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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 15 17
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 -5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,198 2,603 3,290
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.21% 10.63% 8.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.97% 11.71% 10.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,944 1,898 2,325
10th Percentile £382 £400 £410
25th Percentile £438 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £556
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.08% -7.33%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £663
90th Percentile £713 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.72% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 20 93
10th Percentile £39.53 £35.20 £50.25
25th Percentile £45.46 £55.00 £61.25
Median hourly rate £63.73 £68.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.30% +5.77% -0.76%
75th Percentile £75.44 £80.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £83.91 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £63.73 £71.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year -11.01% +10.17% -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 32,374 22,226 32,746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.47% 90.74% 86.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,766 14,506 21,651
10th Percentile £313 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £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 1,980 825 2,147
10th Percentile £15.49 £15.07 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +4.62% -10.48%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.83
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.81 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £30.32 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -6.71% - -7.14%

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 21 March 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 21 March 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 21 March 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 -1 2,107 £550 -4.35% 523
North of England +7 773 £500 -4.53% 313
South East +1 447 £525 -5.41% 318
Midlands +9 412 £498 +0.51% 141
Yorkshire +2 405 £500 -3.61% 98
West Midlands +8 328 £505 +1.51% 94
North West +6 313 £488 -7.14% 158
South West +16 278 £525 -12.50% 153
East of England +23 118 £575 +15.58% 86
East Midlands +1 82 £438 -7.89% 47
North East +1 59 £475 -9.52% 59
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
1 268 (6.38%) Confluence
2 107 (2.55%) Apache Spark
3 87 (2.07%) SharePoint
4 83 (1.98%) Apache
5 77 (1.83%) SAS
6 57 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
7 31 (0.74%) CMS
8 30 (0.71%) OpenStack
9 28 (0.67%) nginx
10 22 (0.52%) IIS
10 22 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
11 12 (0.29%) Mendix
11 12 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
12 11 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 11 (0.26%) HCL Notes
13 9 (0.21%) Camunda
13 9 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
14 8 (0.19%) GeoServer
14 8 (0.19%) Smallworld
15 7 (0.17%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 83 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 46 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
4 30 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
5 22 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.24%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.19%) Weka
8 4 (0.095%) Trello
9 2 (0.048%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.048%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.048%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.024%) InDesign
10 1 (0.024%) Maya
Business Applications
1 67 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.26%) Aladdin
4 10 (0.24%) Maximo
4 10 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
5 9 (0.21%) NEC Housing
6 7 (0.17%) Endur
7 6 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
7 6 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.14%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.095%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.095%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.071%) Findur
9 3 (0.071%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.071%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.071%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.071%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.071%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.071%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2,214 (52.74%) Azure
2 1,416 (33.73%) AWS
3 1,219 (29.04%) Azure DevOps
