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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 15 17
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 -5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,080 2,626 3,273
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.17% 10.64% 8.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.91% 11.75% 9.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,843 1,899 2,321
10th Percentile £382 £400 £411
25th Percentile £441 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £560 £551
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +1.73% -8.25%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £653
90th Percentile £718 £775 £740
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 20 95
10th Percentile £39.53 £35.20 £48.05
25th Percentile £45.46 £58.61 £61.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £74.72 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.01% +14.95% -0.76%
75th Percentile £77.13 £80.75 £67.88
90th Percentile £93.75 £88.00 £85.15
UK median hourly rate £66.25 £74.44 £65.00
% change year-on-year -11.00% +14.52% -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 31,603 22,356 32,991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.51% 90.62% 86.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,213 14,443 21,819
10th Percentile £313 £308 £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 1,966 795 2,153
10th Percentile £15.28 £15.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.03 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 2,057 £545 -6.84% 565
North of England +5 733 £500 -4.76% 335
South East -1 437 £524 -8.91% 346
Midlands +14 408 £500 +2.04% 148
Yorkshire +2 386 £500 -4.76% 107
West Midlands +13 330 £500 +1.52% 98
North West +2 292 £500 -4.76% 176
South West +14 270 £525 -12.50% 148
East of England +16 115 £575 +13.30% 70
East Midlands +3 76 £438 -7.89% 50
North East +1 60 £475 -9.52% 54
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
1 257 (6.30%) Confluence
2 107 (2.62%) Apache Spark
3 84 (2.06%) Apache
3 84 (2.06%) SharePoint
4 77 (1.89%) SAS
5 59 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
6 31 (0.76%) OpenStack
7 30 (0.74%) CMS
8 27 (0.66%) nginx
9 22 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
10 20 (0.49%) IIS
11 12 (0.29%) Mendix
11 12 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
12 11 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 11 (0.27%) HCL Notes
12 11 (0.27%) WebLogic
13 9 (0.22%) Camunda
13 9 (0.22%) JBoss
14 8 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
14 8 (0.20%) Smallworld
Applications
1 85 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 40 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
4 26 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
5 22 (0.54%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.29%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.20%) Weka
8 4 (0.098%) Trello
9 2 (0.049%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.025%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.025%) InDesign
10 1 (0.025%) Maya
10 1 (0.025%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 67 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.29%) Aladdin
4 11 (0.27%) Maximo
5 10 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
6 8 (0.20%) NEC Housing
7 6 (0.15%) Endur
7 6 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.15%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.098%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.098%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.074%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.074%) SAP BPC
10 3 (0.074%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.074%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.074%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.074%) Workday HCM
11 2 (0.049%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 2,116 (51.86%) Azure
2 1,397 (34.24%) AWS
3 1,157 (28.36%) Azure DevOps
4 752 (18.43%) GitHub
5 587 (14.39%) GCP
6 450 (11.03%) Serverless
7 397 (9.73%) GitHub Actions
8 343 (8.41%) Power Platform
9 214 (5.25%) Amazon S3
10 212 (5.20%) AWS Lambda
11 211 (5.17%) AWS CloudFormation
12 206 (5.05%) Azure Data Factory
13 195 (4.78%) Entra ID
14 180 (4.41%) OpenShift
15 177 (4.34%) Azure AKS
16 165 (4.04%) Amazon EKS
17 164 (4.02%) Azure Monitor
18 155 (3.80%) Dynamics 365
19 137 (3.36%) PaaS
19 137 (3.36%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 189 (4.63%) Firewall
