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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 14 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 -5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 3,508 3,152 3,666
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.61% 10.16% 9.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.85% 11.71% 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,467 2,118 2,728
10th Percentile £363 £400 £413
25th Percentile £425 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £625 £670 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 37 97
10th Percentile - £44.21 £46.18
25th Percentile £45.46 £59.39 £51.25
Median hourly rate £58.50 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.43% +7.69% -0.92%
75th Percentile £72.13 £74.00 £76.53
90th Percentile £95.00 £80.30 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £58.50 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -16.43% +7.69% -0.92%

All Process and 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 27,308 26,910 34,818
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.41% 86.73% 88.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,359 16,435 23,883
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £640 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,779 970 1,470
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.10 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.19 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.08 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.30% -18.92% +27.14%
75th Percentile £45.70 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.87 £74.04 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.42
% change year-on-year -28.14% -19.38% +24.04%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 0 1,753 £550 -5.17% 1,415
North of England +4 618 £492 -1.60% 445
South East +4 374 £513 -12.77% 477
Midlands +14 360 £515 -6.36% 210
Yorkshire -1 332 £500 - 113
West Midlands +12 289 £525 -8.70% 144
North West +3 258 £453 -13.71% 287
South West +3 209 £538 -10.42% 192
East of England +28 111 £525 +5.00% 119
East Midlands +17 71 £418 -6.18% 65
North East -11 30 £550 -5.98% 46
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
1 232 (6.61%) Confluence
2 92 (2.62%) Apache
3 67 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
4 57 (1.62%) SAS
4 57 (1.62%) SharePoint
5 52 (1.48%) Apache Spark
6 38 (1.08%) CMS
7 37 (1.05%) nginx
8 30 (0.86%) JBoss
9 29 (0.83%) IIS
10 26 (0.74%) CICS
10 26 (0.74%) OpenStack
11 20 (0.57%) WebSphere
12 14 (0.40%) WebLogic
13 13 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
14 11 (0.31%) WebSphere Application Server
15 10 (0.29%) Mule
16 9 (0.26%) iPlanet
16 9 (0.26%) Smallworld
17 8 (0.23%) Anypoint
Applications
1 67 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 28 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
4 25 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.46%) Chatbot
6 15 (0.43%) MS Visio
7 12 (0.34%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 8 (0.23%) Weka
9 7 (0.20%) Trello
10 1 (0.029%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.029%) Moqups
10 1 (0.029%) Revit
Business Applications
1 55 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.66%) Endur
3 19 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (0.48%) VisionPLUS
5 16 (0.46%) Aladdin
6 15 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
7 13 (0.37%) Maximo
8 12 (0.34%) Oracle BPM
9 7 (0.20%) FLEXCUBE
10 6 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
10 6 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
11 5 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
12 4 (0.11%) Fidessa
12 4 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
12 4 (0.11%) SAP ERP
12 4 (0.11%) thinkFolio
12 4 (0.11%) Workday HCM
13 3 (0.086%) Salesforce CRM
13 3 (0.086%) Teamcenter
14 2 (0.057%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 1,695 (48.32%) Azure
2 1,261 (35.95%) AWS
3 940 (26.80%) Azure DevOps
4 584 (16.65%) GitHub
5 494 (14.08%) GCP
6 364 (10.38%) Serverless
7 315 (8.98%) GitHub Actions
8 240 (6.84%) Power Platform
9 205 (5.84%) Amazon S3
10 187 (5.33%) AWS Lambda
11 181 (5.16%) AWS CloudFormation
12 164 (4.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 152 (4.33%) Amazon EC2
14 142 (4.05%) Azure AKS
15 139 (3.96%) SaaS
16 135 (3.85%) Entra ID
17 132 (3.76%) Azure Data Factory
18 123 (3.51%) Dynamics 365
19 114 (3.25%) Azure Monitor
