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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 13 15
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 -6
Contract jobs citing DevOps 3,425 3,165 3,764
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.63% 10.18% 9.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.84% 11.76% 10.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,400 2,127 2,801
10th Percentile £363 £400 £413
25th Percentile £425 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -0.87% -4.17%
75th Percentile £625 £661 £675
90th Percentile £700 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 40 97
10th Percentile - £45.69 £46.18
25th Percentile £45.46 £63.60 £50.00
Median hourly rate £59.25 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.36% +7.69% -0.92%
75th Percentile £74.45 £74.00 £76.53
90th Percentile £95.00 £80.08 £78.60
UK median hourly rate £59.25 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -15.36% +7.69% -0.92%

All Process and 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 26,674 26,919 35,011
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.55% 86.57% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,953 16,411 24,057
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,726 969 1,471
10th Percentile £14.72 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.81 £20.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -15.73% +27.14%
75th Percentile £45.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £74.45 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +26.43%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 1,711 £550 -4.35% 2,032
North of England +2 609 £492 -1.60% 627
South East +4 368 £513 -10.87% 1,533
Midlands +13 355 £515 -6.36% 253
Yorkshire -1 327 £500 - 156
West Midlands +9 286 £525 -8.70% 153
North West +2 253 £453 -13.71% 413
South West -1 194 £550 -8.33% 237
East of England +28 107 £544 +8.75% 190
East Midlands +11 69 £423 -5.06% 92
North East -8 31 £550 -3.93% 60
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
1 232 (6.77%) Confluence
2 91 (2.66%) Apache
3 65 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
4 57 (1.66%) SAS
5 56 (1.64%) SharePoint
6 50 (1.46%) Apache Spark
7 39 (1.14%) CMS
8 36 (1.05%) nginx
9 30 (0.88%) JBoss
10 28 (0.82%) IIS
11 27 (0.79%) CICS
12 25 (0.73%) OpenStack
13 20 (0.58%) WebSphere
14 14 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
14 14 (0.41%) WebLogic
15 11 (0.32%) WebSphere Application Server
16 10 (0.29%) Mule
17 9 (0.26%) iPlanet
17 9 (0.26%) Smallworld
18 8 (0.23%) Camunda
Applications
1 66 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 27 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
4 23 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.47%) Chatbot
6 15 (0.44%) MS Visio
7 12 (0.35%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 7 (0.20%) Trello
9 6 (0.18%) Weka
10 1 (0.029%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.029%) Moqups
10 1 (0.029%) Revit
Business Applications
1 55 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.67%) Endur
3 19 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (0.50%) VisionPLUS
5 16 (0.47%) Aladdin
6 14 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
7 13 (0.38%) Maximo
7 13 (0.38%) Oracle BPM
8 8 (0.23%) FLEXCUBE
9 6 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
9 6 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
10 5 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 4 (0.12%) Fidessa
11 4 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
11 4 (0.12%) SAP ERP
11 4 (0.12%) thinkFolio
11 4 (0.12%) Workday HCM
12 3 (0.088%) SAP PM
12 3 (0.088%) Teamcenter
13 2 (0.058%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 1,645 (48.03%) Azure
2 1,240 (36.20%) AWS
3 912 (26.63%) Azure DevOps
4 565 (16.50%) GitHub
5 479 (13.99%) GCP
6 354 (10.34%) Serverless
7 300 (8.76%) GitHub Actions
8 240 (7.01%) Power Platform
9 204 (5.96%) Amazon S3
10 186 (5.43%) AWS Lambda
11 176 (5.14%) AWS CloudFormation
12 161 (4.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 152 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
14 135 (3.94%) SaaS
15 131 (3.82%) Azure AKS
16 130 (3.80%) Entra ID
17 124 (3.62%) Azure Data Factory
18 120 (3.50%) Dynamics 365
19 112 (3.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 111 (3.24%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 186 (5.43%) Firewall