2 103 (2.52%) DNS
3 80 (1.96%) Network Security
4 76 (1.86%) VPN
5 44 (1.08%) TCP/IP
6 25 (0.61%) WAN
7 23 (0.56%) SD-WAN
8 22 (0.54%) HTTP
8 22 (0.54%) SSL
9 20 (0.49%) DHCP
10 15 (0.37%) BGP
10 15 (0.37%) HTTPS
10 15 (0.37%) MPLS
11 13 (0.32%) Internet
11 13 (0.32%) SAN
12 12 (0.29%) IPsec
13 11 (0.27%) Kerberos
13 11 (0.27%) LAN
13 11 (0.27%) Reverse Proxy
14 10 (0.25%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 231 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
2 218 (5.34%) Power BI
3 173 (4.24%) SQL Server
4 163 (4.00%) NoSQL
5 137 (3.36%) Data Lake
6 103 (2.52%) Relational Database
7 97 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
7 97 (2.38%) MongoDB
8 96 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
9 87 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
10 69 (1.69%) Oracle Database
11 67 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
12 66 (1.62%) Delta Lake
13 65 (1.59%) DynamoDB
14 57 (1.40%) Redis
15 53 (1.30%) Metadata
16 51 (1.25%) Tableau
17 48 (1.18%) Big Data
18 47 (1.15%) MySQL
19 44 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 667 (16.35%) Jenkins
2 548 (13.43%) Git
3 541 (13.26%) JIRA
4 470 (11.52%) GitLab
5 118 (2.89%) Selenium
6 95 (2.33%) JUnit
7 82 (2.01%) Postman
8 69 (1.69%) Bitbucket
9 58 (1.42%) SonarQube
10 56 (1.37%) Cucumber
11 46 (1.13%) Artifactory
12 45 (1.10%) Cypress.io
12 45 (1.10%) Maven
13 42 (1.03%) REST Assured
14 40 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
15 36 (0.88%) JMeter
16 34 (0.83%) Oracle APEX
17 27 (0.66%) CircleCI
17 27 (0.66%) Gradle
17 27 (0.66%) Mockito
General
1 1,188 (29.12%) Social Skills
2 789 (19.34%) Finance
3 511 (12.52%) Public Sector
4 362 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
5 318 (7.79%) Banking
6 145 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
7 74 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
8 65 (1.59%) Financial Institution
9 56 (1.37%) Retail
10 51 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 50 (1.23%) Marketing
12 47 (1.15%) Front Office
13 43 (1.05%) Investment Banking
14 42 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
15 39 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
16 37 (0.91%) Telecoms
17 30 (0.74%) Legal
17 30 (0.74%) Military
18 27 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
19 24 (0.59%) Law
Job Titles
1 723 (17.72%) DevOps Engineer
2 656 (16.08%) Developer
3 555 (13.60%) Senior
4 450 (11.03%) Architect
5 344 (8.43%) Lead
6 257 (6.30%) Azure Engineer
7 250 (6.13%) Data Engineer
8 231 (5.66%) Analyst
9 201 (4.93%) AWS Engineer
10 161 (3.95%) Cloud Engineer
11 157 (3.85%) AWS DevOps
12 141 (3.46%) Software Engineer
13 139 (3.41%) Platform Engineer
14 135 (3.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 132 (3.24%) Solutions Architect
16 122 (2.99%) Business Analyst
17 117 (2.87%) Senior Developer
18 110 (2.70%) Senior DevOps
19 109 (2.67%) Full-Stack Developer
20 106 (2.60%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 450 (11.03%) REST
2 330 (8.09%) .NET
3 260 (6.37%) Node.js
4 253 (6.20%) React
5 236 (5.78%) Kafka
6 226 (5.54%) Spring
7 199 (4.88%) Spring Boot
8 194 (4.75%) RESTful
9 159 (3.90%) AngularJS
10 149 (3.65%) JSON
11 133 (3.26%) YAML
12 126 (3.09%) HTML
13 118 (2.89%) SOAP
14 114 (2.79%) OAuth
15 113 (2.77%) PySpark
16 112 (2.75%) Playwright
17 106 (2.60%) XML
18 105 (2.57%) Elastic Stack
19 103 (2.52%) Middleware
20 101 (2.48%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 600 (14.71%) Cloud Native
2 226 (5.54%) Product Ownership
3 142 (3.48%) Distributed Systems
4 110 (2.70%) Onboarding
5 103 (2.52%) Public Cloud
6 95 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
7 82 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
8 69 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
9 53 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
10 51 (1.25%) Management Information System
11 47 (1.15%) Virtual Team
12 45 (1.10%) Security Posture
13 42 (1.03%) Private Cloud
14 40 (0.98%) Data Centre
15 38 (0.93%) AI Agents
16 37 (0.91%) Data Structures
16 37 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
17 35 (0.86%) NHS
18 33 (0.81%) Mobile App
19 31 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 417 (10.22%) Linux
2 214 (5.25%) Windows
3 75 (1.84%) Unix
4 57 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 40 (0.98%) Windows Server
6 38 (0.93%) VMS
7 22 (0.54%) Ubuntu
8 15 (0.37%) CentOS
9 11 (0.27%) Android
10 9 (0.22%) Windows 10
