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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,861 2,912 3,331
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.66% 10.54% 10.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.53% 11.61% 11.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,340 2,114 2,271
10th Percentile £385 £358 £400
25th Percentile £438 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £518 £550
% change year-on-year +1.40% -5.86% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 22 81
10th Percentile £35.90 £35.75 £56.25
25th Percentile £55.25 £51.69 £61.60
Median hourly rate £67.00 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -4.29% +6.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 £82.72 £74.44
90th Percentile £88.00 £94.75 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +0.75% -4.29% +6.87%

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 38,792 25,089 28,626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.08% 90.79% 85.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,117 16,022 18,624
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,537 1,415 1,654
10th Percentile £14.56 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.87 £18.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.78%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +68.99% -38.57% -1.35%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 11 August 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 +1 2,534 £550 - 1,346
North of England 0 835 £500 +5.26% 410
South East -11 466 £525 +5.00% 387
Midlands -1 463 £488 -2.50% 201
Yorkshire +1 412 £500 +3.36% 109
West Midlands -3 380 £490 -4.85% 133
North West -3 329 £525 +10.53% 223
South West +11 318 £525 +0.96% 189
East of England +14 140 £505 +1.00% 79
North East +13 111 £425 -19.05% 80
East Midlands 0 78 £488 +7.26% 68
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
1 290 (5.97%) Confluence
2 125 (2.57%) SharePoint
3 119 (2.45%) Apache Airflow
3 119 (2.45%) Apache Spark
4 100 (2.06%) Apache
5 76 (1.56%) SAS
6 41 (0.84%) CMS
7 34 (0.70%) Jupyter
8 31 (0.64%) IIS
9 23 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
10 21 (0.43%) nginx
11 14 (0.29%) WebSphere
12 13 (0.27%) Camunda
13 12 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
14 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
15 10 (0.21%) OpenStack
16 9 (0.19%) Anypoint
16 9 (0.19%) Appian
17 7 (0.14%) Tomcat
17 7 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 61 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
2 53 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 35 (0.72%) MS Visio
4 30 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
5 26 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.19%) CPLEX
7 9 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.14%) Trello
9 5 (0.10%) Notion
10 1 (0.021%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
10 1 (0.021%) Gliffy
10 1 (0.021%) InDesign
10 1 (0.021%) Maya
10 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 62 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.21%) Aladdin
3 10 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
4 9 (0.19%) Magento
5 8 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
5 8 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
6 7 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 5 (0.10%) Maximo
7 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
7 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
7 5 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.10%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.082%) Endur
8 4 (0.082%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.062%) Findur
9 3 (0.062%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.062%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.062%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2,618 (53.86%) Azure
2 1,672 (34.40%) AWS
3 1,515 (31.17%) Azure DevOps
4 811 (16.68%) GitHub
5 598 (12.30%) GCP
6 508 (10.45%) GitHub Actions
7 424 (8.72%) Power Platform
8 385 (7.92%) Serverless
9 245 (5.04%) Amazon S3
10 244 (5.02%) Entra ID
11 225 (4.63%) AWS Lambda
12 194 (3.99%) Azure AKS
13 184 (3.79%) AWS CloudFormation
14 182 (3.74%) Amazon EKS
15 180 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
16 178 (3.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 170 (3.50%) Azure Monitor
18 153 (3.15%) Dynamics 365
19 150 (3.09%) Amazon EC2
20 148 (3.04%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 233 (4.79%) Firewall
2 144 (2.96%) DNS
3 114 (2.35%) VPN