4 781 (18.60%) GitHub
5 588 (14.01%) GCP
6 458 (10.91%) Serverless
7 414 (9.86%) GitHub Actions
8 353 (8.41%) Power Platform
9 221 (5.26%) Amazon S3
9 221 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
10 216 (5.15%) AWS Lambda
11 212 (5.05%) Azure Data Factory
12 200 (4.76%) Entra ID
13 188 (4.48%) OpenShift
14 178 (4.24%) Azure AKS
15 168 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
16 165 (3.93%) Azure Monitor
17 154 (3.67%) Dynamics 365
18 135 (3.22%) SaaS
19 134 (3.19%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 195 (4.65%) Firewall
2 110 (2.62%) DNS
3 84 (2.00%) Network Security
4 80 (1.91%) VPN
5 44 (1.05%) TCP/IP
6 27 (0.64%) WAN
7 25 (0.60%) SD-WAN
8 22 (0.52%) HTTP
9 20 (0.48%) DHCP
9 20 (0.48%) SSL
10 16 (0.38%) BGP
10 16 (0.38%) MPLS
11 14 (0.33%) SAN
12 13 (0.31%) Internet
12 13 (0.31%) IPsec
13 12 (0.29%) HTTPS
14 11 (0.26%) LAN
14 11 (0.26%) OpenVPN
14 11 (0.26%) Reverse Proxy
15 10 (0.24%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 240 (5.72%) PostgreSQL
2 225 (5.36%) Power BI
3 186 (4.43%) SQL Server
4 170 (4.05%) NoSQL
5 144 (3.43%) Data Lake
6 112 (2.67%) Relational Database
7 104 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
8 97 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
9 93 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
10 92 (2.19%) MongoDB
11 70 (1.67%) Delta Lake
12 68 (1.62%) Oracle Database
13 66 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
14 64 (1.52%) DynamoDB
15 56 (1.33%) Redis
16 54 (1.29%) Tableau
17 53 (1.26%) Metadata
18 48 (1.14%) Big Data
19 43 (1.02%) MySQL
20 42 (1.00%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 686 (16.34%) Jenkins
2 568 (13.53%) JIRA
3 555 (13.22%) Git
4 469 (11.17%) GitLab
5 109 (2.60%) Selenium
6 92 (2.19%) JUnit
7 79 (1.88%) Postman
8 73 (1.74%) Bitbucket
9 58 (1.38%) SonarQube
10 55 (1.31%) Cucumber
11 50 (1.19%) Artifactory
12 47 (1.12%) Maven
13 46 (1.10%) REST Assured
14 43 (1.02%) Cypress.io
15 41 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
16 37 (0.88%) JMeter
17 34 (0.81%) Oracle APEX
18 29 (0.69%) Liquibase
18 29 (0.69%) Mockito
19 28 (0.67%) Gradle
General
1 1,229 (29.28%) Social Skills
2 814 (19.39%) Finance
3 525 (12.51%) Public Sector
4 371 (8.84%) Analytical Skills
5 328 (7.81%) Banking
6 147 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
7 71 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
8 64 (1.52%) Financial Institution
9 56 (1.33%) Retail
10 53 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 52 (1.24%) Front Office
12 49 (1.17%) Marketing
13 48 (1.14%) Investment Banking
14 44 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
14 44 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
15 37 (0.88%) Telecoms
16 31 (0.74%) Legal
17 28 (0.67%) Military
18 23 (0.55%) Law
19 22 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 735 (17.51%) DevOps Engineer
2 668 (15.91%) Developer
3 579 (13.79%) Senior
4 460 (10.96%) Architect
5 356 (8.48%) Lead
6 261 (6.22%) Azure Engineer
7 255 (6.07%) Data Engineer
8 241 (5.74%) Analyst
9 202 (4.81%) AWS Engineer
10 165 (3.93%) Cloud Engineer
11 156 (3.72%) AWS DevOps
12 153 (3.64%) Platform Engineer
13 143 (3.41%) Software Engineer
14 134 (3.19%) Solutions Architect
15 133 (3.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 127 (3.03%) Business Analyst
16 127 (3.03%) Senior Developer
17 118 (2.81%) Senior DevOps
18 109 (2.60%) Full-Stack Developer
19 108 (2.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 456 (10.86%) REST
2 341 (8.12%) .NET
3 259 (6.17%) Node.js
4 257 (6.12%) React
5 246 (5.86%) Kafka
6 230 (5.48%) Spring
7 206 (4.91%) Spring Boot
8 200 (4.76%) RESTful
9 161 (3.84%) AngularJS
10 145 (3.45%) JSON
11 137 (3.26%) YAML
12 125 (2.98%) HTML
13 121 (2.88%) Playwright
14 116 (2.76%) PySpark
15 112 (2.67%) OAuth
15 112 (2.67%) SOAP
16 109 (2.60%) Elastic Stack
17 103 (2.45%) CSS
18 102 (2.43%) Middleware
19 100 (2.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 607 (14.46%) Cloud Native
2 243 (5.79%) Product Ownership
3 153 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
4 106 (2.53%) Onboarding
4 106 (2.53%) Public Cloud
5 98 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
6 90 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
7 76 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
8 59 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
9 51 (1.21%) Management Information System
10 49 (1.17%) Virtual Team
11 42 (1.00%) Private Cloud
11 42 (1.00%) Security Posture
12 40 (0.95%) Data Centre
13 39 (0.93%) Data Structures
14 38 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
15 36 (0.86%) AI Agents
16 35 (0.83%) NHS
16 35 (0.83%) Replication
