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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 18
Rank change year-on-year +3 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,083 2,721 3,237
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.22% 10.65% 8.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.91% 11.77% 9.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,851 1,930 2,309
10th Percentile £381 £400 £413
25th Percentile £439 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £565
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% - -5.83%
75th Percentile £617 £675 £668
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 18 99
10th Percentile £42.50 £37.68 £46.64
25th Percentile £45.46 £61.11 £61.25
Median hourly rate £60.25 £74.72 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.37% +14.95% -0.76%
75th Percentile £76.31 £80.75 £73.17
90th Percentile £87.00 £89.00 £84.65
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £74.44 £65.00
% change year-on-year -16.71% +14.52% -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 31,620 23,110 32,887
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.89% 90.44% 87.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,216 14,677 21,786
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 £617 £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 1,956 785 2,096
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £13.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.24 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.60 £35.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.43% +2.94% -4.23%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.11
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.15 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year -13.85% -1.52% -5.71%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 2,057 £543 -7.22% 552
North of England +5 745 £500 -4.76% 352
South East 0 430 £525 -8.70% 369
Midlands +14 416 £500 +1.52% 150
Yorkshire +1 393 £500 -3.61% 107
West Midlands +14 334 £515 +3.00% 100
North West +5 300 £492 -6.29% 191
South West +12 265 £525 -12.50% 158
East of England +15 114 £588 +15.76% 84
East Midlands +8 81 £430 -9.47% 49
North East -1 57 £475 -9.52% 58
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
1 254 (6.22%) Confluence
2 98 (2.40%) Apache Spark
3 91 (2.23%) SharePoint
4 84 (2.06%) Apache
5 82 (2.01%) SAS
6 58 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
7 31 (0.76%) OpenStack
8 30 (0.73%) CMS
9 29 (0.71%) nginx
10 26 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
11 19 (0.47%) IIS
12 13 (0.32%) WebLogic
13 12 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 12 (0.29%) JBoss
13 12 (0.29%) Mendix
13 12 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
14 11 (0.27%) HCL Notes
15 8 (0.20%) Camunda
15 8 (0.20%) GeoServer
15 8 (0.20%) Smallworld
Applications
1 85 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 38 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
4 27 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
5 23 (0.56%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.29%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.20%) Weka
8 4 (0.098%) Trello
9 2 (0.049%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.024%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.024%) InDesign
10 1 (0.024%) Maya
10 1 (0.024%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.024%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 66 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.27%) Maximo
4 10 (0.24%) Endur
5 9 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.20%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
6 8 (0.20%) NEC Housing
7 6 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.15%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.098%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.098%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.073%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.073%) SAP BPC
10 3 (0.073%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.073%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.073%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.073%) Workday HCM
11 2 (0.049%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 2,088 (51.14%) Azure
2 1,411 (34.56%) AWS
3 1,138 (27.87%) Azure DevOps
4 742 (18.17%) GitHub
5 599 (14.67%) GCP
6 447 (10.95%) Serverless
7 398 (9.75%) GitHub Actions
8 337 (8.25%) Power Platform
9 222 (5.44%) Amazon S3
10 212 (5.19%) AWS CloudFormation
11 209 (5.12%) AWS Lambda
