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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 16 15
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,767 2,823 3,383
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.63% 10.26% 9.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.48% 11.31% 11.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,295 2,045 2,317
10th Percentile £385 £359 £400
25th Percentile £440 £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 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 21 88
10th Percentile £29.23 £35.00 £56.43
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.25 £64.15
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.75% -4.29% +7.28%
75th Percentile £75.00 £82.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £90.70 £92.50 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +0.75% -4.29% +7.28%

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 38,210 24,959 29,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.22% 90.75% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,914 15,999 19,151
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -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% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,406 1,365 1,791
10th Percentile £15.05 £14.22 £13.87
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £17.75
Median hourly rate £46.62 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +85.35% -39.40% -2.35%
75th Percentile £69.49 £51.65 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.10 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 29 July 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 +2 2,454 £550 - 821
North of England +3 848 £500 +4.17% 335
Midlands +2 457 £491 +3.37% 159
South East -10 456 £525 +5.00% 291
Yorkshire +2 428 £500 +2.04% 91
West Midlands -1 372 £495 -1.04% 116
North West -2 333 £521 +9.70% 173
South West +14 319 £525 - 145
East of England +15 137 £509 +1.70% 67
North East +8 104 £425 -18.66% 73
East Midlands +2 80 £488 +7.26% 43
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
1 292 (6.13%) Confluence
2 125 (2.62%) SharePoint
3 117 (2.45%) Apache Spark
4 104 (2.18%) Apache Airflow
5 93 (1.95%) Apache
6 72 (1.51%) SAS
7 42 (0.88%) CMS
8 31 (0.65%) IIS
8 31 (0.65%) Jupyter
9 23 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
9 23 (0.48%) nginx
10 14 (0.29%) WebSphere
11 13 (0.27%) Camunda
12 12 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
13 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
14 9 (0.19%) Appian
14 9 (0.19%) OpenStack
15 8 (0.17%) Anypoint
16 7 (0.15%) Tomcat
16 7 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 60 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
2 54 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 33 (0.69%) MS Visio
4 30 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
5 25 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.21%) CPLEX
7 9 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.15%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.13%) Trello
10 4 (0.084%) Notion
11 2 (0.042%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
12 1 (0.021%) InDesign
12 1 (0.021%) Maya
12 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 58 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.21%) Aladdin
3 10 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
4 9 (0.19%) Magento
4 9 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
5 8 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
5 8 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.13%) Maximo
7 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
7 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
7 5 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.084%) Endur
8 4 (0.084%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.084%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.063%) Findur
9 3 (0.063%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.063%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.063%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2,544 (53.37%) Azure
2 1,650 (34.61%) AWS
3 1,460 (30.63%) Azure DevOps
4 772 (16.19%) GitHub
5 583 (12.23%) GCP
6 480 (10.07%) GitHub Actions
7 403 (8.45%) Power Platform
8 376 (7.89%) Serverless
9 247 (5.18%) Amazon S3
10 229 (4.80%) Entra ID
11 217 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
12 192 (4.03%) Azure AKS
13 179 (3.75%) AWS CloudFormation
14 174 (3.65%) Amazon EKS
15 164 (3.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 164 (3.44%) Azure Monitor
16 162 (3.40%) Azure Data Factory
17 148 (3.10%) Amazon EC2
18 145 (3.04%) Dynamics 365
