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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 16 15
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,772 2,767 3,465
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.63% 10.12% 9.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.46% 11.16% 11.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,285 1,995 2,377
10th Percentile £388 £363 £400
25th Percentile £440 £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 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 20 96
10th Percentile £35.90 £41.75 £56.58
25th Percentile £61.00 £52.56 £61.60
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.75% -4.29% +6.87%
75th Percentile £78.00 £82.24 £77.81
90th Percentile £94.75 £92.75 £86.55
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 38,297 24,783 30,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.34% 90.63% 85.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,016 15,884 19,726
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £634 £645
90th Percentile £737 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,362 1,330 1,950
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.29 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.99 £17.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.43%
75th Percentile £69.75 £53.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.23 £71.46 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £39.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -36.33% -7.06%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +2 2,449 £550 - 752
North of England +4 865 £500 +3.09% 313
South East -10 460 £525 +5.00% 280
Midlands +3 447 £488 +2.63% 159
Yorkshire +2 444 £500 +1.44% 86
West Midlands -1 359 £492 -1.57% 112
North West -1 340 £524 +10.32% 168
South West +15 318 £500 -5.21% 120
East of England +18 140 £510 +2.00% 64
North East +11 100 £425 -18.66% 61
East Midlands -3 83 £488 +5.41% 47
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
1 289 (6.06%) Confluence
2 120 (2.51%) SharePoint
3 119 (2.49%) Apache Spark
4 104 (2.18%) Apache Airflow
5 94 (1.97%) Apache
6 67 (1.40%) SAS
7 43 (0.90%) CMS
8 31 (0.65%) Jupyter
9 30 (0.63%) IIS
10 24 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
11 23 (0.48%) nginx
12 14 (0.29%) WebSphere
13 13 (0.27%) Camunda
14 12 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
15 11 (0.23%) OpenStack
15 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
16 9 (0.19%) Appian
17 7 (0.15%) Tomcat
17 7 (0.15%) WebLogic
18 6 (0.13%) Documentum
Applications
1 61 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
2 59 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 33 (0.69%) MS Visio
4 32 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
4 32 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.21%) CPLEX
6 9 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.13%) Trello
9 4 (0.084%) Notion
10 2 (0.042%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.021%) InDesign
11 1 (0.021%) Maya
11 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 59 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.21%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.19%) Magento
4 9 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
4 9 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
5 8 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.13%) Maximo
6 6 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
7 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
7 5 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.084%) Endur
8 4 (0.084%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.084%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.063%) Findur
9 3 (0.063%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.063%) Shopify
9 3 (0.063%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2,531 (53.04%) Azure
2 1,664 (34.87%) AWS
3 1,431 (29.99%) Azure DevOps
4 770 (16.14%) GitHub
5 581 (12.18%) GCP
6 471 (9.87%) GitHub Actions
7 394 (8.26%) Power Platform
8 386 (8.09%) Serverless
9 253 (5.30%) Amazon S3
10 230 (4.82%) Entra ID
11 226 (4.74%) AWS Lambda
12 191 (4.00%) Azure AKS
13 182 (3.81%) AWS CloudFormation
14 174 (3.65%) Amazon EKS
15 164 (3.44%) Azure Monitor
16 162 (3.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 162 (3.39%) Azure Data Factory
17 152 (3.19%) Amazon EC2
18 142 (2.98%) OpenShift
19 141 (2.95%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 220 (4.61%) Firewall
2 133 (2.79%) DNS
3 109 (2.28%) VPN
4 107 (2.24%) Network Security
5 54 (1.13%) TCP/IP
