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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,290 2,454 3,365
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.62% 10.06% 9.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.50% 11.03% 10.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,011 1,811 2,325
10th Percentile £385 £400 £400
25th Percentile £441 £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 £519 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -3.53% -2.27% -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 14 103
10th Percentile £39.53 £39.88 £56.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £52.50 £61.25
Median hourly rate £63.73 £67.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +3.85% -0.76%
75th Percentile £77.50 £81.69 £80.95
90th Percentile £94.75 £89.64 £87.37
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £71.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year -9.23% +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 34,330 22,247 32,169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.96% 91.17% 86.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,953 14,553 21,080
10th Percentile £318 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,133 913 2,254
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.67 £12.94
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £35.95
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -16.55% -4.13%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.97 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year +43.29% -18.31% -2.53%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +4 2,197 £540 -6.09% 578
North of England +8 733 £500 -3.82% 293
South East +1 466 £510 -7.27% 309
Yorkshire +3 405 £500 -3.80% 67
Midlands +3 401 £488 -2.50% 116
West Midlands +4 306 £500 -4.58% 64
South West +14 296 £500 -12.66% 107
North West +3 273 £500 -1.38% 166
East of England +21 129 £525 +1.94% 83
East Midlands -1 92 £465 -0.80% 52
North East +7 64 £475 -13.64% 60
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
1 237 (5.52%) Confluence
2 120 (2.80%) Apache Spark
3 105 (2.45%) SharePoint
4 84 (1.96%) Apache
5 70 (1.63%) SAS
6 63 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
7 34 (0.79%) CMS
8 26 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
9 25 (0.58%) nginx
10 24 (0.56%) IIS
10 24 (0.56%) OpenStack
11 12 (0.28%) Mendix
12 11 (0.26%) HCL Notes
12 11 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
13 10 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 9 (0.21%) WebSphere
15 8 (0.19%) Camunda
16 7 (0.16%) ArcGIS
17 6 (0.14%) Mattermost
17 6 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 65 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (1.31%) Microsoft Project
3 42 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
5 22 (0.51%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.093%) Trello
7 4 (0.093%) Weka
8 3 (0.070%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.047%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.047%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.023%) InDesign
10 1 (0.023%) Maya
Business Applications
1 60 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
4 9 (0.21%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.21%) Maximo
4 9 (0.21%) NEC Housing
5 7 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
5 7 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.093%) Endur
7 4 (0.093%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.093%) SAP BPC
7 4 (0.093%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.070%) Findur
8 3 (0.070%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.070%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.047%) Magento
9 2 (0.047%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.047%) Shopify
9 2 (0.047%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 2,319 (54.06%) Azure
2 1,436 (33.47%) AWS
3 1,262 (29.42%) Azure DevOps
4 716 (16.69%) GitHub
5 560 (13.05%) GCP
6 423 (9.86%) Serverless
7 409 (9.53%) GitHub Actions
8 362 (8.44%) Power Platform
9 234 (5.45%) Amazon S3
10 213 (4.97%) AWS CloudFormation
11 212 (4.94%) Entra ID
12 209 (4.87%) AWS Lambda
13 199 (4.64%) Azure Data Factory
14 196 (4.57%) Azure AKS
15 155 (3.61%) Amazon EKS
15 155 (3.61%) Azure Monitor
16 153 (3.57%) OpenShift
17 142 (3.31%) PaaS
18 137 (3.19%) Dynamics 365
19 130 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 196 (4.57%) Firewall
2 109 (2.54%) DNS
3 82 (1.91%) VPN
4 81 (1.89%) Network Security
5 38 (0.89%) TCP/IP
6 32 (0.75%) WAN