17 33 (0.79%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 426 (10.15%) Linux
2 222 (5.29%) Windows
3 74 (1.76%) Unix
4 60 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 40 (0.95%) VMS
5 40 (0.95%) Windows Server
6 22 (0.52%) Ubuntu
7 15 (0.36%) CentOS
8 11 (0.26%) Android
9 10 (0.24%) Windows 10
10 7 (0.17%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
11 6 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.12%) Solaris
13 4 (0.095%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.071%) zOS
15 2 (0.048%) Debian
15 2 (0.048%) Oracle Linux
15 2 (0.048%) Rocky
15 2 (0.048%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,359 (56.19%) CI/CD
2 1,629 (38.80%) Agile
3 1,033 (24.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 787 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 750 (17.87%) Containerisation
6 624 (14.86%) Test Automation
7 621 (14.79%) Microservices
8 541 (12.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 537 (12.79%) Analytics
10 502 (11.96%) Migration
11 477 (11.36%) Scrum
12 461 (10.98%) Stakeholder Management
13 460 (10.96%) AI
13 460 (10.96%) Observability
14 380 (9.05%) Software Engineering
15 377 (8.98%) Data Modelling
16 346 (8.24%) Mentoring
17 314 (7.48%) Data Pipeline
18 302 (7.19%) Platform Engineering
19 297 (7.07%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,279 (30.47%) Python
2 901 (21.46%) SQL
3 546 (13.01%) Java
4 410 (9.77%) C#
5 379 (9.03%) JavaScript
6 338 (8.05%) PowerShell
7 317 (7.55%) Bash
8 261 (6.22%) TypeScript
9 141 (3.36%) Bicep
10 122 (2.91%) Go
11 79 (1.88%) PL/SQL
12 62 (1.48%) Scala
13 45 (1.07%) Shell Script
13 45 (1.07%) T-SQL
14 42 (1.00%) C++
15 40 (0.95%) Ruby
16 34 (0.81%) Groovy
17 26 (0.62%) Rust
18 25 (0.60%) Apex Code
19 22 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1,350 (32.16%) Security Cleared
2 1,092 (26.01%) SC Cleared
3 336 (8.00%) Degree
4 195 (4.65%) Azure Certification
5 174 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 141 (3.36%) DV Cleared
7 118 (2.81%) AWS Certification
8 95 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
9 76 (1.81%) CISSP
10 68 (1.62%) Master's Degree
11 57 (1.36%) CISM
12 49 (1.17%) ISTQB
13 48 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
14 42 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 40 (0.95%) PMI Certification
16 35 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
17 34 (0.81%) PMP
18 25 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 22 (0.52%) IIBA
19 22 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 373 (8.89%) QA
2 180 (4.29%) Data Quality
3 168 (4.00%) GDPR
4 135 (3.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 117 (2.79%) NIST
6 90 (2.14%) Accessibility
7 67 (1.60%) NCSC
8 37 (0.88%) PCI DSS
9 35 (0.83%) WCAG
10 27 (0.64%) SLA
11 26 (0.62%) PMO
12 25 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 18 (0.43%) HIPAA
14 15 (0.36%) ISO 20022
14 15 (0.36%) SOC 2
15 13 (0.31%) PSD2
16 11 (0.26%) GRC
16 11 (0.26%) NIST 800
16 11 (0.26%) SEPA
17 9 (0.21%) HL7
System Software
1 942 (22.44%) Docker
2 161 (3.84%) Active Directory
3 74 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
4 71 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 45 (1.07%) vSphere
6 29 (0.69%) VMware NSX
7 15 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.26%) Hyper-V
8 11 (0.26%) Lustre
8 11 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 10 (0.24%) Squid
10 9 (0.21%) GPFS
11 8 (0.19%) Firmware
12 7 (0.17%) Postfix
13 6 (0.14%) HDFS
14 5 (0.12%) KVM
14 5 (0.12%) RACF
14 5 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
15 4 (0.095%) NFS
15 4 (0.095%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1,205 (28.70%) Terraform
2 1,162 (27.68%) Kubernetes
3 463 (11.03%) Ansible
4 291 (6.93%) Grafana
5 242 (5.76%) Prometheus
6 96 (2.29%) Argo
7 68 (1.62%) Puppet
8 59 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
9 51 (1.21%) Istio
10 31 (0.74%) Packer
11 28 (0.67%) vCenter Server
12 26 (0.62%) Progress Chef
13 23 (0.55%) Kibana
14 20 (0.48%) Rancher
15 18 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 17 (0.40%) Consul
16 17 (0.40%) FortiGate
16 17 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
16 17 (0.40%) Podman
17 14 (0.33%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 734 (17.48%) Microsoft
2 283 (6.74%) Oracle
3 258 (6.15%) Databricks
4 229 (5.45%) Google
5 188 (4.48%) Splunk
6 145 (3.45%) Red Hat
7 142 (3.38%) ServiceNow
8 120 (2.86%) VMware
9 101 (2.41%) Salesforce
10 93 (2.22%) SAP
11 73 (1.74%) OpenAI
12 67 (1.60%) Dynatrace
13 65 (1.55%) Atlassian
14 58 (1.38%) CyberArk
15 38 (0.91%) Talend
16 37 (0.88%) IBM
17 35 (0.83%) Foundry
18 34 (0.81%) Denodo
19 29 (0.69%) Pure Storage
20 28 (0.67%) Cisco