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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 16 15
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,766 2,760 3,475
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.62% 10.11% 9.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.45% 11.15% 11.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,284 1,993 2,383
10th Percentile £388 £363 £400
25th Percentile £442 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.01% -5.50% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 19 98
10th Percentile £37.25 £41.00 £56.43
25th Percentile £61.00 £52.13 £61.60
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.75% -4.29% +6.87%
75th Percentile £78.25 £77.25 £77.50
90th Percentile £94.81 £89.50 £86.19
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% +6.87%

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 38,278 24,745 30,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.32% 90.65% 85.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,038 15,865 19,799
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £645
90th Percentile £737 £738 £751
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,361 1,324 1,984
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.23 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.95 £17.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.98%
75th Percentile £69.50 £53.56 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £74.31
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -10.31%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 22 July 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 2,449 £550 - 741
North of England +5 864 £500 +2.30% 321
South East -9 458 £525 +5.00% 278
Midlands +3 446 £489 +2.89% 163
Yorkshire +2 445 £500 - 91
West Midlands 0 358 £499 -0.25% 114
North West +1 338 £518 +9.01% 171
South West +14 316 £503 -5.19% 128
East of England +20 141 £510 +2.00% 64
North East +11 100 £425 -18.66% 62
East Midlands 0 83 £488 +5.41% 49
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
1 285 (5.98%) Confluence
2 121 (2.54%) SharePoint
3 119 (2.50%) Apache Spark
4 104 (2.18%) Apache Airflow
5 92 (1.93%) Apache
6 67 (1.41%) SAS
7 44 (0.92%) CMS
8 31 (0.65%) Jupyter
9 30 (0.63%) IIS
10 28 (0.59%) nginx
11 24 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
12 14 (0.29%) WebSphere
13 13 (0.27%) Camunda
14 12 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
15 11 (0.23%) OpenStack
15 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
16 9 (0.19%) Appian
17 7 (0.15%) Tomcat
17 7 (0.15%) WebLogic
18 6 (0.13%) Documentum
Applications
1 60 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
2 59 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 33 (0.69%) MS Visio
4 32 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
4 32 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.21%) CPLEX
6 9 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.13%) Trello
9 4 (0.084%) Notion
10 2 (0.042%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.021%) InDesign
11 1 (0.021%) Maya
11 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 59 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.21%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.19%) Magento
4 9 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
4 9 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
5 8 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.13%) Maximo
6 6 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
7 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
7 5 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.084%) Endur
8 4 (0.084%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.063%) Findur
9 3 (0.063%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.063%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.063%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 3 (0.063%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2,536 (53.21%) Azure
2 1,662 (34.87%) AWS
3 1,432 (30.05%) Azure DevOps
4 772 (16.20%) GitHub
5 576 (12.09%) GCP
6 474 (9.95%) GitHub Actions
7 393 (8.25%) Power Platform
8 390 (8.18%) Serverless
9 259 (5.43%) Amazon S3
10 231 (4.85%) AWS Lambda
11 229 (4.80%) Entra ID
12 188 (3.94%) Azure AKS
13 182 (3.82%) AWS CloudFormation
14 175 (3.67%) Amazon EKS
15 165 (3.46%) Azure Data Factory
16 164 (3.44%) Azure Monitor
17 162 (3.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 158 (3.32%) Amazon EC2
19 143 (3.00%) OpenShift
20 141 (2.96%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 225 (4.72%) Firewall
2 138 (2.90%) DNS
3 113 (2.37%) VPN
