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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 14 14
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,770 3,015 3,282
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.35% 10.86% 10.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.21% 11.95% 11.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,281 2,133 2,222
10th Percentile £381 £360 £400
25th Percentile £437 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -5.66%
75th Percentile £625 £626 £650
90th Percentile £703 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 21 67
10th Percentile £37.25 £42.50 £56.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £53.00 £65.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.75% -4.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £78.00 £88.75 £74.72
90th Percentile £93.88 £95.00 £85.41
UK median hourly rate £67.85 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +1.27% -4.29% +7.69%

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 39,062 25,238 28,145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.72% 90.90% 86.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,917 16,041 17,545
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,725 1,497 1,306
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £14.92
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.91%
75th Percentile £68.00 £49.75 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 0 2,516 £550 - 2,985
North of England -2 781 £500 +5.26% 911
South East -10 453 £525 +5.00% 653
Midlands -5 439 £488 -4.88% 359
Yorkshire -2 395 £500 +3.09% 252
West Midlands -7 345 £492 -6.26% 213
South West +5 320 £550 +4.76% 368
North West -5 295 £525 +11.70% 519
East of England +5 146 £505 -3.35% 264
North East +16 106 £425 -18.27% 146
East Midlands +2 91 £463 +6.32% 146
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
1 285 (5.97%) Confluence
2 145 (3.04%) SharePoint
3 121 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
4 110 (2.31%) Apache Spark
5 97 (2.03%) Apache
6 56 (1.17%) SAS
7 42 (0.88%) CMS
8 38 (0.80%) Jupyter
9 25 (0.52%) nginx
10 22 (0.46%) IIS
11 19 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
12 14 (0.29%) Camunda
13 13 (0.27%) OpenStack
14 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
15 9 (0.19%) Anypoint
15 9 (0.19%) Appian
15 9 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
16 8 (0.17%) WebLogic
16 8 (0.17%) WebSphere
17 7 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 64 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
3 46 (0.96%) MS Visio
4 32 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 30 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
6 12 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
8 8 (0.17%) CPLEX
9 7 (0.15%) Trello
10 6 (0.13%) Windchill
11 5 (0.10%) Notion
12 2 (0.042%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.042%) Mingle
13 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
13 1 (0.021%) Gliffy
13 1 (0.021%) Mozilla Thunderbird
13 1 (0.021%) Sketch
13 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 70 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 10 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.19%) Magento
6 7 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 6 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
7 6 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.10%) Aladdin
8 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
8 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
9 4 (0.084%) Endur
9 4 (0.084%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.063%) Maximo
10 3 (0.063%) Oracle EBS R12
10 3 (0.063%) Oracle ERP
10 3 (0.063%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.063%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 3 (0.063%) Teamcenter
11 2 (0.042%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2,563 (53.73%) Azure
2 1,672 (35.05%) AWS
3 1,481 (31.05%) Azure DevOps
4 814 (17.06%) GitHub
5 611 (12.81%) GCP
6 517 (10.84%) GitHub Actions
7 424 (8.89%) Power Platform
8 398 (8.34%) Serverless
9 249 (5.22%) Amazon S3
10 239 (5.01%) AWS Lambda
11 226 (4.74%) Entra ID
12 202 (4.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 186 (3.90%) Amazon EKS
14 184 (3.86%) Azure AKS
15 169 (3.54%) Azure Monitor
16 168 (3.52%) AWS CloudFormation
16 168 (3.52%) Azure Data Factory
17 166 (3.48%) Dynamics 365
18 159 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
19 156 (3.27%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 220 (4.61%) Firewall
2 147 (3.08%) DNS
