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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 15 16
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,245 2,528 3,311
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.79% 10.34% 8.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.63% 11.36% 10.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,975 1,862 2,308
10th Percentile £388 £400 £408
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 £656
90th Percentile £713 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.91% - -6.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 16 92
10th Percentile £39.53 £32.63 £56.25
25th Percentile £45.46 £55.00 £61.25
Median hourly rate £63.73 £68.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.30% +5.77% -0.76%
75th Percentile £75.88 £80.75 £79.22
90th Percentile £85.80 £87.73 £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 33,609 22,244 32,354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.41% 91.01% 86.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,526 14,625 21,310
10th Percentile £313 £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 £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £524 £525
% change year-on-year -4.51% -0.26% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,074 884 2,215
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.84 £12.84
25th Percentile £20.27 £18.51 £15.75
Median hourly rate £41.90 £31.70 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.17% -6.76% -9.33%
75th Percentile £67.19 £63.94 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.18 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.43 £33.07
% change year-on-year +23.25% -7.98% -8.15%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 2,155 £540 -6.01% 583
North of England +5 738 £500 -4.76% 319
South East 0 446 £524 -4.77% 284
Midlands +4 419 £492 -1.60% 110
Yorkshire 0 396 £500 -4.76% 86
West Midlands +8 329 £500 -1.19% 75
South West +11 291 £500 -12.66% 148
North West +1 285 £500 -3.26% 176
East of England +27 122 £526 +3.69% 74
East Midlands +1 87 £460 -3.16% 35
North East +5 64 £475 -11.63% 58
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
1 252 (5.94%) Confluence
2 115 (2.71%) Apache Spark
3 100 (2.36%) SharePoint
4 94 (2.21%) SAS
5 87 (2.05%) Apache
6 67 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
7 33 (0.78%) CMS
8 30 (0.71%) nginx
9 26 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
10 24 (0.57%) 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 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 50 (1.18%) 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 (0.071%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.047%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.047%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.024%) InDesign
9 1 (0.024%) Maya
Business Applications
1 70 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.24%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.21%) Maximo
4 9 (0.21%) NEC Housing
4 9 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.14%) Endur
5 6 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
5 6 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
5 6 (0.14%) SAP ERP
6 5 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
7 4 (0.094%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.094%) SAP BPC
8 3 (0.071%) Findur
8 3 (0.071%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.071%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 3 (0.071%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 2 (0.047%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.047%) SAP MM
9 2 (0.047%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 2,256 (53.14%) Azure
2 1,410 (33.22%) AWS
3 1,246 (29.35%) Azure DevOps
4 725 (17.08%) GitHub
5 544 (12.82%) GCP
6 435 (10.25%) Serverless
7 404 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
8 354 (8.34%) Power Platform
9 231 (5.44%) Amazon S3
10 221 (5.21%) Entra ID
11 217 (5.11%) AWS Lambda
12 216 (5.09%) AWS CloudFormation
13 207 (4.88%) Azure Data Factory
14 192 (4.52%) Azure AKS
15 175 (4.12%) OpenShift
16 163 (3.84%) Azure Monitor
17 156 (3.67%) Amazon EKS
