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 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,296 2,455 3,320
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.67% 10.10% 8.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.56% 11.08% 10.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,018 1,816 2,291
10th Percentile £386 £400 £404
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £650
90th Percentile £713 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -3.72% -2.27% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 16 100
10th Percentile £39.53 £43.13 £56.25
25th Percentile £45.73 £55.00 £61.25
Median hourly rate £63.73 £68.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.30% +5.77% -0.76%
75th Percentile £75.00 £81.06 £84.55
90th Percentile £83.75 £87.73 £87.46
UK median hourly rate £63.73 £73.23 £65.00
% change year-on-year -12.97% +12.65% -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 34,200 22,151 32,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.97% 91.14% 86.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,858 14,510 20,977
10th Percentile £318 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.48% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,144 918 2,231
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.74 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £44.00 £30.45 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +44.50% -14.23% -5.33%
75th Percentile £67.31 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £40.66 £29.07 £35.00
% change year-on-year +39.87% -16.94% -6.17%

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 29 April 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 29 April 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 29 April 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 +4 2,202 £540 -6.09% 476
North of England +4 750 £500 -3.85% 267
South East 0 452 £505 -8.18% 287
Yorkshire 0 410 £500 -3.80% 59
Midlands 0 399 £488 -2.50% 105
West Midlands +4 303 £500 -4.31% 57
South West +14 295 £500 -11.89% 112
North West +5 284 £500 -3.26% 150
East of England +20 127 £525 +1.94% 89
East Midlands 0 93 £465 -2.11% 48
North East +6 65 £475 -11.63% 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
1 248 (5.77%) Confluence
2 121 (2.82%) Apache Spark
3 105 (2.44%) SharePoint
4 82 (1.91%) Apache
5 70 (1.63%) SAS
6 65 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
7 34 (0.79%) CMS
8 33 (0.77%) nginx
9 27 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
10 23 (0.54%) OpenStack
11 22 (0.51%) IIS
12 12 (0.28%) Mendix
13 11 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 11 (0.26%) HCL Notes
13 11 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
14 9 (0.21%) WebSphere
15 7 (0.16%) ArcGIS
15 7 (0.16%) Camunda
16 6 (0.14%) Mattermost
16 6 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 71 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
3 47 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
5 22 (0.51%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.093%) Trello
7 4 (0.093%) Weka
8 3 (0.070%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.047%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.047%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.023%) InDesign
10 1 (0.023%) Maya
Business Applications
1 64 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
4 9 (0.21%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.21%) Maximo
4 9 (0.21%) NEC Housing
5 7 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
5 7 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.093%) Endur
7 4 (0.093%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.093%) SAP BPC
7 4 (0.093%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.070%) Findur
8 3 (0.070%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.070%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.047%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.047%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.047%) SAP MM
9 2 (0.047%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 2,319 (53.98%) Azure
2 1,446 (33.66%) AWS
3 1,265 (29.45%) Azure DevOps
4 725 (16.88%) GitHub
5 559 (13.01%) GCP
6 429 (9.99%) Serverless
7 413 (9.61%) GitHub Actions
8 362 (8.43%) Power Platform
9 235 (5.47%) Amazon S3
10 219 (5.10%) AWS CloudFormation
11 216 (5.03%) Entra ID
12 211 (4.91%) AWS Lambda
13 204 (4.75%) Azure Data Factory
14 197 (4.59%) Azure AKS
15 160 (3.72%) OpenShift
16 158 (3.68%) Azure Monitor
17 155 (3.61%) Amazon EKS
18 143 (3.33%) PaaS
19 141 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
