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 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 14 17
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing DevOps 3,776 2,738 3,278
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.24% 10.59% 8.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.84% 11.81% 9.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,644 1,888 2,402
10th Percentile £380 £400 £413
25th Percentile £438 £475 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £571
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +0.66% -4.79%
75th Percentile £614 £675 £675
90th Percentile £719 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 19 99
10th Percentile - £37.95 £46.18
25th Percentile £45.46 £56.88 £56.65
Median hourly rate £50.00 £67.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +3.85% -0.76%
75th Percentile £77.50 £80.75 £74.21
90th Percentile £94.50 £82.10 £81.62
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £73.23 £65.00
% change year-on-year -28.30% +12.65% -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 29,411 23,191 33,300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.56% 89.73% 87.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,824 14,242 22,230
10th Percentile £306 £310 £300
25th Percentile £411 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £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 1,845 729 1,976
10th Percentile £15.13 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.05 £16.30
Median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.37% - -
75th Percentile £60.25 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £72.90
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.07
% change year-on-year -22.62% -1.71% +1.74%

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 10 February 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 10 February 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 10 February 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 1,887 £540 -10.00% 479
North of England +4 685 £500 -3.61% 300
South East 0 413 £525 -8.70% 337
Midlands +22 385 £513 +2.55% 109
Yorkshire +1 357 £500 -2.20% 99
West Midlands +19 308 £525 +5.00% 82
North West +3 280 £468 -10.53% 173
South West +12 243 £525 -12.50% 134
East of England +19 112 £573 +8.79% 60
East Midlands +7 77 £425 -10.53% 28
North East -3 51 £475 -9.52% 31
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
1 235 (6.22%) Confluence
2 83 (2.20%) Apache Spark
3 82 (2.17%) Apache
3 82 (2.17%) SharePoint
4 57 (1.51%) SAS
5 55 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
6 36 (0.95%) OpenStack
7 30 (0.79%) CMS
7 30 (0.79%) nginx
8 20 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
9 18 (0.48%) IIS
10 15 (0.40%) JBoss
11 11 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 11 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
11 11 (0.29%) WebLogic
12 10 (0.26%) HCL Notes
12 10 (0.26%) Mendix
13 8 (0.21%) Camunda
13 8 (0.21%) CICS
13 8 (0.21%) Smallworld
Applications
1 94 (2.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 36 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
4 28 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
5 18 (0.48%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.29%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.21%) Weka
8 6 (0.16%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 3 (0.079%) Trello
10 2 (0.053%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.026%) CPLEX
11 1 (0.026%) Revit
Business Applications
1 59 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.29%) Endur
3 10 (0.26%) Maximo
4 9 (0.24%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
4 9 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.21%) NEC Housing
6 6 (0.16%) VisionPLUS
7 5 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
7 5 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.11%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.079%) Oracle Assets
9 3 (0.079%) Oracle General Ledger
9 3 (0.079%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.079%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.079%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.079%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.079%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,940 (51.38%) Azure
2 1,318 (34.90%) AWS
3 1,044 (27.65%) Azure DevOps
4 696 (18.43%) GitHub
5 572 (15.15%) GCP
6 424 (11.23%) Serverless
7 374 (9.90%) GitHub Actions
8 307 (8.13%) Power Platform
9 203 (5.38%) Amazon S3
