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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 16 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,834 2,844 3,374
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.62% 10.30% 10.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.45% 11.36% 11.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,336 2,061 2,311
10th Percentile £385 £360 £400
25th Percentile £439 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 21 86
10th Percentile £29.23 £35.00 £58.75
25th Percentile £55.50 £51.25 £65.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -4.29% +7.28%
75th Percentile £75.00 £82.00 £76.88
90th Percentile £90.70 £92.50 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +0.75% -4.29% +7.28%

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 38,823 25,045 28,976
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.31% 90.74% 85.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,257 16,045 18,963
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £523 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.60% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,475 1,380 1,752
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.87 £17.80
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.03
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -40.16% -1.11%
75th Percentile £68.75 £51.65 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +2 2,501 £550 - 1,037
North of England +3 853 £500 +5.26% 365
Midlands +1 465 £488 +2.63% 176
South East -9 460 £525 +5.00% 332
Yorkshire +2 432 £500 +3.09% 113
West Midlands -2 380 £492 -1.60% 131
North West -3 334 £523 +10.11% 187
South West +13 319 £525 - 180
East of England +17 137 £509 +1.70% 66
North East +11 105 £425 -18.27% 67
East Midlands +1 80 £488 +7.26% 45
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
1 293 (6.06%) Confluence
2 125 (2.59%) SharePoint
3 121 (2.50%) Apache Spark
4 114 (2.36%) Apache Airflow
5 98 (2.03%) Apache
6 73 (1.51%) SAS
7 42 (0.87%) CMS
8 31 (0.64%) IIS
8 31 (0.64%) Jupyter
9 23 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
10 22 (0.46%) nginx
11 14 (0.29%) WebSphere
12 13 (0.27%) Camunda
13 12 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
14 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
15 9 (0.19%) Anypoint
15 9 (0.19%) Appian
16 8 (0.17%) OpenStack
17 7 (0.14%) Tomcat
17 7 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 60 (1.24%) Microsoft Project
2 54 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 33 (0.68%) MS Visio
4 30 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
5 25 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.21%) CPLEX
7 9 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
8 8 (0.17%) Chatbot
9 7 (0.14%) Trello
10 4 (0.083%) Notion
11 2 (0.041%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
12 1 (0.021%) InDesign
12 1 (0.021%) Maya
12 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 61 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.21%) Aladdin
3 10 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
4 9 (0.19%) Magento
4 9 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
5 8 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
5 8 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.12%) Maximo
7 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
7 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
7 5 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.083%) Endur
8 4 (0.083%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.083%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.062%) Findur
9 3 (0.062%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.062%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.062%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2,595 (53.68%) Azure
2 1,678 (34.71%) AWS
3 1,492 (30.86%) Azure DevOps
4 800 (16.55%) GitHub
5 600 (12.41%) GCP
6 498 (10.30%) GitHub Actions
7 411 (8.50%) Power Platform
8 385 (7.96%) Serverless
9 250 (5.17%) Amazon S3
10 234 (4.84%) Entra ID
11 220 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
12 198 (4.10%) Azure AKS
13 183 (3.79%) AWS CloudFormation
14 178 (3.68%) Amazon EKS
15 174 (3.60%) Azure Data Factory
16 170 (3.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 166 (3.43%) Azure Monitor
18 150 (3.10%) Amazon EC2
19 149 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
20 147 (3.04%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 228 (4.72%) Firewall
2 138 (2.85%) DNS
3 114 (2.36%) VPN
4 104 (2.15%) Network Security
