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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,396 2,402 3,426
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.58% 10.01% 9.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.48% 10.97% 10.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,078 1,758 2,391
10th Percentile £393 £393 £400
25th Percentile £447 £454 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.55% -3.05% -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £656 £650
90th Percentile £701 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -6.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 12 108
10th Percentile £39.53 £36.63 £56.50
25th Percentile £55.69 £51.25 £61.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.50 £65.25
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -0.38%
75th Percentile £77.50 £82.24 £77.81
90th Percentile £94.75 £91.55 £87.14
UK median hourly rate £68.50 £71.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year -4.35% +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 35,226 21,902 31,378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.76% 91.29% 86.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,404 14,316 20,563
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,174 928 2,273
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.42 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.39 £18.20 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.25 £28.48 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +58.88% -21.97% -2.14%
75th Percentile £67.84 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.17 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.28 £27.94 £36.00
% change year-on-year +51.31% -22.39% -

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 2,246 £550 -1.79% 542
North of England +6 783 £500 - 303
South East +2 486 £513 +2.65% 259
Yorkshire 0 435 £500 - 83
Midlands +5 400 £488 -2.50% 101
West Midlands +2 309 £500 -4.58% 68
North West +1 285 £500 - 173
South West +16 283 £525 -4.55% 128
East of England +18 127 £525 +3.45% 64
East Midlands +1 87 £465 +0.54% 33
North East +6 77 £450 -16.28% 49
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
1 242 (5.51%) Confluence
2 122 (2.78%) Apache Spark
3 106 (2.41%) SharePoint
4 85 (1.93%) Apache
5 74 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
6 67 (1.52%) SAS
7 39 (0.89%) CMS
8 25 (0.57%) IIS
9 24 (0.55%) nginx
10 22 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
11 18 (0.41%) OpenStack
12 13 (0.30%) Jupyter
13 12 (0.27%) WebSphere
14 11 (0.25%) Camunda
14 11 (0.25%) Mendix
15 10 (0.23%) HCL Notes
15 10 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
16 9 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 9 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
17 6 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 64 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
3 42 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
5 23 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.091%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.091%) CPLEX
6 4 (0.091%) Trello
7 3 (0.068%) Notion
8 2 (0.045%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.045%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.023%) InDesign
9 1 (0.023%) Maya
9 1 (0.023%) Weka
Business Applications
1 56 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
3 10 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
4 9 (0.20%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.20%) Maximo
5 8 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
6 6 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.11%) Endur
7 5 (0.11%) Magento
7 5 (0.11%) NEC Housing
8 4 (0.091%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.091%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.068%) Findur
9 3 (0.068%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.068%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 2 (0.045%) Dynamics GP
10 2 (0.045%) OpenText MBPM
10 2 (0.045%) SAP MM
10 2 (0.045%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 2,341 (53.25%) Azure
2 1,475 (33.55%) AWS
3 1,273 (28.96%) Azure DevOps
4 717 (16.31%) GitHub
5 560 (12.74%) GCP
6 419 (9.53%) GitHub Actions
7 402 (9.14%) Serverless
8 368 (8.37%) Power Platform
9 240 (5.46%) Amazon S3
10 212 (4.82%) Entra ID
11 204 (4.64%) AWS Lambda
12 195 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
12 195 (4.44%) Azure Data Factory
13 185 (4.21%) Azure AKS
14 160 (3.64%) OpenShift
15 152 (3.46%) Amazon EKS
16 140 (3.18%) PaaS
17 137 (3.12%) Azure Monitor
