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 30 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 14 14
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,793 3,053 3,219
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.30% 11.00% 10.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.16% 12.09% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,304 2,167 2,143
10th Percentile £381 £360 £400
25th Percentile £438 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £555
Median % change year-on-year - -5.41% -4.31%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £712 £713 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 21 61
10th Percentile £37.25 £42.50 £52.50
25th Percentile £59.94 £56.75 £65.00
Median hourly rate £68.75 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% -4.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £79.00 £88.75 £74.00
90th Percentile £93.94 £95.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% +7.69%

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 39,415 25,251 27,687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.67% 91.00% 86.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,982 16,042 16,911
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.71% -2.64% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,873 1,537 1,195
10th Percentile £13.88 £14.39 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.47 £47.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.35 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.86 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +54.51% -40.82% -

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 30 September 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 30 September 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 30 September 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 -3 2,525 £550 - 2,053
North of England -2 796 £500 +5.26% 714
South East -13 449 £535 +7.00% 487
Midlands -5 429 £488 -4.88% 292
Yorkshire -2 391 £500 +3.09% 216
West Midlands -9 345 £500 -4.76% 178
South West +5 322 £550 +3.04% 322
North West -1 311 £528 +16.45% 397
East of England +6 159 £505 -3.81% 206
North East +11 111 £450 -18.18% 106
East Midlands -1 81 £455 +1.11% 114
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
1 290 (6.05%) Confluence
2 144 (3.00%) SharePoint
3 118 (2.46%) Apache Airflow
4 114 (2.38%) Apache Spark
5 99 (2.07%) Apache
6 51 (1.06%) SAS
7 41 (0.86%) CMS
8 40 (0.83%) Jupyter
9 24 (0.50%) nginx
10 23 (0.48%) IIS
11 19 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
12 15 (0.31%) Camunda
13 13 (0.27%) OpenStack
14 10 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
15 9 (0.19%) Anypoint
15 9 (0.19%) Appian
15 9 (0.19%) WebSphere
16 8 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
16 8 (0.17%) Tomcat
16 8 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 61 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (1.02%) MS Visio
3 46 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
4 32 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 29 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
6 13 (0.27%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.17%) CPLEX
7 8 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.17%) Windchill
8 5 (0.10%) Notion
8 5 (0.10%) Trello
9 3 (0.063%) Mingle
10 2 (0.042%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.042%) Gliffy
11 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.021%) Mozilla Thunderbird
11 1 (0.021%) Sketch
11 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 72 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 35 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 10 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.19%) Magento
6 8 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 6 (0.13%) Aladdin
7 6 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
7 6 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.13%) SAP MDG
8 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
8 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
8 5 (0.10%) Temenos T24
9 3 (0.063%) Endur
9 3 (0.063%) Maximo
9 3 (0.063%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.063%) Oracle Payroll
9 3 (0.063%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.063%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.063%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2,564 (53.49%) Azure
2 1,682 (35.09%) AWS
3 1,480 (30.88%) Azure DevOps
4 806 (16.82%) GitHub
5 631 (13.17%) GCP
6 507 (10.58%) GitHub Actions
7 431 (8.99%) Power Platform
8 401 (8.37%) Serverless
9 251 (5.24%) Amazon S3
10 241 (5.03%) AWS Lambda
11 229 (4.78%) Entra ID
12 209 (4.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 197 (4.11%) Amazon EKS
