
2 1,317 (27.09%) SC Cleared
3 306 (6.29%) Degree
4 199 (4.09%) Azure Certification
5 182 (3.74%) DV Cleared
6 159 (3.27%) AWS Certification
7 135 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 110 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
9 86 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
10 75 (1.54%) CISSP
11 52 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
12 51 (1.05%) ISTQB
13 42 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 40 (0.82%) PMP
15 36 (0.74%) PMI Certification
16 32 (0.66%) Master's Degree
17 31 (0.64%) CISM
18 23 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 23 (0.47%) CCNP
18 23 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 467 (9.61%) QA
2 249 (5.12%) Data Quality
3 158 (3.25%) Accessibility
4 129 (2.65%) GDPR
5 92 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 78 (1.60%) NIST
7 74 (1.52%) WCAG
8 49 (1.01%) NCSC
9 44 (0.90%) PMO
10 36 (0.74%) PCI DSS
11 34 (0.70%) SLA
12 29 (0.60%) GRC
13 25 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 12 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
15 11 (0.23%) HIPAA
15 11 (0.23%) ISO 20022
16 10 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
17 8 (0.16%) SEPA
18 7 (0.14%) HL7
18 7 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 944 (19.42%) Docker
2 169 (3.48%) Active Directory
3 72 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 69 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (0.47%) Hyper-V
6 19 (0.39%) vSphere
7 17 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
8 16 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
9 14 (0.29%) VMware NSX
10 12 (0.25%) Squid
11 11 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
11 11 (0.23%) Postfix
12 9 (0.19%) IAG
13 8 (0.16%) KVM
14 6 (0.12%) Corosync
14 6 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
15 5 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 5 (0.10%) Firmware
15 5 (0.10%) NFS
15 5 (0.10%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 1,377 (28.32%) Terraform
2 1,243 (25.57%) Kubernetes
3 477 (9.81%) Ansible
4 310 (6.38%) Grafana
5 263 (5.41%) Prometheus
6 74 (1.52%) Argo
7 59 (1.21%) Puppet
8 52 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
9 47 (0.97%) Progress Chef
10 38 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
11 32 (0.66%) Packer
12 30 (0.62%) Istio
13 18 (0.37%) Kustomize
13 18 (0.37%) SCCM
14 17 (0.35%) Kibana
15 16 (0.33%) Kubeflow
15 16 (0.33%) vCenter Server
16 14 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
17 13 (0.27%) HP ALM
18 12 (0.25%) Control-M
Vendors
1 944 (19.42%) Microsoft
2 253 (5.20%) Oracle
3 250 (5.14%) Databricks
4 232 (4.77%) Google
5 195 (4.01%) ServiceNow
6 159 (3.27%) Splunk
7 145 (2.98%) Salesforce
8 130 (2.67%) Dynatrace
9 105 (2.16%) SAP
10 101 (2.08%) Red Hat
11 100 (2.06%) VMware
12 60 (1.23%) IBM
13 51 (1.05%) Informatica
14 47 (0.97%) Atlassian
14 47 (0.97%) Cisco
15 42 (0.86%) AppDynamics
15 42 (0.86%) OpenAI
16 38 (0.78%) Foundry
17 36 (0.74%) Denodo
18 34 (0.70%) CyberArk