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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,866 2,938 3,325
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.61% 10.65% 10.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.49% 11.72% 11.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,346 2,119 2,280
10th Percentile £387 £360 £400
25th Percentile £438 £425 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.78%
75th Percentile £625 £634 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 23 77
10th Percentile £35.90 £36.50 £56.15
25th Percentile £55.00 £52.13 £61.60
Median hourly rate £67.00 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -4.29% +6.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 £85.86 £74.44
90th Percentile £93.63 £95.00 £85.10
UK median hourly rate £67.60 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +0.90% -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 38,969 25,067 28,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.95% 90.85% 85.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,148 15,970 18,420
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £754
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,571 1,462 1,558
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.21 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.03 £17.87 £18.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +2.41%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.92 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +66.68% -37.90% -2.41%

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 22 August 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 22 August 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 22 August 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 2,562 £550 - 1,307
North of England 0 809 £500 +3.63% 421
South East -9 472 £525 +5.00% 380
Midlands -1 462 £488 -2.50% 186
Yorkshire 0 398 £500 +1.44% 111
West Midlands -2 366 £490 -5.50% 123
North West -3 317 £525 +10.53% 230
South West +4 314 £525 +0.96% 228
East of England +11 138 £505 -3.35% 110
North East +13 111 £425 -19.05% 85
East Midlands +6 92 £465 +0.54% 63
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
1 293 (6.02%) Confluence
2 135 (2.77%) SharePoint
3 118 (2.42%) Apache Airflow
4 115 (2.36%) Apache Spark
5 100 (2.06%) Apache
6 63 (1.29%) SAS
7 41 (0.84%) CMS
8 35 (0.72%) Jupyter
9 32 (0.66%) IIS
10 22 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
11 20 (0.41%) nginx
12 13 (0.27%) Camunda
13 11 (0.23%) OpenStack
13 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
13 11 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
13 11 (0.23%) WebSphere
14 9 (0.18%) Anypoint
14 9 (0.18%) Appian
15 6 (0.12%) Documentum
15 6 (0.12%) Mule
Applications
1 61 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 61 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
2 40 (0.82%) MS Visio
3 32 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.18%) CPLEX
6 8 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.14%) Trello
8 5 (0.10%) Notion
9 4 (0.082%) Windchill
10 1 (0.021%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
10 1 (0.021%) Gliffy
10 1 (0.021%) InDesign
10 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 63 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
4 10 (0.21%) Aladdin
5 9 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
5 9 (0.18%) Magento
6 8 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 6 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.10%) Maximo
9 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
9 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
10 4 (0.082%) Endur
10 4 (0.082%) Oracle ERP
10 4 (0.082%) SAP MDG
11 3 (0.062%) Findur
11 3 (0.062%) SAP ERP
11 3 (0.062%) Shopify
11 3 (0.062%) Teamcenter
12 2 (0.041%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 2,665 (54.77%) Azure
2 1,686 (34.65%) AWS
3 1,550 (31.85%) Azure DevOps
4 820 (16.85%) GitHub
5 604 (12.41%) GCP
6 517 (10.62%) GitHub Actions
7 428 (8.80%) Power Platform
8 396 (8.14%) Serverless
9 240 (4.93%) Entra ID
10 237 (4.87%) Amazon S3
11 232 (4.77%) AWS Lambda
12 198 (4.07%) Azure AKS
13 181 (3.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 180 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
14 180 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
15 179 (3.68%) Amazon EKS
15 179 (3.68%) Azure Data Factory
16 163 (3.35%) Dynamics 365
17 154 (3.16%) Power Automate
