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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 17
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 -5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,056 2,625 3,274
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.17% 10.63% 8.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.91% 11.74% 9.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,833 1,894 2,319
10th Percentile £381 £400 £413
25th Percentile £443 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £560
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +0.45% -6.67%
75th Percentile £614 £675 £663
90th Percentile £719 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 19 99
10th Percentile £40.72 £34.65 £49.35
25th Percentile £45.46 £57.82 £61.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £74.44 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.68% +14.52% -0.76%
75th Percentile £77.50 £80.75 £71.57
90th Percentile £93.75 £88.50 £84.65
UK median hourly rate £66.25 £73.83 £65.00
% change year-on-year -10.27% +13.59% -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 31,421 22,365 33,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.55% 90.61% 86.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,102 14,445 21,880
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 1,952 795 2,164
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £13.02
25th Percentile £18.80 £21.01 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.53
90th Percentile £74.26 £76.81 £71.83
UK median hourly rate £29.61 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -8.89% - -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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -3 2,041 £550 -5.98% 414
North of England +6 730 £500 -4.76% 306
South East -1 434 £525 -8.70% 329
Midlands +13 414 £500 +2.30% 133
Yorkshire +1 385 £500 -4.76% 98
West Midlands +14 334 £506 +2.74% 93
North West +6 292 £500 -4.76% 167
South West +16 268 £525 -12.50% 142
East of England +15 110 £575 +13.30% 76
East Midlands +2 78 £438 -7.89% 40
North East +3 58 £475 -9.52% 43
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
1 255 (6.29%) Confluence
2 103 (2.54%) Apache Spark
3 85 (2.10%) SharePoint
4 82 (2.02%) Apache
4 82 (2.02%) SAS
5 58 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
6 30 (0.74%) OpenStack
7 29 (0.71%) CMS
8 27 (0.67%) nginx
9 22 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
10 17 (0.42%) IIS
11 12 (0.30%) Mendix
11 12 (0.30%) 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 (2.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 39 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
4 27 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
5 22 (0.54%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.30%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.20%) Weka
8 4 (0.099%) 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 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.30%) 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 7 (0.17%) Endur
8 6 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
8 6 (0.15%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 4 (0.099%) Oracle EBS
10 4 (0.099%) Payment Gateway
11 3 (0.074%) Salesforce CRM
11 3 (0.074%) SAP BPC
11 3 (0.074%) SAP CO
11 3 (0.074%) SAP FI
11 3 (0.074%) SAP FI/CO
11 3 (0.074%) Workday HCM
12 2 (0.049%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 2,083 (51.36%) Azure
2 1,390 (34.27%) AWS
3 1,139 (28.08%) Azure DevOps
4 744 (18.34%) GitHub
5 586 (14.45%) GCP
6 448 (11.05%) Serverless
7 395 (9.74%) GitHub Actions
8 338 (8.33%) Power Platform
9 216 (5.33%) Amazon S3
10 213 (5.25%) AWS Lambda
11 212 (5.23%) AWS CloudFormation
12 199 (4.91%) Azure Data Factory
13 192 (4.73%) Entra ID
14 180 (4.44%) OpenShift
15 177 (4.36%) Azure AKS
16 163 (4.02%) Amazon EKS
17 159 (3.92%) Azure Monitor
18 155 (3.82%) Dynamics 365
19 134 (3.30%) SaaS
20 133 (3.28%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 183 (4.51%) Firewall
2 98 (2.42%) DNS
3 79 (1.95%) Network Security
4 74 (1.82%) VPN
5 45 (1.11%) TCP/IP
6 24 (0.59%) WAN
7 22 (0.54%) SD-WAN
7 22 (0.54%) SSL
8 21 (0.52%) HTTP
9 19 (0.47%) DHCP
10 15 (0.37%) HTTPS
