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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 16 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,758 2,776 3,496
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.60% 10.12% 9.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.42% 11.16% 11.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,278 2,005 2,400
10th Percentile £388 £363 £400
25th Percentile £443 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £703 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 19 101
10th Percentile £37.25 £41.00 £56.50
25th Percentile £61.00 £52.13 £61.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.75% -4.29% +6.87%
75th Percentile £78.00 £77.25 £77.50
90th Percentile £94.75 £89.50 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +4.48% -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 38,301 24,864 30,650
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.33% 90.66% 85.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,041 15,953 19,995
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £421 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £745 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,379 1,324 2,046
10th Percentile £15.33 £14.23 £13.22
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £16.90
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -36.33% -7.06%
75th Percentile £69.10 £53.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.39 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -10.31%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 20 July 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 2,439 £550 - 653
North of England +5 856 £500 +2.04% 278
South East -9 459 £525 +5.00% 266
Midlands +2 450 £488 -1.52% 145
Yorkshire +2 447 £500 - 78
West Midlands -3 358 £500 - 103
North West -2 330 £519 +9.30% 152
South West +14 317 £518 -3.94% 116
East of England +24 145 £525 +5.00% 56
North East +12 98 £425 -18.66% 51
East Midlands 0 87 £488 +5.41% 42
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
1 280 (5.88%) Confluence
2 122 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 121 (2.54%) Apache Spark
4 104 (2.19%) Apache Airflow
5 93 (1.95%) Apache
6 67 (1.41%) SAS
7 49 (1.03%) CMS
8 31 (0.65%) IIS
8 31 (0.65%) Jupyter
9 28 (0.59%) nginx
10 24 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
11 14 (0.29%) WebSphere
12 13 (0.27%) Camunda
12 13 (0.27%) OpenStack
13 12 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
14 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
15 9 (0.19%) Appian
15 9 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
16 7 (0.15%) Tomcat
16 7 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 65 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
3 37 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 33 (0.69%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.21%) CPLEX
6 9 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.13%) Trello
9 4 (0.084%) Notion
10 2 (0.042%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.021%) InDesign
11 1 (0.021%) Maya
11 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 61 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.21%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.19%) Magento
4 9 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
4 9 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
5 8 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.13%) Maximo
6 6 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.11%) Endur
7 5 (0.11%) OpenText MBPM
7 5 (0.11%) Oracle BPM
7 5 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.084%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.063%) Findur
9 3 (0.063%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.063%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.063%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.063%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 2,538 (53.34%) Azure
2 1,661 (34.91%) AWS
3 1,425 (29.95%) Azure DevOps
4 774 (16.27%) GitHub
5 568 (11.94%) GCP
6 474 (9.96%) GitHub Actions
7 397 (8.34%) Power Platform
8 389 (8.18%) Serverless
9 261 (5.49%) Amazon S3
10 227 (4.77%) AWS Lambda
11 224 (4.71%) Entra ID
12 183 (3.85%) Azure AKS
13 177 (3.72%) AWS CloudFormation
14 168 (3.53%) Amazon EKS
15 164 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
16 158 (3.32%) Amazon EC2
17 157 (3.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 156 (3.28%) Azure Monitor
19 147 (3.09%) OpenShift
20 144 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 222 (4.67%) Firewall
2 133 (2.80%) DNS
3 107 (2.25%) VPN
