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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 14 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 -5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 3,540 3,185 3,629
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.52% 10.28% 9.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.84% 11.74% 10.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,493 2,154 2,693
10th Percentile £360 £400 £413
25th Percentile £425 £475 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £557 £563
% change year-on-year -5.75% -0.98% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 35 94
10th Percentile - £43.22 £46.18
25th Percentile £45.46 £56.88 £51.44
Median hourly rate £61.25 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +7.69% -0.92%
75th Percentile £82.50 £74.22 £75.67
90th Percentile £95.00 £80.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £61.25 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -12.50% +7.69% -0.92%

All Process and 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 27,575 27,131 34,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.77% 87.57% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,561 16,585 23,601
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,784 990 1,459
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £14.63
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.27 £19.18
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.02 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.17% -21.31% +19.85%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.04 £43.84
% change year-on-year -23.87% -24.65% +25.26%

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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025. 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 1,775 £550 -5.98% 551
North of England +2 611 £492 -3.53% 224
South East +2 374 £513 -13.68% 518
Midlands +16 370 £515 -1.90% 142
Yorkshire 0 311 £500 - 83
West Midlands +15 300 £525 -4.55% 88
North West +6 265 £453 -13.71% 100
South West +1 223 £538 -10.42% 156
East of England +24 109 £523 -5.00% 84
East Midlands +19 70 £418 -12.11% 50
North East -8 37 £520 -11.49% 42
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 (6.67%) Confluence
2 85 (2.40%) Apache
3 66 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
4 63 (1.78%) SharePoint
5 62 (1.75%) SAS
6 55 (1.55%) Apache Spark
7 36 (1.02%) nginx
8 35 (0.99%) CMS
9 28 (0.79%) OpenStack
10 27 (0.76%) IIS
10 27 (0.76%) JBoss
11 23 (0.65%) CICS
12 18 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
13 15 (0.42%) WebSphere
14 14 (0.40%) WebLogic
15 10 (0.28%) Mule
16 9 (0.25%) iPlanet
16 9 (0.25%) WebSphere Application Server
17 8 (0.23%) Anypoint
18 7 (0.20%) Smallworld
Applications
1 68 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 28 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
4 26 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (0.48%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.37%) Chatbot
7 12 (0.34%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 8 (0.23%) Weka
9 7 (0.20%) Trello
10 1 (0.028%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.028%) Moqups
10 1 (0.028%) Revit
Business Applications
1 55 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.56%) Endur
3 18 (0.51%) Aladdin
3 18 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
5 14 (0.40%) VisionPLUS
6 8 (0.23%) Maximo
7 7 (0.20%) Oracle BPM
8 6 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
9 5 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 4 (0.11%) Fidessa
10 4 (0.11%) NEC Housing
10 4 (0.11%) SAP CO
10 4 (0.11%) SAP ERP
10 4 (0.11%) SAP FI
10 4 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
10 4 (0.11%) thinkFolio
10 4 (0.11%) Workday HCM
11 3 (0.085%) Oracle EBS
11 3 (0.085%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,731 (48.90%) Azure
2 1,295 (36.58%) AWS
3 947 (26.75%) Azure DevOps
4 622 (17.57%) GitHub
5 519 (14.66%) GCP
6 391 (11.05%) Serverless
7 345 (9.75%) GitHub Actions
8 247 (6.98%) Power Platform
9 210 (5.93%) Amazon S3
10 201 (5.68%) AWS Lambda
11 193 (5.45%) AWS CloudFormation
12 166 (4.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 151 (4.27%) Azure AKS
14 150 (4.24%) Amazon EC2
15 143 (4.04%) Azure Data Factory
15 143 (4.04%) SaaS
16 139 (3.93%) Entra ID
17 129 (3.64%) Dynamics 365
18 121 (3.42%) Amazon ECS
