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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,839 2,903 3,364
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.63% 10.51% 10.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.48% 11.57% 11.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,326 2,109 2,291
10th Percentile £385 £358 £400
25th Percentile £439 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 22 82
10th Percentile £35.45 £35.75 £56.75
25th Percentile £55.50 £51.69 £62.45
Median hourly rate £67.00 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -4.29% +6.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 £82.72 £74.44
90th Percentile £88.00 £94.75 £85.61
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +0.75% -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 38,782 25,081 28,761
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.18% 90.77% 85.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,156 16,055 18,761
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £760
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,506 1,391 1,691
10th Percentile £14.94 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £20.31 £17.87 £18.21
Median hourly rate £44.23 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +75.86% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.50 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.63% -5.12%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +1 2,504 £550 - 1,329
North of England 0 837 £500 +5.26% 398
South East -9 469 £525 +5.00% 367
Midlands -1 466 £490 -2.00% 193
Yorkshire +2 412 £500 +3.36% 119
West Midlands -2 383 £492 -4.47% 128
North West -4 333 £525 +12.90% 205
South West +11 322 £525 +0.96% 157
East of England +17 138 £505 +1.00% 80
North East +13 109 £431 -17.46% 76
East Midlands +1 78 £488 +8.33% 65
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
1 296 (6.12%) Confluence
2 125 (2.58%) SharePoint
3 118 (2.44%) Apache Spark
4 114 (2.36%) Apache Airflow
5 96 (1.98%) Apache
6 76 (1.57%) SAS
7 42 (0.87%) CMS
8 31 (0.64%) IIS
8 31 (0.64%) Jupyter
9 23 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
10 22 (0.45%) nginx
11 14 (0.29%) WebSphere
12 13 (0.27%) Camunda
13 12 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
14 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
15 10 (0.21%) OpenStack
16 9 (0.19%) Anypoint
16 9 (0.19%) Appian
17 7 (0.14%) Tomcat
17 7 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 62 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
2 55 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 35 (0.72%) MS Visio
4 30 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
5 26 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 10 (0.21%) CPLEX
8 9 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
9 7 (0.14%) Trello
10 5 (0.10%) Notion
11 1 (0.021%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.021%) Gliffy
11 1 (0.021%) InDesign
11 1 (0.021%) Maya
11 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 61 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.21%) Aladdin
3 10 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
4 9 (0.19%) Magento
5 8 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
5 8 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
6 7 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 5 (0.10%) Maximo
7 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
7 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
7 5 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.10%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.083%) Endur
8 4 (0.083%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.062%) Findur
9 3 (0.062%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.062%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.062%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2,599 (53.71%) Azure
2 1,662 (34.35%) AWS
3 1,505 (31.10%) Azure DevOps
4 801 (16.55%) GitHub
5 596 (12.32%) GCP
6 501 (10.35%) GitHub Actions
7 411 (8.49%) Power Platform
8 376 (7.77%) Serverless
9 246 (5.08%) Amazon S3
10 238 (4.92%) Entra ID
11 220 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
12 193 (3.99%) Azure AKS
13 180 (3.72%) AWS CloudFormation
14 178 (3.68%) Amazon EKS
15 177 (3.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 174 (3.60%) Azure Data Factory
17 170 (3.51%) Azure Monitor
18 149 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
19 147 (3.04%) Dynamics 365
20 144 (2.98%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 230 (4.75%) Firewall