4 106 (2.18%) Network Security
5 60 (1.23%) TCP/IP
6 50 (1.03%) WAN
7 41 (0.84%) SSL
8 38 (0.78%) DHCP
9 36 (0.74%) SD-WAN
10 32 (0.66%) Internet
11 31 (0.64%) BGP
12 28 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
13 25 (0.51%) HTTP
13 25 (0.51%) OSPF
14 19 (0.39%) SAN
14 19 (0.39%) VLAN
15 18 (0.37%) VXLAN
16 17 (0.35%) MPLS
16 17 (0.35%) SSH
17 16 (0.33%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 295 (6.07%) Power BI
2 255 (5.25%) SQL Server
3 226 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
4 179 (3.68%) Data Warehouse
5 166 (3.41%) NoSQL
6 153 (3.15%) Relational Database
7 148 (3.04%) Data Lake
8 138 (2.84%) MongoDB
9 101 (2.08%) Metadata
10 98 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
11 92 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
12 87 (1.79%) Delta Lake
13 78 (1.60%) DynamoDB
14 76 (1.56%) Oracle Database
15 60 (1.23%) Redis
16 58 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
16 58 (1.19%) Big Data
17 51 (1.05%) BigQuery
17 51 (1.05%) MySQL
18 46 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 679 (13.97%) Jenkins
2 653 (13.43%) Git
3 574 (11.81%) JIRA
4 506 (10.41%) GitLab
5 106 (2.18%) Selenium
6 89 (1.83%) SonarQube
7 82 (1.69%) Postman
8 75 (1.54%) Bitbucket
9 74 (1.52%) JUnit
10 72 (1.48%) Maven
11 55 (1.13%) Cypress.io
11 55 (1.13%) REST Assured
12 54 (1.11%) JMeter
13 50 (1.03%) Cucumber
14 47 (0.97%) Gatling
15 43 (0.88%) Gradle
16 40 (0.82%) LoadRunner
17 37 (0.76%) Mockito
18 34 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
19 33 (0.68%) Artifactory
General
1 1,233 (25.37%) Social Skills
2 912 (18.76%) Finance
3 672 (13.82%) Public Sector
4 460 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
5 341 (7.02%) Banking
6 130 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 100 (2.06%) Retail
8 88 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
9 67 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
10 59 (1.21%) Legal
11 58 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
12 54 (1.11%) Marketing
13 48 (0.99%) Investment Banking
14 45 (0.93%) Aerospace
15 43 (0.88%) Military
16 40 (0.82%) Financial Institution
16 40 (0.82%) Front Office
16 40 (0.82%) Telecoms
17 39 (0.80%) Law
18 36 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 890 (18.31%) DevOps Engineer
2 766 (15.76%) Developer
3 726 (14.94%) Senior
4 552 (11.36%) Architect
5 489 (10.06%) Lead
6 296 (6.09%) Azure Engineer
6 296 (6.09%) Data Engineer
7 244 (5.02%) Analyst
8 210 (4.32%) AWS Engineer
9 199 (4.09%) Platform Engineer
10 184 (3.79%) Cloud Engineer
11 174 (3.58%) Senior DevOps
12 168 (3.46%) Solutions Architect
13 160 (3.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 151 (3.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 148 (3.04%) AWS DevOps
16 142 (2.92%) Java Developer
17 139 (2.86%) Software Engineer
18 135 (2.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 128 (2.63%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 483 (9.94%) REST
2 429 (8.83%) .NET
3 294 (6.05%) Kafka
4 258 (5.31%) RESTful
5 247 (5.08%) React
6 232 (4.77%) Spring
7 212 (4.36%) Spring Boot
8 177 (3.64%) Node.js
9 150 (3.09%) JSON
10 146 (3.00%) PySpark
11 137 (2.82%) OAuth
12 135 (2.78%) Playwright
13 131 (2.69%) AngularJS
14 129 (2.65%) .NET Framework
15 124 (2.55%) SOAP
16 113 (2.32%) HTML
17 104 (2.14%) YAML
18 96 (1.97%) CSS
18 96 (1.97%) OAuth2
19 88 (1.81%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 873 (17.96%) Cloud Native
2 348 (7.16%) Product Ownership
3 224 (4.61%) Distributed Systems
4 148 (3.04%) Onboarding
5 145 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
6 136 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
7 132 (2.72%) Hybrid Cloud
8 77 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
9 71 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
10 70 (1.44%) Management Information System
11 68 (1.40%) Security Posture
12 67 (1.38%) AI Agents
13 63 (1.30%) Public Cloud
14 62 (1.28%) Data Structures
15 59 (1.21%) Data Centre
16 54 (1.11%) Replication
17 49 (1.01%) Mobile App
18 46 (0.95%) Virtual Team
19 39 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
19 39 (0.80%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 444 (9.13%) Linux
2 271 (5.57%) Windows
3 104 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 77 (1.58%) Unix
5 74 (1.52%) Windows Server
6 28 (0.58%) Ubuntu
7 27 (0.56%) Apple iOS
8 25 (0.51%) VMS
9 18 (0.37%) Android
10 9 (0.19%) Solaris
10 9 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.16%) AIX
11 8 (0.16%) Amazon Linux
11 8 (0.16%) zOS
12 7 (0.14%) CentOS
