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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 16 15
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,800 2,823 3,383
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.62% 10.26% 9.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.46% 11.31% 11.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,319 2,045 2,317
10th Percentile £385 £359 £400
25th Percentile £440 £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 £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 21 88
10th Percentile £29.23 £35.00 £56.43
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.25 £64.15
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.75% -4.29% +7.28%
75th Percentile £75.00 £82.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £90.70 £92.50 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +0.75% -4.29% +7.28%

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 38,532 24,959 29,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.26% 90.75% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,105 15,999 19,151
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,365 1,791
10th Percentile £15.05 £14.22 £13.87
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £17.75
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -39.40% -2.35%
75th Percentile £68.75 £51.65 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.10 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 2,474 £550 - 856
North of England +3 852 £500 +4.17% 345
Midlands +1 459 £491 +3.37% 163
South East -10 459 £525 +5.00% 302
Yorkshire +2 429 £500 +2.04% 90
West Midlands -2 374 £495 -1.04% 118
North West -2 336 £521 +9.70% 182
South West +14 320 £525 - 159
East of England +14 137 £509 +1.70% 68
North East +8 104 £425 -18.66% 75
East Midlands +3 80 £488 +7.26% 45
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
1 294 (6.13%) Confluence
2 127 (2.65%) SharePoint
3 120 (2.50%) Apache Spark
4 106 (2.21%) Apache Airflow
5 94 (1.96%) Apache
6 72 (1.50%) SAS
7 42 (0.88%) CMS
8 31 (0.65%) IIS
8 31 (0.65%) Jupyter
9 23 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
9 23 (0.48%) nginx
10 14 (0.29%) WebSphere
11 13 (0.27%) Camunda
12 12 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
13 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
14 9 (0.19%) Anypoint
14 9 (0.19%) Appian
14 9 (0.19%) OpenStack
15 7 (0.15%) Tomcat
15 7 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 60 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
2 54 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 33 (0.69%) MS Visio
4 30 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
5 25 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.21%) CPLEX
7 9 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.15%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.13%) Trello
10 4 (0.083%) Notion
11 2 (0.042%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
12 1 (0.021%) InDesign
12 1 (0.021%) Maya
12 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 58 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.21%) Aladdin
3 10 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
4 9 (0.19%) Magento
4 9 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
5 8 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
5 8 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.13%) Maximo
7 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
7 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
7 5 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.083%) Endur
8 4 (0.083%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.083%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.063%) Findur
9 3 (0.063%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.063%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.063%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2,567 (53.48%) Azure
2 1,665 (34.69%) AWS
3 1,473 (30.69%) Azure DevOps
4 780 (16.25%) GitHub
5 589 (12.27%) GCP
6 484 (10.08%) GitHub Actions
7 406 (8.46%) Power Platform
8 378 (7.88%) Serverless
9 248 (5.17%) Amazon S3
10 231 (4.81%) Entra ID
11 218 (4.54%) AWS Lambda
12 195 (4.06%) Azure AKS
13 180 (3.75%) AWS CloudFormation
14 177 (3.69%) Amazon EKS
15 167 (3.48%) Azure Data Factory
16 165 (3.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 164 (3.42%) Azure Monitor
18 149 (3.10%) Amazon EC2
19 145 (3.02%) Dynamics 365
20 142 (2.96%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 226 (4.71%) Firewall
2 135 (2.81%) DNS
3 113 (2.35%) VPN
4 103 (2.15%) Network Security
