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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 14 14
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,739 3,041 3,264
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.27% 10.96% 10.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.15% 12.05% 11.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,265 2,163 2,179
10th Percentile £381 £360 £400
25th Percentile £438 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% -3.95%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £706 £713 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 21 62
10th Percentile £37.25 £42.50 £53.00
25th Percentile £59.94 £56.75 £65.00
Median hourly rate £68.75 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% -4.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £79.00 £88.75 £74.33
90th Percentile £93.94 £95.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +4.48% -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 39,007 25,232 28,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.55% 90.97% 86.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,733 16,031 17,231
10th Percentile £325 £295 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,853 1,544 1,222
10th Percentile £13.90 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.85 £20.26
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.00 £67.02
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +55.07% -40.82% -1.16%

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 28 September 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 28 September 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 28 September 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 -1 2,496 £550 - 1,904
North of England -2 783 £500 +5.26% 676
South East -13 444 £525 +5.00% 436
Midlands -4 427 £488 -4.88% 275
Yorkshire -2 386 £500 +3.09% 206
West Midlands -8 343 £500 -4.76% 167
South West +3 316 £550 +4.27% 281
North West -3 304 £528 +16.45% 373
East of England +9 158 £505 -3.81% 181
North East +12 110 £450 -18.18% 101
East Midlands -4 81 £455 +1.11% 108
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 (6.01%) Confluence
2 142 (3.00%) SharePoint
3 118 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
4 113 (2.38%) Apache Spark
5 96 (2.03%) Apache
6 51 (1.08%) SAS
7 41 (0.87%) CMS
8 40 (0.84%) Jupyter
9 24 (0.51%) nginx
10 20 (0.42%) IIS
11 19 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
12 15 (0.32%) Camunda
13 13 (0.27%) OpenStack
14 10 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
15 9 (0.19%) Anypoint
15 9 (0.19%) Appian
15 9 (0.19%) WebSphere
16 8 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
16 8 (0.17%) WebLogic
17 6 (0.13%) JBoss
Applications
1 61 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (1.01%) MS Visio
3 46 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
4 32 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 29 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
6 13 (0.27%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.17%) CPLEX
7 8 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.17%) Windchill
8 5 (0.11%) Notion
8 5 (0.11%) Trello
9 2 (0.042%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.042%) Gliffy
9 2 (0.042%) Mingle
10 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
10 1 (0.021%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.021%) Sketch
10 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 71 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 35 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 10 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.19%) Magento
6 8 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 6 (0.13%) Aladdin
7 6 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
7 6 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.13%) SAP MDG
8 5 (0.11%) OpenText MBPM
8 5 (0.11%) Oracle BPM
9 4 (0.084%) Temenos T24
10 3 (0.063%) Endur
10 3 (0.063%) Maximo
10 3 (0.063%) Oracle EBS R12
10 3 (0.063%) Oracle ERP
10 3 (0.063%) Oracle Payroll
10 3 (0.063%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.063%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,540 (53.60%) Azure
2 1,656 (34.94%) AWS
3 1,467 (30.96%) Azure DevOps
4 797 (16.82%) GitHub
5 620 (13.08%) GCP
6 504 (10.64%) GitHub Actions
7 428 (9.03%) Power Platform
8 392 (8.27%) Serverless
9 247 (5.21%) Amazon S3
10 235 (4.96%) AWS Lambda
11 226 (4.77%) Entra ID
12 202 (4.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 194 (4.09%) Amazon EKS
14 178 (3.76%) Azure AKS
15 170 (3.59%) Dynamics 365
16 167 (3.52%) AWS CloudFormation
