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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 16 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,538 2,486 3,545
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.59% 10.07% 9.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.44% 11.02% 11.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,182 1,801 2,441
10th Percentile £390 £376 £400
25th Percentile £440 £447 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £615 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -5.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 11 116
10th Percentile £39.53 £35.00 £56.58
25th Percentile £61.00 £51.25 £61.60
Median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £66.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +5.26% +1.36%
75th Percentile £77.50 £85.86 £75.63
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 £86.32
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £76.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year -7.89% +12.59% +2.97%

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 36,481 22,561 31,958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.14% 91.35% 85.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,067 14,578 20,676
10th Percentile £325 £302 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.46% -0.98% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +1.28% -3.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,283 1,053 2,381
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.81 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +70.91% -26.67% +7.05%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £26.32 £37.18
% change year-on-year +67.02% -29.21% +6.23%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +4 2,331 £550 - 700
North of England +7 834 £500 - 595
South East -3 458 £510 +2.00% 571
Yorkshire +2 451 £504 +0.85% 206
Midlands +3 422 £488 -2.50% 306
West Midlands 0 334 £500 -2.44% 170
North West +2 310 £500 +1.63% 291
South West +14 284 £525 -4.55% 218
East of England +22 131 £525 +7.69% 308
North East +11 91 £450 -16.28% 103
East Midlands -2 84 £466 +0.81% 136
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
1 265 (5.84%) Confluence
2 126 (2.78%) Apache Spark
3 112 (2.47%) SharePoint
4 94 (2.07%) Apache Airflow
5 89 (1.96%) Apache
6 76 (1.67%) SAS
7 46 (1.01%) CMS
8 27 (0.59%) Jupyter
8 27 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
9 26 (0.57%) IIS
9 26 (0.57%) nginx
10 15 (0.33%) OpenStack
11 14 (0.31%) Camunda
12 13 (0.29%) WebSphere
13 11 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
14 9 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
15 8 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
16 7 (0.15%) Mendix
16 7 (0.15%) Tomcat
17 6 (0.13%) Mattermost
Applications
1 69 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
3 46 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
5 27 (0.59%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.20%) CPLEX
7 7 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.088%) Notion
9 3 (0.066%) 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 60 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
4 10 (0.22%) Maximo
5 9 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
6 8 (0.18%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
7 6 (0.13%) Endur
7 6 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.11%) Magento
9 4 (0.088%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.088%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 3 (0.066%) Findur
10 3 (0.066%) NEC Housing
10 3 (0.066%) OpenText MBPM
10 3 (0.066%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.066%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.066%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.066%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.066%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 2,407 (53.04%) Azure
2 1,557 (34.31%) AWS
3 1,327 (29.24%) Azure DevOps
4 738 (16.26%) GitHub
5 556 (12.25%) GCP
6 438 (9.65%) GitHub Actions
7 404 (8.90%) Serverless
8 392 (8.64%) Power Platform
9 254 (5.60%) Amazon S3
10 221 (4.87%) AWS Lambda
11 216 (4.76%) Entra ID
12 186 (4.10%) AWS CloudFormation
12 186 (4.10%) Azure AKS
13 175 (3.86%) Azure Data Factory
14 164 (3.61%) Amazon EKS
15 150 (3.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 146 (3.22%) Amazon EC2
17 144 (3.17%) OpenShift
18 139 (3.06%) Dynamics 365
18 139 (3.06%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 223 (4.91%) Firewall
2 122 (2.69%) DNS
3 100 (2.20%) Network Security
