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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 15 17
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 -5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,266 2,563 3,315
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.01% 10.52% 8.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.82% 11.58% 10.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,985 1,896 2,326
10th Percentile £385 £400 £406
25th Percentile £443 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £652
90th Percentile £718 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -6.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 16 87
10th Percentile £39.53 £40.75 £55.60
25th Percentile £45.46 £58.61 £61.25
Median hourly rate £63.73 £68.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.30% +5.77% -0.76%
75th Percentile £75.00 £80.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £91.80 £87.73 £87.18
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 33,286 22,141 32,539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.92% 90.87% 86.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,341 14,591 21,484
10th Percentile £313 £311 £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 £614 £638 £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 2,040 863 2,161
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £12.92
25th Percentile £19.45 £19.00 £15.89
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -1.71% -11.83%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.70
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.10 £70.66
UK median hourly rate £35.71 £31.52 £33.00
% change year-on-year +13.29% -4.48% -11.53%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 £544 -5.39% 512
North of England +5 759 £500 -4.76% 306
South East +1 447 £525 -4.55% 307
Midlands +5 428 £492 -1.54% 142
Yorkshire 0 405 £500 -4.76% 86
West Midlands +7 335 £500 - 98
North West +3 298 £490 -6.67% 159
South West +12 286 £525 -8.30% 165
East of England +20 119 £550 +6.80% 92
East Midlands +4 90 £450 -5.26% 44
North East +3 61 £475 -9.52% 63
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
1 256 (6.00%) Confluence
2 111 (2.60%) Apache Spark
3 93 (2.18%) SharePoint
4 91 (2.13%) SAS
5 88 (2.06%) Apache
6 67 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
7 32 (0.75%) CMS
8 29 (0.68%) nginx
8 29 (0.68%) OpenStack
9 23 (0.54%) IIS
10 22 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
11 12 (0.28%) Mendix
12 11 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 11 (0.26%) HCL Notes
12 11 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
13 8 (0.19%) WebLogic
14 7 (0.16%) ArcGIS
14 7 (0.16%) Camunda
14 7 (0.16%) WebSphere
15 6 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 80 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 50 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
4 28 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
5 23 (0.54%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.21%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.14%) Weka
8 5 (0.12%) Trello
9 2 (0.047%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.047%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.047%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.023%) InDesign
10 1 (0.023%) Maya
Business Applications
1 66 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.23%) Aladdin
3 10 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
4 9 (0.21%) Maximo
4 9 (0.21%) NEC Housing
5 6 (0.14%) Endur
5 6 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
5 6 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.12%) SAP ERP
6 5 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.094%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.094%) SAP BPC
8 3 (0.070%) Findur
8 3 (0.070%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.070%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.070%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.070%) SAP FI/CO
8 3 (0.070%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 2,259 (52.95%) Azure
2 1,434 (33.61%) AWS
3 1,247 (29.23%) Azure DevOps
4 760 (17.82%) GitHub
5 579 (13.57%) GCP
6 468 (10.97%) Serverless
7 411 (9.63%) GitHub Actions
8 355 (8.32%) Power Platform
9 232 (5.44%) Amazon S3
10 226 (5.30%) AWS CloudFormation
10 226 (5.30%) AWS Lambda
11 214 (5.02%) Entra ID
12 212 (4.97%) Azure Data Factory
13 186 (4.36%) Azure AKS
14 185 (4.34%) OpenShift
15 165 (3.87%) Azure Monitor
16 159 (3.73%) Amazon EKS
17 148 (3.47%) Dynamics 365