18 133 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
19 130 (2.96%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 201 (4.57%) Firewall
2 111 (2.53%) DNS
3 89 (2.02%) Network Security
4 86 (1.96%) VPN
5 43 (0.98%) TCP/IP
6 36 (0.82%) WAN
7 32 (0.73%) SD-WAN
8 26 (0.59%) BGP
8 26 (0.59%) SSL
9 22 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
10 21 (0.48%) DHCP
10 21 (0.48%) HTTP
11 19 (0.43%) OSPF
12 18 (0.41%) IPsec
13 17 (0.39%) SAN
14 16 (0.36%) MPLS
15 14 (0.32%) Internet
15 14 (0.32%) LAN
15 14 (0.32%) Reverse Proxy
15 14 (0.32%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 246 (5.60%) Power BI
2 218 (4.96%) PostgreSQL
3 215 (4.89%) SQL Server
4 164 (3.73%) NoSQL
5 155 (3.53%) Data Lake
6 137 (3.12%) Relational Database
7 123 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
8 116 (2.64%) MongoDB
9 88 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
9 88 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
10 87 (1.98%) Delta Lake
11 78 (1.77%) DynamoDB
12 72 (1.64%) Metadata
13 68 (1.55%) Oracle Database
14 63 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
15 56 (1.27%) Big Data
16 54 (1.23%) Redis
17 49 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
18 47 (1.07%) BigQuery
19 45 (1.02%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 623 (14.17%) Jenkins
2 554 (12.60%) Git
3 515 (11.72%) JIRA
4 445 (10.12%) GitLab
5 92 (2.09%) Selenium
6 90 (2.05%) Postman
7 75 (1.71%) SonarQube
8 73 (1.66%) JUnit
9 60 (1.36%) Bitbucket
10 58 (1.32%) REST Assured
11 57 (1.30%) Maven
12 50 (1.14%) Cucumber
13 47 (1.07%) Artifactory
14 44 (1.00%) JMeter
15 42 (0.96%) Cypress.io
16 40 (0.91%) Gatling
17 33 (0.75%) Gradle
17 33 (0.75%) Mockito
18 28 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
19 25 (0.57%) LoadRunner
General
1 1,102 (25.07%) Social Skills
2 830 (18.88%) Finance
3 528 (12.01%) Public Sector
4 370 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
5 306 (6.96%) Banking
6 132 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
7 71 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
8 68 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 60 (1.36%) Retail
10 52 (1.18%) Legal
11 51 (1.16%) Financial Institution
12 49 (1.11%) Marketing
12 49 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
13 40 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
14 38 (0.86%) Front Office
14 38 (0.86%) Military
15 37 (0.84%) Investment Banking
16 26 (0.59%) Law
17 23 (0.52%) Aerospace
18 21 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 876 (19.93%) DevOps Engineer
2 619 (14.08%) Developer
3 608 (13.83%) Senior
4 528 (12.01%) Architect
5 380 (8.64%) Lead
6 300 (6.82%) Azure Engineer
7 281 (6.39%) Data Engineer
8 265 (6.03%) Analyst
9 184 (4.19%) AWS Engineer
10 168 (3.82%) Solutions Architect
11 163 (3.71%) Cloud Engineer
12 156 (3.55%) Platform Engineer
13 143 (3.25%) Senior DevOps
14 139 (3.16%) Software Engineer
15 137 (3.12%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 137 (3.12%) Business Analyst
16 132 (3.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 131 (2.98%) AWS DevOps
18 121 (2.75%) Java Developer
19 119 (2.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 392 (8.92%) REST
2 368 (8.37%) .NET
3 268 (6.10%) Kafka
4 249 (5.66%) React
4 249 (5.66%) Spring
5 235 (5.35%) Spring Boot
6 223 (5.07%) Node.js
7 203 (4.62%) RESTful
8 149 (3.39%) AngularJS
9 133 (3.03%) PySpark
10 129 (2.93%) Playwright
11 126 (2.87%) YAML
12 124 (2.82%) JSON
13 118 (2.68%) OAuth
14 103 (2.34%) Middleware
15 102 (2.32%) SOAP
16 98 (2.23%) HTML
17 91 (2.07%) .NET Framework
18 88 (2.00%) OpenID
19 87 (1.98%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 704 (16.01%) Cloud Native
2 274 (6.23%) Product Ownership
3 174 (3.96%) Distributed Systems
4 115 (2.62%) Onboarding
5 100 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
6 89 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
7 83 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
8 78 (1.77%) Public Cloud
9 70 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
10 54 (1.23%) Data Centre
11 51 (1.16%) Management Information System
12 44 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
13 41 (0.93%) AI Agents
14 40 (0.91%) Private Cloud
15 39 (0.89%) Data Structures
15 39 (0.89%) Mobile App
15 39 (0.89%) Replication
15 39 (0.89%) Virtual Team
16 37 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
17 36 (0.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 384 (8.74%) Linux
2 221 (5.03%) Windows
3 69 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 67 (1.52%) Unix
5 41 (0.93%) Windows Server
