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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 14 17
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing DevOps 3,762 2,765 3,279
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.27% 10.56% 8.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.87% 11.77% 9.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,631 1,911 2,412
10th Percentile £375 £400 £413
25th Percentile £438 £475 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £569
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +1.05% -5.17%
75th Percentile £614 £675 £675
90th Percentile £719 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 19 103
10th Percentile - £37.95 £46.18
25th Percentile £45.46 £56.88 £56.65
Median hourly rate £48.75 £67.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.78% +3.85% -0.76%
75th Percentile £77.50 £80.75 £76.53
90th Percentile £94.63 £82.10 £84.14
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 29,230 23,495 33,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.56% 89.70% 87.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,709 14,439 22,381
10th Percentile £306 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £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 1,843 743 1,976
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.88 £21.00 £16.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% - -
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.50 £61.78
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +7.69%

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 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 8 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 8 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 -3 1,884 £538 -10.42% 536
North of England +4 682 £500 -3.61% 316
South East +1 406 £525 -8.70% 353
Midlands +23 384 £513 +2.50% 113
Yorkshire +1 355 £500 -1.96% 102
West Midlands +21 307 £525 +5.00% 78
North West +4 279 £468 -10.74% 183
South West +11 241 £525 -12.50% 143
East of England +17 112 £573 +8.79% 65
East Midlands +11 77 £425 -10.53% 35
North East -3 51 £475 -9.52% 33
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
1 235 (6.25%) Confluence
2 82 (2.18%) SharePoint
3 81 (2.15%) Apache
3 81 (2.15%) Apache Spark
4 58 (1.54%) SAS
5 55 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
6 36 (0.96%) OpenStack
7 30 (0.80%) CMS
7 30 (0.80%) nginx
8 20 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
9 18 (0.48%) IIS
10 15 (0.40%) JBoss
11 11 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 11 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
11 11 (0.29%) WebLogic
12 10 (0.27%) HCL Notes
12 10 (0.27%) Mendix
13 8 (0.21%) Camunda
13 8 (0.21%) CICS
13 8 (0.21%) GeoServer
Applications
1 92 (2.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (1.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 36 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
4 29 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
5 18 (0.48%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.29%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.21%) Weka
8 6 (0.16%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 3 (0.080%) Trello
10 2 (0.053%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.027%) CPLEX
11 1 (0.027%) Revit
Business Applications
1 59 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.29%) Endur
3 10 (0.27%) Maximo
4 9 (0.24%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
4 9 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.21%) NEC Housing
6 6 (0.16%) VisionPLUS
7 5 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
7 5 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.11%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.080%) Oracle Assets
9 3 (0.080%) Oracle General Ledger
9 3 (0.080%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.080%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.080%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.080%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.080%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,932 (51.36%) Azure
2 1,314 (34.93%) AWS
3 1,035 (27.51%) Azure DevOps
4 692 (18.39%) GitHub
5 569 (15.12%) GCP
6 423 (11.24%) Serverless
7 373 (9.91%) GitHub Actions
8 306 (8.13%) Power Platform
9 201 (5.34%) AWS CloudFormation
10 200 (5.32%) Amazon S3
11 199 (5.29%) AWS Lambda
12 184 (4.89%) Azure Data Factory
13 172 (4.57%) Azure AKS
14 163 (4.33%) OpenShift
15 162 (4.31%) Entra ID
