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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 16 15
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,367 2,383 3,415
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.57% 9.94% 9.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.49% 10.88% 10.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,065 1,745 2,379
10th Percentile £393 £394 £400
25th Percentile £447 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £663 £650
90th Percentile £700 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -6.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 12 106
10th Percentile £39.53 £36.63 £56.38
25th Percentile £55.69 £51.25 £61.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -0.76%
75th Percentile £77.50 £82.24 £78.44
90th Percentile £94.75 £91.55 £87.23
UK median hourly rate £68.50 £71.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year -4.35% +10.17% -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 34,973 21,894 31,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.68% 91.30% 86.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,266 14,295 20,565
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,148 929 2,246
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.42 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £46.11 £29.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +58.98% -20.55% -0.73%
75th Percentile £68.00 £62.24 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.44 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.18 £36.05
% change year-on-year +50.82% -21.82% +0.13%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 +5 2,225 £550 -2.22% 579
North of England +8 776 £500 - 318
South East +3 484 £513 +2.65% 280
Yorkshire 0 430 £500 -1.96% 83
Midlands +5 400 £488 -2.50% 97
West Midlands +3 309 £500 -4.58% 69
South West +16 284 £525 -4.55% 130
North West +1 284 £500 - 184
East of England +24 128 £525 +5.00% 75
East Midlands -1 87 £465 +0.54% 28
North East +3 76 £450 -16.28% 54
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
1 243 (5.56%) Confluence
2 120 (2.75%) Apache Spark
3 105 (2.40%) SharePoint
4 84 (1.92%) Apache
5 70 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
6 67 (1.53%) SAS
7 39 (0.89%) CMS
8 24 (0.55%) IIS
8 24 (0.55%) nginx
9 22 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
10 18 (0.41%) OpenStack
11 12 (0.27%) WebSphere
12 11 (0.25%) Mendix
13 10 (0.23%) Camunda
13 10 (0.23%) HCL Notes
13 10 (0.23%) Jupyter
14 9 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 9 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
15 7 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
16 6 (0.14%) Mattermost
Applications
1 64 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
3 42 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
5 23 (0.53%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.092%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.092%) CPLEX
6 4 (0.092%) Trello
7 3 (0.069%) Notion
8 2 (0.046%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.046%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.023%) InDesign
9 1 (0.023%) Maya
9 1 (0.023%) Weka
Business Applications
1 56 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
3 10 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
4 9 (0.21%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.21%) Maximo
5 8 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
6 6 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.11%) Endur
7 5 (0.11%) Magento
7 5 (0.11%) NEC Housing
8 4 (0.092%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.092%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.069%) Findur
9 3 (0.069%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.069%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 2 (0.046%) Dynamics GP
10 2 (0.046%) SAP MM
10 2 (0.046%) Shopify
10 2 (0.046%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 2,328 (53.31%) Azure
2 1,461 (33.46%) AWS
3 1,261 (28.88%) Azure DevOps
4 709 (16.24%) GitHub
5 556 (12.73%) GCP
6 412 (9.43%) GitHub Actions
7 402 (9.21%) Serverless
8 366 (8.38%) Power Platform
9 235 (5.38%) Amazon S3
10 211 (4.83%) Entra ID
11 203 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
12 194 (4.44%) Azure Data Factory
13 193 (4.42%) AWS CloudFormation
14 185 (4.24%) Azure AKS
15 160 (3.66%) OpenShift
16 150 (3.43%) Amazon EKS
17 139 (3.18%) PaaS
18 137 (3.14%) Azure Monitor
19 131 (3.00%) Amazon EC2
20 130 (2.98%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 202 (4.63%) Firewall