6 48 (1.01%) WAN
7 37 (0.78%) SD-WAN
7 37 (0.78%) SSL
8 31 (0.65%) BGP
9 30 (0.63%) DHCP
9 30 (0.63%) Internet
10 27 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
11 25 (0.52%) OSPF
12 21 (0.44%) HTTP
13 18 (0.38%) SAN
13 18 (0.38%) VXLAN
14 17 (0.36%) MPLS
14 17 (0.36%) VLAN
15 16 (0.34%) BIG-IP
15 16 (0.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 270 (5.66%) Power BI
2 246 (5.16%) SQL Server
3 229 (4.80%) PostgreSQL
4 161 (3.37%) NoSQL
5 154 (3.23%) Relational Database
6 148 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
7 142 (2.98%) MongoDB
8 139 (2.91%) Data Lake
9 100 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
10 85 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
10 85 (1.78%) DynamoDB
11 83 (1.74%) Metadata
12 77 (1.61%) Delta Lake
12 77 (1.61%) Oracle Database
13 59 (1.24%) Big Data
14 58 (1.22%) Redis
15 54 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
16 49 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
17 46 (0.96%) MySQL
18 45 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 664 (13.91%) Jenkins
2 622 (13.03%) Git
3 570 (11.94%) JIRA
4 482 (10.10%) GitLab
5 105 (2.20%) Selenium
6 85 (1.78%) JUnit
7 84 (1.76%) SonarQube
8 83 (1.74%) Postman
9 69 (1.45%) Maven
10 68 (1.42%) Bitbucket
11 60 (1.26%) REST Assured
12 51 (1.07%) Cucumber
13 48 (1.01%) Cypress.io
13 48 (1.01%) JMeter
14 43 (0.90%) Gatling
15 42 (0.88%) Gradle
16 40 (0.84%) Mockito
17 33 (0.69%) Artifactory
17 33 (0.69%) LoadRunner
17 33 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,188 (24.90%) Social Skills
2 911 (19.09%) Finance
3 645 (13.52%) Public Sector
4 429 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
5 328 (6.87%) Banking
6 109 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 107 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
8 87 (1.82%) Retail
9 66 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
10 58 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
11 55 (1.15%) Marketing
12 54 (1.13%) Legal
13 45 (0.94%) Military
14 42 (0.88%) Investment Banking
15 39 (0.82%) Law
16 37 (0.78%) Financial Institution
16 37 (0.78%) Front Office
16 37 (0.78%) Telecoms
17 35 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
18 29 (0.61%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 917 (19.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 755 (15.82%) Developer
3 681 (14.27%) Senior
4 552 (11.57%) Architect
5 460 (9.64%) Lead
6 288 (6.04%) Azure Engineer
7 276 (5.78%) Data Engineer
8 260 (5.45%) Analyst
9 213 (4.46%) AWS Engineer
10 196 (4.11%) Platform Engineer
11 177 (3.71%) Cloud Engineer
12 172 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
13 170 (3.56%) Senior DevOps
14 156 (3.27%) Java Developer
14 156 (3.27%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 152 (3.19%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 149 (3.12%) AWS DevOps
17 136 (2.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 133 (2.79%) Software Engineer
19 132 (2.77%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 469 (9.83%) REST
2 409 (8.57%) .NET
3 283 (5.93%) Kafka
4 261 (5.47%) Spring
5 247 (5.18%) React
6 245 (5.13%) RESTful
7 244 (5.11%) Spring Boot
8 184 (3.86%) Node.js
9 142 (2.98%) JSON
10 139 (2.91%) PySpark
11 137 (2.87%) OAuth
12 134 (2.81%) AngularJS
13 130 (2.72%) Playwright
14 126 (2.64%) SOAP
15 124 (2.60%) .NET Framework
16 108 (2.26%) HTML
17 98 (2.05%) YAML
18 93 (1.95%) CSS
18 93 (1.95%) OAuth2
19 87 (1.82%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 839 (17.58%) Cloud Native
2 330 (6.92%) Product Ownership
3 227 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 142 (2.98%) Onboarding
5 134 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
6 130 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
7 113 (2.37%) Hybrid Cloud
8 78 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
9 74 (1.55%) Public Cloud
10 71 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
11 67 (1.40%) Security Posture
12 66 (1.38%) Management Information System
13 63 (1.32%) Data Centre
14 60 (1.26%) Data Structures
15 56 (1.17%) AI Agents
16 51 (1.07%) Replication
17 50 (1.05%) Mobile App
18 49 (1.03%) Virtual Team
19 41 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
20 37 (0.78%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 419 (8.78%) Linux
2 258 (5.41%) Windows
3 96 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 71 (1.49%) Unix
5 63 (1.32%) Windows Server
6 27 (0.57%) Ubuntu
7 25 (0.52%) Apple iOS
7 25 (0.52%) VMS
8 17 (0.36%) Android
