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

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 17
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 -5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,050 2,666 3,251
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.21% 10.58% 8.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.91% 11.69% 9.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,836 1,899 2,311
10th Percentile £381 £400 £413
25th Percentile £447 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £561
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +0.78% -6.56%
75th Percentile £614 £675 £665
90th Percentile £719 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 19 97
10th Percentile £43.68 £34.65 £48.70
25th Percentile £45.46 £57.82 £61.25
Median hourly rate £62.75 £74.44 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.70% +14.52% -0.76%
75th Percentile £76.94 £80.75 £71.90
90th Percentile £90.43 £88.50 £84.90
UK median hourly rate £63.50 £73.83 £65.00
% change year-on-year -13.99% +13.59% -0.76%

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 31,372 22,802 33,057
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.81% 90.52% 86.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,079 14,552 21,849
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.19% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,949 811 2,155
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £13.02
25th Percentile £18.59 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £29.61 £34.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.17% +6.15% -7.29%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.58
90th Percentile £74.26 £76.25 £71.82
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £32.50 £32.12
% change year-on-year -12.31% +1.20% -8.24%

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 8 March 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 8 March 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 8 March 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 2,041 £548 -6.41% 543
North of England +5 730 £500 -4.76% 333
South East -1 435 £525 -8.70% 360
Midlands +8 413 £500 +3.68% 144
Yorkshire +1 385 £500 -4.76% 95
West Midlands +13 332 £514 +4.80% 99
North West +5 293 £496 -5.52% 184
South West +14 266 £525 -12.50% 160
East of England +15 108 £600 +18.23% 81
East Midlands +6 80 £438 -7.89% 44
North East +1 57 £475 -9.52% 57
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
1 254 (6.27%) Confluence
2 97 (2.40%) Apache Spark
3 89 (2.20%) SharePoint
4 82 (2.02%) Apache
4 82 (2.02%) SAS
5 58 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
6 30 (0.74%) OpenStack
7 29 (0.72%) CMS
8 28 (0.69%) nginx
9 26 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
10 17 (0.42%) IIS
11 13 (0.32%) WebLogic
12 12 (0.30%) Mendix
12 12 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
13 11 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 11 (0.27%) HCL Notes
14 10 (0.25%) JBoss
15 8 (0.20%) Camunda
15 8 (0.20%) GeoServer
15 8 (0.20%) Smallworld
Applications
1 86 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 39 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
4 27 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
5 23 (0.57%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.30%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.20%) Weka
8 4 (0.099%) Trello
9 2 (0.049%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.025%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.025%) InDesign
10 1 (0.025%) Maya
10 1 (0.025%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 68 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.30%) Aladdin
4 11 (0.27%) Maximo
5 9 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
6 8 (0.20%) NEC Housing
7 7 (0.17%) Endur
8 6 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
8 6 (0.15%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 4 (0.099%) Oracle EBS
10 4 (0.099%) Payment Gateway
11 3 (0.074%) Salesforce CRM
11 3 (0.074%) SAP BPC
11 3 (0.074%) SAP CO
11 3 (0.074%) SAP FI
11 3 (0.074%) SAP FI/CO
11 3 (0.074%) Workday HCM
12 2 (0.049%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 2,073 (51.19%) Azure
2 1,398 (34.52%) AWS
3 1,127 (27.83%) Azure DevOps
4 738 (18.22%) GitHub
5 597 (14.74%) GCP
6 448 (11.06%) Serverless
7 394 (9.73%) GitHub Actions
8 335 (8.27%) Power Platform
9 212 (5.23%) Amazon S3
10 211 (5.21%) AWS CloudFormation
10 211 (5.21%) AWS Lambda
11 197 (4.86%) Azure Data Factory
12 196 (4.84%) Entra ID
13 181 (4.47%) OpenShift
