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 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 15 17
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 -5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,108 2,635 3,283
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.17% 10.65% 8.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.92% 11.75% 9.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,861 1,918 2,323
10th Percentile £385 £400 £411
25th Percentile £439 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £555
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -0.90% -7.50%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £663
90th Percentile £713 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.63% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 20 92
10th Percentile £39.53 £35.20 £50.13
25th Percentile £45.46 £58.61 £60.94
Median hourly rate £66.25 £72.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.62% +11.54% -0.76%
75th Percentile £76.94 £80.75 £66.31
90th Percentile £93.75 £88.00 £85.52
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £73.23 £65.00
% change year-on-year -7.82% +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 31,799 22,421 32,927
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.47% 90.62% 86.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,337 14,594 21,795
10th Percentile £313 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £639 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,979 812 2,149
10th Percentile £15.30 £15.22 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.15 £34.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.32% +4.62% -12.16%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.53
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%

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 16 March 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 16 March 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 16 March 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 2,067 £541 -6.75% 497
North of England +4 739 £500 -4.76% 318
South East -1 441 £525 -8.70% 337
Midlands +13 409 £500 +2.30% 140
Yorkshire +1 385 £500 -4.76% 95
West Midlands +12 329 £502 +2.35% 88
North West +3 299 £491 -6.48% 167
South West +12 272 £525 -12.50% 131
East of England +18 118 £573 +12.81% 75
East Midlands +4 78 £438 -7.89% 52
North East +3 60 £475 -9.52% 59
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
1 261 (6.35%) Confluence
2 108 (2.63%) Apache Spark
3 84 (2.04%) SharePoint
4 83 (2.02%) Apache
5 77 (1.87%) SAS
6 59 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
7 31 (0.75%) OpenStack
8 30 (0.73%) CMS
9 27 (0.66%) nginx
10 22 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
11 19 (0.46%) IIS
12 12 (0.29%) Mendix
12 12 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
13 11 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 11 (0.27%) HCL Notes
14 10 (0.24%) WebLogic
15 9 (0.22%) Camunda
16 8 (0.19%) GeoServer
16 8 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
16 8 (0.19%) Smallworld
Applications
1 85 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 42 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
4 26 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
5 22 (0.54%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.29%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.19%) Weka
8 4 (0.097%) Trello
9 2 (0.049%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.024%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.024%) InDesign
10 1 (0.024%) Maya
10 1 (0.024%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 67 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.29%) Aladdin
4 11 (0.27%) Maximo
5 10 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
6 9 (0.22%) NEC Housing
7 8 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
8 6 (0.15%) Endur
8 6 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
8 6 (0.15%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 4 (0.097%) Oracle EBS
10 4 (0.097%) Payment Gateway
11 3 (0.073%) Salesforce CRM
11 3 (0.073%) SAP BPC
11 3 (0.073%) SAP CO
11 3 (0.073%) SAP FI
11 3 (0.073%) SAP FI/CO
11 3 (0.073%) Workday HCM
12 2 (0.049%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 2,139 (52.07%) Azure
2 1,402 (34.13%) AWS
3 1,170 (28.48%) Azure DevOps
4 760 (18.50%) GitHub
5 588 (14.31%) GCP
6 455 (11.08%) Serverless
7 404 (9.83%) GitHub Actions
8 345 (8.40%) Power Platform
9 217 (5.28%) Amazon S3
10 214 (5.21%) AWS CloudFormation
10 214 (5.21%) AWS Lambda
