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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 16 15
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,563 2,506 3,569
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.61% 10.10% 9.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.46% 11.06% 11.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,201 1,814 2,457
10th Percentile £388 £375 £400
25th Percentile £440 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £620 £641 £650
90th Percentile £703 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -5.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 11 117
10th Percentile £39.53 £35.00 £56.50
25th Percentile £61.00 £51.25 £61.60
Median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +6.87% -0.16%
75th Percentile £77.50 £85.86 £75.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 £86.19
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £76.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year -7.89% +12.59% +2.89%

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 36,618 22,657 32,179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.18% 91.33% 85.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,120 14,657 20,816
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.23% -1.00% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £727 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -3.79% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,297 1,070 2,391
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.11 £16.04
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.40 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +71.53% -26.93% +5.19%
75th Percentile £68.00 £57.19 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £26.21 £37.18
% change year-on-year +67.72% -29.51% +6.14%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 18 June 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 2,337 £550 - 365
North of England +7 845 £500 - 256
Yorkshire +2 458 £510 +2.00% 72
South East -4 458 £513 +2.50% 248
Midlands +4 425 £488 -2.50% 94
West Midlands 0 335 £500 -2.44% 56
North West +1 314 £500 +1.63% 145
South West +16 286 £510 -7.27% 92
East of England +24 134 £525 +6.33% 64
North East +7 91 £450 -14.29% 45
East Midlands -1 86 £468 +1.47% 38
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
1 274 (6.00%) Confluence
2 124 (2.72%) Apache Spark
3 113 (2.48%) SharePoint
4 96 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
5 89 (1.95%) Apache
6 76 (1.67%) SAS
7 48 (1.05%) CMS
8 28 (0.61%) Jupyter
8 28 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
9 27 (0.59%) IIS
10 26 (0.57%) nginx
11 16 (0.35%) OpenStack
12 15 (0.33%) Camunda
13 13 (0.28%) WebSphere
14 11 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
15 9 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
15 9 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
16 8 (0.18%) Mendix
17 7 (0.15%) Tomcat
18 6 (0.13%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 69 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
3 46 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
5 27 (0.59%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.22%) CPLEX
7 7 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.088%) Notion
9 3 (0.066%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.066%) Trello
10 2 (0.044%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.022%) InDesign
11 1 (0.022%) Maya
11 1 (0.022%) Weka
Business Applications
1 59 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
4 10 (0.22%) Maximo
5 9 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
6 8 (0.18%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
7 6 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.11%) Endur
8 5 (0.11%) Magento
8 5 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.088%) OpenText MBPM
9 4 (0.088%) Oracle BPM
9 4 (0.088%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.066%) Findur
10 3 (0.066%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.066%) SAP BPC
10 3 (0.066%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.066%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.066%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 2,416 (52.95%) Azure
2 1,569 (34.39%) AWS
3 1,332 (29.19%) Azure DevOps
4 730 (16.00%) GitHub
5 552 (12.10%) GCP
6 434 (9.51%) GitHub Actions
7 406 (8.90%) Serverless
8 388 (8.50%) Power Platform
9 255 (5.59%) Amazon S3
10 226 (4.95%) Entra ID
11 225 (4.93%) AWS Lambda
12 186 (4.08%) Azure AKS
13 181 (3.97%) AWS CloudFormation
14 172 (3.77%) Azure Data Factory
15 165 (3.62%) Amazon EKS
16 151 (3.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 149 (3.27%) Amazon EC2