4 104 (2.19%) Network Security
5 54 (1.13%) TCP/IP
6 49 (1.03%) WAN
7 35 (0.74%) SD-WAN
7 35 (0.74%) SSL
8 32 (0.67%) BGP
9 29 (0.61%) Internet
10 27 (0.57%) DHCP
10 27 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
11 24 (0.50%) OSPF
12 20 (0.42%) HTTP
13 19 (0.40%) SAN
14 18 (0.38%) LAN
15 17 (0.36%) MPLS
15 17 (0.36%) VXLAN
16 16 (0.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 16 (0.34%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 269 (5.65%) Power BI
2 250 (5.25%) SQL Server
3 222 (4.67%) PostgreSQL
4 158 (3.32%) NoSQL
5 156 (3.28%) Relational Database
6 150 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
7 139 (2.92%) Data Lake
8 135 (2.84%) MongoDB
9 101 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
10 83 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
11 82 (1.72%) DynamoDB
11 82 (1.72%) Metadata
12 77 (1.62%) Delta Lake
12 77 (1.62%) Oracle Database
13 59 (1.24%) Big Data
14 56 (1.18%) Redis
15 55 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
16 53 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
17 50 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
18 42 (0.88%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 660 (13.87%) Jenkins
2 614 (12.90%) Git
3 565 (11.87%) JIRA
4 478 (10.05%) GitLab
5 109 (2.29%) Selenium
6 88 (1.85%) Postman
7 86 (1.81%) SonarQube
8 82 (1.72%) JUnit
9 67 (1.41%) Bitbucket
10 66 (1.39%) Maven
11 64 (1.35%) REST Assured
12 53 (1.11%) Cucumber
13 49 (1.03%) Cypress.io
14 48 (1.01%) JMeter
15 42 (0.88%) Gatling
16 41 (0.86%) Gradle
17 38 (0.80%) Mockito
18 35 (0.74%) Artifactory
19 31 (0.65%) LoadRunner
19 31 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,200 (25.22%) Social Skills
2 911 (19.15%) Finance
3 639 (13.43%) Public Sector
4 428 (9.00%) Analytical Skills
5 322 (6.77%) Banking
6 118 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
7 106 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 84 (1.77%) Retail
9 70 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
10 57 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
11 54 (1.13%) Legal
11 54 (1.13%) Marketing
12 44 (0.92%) Military
13 41 (0.86%) Investment Banking
14 38 (0.80%) Law
15 36 (0.76%) Financial Institution
16 35 (0.74%) Telecoms
17 33 (0.69%) Front Office
18 31 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
19 29 (0.61%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 908 (19.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 750 (15.76%) Developer
3 672 (14.12%) Senior
4 561 (11.79%) Architect
5 454 (9.54%) Lead
6 292 (6.14%) Azure Engineer
7 278 (5.84%) Data Engineer
8 264 (5.55%) Analyst
9 209 (4.39%) AWS Engineer
10 192 (4.04%) Platform Engineer
11 177 (3.72%) Cloud Engineer
12 172 (3.61%) Solutions Architect
13 167 (3.51%) Senior DevOps
14 153 (3.22%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 153 (3.22%) Java Developer
14 153 (3.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 146 (3.07%) AWS DevOps
16 138 (2.90%) Business Analyst
17 133 (2.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 132 (2.77%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 452 (9.50%) REST
2 414 (8.70%) .NET
3 271 (5.70%) Kafka
4 258 (5.42%) React
4 258 (5.42%) Spring
5 240 (5.04%) Spring Boot
6 238 (5.00%) RESTful
7 188 (3.95%) Node.js
8 141 (2.96%) AngularJS
9 136 (2.86%) PySpark
10 135 (2.84%) JSON
11 134 (2.82%) Playwright
12 133 (2.80%) OAuth
13 121 (2.54%) .NET Framework
14 117 (2.46%) SOAP
15 113 (2.37%) HTML
16 98 (2.06%) CSS
17 95 (2.00%) YAML
18 93 (1.95%) OAuth2
19 88 (1.85%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 833 (17.51%) Cloud Native
2 326 (6.85%) Product Ownership
3 216 (4.54%) Distributed Systems
4 145 (3.05%) Onboarding
5 133 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
6 127 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
7 109 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
8 76 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
9 73 (1.53%) Public Cloud
10 66 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
11 65 (1.37%) Security Posture
12 63 (1.32%) Data Centre
13 60 (1.26%) Management Information System
14 57 (1.20%) Data Structures
15 55 (1.16%) AI Agents
16 52 (1.09%) Mobile App
17 51 (1.07%) Replication
18 48 (1.01%) Virtual Team
19 43 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
20 35 (0.74%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 410 (8.62%) Linux
2 254 (5.34%) Windows
3 93 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 67 (1.41%) Unix
5 61 (1.28%) Windows Server
6 26 (0.55%) Ubuntu
7 25 (0.53%) Apple iOS
7 25 (0.53%) VMS
8 17 (0.36%) Android
