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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 15 17
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 -5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,231 2,567 3,312
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.06% 10.59% 8.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.86% 11.66% 10.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,962 1,892 2,336
10th Percentile £388 £400 £406
25th Percentile £447 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £650
90th Percentile £718 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 17 88
10th Percentile £39.53 £35.20 £55.70
25th Percentile £45.46 £56.25 £61.25
Median hourly rate £63.73 £67.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +3.85% -0.76%
75th Percentile £75.00 £80.75 £68.50
90th Percentile £89.95 £86.78 £86.05
UK median hourly rate £63.73 £71.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year -11.01% +10.17% -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 32,913 22,023 32,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.03% 90.83% 86.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,101 14,513 21,559
10th Percentile £313 £310 £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 2,010 854 2,155
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.34 £20.00 £15.92
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.88 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +10.94% -1.54% -11.33%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -1 2,139 £550 -4.35% 512
North of England +6 755 £500 -4.76% 306
South East -3 442 £525 -4.55% 307
Midlands +9 424 £494 -0.75% 142
Yorkshire +1 403 £500 -4.76% 86
West Midlands +8 331 £500 - 98
North West +4 297 £490 -6.67% 159
South West +13 283 £523 -9.13% 165
East of England +20 116 £550 +10.00% 92
East Midlands +5 90 £450 -5.26% 44
North East +5 60 £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
1 264 (6.24%) Confluence
2 111 (2.62%) Apache Spark
3 92 (2.17%) SharePoint
4 89 (2.10%) SAS
5 88 (2.08%) Apache
6 67 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
7 33 (0.78%) CMS
8 29 (0.69%) nginx
8 29 (0.69%) 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 (0.17%) ArcGIS
14 7 (0.17%) Camunda
14 7 (0.17%) WebSphere
15 6 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 81 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 49 (1.16%) 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 (0.024%) InDesign
10 1 (0.024%) Maya
Business Applications
1 65 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
4 9 (0.21%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.21%) Maximo
4 9 (0.21%) NEC Housing
5 6 (0.14%) Endur
5 6 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
6 5 (0.12%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.095%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.095%) SAP BPC
7 4 (0.095%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.071%) Findur
8 3 (0.071%) Magento
8 3 (0.071%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.071%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.071%) SAP FI/CO
8 3 (0.071%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 2,241 (52.97%) Azure
2 1,428 (33.75%) AWS
3 1,238 (29.26%) Azure DevOps
4 765 (18.08%) GitHub
5 584 (13.80%) GCP
6 460 (10.87%) Serverless
7 411 (9.71%) GitHub Actions
8 349 (8.25%) Power Platform
9 230 (5.44%) Amazon S3
10 222 (5.25%) AWS Lambda
11 220 (5.20%) AWS CloudFormation
12 210 (4.96%) Entra ID
13 208 (4.92%) Azure Data Factory
14 186 (4.40%) Azure AKS
15 182 (4.30%) OpenShift
16 163 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
17 158 (3.73%) Amazon EKS
18 148 (3.50%) Dynamics 365
19 141 (3.33%) PaaS
20 137 (3.24%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 198 (4.68%) Firewall
2 110 (2.60%) DNS
3 88 (2.08%) Network Security
4 81 (1.91%) VPN
5 40 (0.95%) TCP/IP
6 28 (0.66%) WAN
7 27 (0.64%) SD-WAN
8 22 (0.52%) HTTP
8 22 (0.52%) SSL
9 20 (0.47%) DHCP
10 17 (0.40%) BGP
11 16 (0.38%) IPsec
11 16 (0.38%) MPLS
12 14 (0.33%) SAN
13 12 (0.28%) Reverse Proxy
14 11 (0.26%) 5G
14 11 (0.26%) Internet
14 11 (0.26%) OpenVPN
15 10 (0.24%) Kerberos