19 140 (2.94%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 223 (4.68%) Firewall
2 131 (2.75%) DNS
3 111 (2.33%) VPN
4 103 (2.16%) Network Security
5 54 (1.13%) TCP/IP
6 49 (1.03%) WAN
7 39 (0.82%) SSL
8 36 (0.76%) SD-WAN
9 31 (0.65%) BGP
9 31 (0.65%) Internet
10 30 (0.63%) DHCP
11 27 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
12 25 (0.52%) OSPF
13 21 (0.44%) HTTP
14 18 (0.38%) VXLAN
15 17 (0.36%) MPLS
15 17 (0.36%) SAN
15 17 (0.36%) VLAN
16 16 (0.34%) BIG-IP
16 16 (0.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 280 (5.87%) Power BI
2 251 (5.27%) SQL Server
3 227 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
4 162 (3.40%) NoSQL
5 155 (3.25%) Data Warehouse
6 150 (3.15%) Relational Database
7 141 (2.96%) Data Lake
8 139 (2.92%) MongoDB
9 94 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
10 88 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
11 87 (1.83%) Metadata
12 80 (1.68%) Delta Lake
12 80 (1.68%) DynamoDB
13 74 (1.55%) Oracle Database
14 56 (1.17%) Big Data
14 56 (1.17%) Redis
15 54 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
16 47 (0.99%) Amazon Athena
16 47 (0.99%) MySQL
17 43 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 660 (13.85%) Jenkins
2 616 (12.92%) Git
3 571 (11.98%) JIRA
4 484 (10.15%) GitLab
5 105 (2.20%) Selenium
6 86 (1.80%) SonarQube
7 82 (1.72%) Postman
8 81 (1.70%) JUnit
9 73 (1.53%) Bitbucket
10 68 (1.43%) Maven
11 57 (1.20%) REST Assured
12 54 (1.13%) JMeter
13 52 (1.09%) Cucumber
14 50 (1.05%) Cypress.io
15 44 (0.92%) Gatling
16 40 (0.84%) Mockito
17 39 (0.82%) Gradle
18 37 (0.78%) LoadRunner
19 34 (0.71%) Artifactory
20 31 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,187 (24.90%) Social Skills
2 894 (18.75%) Finance
3 651 (13.66%) Public Sector
4 429 (9.00%) Analytical Skills
5 326 (6.84%) Banking
6 115 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 94 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
8 92 (1.93%) Retail
9 64 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
10 58 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
11 55 (1.15%) Legal
12 53 (1.11%) Marketing
13 44 (0.92%) Military
14 43 (0.90%) Investment Banking
15 40 (0.84%) Law
16 37 (0.78%) Financial Institution
16 37 (0.78%) Front Office
17 36 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
17 36 (0.76%) Telecoms
18 33 (0.69%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 898 (18.84%) DevOps Engineer
2 759 (15.92%) Developer
3 686 (14.39%) Senior
4 544 (11.41%) Architect
5 472 (9.90%) Lead
6 288 (6.04%) Azure Engineer
7 281 (5.89%) Data Engineer
8 251 (5.27%) Analyst
9 209 (4.38%) AWS Engineer
10 201 (4.22%) Platform Engineer
11 177 (3.71%) Cloud Engineer
12 170 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
13 169 (3.55%) Senior DevOps
14 155 (3.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 151 (3.17%) Java Developer
16 149 (3.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 145 (3.04%) AWS DevOps
18 135 (2.83%) Software Engineer
19 132 (2.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
20 127 (2.66%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 468 (9.82%) REST
2 418 (8.77%) .NET
3 277 (5.81%) Kafka
4 246 (5.16%) RESTful
5 244 (5.12%) React
6 243 (5.10%) Spring
7 223 (4.68%) Spring Boot
8 175 (3.67%) Node.js
9 142 (2.98%) JSON
9 142 (2.98%) PySpark
10 138 (2.89%) OAuth
11 135 (2.83%) AngularJS
12 128 (2.69%) SOAP
13 127 (2.66%) .NET Framework
13 127 (2.66%) Playwright
14 107 (2.24%) HTML
15 99 (2.08%) YAML
16 95 (1.99%) OAuth2
17 92 (1.93%) CSS
18 87 (1.83%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 843 (17.68%) Cloud Native
2 333 (6.99%) Product Ownership
3 229 (4.80%) Distributed Systems
4 141 (2.96%) Onboarding
5 135 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
6 130 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
7 117 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
8 75 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
9 72 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
10 68 (1.43%) Public Cloud
11 66 (1.38%) Management Information System
12 64 (1.34%) Security Posture
13 62 (1.30%) Data Centre
13 62 (1.30%) Data Structures
14 59 (1.24%) AI Agents
15 51 (1.07%) Replication
16 49 (1.03%) Virtual Team
17 48 (1.01%) Mobile App
18 38 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
19 37 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 420 (8.81%) Linux
2 258 (5.41%) Windows
3 95 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 72 (1.51%) Unix
5 66 (1.38%) Windows Server
6 27 (0.57%) Ubuntu
7 25 (0.52%) VMS
8 24 (0.50%) Apple iOS
9 16 (0.34%) Android
10 10 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
