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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,516 2,472 3,563
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.59% 10.08% 9.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.44% 11.04% 11.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,162 1,785 2,461
10th Percentile £390 £380 £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 £618 £650 £650
90th Percentile £703 £751 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 12 114
10th Percentile £39.53 £36.63 £56.55
25th Percentile £56.75 £51.25 £61.60
Median hourly rate £67.50 £68.75 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +4.96% -0.08%
75th Percentile £77.50 £84.41 £76.88
90th Percentile £94.75 £92.13 £86.59
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £66.50
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +1.53%

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 36,315 22,393 32,018
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.15% 91.34% 85.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,987 14,479 20,805
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £414 £407 £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 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,273 1,020 2,369
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.80
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +69.64% -25.33% +5.63%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.21 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.56% -25.45% +4.20%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 2,319 £545 -0.91% 374
North of England +7 829 £500 - 243
South East -2 462 £525 +5.00% 253
Yorkshire +3 451 £500 - 71
Midlands +3 420 £488 -2.50% 105
West Midlands 0 331 £500 -4.03% 70
North West +1 309 £510 +2.00% 141
South West +14 277 £523 -5.00% 106
East of England +21 130 £525 +6.33% 72
North East +6 87 £450 -16.28% 34
East Midlands -1 85 £465 +0.54% 35
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
1 258 (5.71%) Confluence
2 125 (2.77%) Apache Spark
3 111 (2.46%) SharePoint
4 93 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
5 88 (1.95%) Apache
6 76 (1.68%) SAS
7 46 (1.02%) CMS
8 26 (0.58%) IIS
8 26 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
8 26 (0.58%) nginx
9 25 (0.55%) Jupyter
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 (0.16%) Mendix
16 7 (0.16%) Tomcat
17 6 (0.13%) Mattermost
Applications
1 69 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
3 46 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
5 25 (0.55%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.18%) CPLEX
7 7 (0.16%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.089%) 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 59 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
4 10 (0.22%) Maximo
5 8 (0.18%) Aladdin
5 8 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
5 8 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
6 7 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.13%) Endur
8 5 (0.11%) Magento
8 5 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.089%) 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 2,403 (53.21%) Azure
2 1,548 (34.28%) AWS
3 1,316 (29.14%) Azure DevOps
4 738 (16.34%) GitHub
5 561 (12.42%) GCP
6 441 (9.77%) GitHub Actions
7 401 (8.88%) Serverless
8 387 (8.57%) Power Platform
9 249 (5.51%) Amazon S3
10 219 (4.85%) AWS Lambda
11 215 (4.76%) Entra ID
12 192 (4.25%) AWS CloudFormation
13 185 (4.10%) Azure AKS
14 176 (3.90%) Azure Data Factory
15 163 (3.61%) Amazon EKS
16 146 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 144 (3.19%) OpenShift
18 143 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
19 139 (3.08%) PaaS
20 137 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 224 (4.96%) Firewall
2 124 (2.75%) DNS
3 97 (2.15%) Network Security
4 96 (2.13%) VPN
5 46 (1.02%) WAN
6 45 (1.00%) TCP/IP
7 36 (0.80%) SD-WAN
8 31 (0.69%) BGP
9 28 (0.62%) SSL
10 27 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
11 24 (0.53%) OSPF
12 23 (0.51%) DHCP
13 22 (0.49%) Internet
14 19 (0.42%) SAN
15 17 (0.38%) HTTP
15 17 (0.38%) IPsec
15 17 (0.38%) VXLAN
16 16 (0.35%) LAN
16 16 (0.35%) MPLS
17 15 (0.33%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 255 (5.65%) Power BI
