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 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 14 18
Rank change year-on-year +1 +4 -7
Contract jobs citing DevOps 3,802 2,728 3,265
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.18% 10.57% 8.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.79% 11.77% 9.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,661 1,894 2,374
10th Percentile £381 £400 £413
25th Percentile £438 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +1.32% -5.42%
75th Percentile £614 £675 £675
90th Percentile £724 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 18 101
10th Percentile - £37.68 £46.18
25th Percentile £45.46 £57.97 £56.65
Median hourly rate £50.00 £70.97 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.55% +9.18% -0.76%
75th Percentile £76.25 £80.75 £76.53
90th Percentile £93.75 £82.78 £84.40
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £73.23 £65.00
% change year-on-year -28.30% +12.65% -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 29,729 23,178 33,190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.40% 89.84% 87.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,995 14,353 22,084
10th Percentile £310 £309 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £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 1,873 724 1,981
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £18.17 £21.20 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.37% - -
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.18 £73.65
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -4.41% -1.68%

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 16 February 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 16 February 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 16 February 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 1,905 £533 -11.25% 441
North of England +5 683 £500 -0.99% 310
South East 0 413 £525 -8.70% 343
Midlands +20 385 £509 +2.88% 140
Yorkshire +1 354 £500 - 100
West Midlands +18 306 £525 +5.00% 99
North West +4 281 £475 -5.00% 174
South West +11 248 £525 -12.50% 140
East of England +18 115 £575 +11.65% 55
East Midlands +12 79 £425 -10.53% 41
North East -3 51 £475 -9.52% 39
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
1 236 (6.21%) Confluence
2 85 (2.24%) Apache Spark
3 81 (2.13%) Apache
3 81 (2.13%) SharePoint
4 54 (1.42%) SAS
5 49 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
6 34 (0.89%) OpenStack
7 30 (0.79%) nginx
8 28 (0.74%) CMS
9 19 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
10 18 (0.47%) IIS
11 15 (0.39%) JBoss
12 12 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
12 12 (0.32%) WebLogic
13 11 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 10 (0.26%) HCL Notes
14 10 (0.26%) Mendix
15 9 (0.24%) WebSphere
16 8 (0.21%) GeoServer
16 8 (0.21%) Smallworld
Applications
1 92 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 36 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
4 27 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
5 19 (0.50%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.29%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.21%) Weka
8 4 (0.11%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 3 (0.079%) Trello
10 2 (0.053%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.026%) CPLEX
11 1 (0.026%) Maya
11 1 (0.026%) Revit
11 1 (0.026%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 61 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.29%) Endur
3 10 (0.26%) Maximo
3 10 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.21%) Aladdin
5 8 (0.21%) NEC Housing
6 5 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.13%) SAP ERP
6 5 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.079%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.079%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.079%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.079%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.079%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.079%) SAP FI/CO
8 3 (0.079%) VisionPLUS
8 3 (0.079%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,952 (51.34%) Azure
2 1,334 (35.09%) AWS
3 1,044 (27.46%) Azure DevOps
4 705 (18.54%) GitHub
5 581 (15.28%) GCP
6 426 (11.20%) Serverless
7 382 (10.05%) GitHub Actions
8 307 (8.07%) Power Platform
9 208 (5.47%) Amazon S3
10 204 (5.37%) AWS CloudFormation
11 203 (5.34%) AWS Lambda
12 186 (4.89%) Azure Data Factory
13 173 (4.55%) Azure AKS
14 167 (4.39%) OpenShift
15 163 (4.29%) Entra ID
