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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 15 17
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 -5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,187 2,589 3,301
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.18% 10.65% 8.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.95% 11.72% 10.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,931 1,901 2,330
10th Percentile £381 £400 £406
25th Percentile £438 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £551
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -0.09% -8.25%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £662
90th Percentile £714 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.91% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 20 92
10th Percentile £39.53 £35.20 £51.63
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 £75.00 £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 32,321 22,086 32,747
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.33% 90.81% 86.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,717 14,513 21,645
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 1,977 834 2,155
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.67 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £33.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.70
90th Percentile £75.40 £77.41 £71.89
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year - - -9.47%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -2 2,103 £543 -5.57% 502
North of England +6 766 £500 -4.76% 313
South East +2 445 £525 -4.55% 313
Midlands +11 410 £496 -0.75% 141
Yorkshire +1 401 £500 -4.76% 92
West Midlands +8 322 £506 +1.10% 93
North West +6 313 £488 -7.14% 166
South West +13 279 £525 -12.50% 164
East of England +24 118 £573 +15.08% 93
East Midlands +2 86 £444 -8.90% 48
North East +2 56 £475 -9.52% 57
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 (6.40%) Confluence
2 108 (2.58%) Apache Spark
3 86 (2.05%) SharePoint
4 83 (1.98%) Apache
5 77 (1.84%) SAS
6 58 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
7 31 (0.74%) CMS
8 30 (0.72%) OpenStack
9 28 (0.67%) nginx
10 22 (0.53%) IIS
10 22 (0.53%) 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 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 49 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
4 29 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
5 22 (0.53%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.21%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.19%) Weka
8 5 (0.12%) 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 68 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.33%) 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 (0.096%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.096%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.096%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.072%) Findur
9 3 (0.072%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.072%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.072%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.072%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.072%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.072%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2,214 (52.88%) Azure
2 1,405 (33.56%) AWS
3 1,221 (29.16%) Azure DevOps
4 780 (18.63%) GitHub
5 589 (14.07%) GCP
6 456 (10.89%) Serverless
7 412 (9.84%) GitHub Actions
8 352 (8.41%) Power Platform
9 224 (5.35%) Amazon S3
10 221 (5.28%) AWS CloudFormation
11 215 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
12 211 (5.04%) Azure Data Factory
13 198 (4.73%) Entra ID
14 189 (4.51%) OpenShift
15 178 (4.25%) Azure AKS
16 167 (3.99%) Amazon EKS
17 164 (3.92%) Azure Monitor
18 153 (3.65%) Dynamics 365
19 135 (3.22%) SaaS
20 133 (3.18%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 194 (4.63%) Firewall
2 106 (2.53%) DNS
3 86 (2.05%) Network Security
4 80 (1.91%) VPN
5 43 (1.03%) TCP/IP
6 28 (0.67%) WAN
7 26 (0.62%) SD-WAN
8 21 (0.50%) HTTP
9 20 (0.48%) DHCP