2 110 (2.52%) DNS
3 89 (2.04%) Network Security
4 86 (1.97%) VPN
5 42 (0.96%) TCP/IP
6 36 (0.82%) WAN
7 32 (0.73%) SD-WAN
8 26 (0.60%) BGP
9 25 (0.57%) SSL
10 22 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
11 21 (0.48%) DHCP
11 21 (0.48%) HTTP
12 19 (0.44%) OSPF
13 18 (0.41%) IPsec
14 17 (0.39%) SAN
15 16 (0.37%) MPLS
16 14 (0.32%) Internet
16 14 (0.32%) LAN
16 14 (0.32%) Reverse Proxy
16 14 (0.32%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 244 (5.59%) Power BI
2 216 (4.95%) PostgreSQL
3 214 (4.90%) SQL Server
4 163 (3.73%) NoSQL
5 154 (3.53%) Data Lake
6 137 (3.14%) Relational Database
7 120 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
8 115 (2.63%) MongoDB
9 89 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
10 87 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
11 83 (1.90%) Delta Lake
12 77 (1.76%) DynamoDB
13 71 (1.63%) Metadata
14 67 (1.53%) Oracle Database
15 63 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
16 55 (1.26%) Big Data
17 53 (1.21%) Redis
18 48 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
19 46 (1.05%) BigQuery
20 45 (1.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 619 (14.17%) Jenkins
2 551 (12.62%) Git
3 514 (11.77%) JIRA
4 438 (10.03%) GitLab
5 92 (2.11%) Selenium
6 90 (2.06%) Postman
7 75 (1.72%) SonarQube
8 72 (1.65%) JUnit
9 60 (1.37%) Bitbucket
10 58 (1.33%) REST Assured
11 57 (1.31%) Maven
12 50 (1.14%) Cucumber
13 47 (1.08%) Artifactory
14 44 (1.01%) JMeter
15 42 (0.96%) Cypress.io
16 40 (0.92%) Gatling
17 32 (0.73%) Gradle
17 32 (0.73%) Mockito
18 28 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
19 25 (0.57%) LoadRunner
General
1 1,095 (25.07%) Social Skills
2 821 (18.80%) Finance
3 526 (12.04%) Public Sector
4 367 (8.40%) Analytical Skills
5 300 (6.87%) Banking
6 131 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
7 71 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
8 65 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 61 (1.40%) Retail
10 52 (1.19%) Legal
11 51 (1.17%) Financial Institution
12 49 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
13 48 (1.10%) Marketing
14 41 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
15 38 (0.87%) Front Office
15 38 (0.87%) Military
16 37 (0.85%) Investment Banking
17 24 (0.55%) Law
18 23 (0.53%) Aerospace
19 21 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 871 (19.95%) DevOps Engineer
2 618 (14.15%) Developer
3 602 (13.79%) Senior
4 525 (12.02%) Architect
5 375 (8.59%) Lead
6 300 (6.87%) Azure Engineer
7 276 (6.32%) Data Engineer
8 263 (6.02%) Analyst
9 180 (4.12%) AWS Engineer
10 167 (3.82%) Solutions Architect
11 161 (3.69%) Cloud Engineer
12 154 (3.53%) Platform Engineer
13 140 (3.21%) Senior DevOps
14 139 (3.18%) Software Engineer
15 137 (3.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 135 (3.09%) Business Analyst
17 129 (2.95%) AWS DevOps
17 129 (2.95%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 119 (2.72%) Java Developer
19 117 (2.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 387 (8.86%) REST
2 364 (8.34%) .NET
3 267 (6.11%) Kafka
4 248 (5.68%) React
4 248 (5.68%) Spring
5 234 (5.36%) Spring Boot
6 223 (5.11%) Node.js
7 201 (4.60%) RESTful
8 149 (3.41%) AngularJS
9 129 (2.95%) Playwright
9 129 (2.95%) PySpark
10 125 (2.86%) YAML
11 121 (2.77%) JSON
12 116 (2.66%) OAuth
13 102 (2.34%) Middleware
14 100 (2.29%) SOAP
15 98 (2.24%) HTML
16 89 (2.04%) .NET Framework
17 88 (2.02%) OpenID
18 86 (1.97%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 696 (15.94%) Cloud Native
2 270 (6.18%) Product Ownership
3 172 (3.94%) Distributed Systems
4 115 (2.63%) Onboarding
5 98 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
6 88 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
7 83 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
8 78 (1.79%) Public Cloud
9 69 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
10 53 (1.21%) Data Centre
11 51 (1.17%) Management Information System
12 43 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
13 40 (0.92%) AI Agents
14 39 (0.89%) Data Structures
14 39 (0.89%) Mobile App
14 39 (0.89%) Replication
14 39 (0.89%) Virtual Team
15 38 (0.87%) Private Cloud
16 37 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
17 36 (0.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 380 (8.70%) Linux
2 219 (5.01%) Windows
3 68 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 67 (1.53%) Unix
5 40 (0.92%) Windows Server
6 35 (0.80%) VMS
7 23 (0.53%) Ubuntu
8 17 (0.39%) Apple iOS
9 14 (0.32%) Android
