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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 16 15
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,776 2,740 3,531
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.65% 10.04% 9.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.46% 11.07% 11.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,302 1,974 2,414
10th Percentile £393 £363 £400
25th Percentile £447 £431 £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 £705 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £522 £550
% change year-on-year +0.57% -5.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 18 113
10th Percentile £38.25 £40.25 £56.50
25th Percentile £61.78 £51.69 £61.25
Median hourly rate £68.75 £66.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.38% -5.00% +6.87%
75th Percentile £77.88 £79.63 £77.50
90th Percentile £94.69 £89.88 £86.73
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +4.48% -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 38,320 24,760 31,431
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.46% 90.73% 85.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,128 15,919 20,389
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.81% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,389 1,284 2,227
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.33 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.08 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -5.96%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.81 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £72.20 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -4.70%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 13 July 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 2,457 £550 - 650
North of England +4 878 £500 +1.44% 324
Yorkshire +3 467 £500 - 82
South East -8 459 £525 +5.00% 282
Midlands 0 438 £498 +0.51% 145
West Midlands -3 347 £500 -0.25% 96
North West -2 334 £510 +7.37% 184
South West +14 306 £525 -4.55% 228
East of England +18 148 £525 +5.00% 71
North East +13 96 £425 -18.66% 59
East Midlands -1 86 £488 +6.21% 48
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
1 272 (5.70%) Confluence
2 125 (2.62%) Apache Spark
3 118 (2.47%) SharePoint
4 101 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
5 95 (1.99%) Apache
6 70 (1.47%) SAS
7 49 (1.03%) CMS
8 31 (0.65%) IIS
9 30 (0.63%) Jupyter
10 26 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
10 26 (0.54%) nginx
11 14 (0.29%) Camunda
11 14 (0.29%) OpenStack
11 14 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
11 14 (0.29%) WebSphere
12 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
13 9 (0.19%) Appian
13 9 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
14 7 (0.15%) Tomcat
15 6 (0.13%) Documentum
Applications
1 69 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
3 40 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 36 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
5 34 (0.71%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.21%) CPLEX
7 9 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.15%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.084%) Notion
10 3 (0.063%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.063%) Trello
11 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.021%) InDesign
11 1 (0.021%) Maya
11 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 64 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.21%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
4 9 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
5 8 (0.17%) Magento
6 7 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.13%) Endur
7 6 (0.13%) Maximo
8 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
8 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
8 5 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.084%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.063%) Findur
10 3 (0.063%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.063%) SAP BPC
10 3 (0.063%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.063%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2,527 (52.91%) Azure
2 1,675 (35.07%) AWS
3 1,404 (29.40%) Azure DevOps
4 771 (16.14%) GitHub
5 584 (12.23%) GCP
6 465 (9.74%) GitHub Actions
7 405 (8.48%) Serverless
8 403 (8.44%) Power Platform
9 265 (5.55%) Amazon S3
10 231 (4.84%) AWS Lambda
11 228 (4.77%) Entra ID
12 186 (3.89%) AWS CloudFormation
13 185 (3.87%) Azure AKS
14 170 (3.56%) Amazon EKS
15 166 (3.48%) Azure Data Factory
16 158 (3.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 158 (3.31%) Amazon EC2
17 153 (3.20%) Azure Monitor
