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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,814 2,926 3,327
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.53% 10.60% 10.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.42% 11.67% 11.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,305 2,103 2,279
10th Percentile £385 £363 £400
25th Percentile £438 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.78%
75th Percentile £625 £633 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.01% -5.50% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 23 75
10th Percentile £35.67 £36.50 £56.10
25th Percentile £55.00 £52.13 £61.43
Median hourly rate £67.00 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -4.29% +6.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 £82.48 £74.22
90th Percentile £94.19 £95.00 £85.15
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +0.75% -4.29% +6.87%

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 38,772 25,064 28,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.81% 90.82% 85.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,937 15,945 18,292
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,483 1,510
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.75 £17.87 £18.13
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £69.65 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -37.90% -4.71%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 27 August 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 0 2,538 £550 - 2,102
North of England 0 804 £500 +5.26% 534
South East -10 463 £525 +5.00% 486
Midlands 0 451 £488 -2.50% 248
Yorkshire -1 395 £500 +2.04% 148
West Midlands -2 358 £490 -5.50% 147
North West -2 316 £521 +10.87% 288
South West +6 311 £543 +4.33% 283
East of England +11 141 £505 -3.81% 143
North East +17 110 £425 -18.27% 103
East Midlands +7 89 £459 +0.55% 101
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 (6.09%) Confluence
2 138 (2.87%) SharePoint
3 120 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
4 114 (2.37%) Apache Spark
5 101 (2.10%) Apache
6 56 (1.16%) SAS
7 40 (0.83%) CMS
8 34 (0.71%) Jupyter
9 32 (0.66%) IIS
10 23 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
11 22 (0.46%) nginx
12 16 (0.33%) Camunda
13 13 (0.27%) OpenStack
14 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
14 11 (0.23%) WebSphere
15 10 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
16 9 (0.19%) Anypoint
16 9 (0.19%) Appian
17 6 (0.12%) Documentum
17 6 (0.12%) Mule
Applications
1 60 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 60 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
2 42 (0.87%) MS Visio
3 31 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.19%) Chatbot
4 9 (0.19%) CPLEX
4 9 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.12%) Trello
6 5 (0.10%) Notion
7 4 (0.083%) Windchill
8 1 (0.021%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
8 1 (0.021%) Gliffy
8 1 (0.021%) InDesign
8 1 (0.021%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 64 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
4 9 (0.19%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.19%) Magento
5 8 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
5 8 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 6 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
8 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
9 4 (0.083%) Endur
9 4 (0.083%) Maximo
9 4 (0.083%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.083%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.062%) Findur
10 3 (0.062%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.062%) Shopify
10 3 (0.062%) Teamcenter
11 2 (0.042%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 2,642 (54.88%) Azure
2 1,664 (34.57%) AWS
3 1,542 (32.03%) Azure DevOps
4 816 (16.95%) GitHub
5 597 (12.40%) GCP
6 516 (10.72%) GitHub Actions
7 428 (8.89%) Power Platform
8 392 (8.14%) Serverless
9 238 (4.94%) Entra ID
10 237 (4.92%) Amazon S3
11 229 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
12 194 (4.03%) Azure AKS
13 183 (3.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 181 (3.76%) Azure Monitor
15 179 (3.72%) Azure Data Factory
16 178 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
17 176 (3.66%) Amazon EKS
18 164 (3.41%) Dynamics 365
19 158 (3.28%) Power Automate
20 145 (3.01%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 227 (4.72%) Firewall
2 147 (3.05%) DNS
3 113 (2.35%) VPN
4 104 (2.16%) Network Security
5 65 (1.35%) TCP/IP
