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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 15 17
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 -5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,200 2,581 3,310
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.15% 10.65% 8.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.93% 11.72% 10.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,932 1,902 2,331
10th Percentile £385 £400 £406
25th Percentile £438 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £656
90th Percentile £720 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.91% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 19 90
10th Percentile £39.53 £36.85 £54.63
25th Percentile £45.46 £57.82 £61.25
Median hourly rate £63.73 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.96% +7.69% -0.76%
75th Percentile £75.00 £80.75 £67.44
90th Percentile £92.33 £84.87 £85.65
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 32,472 22,014 32,706
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.22% 90.86% 86.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,793 14,527 21,615
10th Percentile £313 £313 £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 £614 £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 1,988 846 2,159
10th Percentile £15.37 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £20.33 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.91 £32.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.49% -1.52% -12.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.70
90th Percentile £76.55 £76.72 £71.87
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +9.38% -1.54% -9.72%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -2 2,120 £550 -4.35% 512
North of England +7 764 £500 -4.76% 306
South East -2 441 £525 -6.96% 307
Midlands +9 410 £495 - 142
Yorkshire +2 403 £500 -4.76% 86
West Midlands +8 319 £502 +0.80% 98
North West +8 308 £488 -7.13% 159
South West +15 282 £500 -16.67% 165
East of England +19 118 £570 +14.57% 92
East Midlands +4 89 £447 -5.89% 44
North East +4 57 £475 -9.52% 63
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
1 266 (6.33%) Confluence
2 111 (2.64%) Apache Spark
3 89 (2.12%) SharePoint
4 85 (2.02%) Apache
5 79 (1.88%) SAS
6 59 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
7 31 (0.74%) CMS
8 30 (0.71%) OpenStack
9 28 (0.67%) nginx
10 22 (0.52%) IIS
10 22 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
11 12 (0.29%) Mendix
11 12 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
12 11 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 11 (0.26%) HCL Notes
13 9 (0.21%) Camunda
14 7 (0.17%) ArcGIS
14 7 (0.17%) WebLogic
14 7 (0.17%) WebSphere
15 6 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 81 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 50 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
4 28 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
5 22 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.21%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.19%) Weka
8 5 (0.12%) Trello
9 2 (0.048%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.048%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.048%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.024%) InDesign
10 1 (0.024%) Maya
Business Applications
1 66 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.24%) Maximo
3 10 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
4 9 (0.21%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.21%) NEC Housing
5 7 (0.17%) Endur
6 6 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
6 6 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.14%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.095%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.095%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.071%) Findur
8 3 (0.071%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.071%) SAP BPC
8 3 (0.071%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.071%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.071%) SAP FI/CO
8 3 (0.071%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 2,231 (53.12%) Azure
2 1,413 (33.64%) AWS
3 1,244 (29.62%) Azure DevOps
4 770 (18.33%) GitHub
5 589 (14.02%) GCP
6 456 (10.86%) Serverless
7 417 (9.93%) GitHub Actions
8 350 (8.33%) Power Platform
9 225 (5.36%) Amazon S3
10 220 (5.24%) AWS CloudFormation
11 215 (5.12%) AWS Lambda
12 210 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
13 204 (4.86%) Entra ID
14 181 (4.31%) OpenShift
15 179 (4.26%) Azure AKS
16 166 (3.95%) Azure Monitor
