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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 14 14
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 2,952 3,292 4,321
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 10.79% 10.10% 10.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.87% 11.74% 11.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,093 2,235 3,211
10th Percentile £360 £400 £413
25th Percentile £425 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £580
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -5.17% -3.33%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £688
90th Percentile £725 £738 £788
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -5.45% -4.35% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 67 103
10th Percentile £42.50 £56.50 £46.18
25th Percentile £53.00 £65.00 £56.25
Median hourly rate £67.00 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% +7.69% -0.92%
75th Percentile £88.75 £74.72 £78.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £85.41 £84.62
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -4.29% +7.69% -0.92%

All Process and 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 24,859 28,043 38,151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.86% 86.03% 89.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,781 17,557 26,415
10th Percentile £300 £313 £319
25th Percentile £404 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £648 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,478 1,320 1,438
10th Percentile £14.29 £14.84 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.79 £20.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.54
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -1.24% +50.14%
75th Percentile £48.74 £66.53 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +47.06%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps 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 15 September 2025.

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 15 September 2025.

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 15 September 2025. 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 -3 1,569 £550 - 858
North of England +4 476 £475 -9.52% 414
South East +5 326 £500 -14.89% 571
Midlands +13 274 £514 -6.59% 215
Yorkshire 0 256 £485 -3.00% 128
West Midlands +12 215 £525 -8.70% 120
North West +1 209 £463 -15.91% 232
South West -4 134 £525 -8.70% 175
East of England +37 75 £523 -5.00% 107
East Midlands +11 59 £420 -5.62% 84
North East -17 13 £520 -20.00% 58
DevOps
UK

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 185 (6.27%) Confluence
2 83 (2.81%) Apache
3 51 (1.73%) Apache Spark
4 50 (1.69%) SharePoint
5 46 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
6 36 (1.22%) CMS
7 31 (1.05%) nginx
8 28 (0.95%) CICS
8 28 (0.95%) SAS
9 23 (0.78%) IIS
9 23 (0.78%) JBoss
9 23 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
10 21 (0.71%) WebSphere
11 14 (0.47%) OpenStack
12 11 (0.37%) Tomcat
13 10 (0.34%) Mule
13 10 (0.34%) WebSphere Application Server
14 8 (0.27%) Anypoint
14 8 (0.27%) iPlanet
15 7 (0.24%) WebLogic
Applications
1 45 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
4 16 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.51%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.41%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 8 (0.27%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.17%) Trello
9 1 (0.034%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.034%) InVision
9 1 (0.034%) Moqups
9 1 (0.034%) Revit
9 1 (0.034%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 35 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (0.95%) Endur
3 17 (0.58%) VisionPLUS
4 15 (0.51%) Oracle BPM
4 15 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
5 14 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
6 12 (0.41%) Aladdin
7 11 (0.37%) FLEXCUBE
7 11 (0.37%) Maximo
8 6 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.14%) Fidessa
9 4 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
9 4 (0.14%) SAP PM
9 4 (0.14%) thinkFolio
10 3 (0.10%) Teamcenter
11 2 (0.068%) Dynamics AX
11 2 (0.068%) Eagle PACE
11 2 (0.068%) Oracle ERP
11 2 (0.068%) ResourceLink
11 2 (0.068%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,401 (47.46%) Azure
2 1,044 (35.37%) AWS
3 775 (26.25%) Azure DevOps
4 376 (12.74%) GitHub
5 366 (12.40%) GCP
6 280 (9.49%) Serverless
7 219 (7.42%) GitHub Actions
8 196 (6.64%) Power Platform
9 189 (6.40%) Amazon S3
