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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 14 14
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,746 3,088 3,265
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.29% 11.06% 10.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.16% 12.16% 11.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,264 2,183 2,182
10th Percentile £381 £360 £400
25th Percentile £438 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.59% -4.47%
75th Percentile £626 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £706 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 21 63
10th Percentile £37.25 £42.50 £47.44
25th Percentile £61.19 £56.75 £65.00
Median hourly rate £68.75 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% -4.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £78.81 £88.75 £74.44
90th Percentile £94.06 £95.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £69.00 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +2.99% -4.29% +7.69%

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 39,045 25,398 28,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.68% 90.94% 86.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,601 16,100 17,122
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £643
90th Percentile £738 £730 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,948 1,574 1,187
10th Percentile £13.81 £14.42 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.47 £45.75 £66.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +52.09% -39.40% -2.35%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -1 2,512 £550 - 2,380
North of England -2 788 £500 +5.26% 924
South East -11 446 £525 +5.00% 682
Midlands -6 410 £488 -5.11% 408
Yorkshire -3 380 £500 +1.46% 292
South West +8 328 £550 +0.46% 392
West Midlands -8 328 £500 -4.76% 236
North West -3 315 £525 +16.67% 485
East of England +4 154 £505 -6.05% 324
North East +11 109 £450 -18.18% 155
East Midlands -3 80 £455 +8.33% 172
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
1 293 (6.17%) Confluence
2 140 (2.95%) SharePoint
3 121 (2.55%) Apache Spark
4 113 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
5 105 (2.21%) Apache
6 45 (0.95%) SAS
7 40 (0.84%) CMS
7 40 (0.84%) Jupyter
8 23 (0.48%) IIS
8 23 (0.48%) nginx
9 19 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
10 15 (0.32%) Camunda
11 13 (0.27%) OpenStack
12 9 (0.19%) Anypoint
12 9 (0.19%) Appian
12 9 (0.19%) WebSphere
13 8 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
13 8 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
13 8 (0.17%) Tomcat
14 7 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 63 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (1.07%) Microsoft Project
3 48 (1.01%) MS Visio
4 32 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 31 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
6 14 (0.29%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.17%) CPLEX
7 8 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.17%) Windchill
8 5 (0.11%) Notion
8 5 (0.11%) Trello
9 3 (0.063%) Mingle
10 2 (0.042%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.042%) Gliffy
11 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.021%) Mozilla Thunderbird
11 1 (0.021%) Sketch
11 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 71 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 37 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
4 8 (0.17%) Magento
5 7 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 6 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.13%) SAP MDG
7 5 (0.11%) Aladdin
7 5 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
7 5 (0.11%) OpenText MBPM
7 5 (0.11%) Oracle BPM
7 5 (0.11%) Temenos T24
8 4 (0.084%) Oracle Payroll
8 4 (0.084%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.063%) Endur
9 3 (0.063%) Maximo
9 3 (0.063%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.063%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.063%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 2,549 (53.71%) Azure
2 1,653 (34.83%) AWS
3 1,481 (31.21%) Azure DevOps
4 809 (17.05%) GitHub
5 639 (13.46%) GCP
6 511 (10.77%) GitHub Actions
7 428 (9.02%) Power Platform
8 396 (8.34%) Serverless
9 254 (5.35%) Amazon S3
10 232 (4.89%) AWS Lambda
11 230 (4.85%) Entra ID
12 208 (4.38%) Amazon EKS
13 206 (4.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 182 (3.83%) Azure AKS
15 172 (3.62%) Azure Data Factory
15 172 (3.62%) Dynamics 365
16 170 (3.58%) Azure Monitor
17 165 (3.48%) AWS CloudFormation
18 163 (3.43%) Amazon EC2
