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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,802 2,945 3,326
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.50% 10.61% 10.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.37% 11.69% 11.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,302 2,111 2,286
10th Percentile £385 £360 £400
25th Percentile £438 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £625 £626 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 24 71
10th Percentile £36.34 £37.25 £56.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £52.56 £63.30
Median hourly rate £67.00 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -4.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £84.41 £74.22
90th Percentile £94.63 £95.00 £85.25
UK median hourly rate £67.60 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +0.90% -4.29% +7.69%

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 38,818 25,195 28,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.84% 90.79% 85.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,932 16,050 18,115
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,599 1,473 1,445
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.87 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.63%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +3.56%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 31 August 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 0 2,539 £550 - 1,162
North of England 0 797 £500 +5.26% 363
South East -7 462 £525 +5.00% 355
Midlands -1 445 £488 -2.50% 171
Yorkshire -1 392 £500 +2.04% 117
West Midlands -2 352 £492 -5.11% 94
South West +6 313 £546 +4.05% 216
North West -2 310 £510 +13.33% 185
East of England +15 142 £505 -3.81% 95
North East +17 112 £431 -17.07% 63
East Midlands +6 89 £459 +1.94% 76
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
1 292 (6.08%) Confluence
2 138 (2.87%) SharePoint
3 119 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
4 115 (2.39%) Apache Spark
5 102 (2.12%) Apache
6 55 (1.15%) SAS
7 41 (0.85%) CMS
8 35 (0.73%) Jupyter
9 30 (0.62%) IIS
10 22 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
10 22 (0.46%) nginx
11 15 (0.31%) Camunda
12 13 (0.27%) OpenStack
13 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
13 11 (0.23%) WebSphere
14 10 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
15 9 (0.19%) Anypoint
15 9 (0.19%) Appian
16 6 (0.12%) Documentum
16 6 (0.12%) Mule
Applications
1 61 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 61 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
2 40 (0.83%) MS Visio
3 31 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.21%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.19%) CPLEX
5 9 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.12%) Trello
7 5 (0.10%) Notion
7 5 (0.10%) Windchill
8 1 (0.021%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
8 1 (0.021%) Gliffy
8 1 (0.021%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 66 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 9 (0.19%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.19%) Magento
5 8 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
6 7 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 6 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
8 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
9 4 (0.083%) Endur
9 4 (0.083%) Maximo
9 4 (0.083%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.083%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.062%) Findur
10 3 (0.062%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.062%) Shopify
10 3 (0.062%) Teamcenter
11 2 (0.042%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 2,629 (54.75%) Azure
2 1,668 (34.74%) AWS
3 1,533 (31.92%) Azure DevOps
4 816 (16.99%) GitHub
5 592 (12.33%) GCP
6 517 (10.77%) GitHub Actions
7 428 (8.91%) Power Platform
8 394 (8.20%) Serverless
9 239 (4.98%) Amazon S3
10 237 (4.94%) Entra ID
11 230 (4.79%) AWS Lambda
12 189 (3.94%) Azure AKS
13 187 (3.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 184 (3.83%) Azure Monitor
15 179 (3.73%) Azure Data Factory
16 177 (3.69%) AWS CloudFormation
17 175 (3.64%) Amazon EKS
18 165 (3.44%) Dynamics 365
19 156 (3.25%) Power Automate
20 148 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 232 (4.83%) Firewall
2 150 (3.12%) DNS
3 116 (2.42%) VPN
4 104 (2.17%) Network Security
5 67 (1.40%) TCP/IP
6 52 (1.08%) WAN
7 42 (0.87%) SSL
8 41 (0.85%) DHCP