14 178 (3.71%) Azure AKS
15 172 (3.59%) Dynamics 365
16 171 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
17 168 (3.51%) Azure Monitor
18 166 (3.46%) Azure Data Factory
19 161 (3.36%) Amazon EC2
20 156 (3.25%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 223 (4.65%) Firewall
2 143 (2.98%) DNS
3 112 (2.34%) VPN
4 107 (2.23%) Network Security
5 72 (1.50%) TCP/IP
6 51 (1.06%) SSL
7 43 (0.90%) WAN
8 39 (0.81%) DHCP
9 33 (0.69%) BGP
10 31 (0.65%) HTTP
11 28 (0.58%) Internet
12 25 (0.52%) OSPF
12 25 (0.52%) SD-WAN
12 25 (0.52%) SSH
13 23 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
14 19 (0.40%) LAN
14 19 (0.40%) VLAN
15 17 (0.35%) SAN
16 16 (0.33%) BIG-IP
16 16 (0.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 288 (6.01%) Power BI
2 251 (5.24%) SQL Server
3 244 (5.09%) PostgreSQL
4 186 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
5 157 (3.28%) NoSQL
6 151 (3.15%) Data Lake
7 142 (2.96%) MongoDB
8 133 (2.77%) Relational Database
9 118 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
10 113 (2.36%) Metadata
11 81 (1.69%) Delta Lake
12 78 (1.63%) DynamoDB
13 75 (1.56%) Oracle Database
14 73 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
14 73 (1.52%) MySQL
15 69 (1.44%) Redis
16 55 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 54 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
18 53 (1.11%) BigQuery
19 51 (1.06%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 689 (14.38%) Git
2 655 (13.67%) Jenkins
3 549 (11.45%) GitLab
4 538 (11.22%) JIRA
5 126 (2.63%) Selenium
6 85 (1.77%) SonarQube
7 83 (1.73%) Maven
8 80 (1.67%) JUnit
9 79 (1.65%) Postman
10 69 (1.44%) Cucumber
11 60 (1.25%) Bitbucket
12 59 (1.23%) REST Assured
13 58 (1.21%) Cypress.io
14 56 (1.17%) Gradle
14 56 (1.17%) JMeter
15 41 (0.86%) Gatling
16 40 (0.83%) Mockito
17 39 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
18 37 (0.77%) Claude Code
18 37 (0.77%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,259 (26.27%) Social Skills
2 902 (18.82%) Finance
3 635 (13.25%) Public Sector
4 477 (9.95%) Analytical Skills
5 363 (7.57%) Banking
6 147 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 106 (2.21%) Retail
8 85 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
9 77 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
10 56 (1.17%) Aerospace
10 56 (1.17%) Marketing
11 53 (1.11%) Military
12 50 (1.04%) Legal
13 48 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
14 47 (0.98%) Telecoms
15 46 (0.96%) Investment Banking
16 44 (0.92%) Manufacturing
17 39 (0.81%) Law
17 39 (0.81%) Local Government
18 38 (0.79%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 914 (19.07%) DevOps Engineer
2 745 (15.54%) Senior
3 742 (15.48%) Developer
4 567 (11.83%) Architect
5 472 (9.85%) Lead
6 292 (6.09%) Azure Engineer
7 268 (5.59%) Data Engineer
8 242 (5.05%) Analyst
9 197 (4.11%) AWS Engineer
10 187 (3.90%) Platform Engineer
11 176 (3.67%) Cloud Engineer
12 172 (3.59%) Senior DevOps
13 164 (3.42%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 158 (3.30%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 156 (3.25%) Solutions Architect
16 139 (2.90%) Java Developer
17 136 (2.84%) AWS DevOps
18 135 (2.82%) Software Engineer
19 128 (2.67%) Senior Developer
20 125 (2.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,420 (29.63%) Terraform
2 530 (11.06%) REST
3 410 (8.55%) .NET
4 330 (6.89%) Kafka
5 273 (5.70%) RESTful
6 256 (5.34%) React
7 239 (4.99%) Spring
8 236 (4.92%) Spring Boot
9 155 (3.23%) OAuth
10 154 (3.21%) JSON
10 154 (3.21%) Node.js
11 134 (2.80%) PySpark
12 128 (2.67%) Playwright
13 122 (2.55%) HTML
14 120 (2.50%) .NET Framework
14 120 (2.50%) SOAP
15 114 (2.38%) CSS
16 102 (2.13%) Middleware
16 102 (2.13%) OAuth2
17 96 (2.00%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 887 (18.51%) Cloud Native
2 371 (7.74%) Product Ownership
3 222 (4.63%) Distributed Systems
4 186 (3.88%) Onboarding
5 185 (3.86%) Enterprise Software
6 137 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
7 128 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
8 101 (2.11%) AI Agents
9 85 (1.77%) Management Information System
10 72 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
11 69 (1.44%) Public Cloud
11 69 (1.44%) Security Posture
12 64 (1.34%) Data Structures
12 64 (1.34%) Replication
13 61 (1.27%) Data Centre
14 59 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
15 55 (1.15%) Virtual Team
16 52 (1.08%) Mobile App
17 46 (0.96%) PKI
18 44 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 490 (10.22%) Linux
2 281 (5.86%) Windows
3 116 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 95 (1.98%) Unix
5 84 (1.75%) Windows Server
6 36 (0.75%) Ubuntu