10 150 (5.08%) AWS Lambda
11 149 (5.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 146 (4.95%) AWS CloudFormation
13 132 (4.47%) Amazon EC2
14 120 (4.07%) Azure AKS
15 117 (3.96%) SaaS
16 100 (3.39%) Azure Data Factory
16 100 (3.39%) PaaS
17 99 (3.35%) Entra ID
18 90 (3.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 85 (2.88%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 184 (6.23%) Firewall
2 130 (4.40%) DNS
3 74 (2.51%) VPN
4 70 (2.37%) SSL
5 65 (2.20%) TCP/IP
6 59 (2.00%) HTTP
7 54 (1.83%) Network Security
8 46 (1.56%) SMTP
9 35 (1.19%) SSH
10 28 (0.95%) FTP
11 25 (0.85%) DHCP
12 23 (0.78%) BGP
12 23 (0.78%) WAN
13 22 (0.75%) HTTPS
14 18 (0.61%) LAN
15 16 (0.54%) OpenLDAP
16 15 (0.51%) MPLS
17 14 (0.47%) OSPF
18 12 (0.41%) IMAP
19 11 (0.37%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 196 (6.64%) PostgreSQL
2 154 (5.22%) SQL Server
3 128 (4.34%) Power BI
4 127 (4.30%) NoSQL
5 118 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
6 100 (3.39%) Relational Database
7 92 (3.12%) MongoDB
8 66 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
9 64 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
10 62 (2.10%) Data Lake
11 59 (2.00%) Oracle Database
12 54 (1.83%) DynamoDB
13 49 (1.66%) Big Data
13 49 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
14 45 (1.52%) Redis
15 38 (1.29%) Delta Lake
16 35 (1.19%) MySQL
17 34 (1.15%) Amazon Aurora
18 26 (0.88%) Metadata
19 23 (0.78%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 551 (18.67%) Jenkins
2 444 (15.04%) Git
3 430 (14.57%) JIRA
4 337 (11.42%) GitLab
5 102 (3.46%) SonarQube
6 95 (3.22%) Selenium
7 73 (2.47%) JUnit
8 72 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
9 69 (2.34%) Bitbucket
10 64 (2.17%) Gradle
11 62 (2.10%) Postman
12 59 (2.00%) Liquibase
13 57 (1.93%) Maven
14 52 (1.76%) Cucumber
15 49 (1.66%) TeamCity
16 45 (1.52%) Mockito
17 43 (1.46%) Cypress.io
18 27 (0.91%) JMeter
18 27 (0.91%) Vagrant
18 27 (0.91%) Visual Studio
General
1 868 (29.40%) Social Skills
2 569 (19.28%) Finance
3 328 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 292 (9.89%) Banking
5 279 (9.45%) Analytical Skills
6 81 (2.74%) Investment Banking
7 71 (2.41%) Telecoms
8 70 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
9 68 (2.30%) Marketing
10 51 (1.73%) Retail
11 43 (1.46%) Manufacturing
12 41 (1.39%) Front Office
12 41 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 39 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
14 34 (1.15%) Financial Institution
15 31 (1.05%) Law
15 31 (1.05%) Military
16 30 (1.02%) Back Office
16 30 (1.02%) Electronics
17 22 (0.75%) Legal
Job Titles
1 612 (20.73%) Developer
2 514 (17.41%) DevOps Engineer
3 362 (12.26%) Senior
4 276 (9.35%) Architect
5 219 (7.42%) Lead
6 174 (5.89%) AWS Engineer
7 154 (5.22%) Azure Engineer
8 141 (4.78%) Analyst
9 133 (4.51%) AWS DevOps
10 123 (4.17%) Software Engineer
11 122 (4.13%) Java Developer
12 119 (4.03%) Data Engineer
13 112 (3.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 108 (3.66%) Senior Developer
15 103 (3.49%) Cloud Engineer
16 99 (3.35%) Platform Engineer
17 84 (2.85%) Consultant
18 78 (2.64%) Business Analyst
18 78 (2.64%) Solutions Architect
19 71 (2.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 281 (9.52%) .NET
2 260 (8.81%) REST
3 207 (7.01%) Kafka
4 206 (6.98%) React
5 193 (6.54%) RESTful
6 150 (5.08%) Node.js
7 129 (4.37%) Spring Boot
8 128 (4.34%) HTML
9 121 (4.10%) JSON
10 120 (4.07%) Spring
11 112 (3.79%) SOAP
12 103 (3.49%) AngularJS
13 101 (3.42%) OAuth
14 100 (3.39%) Elastic Stack
15 95 (3.22%) CSS
16 86 (2.91%) YAML
17 77 (2.61%) Web Services
18 76 (2.57%) ARM Templates
19 73 (2.47%) XML
20 67 (2.27%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 348 (11.79%) Cloud Native
2 124 (4.20%) Product Ownership
3 121 (4.10%) Distributed Systems
4 89 (3.01%) Onboarding
5 65 (2.20%) Mobile App
6 64 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
7 52 (1.76%) Data Centre
8 51 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
9 49 (1.66%) Public Cloud
10 48 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 48 (1.63%) Replication
11 47 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
12 45 (1.52%) Management Information System
13 43 (1.46%) Algorithms
13 43 (1.46%) PKI
14 41 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
15 40 (1.36%) Security Posture
16 34 (1.15%) Data Structures
17 33 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
18 28 (0.95%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 363 (12.30%) Linux