12 199 (4.87%) Azure Data Factory
13 194 (4.75%) Entra ID
14 184 (4.51%) OpenShift
15 183 (4.48%) Azure AKS
16 161 (3.94%) Amazon EKS
17 159 (3.89%) Dynamics 365
18 158 (3.87%) Azure Monitor
19 142 (3.48%) SaaS
20 138 (3.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 195 (4.78%) Firewall
2 107 (2.62%) DNS
3 84 (2.06%) VPN
4 83 (2.03%) Network Security
5 52 (1.27%) TCP/IP
6 32 (0.78%) SSL
7 24 (0.59%) HTTP
8 21 (0.51%) WAN
9 18 (0.44%) SD-WAN
10 17 (0.42%) DHCP
11 16 (0.39%) HTTPS
12 14 (0.34%) Kerberos
13 13 (0.32%) MPLS
13 13 (0.32%) SAN
14 12 (0.29%) BGP
15 11 (0.27%) Reverse Proxy
16 10 (0.24%) Internet
16 10 (0.24%) OpenVPN
17 9 (0.22%) IPsec
18 8 (0.20%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 234 (5.73%) PostgreSQL
2 215 (5.27%) Power BI
3 168 (4.11%) SQL Server
4 160 (3.92%) NoSQL
5 126 (3.09%) Data Lake
6 105 (2.57%) Relational Database
7 101 (2.47%) MongoDB
8 100 (2.45%) Amazon RDS
9 96 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
10 81 (1.98%) Azure SQL Database
11 74 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
12 72 (1.76%) Oracle Database
13 66 (1.62%) DynamoDB
14 59 (1.45%) Delta Lake
15 55 (1.35%) Redis
16 50 (1.22%) MySQL
17 49 (1.20%) Metadata
17 49 (1.20%) Tableau
18 43 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
19 42 (1.03%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 703 (17.22%) Jenkins
2 559 (13.69%) Git
3 546 (13.37%) JIRA
4 500 (12.25%) GitLab
5 118 (2.89%) Selenium
6 93 (2.28%) JUnit
7 78 (1.91%) Postman
8 67 (1.64%) Bitbucket
9 64 (1.57%) SonarQube
10 55 (1.35%) Cucumber
11 50 (1.22%) Maven
12 47 (1.15%) Artifactory
13 46 (1.13%) Cypress.io
13 46 (1.13%) Sonatype Nexus
14 42 (1.03%) REST Assured
15 35 (0.86%) Oracle APEX
16 30 (0.73%) JMeter
16 30 (0.73%) Liquibase
17 29 (0.71%) Gradle
18 28 (0.69%) CircleCI
General
1 1,210 (29.64%) Social Skills
2 780 (19.10%) Finance
3 504 (12.34%) Public Sector
4 355 (8.69%) Analytical Skills
5 324 (7.94%) Banking
6 144 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
7 73 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
8 67 (1.64%) Financial Institution
9 53 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 53 (1.30%) Marketing
9 53 (1.30%) Retail
10 45 (1.10%) Front Office
11 44 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
12 43 (1.05%) Investment Banking
13 38 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
13 38 (0.93%) Telecoms
14 32 (0.78%) Military
15 28 (0.69%) Legal
16 27 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
17 25 (0.61%) Law
Job Titles
1 750 (18.37%) DevOps Engineer
2 659 (16.14%) Developer
3 564 (13.81%) Senior
4 430 (10.53%) Architect
5 339 (8.30%) Lead
6 249 (6.10%) Azure Engineer
7 238 (5.83%) Data Engineer
8 233 (5.71%) Analyst
9 207 (5.07%) AWS Engineer
10 164 (4.02%) Cloud Engineer
11 162 (3.97%) AWS DevOps
12 150 (3.67%) Software Engineer
13 141 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
14 140 (3.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 128 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
16 125 (3.06%) Business Analyst
17 121 (2.96%) Senior DevOps
18 119 (2.91%) Senior Developer
19 112 (2.74%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 105 (2.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 442 (10.83%) REST
2 340 (8.33%) .NET
3 262 (6.42%) Node.js
4 260 (6.37%) React
5 224 (5.49%) Kafka
6 216 (5.29%) Spring
7 199 (4.87%) RESTful
8 196 (4.80%) Spring Boot
9 153 (3.75%) AngularJS
10 149 (3.65%) JSON
11 130 (3.18%) HTML
11 130 (3.18%) YAML
12 119 (2.91%) OAuth
13 115 (2.82%) Elastic Stack
13 115 (2.82%) Playwright
14 113 (2.77%) SOAP
15 108 (2.65%) XML
16 105 (2.57%) PySpark
17 100 (2.45%) CSS
18 99 (2.42%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 592 (14.50%) Cloud Native
2 219 (5.36%) Product Ownership
3 140 (3.43%) Distributed Systems
4 111 (2.72%) Onboarding
5 105 (2.57%) Public Cloud
6 86 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
7 79 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
8 67 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
9 54 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
10 53 (1.30%) Management Information System
11 49 (1.20%) Security Posture
12 46 (1.13%) Virtual Team
13 44 (1.08%) Private Cloud
14 39 (0.96%) Data Centre
15 35 (0.86%) AI Agents
15 35 (0.86%) Data Structures
15 35 (0.86%) NHS
16 34 (0.83%) Mobile App
16 34 (0.83%) Replication
17 31 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 429 (10.51%) Linux
2 215 (5.27%) Windows
3 80 (1.96%) Unix