16 149 (3.96%) Dynamics 365
17 147 (3.91%) Amazon EKS
18 143 (3.80%) SaaS
19 141 (3.75%) Azure Monitor
20 129 (3.43%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 181 (4.81%) Firewall
2 103 (2.74%) DNS
3 80 (2.13%) VPN
4 77 (2.05%) Network Security
5 50 (1.33%) TCP/IP
6 42 (1.12%) SSL
7 30 (0.80%) HTTP
8 28 (0.74%) HTTPS
9 21 (0.56%) WAN
10 18 (0.48%) DHCP
11 16 (0.43%) Kerberos
12 14 (0.37%) BGP
12 14 (0.37%) SD-WAN
13 13 (0.35%) MPLS
14 12 (0.32%) SSH
15 11 (0.29%) FTP
15 11 (0.29%) LAN
16 10 (0.27%) Internet
16 10 (0.27%) SMTP
17 9 (0.24%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 211 (5.61%) PostgreSQL
2 200 (5.32%) Power BI
3 145 (3.85%) NoSQL
4 141 (3.75%) SQL Server
5 112 (2.98%) Data Lake
6 104 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
7 90 (2.39%) Relational Database
8 88 (2.34%) MongoDB
9 82 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
10 73 (1.94%) Oracle Database
11 72 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
12 71 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
13 56 (1.49%) DynamoDB
14 50 (1.33%) Redis
15 49 (1.30%) MySQL
16 48 (1.28%) Tableau
17 46 (1.22%) Delta Lake
18 44 (1.17%) Metadata
19 36 (0.96%) Amazon Athena
20 35 (0.93%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 657 (17.46%) Jenkins
2 511 (13.58%) JIRA
3 504 (13.40%) Git
4 482 (12.81%) GitLab
5 112 (2.98%) Selenium
6 84 (2.23%) JUnit
7 80 (2.13%) Postman
8 61 (1.62%) SonarQube
9 57 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
10 51 (1.36%) Bitbucket
11 50 (1.33%) Cucumber
12 46 (1.22%) Artifactory
13 45 (1.20%) Cypress.io
14 44 (1.17%) Maven
15 39 (1.04%) REST Assured
16 38 (1.01%) Gradle
17 36 (0.96%) Oracle APEX
18 34 (0.90%) JMeter
19 32 (0.85%) Liquibase
20 29 (0.77%) CircleCI
General
1 1,182 (31.42%) Social Skills
2 692 (18.39%) Finance
3 451 (11.99%) Public Sector
4 325 (8.64%) Analytical Skills
5 306 (8.13%) Banking
6 138 (3.67%) Documentation Skills
7 75 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
8 65 (1.73%) Financial Institution
9 58 (1.54%) Marketing
10 55 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 46 (1.22%) Retail
12 45 (1.20%) Front Office
13 44 (1.17%) Investment Banking
14 42 (1.12%) Telecoms
15 41 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
16 33 (0.88%) Military
17 29 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
18 26 (0.69%) Law
18 26 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
19 24 (0.64%) Legal
Job Titles
1 719 (19.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 626 (16.64%) Developer
3 510 (13.56%) Senior
4 381 (10.13%) Architect
5 298 (7.92%) Lead
6 230 (6.11%) Azure Engineer
7 202 (5.37%) Analyst
8 201 (5.34%) AWS Engineer
9 198 (5.26%) Data Engineer
10 153 (4.07%) AWS DevOps
11 142 (3.77%) Cloud Engineer
12 141 (3.75%) Software Engineer
13 133 (3.54%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 130 (3.46%) Platform Engineer
15 123 (3.27%) Senior Developer
16 118 (3.14%) Solutions Architect
17 116 (3.08%) Business Analyst
18 103 (2.74%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 100 (2.66%) Senior DevOps
20 94 (2.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 436 (11.59%) REST
2 302 (8.03%) .NET
3 244 (6.49%) Node.js
3 244 (6.49%) React
4 221 (5.87%) Kafka
5 204 (5.42%) Spring
6 194 (5.16%) RESTful
7 187 (4.97%) Spring Boot
8 156 (4.15%) JSON
9 123 (3.27%) AngularJS
10 122 (3.24%) YAML
11 120 (3.19%) Elastic Stack
12 118 (3.14%) XML
13 116 (3.08%) OAuth
13 116 (3.08%) SOAP
14 111 (2.95%) HTML
15 99 (2.63%) Playwright
16 95 (2.53%) Middleware
17 92 (2.45%) CSS
18 86 (2.29%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 542 (14.41%) Cloud Native
2 202 (5.37%) Product Ownership
3 138 (3.67%) Distributed Systems
4 108 (2.87%) Onboarding
5 101 (2.68%) Public Cloud
6 75 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
7 71 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
8 65 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
9 49 (1.30%) Management Information System
10 46 (1.22%) Security Posture
10 46 (1.22%) Virtual Team
11 44 (1.17%) Private Cloud
12 42 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
12 42 (1.12%) Replication
13 37 (0.98%) NHS
14 36 (0.96%) Data Centre
14 36 (0.96%) Mobile App
15 34 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
16 32 (0.85%) AI Agents
17 30 (0.80%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 423 (11.24%) Linux
2 210 (5.58%) Windows
3 82 (2.18%) Unix
4 49 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 44 (1.17%) VMS