19 114 (3.25%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 188 (5.36%) Firewall
2 127 (3.62%) DNS
3 75 (2.14%) VPN
4 69 (1.97%) SSL
4 69 (1.97%) TCP/IP
5 67 (1.91%) Network Security
6 43 (1.23%) HTTP
7 34 (0.97%) SSH
8 33 (0.94%) HTTPS
9 31 (0.88%) SMTP
10 29 (0.83%) WAN
11 23 (0.66%) FTP
12 21 (0.60%) BGP
13 18 (0.51%) MPLS
14 17 (0.48%) DHCP
15 16 (0.46%) LAN
15 16 (0.46%) OpenLDAP
16 15 (0.43%) SD-WAN
17 13 (0.37%) Kerberos
18 12 (0.34%) IMAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 230 (6.56%) PostgreSQL
2 149 (4.25%) Power BI
3 143 (4.08%) SQL Server
4 141 (4.02%) NoSQL
5 127 (3.62%) Amazon RDS
6 98 (2.79%) MongoDB
7 84 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
8 82 (2.34%) Relational Database
9 78 (2.22%) Data Lake
10 70 (2.00%) Oracle Database
11 60 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
12 56 (1.60%) Redis
13 52 (1.48%) DynamoDB
14 50 (1.43%) MySQL
15 47 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
16 40 (1.14%) Metadata
17 39 (1.11%) Amazon Aurora
18 38 (1.08%) Delta Lake
19 32 (0.91%) Tableau
20 31 (0.88%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 656 (18.70%) Jenkins
2 559 (15.94%) Git
3 520 (14.82%) JIRA
4 424 (12.09%) GitLab
5 122 (3.48%) Selenium
6 96 (2.74%) SonarQube
7 86 (2.45%) JUnit
8 85 (2.42%) Sonatype Nexus
9 69 (1.97%) Postman
10 68 (1.94%) Bitbucket
11 58 (1.65%) Maven
12 52 (1.48%) Liquibase
13 49 (1.40%) Cucumber
14 48 (1.37%) Cypress.io
15 46 (1.31%) Gradle
16 43 (1.23%) Artifactory
17 36 (1.03%) Oracle APEX
18 34 (0.97%) TeamCity
19 30 (0.86%) CircleCI
20 29 (0.83%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,134 (32.33%) Social Skills
2 635 (18.10%) Finance
3 412 (11.74%) Public Sector
4 325 (9.26%) Banking
5 290 (8.27%) Analytical Skills
6 101 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
7 69 (1.97%) Investment Banking
8 61 (1.74%) Telecoms
9 59 (1.68%) Financial Institution
9 59 (1.68%) Marketing
10 56 (1.60%) Retail
11 55 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 45 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
13 41 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
14 37 (1.05%) Front Office
15 32 (0.91%) Military
16 31 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
17 29 (0.83%) Back Office
17 29 (0.83%) Manufacturing
18 28 (0.80%) Law
Job Titles
1 692 (19.73%) Developer
2 591 (16.85%) DevOps Engineer
3 472 (13.45%) Senior
4 304 (8.67%) Architect
5 286 (8.15%) Lead
6 217 (6.19%) AWS Engineer
7 172 (4.90%) Analyst
7 172 (4.90%) Azure Engineer
8 168 (4.79%) AWS DevOps
9 155 (4.42%) Data Engineer
10 141 (4.02%) Senior Developer
10 141 (4.02%) Software Engineer
11 140 (3.99%) Cloud Engineer
12 137 (3.91%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 128 (3.65%) Platform Engineer
14 101 (2.88%) Business Analyst
14 101 (2.88%) Consultant
15 98 (2.79%) Java Developer
16 87 (2.48%) Senior DevOps
17 80 (2.28%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 389 (11.09%) REST
2 309 (8.81%) .NET
3 234 (6.67%) RESTful
4 210 (5.99%) React
5 199 (5.67%) Node.js
6 182 (5.19%) Kafka
7 172 (4.90%) JSON
8 151 (4.30%) SOAP
9 141 (4.02%) HTML
10 135 (3.85%) Spring
11 123 (3.51%) Elastic Stack
11 123 (3.51%) Spring Boot
12 121 (3.45%) AngularJS
13 116 (3.31%) XML
14 107 (3.05%) OAuth
15 104 (2.96%) YAML
16 96 (2.74%) CSS
17 75 (2.14%) .NET Core
18 74 (2.11%) Web Services
19 72 (2.05%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 450 (12.83%) Cloud Native
2 176 (5.02%) Product Ownership
3 140 (3.99%) Distributed Systems
4 104 (2.96%) Onboarding
5 88 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
6 78 (2.22%) Public Cloud
7 64 (1.82%) Mobile App
8 63 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
9 54 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
10 53 (1.51%) Replication
11 49 (1.40%) Security Posture
12 47 (1.34%) Algorithms
13 43 (1.23%) Virtual Team
14 41 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
14 41 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 40 (1.14%) Management Information System
16 39 (1.11%) Data Centre
16 39 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
17 38 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
18 37 (1.05%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 435 (12.40%) Linux
2 213 (6.07%) Windows
3 95 (2.71%) Unix
4 61 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 60 (1.71%) Windows Server
6 51 (1.45%) Android
7 45 (1.28%) Apple iOS
7 45 (1.28%) VMS
8 26 (0.74%) Amazon Linux
9 23 (0.66%) Ubuntu