2 123 (3.59%) DNS
3 74 (2.16%) VPN
4 71 (2.07%) SSL
5 67 (1.96%) Network Security
5 67 (1.96%) TCP/IP
6 42 (1.23%) HTTP
7 34 (0.99%) HTTPS
7 34 (0.99%) SSH
8 31 (0.91%) SMTP
9 30 (0.88%) WAN
10 23 (0.67%) FTP
11 21 (0.61%) BGP
12 18 (0.53%) MPLS
13 17 (0.50%) DHCP
13 17 (0.50%) LAN
14 16 (0.47%) OpenLDAP
15 15 (0.44%) SD-WAN
16 13 (0.38%) Kerberos
17 12 (0.35%) IMAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 227 (6.63%) PostgreSQL
2 148 (4.32%) Power BI
3 141 (4.12%) SQL Server
4 137 (4.00%) NoSQL
5 127 (3.71%) Amazon RDS
6 97 (2.83%) MongoDB
7 82 (2.39%) Relational Database
8 81 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
9 73 (2.13%) Data Lake
10 70 (2.04%) Oracle Database
11 58 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
12 56 (1.64%) Redis
13 51 (1.49%) DynamoDB
14 49 (1.43%) MySQL
15 45 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
16 39 (1.14%) Delta Lake
16 39 (1.14%) Metadata
17 38 (1.11%) Amazon Aurora
18 31 (0.91%) Pentaho
19 30 (0.88%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 649 (18.95%) Jenkins
2 545 (15.91%) Git
3 518 (15.12%) JIRA
4 421 (12.29%) GitLab
5 118 (3.45%) Selenium
6 99 (2.89%) SonarQube
7 86 (2.51%) Sonatype Nexus
8 85 (2.48%) JUnit
9 67 (1.96%) Bitbucket
9 67 (1.96%) Postman
10 58 (1.69%) Maven
11 52 (1.52%) Liquibase
12 48 (1.40%) Cucumber
13 46 (1.34%) Gradle
14 45 (1.31%) Cypress.io
15 40 (1.17%) Artifactory
16 35 (1.02%) TeamCity
17 30 (0.88%) CircleCI
18 29 (0.85%) Visual Studio
19 28 (0.82%) JMeter
General
1 1,076 (31.42%) Social Skills
2 617 (18.01%) Finance
3 402 (11.74%) Public Sector
4 326 (9.52%) Banking
5 276 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
6 97 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
7 69 (2.01%) Investment Banking
8 61 (1.78%) Telecoms
9 57 (1.66%) Marketing
10 56 (1.64%) Financial Institution
11 55 (1.61%) Retail
12 51 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 43 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
14 42 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
15 37 (1.08%) Front Office
16 33 (0.96%) Military
17 31 (0.91%) Back Office
18 28 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
19 27 (0.79%) Manufacturing
20 25 (0.73%) Law
Job Titles
1 677 (19.77%) Developer
2 590 (17.23%) DevOps Engineer
3 454 (13.26%) Senior
4 300 (8.76%) Architect
5 274 (8.00%) Lead
6 212 (6.19%) AWS Engineer
7 168 (4.91%) Azure Engineer
8 164 (4.79%) Analyst
9 162 (4.73%) AWS DevOps
10 148 (4.32%) Data Engineer
11 139 (4.06%) Cloud Engineer
11 139 (4.06%) Software Engineer
12 133 (3.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 131 (3.82%) Senior Developer
14 125 (3.65%) Platform Engineer
15 101 (2.95%) Consultant
16 98 (2.86%) Java Developer
17 97 (2.83%) Business Analyst
18 88 (2.57%) Senior DevOps
19 80 (2.34%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 378 (11.04%) REST
2 302 (8.82%) .NET
3 230 (6.72%) RESTful
4 211 (6.16%) React
5 188 (5.49%) Node.js
6 177 (5.17%) Kafka
7 168 (4.91%) JSON
8 149 (4.35%) SOAP
9 143 (4.18%) HTML
10 129 (3.77%) Spring
11 122 (3.56%) Elastic Stack
12 118 (3.45%) Spring Boot
13 115 (3.36%) AngularJS
14 114 (3.33%) XML
15 103 (3.01%) OAuth
16 98 (2.86%) YAML
17 97 (2.83%) CSS
18 75 (2.19%) Web Services
19 72 (2.10%) .NET Core
20 71 (2.07%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 435 (12.70%) Cloud Native
2 162 (4.73%) Product Ownership
3 139 (4.06%) Distributed Systems
4 101 (2.95%) Onboarding
5 84 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
6 78 (2.28%) Public Cloud
7 66 (1.93%) Mobile App
8 62 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
9 54 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
10 53 (1.55%) Replication
11 49 (1.43%) Security Posture
12 48 (1.40%) Algorithms
13 40 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 39 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
14 39 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
14 39 (1.14%) Management Information System
14 39 (1.14%) Virtual Team
15 38 (1.11%) Data Centre
15 38 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
16 36 (1.05%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 429 (12.53%) Linux
2 209 (6.10%) Windows
3 95 (2.77%) Unix
4 60 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 59 (1.72%) Windows Server
6 55 (1.61%) Android
7 48 (1.40%) Apple iOS
8 43 (1.26%) VMS