5 54 (1.13%) TCP/IP
6 49 (1.02%) WAN
7 39 (0.81%) SSL
8 36 (0.75%) SD-WAN
9 32 (0.67%) DHCP
10 31 (0.65%) BGP
10 31 (0.65%) Internet
11 28 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
12 25 (0.52%) OSPF
13 21 (0.44%) HTTP
14 18 (0.38%) SAN
14 18 (0.38%) VLAN
14 18 (0.38%) VXLAN
15 17 (0.35%) MPLS
16 16 (0.33%) BIG-IP
16 16 (0.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 283 (5.90%) Power BI
2 255 (5.31%) SQL Server
3 229 (4.77%) PostgreSQL
4 163 (3.40%) NoSQL
5 162 (3.38%) Data Warehouse
6 152 (3.17%) Relational Database
7 141 (2.94%) Data Lake
8 139 (2.90%) MongoDB
9 94 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
10 90 (1.88%) Azure SQL Database
11 87 (1.81%) Metadata
12 81 (1.69%) Delta Lake
12 81 (1.69%) DynamoDB
13 74 (1.54%) Oracle Database
14 58 (1.21%) Big Data
15 56 (1.17%) Redis
16 55 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
17 48 (1.00%) MySQL
18 47 (0.98%) Amazon Athena
19 44 (0.92%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 667 (13.90%) Jenkins
2 621 (12.94%) Git
3 574 (11.96%) JIRA
4 492 (10.25%) GitLab
5 105 (2.19%) Selenium
6 86 (1.79%) SonarQube
7 83 (1.73%) JUnit
7 83 (1.73%) Postman
8 73 (1.52%) Bitbucket
9 68 (1.42%) Maven
10 58 (1.21%) REST Assured
11 54 (1.13%) JMeter
12 53 (1.10%) Cucumber
13 50 (1.04%) Cypress.io
14 44 (0.92%) Gatling
15 41 (0.85%) Mockito
16 39 (0.81%) Gradle
17 37 (0.77%) LoadRunner
18 34 (0.71%) Artifactory
19 31 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,199 (24.98%) Social Skills
2 904 (18.83%) Finance
3 656 (13.67%) Public Sector
4 435 (9.06%) Analytical Skills
5 331 (6.90%) Banking
6 115 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 96 (2.00%) Retail
8 94 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
9 64 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
10 59 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
11 56 (1.17%) Legal
12 55 (1.15%) Marketing
13 44 (0.92%) Investment Banking
13 44 (0.92%) Military
14 40 (0.83%) Law
15 39 (0.81%) Financial Institution
16 37 (0.77%) Front Office
17 36 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
17 36 (0.75%) Telecoms
18 33 (0.69%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 902 (18.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 765 (15.94%) Developer
3 693 (14.44%) Senior
4 548 (11.42%) Architect
5 476 (9.92%) Lead
6 292 (6.08%) Azure Engineer
7 282 (5.88%) Data Engineer
8 252 (5.25%) Analyst
9 210 (4.38%) AWS Engineer
10 201 (4.19%) Platform Engineer
11 178 (3.71%) Cloud Engineer
12 171 (3.56%) Senior DevOps
13 170 (3.54%) Solutions Architect
14 157 (3.27%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 152 (3.17%) Java Developer
16 151 (3.15%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 145 (3.02%) AWS DevOps
18 136 (2.83%) Software Engineer
19 132 (2.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
20 128 (2.67%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 473 (9.85%) REST
2 420 (8.75%) .NET
3 279 (5.81%) Kafka
4 249 (5.19%) RESTful
5 246 (5.13%) Spring
6 244 (5.08%) React
7 226 (4.71%) Spring Boot
8 177 (3.69%) Node.js
9 144 (3.00%) JSON
10 143 (2.98%) PySpark
11 138 (2.88%) OAuth
12 136 (2.83%) AngularJS
13 130 (2.71%) Playwright
14 129 (2.69%) SOAP
15 127 (2.65%) .NET Framework
16 107 (2.23%) HTML
17 99 (2.06%) YAML
18 95 (1.98%) OAuth2
19 92 (1.92%) CSS
20 88 (1.83%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 853 (17.77%) Cloud Native
2 333 (6.94%) Product Ownership
3 230 (4.79%) Distributed Systems
4 143 (2.98%) Onboarding
5 135 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
6 132 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
7 117 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
8 75 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
9 72 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
10 68 (1.42%) Public Cloud
11 66 (1.38%) Management Information System
12 64 (1.33%) Security Posture
13 62 (1.29%) Data Centre
13 62 (1.29%) Data Structures
14 60 (1.25%) AI Agents
15 51 (1.06%) Replication
16 50 (1.04%) Virtual Team
17 48 (1.00%) Mobile App
18 38 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
19 37 (0.77%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 421 (8.77%) Linux
2 261 (5.44%) Windows
3 95 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 72 (1.50%) Unix
5 68 (1.42%) Windows Server
6 27 (0.56%) Ubuntu
7 25 (0.52%) Apple iOS
7 25 (0.52%) VMS
8 17 (0.35%) Android
9 10 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
10 9 (0.19%) Solaris
11 8 (0.17%) zOS
12 7 (0.15%) AIX