16 153 (4.02%) Amazon EKS
17 150 (3.95%) Dynamics 365
18 145 (3.81%) Azure Monitor
19 144 (3.79%) SaaS
20 130 (3.42%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 181 (4.76%) Firewall
2 104 (2.74%) DNS
3 83 (2.18%) Network Security
4 80 (2.10%) VPN
5 53 (1.39%) TCP/IP
6 41 (1.08%) SSL
7 28 (0.74%) HTTP
8 27 (0.71%) HTTPS
9 20 (0.53%) WAN
10 16 (0.42%) DHCP
10 16 (0.42%) Kerberos
11 14 (0.37%) SD-WAN
12 13 (0.34%) BGP
13 12 (0.32%) MPLS
14 10 (0.26%) Internet
14 10 (0.26%) LAN
15 9 (0.24%) FTP
15 9 (0.24%) IPsec
15 9 (0.24%) Reverse Proxy
15 9 (0.24%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 215 (5.65%) PostgreSQL
2 201 (5.29%) Power BI
3 147 (3.87%) NoSQL
4 146 (3.84%) SQL Server
5 115 (3.02%) Data Lake
6 105 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
7 94 (2.47%) Relational Database
8 87 (2.29%) MongoDB
9 86 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
10 73 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
10 73 (1.92%) Oracle Database
11 69 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
12 57 (1.50%) DynamoDB
13 53 (1.39%) Redis
14 52 (1.37%) Delta Lake
15 50 (1.32%) MySQL
16 47 (1.24%) Tableau
17 45 (1.18%) Metadata
18 37 (0.97%) Amazon Athena
19 36 (0.95%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 656 (17.25%) Jenkins
2 512 (13.47%) Git
3 502 (13.20%) JIRA
4 484 (12.73%) GitLab
5 113 (2.97%) Selenium
6 85 (2.24%) JUnit
7 78 (2.05%) Postman
8 59 (1.55%) SonarQube
9 55 (1.45%) Bitbucket
9 55 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
10 49 (1.29%) Cucumber
11 47 (1.24%) Cypress.io
11 47 (1.24%) Maven
12 45 (1.18%) Artifactory
13 41 (1.08%) REST Assured
14 36 (0.95%) Gradle
14 36 (0.95%) Oracle APEX
15 35 (0.92%) Liquibase
16 34 (0.89%) JMeter
17 28 (0.74%) CircleCI
General
1 1,182 (31.09%) Social Skills
2 689 (18.12%) Finance
3 459 (12.07%) Public Sector
4 325 (8.55%) Analytical Skills
5 305 (8.02%) Banking
6 141 (3.71%) Documentation Skills
7 76 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
8 65 (1.71%) Financial Institution
9 56 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 56 (1.47%) Marketing
10 46 (1.21%) Retail
11 43 (1.13%) Front Office
12 42 (1.10%) Investment Banking
13 40 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
13 40 (1.05%) Telecoms
14 33 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
15 30 (0.79%) Military
16 26 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
17 25 (0.66%) Law
18 23 (0.60%) Legal
Job Titles
1 731 (19.23%) DevOps Engineer
2 623 (16.39%) Developer
3 524 (13.78%) Senior
4 402 (10.57%) Architect
5 298 (7.84%) Lead
6 239 (6.29%) Azure Engineer
7 206 (5.42%) Analyst
8 203 (5.34%) Data Engineer
9 198 (5.21%) AWS Engineer
10 151 (3.97%) AWS DevOps
11 150 (3.95%) Cloud Engineer
12 141 (3.71%) Software Engineer
13 136 (3.58%) Platform Engineer
14 132 (3.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 121 (3.18%) Solutions Architect
16 118 (3.10%) Business Analyst
17 116 (3.05%) Senior Developer
18 108 (2.84%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 107 (2.81%) Senior DevOps
20 101 (2.66%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 434 (11.42%) REST
2 303 (7.97%) .NET
3 246 (6.47%) React
4 242 (6.37%) Node.js
5 219 (5.76%) Kafka
6 211 (5.55%) Spring
7 196 (5.16%) RESTful
8 192 (5.05%) Spring Boot
9 153 (4.02%) JSON
10 125 (3.29%) AngularJS
11 124 (3.26%) YAML
12 121 (3.18%) OAuth
13 118 (3.10%) Elastic Stack
14 115 (3.02%) HTML
15 114 (3.00%) XML
16 112 (2.95%) SOAP
17 105 (2.76%) Playwright
18 99 (2.60%) Middleware
19 96 (2.52%) CSS
20 95 (2.50%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 550 (14.47%) Cloud Native
2 203 (5.34%) Product Ownership
3 138 (3.63%) Distributed Systems
4 107 (2.81%) Public Cloud
5 105 (2.76%) Onboarding
6 82 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
7 71 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
8 67 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
9 51 (1.34%) Management Information System
10 46 (1.21%) Private Cloud
11 45 (1.18%) Virtual Team
12 44 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
12 44 (1.16%) Security Posture
13 38 (1.00%) Mobile App
13 38 (1.00%) Replication
14 37 (0.97%) NHS
15 35 (0.92%) Data Centre
16 31 (0.82%) Data Structures
16 31 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
17 30 (0.79%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 426 (11.20%) Linux
2 209 (5.50%) Windows
3 83 (2.18%) Unix
4 50 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 44 (1.16%) VMS
6 40 (1.05%) Windows Server
7 27 (0.71%) Ubuntu