7 28 (0.65%) SD-WAN
8 24 (0.56%) HTTP
9 23 (0.54%) BGP
10 21 (0.49%) DHCP
10 21 (0.49%) SSL
11 18 (0.42%) IPsec
11 18 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
12 16 (0.37%) MPLS
12 16 (0.37%) OSPF
13 15 (0.35%) SAN
14 14 (0.33%) LAN
14 14 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
15 12 (0.28%) Internet
16 11 (0.26%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 243 (5.66%) Power BI
2 218 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
3 214 (4.99%) SQL Server
4 162 (3.78%) NoSQL
5 150 (3.50%) Data Lake
6 123 (2.87%) Relational Database
7 119 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
8 95 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
9 91 (2.12%) MongoDB
10 89 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
11 82 (1.91%) Delta Lake
12 75 (1.75%) DynamoDB
13 68 (1.59%) Metadata
13 68 (1.59%) Oracle Database
14 66 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
15 57 (1.33%) Big Data
16 50 (1.17%) Redis
17 49 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
18 48 (1.12%) Tableau
19 46 (1.07%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 618 (14.41%) Jenkins
2 541 (12.61%) Git
3 523 (12.19%) JIRA
4 414 (9.65%) GitLab
5 85 (1.98%) Selenium
6 80 (1.86%) Postman
7 78 (1.82%) JUnit
8 70 (1.63%) SonarQube
9 68 (1.59%) Bitbucket
10 56 (1.31%) Maven
11 48 (1.12%) Artifactory
12 46 (1.07%) Cucumber
13 45 (1.05%) REST Assured
14 41 (0.96%) Cypress.io
15 39 (0.91%) JMeter
16 35 (0.82%) Mockito
17 34 (0.79%) Gatling
18 28 (0.65%) Gradle
19 27 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
20 25 (0.58%) TestRail
General
1 1,142 (26.62%) Social Skills
2 824 (19.21%) Finance
3 511 (11.91%) Public Sector
4 371 (8.65%) Analytical Skills
5 298 (6.95%) Banking
6 143 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
7 65 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
8 63 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 54 (1.26%) Retail
10 51 (1.19%) Financial Institution
11 49 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
12 48 (1.12%) Legal
12 48 (1.12%) Marketing
13 45 (1.05%) Front Office
14 42 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
15 40 (0.93%) Investment Banking
16 31 (0.72%) Military
16 31 (0.72%) Telecoms
17 23 (0.54%) Law
18 18 (0.42%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 821 (19.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 635 (14.80%) Developer
3 599 (13.96%) Senior
4 497 (11.59%) Architect
5 357 (8.32%) Lead
6 294 (6.85%) Azure Engineer
7 280 (6.53%) Data Engineer
8 256 (5.97%) Analyst
9 181 (4.22%) AWS Engineer
10 157 (3.66%) Cloud Engineer
11 156 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
12 149 (3.47%) Platform Engineer
13 137 (3.19%) AWS DevOps
14 136 (3.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 136 (3.17%) Software Engineer
15 132 (3.08%) Business Analyst
16 124 (2.89%) Senior DevOps
17 122 (2.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 116 (2.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 115 (2.68%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 387 (9.02%) REST
2 362 (8.44%) .NET
3 257 (5.99%) Kafka
4 245 (5.71%) Node.js
5 239 (5.57%) React
5 239 (5.57%) Spring
6 224 (5.22%) Spring Boot
7 198 (4.62%) RESTful
8 158 (3.68%) AngularJS
9 131 (3.05%) YAML
10 126 (2.94%) Playwright
11 124 (2.89%) JSON
12 122 (2.84%) PySpark
13 109 (2.54%) OAuth
14 106 (2.47%) HTML
15 104 (2.42%) Middleware
16 99 (2.31%) SOAP
17 93 (2.17%) CSS
18 90 (2.10%) .NET Framework
19 88 (2.05%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 684 (15.94%) Cloud Native
2 263 (6.13%) Product Ownership
3 158 (3.68%) Distributed Systems
4 116 (2.70%) Onboarding
5 89 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
6 88 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
7 83 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
8 82 (1.91%) Public Cloud
9 68 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
10 52 (1.21%) Management Information System
11 48 (1.12%) Virtual Team
12 43 (1.00%) Data Centre
12 43 (1.00%) Private Cloud
13 40 (0.93%) Replication
14 39 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
15 36 (0.84%) AI Agents
15 36 (0.84%) Data Structures
15 36 (0.84%) Mobile App
15 36 (0.84%) Security Posture
16 34 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 379 (8.83%) Linux
2 224 (5.22%) Windows
3 65 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 65 (1.52%) Unix
4 39 (0.91%) Windows Server
5 35 (0.82%) VMS
6 21 (0.49%) Ubuntu
7 13 (0.30%) Android
8 11 (0.26%) Apple iOS
8 11 (0.26%) CentOS