18 147 (3.45%) PaaS
19 137 (3.21%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 194 (4.55%) Firewall
2 109 (2.56%) DNS
3 88 (2.06%) Network Security
4 77 (1.80%) VPN
5 39 (0.91%) TCP/IP
6 25 (0.59%) WAN
7 24 (0.56%) SD-WAN
8 23 (0.54%) SSL
9 22 (0.52%) DHCP
9 22 (0.52%) HTTP
10 17 (0.40%) BGP
11 16 (0.38%) IPsec
11 16 (0.38%) MPLS
12 14 (0.33%) SAN
13 13 (0.30%) Internet
14 12 (0.28%) LAN
14 12 (0.28%) Reverse Proxy
15 11 (0.26%) 5G
15 11 (0.26%) OpenVPN
16 10 (0.23%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 238 (5.58%) PostgreSQL
2 226 (5.30%) Power BI
3 194 (4.55%) SQL Server
4 172 (4.03%) NoSQL
5 150 (3.52%) Data Lake
6 120 (2.81%) Relational Database
7 111 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
8 95 (2.23%) Amazon RDS
9 94 (2.20%) Azure SQL Database
10 93 (2.18%) MongoDB
11 74 (1.73%) DynamoDB
12 72 (1.69%) Oracle Database
13 71 (1.66%) Delta Lake
14 69 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
15 66 (1.55%) Metadata
16 55 (1.29%) Tableau
17 53 (1.24%) Big Data
18 50 (1.17%) Redis
19 46 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
19 46 (1.08%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 668 (15.66%) Jenkins
2 561 (13.15%) Git
3 553 (12.96%) JIRA
4 454 (10.64%) GitLab
5 112 (2.63%) Selenium
6 97 (2.27%) JUnit
7 81 (1.90%) Postman
8 68 (1.59%) SonarQube
9 67 (1.57%) Bitbucket
10 54 (1.27%) Cucumber
11 53 (1.24%) Maven
12 50 (1.17%) Artifactory
13 48 (1.13%) REST Assured
14 42 (0.98%) Cypress.io
15 38 (0.89%) JMeter
16 33 (0.77%) Mockito
16 33 (0.77%) Oracle APEX
16 33 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
17 29 (0.68%) Liquibase
18 26 (0.61%) Gatling
General
1 1,204 (28.22%) Social Skills
2 822 (19.27%) Finance
3 524 (12.28%) Public Sector
4 370 (8.67%) Analytical Skills
5 331 (7.76%) Banking
6 152 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
7 68 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
8 61 (1.43%) Financial Institution
9 58 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 57 (1.34%) Retail
11 54 (1.27%) Marketing
12 52 (1.22%) Front Office
13 50 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
14 48 (1.13%) Investment Banking
15 43 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
16 41 (0.96%) Legal
17 37 (0.87%) Telecoms
18 28 (0.66%) Military
19 22 (0.52%) Law
20 21 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 754 (17.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 653 (15.31%) Developer
3 592 (13.88%) Senior
4 484 (11.35%) Architect
5 366 (8.58%) Lead
6 280 (6.56%) Azure Engineer
7 268 (6.28%) Data Engineer
8 241 (5.65%) Analyst
9 199 (4.66%) AWS Engineer
10 164 (3.84%) Cloud Engineer
11 157 (3.68%) Platform Engineer
12 151 (3.54%) AWS DevOps
13 148 (3.47%) Solutions Architect
14 146 (3.42%) Software Engineer
15 131 (3.07%) Senior Developer
16 129 (3.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 124 (2.91%) Business Analyst
18 121 (2.84%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 119 (2.79%) Senior DevOps
20 111 (2.60%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 452 (10.60%) REST
2 342 (8.02%) .NET
3 260 (6.09%) Node.js
4 258 (6.05%) Kafka
5 252 (5.91%) React
6 235 (5.51%) Spring
7 217 (5.09%) Spring Boot
8 208 (4.88%) RESTful
9 153 (3.59%) AngularJS
10 139 (3.26%) YAML
11 138 (3.23%) JSON
12 120 (2.81%) Playwright
13 117 (2.74%) OAuth
13 117 (2.74%) PySpark
14 110 (2.58%) HTML
14 110 (2.58%) SOAP
15 109 (2.56%) Middleware
16 103 (2.41%) Elastic Stack
17 91 (2.13%) CSS
17 91 (2.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 628 (14.72%) Cloud Native
2 258 (6.05%) Product Ownership
3 164 (3.84%) Distributed Systems
4 110 (2.58%) Onboarding
5 101 (2.37%) Public Cloud
6 89 (2.09%) Hybrid Cloud
6 89 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
7 82 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
8 62 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
9 54 (1.27%) Virtual Team
10 51 (1.20%) Management Information System
11 41 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
12 40 (0.94%) Private Cloud
13 39 (0.91%) Data Structures
14 38 (0.89%) Security Posture
15 37 (0.87%) AI Agents
15 37 (0.87%) Data Centre
16 36 (0.84%) NHS
17 31 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
18 30 (0.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 413 (9.68%) Linux
2 226 (5.30%) Windows
3 72 (1.69%) Unix
4 61 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 42 (0.98%) VMS
6 39 (0.91%) Windows Server
7 24 (0.56%) Ubuntu
8 14 (0.33%) CentOS
9 8 (0.19%) Android
9 8 (0.19%) Windows 10
