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 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 14 17
Rank change year-on-year +2 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing DevOps 3,823 2,756 3,249
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.20% 10.58% 8.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.79% 11.78% 9.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,675 1,914 2,377
10th Percentile £381 £400 £413
25th Percentile £439 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £569
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +1.05% -5.17%
75th Percentile £615 £675 £675
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 18 99
10th Percentile - £37.68 £46.18
25th Percentile £45.46 £57.97 £56.65
Median hourly rate £50.00 £70.97 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.55% +9.18% -0.76%
75th Percentile £77.50 £80.75 £74.21
90th Percentile £94.50 £82.78 £81.62
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £73.23 £65.00
% change year-on-year -28.30% +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 29,880 23,401 33,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.55% 89.79% 87.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,087 14,489 22,006
10th Percentile £309 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £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 1,872 735 1,965
10th Percentile £15.10 £15.62 £13.35
25th Percentile £18.03 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.37% - -
75th Percentile £60.61 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £72.84
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.53
% change year-on-year -22.62% -3.06% +3.15%

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 13 February 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 13 February 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 13 February 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 -3 1,917 £538 -10.42% 455
North of England +5 685 £500 -2.44% 281
South East +1 420 £525 -8.70% 332
Midlands +19 388 £513 +3.02% 134
Yorkshire +1 358 £500 -0.99% 90
West Midlands +19 311 £525 +5.00% 94
North West +2 279 £471 -9.12% 158
South West +11 246 £525 -12.50% 132
East of England +17 113 £575 +9.26% 54
East Midlands +6 77 £425 -10.53% 41
North East -4 51 £475 -9.52% 36
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
1 238 (6.23%) Confluence
2 85 (2.22%) Apache Spark
3 83 (2.17%) Apache
4 82 (2.14%) SharePoint
5 55 (1.44%) SAS
6 52 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
7 36 (0.94%) OpenStack
8 31 (0.81%) nginx
9 29 (0.76%) CMS
10 20 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
11 18 (0.47%) IIS
12 15 (0.39%) JBoss
13 12 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
14 11 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 11 (0.29%) WebLogic
15 10 (0.26%) HCL Notes
15 10 (0.26%) Mendix
16 8 (0.21%) Camunda
16 8 (0.21%) GeoServer
16 8 (0.21%) Smallworld
Applications
1 94 (2.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 63 (1.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 36 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
4 29 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
5 20 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.29%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.21%) Weka
8 6 (0.16%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 3 (0.078%) Trello
10 2 (0.052%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.026%) CPLEX
11 1 (0.026%) Maya
11 1 (0.026%) Revit
11 1 (0.026%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 61 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.29%) Endur
3 10 (0.26%) Maximo
4 9 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
4 9 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.21%) Aladdin
5 8 (0.21%) NEC Housing
6 5 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.10%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.10%) VisionPLUS
8 3 (0.078%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.078%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.078%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.078%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.078%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.078%) SAP FI/CO
8 3 (0.078%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,963 (51.35%) Azure
2 1,336 (34.95%) AWS
3 1,056 (27.62%) Azure DevOps
4 708 (18.52%) GitHub
5 577 (15.09%) GCP
6 432 (11.30%) Serverless
7 382 (9.99%) GitHub Actions
8 311 (8.13%) Power Platform
9 211 (5.52%) Amazon S3
10 205 (5.36%) AWS CloudFormation