12 7 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
13 6 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
14 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
15 4 (0.082%) Alpine Linux
15 4 (0.082%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,810 (57.81%) CI/CD
2 1,955 (40.22%) Agile
3 1,318 (27.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 792 (16.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 771 (15.86%) Containerisation
6 761 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
7 754 (15.51%) Test Automation
8 709 (14.59%) AI
8 709 (14.59%) Stakeholder Management
9 696 (14.32%) Microservices
10 620 (12.75%) Observability
11 609 (12.53%) Scrum
12 605 (12.45%) Software Engineering
13 584 (12.01%) Platform Engineering
14 577 (11.87%) Migration
15 557 (11.46%) Analytics
16 468 (9.63%) Technical Leadership
17 456 (9.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 439 (9.03%) Data Modelling
19 416 (8.56%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,405 (28.90%) Python
2 919 (18.91%) SQL
3 676 (13.91%) Java
4 449 (9.24%) C#
5 419 (8.62%) PowerShell
6 412 (8.48%) Bash
7 390 (8.02%) JavaScript
8 267 (5.49%) TypeScript
9 197 (4.05%) Bicep
10 81 (1.67%) Go
11 58 (1.19%) Shell Script
12 57 (1.17%) T-SQL
13 55 (1.13%) PL/SQL
13 55 (1.13%) Scala
14 51 (1.05%) Groovy
15 50 (1.03%) Apex Code
16 35 (0.72%) C++
17 28 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 26 (0.53%) C
18 26 (0.53%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,560 (32.09%) Security Cleared
2 1,310 (26.95%) SC Cleared
3 302 (6.21%) Degree
4 201 (4.13%) Azure Certification
5 182 (3.74%) DV Cleared
6 165 (3.39%) AWS Certification
7 136 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
8 111 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
9 83 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
10 77 (1.58%) CISSP
11 53 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
12 46 (0.95%) ISTQB
13 45 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 41 (0.84%) PMP
15 36 (0.74%) PMI Certification
16 31 (0.64%) CISM
16 31 (0.64%) Master's Degree
17 24 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 23 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
19 22 (0.45%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 454 (9.34%) QA
2 254 (5.23%) Data Quality
3 157 (3.23%) Accessibility
4 135 (2.78%) GDPR
5 86 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 77 (1.58%) NIST
7 75 (1.54%) WCAG
8 49 (1.01%) NCSC
9 42 (0.86%) PMO
10 36 (0.74%) PCI DSS
11 31 (0.64%) SLA
12 26 (0.53%) GRC
13 25 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 11 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
14 11 (0.23%) HIPAA
15 10 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
15 10 (0.21%) ISO 20022
16 8 (0.16%) PSD2
16 8 (0.16%) SEPA
17 7 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 951 (19.56%) Docker
2 171 (3.52%) Active Directory
3 72 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 71 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (0.47%) Hyper-V
6 21 (0.43%) vSphere
7 17 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
8 16 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 16 (0.33%) VMware NSX
9 12 (0.25%) Postfix
9 12 (0.25%) Squid
10 11 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
11 8 (0.16%) IAG
11 8 (0.16%) KVM
12 6 (0.12%) Corosync
12 6 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 5 (0.10%) Firmware
13 5 (0.10%) NFS
13 5 (0.10%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 1,384 (28.47%) Terraform
2 1,229 (25.28%) Kubernetes
3 475 (9.77%) Ansible
4 309 (6.36%) Grafana
5 264 (5.43%) Prometheus
6 75 (1.54%) Argo
7 61 (1.25%) Puppet
8 55 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
9 46 (0.95%) Progress Chef
10 36 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
11 32 (0.66%) Packer
12 30 (0.62%) Istio
13 18 (0.37%) vCenter Server
14 17 (0.35%) SCCM
15 16 (0.33%) Kibana
15 16 (0.33%) Kubeflow
15 16 (0.33%) Kustomize
16 14 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
17 12 (0.25%) HAProxy
17 12 (0.25%) systemd
Vendors
1 928 (19.09%) Microsoft
2 252 (5.18%) Oracle
3 247 (5.08%) Databricks
4 225 (4.63%) Google
5 190 (3.91%) ServiceNow
6 155 (3.19%) Splunk
7 148 (3.04%) Salesforce
8 127 (2.61%) Dynatrace
9 108 (2.22%) SAP
10 103 (2.12%) Red Hat
11 98 (2.02%) VMware
12 62 (1.28%) IBM
13 51 (1.05%) Informatica
14 48 (0.99%) Atlassian
15 45 (0.93%) Cisco
16 43 (0.88%) OpenAI
17 40 (0.82%) AppDynamics
18 37 (0.76%) Foundry
19 35 (0.72%) Denodo
20 34 (0.70%) MuleSoft