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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 14 14
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,788 3,045 3,307
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.29% 10.93% 10.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.16% 12.03% 11.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,292 2,165 2,211
10th Percentile £381 £363 £400
25th Percentile £440 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% -3.95%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £710 £720 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 20 64
10th Percentile £37.35 £41.75 £53.25
25th Percentile £56.63 £58.25 £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 £90.31 £74.11
90th Percentile £93.63 £96.50 £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 39,385 25,311 28,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.63% 90.87% 86.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,009 16,087 17,408
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -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 2,837 1,536 1,254
10th Percentile £13.99 £14.41 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.72 £17.87 £20.14
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.05%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.22 £66.61
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -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 25 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 25 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 25 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 0 2,531 £550 - 2,433
North of England -2 785 £500 +5.26% 738
South East -12 446 £530 +6.00% 591
Midlands -6 428 £488 -2.50% 304
Yorkshire -2 388 £500 +2.56% 216
West Midlands -8 344 £500 -3.94% 187
South West +3 322 £550 +4.76% 326
North West -3 304 £528 +15.24% 421
East of England +6 160 £504 -4.00% 229
North East +10 108 £450 -18.18% 105
East Midlands -4 81 £459 +1.94% 117
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
1 289 (6.04%) Confluence
2 144 (3.01%) SharePoint
3 122 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
4 114 (2.38%) Apache Spark
5 98 (2.05%) Apache
6 56 (1.17%) SAS
7 42 (0.88%) CMS
8 38 (0.79%) Jupyter
9 24 (0.50%) nginx
10 20 (0.42%) IIS
11 19 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
12 15 (0.31%) Camunda
13 13 (0.27%) OpenStack
14 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
15 9 (0.19%) Anypoint
15 9 (0.19%) Appian
16 8 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
16 8 (0.17%) WebLogic
16 8 (0.17%) WebSphere
17 7 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 61 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (1.00%) MS Visio
3 47 (0.98%) 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 2 (0.042%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.042%) Gliffy
9 2 (0.042%) Mingle
10 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
10 1 (0.021%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.021%) Sketch
10 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 70 (1.46%) 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
9 3 (0.063%) Endur
9 3 (0.063%) Maximo
9 3 (0.063%) Oracle EBS R12
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%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2,573 (53.74%) Azure
2 1,681 (35.11%) AWS
3 1,483 (30.97%) Azure DevOps
4 810 (16.92%) GitHub
5 630 (13.16%) GCP
6 511 (10.67%) GitHub Actions
7 430 (8.98%) Power Platform
8 401 (8.38%) Serverless
9 249 (5.20%) Amazon S3
10 241 (5.03%) AWS Lambda
11 234 (4.89%) Entra ID
12 205 (4.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 192 (4.01%) Amazon EKS
14 182 (3.80%) Azure AKS
15 171 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
15 171 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
16 168 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
17 166 (3.47%) Dynamics 365
18 156 (3.26%) Amazon EC2
19 155 (3.24%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 223 (4.66%) Firewall
2 144 (3.01%) DNS
3 111 (2.32%) VPN
4 106 (2.21%) Network Security
5 71 (1.48%) TCP/IP
6 54 (1.13%) SSL
7 45 (0.94%) WAN
8 40 (0.84%) DHCP
9 34 (0.71%) BGP