7 30 (0.63%) Apple iOS
8 28 (0.58%) VMS
9 21 (0.44%) Android
10 15 (0.31%) CentOS
11 10 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
11 10 (0.21%) zOS
12 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
12 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
13 7 (0.15%) AIX
13 7 (0.15%) Solaris
14 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
14 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.083%) Alpine Linux
15 4 (0.083%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,884 (60.17%) CI/CD
2 1,956 (40.81%) Agile
3 1,417 (29.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 859 (17.92%) Stakeholder Management
5 822 (17.15%) Continuous Improvement
6 811 (16.92%) AI
7 781 (16.29%) Containerisation
8 779 (16.25%) Test Automation
9 759 (15.84%) Problem-Solving
10 701 (14.63%) Microservices
11 686 (14.31%) Observability
12 654 (13.64%) Platform Engineering
13 653 (13.62%) Software Engineering
14 596 (12.43%) Scrum
15 590 (12.31%) Migration
16 552 (11.52%) Technical Leadership
17 512 (10.68%) Analytics
18 453 (9.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 446 (9.31%) Roadmaps
20 422 (8.80%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,415 (29.52%) Python
2 840 (17.53%) SQL
3 702 (14.65%) Java
4 437 (9.12%) C#
4 437 (9.12%) PowerShell
5 426 (8.89%) Bash
6 392 (8.18%) JavaScript
7 274 (5.72%) TypeScript
8 224 (4.67%) Bicep
9 93 (1.94%) Go
10 63 (1.31%) Shell Script
11 56 (1.17%) T-SQL
12 54 (1.13%) Scala
13 51 (1.06%) Groovy
14 46 (0.96%) PL/SQL
15 41 (0.86%) Apex Code
16 33 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 32 (0.67%) C++
18 29 (0.61%) Perl
19 25 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1,542 (32.17%) Security Cleared
2 1,288 (26.87%) SC Cleared
3 335 (6.99%) Degree
4 219 (4.57%) DV Cleared
5 216 (4.51%) Azure Certification
6 171 (3.57%) AWS Certification
7 148 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
8 126 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
9 109 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 71 (1.48%) CISSP
11 52 (1.08%) ISTQB
12 50 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
13 45 (0.94%) PMP
14 40 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 38 (0.79%) Master's Degree
15 38 (0.79%) PMI Certification
16 28 (0.58%) CISM
17 21 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 21 (0.44%) CCNP
18 20 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 491 (10.24%) QA
2 246 (5.13%) Data Quality
3 167 (3.48%) Accessibility
4 110 (2.30%) GDPR
5 86 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 78 (1.63%) WCAG
7 69 (1.44%) NIST
8 47 (0.98%) NCSC
9 43 (0.90%) PMO
10 31 (0.65%) SLA
11 29 (0.61%) PCI DSS
12 27 (0.56%) GRC
13 20 (0.42%) ISO 20022
14 17 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 15 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
16 14 (0.29%) HIPAA
17 12 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
17 12 (0.25%) SEPA
17 12 (0.25%) SOC 2
18 9 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 961 (20.05%) Docker
2 141 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 73 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
4 67 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 23 (0.48%) vSphere
6 21 (0.44%) Hyper-V
7 20 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
8 16 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.25%) VMware NSX
10 11 (0.23%) Squid
11 10 (0.21%) IAG
12 9 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
13 8 (0.17%) Postfix
14 6 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 6 (0.13%) Corosync
14 6 (0.13%) KVM
14 6 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
15 5 (0.10%) NFS
15 5 (0.10%) RACF
16 4 (0.083%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1,259 (26.27%) Kubernetes
2 477 (9.95%) Ansible
3 311 (6.49%) Grafana
4 268 (5.59%) Prometheus
5 63 (1.31%) Argo
6 54 (1.13%) Puppet
7 47 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
8 45 (0.94%) Progress Chef
9 40 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
10 34 (0.71%) Packer
11 31 (0.65%) Kibana
12 22 (0.46%) Istio
12 22 (0.46%) Kubeflow
13 19 (0.40%) Kustomize
14 15 (0.31%) SCCM
14 15 (0.31%) vCenter Server
15 14 (0.29%) HP ALM
16 13 (0.27%) Control-M
16 13 (0.27%) SCOM
16 13 (0.27%) systemd
Vendors
1 968 (20.20%) Microsoft
2 264 (5.51%) Databricks
3 258 (5.38%) Google
4 233 (4.86%) Oracle
5 188 (3.92%) ServiceNow
6 167 (3.48%) Splunk
7 137 (2.86%) Salesforce
8 131 (2.73%) Dynatrace
9 104 (2.17%) VMware
10 96 (2.00%) SAP
11 93 (1.94%) Red Hat
12 70 (1.46%) IBM
13 60 (1.25%) OpenAI
14 48 (1.00%) Cisco
15 47 (0.98%) Foundry
16 38 (0.79%) AppDynamics
17 37 (0.77%) Informatica
18 35 (0.73%) MuleSoft
19 32 (0.67%) Okta
20 31 (0.65%) Atlassian