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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 14 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 -5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 3,509 3,167 3,605
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.49% 10.27% 9.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.82% 11.72% 10.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,472 2,150 2,676
10th Percentile £360 £400 £413
25th Percentile £425 £475 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £558 £563
% change year-on-year -5.83% -0.89% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 33 87
10th Percentile - £42.24 £46.18
25th Percentile £45.46 £56.25 £48.09
Median hourly rate £61.25 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +7.69% -0.92%
75th Percentile £82.50 £74.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £80.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £61.25 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -12.50% +7.69% -0.92%

All Process and 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 27,380 27,022 34,479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.64% 87.64% 88.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,423 16,566 23,536
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -4.42% -0.14%
75th Percentile £625 £649 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,778 979 1,450
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £14.64
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.24 £19.15
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.85%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £43.63
% change year-on-year -23.79% -24.36% +24.64%

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 30 November 2025.

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 30 November 2025.

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 30 November 2025. 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 1,754 £550 -5.98% 508
North of England +1 610 £492 -3.29% 196
South East +1 369 £513 -14.58% 458
Midlands +16 368 £515 -1.90% 119
Yorkshire 0 310 £500 - 76
West Midlands +14 298 £525 -4.55% 76
North West +6 265 £453 -13.71% 83
South West +2 221 £538 -10.42% 141
East of England +27 109 £523 -9.13% 70
East Midlands +17 70 £418 -12.11% 41
North East -9 37 £520 -11.11% 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
1 236 (6.73%) Confluence
2 83 (2.37%) Apache
3 66 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
4 62 (1.77%) SAS
5 61 (1.74%) SharePoint
6 54 (1.54%) Apache Spark
7 35 (1.00%) CMS
8 34 (0.97%) nginx
9 28 (0.80%) OpenStack
10 27 (0.77%) IIS
11 26 (0.74%) JBoss
12 23 (0.66%) CICS
13 18 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
14 14 (0.40%) WebLogic
14 14 (0.40%) WebSphere
15 10 (0.28%) Mule
16 9 (0.26%) iPlanet
16 9 (0.26%) WebSphere Application Server
17 8 (0.23%) Anypoint
18 7 (0.20%) Smallworld
Applications
1 68 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 28 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
4 26 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (0.48%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.37%) Chatbot
7 12 (0.34%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 8 (0.23%) Weka
9 7 (0.20%) Trello
10 1 (0.028%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.028%) Moqups
10 1 (0.028%) Revit
Business Applications
1 53 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (0.54%) Endur
3 18 (0.51%) Aladdin
3 18 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
5 14 (0.40%) VisionPLUS
6 8 (0.23%) Maximo
7 7 (0.20%) Oracle BPM
8 6 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
9 5 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 4 (0.11%) Fidessa
10 4 (0.11%) NEC Housing
10 4 (0.11%) SAP CO
10 4 (0.11%) SAP ERP
10 4 (0.11%) SAP FI
10 4 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
10 4 (0.11%) thinkFolio
10 4 (0.11%) Workday HCM
11 3 (0.085%) Salesforce CRM
11 3 (0.085%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,708 (48.67%) Azure
2 1,281 (36.51%) AWS
3 934 (26.62%) Azure DevOps
4 618 (17.61%) GitHub
5 515 (14.68%) GCP
6 385 (10.97%) Serverless
7 343 (9.77%) GitHub Actions
8 238 (6.78%) Power Platform
9 207 (5.90%) Amazon S3
10 198 (5.64%) AWS Lambda
11 190 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
12 165 (4.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 149 (4.25%) Amazon EC2
13 149 (4.25%) Azure AKS
14 142 (4.05%) Azure Data Factory
14 142 (4.05%) SaaS