2 230 (5.09%) SQL Server
3 216 (4.78%) PostgreSQL
4 160 (3.54%) NoSQL
5 152 (3.37%) Data Lake
6 139 (3.08%) Relational Database
7 129 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
8 122 (2.70%) MongoDB
9 96 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
10 88 (1.95%) Azure SQL Database
11 83 (1.84%) Delta Lake
12 76 (1.68%) DynamoDB
13 75 (1.66%) Metadata
14 68 (1.51%) Oracle Database
15 62 (1.37%) Redis
16 58 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
17 55 (1.22%) Big Data
18 53 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
19 48 (1.06%) BigQuery
20 46 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 622 (13.77%) Jenkins
2 565 (12.51%) Git
3 530 (11.74%) JIRA
4 470 (10.41%) GitLab
5 91 (2.02%) Selenium
6 84 (1.86%) Postman
7 77 (1.71%) SonarQube
8 76 (1.68%) JUnit
9 62 (1.37%) Bitbucket
10 60 (1.33%) Maven
10 60 (1.33%) REST Assured
11 50 (1.11%) Cucumber
12 45 (1.00%) JMeter
13 42 (0.93%) Artifactory
14 40 (0.89%) Gatling
15 37 (0.82%) Gradle
16 36 (0.80%) Cypress.io
17 35 (0.78%) Mockito
18 29 (0.64%) LoadRunner
19 28 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,148 (25.42%) Social Skills
2 860 (19.04%) Finance
3 567 (12.56%) Public Sector
4 377 (8.35%) Analytical Skills
5 308 (6.82%) Banking
6 134 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
7 84 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 74 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
9 68 (1.51%) Retail
10 53 (1.17%) Legal
10 53 (1.17%) Marketing
11 47 (1.04%) Financial Institution
11 47 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
12 41 (0.91%) Military
13 38 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
14 36 (0.80%) Investment Banking
15 34 (0.75%) Law
16 30 (0.66%) Front Office
17 25 (0.55%) Aerospace
18 23 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 898 (19.88%) DevOps Engineer
2 649 (14.37%) Developer
3 640 (14.17%) Senior
4 554 (12.27%) Architect
5 420 (9.30%) Lead
6 300 (6.64%) Azure Engineer
7 280 (6.20%) Data Engineer
8 271 (6.00%) Analyst
9 197 (4.36%) AWS Engineer
10 176 (3.90%) Cloud Engineer
11 172 (3.81%) Solutions Architect
12 169 (3.74%) Platform Engineer
13 149 (3.30%) Senior DevOps
14 147 (3.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 145 (3.21%) Business Analyst
16 139 (3.08%) AWS DevOps
17 135 (2.99%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 135 (2.99%) Software Engineer
18 132 (2.92%) Java Developer
19 129 (2.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 412 (9.12%) REST
2 379 (8.39%) .NET
3 261 (5.78%) Kafka
4 254 (5.62%) React
5 251 (5.56%) Spring
6 238 (5.27%) Spring Boot
7 205 (4.54%) RESTful
8 201 (4.45%) Node.js
9 147 (3.26%) AngularJS
10 134 (2.97%) PySpark
11 126 (2.79%) OAuth
12 121 (2.68%) YAML
13 120 (2.66%) Playwright
14 119 (2.64%) JSON
15 106 (2.35%) SOAP
16 101 (2.24%) .NET Framework
17 98 (2.17%) HTML
18 96 (2.13%) OpenID
19 94 (2.08%) Middleware
20 85 (1.88%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 774 (17.14%) Cloud Native
2 279 (6.18%) Product Ownership
3 189 (4.19%) Distributed Systems
4 123 (2.72%) Onboarding
5 113 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
6 100 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
7 97 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
8 82 (1.82%) Public Cloud
9 68 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
10 66 (1.46%) Data Centre
11 57 (1.26%) Management Information System
12 51 (1.13%) Mobile App
13 50 (1.11%) Security Posture
13 50 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
14 47 (1.04%) AI Agents
15 41 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
16 40 (0.89%) Data Structures
16 40 (0.89%) Virtual Team
17 39 (0.86%) Replication
18 38 (0.84%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 386 (8.55%) Linux
2 230 (5.09%) Windows
3 91 (2.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 66 (1.46%) Unix
5 48 (1.06%) Windows Server
6 30 (0.66%) VMS
7 29 (0.64%) Ubuntu
8 21 (0.47%) Apple iOS
9 17 (0.38%) Android
10 14 (0.31%) CentOS
11 10 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
12 9 (0.20%) Solaris
13 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
13 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