10 202 (5.35%) AWS CloudFormation
11 199 (5.27%) AWS Lambda
12 186 (4.93%) Azure Data Factory
13 173 (4.58%) Azure AKS
14 164 (4.34%) OpenShift
15 163 (4.32%) Entra ID
16 149 (3.95%) Dynamics 365
17 148 (3.92%) Amazon EKS
18 145 (3.84%) Azure Monitor
19 142 (3.76%) SaaS
20 130 (3.44%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 182 (4.82%) Firewall
2 104 (2.75%) DNS
3 80 (2.12%) VPN
4 78 (2.07%) Network Security
5 50 (1.32%) TCP/IP
6 42 (1.11%) SSL
7 29 (0.77%) HTTP
8 28 (0.74%) HTTPS
9 21 (0.56%) WAN
10 18 (0.48%) DHCP
11 16 (0.42%) Kerberos
12 14 (0.37%) BGP
12 14 (0.37%) SD-WAN
13 13 (0.34%) MPLS
14 11 (0.29%) FTP
14 11 (0.29%) LAN
15 10 (0.26%) Internet
15 10 (0.26%) SSH
16 9 (0.24%) IPsec
16 9 (0.24%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 213 (5.64%) PostgreSQL
2 201 (5.32%) Power BI
3 146 (3.87%) NoSQL
4 141 (3.73%) SQL Server
5 115 (3.05%) Data Lake
6 106 (2.81%) Amazon RDS
7 90 (2.38%) Relational Database
8 88 (2.33%) MongoDB
9 83 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
10 73 (1.93%) Azure SQL Database
10 73 (1.93%) Oracle Database
11 70 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
12 57 (1.51%) DynamoDB
13 51 (1.35%) Redis
14 50 (1.32%) MySQL
15 48 (1.27%) Tableau
16 47 (1.24%) Delta Lake
17 45 (1.19%) Metadata
18 37 (0.98%) Amazon Athena
19 36 (0.95%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 656 (17.37%) Jenkins
2 510 (13.51%) JIRA
3 504 (13.35%) Git
4 483 (12.79%) GitLab
5 112 (2.97%) Selenium
6 84 (2.22%) JUnit
7 79 (2.09%) Postman
8 61 (1.62%) SonarQube
9 57 (1.51%) Sonatype Nexus
10 51 (1.35%) Bitbucket
11 49 (1.30%) Cucumber
12 46 (1.22%) Artifactory
12 46 (1.22%) Cypress.io
13 45 (1.19%) Maven
14 39 (1.03%) REST Assured
15 38 (1.01%) Gradle
16 36 (0.95%) Oracle APEX
17 33 (0.87%) JMeter
17 33 (0.87%) Liquibase
18 29 (0.77%) CircleCI
General
1 1,182 (31.30%) Social Skills
2 688 (18.22%) Finance
3 451 (11.94%) Public Sector
4 328 (8.69%) Analytical Skills
5 305 (8.08%) Banking
6 137 (3.63%) Documentation Skills
7 75 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
8 65 (1.72%) Financial Institution
9 58 (1.54%) Marketing
10 56 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 49 (1.30%) Retail
12 45 (1.19%) Front Office
13 42 (1.11%) Investment Banking
13 42 (1.11%) Telecoms
14 41 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
15 32 (0.85%) Military
16 31 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
17 27 (0.72%) Law
18 26 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
19 24 (0.64%) Legal
Job Titles
1 723 (19.15%) DevOps Engineer
2 628 (16.63%) Developer
3 508 (13.45%) Senior
4 386 (10.22%) Architect
5 297 (7.87%) Lead
6 232 (6.14%) Azure Engineer
7 205 (5.43%) Analyst
8 203 (5.38%) AWS Engineer
9 199 (5.27%) Data Engineer
10 154 (4.08%) AWS DevOps
11 143 (3.79%) Cloud Engineer
11 143 (3.79%) Software Engineer
12 134 (3.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 131 (3.47%) Platform Engineer
14 120 (3.18%) Senior Developer
14 120 (3.18%) Solutions Architect
15 116 (3.07%) Business Analyst
16 104 (2.75%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 101 (2.67%) Senior DevOps
18 95 (2.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 440 (11.65%) REST
2 302 (8.00%) .NET
3 244 (6.46%) Node.js
4 243 (6.44%) React
5 221 (5.85%) Kafka
6 206 (5.46%) Spring
7 193 (5.11%) RESTful
8 189 (5.01%) Spring Boot
9 157 (4.16%) JSON
10 123 (3.26%) YAML
11 122 (3.23%) AngularJS
12 121 (3.20%) Elastic Stack
13 118 (3.13%) XML
14 117 (3.10%) SOAP
15 116 (3.07%) OAuth
16 111 (2.94%) HTML
17 100 (2.65%) Playwright
18 95 (2.52%) Middleware
19 92 (2.44%) CSS
20 90 (2.38%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 549 (14.54%) Cloud Native
2 202 (5.35%) Product Ownership
3 137 (3.63%) Distributed Systems
4 108 (2.86%) Onboarding
5 103 (2.73%) Public Cloud
6 77 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
7 71 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
8 65 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
9 49 (1.30%) Management Information System
10 46 (1.22%) Virtual Team
11 45 (1.19%) Private Cloud
11 45 (1.19%) Security Posture
12 43 (1.14%) Replication
13 42 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
14 39 (1.03%) Mobile App
15 37 (0.98%) NHS
16 36 (0.95%) Data Centre
17 33 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
18 31 (0.82%) AI Agents
19 30 (0.79%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 425 (11.26%) Linux
2 210 (5.56%) Windows
3 83 (2.20%) Unix
4 49 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 45 (1.19%) VMS