14 180 (4.44%) Azure AKS
15 162 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
16 159 (3.93%) Azure Monitor
17 158 (3.90%) Dynamics 365
18 141 (3.48%) SaaS
19 134 (3.31%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 182 (4.49%) Firewall
2 98 (2.42%) DNS
3 76 (1.88%) Network Security
4 74 (1.83%) VPN
5 43 (1.06%) TCP/IP
6 22 (0.54%) HTTP
6 22 (0.54%) SSL
6 22 (0.54%) WAN
7 20 (0.49%) SD-WAN
8 18 (0.44%) DHCP
9 15 (0.37%) HTTPS
10 14 (0.35%) MPLS
11 13 (0.32%) BGP
11 13 (0.32%) SAN
12 12 (0.30%) Kerberos
13 11 (0.27%) Internet
13 11 (0.27%) Reverse Proxy
14 10 (0.25%) OpenVPN
15 9 (0.22%) 5G
15 9 (0.22%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 235 (5.80%) PostgreSQL
2 211 (5.21%) Power BI
3 166 (4.10%) SQL Server
4 158 (3.90%) NoSQL
5 126 (3.11%) Data Lake
6 105 (2.59%) Relational Database
7 99 (2.44%) MongoDB
8 98 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
9 95 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
10 82 (2.02%) Azure SQL Database
11 72 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
12 70 (1.73%) Oracle Database
13 66 (1.63%) DynamoDB
14 60 (1.48%) Delta Lake
15 55 (1.36%) Redis
16 51 (1.26%) Tableau
17 50 (1.23%) MySQL
18 49 (1.21%) Metadata
19 43 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
19 43 (1.06%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 681 (16.81%) Jenkins
2 545 (13.46%) Git
3 540 (13.33%) JIRA
4 483 (11.93%) GitLab
5 116 (2.86%) Selenium
6 93 (2.30%) JUnit
7 76 (1.88%) Postman
8 67 (1.65%) Bitbucket
9 59 (1.46%) SonarQube
10 55 (1.36%) Cucumber
11 47 (1.16%) Artifactory
12 45 (1.11%) Maven
13 43 (1.06%) Cypress.io
14 42 (1.04%) REST Assured
15 41 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
16 35 (0.86%) Oracle APEX
17 30 (0.74%) JMeter
18 29 (0.72%) Liquibase
19 28 (0.69%) CircleCI
20 27 (0.67%) Gradle
General
1 1,194 (29.48%) Social Skills
2 783 (19.33%) Finance
3 501 (12.37%) Public Sector
4 355 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
5 323 (7.98%) Banking
6 145 (3.58%) Documentation Skills
7 75 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
8 68 (1.68%) Financial Institution
9 52 (1.28%) Retail
10 51 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 50 (1.23%) Marketing
12 47 (1.16%) Front Office
13 43 (1.06%) Investment Banking
13 43 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
14 38 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
15 37 (0.91%) Telecoms
16 28 (0.69%) Legal
16 28 (0.69%) Military
16 28 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
17 25 (0.62%) Law
Job Titles
1 726 (17.93%) DevOps Engineer
2 660 (16.30%) Developer
3 549 (13.56%) Senior
4 437 (10.79%) Architect
5 341 (8.42%) Lead
6 246 (6.07%) Azure Engineer
7 237 (5.85%) Data Engineer
8 228 (5.63%) Analyst
9 201 (4.96%) AWS Engineer
10 162 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
11 156 (3.85%) AWS DevOps
12 148 (3.65%) Software Engineer
13 139 (3.43%) Platform Engineer
14 134 (3.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 129 (3.19%) Solutions Architect
16 122 (3.01%) Business Analyst
17 119 (2.94%) Senior Developer
18 110 (2.72%) Senior DevOps
19 105 (2.59%) Full-Stack Developer
20 104 (2.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 442 (10.91%) REST
2 332 (8.20%) .NET
3 265 (6.54%) Node.js
4 258 (6.37%) React
5 223 (5.51%) Kafka
6 216 (5.33%) Spring
7 195 (4.81%) RESTful
7 195 (4.81%) Spring Boot
8 153 (3.78%) AngularJS
9 147 (3.63%) JSON
10 130 (3.21%) YAML
11 129 (3.19%) HTML
12 116 (2.86%) OAuth
13 114 (2.81%) SOAP
14 113 (2.79%) Elastic Stack
14 113 (2.79%) Playwright
15 106 (2.62%) XML
16 105 (2.59%) PySpark
17 101 (2.49%) CSS
18 100 (2.47%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 591 (14.59%) Cloud Native
2 221 (5.46%) Product Ownership
3 140 (3.46%) Distributed Systems
4 113 (2.79%) Onboarding
5 105 (2.59%) Public Cloud
6 87 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
7 79 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
8 66 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
9 53 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
10 52 (1.28%) Management Information System
11 48 (1.19%) Security Posture
12 47 (1.16%) Virtual Team
13 43 (1.06%) Private Cloud
14 40 (0.99%) Data Centre
15 35 (0.86%) AI Agents
15 35 (0.86%) Data Structures
15 35 (0.86%) NHS
16 33 (0.81%) Mobile App
16 33 (0.81%) Replication
17 31 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 423 (10.44%) Linux
2 213 (5.26%) Windows
3 76 (1.88%) Unix
4 61 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 39 (0.96%) VMS