20 130 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 200 (4.66%) Firewall
2 107 (2.49%) DNS
3 86 (2.00%) VPN
4 83 (1.93%) Network Security
5 37 (0.86%) TCP/IP
6 31 (0.72%) WAN
7 28 (0.65%) SD-WAN
8 24 (0.56%) HTTP
9 21 (0.49%) BGP
9 21 (0.49%) DHCP
9 21 (0.49%) SSL
10 17 (0.40%) IPsec
10 17 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
11 15 (0.35%) MPLS
11 15 (0.35%) OSPF
11 15 (0.35%) SAN
12 14 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
13 13 (0.30%) LAN
14 12 (0.28%) Internet
15 11 (0.26%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 243 (5.66%) Power BI
2 222 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
3 211 (4.91%) SQL Server
4 163 (3.79%) NoSQL
5 151 (3.51%) Data Lake
6 124 (2.89%) Data Warehouse
6 124 (2.89%) Relational Database
7 94 (2.19%) Azure SQL Database
8 91 (2.12%) MongoDB
9 90 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
10 82 (1.91%) Delta Lake
11 74 (1.72%) DynamoDB
12 68 (1.58%) Metadata
12 68 (1.58%) Oracle Database
13 67 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
14 59 (1.37%) Big Data
15 50 (1.16%) Redis
15 50 (1.16%) Tableau
16 47 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
17 44 (1.02%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 612 (14.25%) Jenkins
2 540 (12.57%) Git
3 538 (12.52%) JIRA
4 418 (9.73%) GitLab
5 85 (1.98%) Selenium
6 78 (1.82%) Postman
7 77 (1.79%) JUnit
8 73 (1.70%) Bitbucket
9 71 (1.65%) SonarQube
10 55 (1.28%) Maven
11 47 (1.09%) Artifactory
12 46 (1.07%) Cucumber
12 46 (1.07%) REST Assured
13 40 (0.93%) Cypress.io
14 37 (0.86%) JMeter
15 34 (0.79%) Mockito
16 33 (0.77%) Gatling
17 30 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
18 27 (0.63%) Gradle
19 25 (0.58%) TestRail
General
1 1,147 (26.70%) Social Skills
2 821 (19.11%) Finance
3 513 (11.94%) Public Sector
4 368 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
5 304 (7.08%) Banking
6 143 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
7 63 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
8 62 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 55 (1.28%) Retail
10 52 (1.21%) Financial Institution
11 51 (1.19%) Marketing
12 48 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
13 46 (1.07%) Front Office
14 44 (1.02%) Legal
15 42 (0.98%) Investment Banking
15 42 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
16 32 (0.74%) Telecoms
17 30 (0.70%) Military
18 23 (0.54%) Law
19 15 (0.35%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 822 (19.13%) DevOps Engineer
2 639 (14.87%) Developer
3 593 (13.80%) Senior
4 493 (11.48%) Architect
5 355 (8.26%) Lead
6 296 (6.89%) Azure Engineer
7 281 (6.54%) Data Engineer
8 253 (5.89%) Analyst
9 190 (4.42%) AWS Engineer
10 157 (3.65%) Cloud Engineer
11 156 (3.63%) Solutions Architect
12 150 (3.49%) Platform Engineer
13 144 (3.35%) AWS DevOps
14 135 (3.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 132 (3.07%) Business Analyst
15 132 (3.07%) Software Engineer
16 128 (2.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 123 (2.86%) Senior DevOps
18 115 (2.68%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 114 (2.65%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 385 (8.96%) REST
2 361 (8.40%) .NET
3 255 (5.94%) Kafka
4 245 (5.70%) Node.js
5 237 (5.52%) React
6 236 (5.49%) Spring
7 222 (5.17%) Spring Boot
8 194 (4.52%) RESTful
9 156 (3.63%) AngularJS
10 132 (3.07%) YAML
11 124 (2.89%) JSON
11 124 (2.89%) Playwright
12 121 (2.82%) PySpark
13 112 (2.61%) OAuth
14 107 (2.49%) HTML
15 103 (2.40%) Middleware
16 101 (2.35%) SOAP
17 91 (2.12%) CSS
18 89 (2.07%) .NET Framework
19 88 (2.05%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 669 (15.57%) Cloud Native
2 265 (6.17%) Product Ownership
3 156 (3.63%) Distributed Systems
4 118 (2.75%) Onboarding
5 90 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
6 89 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
7 85 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
8 83 (1.93%) Public Cloud
9 67 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
10 52 (1.21%) Management Information System
10 52 (1.21%) Virtual Team
11 43 (1.00%) Private Cloud
12 42 (0.98%) Data Centre
13 40 (0.93%) Replication
14 39 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
15 38 (0.88%) Security Posture
16 36 (0.84%) Data Structures
16 36 (0.84%) Mobile App
17 35 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
17 35 (0.81%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 382 (8.89%) Linux
2 221 (5.14%) Windows
3 70 (1.63%) Unix
4 64 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 39 (0.91%) Windows Server
6 36 (0.84%) VMS
7 21 (0.49%) Ubuntu