9 10 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
10 9 (0.19%) Solaris
11 8 (0.17%) zOS
12 7 (0.15%) CentOS
13 6 (0.13%) AIX
13 6 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
13 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
13 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
15 4 (0.084%) Alpine Linux
15 4 (0.084%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,732 (57.25%) CI/CD
2 1,884 (39.48%) Agile
3 1,256 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 767 (16.07%) Containerisation
5 733 (15.36%) Problem-Solving
6 722 (15.13%) Continuous Improvement
7 696 (14.59%) Test Automation
8 692 (14.50%) Microservices
9 653 (13.68%) Stakeholder Management
10 650 (13.62%) AI
11 596 (12.49%) Observability
12 586 (12.28%) Scrum
13 573 (12.01%) Migration
14 563 (11.80%) Software Engineering
15 554 (11.61%) Platform Engineering
16 529 (11.09%) Analytics
17 420 (8.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 417 (8.74%) Technical Leadership
19 414 (8.68%) Data Modelling
19 414 (8.68%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,336 (28.00%) Python
2 888 (18.61%) SQL
3 678 (14.21%) Java
4 426 (8.93%) C#
5 384 (8.05%) Bash
6 375 (7.86%) PowerShell
7 350 (7.33%) JavaScript
8 250 (5.24%) TypeScript
9 171 (3.58%) Bicep
10 93 (1.95%) Go
11 57 (1.19%) PL/SQL
12 55 (1.15%) Shell Script
13 54 (1.13%) T-SQL
14 50 (1.05%) Apex Code
15 49 (1.03%) Groovy
16 47 (0.98%) Scala
17 27 (0.57%) C++
18 26 (0.54%) Kotlin
19 22 (0.46%) C
19 22 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1,505 (31.54%) Security Cleared
2 1,251 (26.22%) SC Cleared
3 299 (6.27%) Degree
4 197 (4.13%) Azure Certification
5 180 (3.77%) DV Cleared
6 157 (3.29%) AWS Certification
7 120 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
8 107 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
9 75 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
10 74 (1.55%) CISSP
11 52 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
12 43 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 43 (0.90%) ISTQB
13 39 (0.82%) PMP
14 36 (0.75%) Master's Degree
15 35 (0.73%) PMI Certification
16 33 (0.69%) CISM
17 24 (0.50%) CCNP
18 23 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
19 21 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 428 (8.97%) QA
2 223 (4.67%) Data Quality
3 152 (3.19%) Accessibility
4 145 (3.04%) GDPR
5 85 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 83 (1.74%) NIST
7 73 (1.53%) WCAG
8 50 (1.05%) NCSC
9 41 (0.86%) PMO
10 39 (0.82%) PCI DSS
11 30 (0.63%) SLA
12 27 (0.57%) GRC
13 23 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 10 (0.21%) HIPAA
14 10 (0.21%) ISO 20022
15 9 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.19%) PSD2
15 9 (0.19%) SOC 2
16 8 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
16 8 (0.17%) SEPA
System Software
1 921 (19.30%) Docker
2 170 (3.56%) Active Directory
3 75 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
4 67 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 28 (0.59%) vSphere
6 23 (0.48%) VMware NSX
7 17 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
8 16 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
9 14 (0.29%) Hyper-V
9 14 (0.29%) Postfix
9 14 (0.29%) Squid
10 9 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
11 8 (0.17%) KVM
12 7 (0.15%) IAG
13 6 (0.13%) Corosync
13 6 (0.13%) RACF
14 5 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
14 5 (0.10%) NFS
14 5 (0.10%) SRDF
15 4 (0.084%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,345 (28.19%) Terraform
2 1,197 (25.08%) Kubernetes
3 463 (9.70%) Ansible
4 315 (6.60%) Grafana
5 267 (5.60%) Prometheus
6 83 (1.74%) Argo
7 62 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
8 55 (1.15%) Puppet
9 39 (0.82%) Progress Chef
10 34 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
11 30 (0.63%) Istio
11 30 (0.63%) Packer
12 26 (0.54%) vCenter Server
13 17 (0.36%) Kibana
14 15 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 15 (0.31%) Kustomize
14 15 (0.31%) SCCM
15 13 (0.27%) HP ALM
15 13 (0.27%) Kubeflow
16 12 (0.25%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 869 (18.21%) Microsoft
2 259 (5.43%) Oracle
3 233 (4.88%) Databricks
4 214 (4.48%) Google
5 186 (3.90%) ServiceNow
6 166 (3.48%) Splunk
7 148 (3.10%) Salesforce
8 117 (2.45%) Dynatrace
9 113 (2.37%) SAP
10 101 (2.12%) Red Hat
10 101 (2.12%) VMware
11 59 (1.24%) IBM
12 52 (1.09%) OpenAI
13 49 (1.03%) Atlassian
14 46 (0.96%) Informatica
15 43 (0.90%) Cisco
16 39 (0.82%) Foundry
17 35 (0.73%) AppDynamics
17 35 (0.73%) CyberArk
18 31 (0.65%) Okta