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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,860 2,903 3,349
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.65% 10.52% 10.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.50% 11.59% 11.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,343 2,110 2,281
10th Percentile £385 £358 £400
25th Percentile £439 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £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 114 22 82
10th Percentile £35.67 £35.75 £56.75
25th Percentile £55.69 £51.69 £62.45
Median hourly rate £67.25 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.37% -4.29% +6.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 £82.72 £74.44
90th Percentile £88.00 £94.75 £85.61
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 38,882 25,041 28,684
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.21% 90.76% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,206 16,026 18,694
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,519 1,388 1,683
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £20.01 £17.88 £18.15
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.27 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.68 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +69.69% -37.63% -5.12%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 2,520 £550 - 1,329
North of England -1 837 £500 +5.26% 397
South East -10 472 £525 +5.00% 367
Midlands -2 462 £490 -2.00% 194
Yorkshire +2 413 £500 +3.36% 117
West Midlands -2 379 £492 -4.47% 129
North West -2 331 £525 +12.90% 205
South West +11 322 £525 +0.96% 163
East of England +13 140 £505 +1.00% 82
North East +15 110 £425 -19.05% 77
East Midlands -1 78 £488 +7.26% 65
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
1 293 (6.03%) Confluence
2 124 (2.55%) SharePoint
3 120 (2.47%) Apache Spark
4 116 (2.39%) Apache Airflow
5 98 (2.02%) Apache
6 76 (1.56%) SAS
7 42 (0.86%) CMS
8 32 (0.66%) Jupyter
9 31 (0.64%) IIS
10 23 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
11 21 (0.43%) nginx
12 14 (0.29%) WebSphere
13 13 (0.27%) Camunda
14 12 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
15 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
16 10 (0.21%) OpenStack
17 9 (0.19%) Anypoint
17 9 (0.19%) Appian
18 7 (0.14%) Tomcat
18 7 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 61 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
2 55 (1.13%) 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 2,611 (53.72%) Azure
2 1,663 (34.22%) AWS
3 1,513 (31.13%) Azure DevOps
4 808 (16.63%) GitHub
5 600 (12.35%) GCP
6 505 (10.39%) GitHub Actions
7 415 (8.54%) Power Platform
8 375 (7.72%) Serverless
9 243 (5.00%) Amazon S3
10 240 (4.94%) Entra ID
11 219 (4.51%) AWS Lambda
12 193 (3.97%) Azure AKS
13 182 (3.74%) AWS CloudFormation
14 178 (3.66%) Amazon EKS
15 175 (3.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 175 (3.60%) Azure Data Factory
16 172 (3.54%) Azure Monitor
17 149 (3.07%) Dynamics 365
18 146 (3.00%) Amazon EC2
18 146 (3.00%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 233 (4.79%) Firewall
2 144 (2.96%) DNS
3 115 (2.37%) VPN
4 104 (2.14%) Network Security
5 62 (1.28%) TCP/IP
6 49 (1.01%) WAN
7 41 (0.84%) SSL
8 37 (0.76%) 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%) VLAN
15 18 (0.37%) SAN
15 18 (0.37%) VXLAN
16 17 (0.35%) MPLS
16 17 (0.35%) SSH
17 16 (0.33%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 292 (6.01%) Power BI
2 256 (5.27%) SQL Server
3 226 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
4 174 (3.58%) Data Warehouse
5 168 (3.46%) NoSQL
6 154 (3.17%) Relational Database
7 147 (3.02%) Data Lake
8 140 (2.88%) MongoDB
9 98 (2.02%) Metadata
10 95 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
11 94 (1.93%) Azure SQL Database
12 85 (1.75%) Delta Lake
13 79 (1.63%) DynamoDB
14 75 (1.54%) Oracle Database
15 60 (1.23%) Redis
16 59 (1.21%) Big Data