18 144 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
19 143 (3.37%) PaaS
20 140 (3.30%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 189 (4.45%) Firewall
2 102 (2.40%) DNS
3 87 (2.05%) Network Security
4 80 (1.88%) VPN
5 39 (0.92%) TCP/IP
6 24 (0.57%) HTTP
6 24 (0.57%) 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 (0.24%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 229 (5.39%) Power BI
2 225 (5.30%) PostgreSQL
3 205 (4.83%) SQL Server
4 164 (3.86%) NoSQL
5 147 (3.46%) Data Lake
6 120 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
7 118 (2.78%) Relational Database
8 95 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
8 95 (2.24%) MongoDB
9 85 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
10 76 (1.79%) Delta Lake
11 75 (1.77%) DynamoDB
12 74 (1.74%) Oracle Database
13 73 (1.72%) Metadata
14 67 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
15 55 (1.30%) Big Data
16 53 (1.25%) Tableau
17 49 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
17 49 (1.15%) Redis
18 44 (1.04%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 628 (14.79%) Jenkins
2 558 (13.14%) Git
3 552 (13.00%) JIRA
4 419 (9.87%) GitLab
5 108 (2.54%) Selenium
6 97 (2.29%) JUnit
7 81 (1.91%) Postman
8 70 (1.65%) SonarQube
9 66 (1.55%) Bitbucket
10 52 (1.22%) Maven
11 50 (1.18%) Cucumber
12 49 (1.15%) Artifactory
13 47 (1.11%) REST Assured
14 41 (0.97%) Cypress.io
15 36 (0.85%) JMeter
16 35 (0.82%) Mockito
17 33 (0.78%) Oracle APEX
18 32 (0.75%) Gatling
19 29 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
20 27 (0.64%) TestRail
General
1 1,166 (27.47%) Social Skills
2 800 (18.85%) Finance
3 516 (12.16%) Public Sector
4 368 (8.67%) Analytical Skills
5 304 (7.16%) Banking
6 147 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
7 68 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
8 56 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 56 (1.32%) Retail
9 52 (1.22%) Marketing
10 50 (1.18%) Financial Institution
11 47 (1.11%) Front Office
11 47 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
12 43 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
13 42 (0.99%) Investment Banking
14 41 (0.97%) Legal
15 33 (0.78%) Telecoms
16 31 (0.73%) Military
17 23 (0.54%) Law
18 17 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 775 (18.26%) DevOps Engineer
2 643 (15.15%) Developer
3 594 (13.99%) Senior
4 485 (11.43%) Architect
5 359 (8.46%) Lead
6 287 (6.76%) Azure Engineer
7 268 (6.31%) Data Engineer
8 249 (5.87%) Analyst
9 193 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
10 153 (3.60%) Cloud Engineer
11 150 (3.53%) Platform Engineer
12 149 (3.51%) AWS DevOps
13 146 (3.44%) Solutions Architect
14 140 (3.30%) Software Engineer
15 132 (3.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 132 (3.11%) Business Analyst
16 128 (3.02%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 122 (2.87%) Senior Developer
18 121 (2.85%) Senior DevOps
19 114 (2.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 416 (9.80%) REST
2 347 (8.17%) .NET
3 257 (6.05%) Node.js
4 256 (6.03%) Kafka
5 241 (5.68%) React
6 235 (5.54%) Spring
7 218 (5.14%) Spring Boot
8 198 (4.66%) RESTful
9 155 (3.65%) AngularJS
10 137 (3.23%) YAML
11 131 (3.09%) JSON
12 121 (2.85%) Playwright
13 120 (2.83%) PySpark
14 116 (2.73%) OAuth
15 109 (2.57%) HTML
16 104 (2.45%) Middleware
16 104 (2.45%) SOAP
17 91 (2.14%) CSS
18 85 (2.00%) OpenID
19 84 (1.98%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 642 (15.12%) Cloud Native
2 262 (6.17%) Product Ownership
3 151 (3.56%) Distributed Systems
4 107 (2.52%) Onboarding
5 90 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
6 88 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
7 87 (2.05%) Public Cloud
8 82 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
9 63 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
10 53 (1.25%) Virtual Team
11 51 (1.20%) Management Information System
12 44 (1.04%) Private Cloud
13 39 (0.92%) Security Posture
14 38 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
15 37 (0.87%) Data Centre
15 37 (0.87%) Data Structures
16 36 (0.85%) AI Agents
16 36 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
17 35 (0.82%) NHS