6 38 (0.94%) Windows Server
7 23 (0.57%) Ubuntu
8 18 (0.44%) CentOS
9 11 (0.27%) Android
10 10 (0.25%) Windows 10
11 9 (0.22%) Apple iOS
12 7 (0.17%) Solaris
12 7 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
13 6 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.099%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.049%) Debian
15 2 (0.049%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.049%) zOS
16 1 (0.025%) AIX
16 1 (0.025%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,306 (56.94%) CI/CD
2 1,582 (39.06%) Agile
3 1,007 (24.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 775 (19.14%) Problem-Solving
5 744 (18.37%) Containerisation
6 610 (15.06%) Test Automation
7 593 (14.64%) Microservices
8 522 (12.89%) Analytics
9 519 (12.81%) Continuous Improvement
10 473 (11.68%) Migration
11 461 (11.38%) Scrum
12 444 (10.96%) AI
13 440 (10.86%) Observability
14 432 (10.67%) Stakeholder Management
15 372 (9.19%) Software Engineering
16 363 (8.96%) Data Modelling
17 344 (8.49%) Mentoring
18 295 (7.28%) Data Pipeline
19 285 (7.04%) Business Intelligence
19 285 (7.04%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1,223 (30.20%) Python
2 862 (21.28%) SQL
3 523 (12.91%) Java
4 396 (9.78%) C#
5 382 (9.43%) JavaScript
6 326 (8.05%) PowerShell
7 305 (7.53%) Bash
8 273 (6.74%) TypeScript
9 131 (3.23%) Bicep
10 128 (3.16%) Go
11 79 (1.95%) PL/SQL
12 61 (1.51%) Scala
13 45 (1.11%) T-SQL
14 41 (1.01%) C++
14 41 (1.01%) Shell Script
15 39 (0.96%) Ruby
16 33 (0.81%) Groovy
17 26 (0.64%) Rust
18 23 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
19 22 (0.54%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 1,309 (32.32%) Security Cleared
2 1,066 (26.32%) SC Cleared
3 339 (8.37%) Degree
4 192 (4.74%) Azure Certification
5 178 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 142 (3.51%) DV Cleared
7 124 (3.06%) AWS Certification
8 89 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
9 76 (1.88%) Master's Degree
10 75 (1.85%) CISSP
11 57 (1.41%) CISM
12 53 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
13 44 (1.09%) ISTQB
14 43 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 36 (0.89%) PMI Certification
16 34 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
17 29 (0.72%) PMP
18 26 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 23 (0.57%) IIBA
20 22 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 351 (8.67%) QA
2 165 (4.07%) Data Quality
3 164 (4.05%) GDPR
4 122 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 113 (2.79%) NIST
6 88 (2.17%) Accessibility
7 68 (1.68%) NCSC
8 36 (0.89%) PCI DSS
9 31 (0.77%) WCAG
10 25 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 25 (0.62%) SLA
11 21 (0.52%) HIPAA
11 21 (0.52%) PMO
12 16 (0.40%) SOC 2
13 15 (0.37%) ISO 20022
14 13 (0.32%) PSD2
15 11 (0.27%) NIST 800
16 10 (0.25%) GRC
16 10 (0.25%) SEPA
17 8 (0.20%) HL7
System Software
1 940 (23.21%) Docker
2 164 (4.05%) Active Directory
3 74 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
4 70 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
5 41 (1.01%) vSphere
6 24 (0.59%) VMware NSX
7 14 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.27%) Lustre
8 11 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 9 (0.22%) GPFS
9 9 (0.22%) Squid
10 8 (0.20%) Hyper-V
11 7 (0.17%) Firmware
11 7 (0.17%) Postfix
11 7 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
12 6 (0.15%) HDFS
12 6 (0.15%) NFS
13 5 (0.12%) RACF
14 4 (0.099%) KVM
14 4 (0.099%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1,175 (29.01%) Terraform
2 1,147 (28.32%) Kubernetes
3 455 (11.23%) Ansible
4 278 (6.86%) Grafana
5 235 (5.80%) Prometheus
6 87 (2.15%) Argo
7 72 (1.78%) Puppet
8 56 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
9 48 (1.19%) Istio
10 32 (0.79%) Packer
11 30 (0.74%) Kibana
12 27 (0.67%) Progress Chef
13 23 (0.57%) vCenter Server
14 20 (0.49%) Podman
15 19 (0.47%) Rancher
16 18 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 17 (0.42%) Consul
17 17 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
18 16 (0.40%) FortiGate
19 14 (0.35%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 703 (17.36%) Microsoft
2 275 (6.79%) Oracle
3 246 (6.07%) Databricks
4 229 (5.65%) Google
5 190 (4.69%) Splunk
6 146 (3.60%) ServiceNow
7 134 (3.31%) Red Hat
8 118 (2.91%) VMware
9 103 (2.54%) Salesforce
10 94 (2.32%) SAP
11 71 (1.75%) OpenAI
12 62 (1.53%) Atlassian
13 56 (1.38%) CyberArk
14 54 (1.33%) Dynatrace
15 43 (1.06%) Talend
16 39 (0.96%) Denodo
17 36 (0.89%) IBM
18 33 (0.81%) Foundry
19 31 (0.77%) Cisco
20 27 (0.67%) MuleSoft