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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,260 2,530 3,325
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.77% 10.32% 8.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.63% 11.34% 10.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,983 1,875 2,304
10th Percentile £388 £400 £406
25th Percentile £447 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £650
90th Percentile £713 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -4.17% -1.82% -6.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 15 98
10th Percentile £39.53 £41.50 £56.25
25th Percentile £45.46 £61.25 £61.25
Median hourly rate £63.73 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.96% +7.69% -0.76%
75th Percentile £75.88 £80.75 £82.67
90th Percentile £85.80 £88.68 £87.46
UK median hourly rate £63.73 £73.23 £65.00
% change year-on-year -12.97% +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 33,725 22,317 32,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.27% 91.07% 86.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,581 14,667 21,200
10th Percentile £314 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,094 893 2,223
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.84 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.27 £18.51 £15.91
Median hourly rate £41.94 £31.64 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.55% -9.60% -6.67%
75th Percentile £67.25 £63.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.20 £72.24
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% -3.59%

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 20 April 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 20 April 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 20 April 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 2,161 £540 -6.09% 561
North of England +6 748 £500 -4.76% 329
South East 0 449 £513 -6.82% 289
Midlands +4 410 £492 -1.60% 129
Yorkshire +1 405 £500 -4.76% 86
West Midlands +5 320 £500 -3.47% 76
South West +12 296 £500 -12.28% 154
North West +4 285 £500 -3.26% 181
East of England +22 123 £525 +1.94% 83
East Midlands 0 87 £460 -3.16% 53
North East +6 65 £475 -9.52% 63
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
1 251 (5.89%) Confluence
2 115 (2.70%) Apache Spark
3 102 (2.39%) SharePoint
4 87 (2.04%) Apache
5 85 (2.00%) SAS
6 67 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
7 34 (0.80%) CMS
8 31 (0.73%) nginx
9 26 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
10 24 (0.56%) OpenStack
11 22 (0.52%) IIS
12 12 (0.28%) Mendix
13 11 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 11 (0.26%) HCL Notes
13 11 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
14 9 (0.21%) WebSphere
15 8 (0.19%) WebLogic
16 7 (0.16%) ArcGIS
16 7 (0.16%) Camunda
17 6 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 70 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 50 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
3 28 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
4 22 (0.52%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.14%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.12%) Trello
6 5 (0.12%) Weka
7 3 (0.070%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.047%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.047%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.023%) InDesign
9 1 (0.023%) Maya
Business Applications
1 71 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.23%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.21%) Maximo
4 9 (0.21%) NEC Housing
4 9 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
5 6 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.12%) Endur
6 5 (0.12%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.094%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.094%) SAP BPC
8 3 (0.070%) Findur
8 3 (0.070%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.070%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 3 (0.070%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 2 (0.047%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.047%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.047%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 2,263 (53.12%) Azure
2 1,413 (33.17%) AWS
3 1,254 (29.44%) Azure DevOps
4 728 (17.09%) GitHub
5 544 (12.77%) GCP
6 438 (10.28%) Serverless
7 407 (9.55%) GitHub Actions
8 357 (8.38%) Power Platform
9 233 (5.47%) Amazon S3
10 219 (5.14%) AWS Lambda
10 219 (5.14%) Entra ID
11 216 (5.07%) AWS CloudFormation
12 207 (4.86%) Azure Data Factory
13 194 (4.55%) Azure AKS
14 170 (3.99%) OpenShift
15 160 (3.76%) Azure Monitor
16 157 (3.69%) Amazon EKS