9 26 (0.76%) Amazon Linux
10 22 (0.64%) Ubuntu
11 21 (0.61%) CentOS
12 16 (0.47%) Solaris
12 16 (0.47%) Windows 10
13 11 (0.32%) zOS
14 9 (0.26%) Mac OS
15 7 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
16 5 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
17 3 (0.088%) AIX
17 3 (0.088%) Debian
17 3 (0.088%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,850 (54.01%) CI/CD
2 1,483 (43.30%) Agile
3 832 (24.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 650 (18.98%) Problem-Solving
5 622 (18.16%) Containerisation
6 515 (15.04%) Test Automation
7 475 (13.87%) Microservices
8 437 (12.76%) Scrum
9 373 (10.89%) Migration
10 355 (10.36%) Continuous Improvement
11 353 (10.31%) Analytics
12 339 (9.90%) Software Engineering
13 316 (9.23%) AI
14 282 (8.23%) Observability
15 265 (7.74%) Stakeholder Management
16 261 (7.62%) Mentoring
17 230 (6.72%) Infrastructure Automation
18 226 (6.60%) SDLC
19 223 (6.51%) Machine Learning
20 221 (6.45%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,095 (31.97%) Python
2 659 (19.24%) SQL
3 476 (13.90%) Java
4 363 (10.60%) JavaScript
5 329 (9.61%) C#
6 324 (9.46%) Bash
7 318 (9.28%) PowerShell
8 216 (6.31%) TypeScript
9 152 (4.44%) Go
10 105 (3.07%) Bicep
11 70 (2.04%) Shell Script
12 62 (1.81%) Groovy
12 62 (1.81%) PL/SQL
13 49 (1.43%) C++
14 46 (1.34%) Perl
15 41 (1.20%) Scala
16 35 (1.02%) Ruby
17 32 (0.93%) Kotlin
18 30 (0.88%) T-SQL
19 24 (0.70%) PHP
Qualifications
1 904 (26.39%) Security Cleared
2 735 (21.46%) SC Cleared
3 295 (8.61%) Degree
4 156 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 130 (3.80%) Azure Certification
6 120 (3.50%) AWS Certification
7 114 (3.33%) DV Cleared
8 65 (1.90%) Master's Degree
9 53 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
10 52 (1.52%) CISSP
10 52 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
11 38 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 32 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
13 31 (0.91%) CISM
14 30 (0.88%) ISTQB
15 23 (0.67%) PMI Certification
16 19 (0.55%) PMP
17 17 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 16 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
19 13 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 290 (8.47%) QA
2 130 (3.80%) GDPR
3 103 (3.01%) Data Quality
4 101 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 87 (2.54%) NIST
6 80 (2.34%) Accessibility
7 40 (1.17%) NCSC
8 24 (0.70%) HIPAA
9 23 (0.67%) PCI DSS
10 18 (0.53%) SLA
10 18 (0.53%) SOC 2
10 18 (0.53%) WCAG
11 13 (0.38%) MiFID
11 13 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (0.38%) SEPA
12 12 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
13 11 (0.32%) EU AI Act
13 11 (0.32%) PSD2
14 10 (0.29%) ISO 20022
15 9 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 841 (24.55%) Docker
2 165 (4.82%) Active Directory
3 71 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (0.73%) vSphere
6 24 (0.70%) DFS Replication
7 16 (0.47%) Postfix
8 13 (0.38%) Squid
9 12 (0.35%) Dovecot
10 11 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
10 11 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
10 11 (0.32%) VMware NSX
11 8 (0.23%) Tivoli Directory Server
11 8 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
12 7 (0.20%) Hyper-V
12 7 (0.20%) NFS
12 7 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
13 6 (0.18%) KVM
13 6 (0.18%) Time Sharing Option
13 6 (0.18%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 1,000 (29.20%) Terraform
2 945 (27.59%) Kubernetes
3 462 (13.49%) Ansible
4 246 (7.18%) Grafana
5 245 (7.15%) Prometheus
6 83 (2.42%) Puppet
7 67 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
8 57 (1.66%) Argo
9 50 (1.46%) Progress Chef
10 42 (1.23%) Kibana
11 36 (1.05%) Packer
12 21 (0.61%) Istio
12 21 (0.61%) ITRS Geneos
13 19 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
13 19 (0.55%) Podman
14 17 (0.50%) SCCM
15 16 (0.47%) CA Endevor
15 16 (0.47%) HP ALM
15 16 (0.47%) Proxmox
16 15 (0.44%) Nessus
Vendors
1 601 (17.55%) Microsoft
2 242 (7.07%) Oracle
3 198 (5.78%) Google
4 186 (5.43%) Splunk
5 158 (4.61%) Databricks
6 142 (4.15%) ServiceNow
7 92 (2.69%) Salesforce
7 92 (2.69%) VMware
8 88 (2.57%) SAP
9 87 (2.54%) Red Hat
10 51 (1.49%) Dynatrace
10 51 (1.49%) IBM
11 45 (1.31%) F5
12 43 (1.26%) MuleSoft
13 42 (1.23%) Atlassian
14 38 (1.11%) Palo Alto
15 32 (0.93%) Cisco
15 32 (0.93%) OpenAI
16 31 (0.91%) HP
16 31 (0.91%) Talend