17 57 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
18 52 (1.07%) MySQL
19 49 (1.01%) BigQuery
20 46 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 668 (13.74%) Jenkins
2 650 (13.37%) Git
3 579 (11.91%) JIRA
4 499 (10.27%) GitLab
5 106 (2.18%) Selenium
6 91 (1.87%) SonarQube
7 82 (1.69%) Postman
8 75 (1.54%) JUnit
9 74 (1.52%) Bitbucket
10 72 (1.48%) Maven
11 56 (1.15%) REST Assured
12 55 (1.13%) Cypress.io
13 54 (1.11%) JMeter
14 50 (1.03%) Cucumber
15 47 (0.97%) Gatling
16 42 (0.86%) Gradle
17 40 (0.82%) LoadRunner
18 38 (0.78%) Mockito
19 34 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
20 33 (0.68%) Artifactory
General
1 1,234 (25.39%) Social Skills
2 912 (18.77%) Finance
3 666 (13.70%) Public Sector
4 461 (9.49%) Analytical Skills
5 341 (7.02%) Banking
6 128 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 101 (2.08%) Retail
8 92 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
9 68 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
10 59 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
11 55 (1.13%) Legal
11 55 (1.13%) Marketing
12 47 (0.97%) Investment Banking
13 44 (0.91%) Aerospace
14 42 (0.86%) Military
15 40 (0.82%) Financial Institution
15 40 (0.82%) Telecoms
16 39 (0.80%) Front Office
16 39 (0.80%) Law
17 36 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 895 (18.42%) DevOps Engineer
2 775 (15.95%) Developer
3 716 (14.73%) Senior
4 556 (11.44%) Architect
5 488 (10.04%) Lead
6 293 (6.03%) Azure Engineer
7 291 (5.99%) Data Engineer
8 249 (5.12%) Analyst
9 207 (4.26%) AWS Engineer
10 196 (4.03%) Platform Engineer
11 178 (3.66%) Cloud Engineer
12 172 (3.54%) Senior DevOps
13 171 (3.52%) Solutions Architect
14 158 (3.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 151 (3.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 145 (2.98%) AWS DevOps
17 144 (2.96%) Java Developer
18 138 (2.84%) Software Engineer
19 132 (2.72%) AWS DevOps Engineer
20 128 (2.63%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 488 (10.04%) REST
2 426 (8.77%) .NET
3 289 (5.95%) Kafka
4 260 (5.35%) RESTful
5 247 (5.08%) React
6 234 (4.81%) Spring
7 214 (4.40%) Spring Boot
8 178 (3.66%) Node.js
9 150 (3.09%) JSON
10 146 (3.00%) PySpark
11 139 (2.86%) OAuth
12 136 (2.80%) Playwright
13 130 (2.67%) AngularJS
14 129 (2.65%) .NET Framework
15 126 (2.59%) SOAP
16 113 (2.33%) HTML
17 102 (2.10%) YAML
18 97 (2.00%) CSS
19 95 (1.95%) OAuth2
20 88 (1.81%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 868 (17.86%) Cloud Native
2 347 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 227 (4.67%) Distributed Systems
4 147 (3.02%) Onboarding
5 140 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
6 138 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
7 127 (2.61%) Hybrid Cloud
8 78 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
9 71 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
10 70 (1.44%) Management Information System
11 67 (1.38%) Public Cloud
12 65 (1.34%) Security Posture
13 64 (1.32%) AI Agents
13 64 (1.32%) Data Structures
14 58 (1.19%) Data Centre
15 53 (1.09%) Mobile App
15 53 (1.09%) Replication
16 47 (0.97%) Virtual Team
17 39 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
17 39 (0.80%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 433 (8.91%) Linux
2 271 (5.58%) Windows
3 98 (2.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 75 (1.54%) Unix
5 73 (1.50%) Windows Server
6 28 (0.58%) Ubuntu
7 27 (0.56%) Apple iOS
8 24 (0.49%) 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%) zOS
12 7 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
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 2,804 (57.70%) CI/CD
2 1,944 (40.00%) Agile
3 1,305 (26.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 788 (16.21%) Continuous Improvement
5 774 (15.93%) Containerisation
6 765 (15.74%) Problem-Solving
7 748 (15.39%) Test Automation
8 705 (14.51%) AI
9 701 (14.42%) Stakeholder Management