18 142 (3.11%) OpenShift
19 140 (3.07%) PaaS
20 139 (3.05%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 223 (4.89%) Firewall
2 123 (2.70%) DNS
3 103 (2.26%) Network Security
4 98 (2.15%) VPN
5 47 (1.03%) WAN
6 43 (0.94%) TCP/IP
7 36 (0.79%) SD-WAN
8 32 (0.70%) BGP
9 29 (0.64%) SSL
10 27 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
11 24 (0.53%) OSPF
12 23 (0.50%) DHCP
12 23 (0.50%) Internet
13 19 (0.42%) SAN
14 18 (0.39%) HTTP
15 17 (0.37%) IPsec
15 17 (0.37%) LAN
15 17 (0.37%) MPLS
15 17 (0.37%) VXLAN
16 16 (0.35%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 256 (5.61%) Power BI
2 226 (4.95%) SQL Server
3 216 (4.73%) PostgreSQL
4 164 (3.59%) NoSQL
5 148 (3.24%) Data Lake
5 148 (3.24%) Relational Database
6 133 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
7 129 (2.83%) MongoDB
8 101 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
9 87 (1.91%) Azure SQL Database
10 81 (1.78%) Delta Lake
11 78 (1.71%) DynamoDB
12 74 (1.62%) Metadata
13 69 (1.51%) Oracle Database
14 60 (1.31%) Redis
15 56 (1.23%) Big Data
15 56 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
16 55 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
17 53 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
18 44 (0.96%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 626 (13.72%) Jenkins
2 577 (12.65%) Git
3 543 (11.90%) JIRA
4 480 (10.52%) GitLab
5 90 (1.97%) Selenium
6 84 (1.84%) Postman
7 81 (1.78%) SonarQube
8 79 (1.73%) JUnit
9 64 (1.40%) Bitbucket
10 62 (1.36%) Maven
11 58 (1.27%) REST Assured
12 49 (1.07%) Cucumber
13 47 (1.03%) JMeter
14 41 (0.90%) Gatling
15 40 (0.88%) Gradle
16 39 (0.85%) Artifactory
17 38 (0.83%) Cypress.io
18 36 (0.79%) Mockito
19 30 (0.66%) LoadRunner
19 30 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,164 (25.51%) Social Skills
2 879 (19.26%) Finance
3 598 (13.11%) Public Sector
4 381 (8.35%) Analytical Skills
5 317 (6.95%) Banking
6 134 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
7 92 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 72 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
9 66 (1.45%) Retail
10 55 (1.21%) Marketing
11 53 (1.16%) Legal
12 49 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
13 47 (1.03%) Financial Institution
14 43 (0.94%) Military
15 37 (0.81%) Investment Banking
15 37 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
16 32 (0.70%) Law
17 29 (0.64%) Front Office
18 26 (0.57%) Aerospace
19 25 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 905 (19.83%) DevOps Engineer
2 672 (14.73%) Developer
3 650 (14.25%) Senior
4 560 (12.27%) Architect
5 421 (9.23%) Lead
6 297 (6.51%) Azure Engineer
7 284 (6.22%) Data Engineer
8 270 (5.92%) Analyst
9 202 (4.43%) AWS Engineer
10 176 (3.86%) Cloud Engineer
10 176 (3.86%) Solutions Architect
11 168 (3.68%) Platform Engineer
12 152 (3.33%) Senior DevOps
13 147 (3.22%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 144 (3.16%) AWS DevOps
15 143 (3.13%) Business Analyst
16 138 (3.02%) Java Developer
16 138 (3.02%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 133 (2.91%) Software Engineer
18 132 (2.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 421 (9.23%) REST
2 372 (8.15%) .NET
3 260 (5.70%) Kafka
4 254 (5.57%) React
4 254 (5.57%) Spring
5 241 (5.28%) Spring Boot
6 216 (4.73%) RESTful
7 193 (4.23%) Node.js
8 144 (3.16%) AngularJS
9 135 (2.96%) PySpark
10 128 (2.81%) OAuth
11 121 (2.65%) JSON
12 118 (2.59%) Playwright
13 117 (2.56%) YAML
14 107 (2.34%) SOAP
15 104 (2.28%) .NET Framework
16 102 (2.24%) HTML
17 95 (2.08%) OpenID
18 94 (2.06%) Middleware
19 89 (1.95%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 795 (17.42%) Cloud Native
2 295 (6.47%) Product Ownership
3 201 (4.40%) Distributed Systems
4 128 (2.81%) Onboarding
5 112 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
6 109 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
7 101 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
8 82 (1.80%) Public Cloud
9 69 (1.51%) Data Centre
10 67 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
11 60 (1.31%) Management Information System
12 53 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
13 52 (1.14%) Security Posture
14 50 (1.10%) Mobile App
15 48 (1.05%) AI Agents
16 47 (1.03%) Data Structures
17 41 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
18 40 (0.88%) Replication
18 40 (0.88%) Virtual Team
19 37 (0.81%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 389 (8.53%) Linux
2 240 (5.26%) Windows
3 91 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 67 (1.47%) Unix
5 49 (1.07%) Windows Server
6 31 (0.68%) VMS