3 113 (2.37%) VPN
4 102 (2.14%) Network Security
5 68 (1.43%) TCP/IP
6 49 (1.03%) SSL
7 46 (0.96%) WAN
8 40 (0.84%) DHCP
9 30 (0.63%) BGP
10 29 (0.61%) SD-WAN
11 28 (0.59%) HTTP
11 28 (0.59%) Internet
12 24 (0.50%) SSH
12 24 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
13 22 (0.46%) OSPF
14 19 (0.40%) VLAN
15 18 (0.38%) SAN
16 16 (0.34%) BIG-IP
16 16 (0.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 15 (0.31%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 288 (6.04%) Power BI
2 263 (5.51%) SQL Server
3 245 (5.14%) PostgreSQL
4 183 (3.84%) Data Warehouse
5 159 (3.33%) NoSQL
6 148 (3.10%) Relational Database
7 145 (3.04%) Data Lake
8 144 (3.02%) MongoDB
9 116 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
10 115 (2.41%) Metadata
11 81 (1.70%) Delta Lake
12 80 (1.68%) DynamoDB
13 77 (1.61%) Oracle Database
14 75 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
15 74 (1.55%) MySQL
16 68 (1.43%) Redis
17 56 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
18 54 (1.13%) Big Data
19 52 (1.09%) BigQuery
19 52 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 670 (14.05%) Jenkins
2 669 (14.03%) Git
3 545 (11.43%) JIRA
4 544 (11.40%) GitLab
5 116 (2.43%) Selenium
6 90 (1.89%) SonarQube
7 83 (1.74%) Maven
8 76 (1.59%) Postman
9 74 (1.55%) JUnit
10 64 (1.34%) Bitbucket
11 57 (1.19%) Cypress.io
11 57 (1.19%) REST Assured
12 56 (1.17%) Cucumber
13 55 (1.15%) Gradle
14 54 (1.13%) JMeter
15 43 (0.90%) Gatling
16 40 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
17 38 (0.80%) Mockito
18 36 (0.75%) Artifactory
18 36 (0.75%) Claude Code
General
1 1,271 (26.65%) Social Skills
2 882 (18.49%) Finance
3 628 (13.17%) Public Sector
4 469 (9.83%) Analytical Skills
5 343 (7.19%) Banking
6 146 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 103 (2.16%) Retail
8 79 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
8 79 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
9 56 (1.17%) Marketing
9 56 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
10 54 (1.13%) Aerospace
10 54 (1.13%) Legal
11 50 (1.05%) Military
12 47 (0.99%) Investment Banking
13 44 (0.92%) Telecoms
14 41 (0.86%) Front Office
15 40 (0.84%) Law
16 38 (0.80%) Manufacturing
17 36 (0.75%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 913 (19.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 741 (15.53%) Developer
3 736 (15.43%) Senior
4 560 (11.74%) Architect
5 471 (9.87%) Lead
6 289 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
7 271 (5.68%) Data Engineer
8 235 (4.93%) Analyst
9 197 (4.13%) Platform Engineer
10 193 (4.05%) AWS Engineer
11 177 (3.71%) Cloud Engineer
12 166 (3.48%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 166 (3.48%) Senior DevOps
13 159 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
14 155 (3.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 145 (3.04%) Java Developer
16 136 (2.85%) Senior Developer
17 132 (2.77%) Software Engineer
18 129 (2.70%) AWS DevOps
19 118 (2.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,397 (29.29%) Terraform
2 508 (10.65%) REST
3 409 (8.57%) .NET
4 325 (6.81%) Kafka
5 268 (5.62%) RESTful
6 253 (5.30%) React
7 242 (5.07%) Spring
8 238 (4.99%) Spring Boot
9 158 (3.31%) JSON
10 153 (3.21%) Node.js
11 144 (3.02%) OAuth
12 140 (2.94%) PySpark
13 130 (2.73%) Playwright
14 118 (2.47%) HTML
15 115 (2.41%) .NET Framework
16 113 (2.37%) CSS
17 112 (2.35%) SOAP
18 99 (2.08%) AngularJS
19 96 (2.01%) OAuth2
20 95 (1.99%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 868 (18.20%) Cloud Native
2 371 (7.78%) Product Ownership
3 226 (4.74%) Distributed Systems
4 178 (3.73%) Enterprise Software
5 171 (3.58%) Onboarding
6 140 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
7 125 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
8 91 (1.91%) AI Agents
9 82 (1.72%) Management Information System
10 67 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
10 67 (1.40%) Security Posture
11 66 (1.38%) Replication
12 64 (1.34%) Public Cloud
13 63 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
14 62 (1.30%) Data Structures
15 58 (1.22%) Virtual Team
16 57 (1.19%) Data Centre
17 51 (1.07%) Mobile App
18 43 (0.90%) PKI
19 41 (0.86%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 475 (9.96%) Linux
2 277 (5.81%) Windows
3 112 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 95 (1.99%) Unix
5 80 (1.68%) Windows Server
6 35 (0.73%) Ubuntu
7 32 (0.67%) Apple iOS
8 28 (0.59%) VMS
9 22 (0.46%) Android
10 12 (0.25%) CentOS
11 10 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
12 9 (0.19%) zOS
13 8 (0.17%) Solaris