17 145 (3.40%) Dynamics 365
18 143 (3.36%) PaaS
19 139 (3.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 188 (4.41%) Firewall
2 102 (2.39%) DNS
3 84 (1.97%) Network Security
4 80 (1.88%) VPN
5 39 (0.92%) TCP/IP
6 24 (0.56%) HTTP
6 24 (0.56%) WAN
7 22 (0.52%) DHCP
7 22 (0.52%) SD-WAN
7 22 (0.52%) SSL
8 17 (0.40%) BGP
8 17 (0.40%) IPsec
9 16 (0.38%) MPLS
10 15 (0.35%) SAN
11 14 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
12 12 (0.28%) Internet
12 12 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
13 11 (0.26%) LAN
13 11 (0.26%) OpenVPN
14 10 (0.23%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 231 (5.42%) Power BI
2 226 (5.31%) PostgreSQL
3 207 (4.86%) SQL Server
4 165 (3.87%) NoSQL
5 148 (3.47%) Data Lake
6 120 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
7 119 (2.79%) Relational Database
8 96 (2.25%) MongoDB
9 95 (2.23%) Azure SQL Database
10 86 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
11 76 (1.78%) Delta Lake
12 75 (1.76%) DynamoDB
13 74 (1.74%) Oracle Database
14 73 (1.71%) Metadata
15 68 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
16 55 (1.29%) Big Data
17 53 (1.24%) Tableau
18 50 (1.17%) Redis
19 49 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
20 44 (1.03%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 623 (14.62%) Jenkins
2 553 (12.98%) Git
3 550 (12.91%) JIRA
4 417 (9.79%) GitLab
5 101 (2.37%) Selenium
6 92 (2.16%) JUnit
7 81 (1.90%) Postman
8 70 (1.64%) SonarQube
9 68 (1.60%) Bitbucket
10 54 (1.27%) Maven
11 49 (1.15%) Artifactory
12 48 (1.13%) Cucumber
13 47 (1.10%) REST Assured
14 41 (0.96%) Cypress.io
15 37 (0.87%) JMeter
16 35 (0.82%) Mockito
17 34 (0.80%) Gatling
18 33 (0.77%) Oracle APEX
19 29 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
20 27 (0.63%) TestRail
General
1 1,162 (27.28%) Social Skills
2 802 (18.83%) Finance
3 516 (12.11%) Public Sector
4 366 (8.59%) Analytical Skills
5 304 (7.14%) Banking
6 148 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
7 66 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
8 57 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 56 (1.31%) Retail
10 52 (1.22%) Marketing
11 50 (1.17%) Financial Institution
12 47 (1.10%) Front Office
12 47 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
13 43 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
14 42 (0.99%) Investment Banking
15 41 (0.96%) Legal
16 33 (0.77%) Telecoms
17 31 (0.73%) Military
18 23 (0.54%) Law
19 17 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 791 (18.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 644 (15.12%) Developer
3 597 (14.01%) Senior
4 485 (11.38%) Architect
5 360 (8.45%) Lead
6 292 (6.85%) Azure Engineer
7 269 (6.31%) Data Engineer
8 247 (5.80%) Analyst
9 194 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
10 159 (3.73%) Cloud Engineer
11 152 (3.57%) Platform Engineer
12 150 (3.52%) AWS DevOps
13 147 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
14 141 (3.31%) Software Engineer
15 134 (3.15%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 133 (3.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 132 (3.10%) Business Analyst
18 122 (2.86%) Senior Developer
18 122 (2.86%) Senior DevOps
19 115 (2.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 412 (9.67%) REST
2 350 (8.22%) .NET
3 257 (6.03%) Kafka
3 257 (6.03%) Node.js
4 241 (5.66%) React
5 236 (5.54%) Spring
6 219 (5.14%) Spring Boot
7 198 (4.65%) RESTful
8 154 (3.62%) AngularJS
9 137 (3.22%) YAML
10 132 (3.10%) JSON
11 125 (2.93%) Playwright
12 120 (2.82%) PySpark
13 117 (2.75%) OAuth
14 109 (2.56%) HTML
15 104 (2.44%) Middleware
16 103 (2.42%) SOAP
17 91 (2.14%) CSS
18 85 (2.00%) OpenID
19 84 (1.97%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 645 (15.14%) Cloud Native
2 263 (6.17%) Product Ownership
3 152 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
4 108 (2.54%) Onboarding
5 91 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
6 89 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
7 87 (2.04%) Public Cloud
8 81 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
9 63 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
10 54 (1.27%) Virtual Team
11 51 (1.20%) Management Information System
12 44 (1.03%) Private Cloud
13 38 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
14 37 (0.87%) Data Centre
14 37 (0.87%) Data Structures
14 37 (0.87%) Security Posture
15 36 (0.85%) AI Agents
15 36 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
15 36 (0.85%) NHS
16 34 (0.80%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 378 (8.87%) Linux
2 220 (5.16%) Windows
3 68 (1.60%) Unix
4 66 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 38 (0.89%) VMS