15 139 (3.96%) Entra ID
16 128 (3.65%) Dynamics 365
17 121 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
18 119 (3.39%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 178 (5.07%) Firewall
2 121 (3.45%) DNS
3 74 (2.11%) VPN
4 66 (1.88%) Network Security
5 59 (1.68%) SSL
6 56 (1.60%) TCP/IP
7 43 (1.23%) HTTP
8 30 (0.85%) SSH
9 29 (0.83%) HTTPS
9 29 (0.83%) SMTP
10 27 (0.77%) WAN
11 23 (0.66%) FTP
12 17 (0.48%) BGP
12 17 (0.48%) DHCP
13 16 (0.46%) OpenLDAP
14 15 (0.43%) LAN
14 15 (0.43%) MPLS
15 14 (0.40%) Kerberos
15 14 (0.40%) SD-WAN
16 12 (0.34%) IMAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 229 (6.53%) PostgreSQL
2 151 (4.30%) Power BI
3 144 (4.10%) NoSQL
4 133 (3.79%) SQL Server
5 123 (3.51%) Amazon RDS
6 98 (2.79%) MongoDB
7 82 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
8 80 (2.28%) Relational Database
9 79 (2.25%) Data Lake
10 71 (2.02%) Oracle Database
11 60 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
12 54 (1.54%) Redis
13 49 (1.40%) DynamoDB
14 47 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
14 47 (1.34%) MySQL
15 41 (1.17%) Metadata
16 40 (1.14%) Delta Lake
17 37 (1.05%) Amazon Aurora
18 35 (1.00%) Big Data
18 35 (1.00%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 659 (18.78%) Jenkins
2 554 (15.79%) Git
3 531 (15.13%) JIRA
4 445 (12.68%) GitLab
5 119 (3.39%) Selenium
6 91 (2.59%) SonarQube
7 84 (2.39%) JUnit
8 79 (2.25%) Sonatype Nexus
9 68 (1.94%) Bitbucket
10 61 (1.74%) Postman
11 50 (1.42%) Cucumber
11 50 (1.42%) Liquibase
12 47 (1.34%) Cypress.io
12 47 (1.34%) Maven
13 42 (1.20%) Gradle
14 39 (1.11%) Artifactory
15 36 (1.03%) Oracle APEX
16 32 (0.91%) CircleCI
17 29 (0.83%) TeamCity
18 28 (0.80%) JMeter
General
1 1,139 (32.46%) Social Skills
2 643 (18.32%) Finance
3 425 (12.11%) Public Sector
4 322 (9.18%) Banking
5 276 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
6 100 (2.85%) Documentation Skills
7 65 (1.85%) Financial Institution
8 62 (1.77%) Investment Banking
9 60 (1.71%) Marketing
10 59 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 55 (1.57%) Telecoms
12 52 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
13 48 (1.37%) Retail
14 42 (1.20%) Front Office
15 39 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
16 31 (0.88%) Back Office
16 31 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
17 26 (0.74%) Manufacturing
17 26 (0.74%) Military
18 25 (0.71%) Law
Job Titles
1 667 (19.01%) Developer
2 613 (17.47%) DevOps Engineer
3 475 (13.54%) Senior
4 299 (8.52%) Architect
5 271 (7.72%) Lead
6 219 (6.24%) AWS Engineer
7 174 (4.96%) Analyst
8 172 (4.90%) Azure Engineer
9 169 (4.82%) AWS DevOps
10 167 (4.76%) Data Engineer
11 141 (4.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 140 (3.99%) Software Engineer
13 135 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
14 134 (3.82%) Senior Developer
15 130 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
16 98 (2.79%) Business Analyst
17 97 (2.76%) Java Developer
18 96 (2.74%) Consultant
19 91 (2.59%) Senior DevOps
19 91 (2.59%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 391 (11.14%) REST
2 299 (8.52%) .NET
3 241 (6.87%) RESTful
4 212 (6.04%) React
5 203 (5.79%) Node.js
6 196 (5.59%) Kafka
7 176 (5.02%) JSON
8 158 (4.50%) Spring
9 144 (4.10%) SOAP
10 141 (4.02%) Spring Boot
11 138 (3.93%) HTML
12 130 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
13 128 (3.65%) AngularJS
14 114 (3.25%) XML
15 112 (3.19%) OAuth
16 108 (3.08%) YAML
17 93 (2.65%) CSS
18 72 (2.05%) .NET Core
19 71 (2.02%) GraphQL
19 71 (2.02%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 477 (13.59%) Cloud Native
2 184 (5.24%) Product Ownership
3 147 (4.19%) Distributed Systems
4 109 (3.11%) Onboarding
5 83 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
6 81 (2.31%) Public Cloud
7 67 (1.91%) Hybrid Cloud
8 61 (1.74%) Mobile App
9 58 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
10 57 (1.62%) Replication
11 50 (1.42%) Security Posture
12 47 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
13 43 (1.23%) Virtual Team
14 40 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
15 39 (1.11%) Data Centre
16 38 (1.08%) Algorithms
16 38 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
16 38 (1.08%) Management Information System
17 36 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 34 (0.97%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 425 (12.11%) Linux
2 206 (5.87%) Windows
3 89 (2.54%) Unix
4 56 (1.60%) Windows Server
5 54 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 47 (1.34%) Android