6 43 (1.14%) Windows Server
7 29 (0.77%) Ubuntu
8 19 (0.51%) Android
8 19 (0.51%) Windows 10
9 18 (0.48%) Apple iOS
10 17 (0.45%) CentOS
11 8 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
11 8 (0.21%) Solaris
12 7 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
13 5 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.080%) zOS
16 2 (0.053%) Debian
17 1 (0.027%) Embedded Linux
17 1 (0.027%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,152 (57.20%) CI/CD
2 1,479 (39.31%) Agile
3 962 (25.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 740 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
5 719 (19.11%) Containerisation
6 564 (14.99%) Test Automation
7 555 (14.75%) Microservices
8 447 (11.88%) Continuous Improvement
9 446 (11.86%) Analytics
10 435 (11.56%) Migration
11 404 (10.74%) Scrum
12 391 (10.39%) Observability
13 388 (10.31%) AI
14 372 (9.89%) Stakeholder Management
15 339 (9.01%) Software Engineering
16 309 (8.21%) Mentoring
17 291 (7.74%) Data Modelling
18 259 (6.88%) Business Intelligence
19 257 (6.83%) Validation
20 251 (6.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,137 (30.22%) Python
2 760 (20.20%) SQL
3 496 (13.18%) Java
4 359 (9.54%) JavaScript
5 346 (9.20%) C#
6 323 (8.59%) PowerShell
7 297 (7.89%) Bash
8 260 (6.91%) TypeScript
9 129 (3.43%) Go
10 127 (3.38%) Bicep
11 75 (1.99%) PL/SQL
12 57 (1.52%) Scala
13 43 (1.14%) Groovy
13 43 (1.14%) Shell Script
14 38 (1.01%) Ruby
14 38 (1.01%) T-SQL
15 37 (0.98%) C++
16 24 (0.64%) Rust
17 22 (0.58%) Perl
18 21 (0.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,192 (31.69%) Security Cleared
2 979 (26.02%) SC Cleared
3 335 (8.90%) Degree
4 178 (4.73%) Azure Certification
5 177 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 132 (3.51%) DV Cleared
7 114 (3.03%) AWS Certification
8 81 (2.15%) Master's Degree
9 77 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
10 67 (1.78%) CISSP
11 59 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
12 54 (1.44%) CISM
13 39 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 39 (1.04%) ISTQB
14 33 (0.88%) PMI Certification
15 26 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
15 26 (0.69%) PMP
16 24 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 23 (0.61%) IIBA
18 19 (0.51%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 325 (8.64%) QA
2 160 (4.25%) GDPR
3 129 (3.43%) Data Quality
4 122 (3.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 112 (2.98%) NIST
6 91 (2.42%) Accessibility
7 67 (1.78%) NCSC
8 30 (0.80%) PCI DSS
9 28 (0.74%) WCAG
10 26 (0.69%) SLA
11 25 (0.66%) HIPAA
12 23 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 18 (0.48%) PMO
13 18 (0.48%) PSD2
13 18 (0.48%) SOC 2
14 16 (0.43%) ISO 20022
15 14 (0.37%) SEPA
16 10 (0.27%) NIST 800
17 8 (0.21%) HL7
18 7 (0.19%) MiFID
System Software
1 918 (24.40%) Docker
2 156 (4.15%) Active Directory
3 66 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
3 66 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (0.98%) vSphere
5 22 (0.58%) VMware NSX
6 17 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (0.37%) Squid
8 11 (0.29%) DFS Replication
8 11 (0.29%) Lustre
8 11 (0.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 9 (0.24%) GPFS
9 9 (0.24%) Hyper-V
10 8 (0.21%) Postfix
11 7 (0.19%) Firmware
11 7 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
12 6 (0.16%) Dovecot
12 6 (0.16%) NFS
12 6 (0.16%) Tivoli Directory Server
12 6 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,142 (30.36%) Terraform
2 1,111 (29.53%) Kubernetes
3 453 (12.04%) Ansible
4 266 (7.07%) Grafana
5 240 (6.38%) Prometheus
6 82 (2.18%) Argo
7 69 (1.83%) Puppet
8 60 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
9 38 (1.01%) Istio
10 37 (0.98%) Kibana
11 31 (0.82%) Progress Chef
12 30 (0.80%) Packer
13 20 (0.53%) Podman
14 19 (0.51%) vCenter Server
15 16 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 16 (0.43%) Rancher
16 15 (0.40%) Consul
16 15 (0.40%) logstash
16 15 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
17 14 (0.37%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 662 (17.60%) Microsoft
2 261 (6.94%) Oracle
3 219 (5.82%) Databricks
3 219 (5.82%) Google
4 197 (5.24%) Splunk
5 140 (3.72%) ServiceNow
6 123 (3.27%) Red Hat
7 112 (2.98%) VMware
8 96 (2.55%) Salesforce
9 90 (2.39%) SAP
10 67 (1.78%) OpenAI
11 55 (1.46%) Dynatrace
12 54 (1.44%) CyberArk
13 44 (1.17%) Atlassian
14 40 (1.06%) F5
14 40 (1.06%) IBM
15 33 (0.88%) Palo Alto
16 30 (0.80%) Talend
17 28 (0.74%) Foundry
18 27 (0.72%) MuleSoft