6 35 (0.80%) VMS
7 23 (0.52%) Ubuntu
8 17 (0.39%) Apple iOS
9 14 (0.32%) Android
10 12 (0.27%) CentOS
11 10 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (0.16%) Windows 10
13 6 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
14 5 (0.11%) Solaris
15 4 (0.091%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.091%) Windows Server 2012
16 3 (0.068%) Mac OS
16 3 (0.068%) Oracle Linux
16 3 (0.068%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,473 (56.26%) CI/CD
2 1,595 (36.28%) Agile
3 1,101 (25.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 703 (15.99%) Containerisation
5 680 (15.47%) Problem-Solving
6 642 (14.60%) Microservices
7 616 (14.01%) Test Automation
8 584 (13.28%) Continuous Improvement
9 536 (12.19%) Migration
10 532 (12.10%) Observability
11 508 (11.56%) Stakeholder Management
12 506 (11.51%) Analytics
13 495 (11.26%) AI
14 479 (10.90%) Scrum
15 440 (10.01%) Software Engineering
16 417 (9.49%) Data Modelling
17 408 (9.28%) Platform Engineering
18 366 (8.33%) Mentoring
19 348 (7.92%) Data Pipeline
19 348 (7.92%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,186 (26.98%) Python
2 885 (20.13%) SQL
3 602 (13.69%) Java
4 408 (9.28%) C#
5 315 (7.17%) JavaScript
6 311 (7.07%) PowerShell
7 306 (6.96%) Bash
8 231 (5.25%) TypeScript
9 146 (3.32%) Bicep
10 91 (2.07%) Go
11 67 (1.52%) Scala
12 53 (1.21%) Shell Script
13 49 (1.11%) PL/SQL
14 43 (0.98%) Apex Code
15 42 (0.96%) T-SQL
16 39 (0.89%) Groovy
17 28 (0.64%) C++
18 25 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 23 (0.52%) Ruby
20 22 (0.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,413 (32.14%) Security Cleared
2 1,160 (26.39%) SC Cleared
3 286 (6.51%) Degree
4 189 (4.30%) Azure Certification
5 146 (3.32%) DV Cleared
6 127 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 114 (2.59%) AWS Certification
8 105 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 64 (1.46%) CISSP
10 53 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
11 45 (1.02%) CISM
11 45 (1.02%) ISTQB
12 43 (0.98%) Master's Degree
13 41 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
14 37 (0.84%) PMI Certification
15 36 (0.82%) PMP
16 35 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 23 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
18 21 (0.48%) IIBA
19 20 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 388 (8.83%) QA
2 204 (4.64%) Data Quality
3 161 (3.66%) GDPR
4 117 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 111 (2.53%) NIST
6 106 (2.41%) Accessibility
7 60 (1.36%) NCSC
8 48 (1.09%) WCAG
9 46 (1.05%) PCI DSS
10 34 (0.77%) SLA
11 31 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 28 (0.64%) PMO
13 20 (0.45%) GRC
14 15 (0.34%) HIPAA
15 13 (0.30%) ISO 20022
15 13 (0.30%) NIST 800
16 12 (0.27%) PSD2
17 11 (0.25%) SOC 2
18 10 (0.23%) SEPA
19 8 (0.18%) HL7
System Software
1 848 (19.29%) Docker
2 158 (3.59%) Active Directory
3 68 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
4 56 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 31 (0.71%) vSphere
6 21 (0.48%) VMware NSX
7 17 (0.39%) Squid
7 17 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.32%) Postfix
9 10 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (0.20%) Hyper-V
11 8 (0.18%) Firmware
12 6 (0.14%) Corosync
12 6 (0.14%) RACF
13 5 (0.11%) HDFS
13 5 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
14 4 (0.091%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
14 4 (0.091%) NFS
14 4 (0.091%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 4 (0.091%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,221 (27.78%) Terraform
2 1,130 (25.71%) Kubernetes
3 451 (10.26%) Ansible
4 296 (6.73%) Grafana
5 248 (5.64%) Prometheus
6 84 (1.91%) Argo
7 67 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
8 66 (1.50%) Puppet
9 46 (1.05%) Istio
10 27 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
10 27 (0.61%) Packer
11 26 (0.59%) Progress Chef
12 23 (0.52%) Kibana
13 21 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 20 (0.45%) vCenter Server
15 17 (0.39%) HP ALM
16 16 (0.36%) Consul
17 14 (0.32%) FortiGate
17 14 (0.32%) Rancher
18 12 (0.27%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 773 (17.58%) Microsoft
2 260 (5.91%) Databricks
3 250 (5.69%) Oracle
4 192 (4.37%) Google
5 181 (4.12%) Splunk
6 169 (3.84%) ServiceNow
7 135 (3.07%) Salesforce
8 133 (3.03%) Red Hat
9 100 (2.27%) VMware
10 99 (2.25%) SAP
11 94 (2.14%) Dynatrace
12 61 (1.39%) OpenAI
13 47 (1.07%) Atlassian
14 45 (1.02%) CyberArk
15 43 (0.98%) IBM
16 38 (0.86%) Foundry
17 36 (0.82%) AppDynamics
17 36 (0.82%) Informatica
18 35 (0.80%) Cisco
19 28 (0.64%) Denodo