10 12 (0.27%) CentOS
11 10 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (0.16%) Windows 10
13 6 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
14 5 (0.11%) Solaris
15 4 (0.092%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.092%) Windows Server 2012
16 3 (0.069%) Mac OS
16 3 (0.069%) Oracle Linux
16 3 (0.069%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,456 (56.24%) CI/CD
2 1,583 (36.25%) Agile
3 1,089 (24.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 702 (16.08%) Containerisation
5 677 (15.50%) Problem-Solving
6 636 (14.56%) Microservices
7 606 (13.88%) Test Automation
8 577 (13.21%) Continuous Improvement
9 536 (12.27%) Migration
10 530 (12.14%) Observability
11 501 (11.47%) Analytics
11 501 (11.47%) Stakeholder Management
12 485 (11.11%) AI
13 477 (10.92%) Scrum
14 433 (9.92%) Software Engineering
15 412 (9.43%) Data Modelling
16 399 (9.14%) Platform Engineering
17 364 (8.34%) Mentoring
18 346 (7.92%) Roadmaps
19 344 (7.88%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 1,173 (26.86%) Python
2 874 (20.01%) SQL
3 599 (13.72%) Java
4 407 (9.32%) C#
5 314 (7.19%) JavaScript
6 308 (7.05%) PowerShell
7 303 (6.94%) Bash
8 228 (5.22%) TypeScript
9 144 (3.30%) Bicep
10 91 (2.08%) Go
11 67 (1.53%) Scala
12 53 (1.21%) Shell Script
13 49 (1.12%) PL/SQL
14 42 (0.96%) Apex Code
15 40 (0.92%) T-SQL
16 39 (0.89%) Groovy
17 28 (0.64%) C++
18 25 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 22 (0.50%) Ruby
20 21 (0.48%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,408 (32.24%) Security Cleared
2 1,157 (26.49%) SC Cleared
3 286 (6.55%) Degree
4 188 (4.31%) Azure Certification
5 145 (3.32%) DV Cleared
6 127 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 113 (2.59%) AWS Certification
8 105 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 64 (1.47%) CISSP
10 53 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
11 45 (1.03%) CISM
11 45 (1.03%) ISTQB
12 43 (0.98%) Master's Degree
13 41 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
14 37 (0.85%) PMI Certification
15 36 (0.82%) PMP
16 35 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 23 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
18 21 (0.48%) IIBA
19 20 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 384 (8.79%) QA
2 200 (4.58%) Data Quality
3 161 (3.69%) GDPR
4 117 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 111 (2.54%) NIST
6 106 (2.43%) Accessibility
7 60 (1.37%) NCSC
8 48 (1.10%) WCAG
9 46 (1.05%) PCI DSS
10 34 (0.78%) SLA
11 31 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 28 (0.64%) PMO
13 20 (0.46%) GRC
14 15 (0.34%) HIPAA
15 13 (0.30%) ISO 20022
15 13 (0.30%) NIST 800
16 12 (0.27%) PSD2
17 11 (0.25%) SOC 2
18 10 (0.23%) SEPA
19 7 (0.16%) HL7
System Software
1 842 (19.28%) Docker
2 158 (3.62%) Active Directory
3 68 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
4 56 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 31 (0.71%) vSphere
6 21 (0.48%) VMware NSX
7 17 (0.39%) Squid
7 17 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.32%) Postfix
9 10 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (0.21%) Hyper-V
11 8 (0.18%) Firmware
12 6 (0.14%) Corosync
12 6 (0.14%) RACF
13 5 (0.11%) HDFS
13 5 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
14 4 (0.092%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
14 4 (0.092%) NFS
14 4 (0.092%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 4 (0.092%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,208 (27.66%) Terraform
2 1,119 (25.62%) Kubernetes
3 448 (10.26%) Ansible
4 295 (6.76%) Grafana
5 247 (5.66%) Prometheus
6 83 (1.90%) Argo
7 67 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
8 65 (1.49%) Puppet
9 45 (1.03%) Istio
10 27 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
11 26 (0.60%) Progress Chef
12 25 (0.57%) Packer
13 23 (0.53%) Kibana
14 21 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 20 (0.46%) vCenter Server
16 17 (0.39%) HP ALM
17 16 (0.37%) Consul
18 14 (0.32%) FortiGate
18 14 (0.32%) Rancher
19 12 (0.27%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 769 (17.61%) Microsoft
2 257 (5.89%) Databricks
3 248 (5.68%) Oracle
4 190 (4.35%) Google
5 181 (4.14%) Splunk
6 169 (3.87%) ServiceNow
7 134 (3.07%) Salesforce
8 132 (3.02%) Red Hat
9 100 (2.29%) SAP
9 100 (2.29%) VMware
10 94 (2.15%) Dynatrace
11 60 (1.37%) OpenAI
12 47 (1.08%) Atlassian
13 45 (1.03%) CyberArk
14 43 (0.98%) IBM
15 36 (0.82%) AppDynamics
15 36 (0.82%) Informatica
16 35 (0.80%) Cisco
16 35 (0.80%) Foundry
17 28 (0.64%) Denodo