8 13 (0.30%) Android
9 11 (0.26%) Apple iOS
9 11 (0.26%) CentOS
10 10 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (0.16%) Windows 10
12 6 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (0.12%) Solaris
14 4 (0.093%) Amazon Linux
14 4 (0.093%) Windows Server 2008
14 4 (0.093%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.070%) Debian
15 3 (0.070%) Mac OS
15 3 (0.070%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,377 (55.33%) CI/CD
2 1,618 (37.66%) Agile
3 1,058 (24.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 710 (16.53%) Problem-Solving
5 707 (16.46%) Containerisation
6 618 (14.39%) Microservices
7 597 (13.90%) Test Automation
8 553 (12.87%) Continuous Improvement
9 528 (12.29%) Migration
10 523 (12.17%) Analytics
11 495 (11.52%) Observability
12 475 (11.06%) Scrum
13 467 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
14 453 (10.54%) AI
15 412 (9.59%) Software Engineering
16 406 (9.45%) Data Modelling
17 354 (8.24%) Platform Engineering
18 353 (8.22%) Mentoring
19 335 (7.80%) Data Pipeline
20 328 (7.64%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,192 (27.75%) Python
2 913 (21.25%) SQL
3 562 (13.08%) Java
4 424 (9.87%) C#
5 338 (7.87%) JavaScript
6 306 (7.12%) PowerShell
7 289 (6.73%) Bash
8 242 (5.63%) TypeScript
9 148 (3.45%) Bicep
10 96 (2.23%) Go
11 75 (1.75%) PL/SQL
12 65 (1.51%) Scala
13 50 (1.16%) Shell Script
14 42 (0.98%) T-SQL
15 40 (0.93%) Groovy
16 35 (0.81%) Apex Code
17 31 (0.72%) C++
18 28 (0.65%) Ruby
19 23 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 22 (0.51%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,398 (32.54%) Security Cleared
2 1,156 (26.91%) SC Cleared
3 303 (7.05%) Degree
4 197 (4.59%) Azure Certification
5 144 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 141 (3.28%) DV Cleared
7 119 (2.77%) AWS Certification
8 112 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 69 (1.61%) CISSP
10 51 (1.19%) CISM
11 49 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
12 48 (1.12%) Master's Degree
13 47 (1.09%) ISTQB
14 40 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 39 (0.91%) PMI Certification
16 37 (0.86%) PMP
17 36 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
18 21 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 21 (0.49%) IIBA
18 21 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 385 (8.96%) QA
2 194 (4.52%) Data Quality
3 161 (3.75%) GDPR
4 123 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 117 (2.72%) NIST
6 92 (2.14%) Accessibility
7 59 (1.37%) NCSC
8 40 (0.93%) WCAG
9 39 (0.91%) PCI DSS
10 31 (0.72%) SLA
11 28 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 27 (0.63%) PMO
13 15 (0.35%) GRC
13 15 (0.35%) ISO 20022
14 14 (0.33%) HIPAA
14 14 (0.33%) NIST 800
15 12 (0.28%) PSD2
15 12 (0.28%) SOC 2
16 10 (0.23%) SEPA
17 8 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 864 (20.11%) Docker
2 163 (3.79%) Active Directory
3 69 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
4 63 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 33 (0.77%) vSphere
6 25 (0.58%) VMware NSX
7 14 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 13 (0.30%) Hyper-V
9 12 (0.28%) Postfix
9 12 (0.28%) Squid
10 11 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
11 8 (0.19%) Firmware
12 7 (0.16%) Lustre
12 7 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 6 (0.14%) HDFS
14 5 (0.12%) Corosync
14 5 (0.12%) GPFS
14 5 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
14 5 (0.12%) RACF
15 4 (0.093%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,205 (28.05%) Terraform
2 1,134 (26.40%) Kubernetes
3 432 (10.06%) Ansible
4 278 (6.47%) Grafana
5 233 (5.42%) Prometheus
6 90 (2.09%) Argo
7 67 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
8 59 (1.37%) Puppet
9 47 (1.09%) Istio
10 29 (0.68%) Packer
11 23 (0.54%) Progress Chef
11 23 (0.54%) vCenter Server
12 22 (0.51%) Kibana
12 22 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
13 20 (0.47%) Rancher
14 19 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 17 (0.40%) Consul
16 16 (0.37%) HP ALM
17 15 (0.35%) FortiGate
18 12 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 771 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 281 (6.54%) Oracle
3 248 (5.77%) Databricks
4 194 (4.52%) Google
5 181 (4.21%) Splunk
6 158 (3.68%) ServiceNow
7 129 (3.00%) Red Hat
8 121 (2.82%) Salesforce
9 113 (2.63%) VMware
10 99 (2.30%) SAP
11 85 (1.98%) Dynatrace
12 68 (1.58%) OpenAI
13 57 (1.33%) Atlassian
14 55 (1.28%) CyberArk
15 42 (0.98%) IBM
16 36 (0.84%) AppDynamics
17 34 (0.79%) Foundry
18 33 (0.77%) Denodo
18 33 (0.77%) Informatica
19 32 (0.74%) Cisco