17 162 (3.86%) Amazon EKS
18 150 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
19 133 (3.17%) SaaS
20 132 (3.14%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 193 (4.60%) Firewall
2 107 (2.55%) DNS
3 87 (2.07%) Network Security
4 83 (1.98%) VPN
5 43 (1.02%) TCP/IP
6 31 (0.74%) WAN
7 29 (0.69%) SD-WAN
8 22 (0.52%) HTTP
9 19 (0.45%) DHCP
9 19 (0.45%) SSL
10 17 (0.40%) BGP
10 17 (0.40%) MPLS
11 14 (0.33%) IPsec
11 14 (0.33%) SAN
12 11 (0.26%) 5G
12 11 (0.26%) Internet
12 11 (0.26%) LAN
12 11 (0.26%) OpenVPN
12 11 (0.26%) Reverse Proxy
13 9 (0.21%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 235 (5.60%) PostgreSQL
2 223 (5.31%) Power BI
3 189 (4.50%) SQL Server
4 173 (4.12%) NoSQL
5 146 (3.48%) Data Lake
6 118 (2.81%) Relational Database
7 104 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
8 96 (2.29%) MongoDB
9 93 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
9 93 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
10 71 (1.69%) Delta Lake
11 67 (1.60%) DynamoDB
11 67 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
12 66 (1.57%) Oracle Database
13 56 (1.33%) Metadata
14 54 (1.29%) Redis
14 54 (1.29%) Tableau
15 53 (1.26%) Big Data
16 45 (1.07%) BigQuery
16 45 (1.07%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 687 (16.36%) Jenkins
2 561 (13.36%) JIRA
3 545 (12.98%) Git
4 468 (11.14%) GitLab
5 109 (2.60%) Selenium
6 95 (2.26%) JUnit
7 77 (1.83%) Postman
8 71 (1.69%) Bitbucket
9 66 (1.57%) SonarQube
10 54 (1.29%) Cucumber
11 51 (1.21%) Artifactory
12 50 (1.19%) Maven
13 45 (1.07%) REST Assured
14 41 (0.98%) Cypress.io
15 36 (0.86%) JMeter
15 36 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
16 33 (0.79%) Oracle APEX
17 31 (0.74%) Mockito
18 30 (0.71%) Liquibase
19 27 (0.64%) MLflow
General
1 1,214 (28.90%) Social Skills
2 811 (19.31%) Finance
3 516 (12.29%) Public Sector
4 376 (8.95%) Analytical Skills
5 330 (7.86%) Banking
6 146 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
7 69 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
8 65 (1.55%) Financial Institution
9 57 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 57 (1.36%) Retail
10 51 (1.21%) Marketing
11 50 (1.19%) Front Office
12 48 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
13 47 (1.12%) Investment Banking
14 42 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
15 38 (0.90%) Telecoms
16 32 (0.76%) Legal
17 27 (0.64%) Military
18 21 (0.50%) Law
18 21 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 750 (17.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 644 (15.33%) Developer
3 580 (13.81%) Senior
4 469 (11.17%) Architect
5 358 (8.52%) Lead
6 268 (6.38%) Azure Engineer
7 263 (6.26%) Data Engineer
8 237 (5.64%) Analyst
9 194 (4.62%) AWS Engineer
10 160 (3.81%) Cloud Engineer
11 152 (3.62%) Platform Engineer
12 148 (3.52%) AWS DevOps
13 143 (3.40%) Software Engineer
14 139 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
15 125 (2.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 124 (2.95%) Senior Developer
17 123 (2.93%) Business Analyst
18 121 (2.88%) Senior DevOps
19 115 (2.74%) Azure DevOps Engineer
20 111 (2.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 455 (10.83%) REST
2 346 (8.24%) .NET
3 259 (6.17%) Kafka
4 248 (5.90%) Node.js
5 244 (5.81%) React
6 230 (5.48%) Spring
7 214 (5.10%) Spring Boot
8 201 (4.79%) RESTful
9 159 (3.79%) AngularJS
10 146 (3.48%) JSON
11 140 (3.33%) YAML
12 118 (2.81%) Playwright
12 118 (2.81%) PySpark
13 116 (2.76%) HTML
14 110 (2.62%) OAuth
15 109 (2.60%) Elastic Stack
16 107 (2.55%) SOAP
17 106 (2.52%) Middleware
18 97 (2.31%) XML
19 94 (2.24%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 599 (14.26%) Cloud Native
2 246 (5.86%) Product Ownership
3 159 (3.79%) Distributed Systems
4 108 (2.57%) Onboarding
5 105 (2.50%) Public Cloud
6 92 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
7 88 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
8 81 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
9 63 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
10 53 (1.26%) Management Information System
11 51 (1.21%) Virtual Team
12 42 (1.00%) Private Cloud
13 41 (0.98%) Security Posture
14 40 (0.95%) Data Structures
15 39 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
16 37 (0.88%) Data Centre
17 36 (0.86%) AI Agents
18 32 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
18 32 (0.76%) Replication
19 31 (0.74%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 423 (10.07%) Linux
2 228 (5.43%) Windows
3 75 (1.79%) Unix
4 60 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 42 (1.00%) VMS
6 39 (0.93%) Windows Server