2 143 (2.96%) DNS
3 113 (2.34%) VPN
4 103 (2.13%) Network Security
5 61 (1.26%) TCP/IP
6 49 (1.01%) WAN
7 41 (0.85%) SSL
8 36 (0.74%) SD-WAN
9 35 (0.72%) DHCP
10 32 (0.66%) Internet
11 31 (0.64%) BGP
12 28 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
13 25 (0.52%) HTTP
13 25 (0.52%) OSPF
14 19 (0.39%) VLAN
15 18 (0.37%) SAN
15 18 (0.37%) VXLAN
16 17 (0.35%) MPLS
16 17 (0.35%) SSH
17 16 (0.33%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 289 (5.97%) Power BI
2 253 (5.23%) SQL Server
3 228 (4.71%) PostgreSQL
4 172 (3.55%) Data Warehouse
5 169 (3.49%) NoSQL
6 152 (3.14%) Relational Database
7 145 (3.00%) Data Lake
8 141 (2.91%) MongoDB
9 97 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
9 97 (2.00%) Metadata
10 92 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
11 84 (1.74%) Delta Lake
12 81 (1.67%) DynamoDB
13 74 (1.53%) Oracle Database
14 60 (1.24%) Redis
15 57 (1.18%) Big Data
16 56 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
17 52 (1.07%) MySQL
18 48 (0.99%) BigQuery
19 45 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 668 (13.80%) Jenkins
2 647 (13.37%) Git
3 581 (12.01%) JIRA
4 496 (10.25%) GitLab
5 106 (2.19%) Selenium
6 92 (1.90%) SonarQube
7 83 (1.72%) Postman
8 78 (1.61%) JUnit
9 74 (1.53%) Bitbucket
10 73 (1.51%) Maven
11 56 (1.16%) REST Assured
12 55 (1.14%) Cypress.io
13 53 (1.10%) JMeter
14 50 (1.03%) Cucumber
15 46 (0.95%) Gatling
16 41 (0.85%) Gradle
17 40 (0.83%) LoadRunner
17 40 (0.83%) Mockito
18 34 (0.70%) Artifactory
18 34 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,227 (25.36%) Social Skills
2 906 (18.72%) Finance
3 668 (13.80%) Public Sector
4 458 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
5 335 (6.92%) Banking
6 126 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 100 (2.07%) Retail
8 92 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
9 68 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
10 58 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
11 56 (1.16%) Legal
12 55 (1.14%) Marketing
13 46 (0.95%) Investment Banking
14 43 (0.89%) Aerospace
15 42 (0.87%) Military
16 40 (0.83%) Financial Institution
17 39 (0.81%) Law
17 39 (0.81%) Telecoms
18 38 (0.79%) Front Office
19 36 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 894 (18.47%) DevOps Engineer
2 776 (16.04%) Developer
3 707 (14.61%) Senior
4 554 (11.45%) Architect
5 484 (10.00%) Lead
6 293 (6.05%) Azure Engineer
7 290 (5.99%) Data Engineer
8 248 (5.13%) Analyst
9 208 (4.30%) AWS Engineer
10 195 (4.03%) Platform Engineer
11 178 (3.68%) Cloud Engineer
12 171 (3.53%) Senior DevOps
12 171 (3.53%) Solutions Architect
13 157 (3.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 152 (3.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 146 (3.02%) Java Developer
16 145 (3.00%) AWS DevOps
17 137 (2.83%) Software Engineer
18 132 (2.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 128 (2.65%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 485 (10.02%) REST
2 424 (8.76%) .NET
3 286 (5.91%) Kafka
4 259 (5.35%) RESTful
5 243 (5.02%) React
6 235 (4.86%) Spring
7 215 (4.44%) Spring Boot
8 180 (3.72%) Node.js
9 148 (3.06%) JSON
10 144 (2.98%) PySpark
11 138 (2.85%) OAuth
12 136 (2.81%) Playwright
13 132 (2.73%) AngularJS
14 129 (2.67%) .NET Framework
14 129 (2.67%) SOAP
15 111 (2.29%) HTML
16 102 (2.11%) YAML
17 96 (1.98%) CSS
18 94 (1.94%) OAuth2
19 89 (1.84%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 860 (17.77%) Cloud Native
2 343 (7.09%) Product Ownership
3 229 (4.73%) Distributed Systems
4 146 (3.02%) Onboarding
5 138 (2.85%) Enterprise Software
5 138 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
6 125 (2.58%) Hybrid Cloud
7 79 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
8 70 (1.45%) Management Information System
8 70 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
9 67 (1.38%) Public Cloud
10 65 (1.34%) Data Structures
10 65 (1.34%) Security Posture
11 64 (1.32%) AI Agents
12 59 (1.22%) Data Centre
13 53 (1.10%) Mobile App
13 53 (1.10%) Replication
14 47 (0.97%) Virtual Team
15 39 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
15 39 (0.81%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 430 (8.89%) Linux
2 267 (5.52%) Windows
3 96 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 74 (1.53%) Unix
5 70 (1.45%) Windows Server
6 28 (0.58%) Ubuntu
7 27 (0.56%) Apple iOS
8 24 (0.50%) VMS
9 18 (0.37%) Android
10 9 (0.19%) Solaris
10 9 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.17%) AIX
12 7 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