15 10 (0.24%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 237 (5.60%) PostgreSQL
2 220 (5.20%) Power BI
3 192 (4.54%) SQL Server
4 171 (4.04%) NoSQL
5 147 (3.47%) Data Lake
6 119 (2.81%) Relational Database
7 107 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
8 94 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
8 94 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
9 92 (2.17%) MongoDB
10 72 (1.70%) Delta Lake
10 72 (1.70%) DynamoDB
11 71 (1.68%) Oracle Database
12 69 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
13 64 (1.51%) Metadata
14 55 (1.30%) Tableau
15 53 (1.25%) Big Data
16 50 (1.18%) Redis
17 45 (1.06%) BigQuery
18 44 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 675 (15.95%) Jenkins
2 557 (13.16%) Git
2 557 (13.16%) JIRA
3 462 (10.92%) GitLab
4 109 (2.58%) Selenium
5 95 (2.25%) JUnit
6 80 (1.89%) Postman
7 68 (1.61%) Bitbucket
8 67 (1.58%) SonarQube
9 52 (1.23%) Cucumber
10 50 (1.18%) Artifactory
10 50 (1.18%) Maven
11 46 (1.09%) REST Assured
12 41 (0.97%) Cypress.io
13 36 (0.85%) JMeter
14 33 (0.78%) Oracle APEX
14 33 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
15 32 (0.76%) Mockito
16 29 (0.69%) Liquibase
17 25 (0.59%) TestRail
General
1 1,193 (28.20%) Social Skills
2 808 (19.10%) Finance
3 519 (12.27%) Public Sector
4 367 (8.67%) Analytical Skills
5 330 (7.80%) Banking
6 153 (3.62%) Documentation Skills
7 69 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
8 61 (1.44%) Financial Institution
9 57 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 56 (1.32%) Retail
11 54 (1.28%) Marketing
12 50 (1.18%) Front Office
13 49 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
14 46 (1.09%) Investment Banking
15 42 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
16 39 (0.92%) Legal
17 37 (0.87%) Telecoms
18 26 (0.61%) Military
19 22 (0.52%) Law
20 20 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 748 (17.68%) DevOps Engineer
2 651 (15.39%) Developer
3 586 (13.85%) Senior
4 478 (11.30%) Architect
5 360 (8.51%) Lead
6 275 (6.50%) Azure Engineer
7 265 (6.26%) Data Engineer
8 237 (5.60%) Analyst
9 197 (4.66%) AWS Engineer
10 163 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
11 156 (3.69%) Platform Engineer
12 149 (3.52%) AWS DevOps
13 145 (3.43%) Software Engineer
13 145 (3.43%) Solutions Architect
14 129 (3.05%) Senior Developer
15 127 (3.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 125 (2.95%) Business Analyst
17 119 (2.81%) Senior DevOps
18 117 (2.77%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 111 (2.62%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 447 (10.56%) REST
2 342 (8.08%) .NET
3 259 (6.12%) Node.js
4 254 (6.00%) Kafka
5 248 (5.86%) React
6 232 (5.48%) Spring
7 215 (5.08%) Spring Boot
8 205 (4.85%) RESTful
9 151 (3.57%) AngularJS
10 138 (3.26%) JSON
10 138 (3.26%) YAML
11 119 (2.81%) Playwright
12 117 (2.77%) OAuth
12 117 (2.77%) PySpark
13 110 (2.60%) HTML
13 110 (2.60%) Middleware
14 108 (2.55%) SOAP
15 104 (2.46%) Elastic Stack
16 92 (2.17%) XML
17 90 (2.13%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 622 (14.70%) Cloud Native
2 254 (6.00%) Product Ownership
3 165 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
4 109 (2.58%) Onboarding
5 106 (2.51%) Public Cloud
6 88 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
6 88 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
7 80 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
8 60 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
9 52 (1.23%) Virtual Team
10 51 (1.21%) Management Information System
11 40 (0.95%) Private Cloud
12 39 (0.92%) Data Structures
12 39 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
13 38 (0.90%) Security Posture
14 37 (0.87%) Data Centre
15 36 (0.85%) AI Agents
16 34 (0.80%) NHS
17 31 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
17 31 (0.73%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 413 (9.76%) Linux
2 224 (5.29%) Windows
3 72 (1.70%) Unix
4 60 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 42 (0.99%) VMS
6 39 (0.92%) Windows Server
7 23 (0.54%) Ubuntu
8 14 (0.33%) CentOS
9 9 (0.21%) Windows 10
10 7 (0.17%) Android
10 7 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.12%) Apple iOS
12 4 (0.095%) Solaris