7 29 (0.64%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.50%) Apple iOS
9 15 (0.33%) Android
10 14 (0.31%) CentOS
11 9 (0.20%) Solaris
11 9 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
13 5 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
13 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.088%) Alpine Linux
14 4 (0.088%) Data ONTAP
14 4 (0.088%) Mac OS
14 4 (0.088%) Windows 10
15 3 (0.066%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,587 (56.70%) CI/CD
2 1,704 (37.34%) Agile
3 1,191 (26.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 711 (15.58%) Containerisation
5 696 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
6 660 (14.46%) Microservices
7 638 (13.98%) Test Automation
8 630 (13.81%) Continuous Improvement
9 576 (12.62%) Stakeholder Management
10 553 (12.12%) AI
11 551 (12.08%) Migration
12 543 (11.90%) Observability
13 538 (11.79%) Analytics
14 520 (11.40%) Scrum
15 475 (10.41%) Software Engineering
16 465 (10.19%) Platform Engineering
17 419 (9.18%) Data Modelling
18 387 (8.48%) Roadmaps
19 385 (8.44%) Technical Leadership
20 376 (8.24%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1,272 (27.88%) Python
2 887 (19.44%) SQL
3 631 (13.83%) Java
4 415 (9.09%) C#
5 335 (7.34%) PowerShell
6 327 (7.17%) Bash
7 322 (7.06%) JavaScript
8 223 (4.89%) TypeScript
9 155 (3.40%) Bicep
10 90 (1.97%) Go
11 60 (1.31%) Scala
12 53 (1.16%) Shell Script
13 49 (1.07%) Apex Code
14 48 (1.05%) T-SQL
15 46 (1.01%) PL/SQL
16 39 (0.85%) Groovy
17 25 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 24 (0.53%) C++
19 22 (0.48%) Perl
19 22 (0.48%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,464 (32.08%) Security Cleared
2 1,221 (26.76%) SC Cleared
3 288 (6.31%) Degree
4 194 (4.25%) Azure Certification
5 149 (3.27%) DV Cleared
6 146 (3.20%) AWS Certification
7 115 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 110 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 76 (1.67%) CISSP
10 68 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
11 44 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
11 44 (0.96%) ISTQB
12 43 (0.94%) CISM
13 42 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 38 (0.83%) PMI Certification
14 38 (0.83%) PMP
15 37 (0.81%) Master's Degree
16 23 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
17 21 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 21 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 388 (8.50%) QA
2 218 (4.78%) Data Quality
3 159 (3.48%) GDPR
4 131 (2.87%) Accessibility
5 117 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 110 (2.41%) NIST
7 65 (1.42%) NCSC
8 62 (1.36%) WCAG
9 48 (1.05%) PCI DSS
10 38 (0.83%) SLA
11 29 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 24 (0.53%) GRC
12 24 (0.53%) PMO
13 16 (0.35%) HIPAA
14 14 (0.31%) SOC 2
15 11 (0.24%) ISO 20022
15 11 (0.24%) NIST 800
15 11 (0.24%) PSD2
16 10 (0.22%) SEPA
17 7 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 872 (19.11%) Docker
2 174 (3.81%) Active Directory
3 69 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
4 65 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 31 (0.68%) vSphere
6 22 (0.48%) VMware NSX
7 18 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
8 17 (0.37%) Squid
8 17 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
9 14 (0.31%) Hyper-V
9 14 (0.31%) Postfix
10 7 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
10 7 (0.15%) RACF
11 6 (0.13%) Corosync
11 6 (0.13%) Firmware
11 6 (0.13%) KVM
12 5 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
12 5 (0.11%) SRDF
13 4 (0.088%) HDFS
13 4 (0.088%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,288 (28.23%) Terraform
2 1,125 (24.65%) Kubernetes
3 455 (9.97%) Ansible
4 297 (6.51%) Grafana
5 257 (5.63%) Prometheus
6 76 (1.67%) Argo
7 72 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
8 62 (1.36%) Puppet
9 38 (0.83%) Istio
10 30 (0.66%) Progress Chef
11 28 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
11 28 (0.61%) Packer
12 25 (0.55%) vCenter Server
13 22 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 18 (0.39%) Kibana
15 16 (0.35%) Consul
16 14 (0.31%) HP ALM
16 14 (0.31%) Kustomize
17 13 (0.28%) FortiGate
18 12 (0.26%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 817 (17.90%) Microsoft
2 245 (5.37%) Databricks
3 234 (5.13%) Oracle
4 207 (4.54%) Google
5 171 (3.75%) ServiceNow
6 163 (3.57%) Splunk
7 143 (3.13%) Salesforce
8 123 (2.70%) Red Hat
9 104 (2.28%) SAP
10 102 (2.24%) Dynatrace
11 101 (2.21%) VMware
12 61 (1.34%) OpenAI
13 52 (1.14%) Atlassian
14 50 (1.10%) IBM
15 45 (0.99%) CyberArk
16 42 (0.92%) Informatica
17 36 (0.79%) Foundry
18 34 (0.75%) AppDynamics
18 34 (0.75%) Cisco
19 32 (0.70%) Okta