19 120 (3.39%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 178 (5.03%) Firewall
2 121 (3.42%) DNS
3 74 (2.09%) VPN
4 67 (1.89%) Network Security
5 59 (1.67%) SSL
6 56 (1.58%) TCP/IP
7 43 (1.21%) HTTP
8 31 (0.88%) SSH
9 29 (0.82%) HTTPS
9 29 (0.82%) SMTP
10 27 (0.76%) WAN
11 23 (0.65%) FTP
12 17 (0.48%) BGP
12 17 (0.48%) DHCP
13 16 (0.45%) OpenLDAP
14 15 (0.42%) LAN
14 15 (0.42%) MPLS
15 14 (0.40%) Kerberos
15 14 (0.40%) SD-WAN
16 12 (0.34%) IMAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 233 (6.58%) PostgreSQL
2 155 (4.38%) Power BI
3 145 (4.10%) NoSQL
4 136 (3.84%) SQL Server
5 124 (3.50%) Amazon RDS
6 98 (2.77%) MongoDB
7 84 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
8 82 (2.32%) Relational Database
9 81 (2.29%) Data Lake
10 71 (2.01%) Oracle Database
11 61 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
12 56 (1.58%) Redis
13 50 (1.41%) DynamoDB
14 48 (1.36%) MySQL
15 47 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
16 42 (1.19%) Metadata
17 39 (1.10%) Delta Lake
18 37 (1.05%) Amazon Aurora
19 35 (0.99%) Big Data
19 35 (0.99%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 663 (18.73%) Jenkins
2 560 (15.82%) Git
3 534 (15.08%) JIRA
4 449 (12.68%) GitLab
5 119 (3.36%) Selenium
6 91 (2.57%) SonarQube
7 84 (2.37%) JUnit
8 80 (2.26%) Sonatype Nexus
9 69 (1.95%) Bitbucket
10 61 (1.72%) Postman
11 50 (1.41%) Cucumber
11 50 (1.41%) Liquibase
12 49 (1.38%) Maven
13 47 (1.33%) Cypress.io
14 43 (1.21%) Gradle
15 42 (1.19%) Artifactory
16 36 (1.02%) Oracle APEX
17 32 (0.90%) CircleCI
18 29 (0.82%) TeamCity
19 28 (0.79%) JMeter
General
1 1,148 (32.43%) Social Skills
2 648 (18.31%) Finance
3 431 (12.18%) Public Sector
4 324 (9.15%) Banking
5 282 (7.97%) Analytical Skills
6 101 (2.85%) Documentation Skills
7 65 (1.84%) Financial Institution
8 63 (1.78%) Investment Banking
9 60 (1.69%) Marketing
10 59 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 56 (1.58%) Telecoms
12 52 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
13 50 (1.41%) Retail
14 42 (1.19%) Front Office
15 40 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
16 31 (0.88%) Back Office
16 31 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
17 26 (0.73%) Manufacturing
17 26 (0.73%) Military
18 25 (0.71%) Law
Job Titles
1 686 (19.38%) Developer
2 615 (17.37%) DevOps Engineer
3 480 (13.56%) Senior
4 300 (8.47%) Architect
5 274 (7.74%) Lead
6 220 (6.21%) AWS Engineer
7 175 (4.94%) Analyst
8 174 (4.92%) Azure Engineer
9 170 (4.80%) AWS DevOps
10 169 (4.77%) Data Engineer
11 142 (4.01%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 140 (3.95%) Software Engineer
13 138 (3.90%) Senior Developer
14 136 (3.84%) Cloud Engineer
15 130 (3.67%) Platform Engineer
16 98 (2.77%) Business Analyst
16 98 (2.77%) Java Developer
17 97 (2.74%) Consultant
18 92 (2.60%) Senior DevOps
19 91 (2.57%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 396 (11.19%) REST
2 306 (8.64%) .NET
3 244 (6.89%) RESTful
4 215 (6.07%) React
5 207 (5.85%) Node.js
6 198 (5.59%) Kafka
7 178 (5.03%) JSON
8 158 (4.46%) Spring
9 144 (4.07%) SOAP
10 142 (4.01%) HTML
11 141 (3.98%) Spring Boot
12 131 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
13 130 (3.67%) AngularJS
14 115 (3.25%) XML
15 114 (3.22%) OAuth
16 109 (3.08%) YAML
17 96 (2.71%) CSS
18 73 (2.06%) GraphQL
19 72 (2.03%) .NET Core
20 71 (2.01%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 480 (13.56%) Cloud Native
2 183 (5.17%) Product Ownership
3 147 (4.15%) Distributed Systems
4 110 (3.11%) Onboarding
5 84 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
6 82 (2.32%) Public Cloud
7 67 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
8 62 (1.75%) Mobile App
9 59 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
10 57 (1.61%) Replication
11 50 (1.41%) Security Posture
12 47 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
13 43 (1.21%) Virtual Team
14 40 (1.13%) Algorithms
14 40 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
15 39 (1.10%) Data Centre
15 39 (1.10%) Management Information System
16 38 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
17 37 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 34 (0.96%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 428 (12.09%) Linux
2 208 (5.88%) Windows
3 89 (2.51%) Unix
4 57 (1.61%) Windows Server
5 55 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 47 (1.33%) Android
7 44 (1.24%) VMS
8 41 (1.16%) Apple iOS