13 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
13 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
14 7 (0.15%) AIX
15 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
16 4 (0.084%) Alpine Linux
16 4 (0.084%) Data ONTAP
16 4 (0.084%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,837 (59.48%) CI/CD
2 1,945 (40.78%) Agile
3 1,389 (29.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 823 (17.25%) Continuous Improvement
4 823 (17.25%) Stakeholder Management
5 776 (16.27%) Problem-Solving
6 774 (16.23%) Containerisation
7 768 (16.10%) AI
8 749 (15.70%) Test Automation
9 701 (14.70%) Microservices
10 663 (13.90%) Observability
11 639 (13.40%) Platform Engineering
12 638 (13.38%) Software Engineering
13 586 (12.29%) Scrum
14 570 (11.95%) Migration
15 533 (11.17%) Technical Leadership
16 514 (10.78%) Analytics
17 459 (9.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 447 (9.37%) Roadmaps
19 418 (8.76%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,408 (29.52%) Python
2 850 (17.82%) SQL
3 703 (14.74%) Java
4 444 (9.31%) PowerShell
5 427 (8.95%) C#
6 426 (8.93%) Bash
7 388 (8.13%) JavaScript
8 268 (5.62%) TypeScript
9 217 (4.55%) Bicep
10 76 (1.59%) Go
11 66 (1.38%) Shell Script
12 57 (1.19%) Groovy
13 56 (1.17%) T-SQL
14 53 (1.11%) Scala
15 48 (1.01%) PL/SQL
16 47 (0.99%) Apex Code
17 32 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 31 (0.65%) C++
19 30 (0.63%) Perl
20 24 (0.50%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,530 (32.08%) Security Cleared
2 1,280 (26.83%) SC Cleared
3 325 (6.81%) Degree
4 215 (4.51%) Azure Certification
5 206 (4.32%) DV Cleared
6 164 (3.44%) AWS Certification
7 140 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 123 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
9 109 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 72 (1.51%) CISSP
11 47 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
12 46 (0.96%) ISTQB
13 43 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 39 (0.82%) PMP
15 36 (0.75%) Master's Degree
16 34 (0.71%) PMI Certification
17 29 (0.61%) CISM
18 22 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
19 21 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 21 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 479 (10.04%) QA
2 246 (5.16%) Data Quality
3 163 (3.42%) Accessibility
4 116 (2.43%) GDPR
5 82 (1.72%) WCAG
6 81 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 73 (1.53%) NIST
8 45 (0.94%) NCSC
8 45 (0.94%) PMO
9 32 (0.67%) SLA
10 28 (0.59%) PCI DSS
11 27 (0.57%) GRC
12 21 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 19 (0.40%) ISO 20022
14 13 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
15 12 (0.25%) SEPA
16 10 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
16 10 (0.21%) HIPAA
17 9 (0.19%) HL7
18 8 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 962 (20.17%) Docker
2 147 (3.08%) Active Directory
3 72 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
4 68 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 22 (0.46%) vSphere
6 21 (0.44%) Hyper-V
6 21 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
7 17 (0.36%) VMware NSX
8 16 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (0.27%) Squid
10 11 (0.23%) IAG
11 9 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
11 9 (0.19%) Postfix
12 6 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 6 (0.13%) Corosync
12 6 (0.13%) KVM
12 6 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.10%) NFS
14 4 (0.084%) Firmware
14 4 (0.084%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1,257 (26.35%) Kubernetes
2 488 (10.23%) Ansible
3 317 (6.65%) Grafana
4 267 (5.60%) Prometheus
5 68 (1.43%) Argo
6 61 (1.28%) Puppet
7 50 (1.05%) Progress Chef
8 48 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
9 46 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
10 32 (0.67%) Packer
11 25 (0.52%) Kibana
12 20 (0.42%) Istio
12 20 (0.42%) Kubeflow
13 19 (0.40%) Kustomize
13 19 (0.40%) vCenter Server
14 18 (0.38%) SCCM
15 14 (0.29%) HP ALM
15 14 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
16 13 (0.27%) HAProxy
16 13 (0.27%) SCOM
Vendors
1 962 (20.17%) Microsoft
2 256 (5.37%) Databricks
3 243 (5.09%) Oracle
4 234 (4.91%) Google
5 191 (4.00%) ServiceNow
6 164 (3.44%) Splunk
7 140 (2.94%) Salesforce
8 131 (2.75%) Dynatrace
9 106 (2.22%) VMware
10 100 (2.10%) Red Hat
11 93 (1.95%) SAP
12 62 (1.30%) IBM
13 53 (1.11%) OpenAI
14 44 (0.92%) Cisco
14 44 (0.92%) Foundry
15 42 (0.88%) Informatica
16 39 (0.82%) AppDynamics
17 34 (0.71%) MuleSoft
18 33 (0.69%) Atlassian
19 29 (0.61%) CyberArk