4 108 (2.27%) Network Security
5 59 (1.24%) TCP/IP
6 48 (1.01%) WAN
7 37 (0.78%) SD-WAN
7 37 (0.78%) SSL
8 31 (0.65%) BGP
9 30 (0.63%) DHCP
9 30 (0.63%) Internet
10 27 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
11 25 (0.52%) OSPF
12 21 (0.44%) HTTP
13 18 (0.38%) SAN
13 18 (0.38%) VXLAN
14 17 (0.36%) MPLS
14 17 (0.36%) VLAN
15 16 (0.34%) BIG-IP
15 16 (0.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 268 (5.62%) Power BI
2 248 (5.20%) SQL Server
3 226 (4.74%) PostgreSQL
4 160 (3.36%) NoSQL
5 155 (3.25%) Relational Database
6 150 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
7 139 (2.92%) Data Lake
7 139 (2.92%) MongoDB
8 100 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
9 85 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
9 85 (1.78%) DynamoDB
9 85 (1.78%) Metadata
10 78 (1.64%) Delta Lake
11 77 (1.62%) Oracle Database
12 59 (1.24%) Big Data
13 55 (1.15%) Redis
14 54 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
15 50 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
16 49 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
17 46 (0.97%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 663 (13.91%) Jenkins
2 622 (13.05%) Git
3 566 (11.88%) JIRA
4 482 (10.11%) GitLab
5 106 (2.22%) Selenium
6 89 (1.87%) SonarQube
7 85 (1.78%) JUnit
8 83 (1.74%) Postman
9 69 (1.45%) Maven
10 68 (1.43%) Bitbucket
11 60 (1.26%) REST Assured
12 52 (1.09%) Cucumber
13 48 (1.01%) Cypress.io
14 47 (0.99%) JMeter
15 42 (0.88%) Gatling
15 42 (0.88%) Gradle
16 40 (0.84%) Mockito
17 34 (0.71%) Artifactory
18 33 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
19 32 (0.67%) LoadRunner
General
1 1,189 (24.95%) Social Skills
2 909 (19.07%) Finance
3 644 (13.51%) Public Sector
4 426 (8.94%) Analytical Skills
5 326 (6.84%) Banking
6 114 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
7 109 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 85 (1.78%) Retail
9 68 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
10 59 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
11 55 (1.15%) Legal
11 55 (1.15%) Marketing
12 44 (0.92%) Military
13 41 (0.86%) Investment Banking
14 38 (0.80%) Law
15 37 (0.78%) Telecoms
16 36 (0.76%) Financial Institution
16 36 (0.76%) Front Office
17 32 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
18 29 (0.61%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 914 (19.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 752 (15.78%) Developer
3 679 (14.25%) Senior
4 558 (11.71%) Architect
5 458 (9.61%) Lead
6 290 (6.08%) Azure Engineer
7 276 (5.79%) Data Engineer
8 261 (5.48%) Analyst
9 212 (4.45%) AWS Engineer
10 195 (4.09%) Platform Engineer
11 178 (3.73%) Cloud Engineer
12 172 (3.61%) Solutions Architect
13 168 (3.52%) Senior DevOps
14 154 (3.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 153 (3.21%) Java Developer
16 152 (3.19%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 148 (3.11%) AWS DevOps
18 135 (2.83%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 133 (2.79%) Business Analyst
20 132 (2.77%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 459 (9.63%) REST
2 409 (8.58%) .NET
3 279 (5.85%) Kafka
4 259 (5.43%) Spring
5 247 (5.18%) React
6 242 (5.08%) Spring Boot
7 241 (5.06%) RESTful
8 185 (3.88%) Node.js
9 141 (2.96%) JSON
10 138 (2.90%) PySpark
11 136 (2.85%) OAuth
12 135 (2.83%) AngularJS
13 131 (2.75%) Playwright
14 124 (2.60%) SOAP
15 122 (2.56%) .NET Framework
16 107 (2.25%) HTML
17 98 (2.06%) YAML
18 93 (1.95%) OAuth2
19 92 (1.93%) CSS
20 87 (1.83%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 833 (17.48%) Cloud Native
2 332 (6.97%) Product Ownership
3 222 (4.66%) Distributed Systems
4 143 (3.00%) Onboarding
5 132 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
6 129 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
7 111 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
8 78 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
9 75 (1.57%) Public Cloud
10 69 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
11 67 (1.41%) Security Posture
12 66 (1.38%) Management Information System
13 62 (1.30%) Data Centre
14 60 (1.26%) Data Structures
15 56 (1.17%) AI Agents
16 52 (1.09%) Replication
17 50 (1.05%) Mobile App
18 49 (1.03%) Virtual Team
19 41 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
20 37 (0.78%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 421 (8.83%) Linux
2 257 (5.39%) Windows
3 96 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 71 (1.49%) Unix
5 63 (1.32%) Windows Server
6 27 (0.57%) Ubuntu
7 25 (0.52%) Apple iOS
7 25 (0.52%) VMS
8 17 (0.36%) Android