10 694 (14.28%) Microservices
11 621 (12.78%) Observability
12 611 (12.57%) Scrum
13 601 (12.37%) Software Engineering
14 582 (11.98%) Platform Engineering
15 571 (11.75%) Migration
16 558 (11.48%) Analytics
17 464 (9.55%) Technical Leadership
18 453 (9.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 439 (9.03%) Data Modelling
20 419 (8.62%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,390 (28.60%) Python
2 916 (18.85%) SQL
3 678 (13.95%) Java
4 449 (9.24%) C#
5 407 (8.37%) PowerShell
6 404 (8.31%) Bash
7 387 (7.96%) JavaScript
8 269 (5.53%) TypeScript
9 193 (3.97%) Bicep
10 85 (1.75%) Go
11 58 (1.19%) Shell Script
11 58 (1.19%) T-SQL
12 55 (1.13%) PL/SQL
13 53 (1.09%) Scala
14 52 (1.07%) Apex Code
15 50 (1.03%) Groovy
16 33 (0.68%) C++
17 27 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 25 (0.51%) C
18 25 (0.51%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,550 (31.89%) Security Cleared
2 1,299 (26.73%) SC Cleared
3 303 (6.23%) Degree
4 201 (4.14%) Azure Certification
5 181 (3.72%) DV Cleared
6 163 (3.35%) AWS Certification
7 133 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 113 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
9 81 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
10 76 (1.56%) CISSP
11 53 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
12 47 (0.97%) ISTQB
13 45 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 41 (0.84%) PMP
15 36 (0.74%) PMI Certification
16 32 (0.66%) Master's Degree
17 31 (0.64%) CISM
18 24 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 23 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
20 22 (0.45%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 457 (9.40%) QA
2 249 (5.12%) Data Quality
3 156 (3.21%) Accessibility
4 135 (2.78%) GDPR
5 84 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 75 (1.54%) WCAG
7 74 (1.52%) NIST
8 48 (0.99%) NCSC
9 43 (0.88%) PMO
10 37 (0.76%) PCI DSS
11 29 (0.60%) SLA
12 26 (0.53%) GRC
13 24 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 10 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
14 10 (0.21%) HIPAA
14 10 (0.21%) ISO 20022
15 9 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
16 8 (0.16%) PSD2
16 8 (0.16%) SEPA
17 7 (0.14%) HL7
System Software
1 952 (19.59%) Docker
2 170 (3.50%) Active Directory
3 74 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
4 70 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 23 (0.47%) Hyper-V
6 21 (0.43%) vSphere
7 17 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
7 17 (0.35%) VMware NSX
8 13 (0.27%) Squid
8 13 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.25%) Postfix
10 11 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
11 8 (0.16%) IAG
11 8 (0.16%) KVM
12 6 (0.12%) Corosync
13 5 (0.10%) Firmware
13 5 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.10%) NFS
13 5 (0.10%) SRDF
14 4 (0.082%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,373 (28.25%) Terraform
2 1,217 (25.04%) Kubernetes
3 477 (9.81%) Ansible
4 312 (6.42%) Grafana
5 263 (5.41%) Prometheus
6 75 (1.54%) Argo
7 58 (1.19%) Puppet
8 56 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
9 43 (0.88%) Progress Chef
10 34 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
11 32 (0.66%) Packer
12 29 (0.60%) Istio
13 19 (0.39%) vCenter Server
14 17 (0.35%) SCCM
15 15 (0.31%) Kibana
15 15 (0.31%) Kustomize
16 14 (0.29%) Kubeflow
16 14 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
17 12 (0.25%) HAProxy
18 11 (0.23%) systemd
Vendors
1 912 (18.77%) Microsoft
2 252 (5.19%) Oracle
3 248 (5.10%) Databricks
4 229 (4.71%) Google
5 190 (3.91%) ServiceNow
6 158 (3.25%) Splunk
7 149 (3.07%) Salesforce
8 127 (2.61%) Dynatrace
9 108 (2.22%) SAP
10 100 (2.06%) Red Hat
11 98 (2.02%) VMware
12 60 (1.23%) IBM
13 49 (1.01%) Atlassian
13 49 (1.01%) Informatica
14 45 (0.93%) Cisco
14 45 (0.93%) OpenAI
15 41 (0.84%) AppDynamics
16 37 (0.76%) Foundry
17 35 (0.72%) Denodo
18 33 (0.68%) MuleSoft