11 208 (5.06%) Azure Data Factory
12 199 (4.84%) Entra ID
13 180 (4.38%) OpenShift
14 176 (4.28%) Azure AKS
15 167 (4.07%) Amazon EKS
16 165 (4.02%) Azure Monitor
17 155 (3.77%) Dynamics 365
18 138 (3.36%) SaaS
19 137 (3.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 193 (4.70%) Firewall
2 103 (2.51%) DNS
3 82 (2.00%) Network Security
4 76 (1.85%) VPN
5 44 (1.07%) TCP/IP
6 25 (0.61%) WAN
7 23 (0.56%) SD-WAN
8 22 (0.54%) HTTP
8 22 (0.54%) SSL
9 20 (0.49%) DHCP
10 15 (0.37%) BGP
10 15 (0.37%) HTTPS
10 15 (0.37%) MPLS
11 13 (0.32%) Internet
11 13 (0.32%) IPsec
11 13 (0.32%) SAN
12 11 (0.27%) LAN
12 11 (0.27%) Reverse Proxy
13 10 (0.24%) 5G
13 10 (0.24%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 235 (5.72%) PostgreSQL
2 218 (5.31%) Power BI
3 174 (4.24%) SQL Server
4 163 (3.97%) NoSQL
5 139 (3.38%) Data Lake
6 105 (2.56%) Relational Database
7 99 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
8 98 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
8 98 (2.39%) MongoDB
9 89 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
10 68 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
10 68 (1.66%) Oracle Database
11 67 (1.63%) Delta Lake
12 65 (1.58%) DynamoDB
13 57 (1.39%) Redis
14 51 (1.24%) Metadata
14 51 (1.24%) Tableau
15 48 (1.17%) Big Data
15 48 (1.17%) MySQL
16 44 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 671 (16.33%) Jenkins
2 553 (13.46%) Git
3 548 (13.34%) JIRA
4 469 (11.42%) GitLab
5 119 (2.90%) Selenium
6 98 (2.39%) JUnit
7 84 (2.04%) Postman
8 69 (1.68%) Bitbucket
9 61 (1.48%) SonarQube
10 57 (1.39%) Cucumber
11 47 (1.14%) Artifactory
11 47 (1.14%) Cypress.io
12 44 (1.07%) Maven
12 44 (1.07%) REST Assured
13 39 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
14 38 (0.93%) JMeter
15 34 (0.83%) Oracle APEX
16 28 (0.68%) Mockito
17 27 (0.66%) Gradle
17 27 (0.66%) Liquibase
General
1 1,194 (29.07%) Social Skills
2 793 (19.30%) Finance
3 516 (12.56%) Public Sector
4 363 (8.84%) Analytical Skills
5 320 (7.79%) Banking
6 145 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
7 74 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
8 64 (1.56%) Financial Institution
9 57 (1.39%) Retail
10 52 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 49 (1.19%) Marketing
12 48 (1.17%) Front Office
13 44 (1.07%) Investment Banking
14 42 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
15 39 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
16 37 (0.90%) Telecoms
17 30 (0.73%) Legal
17 30 (0.73%) Military
18 25 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
19 24 (0.58%) Law
Job Titles
1 724 (17.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 659 (16.04%) Developer
3 559 (13.61%) Senior
4 452 (11.00%) Architect
5 354 (8.62%) Lead
6 258 (6.28%) Azure Engineer
7 252 (6.13%) Data Engineer
8 230 (5.60%) Analyst
9 202 (4.92%) AWS Engineer
10 163 (3.97%) Cloud Engineer
11 157 (3.82%) AWS DevOps
12 142 (3.46%) Platform Engineer
13 140 (3.41%) Software Engineer
14 135 (3.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 133 (3.24%) Solutions Architect
16 121 (2.95%) Business Analyst
17 119 (2.90%) Senior Developer
18 111 (2.70%) Senior DevOps
19 109 (2.65%) Full-Stack Developer
20 104 (2.53%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 455 (11.08%) REST
2 332 (8.08%) .NET
3 263 (6.40%) Node.js
4 254 (6.18%) React
5 238 (5.79%) Kafka
6 230 (5.60%) Spring
7 203 (4.94%) Spring Boot
8 194 (4.72%) RESTful
9 160 (3.89%) AngularJS
10 149 (3.63%) JSON
11 133 (3.24%) YAML
12 125 (3.04%) HTML
13 118 (2.87%) SOAP
14 115 (2.80%) OAuth
15 114 (2.78%) Playwright
15 114 (2.78%) PySpark
16 106 (2.58%) XML
17 104 (2.53%) Elastic Stack
18 103 (2.51%) Middleware
19 101 (2.46%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 600 (14.61%) Cloud Native
2 230 (5.60%) Product Ownership
3 141 (3.43%) Distributed Systems
4 108 (2.63%) Onboarding
5 102 (2.48%) Public Cloud
6 95 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
7 83 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
8 71 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
9 54 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
10 52 (1.27%) Management Information System
11 48 (1.17%) Virtual Team
12 43 (1.05%) Security Posture
13 42 (1.02%) Private Cloud
14 41 (1.00%) Data Centre
15 39 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
16 37 (0.90%) AI Agents
16 37 (0.90%) Data Structures
17 35 (0.85%) NHS
18 34 (0.83%) Mobile App
19 32 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 418 (10.18%) Linux
2 215 (5.23%) Windows
3 72 (1.75%) Unix