11 9 (0.19%) Solaris
12 8 (0.17%) zOS
13 7 (0.15%) AIX
13 7 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
14 6 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
14 6 (0.13%) CentOS
14 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
15 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
16 4 (0.084%) Alpine Linux
16 4 (0.084%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,732 (57.31%) CI/CD
2 1,906 (39.98%) Agile
3 1,267 (26.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 767 (16.09%) Containerisation
5 748 (15.69%) Continuous Improvement
6 738 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
7 706 (14.81%) Test Automation
8 683 (14.33%) Microservices
9 663 (13.91%) Stakeholder Management
10 657 (13.78%) AI
11 604 (12.67%) Observability
12 600 (12.59%) Scrum
13 578 (12.13%) Software Engineering
14 564 (11.83%) Migration
15 563 (11.81%) Platform Engineering
16 535 (11.22%) Analytics
17 432 (9.06%) Technical Leadership
18 426 (8.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 420 (8.81%) Data Modelling
20 412 (8.64%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,351 (28.34%) Python
2 888 (18.63%) SQL
3 674 (14.14%) Java
4 433 (9.08%) C#
5 391 (8.20%) Bash
6 378 (7.93%) PowerShell
7 365 (7.66%) JavaScript
8 256 (5.37%) TypeScript
9 180 (3.78%) Bicep
10 91 (1.91%) Go
11 57 (1.20%) PL/SQL
12 55 (1.15%) Shell Script
13 54 (1.13%) T-SQL
14 51 (1.07%) Apex Code
15 49 (1.03%) Groovy
16 47 (0.99%) Scala
17 30 (0.63%) C++
18 26 (0.55%) Kotlin
19 24 (0.50%) C
19 24 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1,512 (31.72%) Security Cleared
2 1,260 (26.43%) SC Cleared
3 295 (6.19%) Degree
4 196 (4.11%) Azure Certification
5 184 (3.86%) DV Cleared
6 160 (3.36%) AWS Certification
7 124 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
8 105 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
9 77 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
10 72 (1.51%) CISSP
11 50 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
12 46 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 45 (0.94%) ISTQB
14 39 (0.82%) PMP
15 34 (0.71%) PMI Certification
16 33 (0.69%) Master's Degree
17 30 (0.63%) CISM
18 23 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 22 (0.46%) CCNP
19 22 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 440 (9.23%) QA
2 228 (4.78%) Data Quality
3 150 (3.15%) Accessibility
4 136 (2.85%) GDPR
5 78 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 74 (1.55%) NIST
7 71 (1.49%) WCAG
8 44 (0.92%) NCSC
9 41 (0.86%) PMO
10 38 (0.80%) PCI DSS
11 28 (0.59%) SLA
12 26 (0.55%) GRC
13 23 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 10 (0.21%) HIPAA
15 9 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.19%) PSD2
16 8 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
16 8 (0.17%) ISO 20022
16 8 (0.17%) SEPA
16 8 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 919 (19.28%) Docker
2 165 (3.46%) Active Directory
3 76 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
4 66 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 26 (0.55%) vSphere
6 21 (0.44%) VMware NSX
7 17 (0.36%) Hyper-V
7 17 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
8 14 (0.29%) Postfix
8 14 (0.29%) Squid
8 14 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
9 10 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
10 8 (0.17%) KVM
11 7 (0.15%) IAG
12 6 (0.13%) Corosync
13 5 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.10%) NFS
13 5 (0.10%) RACF
13 5 (0.10%) SRDF
14 4 (0.084%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1,346 (28.24%) Terraform
2 1,195 (25.07%) Kubernetes
3 464 (9.73%) Ansible
4 312 (6.54%) Grafana
5 261 (5.48%) Prometheus
6 82 (1.72%) Argo
7 57 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
8 56 (1.17%) Puppet
9 40 (0.84%) Progress Chef
10 33 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
11 30 (0.63%) Packer
12 29 (0.61%) Istio
13 24 (0.50%) vCenter Server
14 16 (0.34%) Kibana
14 16 (0.34%) SCCM
15 15 (0.31%) Kustomize
16 13 (0.27%) HP ALM
16 13 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
17 12 (0.25%) HAProxy
17 12 (0.25%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 883 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 250 (5.24%) Oracle
3 234 (4.91%) Databricks
4 222 (4.66%) Google
5 188 (3.94%) ServiceNow
6 159 (3.34%) Splunk
7 153 (3.21%) Salesforce
8 123 (2.58%) Dynatrace
9 112 (2.35%) SAP
10 99 (2.08%) Red Hat
11 96 (2.01%) VMware
12 60 (1.26%) IBM
13 53 (1.11%) Atlassian
14 47 (0.99%) OpenAI
15 46 (0.96%) Informatica
16 43 (0.90%) Cisco
17 39 (0.82%) AppDynamics
18 36 (0.76%) Foundry
19 31 (0.65%) MuleSoft
19 31 (0.65%) Okta