4 96 (2.12%) VPN
5 46 (1.01%) WAN
6 43 (0.95%) TCP/IP
7 36 (0.79%) SD-WAN
8 31 (0.68%) BGP
9 28 (0.62%) SSL
10 27 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
11 24 (0.53%) OSPF
12 23 (0.51%) DHCP
13 22 (0.48%) Internet
14 19 (0.42%) SAN
15 17 (0.37%) HTTP
15 17 (0.37%) IPsec
15 17 (0.37%) VXLAN
16 16 (0.35%) LAN
16 16 (0.35%) MPLS
17 15 (0.33%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 258 (5.69%) Power BI
2 224 (4.94%) SQL Server
3 221 (4.87%) PostgreSQL
4 161 (3.55%) NoSQL
5 153 (3.37%) Data Lake
6 142 (3.13%) Relational Database
7 133 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
8 125 (2.75%) MongoDB
9 100 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
10 87 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
11 83 (1.83%) Delta Lake
12 77 (1.70%) DynamoDB
13 75 (1.65%) Metadata
14 68 (1.50%) Oracle Database
15 64 (1.41%) Redis
16 59 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
17 56 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
17 56 (1.23%) Big Data
18 49 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
19 48 (1.06%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 623 (13.73%) Jenkins
2 572 (12.60%) Git
3 535 (11.79%) JIRA
4 471 (10.38%) GitLab
5 90 (1.98%) Selenium
6 83 (1.83%) Postman
7 80 (1.76%) SonarQube
8 77 (1.70%) JUnit
9 63 (1.39%) Bitbucket
10 61 (1.34%) Maven
11 58 (1.28%) REST Assured
12 49 (1.08%) Cucumber
13 45 (0.99%) JMeter
14 42 (0.93%) Artifactory
15 41 (0.90%) Gatling
16 39 (0.86%) Gradle
17 38 (0.84%) Cypress.io
18 35 (0.77%) Mockito
19 30 (0.66%) LoadRunner
19 30 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,162 (25.61%) Social Skills
2 874 (19.26%) Finance
3 586 (12.91%) Public Sector
4 380 (8.37%) Analytical Skills
5 313 (6.90%) Banking
6 136 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
7 88 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 72 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
9 69 (1.52%) Retail
10 53 (1.17%) Legal
10 53 (1.17%) Marketing
11 49 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
12 47 (1.04%) Financial Institution
13 41 (0.90%) Military
14 39 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
15 36 (0.79%) Investment Banking
16 33 (0.73%) Law
17 28 (0.62%) Front Office
18 26 (0.57%) Aerospace
19 25 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 899 (19.81%) DevOps Engineer
2 657 (14.48%) Developer
3 641 (14.13%) Senior
4 556 (12.25%) Architect
5 422 (9.30%) Lead
6 299 (6.59%) Azure Engineer
7 283 (6.24%) Data Engineer
8 276 (6.08%) Analyst
9 199 (4.39%) AWS Engineer
10 178 (3.92%) Cloud Engineer
11 173 (3.81%) Solutions Architect
12 169 (3.72%) Platform Engineer
13 149 (3.28%) Senior DevOps
14 148 (3.26%) Business Analyst
15 145 (3.20%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 142 (3.13%) AWS DevOps
17 135 (2.97%) Java Developer
17 135 (2.97%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 131 (2.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 131 (2.89%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 410 (9.03%) REST
2 371 (8.18%) .NET
3 262 (5.77%) Kafka
4 255 (5.62%) Spring
5 254 (5.60%) React
6 242 (5.33%) Spring Boot
7 210 (4.63%) RESTful
8 202 (4.45%) Node.js
9 145 (3.20%) AngularJS
10 135 (2.97%) PySpark
11 124 (2.73%) OAuth
12 122 (2.69%) Playwright
13 118 (2.60%) YAML
14 117 (2.58%) JSON
15 105 (2.31%) SOAP
16 100 (2.20%) .NET Framework
17 98 (2.16%) HTML
18 92 (2.03%) Middleware
19 91 (2.01%) OpenID
20 85 (1.87%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 781 (17.21%) Cloud Native
2 288 (6.35%) Product Ownership
3 192 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
4 124 (2.73%) Onboarding
5 110 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
6 100 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
7 98 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
8 82 (1.81%) Public Cloud
9 67 (1.48%) Data Centre
9 67 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
10 60 (1.32%) Management Information System
11 52 (1.15%) Mobile App
11 52 (1.15%) Security Posture
12 50 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
13 47 (1.04%) AI Agents
14 42 (0.93%) Data Structures
15 41 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
16 40 (0.88%) Replication
16 40 (0.88%) Virtual Team
17 37 (0.82%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 386 (8.51%) Linux
2 230 (5.07%) Windows
3 91 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 66 (1.45%) Unix
5 49 (1.08%) Windows Server
6 29 (0.64%) Ubuntu
7 28 (0.62%) VMS
8 23 (0.51%) Apple iOS
9 17 (0.37%) Android