12 7 (0.14%) CentOS
12 7 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 7 (0.14%) zOS
13 6 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
14 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
15 4 (0.083%) Alpine Linux
15 4 (0.083%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,788 (57.62%) CI/CD
2 1,938 (40.05%) Agile
3 1,297 (26.80%) Infrastructure as Code
4 784 (16.20%) Continuous Improvement
5 773 (15.97%) Containerisation
6 764 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
7 739 (15.27%) Test Automation
8 700 (14.47%) AI
9 697 (14.40%) Stakeholder Management
10 688 (14.22%) Microservices
11 617 (12.75%) Observability
12 612 (12.65%) Scrum
13 595 (12.30%) Software Engineering
14 577 (11.92%) Platform Engineering
15 573 (11.84%) Migration
16 555 (11.47%) Analytics
17 457 (9.44%) Technical Leadership
18 450 (9.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 436 (9.01%) Data Modelling
20 418 (8.64%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,375 (28.41%) Python
2 909 (18.78%) SQL
3 672 (13.89%) Java
4 444 (9.18%) C#
5 402 (8.31%) Bash
6 401 (8.29%) PowerShell
7 380 (7.85%) JavaScript
8 267 (5.52%) TypeScript
9 195 (4.03%) Bicep
10 85 (1.76%) Go
11 58 (1.20%) Shell Script
11 58 (1.20%) T-SQL
12 55 (1.14%) PL/SQL
13 53 (1.10%) Apex Code
13 53 (1.10%) Scala
14 50 (1.03%) Groovy
15 33 (0.68%) C++
16 26 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 25 (0.52%) C
17 25 (0.52%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,548 (31.99%) Security Cleared
2 1,295 (26.76%) SC Cleared
3 302 (6.24%) Degree
4 203 (4.20%) Azure Certification
5 183 (3.78%) DV Cleared
6 166 (3.43%) AWS Certification
7 133 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 111 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 81 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
10 76 (1.57%) CISSP
11 53 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
12 47 (0.97%) ISTQB
13 46 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 41 (0.85%) PMP
15 36 (0.74%) PMI Certification
16 31 (0.64%) CISM
16 31 (0.64%) Master's Degree
17 24 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 23 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
19 22 (0.45%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 454 (9.38%) QA
2 247 (5.10%) Data Quality
3 155 (3.20%) Accessibility
4 135 (2.79%) GDPR
5 84 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 75 (1.55%) WCAG
7 74 (1.53%) NIST
8 48 (0.99%) NCSC
9 43 (0.89%) PMO
10 37 (0.76%) PCI DSS
11 28 (0.58%) SLA
12 26 (0.54%) GRC
13 24 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 10 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
14 10 (0.21%) HIPAA
15 9 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
15 9 (0.19%) ISO 20022
16 8 (0.17%) PSD2
17 7 (0.14%) SEPA
17 7 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 944 (19.51%) Docker
2 170 (3.51%) Active Directory
3 74 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
4 67 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (0.43%) Hyper-V
5 21 (0.43%) vSphere
6 17 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (0.35%) VMware NSX
7 14 (0.29%) Postfix
7 14 (0.29%) Squid
8 13 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
10 8 (0.17%) IAG
10 8 (0.17%) KVM
11 6 (0.12%) Corosync
12 5 (0.10%) Firmware
12 5 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
12 5 (0.10%) NFS
12 5 (0.10%) SRDF
13 4 (0.083%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,367 (28.25%) Terraform
2 1,209 (24.98%) Kubernetes
3 476 (9.84%) Ansible
4 314 (6.49%) Grafana
5 263 (5.44%) Prometheus
6 75 (1.55%) Argo
7 58 (1.20%) Puppet
8 57 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
9 43 (0.89%) Progress Chef
10 34 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
11 31 (0.64%) Packer
12 29 (0.60%) Istio
13 19 (0.39%) vCenter Server
14 17 (0.35%) SCCM
15 15 (0.31%) Kibana
15 15 (0.31%) Kustomize
16 14 (0.29%) Kubeflow
16 14 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
17 12 (0.25%) HAProxy
18 11 (0.23%) systemd
Vendors
1 907 (18.74%) Microsoft
2 251 (5.19%) Oracle
3 244 (5.04%) Databricks
4 228 (4.71%) Google
5 190 (3.93%) ServiceNow
6 158 (3.27%) Splunk
7 150 (3.10%) Salesforce
8 128 (2.65%) Dynatrace
9 109 (2.25%) SAP
10 100 (2.07%) Red Hat
11 95 (1.96%) VMware
12 58 (1.20%) IBM
13 51 (1.05%) Atlassian
14 49 (1.01%) Informatica
15 45 (0.93%) Cisco
15 45 (0.93%) OpenAI
16 41 (0.85%) AppDynamics
17 36 (0.74%) Foundry
18 35 (0.72%) Denodo
19 33 (0.68%) MuleSoft