19 153 (3.22%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 220 (4.64%) Firewall
2 144 (3.03%) DNS
3 108 (2.28%) Network Security
3 108 (2.28%) VPN
4 75 (1.58%) TCP/IP
5 50 (1.05%) SSL
6 42 (0.88%) WAN
7 39 (0.82%) DHCP
8 35 (0.74%) BGP
9 32 (0.67%) HTTP
10 28 (0.59%) Internet
11 26 (0.55%) OSPF
12 25 (0.53%) SSH
13 24 (0.51%) SD-WAN
14 21 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
15 18 (0.38%) LAN
15 18 (0.38%) VLAN
16 17 (0.36%) BIG-IP
16 17 (0.36%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 17 (0.36%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 285 (6.01%) Power BI
2 253 (5.33%) SQL Server
3 245 (5.16%) PostgreSQL
4 183 (3.86%) Data Warehouse
5 158 (3.33%) NoSQL
6 149 (3.14%) Data Lake
7 144 (3.03%) MongoDB
8 133 (2.80%) Relational Database
9 120 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
10 117 (2.47%) Metadata
11 81 (1.71%) Delta Lake
12 79 (1.66%) Azure SQL Database
13 73 (1.54%) MySQL
14 72 (1.52%) DynamoDB
14 72 (1.52%) Oracle Database
15 69 (1.45%) Redis
16 56 (1.18%) Big Data
17 54 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 53 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
18 53 (1.12%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 690 (14.54%) Git
2 655 (13.80%) Jenkins
3 554 (11.67%) GitLab
4 539 (11.36%) JIRA
5 121 (2.55%) Selenium
6 81 (1.71%) SonarQube
7 78 (1.64%) Maven
8 77 (1.62%) JUnit
9 76 (1.60%) Postman
10 71 (1.50%) Cucumber
11 62 (1.31%) Bitbucket
12 59 (1.24%) REST Assured
13 57 (1.20%) Cypress.io
14 55 (1.16%) JMeter
15 52 (1.10%) Gradle
16 40 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
17 39 (0.82%) Gatling
18 38 (0.80%) Claude Code
18 38 (0.80%) Mockito
19 37 (0.78%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,257 (26.49%) Social Skills
2 903 (19.03%) Finance
3 621 (13.08%) Public Sector
4 477 (10.05%) Analytical Skills
5 367 (7.73%) Banking
6 143 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 107 (2.25%) Retail
8 85 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
9 71 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
10 59 (1.24%) Aerospace
11 56 (1.18%) Marketing
12 52 (1.10%) Military
13 47 (0.99%) Investment Banking
13 47 (0.99%) Manufacturing
13 47 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
13 47 (0.99%) Telecoms
14 42 (0.88%) Legal
14 42 (0.88%) Local Government
15 41 (0.86%) Financial Institution
15 41 (0.86%) Law
Job Titles
1 914 (19.26%) DevOps Engineer
2 747 (15.74%) Senior
3 733 (15.44%) Developer
4 550 (11.59%) Architect
5 467 (9.84%) Lead
6 287 (6.05%) Azure Engineer
7 275 (5.79%) Data Engineer
8 229 (4.83%) Analyst
9 196 (4.13%) AWS Engineer
10 186 (3.92%) Platform Engineer
11 177 (3.73%) Senior DevOps
12 175 (3.69%) Cloud Engineer
13 162 (3.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 161 (3.39%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 146 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
16 135 (2.84%) AWS DevOps
16 135 (2.84%) Java Developer
17 132 (2.78%) Software Engineer
18 124 (2.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 121 (2.55%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,424 (30.00%) Terraform
2 540 (11.38%) REST
3 413 (8.70%) .NET
4 334 (7.04%) Kafka
5 269 (5.67%) RESTful
6 253 (5.33%) React
7 231 (4.87%) Spring
8 228 (4.80%) Spring Boot
9 160 (3.37%) JSON
10 158 (3.33%) OAuth
11 142 (2.99%) Node.js
12 134 (2.82%) PySpark
13 126 (2.65%) Playwright
14 123 (2.59%) HTML
15 121 (2.55%) .NET Framework
16 114 (2.40%) CSS
17 111 (2.34%) SOAP
18 102 (2.15%) Middleware
19 101 (2.13%) OAuth2
20 96 (2.02%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 878 (18.50%) Cloud Native
2 359 (7.56%) Product Ownership
3 214 (4.51%) Distributed Systems
4 191 (4.02%) Enterprise Software
5 186 (3.92%) Onboarding
6 138 (2.91%) Hybrid Cloud
7 125 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
8 105 (2.21%) AI Agents
9 85 (1.79%) Management Information System
10 71 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
11 69 (1.45%) Security Posture
12 68 (1.43%) Public Cloud
13 64 (1.35%) Replication
14 63 (1.33%) Data Structures
15 62 (1.31%) Data Centre
16 61 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
17 51 (1.07%) Mobile App
17 51 (1.07%) PKI
18 50 (1.05%) Virtual Team
19 43 (0.91%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 492 (10.37%) Linux
2 281 (5.92%) Windows
3 118 (2.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 95 (2.00%) Unix
5 85 (1.79%) Windows Server
6 37 (0.78%) Ubuntu
7 30 (0.63%) VMS
8 29 (0.61%) Apple iOS
9 21 (0.44%) Android
10 15 (0.32%) CentOS