16 167 (3.52%) Azure Monitor
17 165 (3.48%) Azure Data Factory
18 156 (3.29%) Amazon EC2
18 156 (3.29%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 221 (4.66%) Firewall
2 141 (2.98%) DNS
3 109 (2.30%) VPN
4 105 (2.22%) Network Security
5 71 (1.50%) TCP/IP
6 50 (1.06%) SSL
7 43 (0.91%) WAN
8 39 (0.82%) DHCP
9 33 (0.70%) BGP
10 31 (0.65%) HTTP
11 28 (0.59%) Internet
12 25 (0.53%) OSPF
12 25 (0.53%) SD-WAN
12 25 (0.53%) SSH
13 23 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
14 19 (0.40%) LAN
14 19 (0.40%) VLAN
15 17 (0.36%) SAN
16 16 (0.34%) BIG-IP
16 16 (0.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 287 (6.06%) Power BI
2 250 (5.28%) SQL Server
3 244 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
4 183 (3.86%) Data Warehouse
5 156 (3.29%) NoSQL
6 149 (3.14%) Data Lake
7 142 (3.00%) MongoDB
8 133 (2.81%) Relational Database
9 115 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
10 112 (2.36%) Metadata
11 81 (1.71%) Delta Lake
12 75 (1.58%) DynamoDB
12 75 (1.58%) Oracle Database
13 73 (1.54%) MySQL
14 72 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
15 69 (1.46%) Redis
16 55 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 54 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
18 53 (1.12%) BigQuery
19 51 (1.08%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 678 (14.31%) Git
2 645 (13.61%) Jenkins
3 543 (11.46%) GitLab
4 531 (11.20%) JIRA
5 124 (2.62%) Selenium
6 82 (1.73%) SonarQube
7 80 (1.69%) Maven
7 80 (1.69%) Postman
8 78 (1.65%) JUnit
9 66 (1.39%) Cucumber
10 60 (1.27%) Bitbucket
11 59 (1.24%) Cypress.io
11 59 (1.24%) REST Assured
12 57 (1.20%) JMeter
13 56 (1.18%) Gradle
14 41 (0.87%) Gatling
15 40 (0.84%) Mockito
16 37 (0.78%) Claude Code
16 37 (0.78%) Visual Studio
17 36 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,247 (26.31%) Social Skills
2 888 (18.74%) Finance
3 627 (13.23%) Public Sector
4 472 (9.96%) Analytical Skills
5 353 (7.45%) Banking
6 146 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 105 (2.22%) Retail
8 84 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
9 75 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
10 56 (1.18%) Aerospace
11 55 (1.16%) Marketing
12 52 (1.10%) Military
13 50 (1.06%) Legal
14 48 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
15 44 (0.93%) Manufacturing
15 44 (0.93%) Telecoms
16 43 (0.91%) Investment Banking
17 39 (0.82%) Law
17 39 (0.82%) Local Government
18 36 (0.76%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 904 (19.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 738 (15.57%) Senior
3 737 (15.55%) Developer
4 561 (11.84%) Architect
5 465 (9.81%) Lead
6 289 (6.10%) Azure Engineer
7 269 (5.68%) Data Engineer
8 237 (5.00%) Analyst
9 195 (4.11%) AWS Engineer
10 188 (3.97%) Platform Engineer
11 175 (3.69%) Cloud Engineer
12 167 (3.52%) Senior DevOps
13 163 (3.44%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 154 (3.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 154 (3.25%) Solutions Architect
15 139 (2.93%) Java Developer
16 134 (2.83%) AWS DevOps
17 129 (2.72%) Software Engineer
18 128 (2.70%) Senior Developer
19 123 (2.60%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,402 (29.58%) Terraform
2 522 (11.01%) REST
3 402 (8.48%) .NET
4 324 (6.84%) Kafka
5 270 (5.70%) RESTful
6 253 (5.34%) React
7 234 (4.94%) Spring
8 232 (4.90%) Spring Boot
9 154 (3.25%) JSON
9 154 (3.25%) OAuth
10 152 (3.21%) Node.js
11 135 (2.85%) PySpark
12 126 (2.66%) Playwright
13 121 (2.55%) HTML
14 120 (2.53%) SOAP
15 119 (2.51%) .NET Framework
16 113 (2.38%) CSS
17 102 (2.15%) OAuth2
18 100 (2.11%) Middleware
19 94 (1.98%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 871 (18.38%) Cloud Native
2 367 (7.74%) Product Ownership
3 219 (4.62%) Distributed Systems
4 182 (3.84%) Enterprise Software
4 182 (3.84%) Onboarding
5 136 (2.87%) Hybrid Cloud
6 124 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
7 101 (2.13%) AI Agents
8 83 (1.75%) Management Information System
9 72 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
10 69 (1.46%) Security Posture
11 67 (1.41%) Public Cloud
12 64 (1.35%) Data Structures
12 64 (1.35%) Replication
13 61 (1.29%) Data Centre
14 58 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
15 55 (1.16%) Virtual Team
16 52 (1.10%) Mobile App
17 45 (0.95%) PKI
18 44 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 483 (10.19%) Linux
2 275 (5.80%) Windows
3 116 (2.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 92 (1.94%) Unix
5 83 (1.75%) Windows Server
6 36 (0.76%) Ubuntu
7 30 (0.63%) Apple iOS
8 26 (0.55%) VMS
9 21 (0.44%) Android
10 15 (0.32%) CentOS