5 54 (1.12%) TCP/IP
6 49 (1.01%) WAN
7 42 (0.87%) SSL
8 36 (0.74%) SD-WAN
9 32 (0.66%) DHCP
10 31 (0.64%) BGP
10 31 (0.64%) Internet
11 28 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
12 25 (0.52%) OSPF
13 21 (0.43%) HTTP
14 19 (0.39%) VLAN
15 18 (0.37%) SAN
15 18 (0.37%) VXLAN
16 17 (0.35%) MPLS
17 16 (0.33%) BIG-IP
17 16 (0.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 288 (5.96%) Power BI
2 257 (5.32%) SQL Server
3 230 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
4 167 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
5 165 (3.41%) NoSQL
6 152 (3.14%) Relational Database
7 142 (2.94%) Data Lake
8 141 (2.92%) MongoDB
9 94 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
10 90 (1.86%) Azure SQL Database
11 89 (1.84%) Metadata
12 83 (1.72%) Delta Lake
13 82 (1.70%) DynamoDB
14 74 (1.53%) Oracle Database
15 59 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
16 58 (1.20%) Big Data
16 58 (1.20%) Redis
17 50 (1.03%) MySQL
18 47 (0.97%) Amazon Athena
18 47 (0.97%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 677 (14.00%) Jenkins
2 633 (13.09%) Git
3 575 (11.89%) JIRA
4 493 (10.20%) GitLab
5 109 (2.25%) Selenium
6 89 (1.84%) SonarQube
7 84 (1.74%) Postman
8 83 (1.72%) JUnit
9 74 (1.53%) Bitbucket
10 70 (1.45%) Maven
11 59 (1.22%) REST Assured
12 55 (1.14%) JMeter
13 54 (1.12%) Cypress.io
14 53 (1.10%) Cucumber
15 44 (0.91%) Gatling
16 41 (0.85%) Mockito
17 40 (0.83%) Gradle
18 38 (0.79%) LoadRunner
19 34 (0.70%) Artifactory
20 32 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,212 (25.07%) Social Skills
2 910 (18.82%) Finance
3 662 (13.69%) Public Sector
4 444 (9.18%) Analytical Skills
5 335 (6.93%) Banking
6 121 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 97 (2.01%) Retail
8 94 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
9 64 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
10 59 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
11 56 (1.16%) Legal
11 56 (1.16%) Marketing
12 46 (0.95%) Investment Banking
13 44 (0.91%) Military
14 40 (0.83%) Financial Institution
14 40 (0.83%) Law
15 38 (0.79%) Front Office
16 36 (0.74%) Aerospace
16 36 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
16 36 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 899 (18.60%) DevOps Engineer
2 774 (16.01%) Developer
3 701 (14.50%) Senior
4 555 (11.48%) Architect
5 484 (10.01%) Lead
6 292 (6.04%) Azure Engineer
7 287 (5.94%) Data Engineer
8 251 (5.19%) Analyst
9 210 (4.34%) AWS Engineer
10 199 (4.12%) Platform Engineer
11 180 (3.72%) Cloud Engineer
12 171 (3.54%) Senior DevOps
13 170 (3.52%) Solutions Architect
14 157 (3.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 153 (3.17%) Java Developer
16 151 (3.12%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 146 (3.02%) AWS DevOps
18 137 (2.83%) Software Engineer
19 132 (2.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
20 129 (2.67%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 482 (9.97%) REST
2 423 (8.75%) .NET
3 284 (5.88%) Kafka
4 255 (5.28%) RESTful
5 248 (5.13%) Spring
6 247 (5.11%) React
7 228 (4.72%) Spring Boot
8 181 (3.74%) Node.js
9 148 (3.06%) JSON
9 148 (3.06%) PySpark
10 141 (2.92%) OAuth
11 138 (2.85%) AngularJS
12 133 (2.75%) Playwright
13 130 (2.69%) SOAP
14 127 (2.63%) .NET Framework
15 107 (2.21%) HTML
16 100 (2.07%) YAML
17 97 (2.01%) OAuth2
18 92 (1.90%) CSS
19 90 (1.86%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 861 (17.81%) Cloud Native
2 338 (6.99%) Product Ownership
3 230 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 143 (2.96%) Onboarding
5 136 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
6 134 (2.77%) Enterprise Software
7 120 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
8 76 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
9 72 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
10 69 (1.43%) Management Information System
11 68 (1.41%) Public Cloud
12 64 (1.32%) AI Agents
12 64 (1.32%) Data Structures
13 63 (1.30%) Security Posture
14 62 (1.28%) Data Centre
15 52 (1.08%) Replication
16 49 (1.01%) Virtual Team
17 48 (0.99%) Mobile App
18 39 (0.81%) PKI
19 37 (0.77%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 424 (8.77%) Linux
2 261 (5.40%) Windows
3 95 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 73 (1.51%) Unix
5 68 (1.41%) Windows Server
6 28 (0.58%) Ubuntu
7 25 (0.52%) Apple iOS
8 24 (0.50%) VMS
9 17 (0.35%) Android
10 9 (0.19%) Solaris
10 9 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.17%) zOS
12 7 (0.14%) AIX
12 7 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