11 203 (5.31%) AWS Lambda
12 187 (4.89%) Azure Data Factory
13 180 (4.71%) Azure AKS
14 167 (4.37%) OpenShift
15 166 (4.34%) Entra ID
16 153 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
17 152 (3.98%) Amazon EKS
18 148 (3.87%) Azure Monitor
19 143 (3.74%) SaaS
20 132 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 183 (4.79%) Firewall
2 105 (2.75%) DNS
3 82 (2.14%) VPN
4 81 (2.12%) Network Security
5 53 (1.39%) TCP/IP
6 41 (1.07%) SSL
7 29 (0.76%) HTTP
8 28 (0.73%) HTTPS
9 21 (0.55%) WAN
10 16 (0.42%) Kerberos
11 15 (0.39%) DHCP
12 14 (0.37%) BGP
12 14 (0.37%) SD-WAN
13 13 (0.34%) MPLS
14 11 (0.29%) FTP
14 11 (0.29%) LAN
15 10 (0.26%) Internet
16 9 (0.24%) IPsec
16 9 (0.24%) SAN
16 9 (0.24%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (5.75%) PostgreSQL
2 205 (5.36%) Power BI
3 153 (4.00%) NoSQL
4 146 (3.82%) SQL Server
5 115 (3.01%) Data Lake
6 108 (2.83%) Amazon RDS
7 95 (2.48%) Relational Database
8 91 (2.38%) MongoDB
9 84 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
10 74 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
11 72 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
11 72 (1.88%) Oracle Database
12 59 (1.54%) DynamoDB
13 53 (1.39%) Redis
14 50 (1.31%) Delta Lake
14 50 (1.31%) MySQL
15 47 (1.23%) Tableau
16 45 (1.18%) Metadata
17 37 (0.97%) Amazon Athena
18 36 (0.94%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 662 (17.32%) Jenkins
2 520 (13.60%) Git
3 506 (13.24%) JIRA
4 491 (12.84%) GitLab
5 112 (2.93%) Selenium
6 86 (2.25%) JUnit
7 78 (2.04%) Postman
8 62 (1.62%) SonarQube
9 55 (1.44%) Bitbucket
9 55 (1.44%) Sonatype Nexus
10 49 (1.28%) Cucumber
11 47 (1.23%) Maven
12 46 (1.20%) Artifactory
12 46 (1.20%) Cypress.io
13 40 (1.05%) REST Assured
14 37 (0.97%) Gradle
15 36 (0.94%) Oracle APEX
16 34 (0.89%) JMeter
17 33 (0.86%) Liquibase
18 28 (0.73%) CircleCI
General
1 1,191 (31.15%) Social Skills
2 698 (18.26%) Finance
3 458 (11.98%) Public Sector
4 329 (8.61%) Analytical Skills
5 308 (8.06%) Banking
6 140 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
7 75 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
8 65 (1.70%) Financial Institution
9 58 (1.52%) Marketing
10 56 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 50 (1.31%) Retail
12 44 (1.15%) Front Office
13 43 (1.12%) Telecoms
14 42 (1.10%) Investment Banking
14 42 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
15 33 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
16 31 (0.81%) Military
17 27 (0.71%) Law
18 26 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
19 24 (0.63%) Legal
Job Titles
1 733 (19.17%) DevOps Engineer
2 632 (16.53%) Developer
3 526 (13.76%) Senior
4 398 (10.41%) Architect
5 302 (7.90%) Lead
6 237 (6.20%) Azure Engineer
7 207 (5.41%) Analyst
8 203 (5.31%) AWS Engineer
8 203 (5.31%) Data Engineer
9 155 (4.05%) AWS DevOps
10 149 (3.90%) Cloud Engineer
11 143 (3.74%) Software Engineer
12 135 (3.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 132 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
14 123 (3.22%) Solutions Architect
15 120 (3.14%) Senior Developer
16 119 (3.11%) Business Analyst
17 108 (2.83%) Senior DevOps
18 105 (2.75%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 102 (2.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 439 (11.48%) REST
2 310 (8.11%) .NET
3 250 (6.54%) Node.js
4 249 (6.51%) React
5 223 (5.83%) Kafka
6 212 (5.55%) Spring
7 200 (5.23%) RESTful
8 193 (5.05%) Spring Boot
9 158 (4.13%) JSON
10 126 (3.30%) AngularJS
11 124 (3.24%) YAML
12 122 (3.19%) OAuth
13 121 (3.17%) Elastic Stack
14 118 (3.09%) XML
15 114 (2.98%) HTML
16 111 (2.90%) SOAP
17 104 (2.72%) Playwright
18 96 (2.51%) Middleware
19 95 (2.48%) CSS
20 93 (2.43%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 560 (14.65%) Cloud Native
2 202 (5.28%) Product Ownership
3 144 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
4 105 (2.75%) Onboarding
4 105 (2.75%) Public Cloud
5 80 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
6 71 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
7 66 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
8 49 (1.28%) Management Information System
9 46 (1.20%) Private Cloud
10 45 (1.18%) Security Posture
10 45 (1.18%) Virtual Team
11 44 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
12 43 (1.12%) Replication
13 38 (0.99%) Mobile App
14 36 (0.94%) NHS
15 35 (0.92%) Data Centre
15 35 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
16 31 (0.81%) Algorithms
16 31 (0.81%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 431 (11.27%) Linux
2 209 (5.47%) Windows
3 83 (2.17%) Unix
4 49 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 45 (1.18%) VMS