9 10 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
10 9 (0.19%) Solaris
11 8 (0.17%) zOS
12 7 (0.15%) CentOS
13 6 (0.13%) AIX
13 6 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
13 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
13 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
15 4 (0.084%) Alpine Linux
15 4 (0.084%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,725 (57.18%) CI/CD
2 1,876 (39.36%) Agile
3 1,253 (26.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 760 (15.95%) Containerisation
5 732 (15.36%) Problem-Solving
6 722 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
7 695 (14.58%) Test Automation
8 687 (14.41%) Microservices
9 650 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
10 647 (13.58%) AI
11 590 (12.38%) Observability
12 581 (12.19%) Scrum
13 568 (11.92%) Migration
14 560 (11.75%) Software Engineering
15 550 (11.54%) Platform Engineering
16 529 (11.10%) Analytics
17 418 (8.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 417 (8.75%) Roadmaps
19 416 (8.73%) Technical Leadership
20 413 (8.67%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,333 (27.97%) Python
2 889 (18.65%) SQL
3 673 (14.12%) Java
4 426 (8.94%) C#
5 383 (8.04%) Bash
6 374 (7.85%) PowerShell
7 351 (7.36%) JavaScript
8 249 (5.22%) TypeScript
9 169 (3.55%) Bicep
10 92 (1.93%) Go
11 57 (1.20%) PL/SQL
12 55 (1.15%) Shell Script
12 55 (1.15%) T-SQL
13 51 (1.07%) Apex Code
14 49 (1.03%) Groovy
15 47 (0.99%) Scala
16 27 (0.57%) C++
17 26 (0.55%) Kotlin
18 22 (0.46%) C
18 22 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1,504 (31.56%) Security Cleared
2 1,251 (26.25%) SC Cleared
3 298 (6.25%) Degree
4 195 (4.09%) Azure Certification
5 179 (3.76%) DV Cleared
6 158 (3.32%) AWS Certification
7 116 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 106 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
9 75 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
10 74 (1.55%) CISSP
11 52 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
12 43 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 43 (0.90%) ISTQB
13 39 (0.82%) PMP
14 36 (0.76%) Master's Degree
15 35 (0.73%) PMI Certification
16 33 (0.69%) CISM
17 24 (0.50%) CCNP
18 23 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
19 22 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 428 (8.98%) QA
2 223 (4.68%) Data Quality
3 152 (3.19%) Accessibility
4 144 (3.02%) GDPR
5 87 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 85 (1.78%) NIST
7 72 (1.51%) WCAG
8 51 (1.07%) NCSC
9 41 (0.86%) PMO
10 39 (0.82%) PCI DSS
11 30 (0.63%) SLA
12 27 (0.57%) GRC
13 23 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 10 (0.21%) HIPAA
14 10 (0.21%) ISO 20022
15 9 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.19%) PSD2
15 9 (0.19%) SOC 2
16 8 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
16 8 (0.17%) SEPA
System Software
1 918 (19.26%) Docker
2 169 (3.55%) Active Directory
3 75 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
4 67 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 28 (0.59%) vSphere
6 23 (0.48%) VMware NSX
7 19 (0.40%) Squid
8 17 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
9 16 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
10 14 (0.29%) Hyper-V
10 14 (0.29%) Postfix
11 9 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
12 8 (0.17%) KVM
13 7 (0.15%) IAG
14 6 (0.13%) Corosync
14 6 (0.13%) RACF
15 5 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
15 5 (0.10%) NFS
15 5 (0.10%) SRDF
16 4 (0.084%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,344 (28.20%) Terraform
2 1,195 (25.07%) Kubernetes
3 462 (9.69%) Ansible
4 319 (6.69%) Grafana
5 271 (5.69%) Prometheus
6 83 (1.74%) Argo
7 67 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
8 55 (1.15%) Puppet
9 39 (0.82%) Progress Chef
10 34 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
11 30 (0.63%) Istio
11 30 (0.63%) Packer
12 26 (0.55%) vCenter Server
13 17 (0.36%) Kibana
14 15 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 15 (0.31%) Consul
14 15 (0.31%) Kustomize
14 15 (0.31%) SCCM
15 13 (0.27%) HP ALM
15 13 (0.27%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 870 (18.25%) Microsoft
2 259 (5.43%) Oracle
3 235 (4.93%) Databricks
4 212 (4.45%) Google
5 186 (3.90%) ServiceNow
6 167 (3.50%) Splunk
7 149 (3.13%) Salesforce
8 119 (2.50%) Dynatrace
9 113 (2.37%) SAP
10 105 (2.20%) Red Hat
11 102 (2.14%) VMware
12 59 (1.24%) IBM
13 52 (1.09%) OpenAI
14 49 (1.03%) Atlassian
15 46 (0.97%) Informatica
16 43 (0.90%) Cisco
17 39 (0.82%) Foundry
18 37 (0.78%) CyberArk
19 34 (0.71%) AppDynamics
20 31 (0.65%) Okta