10 19 (0.45%) SSL
11 16 (0.38%) BGP
11 16 (0.38%) MPLS
12 14 (0.33%) IPsec
12 14 (0.33%) SAN
13 12 (0.29%) Internet
14 11 (0.26%) 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 (5.73%) PostgreSQL
2 224 (5.35%) Power BI
3 186 (4.44%) SQL Server
4 170 (4.06%) NoSQL
5 146 (3.49%) Data Lake
6 114 (2.72%) Relational Database
7 107 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
8 97 (2.32%) Amazon RDS
9 94 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
10 90 (2.15%) MongoDB
11 70 (1.67%) Delta Lake
12 68 (1.62%) Oracle Database
13 67 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
14 64 (1.53%) DynamoDB
15 55 (1.31%) Metadata
15 55 (1.31%) Redis
16 54 (1.29%) Tableau
17 49 (1.17%) Big Data
18 43 (1.03%) MySQL
19 42 (1.00%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 686 (16.38%) Jenkins
2 566 (13.52%) JIRA
3 555 (13.26%) Git
4 465 (11.11%) GitLab
5 107 (2.56%) Selenium
6 94 (2.25%) JUnit
7 77 (1.84%) Postman
8 73 (1.74%) Bitbucket
9 58 (1.39%) SonarQube
10 55 (1.31%) Cucumber
11 50 (1.19%) Artifactory
12 47 (1.12%) Maven
13 45 (1.07%) REST Assured
14 41 (0.98%) Cypress.io
14 41 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
15 35 (0.84%) JMeter
16 34 (0.81%) Oracle APEX
17 29 (0.69%) Liquibase
17 29 (0.69%) Mockito
18 26 (0.62%) MLflow
General
1 1,226 (29.28%) Social Skills
2 818 (19.54%) Finance
3 518 (12.37%) Public Sector
4 371 (8.86%) Analytical Skills
5 330 (7.88%) Banking
6 147 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
7 71 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
8 64 (1.53%) Financial Institution
9 57 (1.36%) Retail
10 55 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 51 (1.22%) Front Office
12 49 (1.17%) Marketing
13 48 (1.15%) Investment Banking
14 46 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
15 43 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
16 37 (0.88%) Telecoms
17 32 (0.76%) Legal
18 27 (0.64%) Military
19 23 (0.55%) Law
20 21 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 736 (17.58%) DevOps Engineer
2 653 (15.60%) Developer
3 579 (13.83%) Senior
4 461 (11.01%) Architect
5 358 (8.55%) Lead
6 263 (6.28%) Azure Engineer
7 260 (6.21%) Data Engineer
8 243 (5.80%) Analyst
9 197 (4.71%) AWS Engineer
10 162 (3.87%) Cloud Engineer
11 153 (3.65%) Platform Engineer
12 151 (3.61%) AWS DevOps
13 144 (3.44%) Software Engineer
14 133 (3.18%) Solutions Architect
15 128 (3.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 127 (3.03%) Business Analyst
17 126 (3.01%) Senior Developer
18 119 (2.84%) Senior DevOps
19 109 (2.60%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 108 (2.58%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 449 (10.72%) REST
2 341 (8.14%) .NET
3 258 (6.16%) Node.js
4 255 (6.09%) React
5 247 (5.90%) Kafka
6 231 (5.52%) Spring
7 207 (4.94%) Spring Boot
8 193 (4.61%) RESTful
9 163 (3.89%) AngularJS
10 143 (3.42%) JSON
11 137 (3.27%) YAML
12 125 (2.99%) HTML
13 119 (2.84%) Playwright
14 117 (2.79%) PySpark
15 110 (2.63%) OAuth
16 109 (2.60%) Elastic Stack
17 107 (2.56%) SOAP
18 104 (2.48%) Middleware
19 103 (2.46%) CSS
20 99 (2.36%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 602 (14.38%) Cloud Native
2 243 (5.80%) Product Ownership
3 153 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
4 106 (2.53%) Onboarding
5 105 (2.51%) Public Cloud
6 96 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
7 91 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
8 76 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
9 59 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
10 51 (1.22%) Management Information System
11 49 (1.17%) Virtual Team
12 42 (1.00%) Private Cloud
12 42 (1.00%) Security Posture
13 40 (0.96%) Data Centre
13 40 (0.96%) Data Structures
14 39 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
15 36 (0.86%) AI Agents
16 35 (0.84%) Replication
17 32 (0.76%) NHS
18 30 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 423 (10.10%) Linux
2 223 (5.33%) Windows
3 72 (1.72%) Unix
4 59 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 40 (0.96%) VMS
