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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 16 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,574 2,516 3,569
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.59% 10.10% 9.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.42% 11.05% 11.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,204 1,821 2,452
10th Percentile £390 £375 £400
25th Percentile £440 £441 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £703 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -5.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 11 118
10th Percentile £39.53 £35.00 £56.50
25th Percentile £61.75 £51.25 £61.60
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £66.50
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +1.36%
75th Percentile £77.50 £85.86 £74.86
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 £86.05
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £76.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year -7.89% +12.59% +2.89%

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 36,836 22,759 32,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.26% 91.40% 85.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,282 14,723 20,802
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +2.19% -4.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,303 1,078 2,398
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.10 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £27.40 £37.63
Median % change year-on-year +73.36% -27.18% +4.81%
75th Percentile £68.75 £56.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +72.39% -32.00% +7.05%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +4 2,341 £550 - 382
North of England +7 849 £500 - 248
Yorkshire +2 458 £513 +2.50% 71
South East -4 453 £511 +2.25% 267
Midlands 0 430 £488 -2.50% 102
West Midlands -1 340 £500 -3.24% 60
North West +2 318 £500 +1.63% 141
South West +13 289 £510 -7.27% 97
East of England +19 135 £525 +7.69% 63
North East +7 91 £450 -14.29% 38
East Midlands -1 86 £468 +2.86% 42
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
1 273 (5.97%) Confluence
2 126 (2.75%) Apache Spark
3 112 (2.45%) SharePoint
4 97 (2.12%) Apache Airflow
5 91 (1.99%) Apache
6 76 (1.66%) SAS
7 48 (1.05%) CMS
8 28 (0.61%) IIS
8 28 (0.61%) Jupyter
8 28 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
9 26 (0.57%) nginx
10 16 (0.35%) Camunda
10 16 (0.35%) OpenStack
11 13 (0.28%) WebSphere
12 12 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
13 10 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
14 9 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
15 7 (0.15%) Mendix
15 7 (0.15%) Tomcat
16 6 (0.13%) Mattermost
Applications
1 70 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
3 47 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
5 27 (0.59%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.22%) CPLEX
7 7 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.087%) Notion
9 3 (0.066%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.066%) Trello
10 2 (0.044%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.022%) InDesign
11 1 (0.022%) Maya
11 1 (0.022%) Weka
Business Applications
1 60 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
4 10 (0.22%) Maximo
5 9 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
6 8 (0.17%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
7 6 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.11%) Endur
8 5 (0.11%) Magento
8 5 (0.11%) OpenText MBPM
8 5 (0.11%) Oracle BPM
8 5 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.087%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.066%) Findur
10 3 (0.066%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.066%) SAP BPC
10 3 (0.066%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.066%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.066%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 2,415 (52.80%) Azure
2 1,586 (34.67%) AWS
3 1,334 (29.16%) Azure DevOps
4 731 (15.98%) GitHub
5 553 (12.09%) GCP
6 433 (9.47%) GitHub Actions
7 408 (8.92%) Serverless
8 389 (8.50%) Power Platform
9 259 (5.66%) Amazon S3
10 228 (4.98%) AWS Lambda
11 224 (4.90%) Entra ID
12 184 (4.02%) Azure AKS
13 183 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
14 169 (3.69%) Azure Data Factory
15 165 (3.61%) Amazon EKS
16 154 (3.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 150 (3.28%) Amazon EC2
18 142 (3.10%) OpenShift
19 139 (3.04%) PaaS
20 138 (3.02%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 222 (4.85%) Firewall