9 37 (0.77%) SD-WAN
10 32 (0.67%) BGP
10 32 (0.67%) Internet
11 29 (0.60%) HTTP
11 29 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
12 24 (0.50%) OSPF
13 23 (0.48%) SSH
14 20 (0.42%) VLAN
15 19 (0.40%) SAN
16 18 (0.37%) LAN
17 16 (0.33%) BIG-IP
17 16 (0.33%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 295 (6.14%) Power BI
2 257 (5.35%) SQL Server
3 238 (4.96%) PostgreSQL
4 184 (3.83%) Data Warehouse
5 167 (3.48%) NoSQL
6 153 (3.19%) Relational Database
7 145 (3.02%) Data Lake
8 140 (2.92%) MongoDB
9 110 (2.29%) Metadata
10 108 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
11 90 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
12 84 (1.75%) Delta Lake
13 77 (1.60%) DynamoDB
14 74 (1.54%) Oracle Database
15 69 (1.44%) Redis
16 62 (1.29%) MySQL
17 54 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
18 52 (1.08%) Big Data
18 52 (1.08%) BigQuery
19 49 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 658 (13.70%) Jenkins
2 648 (13.49%) Git
3 564 (11.75%) JIRA
4 523 (10.89%) GitLab
5 117 (2.44%) Selenium
6 86 (1.79%) SonarQube
7 85 (1.77%) Postman
8 77 (1.60%) JUnit
9 75 (1.56%) Maven
10 69 (1.44%) Bitbucket
11 59 (1.23%) JMeter
11 59 (1.23%) REST Assured
12 58 (1.21%) Cypress.io
13 50 (1.04%) Gradle
14 48 (1.00%) Cucumber
14 48 (1.00%) Gatling
15 41 (0.85%) LoadRunner
16 38 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
17 37 (0.77%) Mockito
18 34 (0.71%) Artifactory
General
1 1,258 (26.20%) Social Skills
2 900 (18.74%) Finance
3 656 (13.66%) Public Sector
4 464 (9.66%) Analytical Skills
5 334 (6.96%) Banking
6 139 (2.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 99 (2.06%) Retail
8 85 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
9 70 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
10 56 (1.17%) Legal
11 55 (1.15%) Marketing
12 54 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
13 51 (1.06%) Aerospace
14 48 (1.00%) Investment Banking
15 46 (0.96%) Military
16 42 (0.87%) Telecoms
17 41 (0.85%) Law
18 39 (0.81%) Financial Institution
18 39 (0.81%) Front Office
19 36 (0.75%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 893 (18.60%) DevOps Engineer
2 756 (15.74%) Developer
3 725 (15.10%) Senior
4 557 (11.60%) Architect
5 478 (9.95%) Lead
6 297 (6.18%) Azure Engineer
7 277 (5.77%) Data Engineer
8 242 (5.04%) Analyst
9 195 (4.06%) AWS Engineer
9 195 (4.06%) Platform Engineer
10 173 (3.60%) Cloud Engineer
11 164 (3.42%) Senior DevOps
12 159 (3.31%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 159 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
13 151 (3.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 141 (2.94%) Java Developer
15 136 (2.83%) AWS DevOps
16 135 (2.81%) Senior Developer
17 134 (2.79%) Software Engineer
18 125 (2.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,392 (28.99%) Terraform
2 493 (10.27%) REST
3 421 (8.77%) .NET
4 320 (6.66%) Kafka
5 264 (5.50%) RESTful
6 248 (5.16%) React
7 238 (4.96%) Spring
8 224 (4.66%) Spring Boot
9 165 (3.44%) Node.js
10 157 (3.27%) JSON
11 143 (2.98%) PySpark
12 137 (2.85%) OAuth
12 137 (2.85%) Playwright
13 128 (2.67%) .NET Framework
14 114 (2.37%) SOAP
15 113 (2.35%) HTML
16 110 (2.29%) CSS
17 104 (2.17%) AngularJS
18 101 (2.10%) YAML
19 93 (1.94%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 875 (18.22%) Cloud Native
2 363 (7.56%) Product Ownership
3 224 (4.66%) Distributed Systems
4 158 (3.29%) Enterprise Software
4 158 (3.29%) Onboarding
5 136 (2.83%) Hybrid Cloud
5 136 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
6 84 (1.75%) AI Agents
7 74 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
8 71 (1.48%) Management Information System
9 69 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
10 65 (1.35%) Data Structures
11 62 (1.29%) Public Cloud
11 62 (1.29%) Security Posture
12 58 (1.21%) Data Centre
12 58 (1.21%) Replication
13 52 (1.08%) Mobile App
14 50 (1.04%) Virtual Team
15 40 (0.83%) PKI
16 38 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 452 (9.41%) Linux
2 272 (5.66%) Windows
3 104 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 90 (1.87%) Unix
5 81 (1.69%) Windows Server
6 32 (0.67%) Ubuntu
7 31 (0.65%) Apple iOS
8 29 (0.60%) VMS
9 21 (0.44%) Android
10 10 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
11 8 (0.17%) AIX
11 8 (0.17%) CentOS
11 8 (0.17%) Solaris
11 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
11 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.17%) zOS