6 41 (1.09%) Windows Server
7 29 (0.77%) Ubuntu
8 19 (0.50%) Android
8 19 (0.50%) Windows 10
9 18 (0.48%) Apple iOS
10 17 (0.45%) CentOS
11 8 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
11 8 (0.21%) Solaris
12 7 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
13 5 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.079%) zOS
16 2 (0.053%) Debian
17 1 (0.026%) Embedded Linux
17 1 (0.026%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,161 (57.23%) CI/CD
2 1,481 (39.22%) Agile
3 968 (25.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 743 (19.68%) Problem-Solving
5 723 (19.15%) Containerisation
6 561 (14.86%) Test Automation
7 556 (14.72%) Microservices
8 450 (11.92%) Analytics
9 447 (11.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 437 (11.57%) Migration
11 404 (10.70%) Scrum
12 397 (10.51%) Observability
13 389 (10.30%) AI
14 372 (9.85%) Stakeholder Management
15 342 (9.06%) Software Engineering
16 315 (8.34%) Mentoring
17 296 (7.84%) Data Modelling
18 260 (6.89%) Business Intelligence
19 256 (6.78%) Validation
20 252 (6.67%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,140 (30.19%) Python
2 765 (20.26%) SQL
3 497 (13.16%) Java
4 360 (9.53%) JavaScript
5 347 (9.19%) C#
6 321 (8.50%) PowerShell
7 296 (7.84%) Bash
8 262 (6.94%) TypeScript
9 130 (3.44%) Go
10 127 (3.36%) Bicep
11 75 (1.99%) PL/SQL
12 58 (1.54%) Scala
13 44 (1.17%) Groovy
14 43 (1.14%) Shell Script
15 39 (1.03%) T-SQL
16 38 (1.01%) Ruby
17 36 (0.95%) C++
18 24 (0.64%) Rust
19 22 (0.58%) Perl
20 21 (0.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,199 (31.75%) Security Cleared
2 985 (26.09%) SC Cleared
3 333 (8.82%) Degree
4 178 (4.71%) Azure Certification
5 176 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 134 (3.55%) DV Cleared
7 114 (3.02%) AWS Certification
8 80 (2.12%) Master's Degree
9 77 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
10 67 (1.77%) CISSP
11 59 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
12 54 (1.43%) CISM
13 40 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 40 (1.06%) ISTQB
14 33 (0.87%) PMI Certification
15 26 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
15 26 (0.69%) PMP
16 23 (0.61%) IIBA
17 22 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 19 (0.50%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 328 (8.69%) QA
2 160 (4.24%) GDPR
3 130 (3.44%) Data Quality
4 122 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 111 (2.94%) NIST
6 90 (2.38%) Accessibility
7 66 (1.75%) NCSC
8 31 (0.82%) PCI DSS
9 28 (0.74%) WCAG
10 26 (0.69%) SLA
11 25 (0.66%) HIPAA
12 23 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 19 (0.50%) PMO
14 18 (0.48%) PSD2
14 18 (0.48%) SOC 2
15 16 (0.42%) ISO 20022
16 14 (0.37%) SEPA
17 10 (0.26%) NIST 800
18 8 (0.21%) HL7
19 7 (0.19%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 917 (24.28%) Docker
2 156 (4.13%) Active Directory
3 68 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
4 66 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 38 (1.01%) vSphere
6 23 (0.61%) VMware NSX
7 17 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.37%) Squid
9 11 (0.29%) DFS Replication
9 11 (0.29%) Lustre
9 11 (0.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 9 (0.24%) GPFS
10 9 (0.24%) Hyper-V
11 8 (0.21%) Postfix
12 7 (0.19%) Firmware
12 7 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
13 6 (0.16%) Dovecot
13 6 (0.16%) NFS
13 6 (0.16%) Tivoli Directory Server
13 6 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,152 (30.51%) Terraform
2 1,114 (29.50%) Kubernetes
3 449 (11.89%) Ansible
4 272 (7.20%) Grafana
5 240 (6.36%) Prometheus
6 83 (2.20%) Argo
7 68 (1.80%) Puppet
8 60 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
9 38 (1.01%) Istio
10 35 (0.93%) Kibana
11 30 (0.79%) Packer
12 29 (0.77%) Progress Chef
13 20 (0.53%) Podman
13 20 (0.53%) vCenter Server
14 16 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 16 (0.42%) Rancher
15 15 (0.40%) Consul
15 15 (0.40%) logstash
15 15 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
16 14 (0.37%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 662 (17.53%) Microsoft
2 261 (6.91%) Oracle
3 225 (5.96%) Databricks
4 224 (5.93%) Google
5 202 (5.35%) Splunk
6 141 (3.73%) ServiceNow
7 123 (3.26%) Red Hat
8 114 (3.02%) VMware
9 95 (2.52%) Salesforce
10 90 (2.38%) SAP
11 67 (1.77%) OpenAI
12 55 (1.46%) Dynatrace
13 53 (1.40%) CyberArk
14 44 (1.17%) Atlassian
15 40 (1.06%) F5
15 40 (1.06%) IBM
16 33 (0.87%) Palo Alto
17 29 (0.77%) Foundry
17 29 (0.77%) Talend
18 27 (0.72%) MuleSoft