6 53 (1.10%) WAN
7 42 (0.87%) SSL
8 39 (0.81%) DHCP
9 38 (0.79%) SD-WAN
10 33 (0.69%) BGP
11 32 (0.66%) Internet
12 30 (0.62%) HTTP
13 29 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
14 25 (0.52%) OSPF
15 23 (0.48%) SSH
16 20 (0.42%) SAN
16 20 (0.42%) VLAN
17 18 (0.37%) LAN
18 17 (0.35%) MPLS
18 17 (0.35%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 295 (6.13%) Power BI
2 261 (5.42%) SQL Server
3 243 (5.05%) PostgreSQL
4 183 (3.80%) Data Warehouse
5 170 (3.53%) NoSQL
6 154 (3.20%) Relational Database
7 143 (2.97%) Data Lake
7 143 (2.97%) MongoDB
8 111 (2.31%) Metadata
9 107 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
10 93 (1.93%) Azure SQL Database
11 80 (1.66%) Delta Lake
12 76 (1.58%) DynamoDB
12 76 (1.58%) Oracle Database
13 69 (1.43%) Redis
14 60 (1.25%) MySQL
15 55 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
16 51 (1.06%) Big Data
16 51 (1.06%) BigQuery
17 50 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 659 (13.69%) Jenkins
2 651 (13.52%) Git
3 570 (11.84%) JIRA
4 519 (10.78%) GitLab
5 116 (2.41%) Selenium
6 84 (1.74%) SonarQube
7 83 (1.72%) Postman
8 77 (1.60%) JUnit
9 75 (1.56%) Maven
10 72 (1.50%) Bitbucket
11 59 (1.23%) REST Assured
12 58 (1.20%) Cypress.io
12 58 (1.20%) JMeter
13 50 (1.04%) Gradle
14 49 (1.02%) Cucumber
15 48 (1.00%) Gatling
16 41 (0.85%) LoadRunner
17 38 (0.79%) Mockito
18 37 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
19 33 (0.69%) Artifactory
General
1 1,257 (26.11%) Social Skills
2 902 (18.74%) Finance
3 657 (13.65%) Public Sector
4 466 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
5 333 (6.92%) Banking
6 138 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 100 (2.08%) Retail
8 86 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
9 69 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
10 57 (1.18%) Legal
11 54 (1.12%) Marketing
11 54 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
12 48 (1.00%) Aerospace
13 47 (0.98%) Investment Banking
14 44 (0.91%) Military
15 42 (0.87%) Telecoms
16 41 (0.85%) Law
17 39 (0.81%) Front Office
18 38 (0.79%) Financial Institution
19 35 (0.73%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 887 (18.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 768 (15.95%) Developer
3 724 (15.04%) Senior
4 560 (11.63%) Architect
5 476 (9.89%) Lead
6 296 (6.15%) Azure Engineer
7 278 (5.77%) Data Engineer
8 240 (4.99%) Analyst
9 194 (4.03%) Platform Engineer
10 193 (4.01%) AWS Engineer
11 172 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
12 165 (3.43%) Senior DevOps
13 163 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
14 158 (3.28%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 152 (3.16%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 141 (2.93%) Java Developer
17 135 (2.80%) Senior Developer
18 134 (2.78%) AWS DevOps
19 133 (2.76%) Software Engineer
20 124 (2.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,383 (28.73%) Terraform
2 499 (10.37%) REST
3 424 (8.81%) .NET
4 321 (6.67%) Kafka
5 263 (5.46%) RESTful
6 250 (5.19%) React
7 238 (4.94%) Spring
8 224 (4.65%) Spring Boot
9 169 (3.51%) Node.js
10 159 (3.30%) JSON
11 143 (2.97%) OAuth
12 142 (2.95%) PySpark
13 137 (2.85%) Playwright
14 130 (2.70%) .NET Framework
15 120 (2.49%) SOAP
16 112 (2.33%) HTML
17 109 (2.26%) AngularJS
18 107 (2.22%) CSS
19 106 (2.20%) YAML
20 97 (2.01%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 873 (18.13%) Cloud Native
2 368 (7.64%) Product Ownership
3 226 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
4 160 (3.32%) Onboarding
5 159 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
6 137 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
7 136 (2.83%) Hybrid Cloud
8 82 (1.70%) AI Agents
9 79 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
10 71 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
11 69 (1.43%) Management Information System
12 66 (1.37%) Data Structures
13 61 (1.27%) Public Cloud
14 60 (1.25%) Security Posture
15 59 (1.23%) Data Centre
15 59 (1.23%) Replication
16 52 (1.08%) Mobile App
17 50 (1.04%) Virtual Team
18 40 (0.83%) PKI
19 37 (0.77%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 446 (9.26%) Linux
2 270 (5.61%) Windows
3 102 (2.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 87 (1.81%) Unix
5 78 (1.62%) Windows Server
6 32 (0.66%) Ubuntu
7 31 (0.64%) Apple iOS
8 29 (0.60%) VMS
9 21 (0.44%) Android
10 10 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
11 8 (0.17%) AIX
11 8 (0.17%) CentOS
11 8 (0.17%) Solaris