11 14 (0.35%) BGP
11 14 (0.35%) MPLS
12 12 (0.30%) Internet
12 12 (0.30%) SAN
13 11 (0.27%) Kerberos
13 11 (0.27%) Reverse Proxy
14 10 (0.25%) IPsec
14 10 (0.25%) LAN
14 10 (0.25%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 232 (5.72%) PostgreSQL
2 214 (5.28%) Power BI
3 171 (4.22%) SQL Server
4 161 (3.97%) NoSQL
5 129 (3.18%) Data Lake
6 103 (2.54%) Relational Database
7 99 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
8 96 (2.37%) MongoDB
9 95 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
10 84 (2.07%) Azure SQL Database
11 70 (1.73%) Oracle Database
12 68 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
13 66 (1.63%) DynamoDB
14 63 (1.55%) Delta Lake
15 57 (1.41%) Redis
16 52 (1.28%) Tableau
17 49 (1.21%) MySQL
18 47 (1.16%) Metadata
19 46 (1.13%) Big Data
20 44 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 675 (16.64%) Jenkins
2 551 (13.58%) Git
3 539 (13.29%) JIRA
4 473 (11.66%) GitLab
5 119 (2.93%) Selenium
6 93 (2.29%) JUnit
7 81 (2.00%) Postman
8 68 (1.68%) Bitbucket
9 57 (1.41%) SonarQube
10 56 (1.38%) Cucumber
11 46 (1.13%) Artifactory
12 45 (1.11%) Cypress.io
12 45 (1.11%) Maven
13 42 (1.04%) REST Assured
14 40 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
15 36 (0.89%) JMeter
16 35 (0.86%) Oracle APEX
17 28 (0.69%) CircleCI
18 27 (0.67%) Gradle
18 27 (0.67%) Liquibase
General
1 1,185 (29.22%) Social Skills
2 781 (19.26%) Finance
3 506 (12.48%) Public Sector
4 355 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
5 321 (7.91%) Banking
6 143 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
7 75 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
8 65 (1.60%) Financial Institution
9 53 (1.31%) Retail
10 51 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 49 (1.21%) Marketing
12 47 (1.16%) Front Office
13 43 (1.06%) Investment Banking
13 43 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
14 39 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
15 36 (0.89%) Telecoms
16 29 (0.71%) Legal
17 28 (0.69%) Military
18 27 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
19 23 (0.57%) Law
Job Titles
1 720 (17.75%) DevOps Engineer
2 656 (16.17%) Developer
3 552 (13.61%) Senior
4 443 (10.92%) Architect
5 342 (8.43%) Lead
6 248 (6.11%) Azure Engineer
7 242 (5.97%) Data Engineer
8 228 (5.62%) Analyst
9 201 (4.96%) AWS Engineer
10 160 (3.94%) Cloud Engineer
11 157 (3.87%) AWS DevOps
12 143 (3.53%) Software Engineer
13 139 (3.43%) Platform Engineer
14 135 (3.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 132 (3.25%) Solutions Architect
16 121 (2.98%) Business Analyst
17 119 (2.93%) Senior Developer
18 107 (2.64%) Full-Stack Developer
18 107 (2.64%) Senior DevOps
19 103 (2.54%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 448 (11.05%) REST
2 330 (8.14%) .NET
3 264 (6.51%) Node.js
4 253 (6.24%) React
5 234 (5.77%) Kafka
6 221 (5.45%) Spring
7 196 (4.83%) Spring Boot
8 191 (4.71%) RESTful
9 156 (3.85%) AngularJS
10 149 (3.67%) JSON
11 133 (3.28%) YAML
12 127 (3.13%) HTML
13 116 (2.86%) OAuth
13 116 (2.86%) SOAP
14 114 (2.81%) Playwright
15 109 (2.69%) Elastic Stack
16 108 (2.66%) PySpark
17 107 (2.64%) XML
18 101 (2.49%) CSS
19 100 (2.47%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 584 (14.40%) Cloud Native
2 224 (5.52%) Product Ownership
3 142 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
4 111 (2.74%) Onboarding
5 103 (2.54%) Public Cloud
6 88 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
7 80 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
8 69 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
9 53 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
10 51 (1.26%) Management Information System
11 47 (1.16%) Virtual Team
12 45 (1.11%) Security Posture
13 41 (1.01%) Private Cloud
14 39 (0.96%) Data Centre
15 36 (0.89%) AI Agents
16 35 (0.86%) Data Structures
16 35 (0.86%) NHS
17 33 (0.81%) Mobile App
18 32 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
18 32 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 415 (10.23%) Linux
2 212 (5.23%) Windows
3 74 (1.82%) Unix
4 59 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 38 (0.94%) VMS
6 37 (0.91%) Windows Server
7 22 (0.54%) Ubuntu
8 16 (0.39%) CentOS
9 11 (0.27%) Android
10 9 (0.22%) Apple iOS