8 19 (0.50%) Windows 10
9 18 (0.47%) Android
10 17 (0.45%) Apple iOS
10 17 (0.45%) CentOS
11 9 (0.24%) Solaris
12 8 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
13 7 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
14 6 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
15 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.053%) Debian
16 2 (0.053%) zOS
17 1 (0.026%) Mac OS X
17 1 (0.026%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,185 (57.47%) CI/CD
2 1,481 (38.95%) Agile
3 986 (25.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 744 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
5 737 (19.38%) Containerisation
6 568 (14.94%) Test Automation
7 565 (14.86%) Microservices
8 456 (11.99%) Continuous Improvement
9 450 (11.84%) Analytics
10 442 (11.63%) Migration
11 412 (10.84%) Observability
12 404 (10.63%) AI
13 402 (10.57%) Scrum
14 375 (9.86%) Stakeholder Management
15 353 (9.28%) Software Engineering
16 318 (8.36%) Mentoring
17 303 (7.97%) Data Modelling
18 260 (6.84%) Business Intelligence
19 259 (6.81%) Platform Engineering
20 257 (6.76%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 1,156 (30.41%) Python
2 771 (20.28%) SQL
3 502 (13.20%) Java
4 356 (9.36%) C#
5 354 (9.31%) JavaScript
6 311 (8.18%) PowerShell
7 294 (7.73%) Bash
8 262 (6.89%) TypeScript
9 134 (3.52%) Go
10 128 (3.37%) Bicep
11 75 (1.97%) PL/SQL
12 58 (1.53%) Scala
13 46 (1.21%) Shell Script
14 41 (1.08%) Groovy
15 40 (1.05%) C++
16 39 (1.03%) T-SQL
17 38 (1.00%) Ruby
18 24 (0.63%) Rust
19 22 (0.58%) Perl
20 20 (0.53%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,200 (31.56%) Security Cleared
2 983 (25.85%) SC Cleared
3 336 (8.84%) Degree
4 182 (4.79%) Azure Certification
5 179 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 135 (3.55%) DV Cleared
7 114 (3.00%) AWS Certification
8 81 (2.13%) Master's Degree
9 80 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
10 66 (1.74%) CISSP
11 60 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
12 54 (1.42%) CISM
13 41 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 40 (1.05%) ISTQB
15 32 (0.84%) PMI Certification
16 29 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
17 26 (0.68%) PMP
18 23 (0.60%) IIBA
19 22 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
20 18 (0.47%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 332 (8.73%) QA
2 157 (4.13%) GDPR
3 136 (3.58%) Data Quality
4 122 (3.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 111 (2.92%) NIST
6 89 (2.34%) Accessibility
7 66 (1.74%) NCSC
8 30 (0.79%) PCI DSS
9 28 (0.74%) WCAG
10 25 (0.66%) SLA
11 23 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 22 (0.58%) HIPAA
13 19 (0.50%) PMO
14 17 (0.45%) SOC 2
15 16 (0.42%) ISO 20022
15 16 (0.42%) PSD2
16 14 (0.37%) SEPA
17 10 (0.26%) NIST 800
18 8 (0.21%) HL7
18 8 (0.21%) MiFID
System Software
1 933 (24.54%) Docker
2 154 (4.05%) Active Directory
3 73 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
4 67 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 39 (1.03%) vSphere
6 24 (0.63%) VMware NSX
7 15 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
8 13 (0.34%) Squid
9 11 (0.29%) Lustre
9 11 (0.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 9 (0.24%) DFS Replication
10 9 (0.24%) GPFS
10 9 (0.24%) Hyper-V
11 7 (0.18%) Firmware
11 7 (0.18%) Postfix
11 7 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
11 7 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
12 6 (0.16%) KVM
12 6 (0.16%) NFS
12 6 (0.16%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 1,170 (30.77%) Terraform
2 1,125 (29.59%) Kubernetes
3 446 (11.73%) Ansible
4 275 (7.23%) Grafana
5 241 (6.34%) Prometheus
6 85 (2.24%) Argo
7 69 (1.81%) Puppet
8 63 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
9 37 (0.97%) Istio
10 32 (0.84%) Kibana
11 28 (0.74%) Packer
11 28 (0.74%) Progress Chef
12 21 (0.55%) Podman
12 21 (0.55%) vCenter Server
13 18 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 16 (0.42%) Consul
15 15 (0.39%) FortiGate
15 15 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
16 14 (0.37%) Rancher
16 14 (0.37%) SCCM
Vendors
1 659 (17.33%) Microsoft
2 262 (6.89%) Oracle
3 231 (6.08%) Databricks
4 225 (5.92%) Google
5 199 (5.23%) Splunk
6 131 (3.45%) ServiceNow
7 125 (3.29%) Red Hat
8 115 (3.02%) VMware
9 101 (2.66%) Salesforce
10 92 (2.42%) SAP
11 68 (1.79%) OpenAI
12 55 (1.45%) Dynatrace
13 54 (1.42%) CyberArk
14 46 (1.21%) Atlassian
15 43 (1.13%) IBM
16 39 (1.03%) F5
17 33 (0.87%) Palo Alto
18 30 (0.79%) Foundry
19 29 (0.76%) Talend
20 27 (0.71%) MuleSoft