7 44 (1.25%) VMS
8 41 (1.17%) Apple iOS
9 25 (0.71%) Ubuntu
10 23 (0.66%) Amazon Linux
11 19 (0.54%) CentOS
12 16 (0.46%) Windows 10
13 12 (0.34%) Solaris
14 11 (0.31%) zOS
15 7 (0.20%) Mac OS
16 6 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
17 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
18 3 (0.085%) Debian
19 2 (0.057%) SUSE
20 1 (0.028%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,966 (56.03%) CI/CD
2 1,531 (43.63%) Agile
3 878 (25.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 698 (19.89%) Problem-Solving
5 688 (19.61%) Containerisation
6 543 (15.47%) Test Automation
7 526 (14.99%) Microservices
8 444 (12.65%) Scrum
9 382 (10.89%) Continuous Improvement
10 375 (10.69%) Migration
11 365 (10.40%) Analytics
12 354 (10.09%) Software Engineering
13 326 (9.29%) AI
14 293 (8.35%) Observability
15 288 (8.21%) Stakeholder Management
16 265 (7.55%) Mentoring
17 242 (6.90%) DevSecOps
18 238 (6.78%) Data Pipeline
18 238 (6.78%) Infrastructure Automation
19 236 (6.73%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1,127 (32.12%) Python
2 678 (19.32%) SQL
3 498 (14.19%) Java
4 369 (10.52%) JavaScript
5 337 (9.60%) C#
6 322 (9.18%) Bash
7 320 (9.12%) PowerShell
8 235 (6.70%) TypeScript
9 159 (4.53%) Go
10 104 (2.96%) Bicep
11 71 (2.02%) PL/SQL
12 59 (1.68%) Groovy
12 59 (1.68%) Shell Script
13 50 (1.42%) C++
14 42 (1.20%) Scala
15 41 (1.17%) Perl
16 36 (1.03%) Ruby
17 31 (0.88%) T-SQL
18 27 (0.77%) Kotlin
19 26 (0.74%) PHP
Qualifications
1 988 (28.16%) Security Cleared
2 820 (23.37%) SC Cleared
3 312 (8.89%) Degree
4 172 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 139 (3.96%) Azure Certification
6 122 (3.48%) AWS Certification
7 115 (3.28%) DV Cleared
8 71 (2.02%) Master's Degree
9 58 (1.65%) CISSP
10 56 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
11 50 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
12 41 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 37 (1.05%) CISM
14 33 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
15 32 (0.91%) ISTQB
16 25 (0.71%) PMI Certification
17 21 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 20 (0.57%) PMP
19 16 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
20 15 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 323 (9.20%) QA
2 138 (3.93%) GDPR
3 110 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 101 (2.88%) Data Quality
5 90 (2.56%) NIST
6 81 (2.31%) Accessibility
7 43 (1.23%) NCSC
8 26 (0.74%) PCI DSS
9 25 (0.71%) HIPAA
10 20 (0.57%) WCAG
11 17 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 16 (0.46%) SLA
13 15 (0.43%) MiFID
14 14 (0.40%) PSD2
15 13 (0.37%) ISO 20022
15 13 (0.37%) SEPA
16 12 (0.34%) SOC 2
17 11 (0.31%) EU AI Act
17 11 (0.31%) PMO
18 10 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 906 (25.82%) Docker
2 169 (4.82%) Active Directory
3 68 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 56 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (0.71%) vSphere
6 23 (0.66%) DFS Replication
7 14 (0.40%) VMware NSX
8 13 (0.37%) Postfix
8 13 (0.37%) Squid
9 12 (0.34%) Dovecot
10 11 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
10 11 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
11 8 (0.23%) GPFS
11 8 (0.23%) Hyper-V
11 8 (0.23%) Lustre
11 8 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 8 (0.23%) Tivoli Directory Server
11 8 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
12 7 (0.20%) NFS
12 7 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1,058 (30.15%) Terraform
2 998 (28.44%) Kubernetes
3 464 (13.22%) Ansible
4 254 (7.24%) Grafana
5 246 (7.01%) Prometheus
6 73 (2.08%) Puppet
7 64 (1.82%) Argo
7 64 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
8 51 (1.45%) Progress Chef
9 38 (1.08%) Kibana
9 38 (1.08%) Packer
10 23 (0.66%) Istio
11 20 (0.57%) ITRS Geneos
11 20 (0.57%) Podman
12 17 (0.48%) Nessus
12 17 (0.48%) Proxmox
13 16 (0.46%) CA Endevor
14 15 (0.43%) logstash
14 15 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
15 14 (0.40%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 601 (17.13%) Microsoft
2 265 (7.55%) Oracle
3 204 (5.81%) Google
4 184 (5.24%) Splunk
5 174 (4.96%) Databricks
6 154 (4.39%) ServiceNow
7 99 (2.82%) VMware
8 97 (2.76%) SAP
9 96 (2.74%) Salesforce
10 91 (2.59%) Red Hat
11 53 (1.51%) Dynatrace
12 45 (1.28%) F5
13 44 (1.25%) IBM
14 43 (1.23%) OpenAI
15 38 (1.08%) Palo Alto
16 37 (1.05%) MuleSoft
16 37 (1.05%) Talend
17 36 (1.03%) Atlassian
17 36 (1.03%) CyberArk
18 34 (0.97%) Denodo