10 9 (0.22%) Windows 10
11 7 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (0.15%) Solaris
12 6 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.099%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.049%) Debian
14 2 (0.049%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.049%) zOS
15 1 (0.025%) Embedded Linux
15 1 (0.025%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,307 (56.88%) CI/CD
2 1,584 (39.05%) Agile
3 997 (24.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 772 (19.03%) Problem-Solving
5 732 (18.05%) Containerisation
6 608 (14.99%) Test Automation
7 598 (14.74%) Microservices
8 528 (13.02%) Analytics
9 516 (12.72%) Continuous Improvement
10 482 (11.88%) Migration
11 463 (11.42%) Scrum
12 448 (11.05%) AI
13 440 (10.85%) Observability
14 434 (10.70%) Stakeholder Management
15 370 (9.12%) Data Modelling
15 370 (9.12%) Software Engineering
16 348 (8.58%) Mentoring
17 298 (7.35%) Data Pipeline
18 291 (7.17%) ETL
19 286 (7.05%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,229 (30.30%) Python
2 882 (21.75%) SQL
3 530 (13.07%) Java
4 396 (9.76%) C#
5 384 (9.47%) JavaScript
6 320 (7.89%) PowerShell
7 302 (7.45%) Bash
8 267 (6.58%) TypeScript
9 131 (3.23%) Bicep
10 123 (3.03%) Go
11 79 (1.95%) PL/SQL
12 61 (1.50%) Scala
13 45 (1.11%) T-SQL
14 41 (1.01%) C++
15 40 (0.99%) Shell Script
16 39 (0.96%) Ruby
17 32 (0.79%) Groovy
18 26 (0.64%) Rust
19 23 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
20 21 (0.52%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 1,310 (32.30%) Security Cleared
2 1,066 (26.28%) SC Cleared
3 339 (8.36%) Degree
4 193 (4.76%) Azure Certification
5 178 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 140 (3.45%) DV Cleared
7 122 (3.01%) AWS Certification
8 91 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
9 74 (1.82%) Master's Degree
10 73 (1.80%) CISSP
11 55 (1.36%) CISM
12 53 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
13 47 (1.16%) ISTQB
14 42 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 36 (0.89%) PMI Certification
16 34 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
17 29 (0.71%) PMP
18 25 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 23 (0.57%) IIBA
19 23 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 354 (8.73%) QA
2 168 (4.14%) Data Quality
3 166 (4.09%) GDPR
4 123 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 111 (2.74%) NIST
6 89 (2.19%) Accessibility
7 67 (1.65%) NCSC
8 36 (0.89%) PCI DSS
9 31 (0.76%) WCAG
10 26 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 25 (0.62%) SLA
12 23 (0.57%) PMO
13 21 (0.52%) HIPAA
14 16 (0.39%) SOC 2
15 15 (0.37%) ISO 20022
16 13 (0.32%) PSD2
17 11 (0.27%) NIST 800
18 10 (0.25%) GRC
18 10 (0.25%) SEPA
19 8 (0.20%) HL7
System Software
1 927 (22.86%) Docker
2 159 (3.92%) Active Directory
3 73 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
4 67 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 41 (1.01%) vSphere
6 25 (0.62%) VMware NSX
7 13 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.27%) Lustre
8 11 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 9 (0.22%) GPFS
9 9 (0.22%) Hyper-V
9 9 (0.22%) Squid
10 7 (0.17%) Firmware
10 7 (0.17%) Postfix
10 7 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
11 6 (0.15%) HDFS
12 5 (0.12%) KVM
12 5 (0.12%) NFS
12 5 (0.12%) RACF
13 4 (0.099%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1,176 (28.99%) Terraform
2 1,136 (28.01%) Kubernetes
3 448 (11.05%) Ansible
4 276 (6.80%) Grafana
5 231 (5.70%) Prometheus
6 89 (2.19%) Argo
7 72 (1.78%) Puppet
8 54 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
9 47 (1.16%) Istio
10 32 (0.79%) Packer
11 26 (0.64%) Kibana
11 26 (0.64%) 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 13 (0.32%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 702 (17.31%) Microsoft
2 276 (6.80%) Oracle
3 252 (6.21%) Databricks
4 228 (5.62%) Google
5 189 (4.66%) Splunk
6 143 (3.53%) ServiceNow
7 134 (3.30%) Red Hat
8 115 (2.84%) VMware
9 99 (2.44%) Salesforce
10 97 (2.39%) SAP
11 72 (1.78%) OpenAI
12 62 (1.53%) Atlassian
13 60 (1.48%) Dynatrace
14 56 (1.38%) CyberArk
15 43 (1.06%) Talend
16 39 (0.96%) Denodo
17 36 (0.89%) IBM
18 33 (0.81%) Foundry
19 29 (0.71%) Cisco
20 26 (0.64%) BeyondTrust