11 8 (0.20%) Apple iOS
12 7 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
13 6 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.12%) Solaris
15 4 (0.098%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.049%) Debian
16 2 (0.049%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.049%) zOS
17 1 (0.025%) Embedded Linux
17 1 (0.025%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,311 (56.64%) CI/CD
2 1,590 (38.97%) Agile
3 1,002 (24.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 769 (18.85%) Problem-Solving
5 734 (17.99%) Containerisation
6 609 (14.93%) Test Automation
7 606 (14.85%) Microservices
8 535 (13.11%) Analytics
9 517 (12.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 494 (12.11%) Migration
11 459 (11.25%) Scrum
12 452 (11.08%) AI
13 446 (10.93%) Observability
14 436 (10.69%) Stakeholder Management
15 370 (9.07%) Software Engineering
16 369 (9.04%) Data Modelling
17 344 (8.43%) Mentoring
18 305 (7.48%) Data Pipeline
19 286 (7.01%) Business Intelligence
19 286 (7.01%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1,238 (30.34%) Python
2 885 (21.69%) SQL
3 530 (12.99%) Java
4 397 (9.73%) C#
5 383 (9.39%) JavaScript
6 324 (7.94%) PowerShell
7 297 (7.28%) Bash
8 261 (6.40%) TypeScript
9 136 (3.33%) Bicep
10 121 (2.97%) Go
11 79 (1.94%) PL/SQL
12 63 (1.54%) Scala
13 45 (1.10%) T-SQL
14 42 (1.03%) Shell Script
15 41 (1.00%) C++
16 39 (0.96%) Ruby
17 33 (0.81%) Groovy
18 26 (0.64%) Rust
19 23 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
20 22 (0.54%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 1,317 (32.28%) Security Cleared
2 1,069 (26.20%) SC Cleared
3 342 (8.38%) Degree
4 197 (4.83%) Azure Certification
5 177 (4.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 140 (3.43%) DV Cleared
7 124 (3.04%) AWS Certification
8 91 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
9 73 (1.79%) CISSP
9 73 (1.79%) Master's Degree
10 55 (1.35%) CISM
11 52 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
12 49 (1.20%) ISTQB
13 42 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 39 (0.96%) PMI Certification
15 34 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
16 31 (0.76%) PMP
17 24 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 23 (0.56%) IIBA
18 23 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 360 (8.82%) QA
2 170 (4.17%) Data Quality
3 165 (4.04%) GDPR
4 126 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 112 (2.75%) NIST
6 89 (2.18%) Accessibility
7 66 (1.62%) NCSC
8 37 (0.91%) PCI DSS
9 30 (0.74%) WCAG
10 26 (0.64%) SLA
11 25 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 24 (0.59%) PMO
13 20 (0.49%) HIPAA
14 15 (0.37%) ISO 20022
14 15 (0.37%) SOC 2
15 13 (0.32%) PSD2
16 11 (0.27%) NIST 800
17 10 (0.25%) GRC
17 10 (0.25%) SEPA
18 8 (0.20%) HL7
System Software
1 924 (22.65%) Docker
2 161 (3.95%) Active Directory
3 73 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
4 65 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 41 (1.00%) vSphere
6 25 (0.61%) VMware NSX
7 14 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.27%) Lustre
8 11 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 10 (0.25%) Hyper-V
10 9 (0.22%) GPFS
10 9 (0.22%) Squid
11 8 (0.20%) Firmware
12 7 (0.17%) Postfix
13 6 (0.15%) HDFS
14 5 (0.12%) KVM
14 5 (0.12%) RACF
14 5 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
15 4 (0.098%) NFS
15 4 (0.098%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1,181 (28.95%) Terraform
2 1,133 (27.77%) Kubernetes
3 445 (10.91%) Ansible
4 277 (6.79%) Grafana
5 232 (5.69%) Prometheus
6 90 (2.21%) Argo
7 69 (1.69%) Puppet
8 54 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
9 47 (1.15%) Istio
10 30 (0.74%) Packer
11 25 (0.61%) Kibana
12 24 (0.59%) Progress Chef
12 24 (0.59%) vCenter Server
13 19 (0.47%) Podman
14 18 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 18 (0.44%) Rancher
15 17 (0.42%) Consul
16 16 (0.39%) FortiGate
16 16 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
17 14 (0.34%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 711 (17.43%) Microsoft
2 274 (6.72%) Oracle
3 259 (6.35%) Databricks
4 231 (5.66%) Google
5 185 (4.53%) Splunk
6 142 (3.48%) ServiceNow
7 133 (3.26%) Red Hat
8 113 (2.77%) VMware
9 98 (2.40%) Salesforce
9 98 (2.40%) SAP
10 74 (1.81%) OpenAI
11 64 (1.57%) Atlassian
12 60 (1.47%) Dynatrace
13 57 (1.40%) CyberArk
14 38 (0.93%) Talend
15 36 (0.88%) IBM
16 34 (0.83%) Denodo
16 34 (0.83%) Foundry
17 27 (0.66%) Cisco
18 26 (0.64%) BeyondTrust