11 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
11 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.17%) zOS
12 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (0.083%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (0.083%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,806 (58.29%) CI/CD
2 1,949 (40.49%) Agile
3 1,341 (27.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 813 (16.89%) Continuous Improvement
5 776 (16.12%) Stakeholder Management
6 772 (16.04%) Containerisation
7 766 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
8 749 (15.56%) Test Automation
9 715 (14.85%) AI
10 707 (14.69%) Microservices
11 651 (13.52%) Observability
12 610 (12.67%) Platform Engineering
12 610 (12.67%) Software Engineering
13 582 (12.09%) Scrum
14 581 (12.07%) Migration
15 531 (11.03%) Analytics
16 501 (10.41%) Technical Leadership
17 457 (9.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 431 (8.95%) Roadmaps
19 414 (8.60%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,391 (28.89%) Python
2 897 (18.63%) SQL
3 692 (14.37%) Java
4 439 (9.12%) PowerShell
5 437 (9.08%) C#
6 407 (8.45%) Bash
7 376 (7.81%) JavaScript
8 260 (5.40%) TypeScript
9 216 (4.49%) Bicep
10 77 (1.60%) Go
11 63 (1.31%) Shell Script
12 56 (1.16%) T-SQL
13 55 (1.14%) Groovy
14 54 (1.12%) Scala
15 51 (1.06%) Apex Code
15 51 (1.06%) PL/SQL
16 32 (0.66%) C++
17 31 (0.64%) Perl
18 29 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 22 (0.46%) C
Qualifications
1 1,537 (31.93%) Security Cleared
2 1,290 (26.80%) SC Cleared
3 310 (6.44%) Degree
4 200 (4.15%) Azure Certification
5 187 (3.88%) DV Cleared
6 157 (3.26%) AWS Certification
7 133 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 117 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 95 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
10 68 (1.41%) CISSP
11 49 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
11 49 (1.02%) ISTQB
12 45 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 38 (0.79%) PMP
14 35 (0.73%) PMI Certification
15 33 (0.69%) Master's Degree
16 29 (0.60%) CISM
17 23 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
18 22 (0.46%) CCNP
19 21 (0.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 468 (9.72%) QA
2 247 (5.13%) Data Quality
3 161 (3.34%) Accessibility
4 118 (2.45%) GDPR
5 90 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 77 (1.60%) NIST
7 76 (1.58%) WCAG
8 49 (1.02%) PMO
9 44 (0.91%) NCSC
10 34 (0.71%) SLA
11 32 (0.66%) PCI DSS
12 28 (0.58%) GRC
13 24 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 14 (0.29%) ISO 20022
15 12 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
16 10 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
17 9 (0.19%) HIPAA
17 9 (0.19%) HL7
17 9 (0.19%) SEPA
18 6 (0.12%) PSD2
System Software
1 953 (19.80%) Docker
2 159 (3.30%) Active Directory
3 73 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 69 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (0.48%) Hyper-V
6 22 (0.46%) vSphere
7 20 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
8 17 (0.35%) VMware NSX
9 14 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
10 13 (0.27%) Squid
11 11 (0.23%) IAG
12 10 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
13 9 (0.19%) Postfix
14 8 (0.17%) KVM
15 6 (0.12%) Corosync
15 6 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
16 5 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
16 5 (0.10%) Firmware
17 4 (0.083%) Embedded Firmware
17 4 (0.083%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,242 (25.80%) Kubernetes
2 475 (9.87%) Ansible
3 311 (6.46%) Grafana
4 265 (5.50%) Prometheus
5 72 (1.50%) Argo
6 58 (1.20%) Puppet
7 51 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
8 46 (0.96%) Progress Chef
9 39 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
10 32 (0.66%) Packer
11 26 (0.54%) Istio
12 22 (0.46%) Kibana
13 19 (0.39%) SCCM
13 19 (0.39%) vCenter Server
14 18 (0.37%) Kustomize
15 16 (0.33%) Kubeflow
16 14 (0.29%) HP ALM
17 13 (0.27%) Control-M
17 13 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
18 12 (0.25%) systemd
Vendors
1 968 (20.11%) Microsoft
2 255 (5.30%) Databricks
3 244 (5.07%) Oracle
4 223 (4.63%) Google
5 189 (3.93%) ServiceNow
6 164 (3.41%) Splunk
7 144 (2.99%) Salesforce
8 130 (2.70%) Dynatrace
9 103 (2.14%) VMware
10 99 (2.06%) SAP
11 95 (1.97%) Red Hat
12 63 (1.31%) IBM
13 51 (1.06%) Informatica
14 47 (0.98%) Cisco
15 46 (0.96%) OpenAI
16 44 (0.91%) AppDynamics
17 42 (0.87%) Atlassian
18 37 (0.77%) Foundry
19 35 (0.73%) MuleSoft
20 33 (0.69%) CyberArk