12 4 (0.095%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.071%) Debian
13 3 (0.071%) Oracle Linux
13 3 (0.071%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.071%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.071%) zOS
14 2 (0.047%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,371 (56.04%) CI/CD
2 1,626 (38.43%) Agile
3 1,049 (24.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 761 (17.99%) Problem-Solving
5 743 (17.56%) Containerisation
6 630 (14.89%) Microservices
7 627 (14.82%) Test Automation
8 544 (12.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 535 (12.64%) Analytics
10 499 (11.79%) Migration
11 471 (11.13%) Scrum
11 471 (11.13%) Stakeholder Management
12 465 (10.99%) Observability
13 460 (10.87%) AI
14 396 (9.36%) Software Engineering
15 388 (9.17%) Data Modelling
16 356 (8.41%) Mentoring
17 340 (8.04%) Data Pipeline
18 321 (7.59%) Platform Engineering
19 308 (7.28%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1,262 (29.83%) Python
2 903 (21.34%) SQL
3 549 (12.98%) Java
4 418 (9.88%) C#
5 362 (8.56%) JavaScript
6 331 (7.82%) PowerShell
7 306 (7.23%) Bash
8 256 (6.05%) TypeScript
9 144 (3.40%) Bicep
10 119 (2.81%) Go
11 81 (1.91%) PL/SQL
12 64 (1.51%) Scala
13 47 (1.11%) Shell Script
14 44 (1.04%) T-SQL
15 40 (0.95%) 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 1,361 (32.17%) Security Cleared
2 1,107 (26.16%) SC Cleared
3 321 (7.59%) Degree
4 189 (4.47%) Azure Certification
5 165 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 148 (3.50%) DV Cleared
7 115 (2.72%) AWS Certification
8 96 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
9 78 (1.84%) CISSP
10 66 (1.56%) Master's Degree
11 57 (1.35%) CISM
12 48 (1.13%) ISTQB
12 48 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
13 44 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 39 (0.92%) PMI Certification
15 34 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
15 34 (0.80%) PMP
16 22 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 21 (0.50%) IIBA
18 20 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 381 (9.00%) QA
2 187 (4.42%) Data Quality
3 168 (3.97%) GDPR
4 142 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 121 (2.86%) NIST
6 86 (2.03%) Accessibility
7 72 (1.70%) NCSC
8 38 (0.90%) PCI DSS
9 36 (0.85%) WCAG
10 29 (0.69%) PMO
10 29 (0.69%) SLA
11 27 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 17 (0.40%) HIPAA
13 15 (0.35%) ISO 20022
14 14 (0.33%) NIST 800
15 13 (0.31%) PSD2
15 13 (0.31%) SOC 2
16 12 (0.28%) GRC
17 11 (0.26%) SEPA
18 9 (0.21%) HL7
System Software
1 919 (21.72%) Docker
2 171 (4.04%) Active Directory
3 70 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 67 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
5 46 (1.09%) vSphere
6 32 (0.76%) VMware NSX
7 12 (0.28%) Hyper-V
7 12 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.26%) Squid
9 10 (0.24%) 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 (0.17%) GPFS
13 6 (0.14%) HDFS
14 5 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
14 5 (0.12%) RACF
15 4 (0.095%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
15 4 (0.095%) KVM
Systems Management
1 1,206 (28.50%) Terraform
2 1,157 (27.35%) Kubernetes
3 448 (10.59%) Ansible
4 284 (6.71%) Grafana
5 238 (5.63%) Prometheus
6 93 (2.20%) Argo
7 67 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
8 65 (1.54%) Puppet
9 49 (1.16%) Istio
10 29 (0.69%) Packer
10 29 (0.69%) vCenter Server
11 27 (0.64%) Progress Chef
12 22 (0.52%) Kibana
13 21 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 19 (0.45%) Rancher
15 18 (0.43%) FortiGate
16 16 (0.38%) Consul
16 16 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
16 16 (0.38%) Podman
17 15 (0.35%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 738 (17.44%) Microsoft
2 298 (7.04%) Oracle
3 258 (6.10%) Databricks
4 215 (5.08%) Google
5 187 (4.42%) Splunk
6 144 (3.40%) ServiceNow
7 137 (3.24%) Red Hat
8 120 (2.84%) VMware
9 116 (2.74%) Salesforce
10 96 (2.27%) SAP
11 71 (1.68%) OpenAI
12 66 (1.56%) Atlassian
12 66 (1.56%) Dynatrace
13 60 (1.42%) CyberArk
14 42 (0.99%) Talend
15 40 (0.95%) IBM
16 37 (0.87%) Denodo
17 34 (0.80%) Cisco
18 32 (0.76%) Foundry
19 30 (0.71%) Pure Storage