7 22 (0.52%) Ubuntu
8 14 (0.33%) CentOS
9 10 (0.24%) Windows 10
10 7 (0.17%) Android
10 7 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
11 6 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.12%) Apple iOS
13 4 (0.095%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.071%) Oracle Linux
14 3 (0.071%) Solaris
14 3 (0.071%) zOS
15 2 (0.048%) Debian
15 2 (0.048%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 2 (0.048%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,362 (56.24%) CI/CD
2 1,619 (38.55%) Agile
3 1,044 (24.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 779 (18.55%) Problem-Solving
5 745 (17.74%) Containerisation
6 623 (14.83%) Microservices
6 623 (14.83%) Test Automation
7 546 (13.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 527 (12.55%) Analytics
9 484 (11.52%) Migration
10 471 (11.21%) Scrum
11 463 (11.02%) Stakeholder Management
12 459 (10.93%) Observability
13 455 (10.83%) AI
14 392 (9.33%) Software Engineering
15 378 (9.00%) Data Modelling
16 348 (8.29%) Mentoring
17 332 (7.90%) Data Pipeline
18 311 (7.40%) Platform Engineering
19 304 (7.24%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1,274 (30.33%) Python
2 907 (21.60%) SQL
3 545 (12.98%) Java
4 417 (9.93%) C#
5 365 (8.69%) JavaScript
6 335 (7.98%) PowerShell
7 318 (7.57%) Bash
8 252 (6.00%) TypeScript
9 140 (3.33%) Bicep
10 120 (2.86%) Go
11 78 (1.86%) PL/SQL
12 64 (1.52%) Scala
13 46 (1.10%) Shell Script
14 44 (1.05%) T-SQL
15 40 (0.95%) Groovy
16 39 (0.93%) C++
17 29 (0.69%) Ruby
18 27 (0.64%) Apex Code
19 26 (0.62%) Rust
20 21 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1,338 (31.86%) Security Cleared
2 1,083 (25.79%) SC Cleared
3 326 (7.76%) Degree
4 190 (4.52%) Azure Certification
5 167 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 142 (3.38%) DV Cleared
7 116 (2.76%) AWS Certification
8 96 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
9 76 (1.81%) CISSP
10 67 (1.60%) Master's Degree
11 55 (1.31%) CISM
12 48 (1.14%) ISTQB
12 48 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
13 45 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 40 (0.95%) PMI Certification
15 34 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
15 34 (0.81%) PMP
16 25 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 22 (0.52%) IIBA
18 20 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 377 (8.98%) QA
2 183 (4.36%) Data Quality
3 165 (3.93%) GDPR
4 135 (3.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 120 (2.86%) NIST
6 87 (2.07%) Accessibility
7 68 (1.62%) NCSC
8 37 (0.88%) PCI DSS
9 35 (0.83%) WCAG
10 29 (0.69%) PMO
10 29 (0.69%) SLA
11 28 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 17 (0.40%) HIPAA
13 15 (0.36%) ISO 20022
14 14 (0.33%) NIST 800
15 13 (0.31%) PSD2
15 13 (0.31%) SOC 2
16 11 (0.26%) GRC
16 11 (0.26%) SEPA
17 9 (0.21%) HL7
System Software
1 933 (22.21%) Docker
2 164 (3.90%) Active Directory
3 71 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
4 69 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
5 45 (1.07%) vSphere
6 30 (0.71%) VMware NSX
7 15 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.26%) Hyper-V
8 11 (0.26%) Lustre
8 11 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 10 (0.24%) Squid
10 9 (0.21%) GPFS
11 8 (0.19%) Firmware
11 8 (0.19%) Postfix
12 6 (0.14%) HDFS
12 6 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
13 5 (0.12%) KVM
13 5 (0.12%) RACF
14 4 (0.095%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
14 4 (0.095%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1,210 (28.81%) Terraform
2 1,158 (27.57%) Kubernetes
3 466 (11.10%) Ansible
4 287 (6.83%) Grafana
5 243 (5.79%) Prometheus
6 91 (2.17%) Argo
7 69 (1.64%) Puppet
8 62 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
9 49 (1.17%) Istio
10 30 (0.71%) Packer
11 28 (0.67%) Progress Chef
11 28 (0.67%) vCenter Server
12 23 (0.55%) Kibana
13 20 (0.48%) Rancher
14 17 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 17 (0.40%) Consul
14 17 (0.40%) FortiGate
14 17 (0.40%) Podman
15 16 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
16 14 (0.33%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 734 (17.48%) Microsoft
2 284 (6.76%) Oracle
3 258 (6.14%) Databricks
4 218 (5.19%) Google
5 189 (4.50%) Splunk
6 144 (3.43%) ServiceNow
7 137 (3.26%) Red Hat
8 118 (2.81%) VMware
9 108 (2.57%) Salesforce
10 95 (2.26%) SAP
11 72 (1.71%) OpenAI
12 68 (1.62%) Atlassian
13 67 (1.60%) Dynatrace
14 61 (1.45%) CyberArk
15 40 (0.95%) Talend
16 37 (0.88%) IBM
17 35 (0.83%) Denodo
18 32 (0.76%) Foundry
19 29 (0.69%) Cisco
19 29 (0.69%) Pure Storage