2 121 (2.65%) DNS
3 103 (2.25%) Network Security
4 99 (2.16%) VPN
5 48 (1.05%) WAN
6 42 (0.92%) TCP/IP
7 36 (0.79%) SD-WAN
8 32 (0.70%) BGP
9 28 (0.61%) SSL
10 27 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
11 24 (0.52%) OSPF
12 22 (0.48%) Internet
13 20 (0.44%) DHCP
14 18 (0.39%) HTTP
15 17 (0.37%) IPsec
15 17 (0.37%) LAN
15 17 (0.37%) MPLS
15 17 (0.37%) SAN
15 17 (0.37%) VXLAN
16 16 (0.35%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 258 (5.64%) Power BI
2 225 (4.92%) SQL Server
3 215 (4.70%) PostgreSQL
4 164 (3.59%) NoSQL
5 152 (3.32%) Relational Database
6 145 (3.17%) Data Lake
7 136 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
8 130 (2.84%) MongoDB
9 101 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
10 87 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
11 80 (1.75%) Delta Lake
12 78 (1.71%) DynamoDB
13 74 (1.62%) Metadata
14 70 (1.53%) Oracle Database
15 60 (1.31%) Redis
16 57 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
17 56 (1.22%) Big Data
17 56 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
18 55 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
19 43 (0.94%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 631 (13.80%) Jenkins
2 578 (12.64%) Git
3 549 (12.00%) JIRA
4 482 (10.54%) GitLab
5 90 (1.97%) Selenium
6 84 (1.84%) Postman
7 81 (1.77%) SonarQube
8 79 (1.73%) JUnit
9 65 (1.42%) Bitbucket
10 62 (1.36%) Maven
11 58 (1.27%) REST Assured
12 49 (1.07%) Cucumber
13 47 (1.03%) JMeter
14 41 (0.90%) Gatling
15 40 (0.87%) Gradle
16 38 (0.83%) Artifactory
17 37 (0.81%) Cypress.io
18 36 (0.79%) Mockito
19 30 (0.66%) LoadRunner
19 30 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,169 (25.56%) Social Skills
2 886 (19.37%) Finance
3 600 (13.12%) Public Sector
4 384 (8.40%) Analytical Skills
5 321 (7.02%) Banking
6 130 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
7 94 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 72 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
9 68 (1.49%) Retail
10 54 (1.18%) Marketing
11 53 (1.16%) Legal
12 50 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
13 45 (0.98%) Military
14 43 (0.94%) Financial Institution
15 38 (0.83%) Investment Banking
16 37 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
17 32 (0.70%) Law
18 30 (0.66%) Front Office
19 26 (0.57%) Aerospace
20 25 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 897 (19.61%) DevOps Engineer
2 677 (14.80%) Developer
3 647 (14.15%) Senior
4 568 (12.42%) Architect
5 421 (9.20%) Lead
6 291 (6.36%) Azure Engineer
7 284 (6.21%) Data Engineer
8 268 (5.86%) Analyst
9 204 (4.46%) AWS Engineer
10 176 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
11 174 (3.80%) Solutions Architect
12 166 (3.63%) Platform Engineer
13 153 (3.34%) Senior DevOps
14 146 (3.19%) AWS DevOps
15 145 (3.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 143 (3.13%) Business Analyst
17 139 (3.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 137 (3.00%) Java Developer
19 136 (2.97%) Software Engineer
20 134 (2.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 418 (9.14%) REST
2 377 (8.24%) .NET
3 259 (5.66%) Kafka
4 255 (5.57%) Spring
5 252 (5.51%) React
6 241 (5.27%) Spring Boot
7 219 (4.79%) RESTful
8 191 (4.18%) Node.js
9 144 (3.15%) AngularJS
10 136 (2.97%) PySpark
11 127 (2.78%) OAuth
12 121 (2.65%) JSON
13 118 (2.58%) Playwright
14 114 (2.49%) YAML
15 110 (2.40%) .NET Framework
16 108 (2.36%) SOAP
17 103 (2.25%) HTML
18 95 (2.08%) OpenID
19 94 (2.06%) Middleware
20 89 (1.95%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 800 (17.49%) Cloud Native
2 301 (6.58%) Product Ownership
3 201 (4.39%) Distributed Systems
4 130 (2.84%) Onboarding
5 114 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
6 109 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
7 101 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
8 81 (1.77%) Public Cloud
9 69 (1.51%) Data Centre
10 67 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
11 62 (1.36%) Management Information System
12 55 (1.20%) Security Posture
12 55 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
13 50 (1.09%) Mobile App
14 49 (1.07%) Data Structures
15 48 (1.05%) AI Agents
16 42 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
17 41 (0.90%) Virtual Team
18 40 (0.87%) Replication
19 36 (0.79%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 391 (8.55%) Linux
2 242 (5.29%) Windows
3 91 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 67 (1.46%) Unix
5 48 (1.05%) Windows Server
6 31 (0.68%) VMS