10 7 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
11 6 (0.14%) Apple iOS
12 4 (0.094%) Solaris
12 4 (0.094%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.070%) Debian
13 3 (0.070%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.070%) Oracle Linux
13 3 (0.070%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.070%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.070%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,385 (55.91%) CI/CD
2 1,643 (38.51%) Agile
3 1,047 (24.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 769 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
5 751 (17.60%) Containerisation
6 634 (14.86%) Microservices
7 625 (14.65%) Test Automation
8 556 (13.03%) Continuous Improvement
9 544 (12.75%) Analytics
10 507 (11.88%) Migration
11 473 (11.09%) Scrum
12 471 (11.04%) Observability
12 471 (11.04%) Stakeholder Management
13 467 (10.95%) AI
14 398 (9.33%) Software Engineering
15 393 (9.21%) Data Modelling
16 356 (8.35%) Mentoring
17 341 (7.99%) Data Pipeline
18 324 (7.59%) Platform Engineering
19 312 (7.31%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,259 (29.51%) Python
2 915 (21.45%) SQL
3 556 (13.03%) Java
4 420 (9.85%) C#
5 365 (8.56%) JavaScript
6 331 (7.76%) PowerShell
7 304 (7.13%) Bash
8 257 (6.02%) TypeScript
9 145 (3.40%) Bicep
10 118 (2.77%) Go
11 82 (1.92%) PL/SQL
12 64 (1.50%) Scala
13 48 (1.13%) Shell Script
14 45 (1.05%) T-SQL
15 41 (0.96%) Groovy
16 34 (0.80%) C++
17 31 (0.73%) Apex Code
17 31 (0.73%) Ruby
18 22 (0.52%) Rust
19 20 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1,371 (32.14%) Security Cleared
2 1,119 (26.23%) SC Cleared
3 321 (7.52%) Degree
4 193 (4.52%) Azure Certification
5 164 (3.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 147 (3.45%) DV Cleared
7 115 (2.70%) AWS Certification
8 97 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
9 78 (1.83%) CISSP
10 65 (1.52%) Master's Degree
11 57 (1.34%) CISM
12 49 (1.15%) ISTQB
12 49 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
13 44 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 40 (0.94%) PMI Certification
15 35 (0.82%) PMP
16 34 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
17 22 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 21 (0.49%) IIBA
18 21 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 384 (9.00%) QA
2 187 (4.38%) Data Quality
3 172 (4.03%) GDPR
4 142 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 123 (2.88%) NIST
6 87 (2.04%) Accessibility
7 72 (1.69%) NCSC
8 39 (0.91%) PCI DSS
9 37 (0.87%) WCAG
10 29 (0.68%) PMO
10 29 (0.68%) SLA
11 28 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 17 (0.40%) HIPAA
13 16 (0.38%) ISO 20022
14 14 (0.33%) NIST 800
15 13 (0.30%) PSD2
15 13 (0.30%) SOC 2
16 12 (0.28%) GRC
17 11 (0.26%) SEPA
18 9 (0.21%) HL7
System Software
1 927 (21.73%) Docker
2 174 (4.08%) Active Directory
3 70 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 67 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
5 46 (1.08%) vSphere
6 32 (0.75%) VMware NSX
7 12 (0.28%) Hyper-V
7 12 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.26%) Squid
9 10 (0.23%) Postfix
10 9 (0.21%) Lustre
10 9 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 8 (0.19%) Firmware
11 8 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
12 7 (0.16%) GPFS
13 6 (0.14%) HDFS
14 5 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
14 5 (0.12%) RACF
15 4 (0.094%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
15 4 (0.094%) KVM
Systems Management
1 1,209 (28.34%) Terraform
2 1,166 (27.33%) Kubernetes
3 443 (10.38%) Ansible
4 283 (6.63%) Grafana
5 237 (5.56%) Prometheus
6 93 (2.18%) Argo
7 71 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
8 65 (1.52%) Puppet
9 49 (1.15%) Istio
10 29 (0.68%) vCenter Server
11 28 (0.66%) Packer
12 27 (0.63%) Progress Chef
13 22 (0.52%) Kibana
14 21 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 19 (0.45%) Rancher
16 18 (0.42%) FortiGate
17 17 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
18 16 (0.38%) Consul
18 16 (0.38%) Podman
19 15 (0.35%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 748 (17.53%) Microsoft
2 301 (7.06%) Oracle
3 259 (6.07%) Databricks
4 216 (5.06%) Google
5 192 (4.50%) Splunk
6 146 (3.42%) ServiceNow
7 136 (3.19%) Red Hat
8 120 (2.81%) VMware
9 116 (2.72%) Salesforce
10 95 (2.23%) SAP
11 72 (1.69%) OpenAI
12 67 (1.57%) Dynatrace
13 65 (1.52%) Atlassian
14 60 (1.41%) CyberArk
15 42 (0.98%) Talend
16 39 (0.91%) IBM
17 37 (0.87%) Denodo
18 33 (0.77%) Foundry
19 30 (0.70%) Cisco
19 30 (0.70%) Pure Storage