5 38 (0.89%) Windows Server
6 22 (0.52%) Ubuntu
7 13 (0.31%) Android
8 12 (0.28%) CentOS
9 10 (0.23%) Apple iOS
10 9 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (0.16%) Windows 10
12 5 (0.12%) Solaris
12 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.094%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (0.094%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.070%) Debian
14 3 (0.070%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.070%) Oracle Linux
15 2 (0.047%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,359 (55.38%) CI/CD
2 1,631 (38.29%) Agile
3 1,034 (24.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 740 (17.37%) Problem-Solving
5 707 (16.60%) Containerisation
6 625 (14.67%) Microservices
7 601 (14.11%) Test Automation
8 560 (13.15%) Continuous Improvement
9 536 (12.58%) Analytics
10 516 (12.11%) Migration
11 482 (11.31%) Scrum
12 476 (11.17%) Observability
13 466 (10.94%) Stakeholder Management
14 459 (10.77%) AI
15 407 (9.55%) Software Engineering
16 401 (9.41%) Data Modelling
17 361 (8.47%) Mentoring
18 341 (8.00%) Platform Engineering
19 339 (7.96%) Data Pipeline
20 320 (7.51%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,208 (28.36%) Python
2 924 (21.69%) SQL
3 562 (13.19%) Java
4 421 (9.88%) C#
5 355 (8.33%) JavaScript
6 314 (7.37%) PowerShell
7 286 (6.71%) Bash
8 244 (5.73%) TypeScript
9 145 (3.40%) Bicep
10 95 (2.23%) Go
11 87 (2.04%) PL/SQL
12 71 (1.67%) Scala
13 49 (1.15%) Shell Script
14 45 (1.06%) T-SQL
15 37 (0.87%) Groovy
16 32 (0.75%) Apex Code
17 31 (0.73%) C++
18 29 (0.68%) Ruby
19 22 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 22 (0.52%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,376 (32.30%) Security Cleared
2 1,135 (26.64%) SC Cleared
3 306 (7.18%) Degree
4 193 (4.53%) Azure Certification
5 145 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 138 (3.24%) DV Cleared
7 112 (2.63%) AWS Certification
8 110 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
9 69 (1.62%) CISSP
10 51 (1.20%) CISM
11 50 (1.17%) Master's Degree
12 49 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
13 47 (1.10%) ISTQB
14 40 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 38 (0.89%) PMI Certification
16 36 (0.85%) PMP
17 35 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
18 22 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 21 (0.49%) IIBA
19 21 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 381 (8.94%) QA
2 194 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 162 (3.80%) GDPR
4 123 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 115 (2.70%) NIST
6 90 (2.11%) Accessibility
7 61 (1.43%) NCSC
8 36 (0.85%) PCI DSS
8 36 (0.85%) WCAG
9 28 (0.66%) SLA
10 27 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 25 (0.59%) PMO
12 15 (0.35%) ISO 20022
13 14 (0.33%) GRC
13 14 (0.33%) HIPAA
13 14 (0.33%) NIST 800
14 13 (0.31%) SOC 2
15 12 (0.28%) PSD2
16 10 (0.23%) SEPA
17 9 (0.21%) HL7
System Software
1 883 (20.73%) Docker
2 167 (3.92%) Active Directory
3 66 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 65 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
5 35 (0.82%) vSphere
6 26 (0.61%) VMware NSX
7 13 (0.31%) Hyper-V
7 13 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
8 12 (0.28%) Postfix
8 12 (0.28%) Squid
9 11 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (0.19%) Firmware
10 8 (0.19%) Lustre
10 8 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 6 (0.14%) GPFS
11 6 (0.14%) HDFS
12 5 (0.12%) Corosync
12 5 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
12 5 (0.12%) RACF
13 4 (0.094%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,181 (27.72%) Terraform
2 1,137 (26.69%) Kubernetes
3 417 (9.79%) Ansible
4 261 (6.13%) Grafana
5 218 (5.12%) Prometheus
6 92 (2.16%) Argo
7 65 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
8 62 (1.46%) Puppet
9 50 (1.17%) Istio
10 29 (0.68%) Packer
11 26 (0.61%) vCenter Server
12 23 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
13 22 (0.52%) Progress Chef
14 21 (0.49%) Kibana
15 20 (0.47%) Rancher
16 19 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 18 (0.42%) FortiGate
18 15 (0.35%) Consul
18 15 (0.35%) HP ALM
19 11 (0.26%) linkerd
Vendors
1 762 (17.89%) Microsoft
2 299 (7.02%) Oracle
3 255 (5.99%) Databricks
4 200 (4.69%) Google
5 173 (4.06%) Splunk
6 155 (3.64%) ServiceNow
7 135 (3.17%) Red Hat
8 117 (2.75%) Salesforce
9 116 (2.72%) VMware
10 99 (2.32%) SAP
11 73 (1.71%) OpenAI
12 71 (1.67%) Dynatrace
13 66 (1.55%) Atlassian
14 57 (1.34%) CyberArk
15 41 (0.96%) IBM
16 39 (0.92%) Talend
17 37 (0.87%) Denodo
18 34 (0.80%) Foundry
19 32 (0.75%) Cisco
20 31 (0.73%) AppDynamics