7 28 (0.61%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.50%) Apple iOS
9 15 (0.33%) Android
10 14 (0.31%) CentOS
11 9 (0.20%) Solaris
11 9 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
13 5 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
13 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.087%) Alpine Linux
14 4 (0.087%) Data ONTAP
14 4 (0.087%) Mac OS
14 4 (0.087%) Windows 10
15 3 (0.066%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,602 (56.89%) CI/CD
2 1,726 (37.74%) Agile
3 1,192 (26.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 709 (15.50%) Containerisation
5 704 (15.39%) Problem-Solving
6 660 (14.43%) Microservices
7 639 (13.97%) Continuous Improvement
8 634 (13.86%) Test Automation
9 585 (12.79%) Stakeholder Management
10 561 (12.26%) AI
11 557 (12.18%) Migration
12 543 (11.87%) Analytics
13 542 (11.85%) Observability
14 530 (11.59%) Scrum
15 485 (10.60%) Software Engineering
16 465 (10.17%) Platform Engineering
17 421 (9.20%) Data Modelling
18 391 (8.55%) Roadmaps
19 385 (8.42%) Technical Leadership
20 374 (8.18%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1,276 (27.90%) Python
2 889 (19.44%) SQL
3 634 (13.86%) Java
4 419 (9.16%) C#
5 324 (7.08%) Bash
6 323 (7.06%) JavaScript
7 322 (7.04%) PowerShell
8 225 (4.92%) TypeScript
9 152 (3.32%) Bicep
10 89 (1.95%) Go
11 60 (1.31%) Scala
12 53 (1.16%) Shell Script
13 49 (1.07%) Apex Code
14 48 (1.05%) T-SQL
15 46 (1.01%) PL/SQL
16 39 (0.85%) Groovy
17 25 (0.55%) C++
17 25 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 22 (0.48%) Kotlin
18 22 (0.48%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,464 (32.01%) Security Cleared
2 1,218 (26.63%) SC Cleared
3 293 (6.41%) Degree
4 191 (4.18%) Azure Certification
5 153 (3.34%) DV Cleared
6 149 (3.26%) AWS Certification
7 116 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 108 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
9 77 (1.68%) CISSP
10 66 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
11 45 (0.98%) ISTQB
12 44 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
13 43 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 42 (0.92%) CISM
15 39 (0.85%) Master's Degree
16 38 (0.83%) PMI Certification
16 38 (0.83%) PMP
17 23 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
18 21 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 21 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 391 (8.55%) QA
2 223 (4.88%) Data Quality
3 157 (3.43%) GDPR
4 129 (2.82%) Accessibility
5 116 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 111 (2.43%) NIST
7 65 (1.42%) NCSC
8 61 (1.33%) WCAG
9 48 (1.05%) PCI DSS
10 38 (0.83%) SLA
11 29 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 24 (0.52%) GRC
12 24 (0.52%) PMO
13 16 (0.35%) HIPAA
14 13 (0.28%) SOC 2
15 11 (0.24%) ISO 20022
15 11 (0.24%) NIST 800
15 11 (0.24%) PSD2
16 10 (0.22%) SEPA
17 7 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 867 (18.95%) Docker
2 169 (3.69%) Active Directory
3 69 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
4 63 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 28 (0.61%) vSphere
6 22 (0.48%) VMware NSX
7 17 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
8 16 (0.35%) Squid
9 14 (0.31%) Hyper-V
9 14 (0.31%) Postfix
10 7 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
10 7 (0.15%) RACF
11 6 (0.13%) Corosync
11 6 (0.13%) Firmware
11 6 (0.13%) KVM
12 5 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
12 5 (0.11%) SRDF
13 4 (0.087%) HDFS
13 4 (0.087%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,288 (28.16%) Terraform
2 1,130 (24.70%) Kubernetes
3 461 (10.08%) Ansible
4 296 (6.47%) Grafana
5 256 (5.60%) Prometheus
6 75 (1.64%) Argo
7 71 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
8 63 (1.38%) Puppet
9 36 (0.79%) Istio
10 30 (0.66%) Progress Chef
11 29 (0.63%) Packer
12 26 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
13 25 (0.55%) vCenter Server
14 21 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 18 (0.39%) Kibana
16 16 (0.35%) Consul
17 15 (0.33%) HP ALM
18 14 (0.31%) Kustomize
19 13 (0.28%) FortiGate
20 12 (0.26%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 815 (17.82%) Microsoft
2 241 (5.27%) Databricks
3 234 (5.12%) Oracle
4 209 (4.57%) Google
5 172 (3.76%) ServiceNow
6 162 (3.54%) Splunk
7 144 (3.15%) Salesforce
8 123 (2.69%) Red Hat
9 106 (2.32%) SAP
10 102 (2.23%) Dynatrace
11 98 (2.14%) VMware
12 61 (1.33%) OpenAI
13 52 (1.14%) Atlassian
13 52 (1.14%) IBM
14 45 (0.98%) CyberArk
15 43 (0.94%) Informatica
16 37 (0.81%) Foundry
17 35 (0.77%) Cisco
18 34 (0.74%) AppDynamics
19 32 (0.70%) Okta