6 39 (0.93%) Windows Server
7 22 (0.53%) Ubuntu
8 14 (0.33%) CentOS
9 10 (0.24%) Windows 10
10 8 (0.19%) Android
11 7 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (0.12%) Solaris
14 4 (0.096%) Apple iOS
14 4 (0.096%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.072%) zOS
16 2 (0.048%) Debian
16 2 (0.048%) Oracle Linux
16 2 (0.048%) Rocky
16 2 (0.048%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,350 (56.13%) CI/CD
2 1,619 (38.67%) Agile
3 1,028 (24.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 783 (18.70%) Problem-Solving
5 746 (17.82%) Containerisation
6 619 (14.78%) Test Automation
7 616 (14.71%) Microservices
8 542 (12.94%) Continuous Improvement
9 532 (12.71%) Analytics
10 496 (11.85%) Migration
11 467 (11.15%) Scrum
12 463 (11.06%) Stakeholder Management
13 460 (10.99%) AI
14 457 (10.91%) Observability
15 384 (9.17%) Software Engineering
16 380 (9.08%) Data Modelling
17 347 (8.29%) Mentoring
18 321 (7.67%) Data Pipeline
19 304 (7.26%) Platform Engineering
20 300 (7.17%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1,275 (30.45%) Python
2 904 (21.59%) SQL
3 546 (13.04%) Java
4 413 (9.86%) C#
5 374 (8.93%) JavaScript
6 335 (8.00%) PowerShell
7 315 (7.52%) Bash
8 259 (6.19%) TypeScript
9 141 (3.37%) Bicep
10 120 (2.87%) Go
11 79 (1.89%) PL/SQL
12 63 (1.50%) Scala
13 45 (1.07%) Shell Script
14 44 (1.05%) T-SQL
15 42 (1.00%) C++
16 40 (0.96%) Ruby
17 35 (0.84%) Groovy
18 26 (0.62%) Apex Code
18 26 (0.62%) Rust
19 21 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1,344 (32.10%) Security Cleared
2 1,086 (25.94%) SC Cleared
3 336 (8.02%) Degree
4 196 (4.68%) Azure Certification
5 175 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 140 (3.34%) DV Cleared
7 117 (2.79%) AWS Certification
8 95 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
9 76 (1.82%) CISSP
10 69 (1.65%) Master's Degree
11 56 (1.34%) CISM
12 49 (1.17%) ISTQB
13 48 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
14 42 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 40 (0.96%) PMI Certification
16 34 (0.81%) PMP
17 33 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
18 25 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 22 (0.53%) IIBA
20 21 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 375 (8.96%) QA
2 186 (4.44%) Data Quality
3 167 (3.99%) GDPR
4 134 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 116 (2.77%) NIST
6 88 (2.10%) Accessibility
7 66 (1.58%) NCSC
8 37 (0.88%) PCI DSS
9 34 (0.81%) WCAG
10 28 (0.67%) SLA
11 27 (0.64%) PMO
12 25 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 18 (0.43%) HIPAA
14 15 (0.36%) ISO 20022
15 14 (0.33%) SOC 2
16 13 (0.31%) PSD2
17 11 (0.26%) GRC
17 11 (0.26%) NIST 800
17 11 (0.26%) SEPA
18 9 (0.21%) HL7
System Software
1 937 (22.38%) Docker
2 161 (3.85%) Active Directory
3 74 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
4 70 (1.67%) 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 (0.096%) NFS
15 4 (0.096%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1,200 (28.66%) Terraform
2 1,155 (27.59%) Kubernetes
3 464 (11.08%) Ansible
4 286 (6.83%) Grafana
5 240 (5.73%) Prometheus
6 96 (2.29%) Argo
7 69 (1.65%) Puppet
8 59 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
9 51 (1.22%) Istio
10 30 (0.72%) Packer
11 28 (0.67%) Progress Chef
11 28 (0.67%) vCenter Server
12 23 (0.55%) Kibana
13 20 (0.48%) Rancher
14 17 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 17 (0.41%) Consul
14 17 (0.41%) FortiGate
14 17 (0.41%) Podman
15 16 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
16 14 (0.33%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 731 (17.46%) Microsoft
2 284 (6.78%) Oracle
3 260 (6.21%) Databricks
4 228 (5.45%) Google
5 186 (4.44%) Splunk
6 145 (3.46%) Red Hat
7 139 (3.32%) ServiceNow
8 118 (2.82%) VMware
9 105 (2.51%) Salesforce
10 94 (2.25%) SAP
11 72 (1.72%) OpenAI
12 65 (1.55%) Atlassian
12 65 (1.55%) Dynatrace
13 58 (1.39%) CyberArk
14 38 (0.91%) Talend
15 37 (0.88%) IBM
16 35 (0.84%) Foundry
17 34 (0.81%) Denodo
18 29 (0.69%) Pure Storage
19 28 (0.67%) Informatica