18 149 (3.12%) OpenShift
19 144 (3.02%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 217 (4.54%) Firewall
2 126 (2.64%) DNS
3 103 (2.16%) Network Security
4 102 (2.14%) VPN
5 50 (1.05%) WAN
6 42 (0.88%) TCP/IP
7 37 (0.77%) SD-WAN
8 35 (0.73%) SSL
9 32 (0.67%) BGP
10 28 (0.59%) Internet
11 27 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
12 24 (0.50%) OSPF
13 22 (0.46%) HTTP
14 21 (0.44%) DHCP
15 18 (0.38%) LAN
16 17 (0.36%) MPLS
16 17 (0.36%) SAN
16 17 (0.36%) VXLAN
17 16 (0.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 16 (0.34%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 270 (5.65%) Power BI
2 249 (5.21%) SQL Server
3 226 (4.73%) PostgreSQL
4 162 (3.39%) NoSQL
5 158 (3.31%) Relational Database
6 147 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
7 138 (2.89%) Data Lake
8 136 (2.85%) MongoDB
9 100 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
10 86 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
11 83 (1.74%) Delta Lake
12 80 (1.68%) DynamoDB
13 79 (1.65%) Metadata
14 76 (1.59%) Oracle Database
15 58 (1.21%) Big Data
15 58 (1.21%) Redis
16 56 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
16 56 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
17 53 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
18 43 (0.90%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 673 (14.09%) Jenkins
2 618 (12.94%) Git
3 568 (11.89%) JIRA
4 490 (10.26%) GitLab
5 101 (2.11%) Selenium
6 93 (1.95%) Postman
7 85 (1.78%) JUnit
7 85 (1.78%) SonarQube
8 68 (1.42%) Maven
9 67 (1.40%) Bitbucket
10 65 (1.36%) REST Assured
11 52 (1.09%) Cucumber
12 51 (1.07%) JMeter
13 45 (0.94%) Gatling
14 42 (0.88%) Cypress.io
14 42 (0.88%) Gradle
15 37 (0.77%) Mockito
16 36 (0.75%) Artifactory
17 34 (0.71%) LoadRunner
18 33 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,213 (25.40%) Social Skills
2 918 (19.22%) Finance
3 631 (13.21%) Public Sector
4 419 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
5 327 (6.85%) Banking
6 126 (2.64%) Documentation Skills
7 102 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 81 (1.70%) Retail
9 69 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
10 54 (1.13%) Legal
10 54 (1.13%) Marketing
10 54 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
11 44 (0.92%) Military
12 42 (0.88%) Investment Banking
13 38 (0.80%) Financial Institution
14 37 (0.77%) Law
15 35 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
16 34 (0.71%) Front Office
17 29 (0.61%) Aerospace
18 27 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 921 (19.28%) DevOps Engineer
2 755 (15.81%) Developer
3 672 (14.07%) Senior
4 576 (12.06%) Architect
5 451 (9.44%) Lead
6 288 (6.03%) Data Engineer
7 287 (6.01%) Azure Engineer
8 260 (5.44%) Analyst
9 212 (4.44%) AWS Engineer
10 189 (3.96%) Platform Engineer
11 181 (3.79%) Cloud Engineer
12 178 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
13 165 (3.45%) Senior DevOps
14 156 (3.27%) AWS DevOps
14 156 (3.27%) Java Developer
15 151 (3.16%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 144 (3.02%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 143 (2.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 136 (2.85%) Business Analyst
19 135 (2.83%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 457 (9.57%) REST
2 410 (8.58%) .NET
3 278 (5.82%) Kafka
4 270 (5.65%) Spring
5 259 (5.42%) React
6 247 (5.17%) Spring Boot
7 242 (5.07%) RESTful
8 200 (4.19%) Node.js
9 144 (3.02%) AngularJS
10 140 (2.93%) PySpark
11 138 (2.89%) OAuth
12 134 (2.81%) Playwright
13 133 (2.78%) JSON
14 120 (2.51%) .NET Framework
15 119 (2.49%) SOAP
16 113 (2.37%) HTML
17 98 (2.05%) YAML
18 97 (2.03%) CSS
19 94 (1.97%) OAuth2
19 94 (1.97%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 853 (17.86%) Cloud Native
2 312 (6.53%) Product Ownership
3 211 (4.42%) Distributed Systems
4 144 (3.02%) Onboarding
5 129 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
6 125 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
7 105 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
8 78 (1.63%) Public Cloud
9 72 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
10 64 (1.34%) Management Information System
10 64 (1.34%) Security Posture
11 62 (1.30%) Data Centre
11 62 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
12 54 (1.13%) AI Agents
13 52 (1.09%) Mobile App
14 51 (1.07%) Data Structures
15 50 (1.05%) Replication
16 46 (0.96%) Virtual Team
17 43 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
18 35 (0.73%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 411 (8.61%) Linux
2 257 (5.38%) Windows
3 87 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 67 (1.40%) Unix
5 56 (1.17%) Windows Server