12 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (0.083%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (0.083%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,802 (58.35%) CI/CD
2 1,952 (40.65%) Agile
3 1,354 (28.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 810 (16.87%) Continuous Improvement
5 779 (16.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 772 (16.08%) Containerisation
7 762 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
8 747 (15.56%) Test Automation
9 728 (15.16%) AI
10 707 (14.72%) Microservices
11 656 (13.66%) Observability
12 615 (12.81%) Platform Engineering
12 615 (12.81%) Software Engineering
13 584 (12.16%) Scrum
14 571 (11.89%) Migration
15 526 (10.95%) Analytics
16 505 (10.52%) Technical Leadership
17 457 (9.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 432 (9.00%) Roadmaps
19 406 (8.45%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,403 (29.22%) Python
2 886 (18.45%) SQL
3 692 (14.41%) Java
4 442 (9.20%) PowerShell
5 435 (9.06%) C#
6 411 (8.56%) Bash
7 376 (7.83%) JavaScript
8 262 (5.46%) TypeScript
9 215 (4.48%) Bicep
10 75 (1.56%) Go
11 64 (1.33%) Shell Script
12 55 (1.15%) Groovy
12 55 (1.15%) T-SQL
13 53 (1.10%) Scala
14 49 (1.02%) Apex Code
15 47 (0.98%) PL/SQL
16 32 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 31 (0.65%) Perl
18 30 (0.62%) C++
19 21 (0.44%) C
Qualifications
1 1,539 (32.05%) Security Cleared
2 1,297 (27.01%) SC Cleared
3 312 (6.50%) Degree
4 202 (4.21%) Azure Certification
5 188 (3.92%) DV Cleared
6 160 (3.33%) AWS Certification
7 132 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 120 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
9 99 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
10 70 (1.46%) CISSP
11 48 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
11 48 (1.00%) ISTQB
12 45 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 39 (0.81%) PMP
14 36 (0.75%) PMI Certification
15 33 (0.69%) Master's Degree
16 30 (0.62%) CISM
17 22 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
18 21 (0.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 20 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 465 (9.68%) QA
2 244 (5.08%) Data Quality
3 160 (3.33%) Accessibility
4 119 (2.48%) GDPR
5 95 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 80 (1.67%) NIST
7 76 (1.58%) WCAG
8 49 (1.02%) PMO
9 47 (0.98%) NCSC
10 33 (0.69%) SLA
11 32 (0.67%) PCI DSS
12 27 (0.56%) GRC
13 22 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 14 (0.29%) ISO 20022
15 12 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
16 10 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
17 9 (0.19%) HIPAA
17 9 (0.19%) HL7
17 9 (0.19%) SEPA
18 8 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 957 (19.93%) Docker
2 161 (3.35%) Active Directory
3 74 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 70 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (0.50%) Hyper-V
6 21 (0.44%) vSphere
7 19 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
8 17 (0.35%) VMware NSX
9 14 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
10 13 (0.27%) Squid
11 11 (0.23%) IAG
12 9 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
12 9 (0.19%) Postfix
13 7 (0.15%) KVM
14 6 (0.12%) Corosync
14 6 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
15 5 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 5 (0.10%) Firmware
16 4 (0.083%) Embedded Firmware
16 4 (0.083%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,245 (25.93%) Kubernetes
2 479 (9.98%) Ansible
3 311 (6.48%) Grafana
4 266 (5.54%) Prometheus
5 71 (1.48%) Argo
6 58 (1.21%) Puppet
7 51 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
8 46 (0.96%) Progress Chef
9 39 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
10 32 (0.67%) Packer
11 26 (0.54%) Istio
12 22 (0.46%) Kibana
13 19 (0.40%) Kustomize
13 19 (0.40%) SCCM
13 19 (0.40%) vCenter Server
14 17 (0.35%) Kubeflow
15 13 (0.27%) Control-M
15 13 (0.27%) HP ALM
16 12 (0.25%) Oracle RMAN
16 12 (0.25%) systemd
Vendors
1 967 (20.14%) Microsoft
2 255 (5.31%) Databricks
3 241 (5.02%) Oracle
4 222 (4.62%) Google
5 183 (3.81%) ServiceNow
6 164 (3.42%) Splunk
7 142 (2.96%) Salesforce
8 130 (2.71%) Dynatrace
9 105 (2.19%) VMware
10 98 (2.04%) Red Hat
11 96 (2.00%) SAP
12 62 (1.29%) IBM
13 51 (1.06%) Informatica
14 48 (1.00%) OpenAI
15 46 (0.96%) Cisco
16 42 (0.87%) AppDynamics
17 39 (0.81%) Atlassian
17 39 (0.81%) Foundry
18 35 (0.73%) MuleSoft
19 33 (0.69%) CyberArk