12 7 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
13 6 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
13 6 (0.13%) CentOS
13 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
14 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
15 4 (0.083%) Alpine Linux
15 4 (0.083%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,759 (57.48%) CI/CD
2 1,917 (39.94%) Agile
3 1,276 (26.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 774 (16.13%) Containerisation
5 756 (15.75%) Continuous Improvement
6 750 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
7 714 (14.88%) Test Automation
8 689 (14.35%) Microservices
9 673 (14.02%) Stakeholder Management
10 664 (13.83%) AI
11 610 (12.71%) Observability
12 603 (12.56%) Scrum
13 581 (12.10%) Software Engineering
14 568 (11.83%) Migration
15 567 (11.81%) Platform Engineering
16 538 (11.21%) Analytics
17 437 (9.10%) Technical Leadership
18 431 (8.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 426 (8.88%) Data Modelling
20 414 (8.63%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,359 (28.31%) Python
2 897 (18.69%) SQL
3 683 (14.23%) Java
4 437 (9.10%) C#
5 393 (8.19%) Bash
6 382 (7.96%) PowerShell
7 368 (7.67%) JavaScript
8 258 (5.38%) TypeScript
9 181 (3.77%) Bicep
10 91 (1.90%) Go
11 57 (1.19%) PL/SQL
12 56 (1.17%) T-SQL
13 55 (1.15%) Shell Script
14 51 (1.06%) Apex Code
15 49 (1.02%) Groovy
15 49 (1.02%) Scala
16 30 (0.63%) C++
17 26 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 26 (0.54%) Kotlin
18 24 (0.50%) C
Qualifications
1 1,517 (31.60%) Security Cleared
2 1,264 (26.33%) SC Cleared
3 297 (6.19%) Degree
4 198 (4.13%) Azure Certification
5 185 (3.85%) DV Cleared
6 161 (3.35%) AWS Certification
7 128 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 107 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
9 77 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
10 72 (1.50%) CISSP
11 50 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
12 47 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 45 (0.94%) ISTQB
14 39 (0.81%) PMP
15 34 (0.71%) PMI Certification
16 33 (0.69%) Master's Degree
17 30 (0.63%) CISM
18 23 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 22 (0.46%) CCNP
19 22 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 448 (9.33%) QA
2 231 (4.81%) Data Quality
3 151 (3.15%) Accessibility
4 136 (2.83%) GDPR
5 79 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 74 (1.54%) NIST
7 71 (1.48%) WCAG
8 45 (0.94%) NCSC
9 41 (0.85%) PMO
10 38 (0.79%) PCI DSS
11 29 (0.60%) SLA
12 26 (0.54%) GRC
13 23 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 10 (0.21%) HIPAA
15 9 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.19%) PSD2
16 8 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
16 8 (0.17%) ISO 20022
16 8 (0.17%) SEPA
16 8 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 926 (19.29%) Docker
2 168 (3.50%) Active Directory
3 76 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
4 67 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 27 (0.56%) vSphere
6 21 (0.44%) VMware NSX
7 18 (0.38%) Hyper-V
8 17 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
9 14 (0.29%) Postfix
9 14 (0.29%) Squid
9 14 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
10 10 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
11 8 (0.17%) KVM
12 7 (0.15%) IAG
13 6 (0.13%) Corosync
14 5 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
14 5 (0.10%) NFS
14 5 (0.10%) RACF
14 5 (0.10%) SRDF
15 4 (0.083%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1,358 (28.29%) Terraform
2 1,206 (25.13%) Kubernetes
3 467 (9.73%) Ansible
4 312 (6.50%) Grafana
5 261 (5.44%) Prometheus
6 82 (1.71%) Argo
7 57 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
8 56 (1.17%) Puppet
9 40 (0.83%) Progress Chef
10 35 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
11 30 (0.63%) Packer
12 29 (0.60%) Istio
13 24 (0.50%) vCenter Server
14 18 (0.38%) SCCM
15 16 (0.33%) Kibana
16 15 (0.31%) Kustomize
17 13 (0.27%) HP ALM
17 13 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
18 12 (0.25%) HAProxy
18 12 (0.25%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 891 (18.56%) Microsoft
2 251 (5.23%) Oracle
3 241 (5.02%) Databricks
4 224 (4.67%) Google
5 189 (3.94%) ServiceNow
6 159 (3.31%) Splunk
7 153 (3.19%) Salesforce
8 125 (2.60%) Dynatrace
9 112 (2.33%) SAP
10 99 (2.06%) Red Hat
11 98 (2.04%) VMware
12 60 (1.25%) IBM
13 53 (1.10%) Atlassian
14 47 (0.98%) OpenAI
15 46 (0.96%) Informatica
16 43 (0.90%) Cisco
17 40 (0.83%) AppDynamics
18 36 (0.75%) Foundry
19 32 (0.67%) MuleSoft
20 31 (0.65%) Okta