9 25 (0.71%) Ubuntu
10 24 (0.68%) Amazon Linux
11 19 (0.54%) CentOS
12 16 (0.45%) Windows 10
13 12 (0.34%) Solaris
14 11 (0.31%) zOS
15 7 (0.20%) Mac OS
16 6 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
17 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
18 3 (0.085%) Debian
19 2 (0.056%) SUSE
20 1 (0.028%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,983 (56.02%) CI/CD
2 1,548 (43.73%) Agile
3 883 (24.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 708 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 693 (19.58%) Containerisation
6 545 (15.40%) Test Automation
7 529 (14.94%) Microservices
8 447 (12.63%) Scrum
9 386 (10.90%) Continuous Improvement
10 379 (10.71%) Migration
11 374 (10.56%) Analytics
12 356 (10.06%) Software Engineering
13 335 (9.46%) AI
14 293 (8.28%) Observability
15 289 (8.16%) Stakeholder Management
16 271 (7.66%) Mentoring
17 243 (6.86%) DevSecOps
18 240 (6.78%) Data Pipeline
19 239 (6.75%) Infrastructure Automation
20 237 (6.69%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1,140 (32.20%) Python
2 688 (19.44%) SQL
3 499 (14.10%) Java
4 377 (10.65%) JavaScript
5 348 (9.83%) C#
6 325 (9.18%) Bash
7 323 (9.12%) PowerShell
8 237 (6.69%) TypeScript
9 161 (4.55%) Go
10 105 (2.97%) Bicep
11 71 (2.01%) PL/SQL
12 62 (1.75%) Groovy
13 59 (1.67%) Shell Script
14 52 (1.47%) C++
15 42 (1.19%) Scala
16 41 (1.16%) Perl
17 37 (1.05%) Ruby
18 32 (0.90%) T-SQL
19 27 (0.76%) Kotlin
20 26 (0.73%) PHP
Qualifications
1 990 (27.97%) Security Cleared
2 821 (23.19%) SC Cleared
3 315 (8.90%) Degree
4 172 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 139 (3.93%) Azure Certification
6 122 (3.45%) AWS Certification
7 117 (3.31%) DV Cleared
8 71 (2.01%) Master's Degree
9 58 (1.64%) CISSP
10 56 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
11 51 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
12 41 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 37 (1.05%) CISM
14 33 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
15 32 (0.90%) ISTQB
16 25 (0.71%) PMI Certification
17 21 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 20 (0.56%) PMP
19 16 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
20 15 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 323 (9.12%) QA
2 139 (3.93%) GDPR
3 110 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 103 (2.91%) Data Quality
5 90 (2.54%) NIST
6 85 (2.40%) Accessibility
7 43 (1.21%) NCSC
8 26 (0.73%) PCI DSS
9 25 (0.71%) HIPAA
10 21 (0.59%) WCAG
11 17 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 16 (0.45%) SLA
13 15 (0.42%) MiFID
14 14 (0.40%) PSD2
15 13 (0.37%) ISO 20022
15 13 (0.37%) SEPA
16 12 (0.34%) SOC 2
17 11 (0.31%) EU AI Act
17 11 (0.31%) PMO
18 10 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 913 (25.79%) Docker
2 170 (4.80%) Active Directory
3 68 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 56 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (0.71%) vSphere
6 23 (0.65%) DFS Replication
7 14 (0.40%) VMware NSX
8 13 (0.37%) Postfix
8 13 (0.37%) Squid
9 12 (0.34%) Dovecot
10 11 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
10 11 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
11 8 (0.23%) GPFS
11 8 (0.23%) Hyper-V
11 8 (0.23%) Lustre
11 8 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 8 (0.23%) Tivoli Directory Server
11 8 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
12 7 (0.20%) NFS
12 7 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1,066 (30.11%) Terraform
2 1,011 (28.56%) Kubernetes
3 468 (13.22%) Ansible
4 255 (7.20%) Grafana
5 247 (6.98%) Prometheus
6 77 (2.18%) Puppet
7 65 (1.84%) Argo
7 65 (1.84%) Single Sign-On
8 51 (1.44%) Progress Chef
9 40 (1.13%) Kibana
10 39 (1.10%) Packer
11 25 (0.71%) Istio
12 21 (0.59%) ITRS Geneos
12 21 (0.59%) Podman
13 17 (0.48%) Nessus
13 17 (0.48%) Proxmox
14 16 (0.45%) CA Endevor
15 15 (0.42%) logstash
15 15 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
16 14 (0.40%) Rancher
Vendors
1 610 (17.23%) Microsoft
2 265 (7.49%) Oracle
3 206 (5.82%) Google
4 186 (5.25%) Splunk
5 175 (4.94%) Databricks
6 154 (4.35%) ServiceNow
7 99 (2.80%) VMware
8 97 (2.74%) Salesforce
8 97 (2.74%) SAP
9 91 (2.57%) Red Hat
10 55 (1.55%) Dynatrace
11 45 (1.27%) F5
12 44 (1.24%) IBM
12 44 (1.24%) OpenAI
13 39 (1.10%) MuleSoft
14 38 (1.07%) Palo Alto
15 37 (1.05%) Atlassian
15 37 (1.05%) Talend
16 36 (1.02%) CyberArk
17 34 (0.96%) Denodo