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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,506 2,471 3,523
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.62% 10.14% 9.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.48% 11.11% 11.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,145 1,787 2,428
10th Percentile £390 £385 £400
25th Percentile £443 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £614 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £751 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 12 114
10th Percentile £39.53 £36.63 £56.55
25th Percentile £59.94 £51.25 £61.60
Median hourly rate £68.75 £68.75 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - +4.96% -
75th Percentile £78.25 £84.41 £76.88
90th Percentile £94.56 £92.13 £86.59
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £73.23 £65.50
% change year-on-year -4.40% +11.79% -

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 36,103 22,244 31,795
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.13% 91.27% 85.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,869 14,374 20,646
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,268 1,001 2,353
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.81
25th Percentile £20.79 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.25 £28.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +65.79% -24.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.00 £73.75 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.85% -24.66% +1.67%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +3 2,301 £550 - 437
North of England +6 827 £500 - 262
South East 0 473 £523 +4.50% 275
Yorkshire +2 451 £500 - 74
Midlands +4 419 £489 -2.25% 108
West Midlands 0 331 £500 -4.31% 68
North West +4 309 £500 - 153
South West +15 280 £525 -4.55% 110
East of England +20 129 £525 +7.69% 72
North East +8 85 £450 -14.29% 40
East Midlands -2 84 £465 +0.54% 40
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
1 250 (5.55%) Confluence
2 124 (2.75%) Apache Spark
3 112 (2.49%) SharePoint
4 92 (2.04%) Apache
5 91 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
6 77 (1.71%) SAS
7 45 (1.00%) CMS
8 26 (0.58%) IIS
8 26 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
8 26 (0.58%) nginx
9 23 (0.51%) Jupyter
10 16 (0.36%) OpenStack
11 14 (0.31%) Camunda
12 12 (0.27%) WebSphere
13 11 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
14 9 (0.20%) Mendix
14 9 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
15 8 (0.18%) HCL Notes
15 8 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
16 7 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 69 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
3 46 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 33 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
5 25 (0.55%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.16%) CPLEX
7 5 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.089%) Notion
9 3 (0.067%) Trello
10 2 (0.044%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.044%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.022%) InDesign
11 1 (0.022%) Maya
11 1 (0.022%) Weka
Business Applications
1 58 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
4 10 (0.22%) Maximo
5 9 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.18%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
7 7 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
8 6 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.11%) Endur
9 5 (0.11%) Magento
10 3 (0.067%) Findur
10 3 (0.067%) NEC Housing
10 3 (0.067%) OpenText MBPM
10 3 (0.067%) Oracle BPM
10 3 (0.067%) SAP BPC
10 3 (0.067%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.067%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.067%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.067%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 2,396 (53.17%) Azure
2 1,538 (34.13%) AWS
3 1,311 (29.09%) Azure DevOps
4 734 (16.29%) GitHub
5 565 (12.54%) GCP
6 437 (9.70%) GitHub Actions
7 400 (8.88%) Serverless
8 386 (8.57%) Power Platform
9 244 (5.42%) Amazon S3
10 222 (4.93%) Entra ID
11 215 (4.77%) AWS Lambda
12 191 (4.24%) AWS CloudFormation
13 181 (4.02%) Azure AKS
14 179 (3.97%) Azure Data Factory
15 159 (3.53%) Amazon EKS
16 148 (3.28%) PaaS
17 144 (3.20%) OpenShift
18 139 (3.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 138 (3.06%) Amazon EC2
20 137 (3.04%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 223 (4.95%) Firewall
2 120 (2.66%) DNS
3 96 (2.13%) VPN