4 61 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 38 (0.93%) VMS
5 38 (0.93%) Windows Server
6 24 (0.59%) Ubuntu
7 18 (0.44%) CentOS
8 12 (0.29%) Android
9 10 (0.24%) Apple iOS
9 10 (0.24%) Windows 10
10 8 (0.20%) Solaris
11 7 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.098%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.049%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.049%) Debian
14 2 (0.049%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.049%) zOS
15 1 (0.024%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,328 (57.02%) CI/CD
2 1,590 (38.94%) Agile
3 1,027 (25.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 777 (19.03%) Problem-Solving
5 753 (18.44%) Containerisation
6 612 (14.99%) Test Automation
7 592 (14.50%) Microservices
8 521 (12.76%) Analytics
9 518 (12.69%) Continuous Improvement
10 483 (11.83%) Migration
11 457 (11.19%) Scrum
12 443 (10.85%) AI
12 443 (10.85%) Observability
13 424 (10.38%) Stakeholder Management
14 376 (9.21%) Software Engineering
15 366 (8.96%) Data Modelling
16 353 (8.65%) Mentoring
17 296 (7.25%) Data Pipeline
18 290 (7.10%) Business Intelligence
19 284 (6.96%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,238 (30.32%) Python
2 864 (21.16%) SQL
3 528 (12.93%) Java
4 404 (9.89%) C#
5 387 (9.48%) JavaScript
6 330 (8.08%) PowerShell
7 320 (7.84%) Bash
8 271 (6.64%) TypeScript
9 129 (3.16%) Bicep
9 129 (3.16%) Go
10 79 (1.93%) PL/SQL
11 60 (1.47%) Scala
12 45 (1.10%) T-SQL
13 44 (1.08%) Shell Script
14 41 (1.00%) C++
15 39 (0.96%) Ruby
16 37 (0.91%) Groovy
17 27 (0.66%) Rust
18 23 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
19 22 (0.54%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,318 (32.28%) Security Cleared
2 1,075 (26.33%) SC Cleared
3 339 (8.30%) Degree
4 197 (4.82%) Azure Certification
5 177 (4.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 141 (3.45%) DV Cleared
7 127 (3.11%) AWS Certification
8 87 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
9 77 (1.89%) Master's Degree
10 74 (1.81%) CISSP
11 57 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
12 56 (1.37%) CISM
13 44 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 44 (1.08%) ISTQB
14 36 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
15 35 (0.86%) PMI Certification
16 29 (0.71%) PMP
17 26 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 23 (0.56%) IIBA
19 22 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 354 (8.67%) QA
2 163 (3.99%) Data Quality
2 163 (3.99%) GDPR
3 122 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 113 (2.77%) NIST
5 92 (2.25%) Accessibility
6 68 (1.67%) NCSC
7 35 (0.86%) PCI DSS
8 32 (0.78%) WCAG
9 25 (0.61%) SLA
10 24 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 21 (0.51%) HIPAA
11 21 (0.51%) PMO
12 16 (0.39%) SOC 2
13 15 (0.37%) ISO 20022
14 13 (0.32%) PSD2
15 11 (0.27%) NIST 800
16 10 (0.24%) SEPA
17 9 (0.22%) GRC
18 8 (0.20%) HL7
System Software
1 959 (23.49%) Docker
2 166 (4.07%) Active Directory
3 74 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
4 70 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 41 (1.00%) vSphere
6 24 (0.59%) VMware NSX
7 14 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.27%) Lustre
8 11 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 10 (0.24%) Squid
10 9 (0.22%) GPFS
11 8 (0.20%) Postfix
11 8 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
12 7 (0.17%) Firmware
12 7 (0.17%) Hyper-V
13 6 (0.15%) HDFS
13 6 (0.15%) NFS
14 5 (0.12%) RACF
15 4 (0.098%) DFS Replication
15 4 (0.098%) KVM
Systems Management
1 1,200 (29.39%) Terraform
2 1,156 (28.31%) Kubernetes
3 468 (11.46%) Ansible
4 280 (6.86%) Grafana
5 237 (5.80%) Prometheus
6 87 (2.13%) Argo
7 72 (1.76%) Puppet
8 59 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
9 47 (1.15%) Istio
10 32 (0.78%) Packer
11 31 (0.76%) Kibana
12 29 (0.71%) Progress Chef
13 23 (0.56%) vCenter Server
14 20 (0.49%) Podman
15 18 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 17 (0.42%) Consul
16 17 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
16 17 (0.42%) Rancher
17 16 (0.39%) FortiGate
18 14 (0.34%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 711 (17.41%) Microsoft
2 277 (6.78%) Oracle
3 247 (6.05%) Databricks
4 234 (5.73%) Google
5 195 (4.78%) Splunk
6 147 (3.60%) ServiceNow
7 136 (3.33%) Red Hat
8 118 (2.89%) VMware
9 102 (2.50%) Salesforce
10 96 (2.35%) SAP
11 70 (1.71%) OpenAI
12 59 (1.45%) Atlassian
13 56 (1.37%) Dynatrace
14 55 (1.35%) CyberArk
15 43 (1.05%) Talend
16 39 (0.96%) Denodo
16 39 (0.96%) IBM
17 36 (0.88%) F5
18 33 (0.81%) Foundry
19 30 (0.73%) Palo Alto