11 10 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
11 10 (0.21%) zOS
12 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
12 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
13 7 (0.15%) AIX
13 7 (0.15%) Solaris
14 5 (0.11%) Mac OS
14 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.084%) Alpine Linux
15 4 (0.084%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,844 (60.01%) CI/CD
2 1,932 (40.77%) Agile
3 1,396 (29.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 846 (17.85%) Stakeholder Management
5 813 (17.16%) Continuous Improvement
6 803 (16.94%) AI
7 770 (16.25%) Test Automation
8 767 (16.18%) Containerisation
9 753 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
10 690 (14.56%) Microservices
11 677 (14.29%) Observability
12 646 (13.63%) Platform Engineering
13 639 (13.48%) Software Engineering
14 588 (12.41%) Scrum
15 580 (12.24%) Migration
16 546 (11.52%) Technical Leadership
17 507 (10.70%) Analytics
18 448 (9.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 442 (9.33%) Roadmaps
20 420 (8.86%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,398 (29.50%) Python
2 831 (17.54%) SQL
3 690 (14.56%) Java
4 432 (9.12%) PowerShell
5 428 (9.03%) C#
6 417 (8.80%) Bash
7 389 (8.21%) JavaScript
8 269 (5.68%) TypeScript
9 221 (4.66%) Bicep
10 91 (1.92%) Go
11 62 (1.31%) Shell Script
12 56 (1.18%) T-SQL
13 54 (1.14%) Scala
14 50 (1.06%) Groovy
15 46 (0.97%) PL/SQL
16 41 (0.87%) Apex Code
17 33 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 31 (0.65%) C++
19 29 (0.61%) Perl
20 24 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1,529 (32.26%) Security Cleared
2 1,278 (26.97%) SC Cleared
3 332 (7.01%) Degree
4 217 (4.58%) DV Cleared
5 215 (4.54%) Azure Certification
6 169 (3.57%) AWS Certification
7 146 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
8 124 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
9 109 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 70 (1.48%) CISSP
11 52 (1.10%) ISTQB
12 50 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
13 45 (0.95%) PMP
14 40 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 38 (0.80%) Master's Degree
15 38 (0.80%) PMI Certification
16 28 (0.59%) CISM
17 21 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 21 (0.44%) CCNP
18 20 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 484 (10.21%) QA
2 243 (5.13%) Data Quality
3 163 (3.44%) Accessibility
4 110 (2.32%) GDPR
5 83 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 77 (1.62%) WCAG
7 69 (1.46%) NIST
8 44 (0.93%) NCSC
9 43 (0.91%) PMO
10 31 (0.65%) SLA
11 27 (0.57%) GRC
11 27 (0.57%) PCI DSS
12 20 (0.42%) ISO 20022
13 17 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 15 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
15 14 (0.30%) HIPAA
16 12 (0.25%) SEPA
16 12 (0.25%) SOC 2
17 11 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
18 9 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 948 (20.00%) Docker
2 138 (2.91%) Active Directory
3 71 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
4 67 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 23 (0.49%) vSphere
6 21 (0.44%) Hyper-V
7 20 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
8 16 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.25%) VMware NSX
10 11 (0.23%) Squid
11 10 (0.21%) IAG
12 9 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
13 8 (0.17%) Postfix
14 6 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 6 (0.13%) Corosync
14 6 (0.13%) KVM
14 6 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
15 5 (0.11%) NFS
15 5 (0.11%) RACF
16 4 (0.084%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1,237 (26.10%) Kubernetes
2 473 (9.98%) Ansible
3 306 (6.46%) Grafana
4 264 (5.57%) Prometheus
5 61 (1.29%) Argo
6 53 (1.12%) Puppet
7 47 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
8 44 (0.93%) Progress Chef
9 40 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
10 34 (0.72%) Packer
11 30 (0.63%) Kibana
12 22 (0.46%) Kubeflow
13 19 (0.40%) Istio
13 19 (0.40%) Kustomize
14 15 (0.32%) HP ALM
14 15 (0.32%) SCCM
14 15 (0.32%) vCenter Server
15 13 (0.27%) Control-M
15 13 (0.27%) SCOM
15 13 (0.27%) systemd
Vendors
1 958 (20.22%) Microsoft
2 263 (5.55%) Databricks
3 252 (5.32%) Google
4 232 (4.90%) Oracle
5 188 (3.97%) ServiceNow
6 167 (3.52%) Splunk
7 134 (2.83%) Salesforce
8 129 (2.72%) Dynatrace
9 104 (2.19%) VMware
10 96 (2.03%) SAP
11 93 (1.96%) Red Hat
12 70 (1.48%) IBM
13 60 (1.27%) OpenAI
14 48 (1.01%) Cisco
15 47 (0.99%) Foundry
16 37 (0.78%) AppDynamics
16 37 (0.78%) Informatica
17 35 (0.74%) MuleSoft
18 32 (0.68%) Okta
19 29 (0.61%) Atlassian