4 95 (2.11%) Network Security
5 45 (1.00%) TCP/IP
5 45 (1.00%) WAN
6 37 (0.82%) SD-WAN
7 30 (0.67%) BGP
8 27 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
9 26 (0.58%) SSL
10 24 (0.53%) DHCP
10 24 (0.53%) OSPF
11 20 (0.44%) Internet
12 19 (0.42%) HTTP
12 19 (0.42%) SAN
13 18 (0.40%) IPsec
14 17 (0.38%) VXLAN
15 16 (0.36%) LAN
16 15 (0.33%) Ethernet VPN
16 15 (0.33%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 256 (5.68%) Power BI
2 232 (5.15%) SQL Server
3 215 (4.77%) PostgreSQL
4 156 (3.46%) Data Lake
4 156 (3.46%) NoSQL
5 140 (3.11%) Relational Database
6 128 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
7 120 (2.66%) MongoDB
8 99 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
9 92 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
10 83 (1.84%) Delta Lake
11 77 (1.71%) DynamoDB
12 75 (1.66%) Metadata
13 73 (1.62%) Oracle Database
14 60 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
15 56 (1.24%) Redis
16 55 (1.22%) Big Data
17 51 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
18 49 (1.09%) BigQuery
19 44 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 621 (13.78%) Jenkins
2 557 (12.36%) Git
3 521 (11.56%) JIRA
4 467 (10.36%) GitLab
5 93 (2.06%) Selenium
6 90 (2.00%) Postman
7 78 (1.73%) SonarQube
8 72 (1.60%) JUnit
9 61 (1.35%) Bitbucket
10 60 (1.33%) REST Assured
11 59 (1.31%) Maven
12 50 (1.11%) Cucumber
13 49 (1.09%) Artifactory
14 45 (1.00%) JMeter
15 40 (0.89%) Cypress.io
15 40 (0.89%) Gatling
16 37 (0.82%) Gradle
17 35 (0.78%) Mockito
18 29 (0.64%) LoadRunner
18 29 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,151 (25.54%) Social Skills
2 852 (18.91%) Finance
3 563 (12.49%) Public Sector
4 372 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
5 307 (6.81%) Banking
6 139 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
7 79 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 73 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
9 62 (1.38%) Retail
10 54 (1.20%) Legal
11 50 (1.11%) Financial Institution
11 50 (1.11%) Marketing
12 47 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
13 40 (0.89%) Military
14 38 (0.84%) Investment Banking
15 37 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
16 31 (0.69%) Front Office
17 29 (0.64%) Law
18 24 (0.53%) Aerospace
19 22 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 896 (19.88%) DevOps Engineer
2 639 (14.18%) Developer
3 635 (14.09%) Senior
4 552 (12.25%) Architect
5 414 (9.19%) Lead
6 299 (6.64%) Azure Engineer
7 279 (6.19%) Data Engineer
8 268 (5.95%) Analyst
9 194 (4.31%) AWS Engineer
10 175 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
11 173 (3.84%) Cloud Engineer
12 166 (3.68%) Platform Engineer
13 149 (3.31%) Senior DevOps
14 146 (3.24%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 144 (3.20%) Business Analyst
16 139 (3.08%) Software Engineer
17 136 (3.02%) AWS DevOps
18 135 (3.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 128 (2.84%) Java Developer
20 126 (2.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 410 (9.10%) REST
2 377 (8.37%) .NET
3 258 (5.73%) Kafka
4 257 (5.70%) React
5 243 (5.39%) Spring
6 235 (5.22%) Spring Boot
7 211 (4.68%) Node.js
8 198 (4.39%) RESTful
9 150 (3.33%) AngularJS
10 133 (2.95%) PySpark
11 126 (2.80%) OAuth
12 125 (2.77%) Playwright
13 123 (2.73%) YAML
14 122 (2.71%) JSON
15 105 (2.33%) SOAP
16 97 (2.15%) .NET Framework
17 96 (2.13%) HTML
17 96 (2.13%) OpenID
18 94 (2.09%) Middleware
19 85 (1.89%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 760 (16.87%) Cloud Native
2 276 (6.13%) Product Ownership
3 181 (4.02%) Distributed Systems
4 119 (2.64%) Onboarding
5 108 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
6 97 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
7 92 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
8 86 (1.91%) Public Cloud
9 69 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
10 65 (1.44%) Data Centre
11 59 (1.31%) Management Information System
12 49 (1.09%) Mobile App
12 49 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
13 48 (1.07%) Security Posture
14 44 (0.98%) AI Agents
15 41 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
15 41 (0.91%) Private Cloud
15 41 (0.91%) Replication
16 40 (0.89%) Virtual Team
17 36 (0.80%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 392 (8.70%) Linux
2 239 (5.30%) Windows
3 87 (1.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 68 (1.51%) Unix
5 50 (1.11%) Windows Server
6 32 (0.71%) VMS
7 26 (0.58%) Ubuntu
8 21 (0.47%) Apple iOS
9 16 (0.36%) Android
10 13 (0.29%) CentOS