14 5 (0.11%) Windows 10
15 4 (0.089%) Alpine Linux
15 4 (0.089%) Data ONTAP
16 3 (0.066%) Oracle Linux
16 3 (0.066%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,566 (56.82%) CI/CD
2 1,650 (36.54%) Agile
3 1,189 (26.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 708 (15.68%) Containerisation
5 686 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
6 647 (14.33%) Microservices
7 625 (13.84%) Test Automation
8 615 (13.62%) Continuous Improvement
9 557 (12.33%) Observability
10 555 (12.29%) Stakeholder Management
11 553 (12.25%) Migration
12 545 (12.07%) AI
13 530 (11.74%) Analytics
14 508 (11.25%) Scrum
15 472 (10.45%) Software Engineering
16 458 (10.14%) Platform Engineering
17 414 (9.17%) Data Modelling
18 379 (8.39%) Mentoring
19 377 (8.35%) Roadmaps
20 374 (8.28%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1,259 (27.88%) Python
2 884 (19.57%) SQL
3 628 (13.91%) Java
4 411 (9.10%) C#
5 333 (7.37%) PowerShell
6 328 (7.26%) Bash
7 318 (7.04%) JavaScript
8 222 (4.92%) TypeScript
9 149 (3.30%) Bicep
10 92 (2.04%) Go
11 61 (1.35%) Scala
12 56 (1.24%) Shell Script
13 47 (1.04%) Apex Code
13 47 (1.04%) T-SQL
14 45 (1.00%) PL/SQL
15 39 (0.86%) Groovy
16 26 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 24 (0.53%) Kotlin
18 23 (0.51%) C++
19 22 (0.49%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,446 (32.02%) Security Cleared
2 1,202 (26.62%) SC Cleared
3 288 (6.38%) Degree
4 193 (4.27%) Azure Certification
5 145 (3.21%) DV Cleared
6 143 (3.17%) AWS Certification
7 118 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 117 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
9 74 (1.64%) CISSP
10 63 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
11 44 (0.97%) CISM
12 43 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
13 42 (0.93%) ISTQB
14 41 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 36 (0.80%) Master's Degree
15 36 (0.80%) PMI Certification
16 35 (0.78%) PMP
17 23 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
18 22 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
19 21 (0.47%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 378 (8.37%) QA
2 214 (4.74%) Data Quality
3 158 (3.50%) GDPR
4 118 (2.61%) Accessibility
5 117 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 112 (2.48%) NIST
7 66 (1.46%) NCSC
8 56 (1.24%) WCAG
9 48 (1.06%) PCI DSS
10 40 (0.89%) SLA
11 29 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 25 (0.55%) GRC
13 24 (0.53%) PMO
14 16 (0.35%) HIPAA
15 14 (0.31%) SOC 2
16 12 (0.27%) ISO 20022
16 12 (0.27%) PSD2
17 11 (0.24%) NIST 800
18 10 (0.22%) SEPA
19 7 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 863 (19.11%) Docker
2 163 (3.61%) Active Directory
3 68 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
4 65 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 31 (0.69%) vSphere
6 22 (0.49%) VMware NSX
7 18 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
8 17 (0.38%) Squid
9 16 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
10 14 (0.31%) Postfix
11 13 (0.29%) Hyper-V
12 7 (0.16%) RACF
13 6 (0.13%) Corosync
13 6 (0.13%) Firmware
13 6 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
14 5 (0.11%) KVM
14 5 (0.11%) SRDF
15 4 (0.089%) HDFS
15 4 (0.089%) Microsoft App-V
15 4 (0.089%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,285 (28.45%) Terraform
2 1,126 (24.93%) Kubernetes
3 454 (10.05%) Ansible
4 303 (6.71%) Grafana
5 260 (5.76%) Prometheus
6 86 (1.90%) Argo
7 72 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
8 62 (1.37%) Puppet
9 44 (0.97%) Istio
10 29 (0.64%) Progress Chef
11 28 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
11 28 (0.62%) Packer
12 24 (0.53%) vCenter Server
13 22 (0.49%) 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 (0.27%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 805 (17.83%) Microsoft
2 249 (5.51%) Databricks
3 239 (5.29%) Oracle
4 207 (4.58%) Google
5 171 (3.79%) Splunk
6 169 (3.74%) ServiceNow
7 136 (3.01%) Salesforce
8 129 (2.86%) Red Hat
9 106 (2.35%) VMware
10 103 (2.28%) SAP
11 102 (2.26%) Dynatrace
12 60 (1.33%) OpenAI
13 49 (1.09%) IBM
14 47 (1.04%) Atlassian
15 46 (1.02%) CyberArk
16 41 (0.91%) Informatica
17 38 (0.84%) AppDynamics
18 37 (0.82%) Foundry
19 34 (0.75%) Cisco
20 31 (0.69%) Okta