10 21 (0.60%) CentOS
11 16 (0.46%) Solaris
11 16 (0.46%) Windows 10
12 11 (0.31%) zOS
13 9 (0.26%) Mac OS
14 7 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
15 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
16 3 (0.086%) AIX
16 3 (0.086%) Debian
16 3 (0.086%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,901 (54.19%) CI/CD
2 1,534 (43.73%) Agile
3 854 (24.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 675 (19.24%) Problem-Solving
5 639 (18.22%) Containerisation
6 536 (15.28%) Test Automation
7 494 (14.08%) Microservices
8 452 (12.88%) Scrum
9 381 (10.86%) Migration
10 370 (10.55%) Continuous Improvement
11 366 (10.43%) Analytics
12 348 (9.92%) Software Engineering
13 324 (9.24%) AI
14 291 (8.30%) Observability
15 279 (7.95%) Stakeholder Management
16 269 (7.67%) Mentoring
17 236 (6.73%) Infrastructure Automation
18 232 (6.61%) DevSecOps
19 230 (6.56%) Machine Learning
20 229 (6.53%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1,126 (32.10%) Python
2 685 (19.53%) SQL
3 485 (13.83%) Java
4 378 (10.78%) JavaScript
5 339 (9.66%) C#
6 330 (9.41%) Bash
7 324 (9.24%) PowerShell
8 227 (6.47%) TypeScript
9 153 (4.36%) Go
10 105 (2.99%) Bicep
11 70 (2.00%) PL/SQL
12 69 (1.97%) Shell Script
13 62 (1.77%) Groovy
14 48 (1.37%) C++
15 45 (1.28%) Perl
16 43 (1.23%) Scala
17 35 (1.00%) Ruby
18 31 (0.88%) T-SQL
19 30 (0.86%) Kotlin
20 24 (0.68%) PHP
Qualifications
1 948 (27.02%) Security Cleared
2 785 (22.38%) SC Cleared
3 301 (8.58%) Degree
4 159 (4.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 133 (3.79%) Azure Certification
6 121 (3.45%) AWS Certification
7 116 (3.31%) DV Cleared
8 66 (1.88%) Master's Degree
9 56 (1.60%) CISSP
10 54 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
11 53 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
12 39 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 35 (1.00%) CISM
14 34 (0.97%) ISTQB
15 32 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
16 26 (0.74%) PMI Certification
17 22 (0.63%) PMP
18 19 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 17 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
20 15 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 301 (8.58%) QA
2 131 (3.73%) GDPR
3 107 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 101 (2.88%) Data Quality
5 91 (2.59%) NIST
6 83 (2.37%) Accessibility
7 41 (1.17%) NCSC
8 24 (0.68%) HIPAA
9 22 (0.63%) PCI DSS
10 18 (0.51%) SOC 2
10 18 (0.51%) WCAG
11 16 (0.46%) SLA
12 14 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 13 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
13 13 (0.37%) MiFID
13 13 (0.37%) SEPA
14 11 (0.31%) EU AI Act
14 11 (0.31%) PSD2
15 10 (0.29%) ISO 20022
16 9 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 865 (24.66%) Docker
2 171 (4.87%) Active Directory
3 74 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 48 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
5 27 (0.77%) vSphere
6 24 (0.68%) DFS Replication
7 16 (0.46%) Postfix
8 14 (0.40%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.37%) Squid
10 12 (0.34%) Dovecot
10 12 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
11 11 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
12 8 (0.23%) GPFS
12 8 (0.23%) Lustre
12 8 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 8 (0.23%) Tivoli Directory Server
12 8 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
13 7 (0.20%) Hyper-V
13 7 (0.20%) NFS
13 7 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1,027 (29.28%) Terraform
2 969 (27.62%) Kubernetes
3 467 (13.31%) Ansible
4 258 (7.35%) Grafana
5 257 (7.33%) Prometheus
6 83 (2.37%) Puppet
7 67 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
8 61 (1.74%) Argo
9 50 (1.43%) Progress Chef
10 42 (1.20%) Kibana
11 38 (1.08%) Packer
12 22 (0.63%) Istio
13 20 (0.57%) ITRS Geneos
13 20 (0.57%) Podman
14 19 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
15 17 (0.48%) Proxmox
15 17 (0.48%) SCCM
16 16 (0.46%) CA Endevor
17 15 (0.43%) logstash
17 15 (0.43%) Nessus
Vendors
1 619 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 250 (7.13%) Oracle
3 200 (5.70%) Google
4 192 (5.47%) Splunk
5 158 (4.50%) Databricks
6 147 (4.19%) ServiceNow
7 100 (2.85%) VMware
8 94 (2.68%) Salesforce
9 91 (2.59%) SAP
10 90 (2.57%) Red Hat
11 54 (1.54%) Dynatrace
12 52 (1.48%) IBM
13 46 (1.31%) F5
14 45 (1.28%) MuleSoft
15 42 (1.20%) Atlassian
16 38 (1.08%) Palo Alto
17 37 (1.05%) OpenAI
18 31 (0.88%) Cisco
18 31 (0.88%) Talend
19 30 (0.86%) Denodo