4 58 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 39 (0.95%) VMS
5 39 (0.95%) Windows Server
6 22 (0.54%) Ubuntu
7 15 (0.37%) CentOS
8 11 (0.27%) Android
9 9 (0.22%) Windows 10
10 8 (0.19%) Apple iOS
11 7 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.097%) Solaris
13 4 (0.097%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.049%) Debian
14 2 (0.049%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.049%) zOS
15 1 (0.024%) Embedded Linux
15 1 (0.024%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,330 (56.72%) CI/CD
2 1,593 (38.78%) Agile
3 1,009 (24.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 771 (18.77%) Problem-Solving
5 736 (17.92%) Containerisation
6 616 (15.00%) Test Automation
7 607 (14.78%) Microservices
8 539 (13.12%) Analytics
9 518 (12.61%) Continuous Improvement
10 494 (12.03%) Migration
11 464 (11.30%) Scrum
12 452 (11.00%) AI
13 450 (10.95%) Observability
14 441 (10.74%) Stakeholder Management
15 369 (8.98%) Data Modelling
16 368 (8.96%) Software Engineering
17 344 (8.37%) Mentoring
18 308 (7.50%) Data Pipeline
19 289 (7.04%) ETL
20 286 (6.96%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,245 (30.31%) Python
2 892 (21.71%) SQL
3 538 (13.10%) Java
4 399 (9.71%) C#
5 384 (9.35%) JavaScript
6 327 (7.96%) PowerShell
7 299 (7.28%) Bash
8 262 (6.38%) TypeScript
9 139 (3.38%) Bicep
10 120 (2.92%) Go
11 79 (1.92%) PL/SQL
12 63 (1.53%) Scala
13 45 (1.10%) T-SQL
14 41 (1.00%) C++
14 41 (1.00%) Shell Script
15 39 (0.95%) Ruby
16 33 (0.80%) Groovy
17 26 (0.63%) Rust
18 23 (0.56%) Apex Code
18 23 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1,325 (32.25%) Security Cleared
2 1,073 (26.12%) SC Cleared
3 339 (8.25%) Degree
4 195 (4.75%) Azure Certification
5 175 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 142 (3.46%) DV Cleared
7 122 (2.97%) AWS Certification
8 91 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
9 75 (1.83%) CISSP
10 72 (1.75%) Master's Degree
11 57 (1.39%) CISM
12 52 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
13 49 (1.19%) ISTQB
14 42 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 39 (0.95%) PMI Certification
16 34 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
17 31 (0.75%) PMP
18 24 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 23 (0.56%) IIBA
20 22 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 361 (8.79%) QA
2 172 (4.19%) Data Quality
3 166 (4.04%) GDPR
4 132 (3.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 117 (2.85%) NIST
6 89 (2.17%) Accessibility
7 68 (1.66%) NCSC
8 37 (0.90%) PCI DSS
9 31 (0.75%) WCAG
10 26 (0.63%) SLA
11 25 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 24 (0.58%) PMO
13 20 (0.49%) HIPAA
14 15 (0.37%) ISO 20022
14 15 (0.37%) SOC 2
15 13 (0.32%) PSD2
16 11 (0.27%) NIST 800
17 10 (0.24%) GRC
17 10 (0.24%) SEPA
18 8 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 929 (22.61%) Docker
2 163 (3.97%) Active Directory
3 75 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
4 65 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 41 (1.00%) vSphere
6 25 (0.61%) VMware NSX
7 14 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.27%) Lustre
8 11 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 10 (0.24%) Hyper-V
10 9 (0.22%) GPFS
10 9 (0.22%) Squid
11 8 (0.19%) Firmware
12 7 (0.17%) Postfix
13 6 (0.15%) HDFS
14 5 (0.12%) KVM
14 5 (0.12%) RACF
14 5 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
15 4 (0.097%) NFS
15 4 (0.097%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1,190 (28.97%) Terraform
2 1,138 (27.70%) Kubernetes
3 448 (10.91%) Ansible
4 278 (6.77%) Grafana
5 233 (5.67%) Prometheus
6 91 (2.22%) Argo
7 68 (1.66%) Puppet
8 56 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
9 48 (1.17%) Istio
10 30 (0.73%) Packer
11 25 (0.61%) Kibana
12 24 (0.58%) vCenter Server
13 23 (0.56%) Progress Chef
14 19 (0.46%) Podman
14 19 (0.46%) Rancher
15 18 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 17 (0.41%) Consul
17 16 (0.39%) FortiGate
17 16 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
18 14 (0.34%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 713 (17.36%) Microsoft
2 275 (6.69%) Oracle
3 259 (6.30%) Databricks
4 230 (5.60%) Google
5 184 (4.48%) Splunk
6 142 (3.46%) ServiceNow
7 135 (3.29%) Red Hat
8 113 (2.75%) VMware
9 101 (2.46%) Salesforce
10 97 (2.36%) SAP
11 74 (1.80%) OpenAI
12 64 (1.56%) Atlassian
13 61 (1.48%) Dynatrace
14 58 (1.41%) CyberArk
15 38 (0.93%) Talend
16 36 (0.88%) IBM
17 34 (0.83%) Denodo
17 34 (0.83%) Foundry
18 27 (0.66%) BeyondTrust
18 27 (0.66%) Cisco