9 10 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
10 9 (0.19%) Solaris
11 7 (0.15%) CentOS
11 7 (0.15%) zOS
12 6 (0.13%) AIX
12 6 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
12 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
12 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (0.11%) Mac OS
14 4 (0.084%) Data ONTAP
14 4 (0.084%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,719 (57.15%) CI/CD
2 1,874 (39.39%) Agile
3 1,249 (26.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 759 (15.95%) Containerisation
5 739 (15.53%) Problem-Solving
6 708 (14.88%) Continuous Improvement
7 690 (14.50%) Test Automation
8 688 (14.46%) Microservices
9 645 (13.56%) Stakeholder Management
10 639 (13.43%) AI
11 586 (12.32%) Scrum
12 584 (12.27%) Observability
13 572 (12.02%) Migration
14 548 (11.52%) Software Engineering
15 535 (11.24%) Platform Engineering
16 516 (10.84%) Analytics
17 419 (8.81%) Technical Leadership
18 414 (8.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 413 (8.68%) Data Modelling
20 409 (8.60%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,327 (27.89%) Python
2 892 (18.75%) SQL
3 669 (14.06%) Java
4 433 (9.10%) C#
5 374 (7.86%) Bash
6 362 (7.61%) PowerShell
7 356 (7.48%) JavaScript
8 254 (5.34%) TypeScript
9 161 (3.38%) Bicep
10 93 (1.95%) Go
11 58 (1.22%) PL/SQL
12 55 (1.16%) Scala
12 55 (1.16%) Shell Script
12 55 (1.16%) T-SQL
13 51 (1.07%) Apex Code
14 46 (0.97%) Groovy
15 27 (0.57%) C++
16 26 (0.55%) Kotlin
17 22 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 21 (0.44%) C
Qualifications
1 1,512 (31.78%) Security Cleared
2 1,258 (26.44%) SC Cleared
3 301 (6.33%) Degree
4 188 (3.95%) Azure Certification
5 176 (3.70%) DV Cleared
6 159 (3.34%) AWS Certification
7 118 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 109 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 72 (1.51%) CISSP
9 72 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
10 52 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
11 45 (0.95%) ISTQB
12 43 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 38 (0.80%) PMP
14 37 (0.78%) Master's Degree
15 36 (0.76%) PMI Certification
16 32 (0.67%) CISM
17 23 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 23 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
18 22 (0.46%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 428 (9.00%) QA
2 219 (4.60%) Data Quality
3 153 (3.22%) Accessibility
4 145 (3.05%) GDPR
5 93 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 90 (1.89%) NIST
7 71 (1.49%) WCAG
8 56 (1.18%) NCSC
9 40 (0.84%) PCI DSS
10 37 (0.78%) PMO
11 31 (0.65%) SLA
12 27 (0.57%) GRC
13 23 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 13 (0.27%) HIPAA
15 10 (0.21%) SOC 2
16 9 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
16 9 (0.19%) ISO 20022
16 9 (0.19%) PSD2
17 8 (0.17%) SEPA
18 7 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 908 (19.08%) Docker
2 164 (3.45%) Active Directory
3 74 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
4 66 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 28 (0.59%) vSphere
6 22 (0.46%) VMware NSX
7 19 (0.40%) Squid
8 18 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
9 16 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
10 14 (0.29%) Hyper-V
10 14 (0.29%) Postfix
11 9 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
12 8 (0.17%) KVM
13 7 (0.15%) IAG
14 6 (0.13%) Corosync
14 6 (0.13%) RACF
15 5 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
15 5 (0.11%) NFS
15 5 (0.11%) SRDF
16 4 (0.084%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,331 (27.97%) Terraform
2 1,184 (24.88%) Kubernetes
3 460 (9.67%) Ansible
4 317 (6.66%) Grafana
5 269 (5.65%) Prometheus
6 84 (1.77%) Argo
7 70 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
8 53 (1.11%) Puppet
9 36 (0.76%) Progress Chef
10 31 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
11 30 (0.63%) Istio
12 29 (0.61%) Packer
13 26 (0.55%) vCenter Server
14 19 (0.40%) Kibana
15 15 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 15 (0.32%) Consul
15 15 (0.32%) Kustomize
16 14 (0.29%) HP ALM
16 14 (0.29%) Kubeflow
16 14 (0.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 863 (18.14%) Microsoft
2 258 (5.42%) Oracle
3 235 (4.94%) Databricks
4 205 (4.31%) Google
5 185 (3.89%) ServiceNow
6 169 (3.55%) Splunk
7 147 (3.09%) Salesforce
8 116 (2.44%) Dynatrace
9 111 (2.33%) SAP
10 105 (2.21%) Red Hat
11 101 (2.12%) VMware
12 57 (1.20%) IBM
13 54 (1.13%) OpenAI
14 49 (1.03%) Atlassian
15 46 (0.97%) Informatica
16 42 (0.88%) CyberArk
16 42 (0.88%) Foundry
17 41 (0.86%) Cisco
18 33 (0.69%) AppDynamics
19 32 (0.67%) Okta