10 31 (0.65%) HTTP
11 28 (0.58%) Internet
12 27 (0.56%) SD-WAN
13 26 (0.54%) OSPF
14 25 (0.52%) SSH
15 23 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
16 19 (0.40%) LAN
16 19 (0.40%) VLAN
17 17 (0.36%) SAN
18 16 (0.33%) BIG-IP
18 16 (0.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 290 (6.06%) Power BI
2 251 (5.24%) SQL Server
3 243 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
4 186 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
5 158 (3.30%) NoSQL
6 149 (3.11%) Data Lake
7 147 (3.07%) MongoDB
8 139 (2.90%) Relational Database
9 120 (2.51%) Metadata
10 115 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
11 82 (1.71%) Delta Lake
12 79 (1.65%) DynamoDB
13 77 (1.61%) Oracle Database
14 76 (1.59%) MySQL
15 72 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
16 70 (1.46%) Redis
17 54 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
18 53 (1.11%) Big Data
18 53 (1.11%) BigQuery
18 53 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 688 (14.37%) Git
2 649 (13.55%) Jenkins
3 546 (11.40%) GitLab
4 539 (11.26%) JIRA
5 124 (2.59%) Selenium
6 88 (1.84%) SonarQube
7 81 (1.69%) Maven
8 79 (1.65%) Postman
9 78 (1.63%) JUnit
10 65 (1.36%) Cucumber
11 61 (1.27%) Bitbucket
12 58 (1.21%) Cypress.io
12 58 (1.21%) REST Assured
13 57 (1.19%) JMeter
14 56 (1.17%) Gradle
15 42 (0.88%) Gatling
16 40 (0.84%) Mockito
17 38 (0.79%) Visual Studio
18 37 (0.77%) Claude Code
19 36 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,255 (26.21%) Social Skills
2 892 (18.63%) Finance
3 627 (13.10%) Public Sector
4 473 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
5 354 (7.39%) Banking
6 148 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 105 (2.19%) Retail
8 83 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
9 77 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
10 59 (1.23%) Aerospace
11 54 (1.13%) Marketing
12 52 (1.09%) Military
13 51 (1.07%) Legal
14 49 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
15 45 (0.94%) Telecoms
16 44 (0.92%) Manufacturing
17 43 (0.90%) Investment Banking
18 40 (0.84%) Law
19 39 (0.81%) Local Government
20 36 (0.75%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 913 (19.07%) DevOps Engineer
2 744 (15.54%) Developer
2 744 (15.54%) Senior
3 571 (11.93%) Architect
4 466 (9.73%) Lead
5 297 (6.20%) Azure Engineer
6 275 (5.74%) Data Engineer
7 236 (4.93%) Analyst
8 197 (4.11%) AWS Engineer
9 188 (3.93%) Platform Engineer
10 176 (3.68%) Cloud Engineer
11 169 (3.53%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 169 (3.53%) Senior DevOps
12 160 (3.34%) Solutions Architect
13 156 (3.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 140 (2.92%) Java Developer
15 134 (2.80%) AWS DevOps
16 133 (2.78%) Software Engineer
17 131 (2.74%) Senior Developer
18 123 (2.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,409 (29.43%) Terraform
2 524 (10.94%) REST
3 404 (8.44%) .NET
4 332 (6.93%) Kafka
5 273 (5.70%) RESTful
6 256 (5.35%) React
7 239 (4.99%) Spring
8 237 (4.95%) Spring Boot
9 160 (3.34%) JSON
10 159 (3.32%) Node.js
10 159 (3.32%) OAuth
11 138 (2.88%) PySpark
12 128 (2.67%) Playwright
13 119 (2.49%) .NET Framework
13 119 (2.49%) HTML
14 117 (2.44%) SOAP
15 113 (2.36%) CSS
16 106 (2.21%) OAuth2
17 98 (2.05%) Middleware
18 95 (1.98%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 876 (18.30%) Cloud Native
2 371 (7.75%) Product Ownership
3 219 (4.57%) Distributed Systems
4 183 (3.82%) Enterprise Software
5 182 (3.80%) Onboarding
6 137 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
7 123 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
8 101 (2.11%) AI Agents
9 86 (1.80%) Management Information System
10 70 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
11 69 (1.44%) Security Posture
12 66 (1.38%) Public Cloud
13 65 (1.36%) Data Structures
14 64 (1.34%) Replication
15 62 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
16 60 (1.25%) Data Centre
17 56 (1.17%) Virtual Team
18 50 (1.04%) Mobile App
19 46 (0.96%) PKI
20 43 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 482 (10.07%) Linux
2 277 (5.79%) Windows
3 116 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 92 (1.92%) Unix
5 84 (1.75%) Windows Server