6 39 (1.02%) Windows Server
7 29 (0.76%) Ubuntu
8 19 (0.50%) Windows 10
9 18 (0.47%) Android
10 17 (0.44%) Apple iOS
10 17 (0.44%) CentOS
11 9 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
12 8 (0.21%) Solaris
13 7 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
14 5 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
15 4 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.052%) Debian
16 2 (0.052%) zOS
17 1 (0.026%) Embedded Linux
17 1 (0.026%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,195 (57.42%) CI/CD
2 1,491 (39.00%) Agile
3 991 (25.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 750 (19.62%) Problem-Solving
5 743 (19.43%) Containerisation
6 572 (14.96%) Test Automation
7 570 (14.91%) Microservices
8 454 (11.88%) Continuous Improvement
9 450 (11.77%) Analytics
10 441 (11.54%) Migration
11 413 (10.80%) Observability
12 403 (10.54%) AI
13 399 (10.44%) Scrum
14 376 (9.84%) Stakeholder Management
15 355 (9.29%) Software Engineering
16 319 (8.34%) Mentoring
17 305 (7.98%) Data Modelling
18 264 (6.91%) Business Intelligence
19 260 (6.80%) Data Pipeline
20 258 (6.75%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,164 (30.45%) Python
2 786 (20.56%) SQL
3 506 (13.24%) Java
4 360 (9.42%) C#
5 355 (9.29%) JavaScript
6 318 (8.32%) PowerShell
7 297 (7.77%) Bash
8 267 (6.98%) TypeScript
9 135 (3.53%) Go
10 129 (3.37%) Bicep
11 75 (1.96%) PL/SQL
12 58 (1.52%) Scala
13 46 (1.20%) Shell Script
14 44 (1.15%) Groovy
15 39 (1.02%) T-SQL
16 38 (0.99%) C++
16 38 (0.99%) Ruby
17 24 (0.63%) Rust
18 22 (0.58%) Perl
19 21 (0.55%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,207 (31.57%) Security Cleared
2 991 (25.92%) SC Cleared
3 340 (8.89%) Degree
4 183 (4.79%) Azure Certification
5 180 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 135 (3.53%) DV Cleared
7 115 (3.01%) AWS Certification
8 82 (2.14%) Master's Degree
9 79 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
10 68 (1.78%) CISSP
11 60 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
12 55 (1.44%) CISM
13 41 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 40 (1.05%) ISTQB
15 33 (0.86%) PMI Certification
16 29 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
17 26 (0.68%) PMP
18 23 (0.60%) IIBA
19 22 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
20 18 (0.47%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 332 (8.68%) QA
2 160 (4.19%) GDPR
3 134 (3.51%) Data Quality
4 123 (3.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 112 (2.93%) NIST
6 89 (2.33%) Accessibility
7 67 (1.75%) NCSC
8 30 (0.78%) PCI DSS
9 28 (0.73%) WCAG
10 26 (0.68%) SLA
11 23 (0.60%) HIPAA
11 23 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 19 (0.50%) PMO
13 17 (0.44%) SOC 2
14 16 (0.42%) ISO 20022
14 16 (0.42%) PSD2
15 14 (0.37%) SEPA
16 10 (0.26%) NIST 800
17 8 (0.21%) EU AI Act
17 8 (0.21%) MiFID
System Software
1 941 (24.61%) Docker
2 157 (4.11%) Active Directory
3 73 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
4 67 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 39 (1.02%) vSphere
6 24 (0.63%) VMware NSX
7 17 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
8 15 (0.39%) Squid
9 11 (0.29%) DFS Replication
9 11 (0.29%) Lustre
9 11 (0.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 9 (0.24%) GPFS
10 9 (0.24%) Hyper-V
10 9 (0.24%) Postfix
11 7 (0.18%) Firmware
11 7 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
12 6 (0.16%) Dovecot
12 6 (0.16%) KVM
12 6 (0.16%) Tivoli Directory Server
12 6 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,169 (30.58%) Terraform
2 1,132 (29.61%) Kubernetes
3 452 (11.82%) Ansible
4 279 (7.30%) Grafana
5 244 (6.38%) Prometheus
6 85 (2.22%) Argo
7 68 (1.78%) Puppet
8 62 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
9 37 (0.97%) Istio
10 36 (0.94%) Kibana
11 29 (0.76%) Progress Chef
12 28 (0.73%) Packer
13 21 (0.55%) Podman
13 21 (0.55%) vCenter Server
14 17 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 16 (0.42%) Consul
16 15 (0.39%) FortiGate
16 15 (0.39%) logstash
16 15 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
16 15 (0.39%) Rancher
Vendors
1 665 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 262 (6.85%) Oracle
3 230 (6.02%) Databricks
4 224 (5.86%) Google
5 200 (5.23%) Splunk
6 133 (3.48%) ServiceNow
7 124 (3.24%) Red Hat
8 115 (3.01%) VMware
9 99 (2.59%) Salesforce
10 93 (2.43%) SAP
11 68 (1.78%) OpenAI
12 56 (1.46%) Dynatrace
13 53 (1.39%) CyberArk
14 46 (1.20%) Atlassian
15 40 (1.05%) IBM
16 39 (1.02%) F5
17 33 (0.86%) Palo Alto
18 30 (0.78%) Foundry
19 29 (0.76%) Talend
20 27 (0.71%) MuleSoft