12 7 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
13 6 (0.12%) CentOS
13 6 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
14 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
15 4 (0.083%) Alpine Linux
15 4 (0.083%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,791 (57.74%) CI/CD
2 1,940 (40.13%) Agile
3 1,293 (26.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 777 (16.07%) Containerisation
5 769 (15.91%) Continuous Improvement
6 757 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
7 730 (15.10%) Test Automation
8 698 (14.44%) Microservices
9 688 (14.23%) Stakeholder Management
10 679 (14.05%) AI
11 616 (12.74%) Observability
12 611 (12.64%) Scrum
13 586 (12.12%) Software Engineering
14 575 (11.89%) Migration
15 573 (11.85%) Platform Engineering
16 544 (11.25%) Analytics
17 449 (9.29%) Technical Leadership
18 436 (9.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 434 (8.98%) Data Modelling
20 417 (8.63%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,375 (28.44%) Python
2 912 (18.87%) SQL
3 683 (14.13%) Java
4 441 (9.12%) C#
5 396 (8.19%) Bash
6 389 (8.05%) PowerShell
7 378 (7.82%) JavaScript
8 262 (5.42%) TypeScript
9 186 (3.85%) Bicep
10 90 (1.86%) Go
11 57 (1.18%) PL/SQL
11 57 (1.18%) T-SQL
12 54 (1.12%) Shell Script
13 51 (1.06%) Apex Code
14 49 (1.01%) Groovy
14 49 (1.01%) Scala
15 31 (0.64%) C++
16 27 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 26 (0.54%) Kotlin
18 24 (0.50%) C
Qualifications
1 1,535 (31.75%) Security Cleared
2 1,279 (26.46%) SC Cleared
3 298 (6.16%) Degree
4 198 (4.10%) Azure Certification
5 184 (3.81%) DV Cleared
6 163 (3.37%) AWS Certification
7 129 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 108 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
9 81 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
10 72 (1.49%) CISSP
11 51 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
12 47 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 46 (0.95%) ISTQB
14 39 (0.81%) PMP
15 34 (0.70%) PMI Certification
16 32 (0.66%) Master's Degree
17 30 (0.62%) CISM
18 23 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 23 (0.48%) CCNP
19 22 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 453 (9.37%) QA
2 238 (4.92%) Data Quality
3 154 (3.19%) Accessibility
4 135 (2.79%) GDPR
5 80 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 74 (1.53%) NIST
7 73 (1.51%) WCAG
8 45 (0.93%) NCSC
9 42 (0.87%) PMO
10 38 (0.79%) PCI DSS
11 29 (0.60%) SLA
12 26 (0.54%) GRC
13 23 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 10 (0.21%) HIPAA
15 9 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
15 9 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
16 8 (0.17%) ISO 20022
16 8 (0.17%) PSD2
16 8 (0.17%) SOC 2
17 7 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 938 (19.40%) Docker
2 169 (3.50%) Active Directory
3 76 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
4 68 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 26 (0.54%) vSphere
6 22 (0.46%) VMware NSX
7 19 (0.39%) Hyper-V
8 17 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
9 14 (0.29%) Postfix
9 14 (0.29%) Squid
10 13 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
11 10 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
12 8 (0.17%) KVM
13 7 (0.14%) IAG
14 6 (0.12%) Corosync
15 5 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
15 5 (0.10%) NFS
15 5 (0.10%) RACF
15 5 (0.10%) SRDF
16 4 (0.083%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1,369 (28.32%) Terraform
2 1,218 (25.20%) Kubernetes
3 470 (9.72%) Ansible
4 313 (6.47%) Grafana
5 262 (5.42%) Prometheus
6 81 (1.68%) Argo
7 57 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
8 56 (1.16%) Puppet
9 40 (0.83%) Progress Chef
10 34 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
11 30 (0.62%) Packer
12 29 (0.60%) Istio
13 24 (0.50%) vCenter Server
14 17 (0.35%) SCCM
15 15 (0.31%) Kibana
15 15 (0.31%) Kustomize
16 14 (0.29%) Kubeflow
17 13 (0.27%) HP ALM
17 13 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
18 12 (0.25%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 902 (18.66%) Microsoft
2 253 (5.23%) Oracle
3 245 (5.07%) Databricks
4 229 (4.74%) Google
5 191 (3.95%) ServiceNow
6 159 (3.29%) Splunk
7 152 (3.14%) Salesforce
8 127 (2.63%) Dynatrace
9 111 (2.30%) SAP
10 101 (2.09%) Red Hat
11 99 (2.05%) VMware
12 60 (1.24%) IBM
13 53 (1.10%) Atlassian
14 48 (0.99%) Informatica
15 46 (0.95%) OpenAI
16 44 (0.91%) Cisco
17 40 (0.83%) AppDynamics
18 35 (0.72%) Foundry
19 32 (0.66%) MuleSoft
20 31 (0.64%) Denodo