6 26 (0.54%) VMS
7 25 (0.52%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.48%) Apple iOS
9 15 (0.31%) Android
10 9 (0.19%) Solaris
10 9 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (0.15%) CentOS
12 6 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
12 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
12 6 (0.13%) zOS
13 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.084%) Alpine Linux
14 4 (0.084%) Data ONTAP
14 4 (0.084%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,743 (57.43%) CI/CD
2 1,847 (38.67%) Agile
3 1,268 (26.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 783 (16.39%) Containerisation
5 746 (15.62%) Problem-Solving
6 693 (14.51%) Continuous Improvement
7 690 (14.45%) Microservices
7 690 (14.45%) Test Automation
8 619 (12.96%) Stakeholder Management
9 611 (12.79%) AI
10 582 (12.19%) Observability
11 577 (12.08%) Scrum
12 573 (12.00%) Migration
13 533 (11.16%) Platform Engineering
13 533 (11.16%) Software Engineering
14 521 (10.91%) Analytics
15 416 (8.71%) Data Modelling
16 411 (8.61%) Technical Leadership
17 408 (8.54%) Roadmaps
18 403 (8.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,340 (28.06%) Python
2 903 (18.91%) SQL
3 676 (14.15%) Java
4 435 (9.11%) C#
5 362 (7.58%) Bash
6 354 (7.41%) JavaScript
7 350 (7.33%) PowerShell
8 257 (5.38%) TypeScript
9 162 (3.39%) Bicep
10 95 (1.99%) Go
11 65 (1.36%) Scala
12 57 (1.19%) PL/SQL
13 55 (1.15%) Shell Script
14 54 (1.13%) T-SQL
15 51 (1.07%) Apex Code
16 45 (0.94%) Groovy
17 29 (0.61%) C++
18 26 (0.54%) Kotlin
19 22 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 19 (0.40%) C
Qualifications
1 1,530 (32.04%) Security Cleared
2 1,275 (26.70%) SC Cleared
3 300 (6.28%) Degree
4 187 (3.92%) Azure Certification
5 169 (3.54%) DV Cleared
6 156 (3.27%) AWS Certification
7 127 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 115 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 73 (1.53%) CISSP
9 73 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
10 50 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
11 45 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 42 (0.88%) ISTQB
13 38 (0.80%) Master's Degree
13 38 (0.80%) PMP
14 36 (0.75%) PMI Certification
15 34 (0.71%) CISM
16 22 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
17 21 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 21 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 420 (8.79%) QA
2 220 (4.61%) Data Quality
3 148 (3.10%) Accessibility
4 145 (3.04%) GDPR
5 98 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 94 (1.97%) NIST
7 67 (1.40%) WCAG
8 61 (1.28%) NCSC
9 42 (0.88%) PCI DSS
10 34 (0.71%) PMO
11 31 (0.65%) SLA
12 25 (0.52%) GRC
13 23 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 16 (0.34%) HIPAA
15 13 (0.27%) SOC 2
16 11 (0.23%) ISO 20022
16 11 (0.23%) PSD2
17 10 (0.21%) SEPA
18 8 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
19 7 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 927 (19.41%) Docker
2 165 (3.45%) Active Directory
3 73 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
4 64 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 27 (0.57%) vSphere
6 22 (0.46%) VMware NSX
7 19 (0.40%) Squid
8 18 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
9 16 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
10 14 (0.29%) Hyper-V
10 14 (0.29%) Postfix
11 8 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
12 6 (0.13%) Corosync
12 6 (0.13%) IAG
12 6 (0.13%) KVM
12 6 (0.13%) RACF
13 5 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.10%) NFS
13 5 (0.10%) SRDF
14 4 (0.084%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,357 (28.41%) Terraform
2 1,219 (25.52%) Kubernetes
3 459 (9.61%) Ansible
4 315 (6.60%) Grafana
5 273 (5.72%) Prometheus
6 83 (1.74%) Argo
7 68 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
8 56 (1.17%) Puppet
9 35 (0.73%) Progress Chef
10 33 (0.69%) Istio
11 31 (0.65%) Packer
12 26 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
12 26 (0.54%) vCenter Server
13 21 (0.44%) Kibana
14 17 (0.36%) Consul
15 16 (0.34%) HP ALM
15 16 (0.34%) Kustomize
16 15 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 13 (0.27%) Kubeflow
18 12 (0.25%) Rancher
Vendors
1 856 (17.92%) Microsoft
2 259 (5.42%) Oracle
3 242 (5.07%) Databricks
4 213 (4.46%) Google
5 184 (3.85%) ServiceNow
6 172 (3.60%) Splunk
7 144 (3.02%) Salesforce
8 114 (2.39%) Dynatrace
9 110 (2.30%) SAP
10 101 (2.11%) Red Hat
11 98 (2.05%) VMware
12 56 (1.17%) OpenAI
13 55 (1.15%) IBM
14 49 (1.03%) Atlassian
15 47 (0.98%) Informatica
16 46 (0.96%) CyberArk
17 44 (0.92%) Foundry
18 36 (0.75%) Cisco
19 33 (0.69%) AppDynamics
19 33 (0.69%) Okta