18 146 (3.00%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 232 (4.77%) Firewall
2 145 (2.98%) DNS
3 115 (2.36%) VPN
4 102 (2.10%) Network Security
5 63 (1.29%) TCP/IP
6 54 (1.11%) WAN
7 42 (0.86%) SSL
8 39 (0.80%) SD-WAN
9 37 (0.76%) DHCP
10 34 (0.70%) BGP
11 32 (0.66%) Internet
12 29 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
13 26 (0.53%) OSPF
14 25 (0.51%) HTTP
15 21 (0.43%) SAN
16 20 (0.41%) VLAN
17 18 (0.37%) LAN
17 18 (0.37%) SSH
17 18 (0.37%) VXLAN
18 17 (0.35%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 295 (6.06%) Power BI
2 258 (5.30%) SQL Server
3 247 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
4 181 (3.72%) Data Warehouse
5 170 (3.49%) NoSQL
6 154 (3.16%) Relational Database
7 142 (2.92%) Data Lake
8 140 (2.88%) MongoDB
9 109 (2.24%) Metadata
10 104 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
11 92 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
12 79 (1.62%) Delta Lake
13 78 (1.60%) DynamoDB
14 76 (1.56%) Oracle Database
15 69 (1.42%) Redis
16 59 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
17 58 (1.19%) MySQL
18 56 (1.15%) Big Data
19 51 (1.05%) BigQuery
20 50 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 671 (13.79%) Jenkins
2 654 (13.44%) Git
3 581 (11.94%) JIRA
4 514 (10.56%) GitLab
5 113 (2.32%) Selenium
6 83 (1.71%) Postman
6 83 (1.71%) SonarQube
7 79 (1.62%) Bitbucket
8 74 (1.52%) JUnit
9 72 (1.48%) Maven
10 58 (1.19%) Cypress.io
10 58 (1.19%) JMeter
11 55 (1.13%) REST Assured
12 50 (1.03%) Cucumber
13 48 (0.99%) Gatling
14 46 (0.95%) Gradle
15 41 (0.84%) LoadRunner
16 36 (0.74%) Mockito
17 34 (0.70%) Artifactory
17 34 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,258 (25.85%) Social Skills
2 919 (18.89%) Finance
3 671 (13.79%) Public Sector
4 464 (9.54%) Analytical Skills
5 340 (6.99%) Banking
6 138 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 102 (2.10%) Retail
8 91 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
9 68 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
10 57 (1.17%) Legal
11 56 (1.15%) Marketing
11 56 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
12 48 (0.99%) Investment Banking
13 47 (0.97%) Aerospace
14 42 (0.86%) Military
15 41 (0.84%) Front Office
16 40 (0.82%) Law
16 40 (0.82%) Telecoms
17 38 (0.78%) Financial Institution
18 34 (0.70%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 894 (18.37%) DevOps Engineer
2 771 (15.84%) Developer
3 725 (14.90%) Senior
4 561 (11.53%) Architect
5 486 (9.99%) Lead
6 297 (6.10%) Azure Engineer
7 282 (5.80%) Data Engineer
8 235 (4.83%) Analyst
9 197 (4.05%) AWS Engineer
10 193 (3.97%) Platform Engineer
11 179 (3.68%) Cloud Engineer
12 167 (3.43%) Senior DevOps
13 163 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
14 158 (3.25%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 153 (3.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 141 (2.90%) Java Developer
17 139 (2.86%) AWS DevOps
17 139 (2.86%) Software Engineer
18 135 (2.77%) Senior Developer
19 126 (2.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,388 (28.52%) Terraform
2 502 (10.32%) REST
3 437 (8.98%) .NET
4 309 (6.35%) Kafka
5 268 (5.51%) RESTful
6 243 (4.99%) React
7 233 (4.79%) Spring
8 215 (4.42%) Spring Boot
9 166 (3.41%) Node.js
10 160 (3.29%) JSON
11 146 (3.00%) PySpark
12 141 (2.90%) OAuth
13 140 (2.88%) Playwright
14 130 (2.67%) .NET Framework
15 125 (2.57%) AngularJS
16 121 (2.49%) SOAP
17 117 (2.40%) HTML
18 103 (2.12%) YAML
19 101 (2.08%) CSS
20 98 (2.01%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 882 (18.13%) Cloud Native
2 362 (7.44%) Product Ownership
3 230 (4.73%) Distributed Systems
4 158 (3.25%) Enterprise Software
5 156 (3.21%) Onboarding
6 139 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
7 135 (2.77%) Hybrid Cloud
8 81 (1.66%) AI Agents
9 79 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
10 71 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
11 69 (1.42%) Management Information System
12 63 (1.29%) Security Posture
13 62 (1.27%) Data Structures
14 60 (1.23%) Public Cloud
15 58 (1.19%) Data Centre
16 56 (1.15%) Replication
17 52 (1.07%) Mobile App
18 51 (1.05%) Virtual Team
19 43 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
20 39 (0.80%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 443 (9.10%) Linux
2 276 (5.67%) Windows
3 104 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 91 (1.87%) Unix
5 76 (1.56%) Windows Server
6 30 (0.62%) Apple iOS
7 29 (0.60%) Ubuntu
8 28 (0.58%) VMS
9 20 (0.41%) Android
10 8 (0.16%) AIX
10 8 (0.16%) Amazon Linux