18 34 (0.80%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 378 (8.90%) Linux
2 220 (5.18%) Windows
3 70 (1.65%) Unix
4 65 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 39 (0.92%) VMS
6 38 (0.90%) Windows Server
7 22 (0.52%) Ubuntu
8 12 (0.28%) Android
8 12 (0.28%) CentOS
9 9 (0.21%) Apple iOS
9 9 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.16%) Windows 10
11 5 (0.12%) Solaris
11 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.094%) Windows Server 2008
12 4 (0.094%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.071%) Debian
13 3 (0.071%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.071%) Oracle Linux
14 2 (0.047%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,353 (55.43%) CI/CD
2 1,643 (38.70%) Agile
3 1,033 (24.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 748 (17.62%) Problem-Solving
5 709 (16.70%) Containerisation
6 622 (14.65%) Microservices
7 603 (14.20%) Test Automation
8 560 (13.19%) Continuous Improvement
9 546 (12.86%) Analytics
10 516 (12.16%) Migration
11 487 (11.47%) Scrum
12 474 (11.17%) Observability
13 470 (11.07%) Stakeholder Management
14 456 (10.74%) AI
15 404 (9.52%) Data Modelling
15 404 (9.52%) Software Engineering
16 362 (8.53%) Mentoring
17 345 (8.13%) Data Pipeline
18 338 (7.96%) Platform Engineering
19 319 (7.51%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1,211 (28.53%) Python
2 923 (21.74%) SQL
3 560 (13.19%) Java
4 417 (9.82%) C#
5 355 (8.36%) JavaScript
6 315 (7.42%) PowerShell
7 287 (6.76%) Bash
8 245 (5.77%) TypeScript
9 147 (3.46%) Bicep
10 95 (2.24%) Go
11 87 (2.05%) PL/SQL
12 70 (1.65%) Scala
13 50 (1.18%) 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%) Rust
20 21 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1,375 (32.39%) Security Cleared
2 1,133 (26.69%) SC Cleared
3 306 (7.21%) Degree
4 194 (4.57%) Azure Certification
5 145 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 136 (3.20%) DV Cleared
7 111 (2.61%) AWS Certification
7 111 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 70 (1.65%) CISSP
9 52 (1.22%) CISM
10 50 (1.18%) Master's Degree
11 48 (1.13%) ISTQB
11 48 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
12 39 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 38 (0.90%) PMI Certification
14 36 (0.85%) PMP
15 35 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
16 22 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 21 (0.49%) IIBA
17 21 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 384 (9.05%) QA
2 196 (4.62%) Data Quality
3 161 (3.79%) GDPR
4 126 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 118 (2.78%) NIST
6 88 (2.07%) Accessibility
7 64 (1.51%) NCSC
8 36 (0.85%) PCI DSS
9 35 (0.82%) WCAG
10 28 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 28 (0.66%) SLA
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 (0.24%) SEPA
17 9 (0.21%) HL7
System Software
1 885 (20.85%) Docker
2 170 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 67 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (1.51%) 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%) Oracle RAC
12 5 (0.12%) RACF
13 4 (0.094%) Corosync
13 4 (0.094%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,178 (27.75%) Terraform
2 1,141 (26.88%) Kubernetes
3 415 (9.78%) Ansible
4 262 (6.17%) Grafana
5 219 (5.16%) Prometheus
6 91 (2.14%) Argo
7 66 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
8 62 (1.46%) Puppet
9 50 (1.18%) Istio
10 28 (0.66%) Packer
11 26 (0.61%) vCenter Server
12 22 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
12 22 (0.52%) Progress Chef
13 21 (0.49%) Kibana
14 20 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 20 (0.47%) Rancher
15 18 (0.42%) FortiGate
16 15 (0.35%) Consul
16 15 (0.35%) HP ALM
17 11 (0.26%) linkerd
Vendors
1 757 (17.83%) Microsoft
2 303 (7.14%) Oracle
3 255 (6.01%) Databricks
4 201 (4.73%) Google
5 171 (4.03%) Splunk
6 153 (3.60%) ServiceNow
7 134 (3.16%) Red Hat
8 116 (2.73%) Salesforce
8 116 (2.73%) VMware
9 99 (2.33%) SAP
10 73 (1.72%) OpenAI
11 69 (1.63%) Dynatrace
12 66 (1.55%) Atlassian
13 57 (1.34%) CyberArk
14 42 (0.99%) Talend
15 41 (0.97%) IBM
16 40 (0.94%) Denodo
17 34 (0.80%) Foundry
18 32 (0.75%) Cisco
19 30 (0.71%) AppDynamics