10 14 (0.31%) CentOS
11 9 (0.20%) Solaris
11 9 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
13 5 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
13 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.088%) Alpine Linux
14 4 (0.088%) Data ONTAP
14 4 (0.088%) Mac OS
14 4 (0.088%) Windows 10
15 3 (0.066%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,573 (56.70%) CI/CD
2 1,673 (36.87%) Agile
3 1,193 (26.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 714 (15.73%) Containerisation
5 693 (15.27%) Problem-Solving
6 647 (14.26%) Microservices
7 632 (13.93%) Test Automation
8 625 (13.77%) Continuous Improvement
9 567 (12.49%) Stakeholder Management
10 557 (12.27%) Observability
11 553 (12.19%) AI
12 551 (12.14%) Migration
13 534 (11.77%) Analytics
14 518 (11.41%) Scrum
15 473 (10.42%) Software Engineering
16 465 (10.25%) Platform Engineering
17 418 (9.21%) Data Modelling
18 383 (8.44%) Roadmaps
19 382 (8.42%) Technical Leadership
20 378 (8.33%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1,266 (27.90%) Python
2 881 (19.41%) SQL
3 626 (13.79%) Java
4 410 (9.03%) C#
5 332 (7.32%) PowerShell
6 326 (7.18%) Bash
7 314 (6.92%) JavaScript
8 223 (4.91%) TypeScript
9 151 (3.33%) Bicep
10 90 (1.98%) Go
11 61 (1.34%) Scala
12 53 (1.17%) Shell Script
13 48 (1.06%) Apex Code
14 47 (1.04%) T-SQL
15 45 (0.99%) PL/SQL
16 39 (0.86%) Groovy
17 25 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 24 (0.53%) Kotlin
19 23 (0.51%) C++
20 22 (0.48%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,458 (32.13%) Security Cleared
2 1,214 (26.75%) SC Cleared
3 290 (6.39%) Degree
4 195 (4.30%) Azure Certification
5 148 (3.26%) AWS Certification
5 148 (3.26%) DV Cleared
6 118 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 116 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 76 (1.67%) CISSP
9 69 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 44 (0.97%) ISTQB
11 43 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
11 43 (0.95%) CISM
12 42 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 38 (0.84%) Master's Degree
13 38 (0.84%) PMI Certification
14 37 (0.82%) PMP
15 23 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
16 22 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
17 21 (0.46%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 381 (8.40%) QA
2 217 (4.78%) Data Quality
3 160 (3.53%) GDPR
4 124 (2.73%) Accessibility
5 116 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 110 (2.42%) NIST
7 66 (1.45%) NCSC
8 60 (1.32%) WCAG
9 48 (1.06%) PCI DSS
10 38 (0.84%) SLA
11 29 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 24 (0.53%) GRC
12 24 (0.53%) PMO
13 16 (0.35%) HIPAA
14 14 (0.31%) SOC 2
15 12 (0.26%) ISO 20022
15 12 (0.26%) PSD2
16 11 (0.24%) NIST 800
17 10 (0.22%) SEPA
18 7 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 875 (19.28%) Docker
2 164 (3.61%) Active Directory
3 67 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
4 65 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 31 (0.68%) vSphere
6 22 (0.48%) VMware NSX
7 18 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
8 17 (0.37%) Squid
8 17 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
9 14 (0.31%) Hyper-V
9 14 (0.31%) Postfix
10 7 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
10 7 (0.15%) RACF
11 6 (0.13%) Corosync
11 6 (0.13%) Firmware
12 5 (0.11%) KVM
12 5 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
12 5 (0.11%) SRDF
13 4 (0.088%) HDFS
13 4 (0.088%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,286 (28.34%) Terraform
2 1,133 (24.97%) Kubernetes
3 455 (10.03%) Ansible
4 302 (6.65%) Grafana
5 261 (5.75%) Prometheus
6 85 (1.87%) Argo
7 72 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
8 62 (1.37%) Puppet
9 46 (1.01%) Istio
10 30 (0.66%) Progress Chef
11 28 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
11 28 (0.62%) Packer
12 25 (0.55%) vCenter Server
13 22 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 18 (0.40%) Kibana
15 16 (0.35%) Consul
16 14 (0.31%) HP ALM
16 14 (0.31%) Kustomize
17 13 (0.29%) FortiGate
18 12 (0.26%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 809 (17.83%) Microsoft
2 247 (5.44%) Databricks
3 233 (5.13%) Oracle
4 212 (4.67%) Google
5 168 (3.70%) Splunk
6 164 (3.61%) ServiceNow
7 139 (3.06%) Salesforce
8 127 (2.80%) Red Hat
9 105 (2.31%) SAP
9 105 (2.31%) VMware
10 102 (2.25%) Dynatrace
11 61 (1.34%) OpenAI
12 50 (1.10%) Atlassian
12 50 (1.10%) IBM
13 45 (0.99%) CyberArk
14 42 (0.93%) Informatica
15 37 (0.82%) Foundry
16 35 (0.77%) AppDynamics
17 34 (0.75%) Cisco
18 31 (0.68%) Okta