6 36 (0.75%) Ubuntu
7 30 (0.63%) Apple iOS
8 27 (0.56%) 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 (0.084%) Alpine Linux
15 4 (0.084%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,869 (59.92%) CI/CD
2 1,946 (40.64%) Agile
3 1,408 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 842 (17.59%) Stakeholder Management
5 822 (17.17%) Continuous Improvement
6 803 (16.77%) AI
7 774 (16.17%) Containerisation
7 774 (16.17%) Test Automation
8 763 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
9 700 (14.62%) Microservices
10 687 (14.35%) Observability
11 647 (13.51%) Software Engineering
12 642 (13.41%) Platform Engineering
13 589 (12.30%) Scrum
14 586 (12.24%) Migration
15 548 (11.45%) Technical Leadership
16 521 (10.88%) Analytics
17 456 (9.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 448 (9.36%) Roadmaps
19 427 (8.92%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,415 (29.55%) Python
2 846 (17.67%) SQL
3 702 (14.66%) Java
4 438 (9.15%) PowerShell
5 432 (9.02%) C#
6 420 (8.77%) Bash
7 392 (8.19%) JavaScript
8 272 (5.68%) TypeScript
9 222 (4.64%) Bicep
10 90 (1.88%) Go
11 64 (1.34%) Shell Script
12 56 (1.17%) Groovy
12 56 (1.17%) T-SQL
13 54 (1.13%) Scala
14 47 (0.98%) PL/SQL
15 43 (0.90%) Apex Code
16 33 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 31 (0.65%) C++
18 29 (0.61%) Perl
19 25 (0.52%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,546 (32.29%) Security Cleared
2 1,294 (27.03%) SC Cleared
3 339 (7.08%) Degree
4 217 (4.53%) Azure Certification
5 215 (4.49%) DV Cleared
6 169 (3.53%) AWS Certification
7 142 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
8 130 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
9 110 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 74 (1.55%) CISSP
11 51 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
11 51 (1.07%) ISTQB
12 45 (0.94%) PMP
13 43 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 41 (0.86%) Master's Degree
15 38 (0.79%) PMI Certification
16 31 (0.65%) CISM
17 21 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 21 (0.44%) CCNP
18 20 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 483 (10.09%) QA
2 249 (5.20%) Data Quality
3 163 (3.40%) Accessibility
4 115 (2.40%) GDPR
5 85 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 78 (1.63%) WCAG
7 73 (1.52%) NIST
8 46 (0.96%) NCSC
9 43 (0.90%) PMO
10 32 (0.67%) SLA
11 27 (0.56%) GRC
11 27 (0.56%) PCI DSS
12 20 (0.42%) ISO 20022
13 18 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 15 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
15 14 (0.29%) HIPAA
16 12 (0.25%) SEPA
16 12 (0.25%) SOC 2
17 11 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
18 9 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 957 (19.99%) Docker
2 145 (3.03%) Active Directory
3 72 (1.50%) 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%) Squid
9 12 (0.25%) VMware NSX
10 11 (0.23%) IAG
11 8 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
11 8 (0.17%) Postfix
12 6 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 6 (0.13%) Corosync
12 6 (0.13%) KVM
12 6 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.10%) NFS
13 5 (0.10%) RACF
14 4 (0.084%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1,253 (26.17%) Kubernetes
2 476 (9.94%) Ansible
3 308 (6.43%) Grafana
4 263 (5.49%) Prometheus
5 62 (1.29%) Argo
6 53 (1.11%) Puppet
7 48 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
8 45 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
9 44 (0.92%) Progress Chef
10 32 (0.67%) Packer
11 28 (0.58%) Kibana
12 20 (0.42%) Kubeflow
13 19 (0.40%) Istio
13 19 (0.40%) Kustomize
14 16 (0.33%) SCCM
15 15 (0.31%) HP ALM
15 15 (0.31%) vCenter Server
16 13 (0.27%) Control-M
16 13 (0.27%) SCOM
16 13 (0.27%) systemd
Vendors
1 971 (20.28%) Microsoft
2 267 (5.58%) Databricks
3 252 (5.26%) Google
4 239 (4.99%) Oracle
5 193 (4.03%) ServiceNow
6 168 (3.51%) Splunk
7 135 (2.82%) Salesforce
8 131 (2.74%) Dynatrace
9 104 (2.17%) VMware
10 94 (1.96%) SAP
11 93 (1.94%) Red Hat
12 69 (1.44%) IBM
13 60 (1.25%) OpenAI
14 49 (1.02%) Cisco
15 48 (1.00%) Foundry
16 38 (0.79%) AppDynamics
16 38 (0.79%) Informatica
17 35 (0.73%) MuleSoft
18 32 (0.67%) Atlassian
18 32 (0.67%) Okta