9 10 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.16%) Windows 10
11 6 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.12%) Solaris
13 4 (0.093%) Amazon Linux
13 4 (0.093%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (0.093%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.070%) Debian
14 3 (0.070%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.070%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,384 (55.57%) CI/CD
2 1,616 (37.67%) Agile
3 1,055 (24.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 713 (16.62%) Problem-Solving
5 710 (16.55%) Containerisation
6 627 (14.62%) Microservices
7 606 (14.13%) Test Automation
8 555 (12.94%) Continuous Improvement
9 519 (12.10%) Migration
10 512 (11.93%) Analytics
11 497 (11.59%) Observability
12 475 (11.07%) Stakeholder Management
13 469 (10.93%) Scrum
14 450 (10.49%) AI
15 417 (9.72%) Software Engineering
16 402 (9.37%) Data Modelling
17 349 (8.14%) Mentoring
17 349 (8.14%) Platform Engineering
18 338 (7.88%) Data Pipeline
19 333 (7.76%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,184 (27.60%) Python
2 906 (21.12%) SQL
3 572 (13.33%) Java
4 424 (9.88%) C#
5 334 (7.79%) JavaScript
6 305 (7.11%) PowerShell
7 291 (6.78%) Bash
8 246 (5.73%) TypeScript
9 145 (3.38%) Bicep
10 97 (2.26%) Go
11 71 (1.66%) PL/SQL
12 68 (1.59%) Scala
13 50 (1.17%) Shell Script
14 41 (0.96%) T-SQL
15 40 (0.93%) Groovy
16 35 (0.82%) Apex Code
17 30 (0.70%) C++
18 27 (0.63%) Ruby
19 24 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 21 (0.49%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,395 (32.52%) Security Cleared
2 1,153 (26.88%) SC Cleared
3 300 (6.99%) Degree
4 194 (4.52%) Azure Certification
5 142 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 140 (3.26%) DV Cleared
7 118 (2.75%) AWS Certification
8 110 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 65 (1.52%) CISSP
10 49 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
11 48 (1.12%) Master's Degree
12 47 (1.10%) CISM
12 47 (1.10%) ISTQB
13 40 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 40 (0.93%) PMI Certification
14 38 (0.89%) PMP
15 37 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
16 21 (0.49%) IIBA
16 21 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
16 21 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 390 (9.09%) QA
2 197 (4.59%) Data Quality
3 164 (3.82%) GDPR
4 122 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 114 (2.66%) NIST
6 97 (2.26%) Accessibility
7 60 (1.40%) NCSC
8 42 (0.98%) PCI DSS
9 41 (0.96%) WCAG
10 31 (0.72%) SLA
11 30 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 27 (0.63%) PMO
13 17 (0.40%) GRC
14 15 (0.35%) HIPAA
14 15 (0.35%) ISO 20022
15 14 (0.33%) NIST 800
16 13 (0.30%) PSD2
17 11 (0.26%) SEPA
17 11 (0.26%) SOC 2
18 8 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 857 (19.98%) Docker
2 162 (3.78%) Active Directory
3 69 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
4 61 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 32 (0.75%) vSphere
6 24 (0.56%) VMware NSX
7 15 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
8 12 (0.28%) Hyper-V
8 12 (0.28%) Postfix
8 12 (0.28%) Squid
9 10 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (0.19%) Firmware
11 7 (0.16%) Lustre
11 7 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 6 (0.14%) Corosync
12 6 (0.14%) HDFS
13 5 (0.12%) GPFS
13 5 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
13 5 (0.12%) RACF
14 4 (0.093%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,197 (27.90%) Terraform
2 1,129 (26.32%) Kubernetes
3 432 (10.07%) Ansible
4 276 (6.43%) Grafana
5 234 (5.45%) Prometheus
6 88 (2.05%) Argo
7 65 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
8 61 (1.42%) Puppet
9 47 (1.10%) Istio
10 25 (0.58%) Packer
11 23 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
11 23 (0.54%) Progress Chef
12 22 (0.51%) Kibana
12 22 (0.51%) vCenter Server
13 19 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 19 (0.44%) Rancher
14 16 (0.37%) HP ALM
15 15 (0.35%) FortiGate
16 14 (0.33%) Consul
17 12 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 774 (18.04%) Microsoft
2 275 (6.41%) Oracle
3 246 (5.73%) Databricks
4 196 (4.57%) Google
5 174 (4.06%) Splunk
6 158 (3.68%) ServiceNow
7 130 (3.03%) Red Hat
8 123 (2.87%) Salesforce
9 110 (2.56%) VMware
10 104 (2.42%) SAP
11 86 (2.00%) Dynatrace
12 66 (1.54%) OpenAI
13 57 (1.33%) CyberArk
14 50 (1.17%) Atlassian
15 42 (0.98%) IBM
16 36 (0.84%) AppDynamics
17 35 (0.82%) Foundry
17 35 (0.82%) Informatica
18 33 (0.77%) Denodo
19 31 (0.72%) Cisco