2 207 (7.01%) Windows
3 76 (2.57%) Unix
4 67 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 63 (2.13%) Windows Server
6 53 (1.80%) Android
7 43 (1.46%) Apple iOS
8 34 (1.15%) VMS
9 26 (0.88%) Amazon Linux
10 24 (0.81%) CentOS
11 20 (0.68%) Ubuntu
12 17 (0.58%) Solaris
13 11 (0.37%) Windows 10
13 11 (0.37%) zOS
14 9 (0.30%) Mac OS
15 8 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
16 4 (0.14%) SUSE
16 4 (0.14%) Windows Server 2003
17 3 (0.10%) AIX
17 3 (0.10%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,501 (50.85%) CI/CD
2 1,230 (41.67%) Agile
3 679 (23.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 535 (18.12%) Problem-Solving
5 493 (16.70%) Containerisation
6 442 (14.97%) Microservices
7 436 (14.77%) Test Automation
8 353 (11.96%) Scrum
9 338 (11.45%) Migration
10 326 (11.04%) Software Engineering
11 265 (8.98%) Analytics
12 247 (8.37%) Continuous Improvement
13 229 (7.76%) Artificial Intelligence
14 217 (7.35%) Mentoring
15 213 (7.22%) Observability
16 210 (7.11%) SDLC
17 201 (6.81%) TDD
18 197 (6.67%) Continuous Integration
19 195 (6.61%) Stakeholder Management
20 190 (6.44%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 883 (29.91%) Python
2 569 (19.28%) SQL
3 488 (16.53%) Java
4 323 (10.94%) C#
5 304 (10.30%) JavaScript
6 276 (9.35%) PowerShell
7 270 (9.15%) Bash
8 196 (6.64%) TypeScript
9 126 (4.27%) Go
10 101 (3.42%) Bicep
11 72 (2.44%) Shell Script
12 57 (1.93%) Groovy
13 45 (1.52%) Perl
14 41 (1.39%) Scala
15 40 (1.36%) C++
16 39 (1.32%) PL/SQL
17 34 (1.15%) Kotlin
18 25 (0.85%) PHP
19 22 (0.75%) COBOL
20 19 (0.64%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 700 (23.71%) Security Cleared
2 558 (18.90%) SC Cleared
3 245 (8.30%) Degree
4 117 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 106 (3.59%) DV Cleared
6 105 (3.56%) AWS Certification
7 102 (3.46%) Azure Certification
8 45 (1.52%) Master's Degree
9 39 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
9 39 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
10 37 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 36 (1.22%) CISSP
12 30 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
13 24 (0.81%) ISTQB
14 21 (0.71%) PMI Certification
15 20 (0.68%) PMP
16 19 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 17 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
18 14 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
18 14 (0.47%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 243 (8.23%) QA
2 113 (3.83%) GDPR
3 82 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 76 (2.57%) Data Quality
5 66 (2.24%) Accessibility
6 65 (2.20%) NIST
7 23 (0.78%) HIPAA
8 21 (0.71%) NCSC
8 21 (0.71%) PCI DSS
9 19 (0.64%) SLA
10 15 (0.51%) WCAG
11 13 (0.44%) SOC 2
12 11 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 11 (0.37%) SEPA
13 9 (0.30%) ISO 20022
13 9 (0.30%) MiFID
13 9 (0.30%) PMO
13 9 (0.30%) PSD2
14 8 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 672 (22.76%) Docker
2 148 (5.01%) Active Directory
3 64 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (0.88%) DFS Replication
6 18 (0.61%) Postfix
7 16 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
8 14 (0.47%) vSphere
9 13 (0.44%) Oracle RAC
9 13 (0.44%) Squid
10 12 (0.41%) Dovecot
10 12 (0.41%) Hyper-V
10 12 (0.41%) Microsoft App-V
11 11 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
12 9 (0.30%) BitLocker
12 9 (0.30%) Terminal Services
13 7 (0.24%) Tivoli Directory Server
14 6 (0.20%) Veritas Cluster Server
15 5 (0.17%) GridGain
15 5 (0.17%) NFS
Systems Management
1 855 (28.96%) Terraform
2 808 (27.37%) Kubernetes
3 409 (13.86%) Ansible
4 210 (7.11%) Prometheus
5 198 (6.71%) Grafana
6 83 (2.81%) Puppet
7 63 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
8 61 (2.07%) Progress Chef
9 46 (1.56%) Kibana
10 33 (1.12%) Argo
11 23 (0.78%) Packer
12 22 (0.75%) ITRS Geneos
13 18 (0.61%) Nessus
13 18 (0.61%) Podman
13 18 (0.61%) SCCM
14 17 (0.58%) Istio
14 17 (0.58%) Nagios
15 16 (0.54%) CA Endevor
15 16 (0.54%) HP ALM
15 16 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 526 (17.82%) Microsoft
2 205 (6.94%) Oracle
3 154 (5.22%) Splunk
4 151 (5.12%) Google
5 120 (4.07%) Databricks
6 112 (3.79%) ServiceNow
7 84 (2.85%) SAP
8 83 (2.81%) VMware
9 77 (2.61%) Salesforce
10 70 (2.37%) Red Hat
11 48 (1.63%) IBM
12 46 (1.56%) Dynatrace
13 44 (1.49%) MuleSoft
14 40 (1.36%) HP
15 35 (1.19%) Cisco
15 35 (1.19%) F5
16 30 (1.02%) Palo Alto
17 27 (0.91%) AppDynamics
18 26 (0.88%) CheckPoint
19 21 (0.71%) Atlassian