11 10 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
11 10 (0.21%) zOS
12 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
12 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
13 7 (0.15%) AIX
14 6 (0.13%) Solaris
15 4 (0.084%) Alpine Linux
15 4 (0.084%) Data ONTAP
15 4 (0.084%) Windows Server 2008
16 3 (0.063%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,868 (60.43%) CI/CD
2 1,941 (40.90%) Agile
3 1,412 (29.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 854 (17.99%) Stakeholder Management
5 820 (17.28%) AI
6 819 (17.26%) Continuous Improvement
7 782 (16.48%) Test Automation
8 767 (16.16%) Problem-Solving
9 763 (16.08%) Containerisation
10 692 (14.58%) Microservices
11 686 (14.45%) Observability
12 659 (13.89%) Platform Engineering
13 655 (13.80%) Software Engineering
14 587 (12.37%) Scrum
15 575 (12.12%) Migration
16 547 (11.53%) Technical Leadership
17 501 (10.56%) Analytics
18 447 (9.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 436 (9.19%) Roadmaps
20 418 (8.81%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,436 (30.26%) Python
2 843 (17.76%) SQL
3 687 (14.48%) Java
4 446 (9.40%) PowerShell
5 442 (9.31%) C#
6 440 (9.27%) Bash
7 390 (8.22%) JavaScript
8 275 (5.79%) TypeScript
9 222 (4.68%) Bicep
10 93 (1.96%) Go
11 64 (1.35%) Shell Script
12 57 (1.20%) T-SQL
13 54 (1.14%) Scala
14 50 (1.05%) Groovy
15 44 (0.93%) PL/SQL
16 40 (0.84%) Apex Code
17 33 (0.70%) C++
18 32 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 29 (0.61%) Perl
20 27 (0.57%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,526 (32.15%) Security Cleared
2 1,265 (26.65%) SC Cleared
3 339 (7.14%) Degree
4 224 (4.72%) DV Cleared
5 213 (4.49%) Azure Certification
6 175 (3.69%) AWS Certification
7 149 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
8 128 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
9 107 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
10 71 (1.50%) CISSP
11 51 (1.07%) PMP
12 50 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
12 50 (1.05%) ISTQB
13 44 (0.93%) PMI Certification
14 40 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 39 (0.82%) Master's Degree
16 28 (0.59%) CISM
17 23 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 21 (0.44%) CCNP
19 20 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 487 (10.26%) QA
2 251 (5.29%) Data Quality
3 168 (3.54%) Accessibility
4 104 (2.19%) GDPR
5 83 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 78 (1.64%) WCAG
7 66 (1.39%) NIST
8 44 (0.93%) NCSC
8 44 (0.93%) PMO
9 30 (0.63%) SLA
10 28 (0.59%) PCI DSS
11 26 (0.55%) GRC
12 19 (0.40%) ISO 20022
13 16 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 14 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
14 14 (0.29%) HIPAA
15 13 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
15 13 (0.27%) SOC 2
16 12 (0.25%) SEPA
17 9 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 954 (20.10%) Docker
2 143 (3.01%) Active Directory
3 70 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
4 67 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 24 (0.51%) vSphere
6 20 (0.42%) Hyper-V
7 19 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
8 18 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (0.23%) Squid
9 11 (0.23%) VMware NSX
10 10 (0.21%) IAG
11 8 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
12 6 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 6 (0.13%) Corosync
12 6 (0.13%) KVM
12 6 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
12 6 (0.13%) Postfix
13 5 (0.11%) RACF
14 4 (0.084%) Firmware
14 4 (0.084%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,262 (26.59%) Kubernetes
2 485 (10.22%) Ansible
3 312 (6.57%) Grafana
4 268 (5.65%) Prometheus
5 64 (1.35%) Argo
6 55 (1.16%) Puppet
7 47 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
8 46 (0.97%) Progress Chef
9 35 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
10 33 (0.70%) Packer
11 30 (0.63%) Kibana
12 23 (0.48%) Istio
12 23 (0.48%) Kubeflow
13 19 (0.40%) Kustomize
14 16 (0.34%) SCCM
15 15 (0.32%) vCenter Server
16 13 (0.27%) Control-M
16 13 (0.27%) HP ALM
16 13 (0.27%) SCOM
17 12 (0.25%) systemd
Vendors
1 968 (20.40%) Microsoft
2 272 (5.73%) Databricks
3 262 (5.52%) Google
4 225 (4.74%) Oracle
5 181 (3.81%) ServiceNow
6 165 (3.48%) Splunk
7 132 (2.78%) Salesforce
8 130 (2.74%) Dynatrace
9 102 (2.15%) VMware
10 97 (2.04%) SAP
11 91 (1.92%) Red Hat
12 66 (1.39%) IBM
13 60 (1.26%) OpenAI
14 48 (1.01%) Foundry
15 44 (0.93%) Cisco
16 40 (0.84%) Informatica
17 37 (0.78%) AppDynamics
18 36 (0.76%) MuleSoft
19 32 (0.67%) Atlassian
20 30 (0.63%) Okta