11 10 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
12 9 (0.20%) Solaris
13 7 (0.16%) Windows 10
14 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
14 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
16 4 (0.089%) Alpine Linux
16 4 (0.089%) Data ONTAP
16 4 (0.089%) Windows Server 2012
17 3 (0.067%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,550 (56.59%) CI/CD
2 1,630 (36.17%) Agile
3 1,170 (25.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 693 (15.38%) Containerisation
5 678 (15.05%) Problem-Solving
6 640 (14.20%) Microservices
7 627 (13.91%) Test Automation
8 608 (13.49%) Continuous Improvement
9 558 (12.38%) Observability
10 557 (12.36%) Migration
11 543 (12.05%) Stakeholder Management
12 528 (11.72%) Analytics
13 526 (11.67%) AI
14 504 (11.19%) Scrum
15 467 (10.36%) Software Engineering
16 443 (9.83%) Platform Engineering
17 417 (9.25%) Data Modelling
18 378 (8.39%) Mentoring
19 377 (8.37%) Technical Leadership
20 372 (8.26%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,238 (27.47%) Python
2 893 (19.82%) SQL
3 623 (13.83%) Java
4 410 (9.10%) C#
5 337 (7.48%) PowerShell
6 323 (7.17%) Bash
7 318 (7.06%) JavaScript
8 229 (5.08%) TypeScript
9 148 (3.28%) Bicep
10 91 (2.02%) Go
11 62 (1.38%) Scala
12 55 (1.22%) Shell Script
13 46 (1.02%) T-SQL
14 45 (1.00%) Apex Code
14 45 (1.00%) PL/SQL
15 38 (0.84%) Groovy
16 25 (0.55%) C++
16 25 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 25 (0.55%) Kotlin
17 23 (0.51%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,446 (32.09%) Security Cleared
2 1,192 (26.45%) SC Cleared
3 292 (6.48%) Degree
4 199 (4.42%) Azure Certification
5 150 (3.33%) DV Cleared
6 134 (2.97%) AWS Certification
7 123 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 117 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 74 (1.64%) CISSP
10 59 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
11 44 (0.98%) CISM
12 43 (0.95%) ISTQB
13 41 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
14 38 (0.84%) Master's Degree
15 37 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 37 (0.82%) PMI Certification
16 36 (0.80%) PMP
17 23 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
18 21 (0.47%) IIBA
18 21 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 387 (8.59%) QA
2 210 (4.66%) Data Quality
3 163 (3.62%) GDPR
4 119 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 114 (2.53%) Accessibility
6 113 (2.51%) NIST
7 63 (1.40%) NCSC
8 54 (1.20%) WCAG
9 45 (1.00%) PCI DSS
10 40 (0.89%) SLA
11 29 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 27 (0.60%) PMO
13 24 (0.53%) GRC
14 15 (0.33%) HIPAA
15 13 (0.29%) ISO 20022
15 13 (0.29%) NIST 800
15 13 (0.29%) SOC 2
16 12 (0.27%) PSD2
17 9 (0.20%) SEPA
18 7 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 853 (18.93%) Docker
2 167 (3.71%) Active Directory
3 68 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
4 66 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 33 (0.73%) vSphere
6 23 (0.51%) VMware NSX
7 18 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
8 17 (0.38%) Squid
9 16 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
10 14 (0.31%) Postfix
11 13 (0.29%) Hyper-V
12 7 (0.16%) Firmware
12 7 (0.16%) RACF
13 6 (0.13%) Corosync
13 6 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
14 5 (0.11%) HDFS
14 5 (0.11%) SRDF
15 4 (0.089%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
15 4 (0.089%) Microsoft App-V
15 4 (0.089%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,271 (28.21%) Terraform
2 1,124 (24.94%) Kubernetes
3 451 (10.01%) Ansible
4 303 (6.72%) Grafana
5 258 (5.73%) Prometheus
6 84 (1.86%) Argo
7 72 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
8 62 (1.38%) Puppet
9 45 (1.00%) Istio
10 30 (0.67%) Progress Chef
11 28 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
12 26 (0.58%) Packer
13 24 (0.53%) vCenter Server
14 22 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 19 (0.42%) Kibana
16 16 (0.36%) Consul
16 16 (0.36%) HP ALM
17 14 (0.31%) Kustomize
18 13 (0.29%) FortiGate
19 12 (0.27%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 799 (17.73%) Microsoft
2 252 (5.59%) Oracle
3 250 (5.55%) Databricks
4 205 (4.55%) Google
5 175 (3.88%) Splunk
6 166 (3.68%) ServiceNow
7 136 (3.02%) Red Hat
8 135 (3.00%) Salesforce
9 108 (2.40%) VMware
10 105 (2.33%) SAP
11 98 (2.17%) Dynatrace
12 59 (1.31%) OpenAI
13 49 (1.09%) IBM
14 47 (1.04%) Atlassian
14 47 (1.04%) CyberArk
15 39 (0.87%) Informatica
16 38 (0.84%) AppDynamics
17 37 (0.82%) Foundry
18 35 (0.78%) Cisco
19 30 (0.67%) Okta