10 8 (0.16%) CentOS
10 8 (0.16%) Solaris
10 8 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.16%) zOS
11 7 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (0.082%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (0.082%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,833 (58.22%) CI/CD
2 1,970 (40.48%) Agile
3 1,345 (27.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 815 (16.75%) Continuous Improvement
5 780 (16.03%) Containerisation
6 768 (15.78%) Problem-Solving
7 767 (15.76%) Stakeholder Management
8 760 (15.62%) Test Automation
9 718 (14.76%) AI
10 707 (14.53%) Microservices
11 639 (13.13%) Observability
12 610 (12.54%) Software Engineering
13 602 (12.37%) Platform Engineering
14 599 (12.31%) Scrum
15 587 (12.06%) Migration
16 535 (10.99%) Analytics
17 499 (10.25%) Technical Leadership
18 457 (9.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 426 (8.75%) Roadmaps
20 418 (8.59%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,405 (28.87%) Python
2 912 (18.74%) SQL
3 687 (14.12%) Java
4 451 (9.27%) C#
5 442 (9.08%) PowerShell
6 411 (8.45%) Bash
7 385 (7.91%) JavaScript
8 265 (5.45%) TypeScript
9 216 (4.44%) Bicep
10 77 (1.58%) Go
11 65 (1.34%) Shell Script
12 57 (1.17%) T-SQL
13 54 (1.11%) PL/SQL
14 53 (1.09%) Groovy
15 52 (1.07%) Scala
16 51 (1.05%) Apex Code
17 30 (0.62%) C++
18 29 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 29 (0.60%) Perl
19 21 (0.43%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,570 (32.26%) Security Cleared
2 1,324 (27.21%) SC Cleared
3 304 (6.25%) Degree
4 202 (4.15%) Azure Certification
5 183 (3.76%) DV Cleared
6 164 (3.37%) AWS Certification
7 135 (2.77%) BPSS Clearance
8 111 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
9 90 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
10 71 (1.46%) CISSP
11 51 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
12 49 (1.01%) ISTQB
13 44 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 39 (0.80%) PMP
15 35 (0.72%) PMI Certification
16 34 (0.70%) Master's Degree
17 29 (0.60%) CISM
18 25 (0.51%) CCNP
19 23 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 23 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 477 (9.80%) QA
2 250 (5.14%) Data Quality
3 157 (3.23%) Accessibility
4 122 (2.51%) GDPR
5 89 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 75 (1.54%) NIST
7 73 (1.50%) WCAG
8 46 (0.95%) NCSC
9 45 (0.92%) PMO
10 35 (0.72%) SLA
11 33 (0.68%) PCI DSS
12 29 (0.60%) GRC
13 24 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 12 (0.25%) ISO 20022
15 11 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
16 10 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
16 10 (0.21%) HIPAA
17 9 (0.18%) HL7
17 9 (0.18%) SEPA
18 6 (0.12%) PSD2
System Software
1 949 (19.50%) Docker
2 162 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 75 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 70 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (0.47%) Hyper-V
6 22 (0.45%) vSphere
7 20 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
8 17 (0.35%) VMware NSX
9 14 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
10 12 (0.25%) Squid
11 10 (0.21%) IAG
11 10 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
12 9 (0.18%) Postfix
13 8 (0.16%) KVM
14 6 (0.12%) Corosync
14 6 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
15 5 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 5 (0.10%) Firmware
15 5 (0.10%) NFS
15 5 (0.10%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 1,242 (25.52%) Kubernetes
2 480 (9.86%) Ansible
3 316 (6.49%) Grafana
4 265 (5.45%) Prometheus
5 73 (1.50%) Argo
6 59 (1.21%) Puppet
7 53 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
8 47 (0.97%) Progress Chef
9 37 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
10 31 (0.64%) Packer
11 28 (0.58%) Istio
12 19 (0.39%) Kibana
12 19 (0.39%) vCenter Server
13 18 (0.37%) Kustomize
13 18 (0.37%) SCCM
14 17 (0.35%) Kubeflow
15 13 (0.27%) Control-M
15 13 (0.27%) HP ALM
15 13 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
16 12 (0.25%) systemd
Vendors
1 966 (19.85%) Microsoft
2 253 (5.20%) Databricks
2 253 (5.20%) Oracle
3 231 (4.75%) Google
4 190 (3.90%) ServiceNow
5 160 (3.29%) Splunk
6 145 (2.98%) Salesforce
7 130 (2.67%) Dynatrace
8 103 (2.12%) VMware
9 98 (2.01%) Red Hat
10 97 (1.99%) SAP
11 59 (1.21%) IBM
12 55 (1.13%) Informatica
13 49 (1.01%) Cisco
14 47 (0.97%) Atlassian
15 46 (0.95%) OpenAI
16 44 (0.90%) AppDynamics
17 38 (0.78%) Foundry
18 34 (0.70%) MuleSoft
19 33 (0.68%) CyberArk