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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
19 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 14 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 3,643 3,009 3,448
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.58% 10.39% 9.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.04% 11.73% 10.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,560 2,063 2,562
10th Percentile £363 £400 £413
25th Percentile £425 £480 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £751 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £565 £568
% change year-on-year -7.08% -0.44% -5.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 25 87
10th Percentile - £39.60 £46.18
25th Percentile £45.46 £46.18 £48.09
Median hourly rate £54.25 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% +7.69% -0.92%
75th Percentile £76.88 £80.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £94.63 £80.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £56.00 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +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 27,932 25,643 33,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.81% 88.51% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,758 15,859 22,544
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £544
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,818 849 1,407
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.68
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.75 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%
75th Percentile £54.56 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.90 £74.89 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.33
% change year-on-year -22.62% -24.99% +23.80%

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 19 December 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 19 December 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 19 December 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 -1 1,830 £550 -6.38% 509
North of England +3 637 £482 -6.41% 503
South East 0 387 £516 -14.00% 570
Midlands +17 363 £515 -1.90% 341
Yorkshire 0 332 £500 -1.48% 228
West Midlands +15 299 £525 -1.52% 198
North West +4 267 £450 -14.29% 227
South West +5 234 £538 -10.42% 264
East of England +20 108 £525 -12.50% 246
East Midlands +17 64 £425 -10.53% 122
North East -7 40 £515 -10.24% 52
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
1 226 (6.20%) Confluence
2 81 (2.22%) Apache
3 71 (1.95%) SharePoint
4 67 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
5 63 (1.73%) SAS
6 59 (1.62%) Apache Spark
7 34 (0.93%) CMS
8 32 (0.88%) nginx
9 30 (0.82%) OpenStack
10 24 (0.66%) JBoss
11 23 (0.63%) IIS
12 19 (0.52%) CICS
13 15 (0.41%) WebLogic
14 14 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
15 12 (0.33%) WebSphere
16 9 (0.25%) iPlanet
16 9 (0.25%) Mule
16 9 (0.25%) WebSphere Application Server
17 7 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
17 7 (0.19%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 67 (1.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 29 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
4 24 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (0.36%) Chatbot
6 12 (0.33%) MS Visio
7 11 (0.30%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 8 (0.22%) Weka
9 7 (0.19%) Trello
10 1 (0.027%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.027%) Moqups
10 1 (0.027%) Revit
Business Applications
1 54 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 18 (0.49%) Endur
4 16 (0.44%) Aladdin
5 14 (0.38%) VisionPLUS
6 11 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
7 7 (0.19%) NEC Housing
8 6 (0.16%) Maximo
8 6 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
8 6 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
9 5 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
9 5 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 4 (0.11%) Fidessa
10 4 (0.11%) Oracle BPM
10 4 (0.11%) SAP CO
10 4 (0.11%) SAP ERP
10 4 (0.11%) SAP FI
10 4 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
10 4 (0.11%) thinkFolio
10 4 (0.11%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,801 (49.44%) Azure
2 1,319 (36.21%) AWS
3 978 (26.85%) Azure DevOps
4 662 (18.17%) GitHub
5 555 (15.23%) GCP
6 403 (11.06%) Serverless
7 382 (10.49%) GitHub Actions
8 269 (7.38%) Power Platform
9 210 (5.76%) Amazon S3
10 203 (5.57%) AWS Lambda
11 196 (5.38%) AWS CloudFormation
12 159 (4.36%) Azure Data Factory
13 156 (4.28%) Azure AKS
14 155 (4.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 147 (4.04%) OpenShift
16 144 (3.95%) SaaS
17 142 (3.90%) Amazon EC2
18 137 (3.76%) Dynamics 365
18 137 (3.76%) Entra ID
19 124 (3.40%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 180 (4.94%) Firewall
2 116 (3.18%) DNS
3 78 (2.14%) VPN
4 66 (1.81%) Network Security
5 58 (1.59%) SSL
6 57 (1.56%) TCP/IP
7 44 (1.21%) HTTP
8 30 (0.82%) HTTPS
9 26 (0.71%) SSH
10 22 (0.60%) SMTP
10 22 (0.60%) WAN
11 20 (0.55%) FTP
12 19 (0.52%) BGP
13 17 (0.47%) MPLS
14 15 (0.41%) OpenLDAP
14 15 (0.41%) SD-WAN
15 14 (0.38%) DHCP
15 14 (0.38%) Kerberos
16 11 (0.30%) IMAP
16 11 (0.30%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 238 (6.53%) PostgreSQL
2 177 (4.86%) Power BI
3 145 (3.98%) SQL Server
4 144 (3.95%) NoSQL
5 116 (3.18%) Amazon RDS
6 101 (2.77%) MongoDB
7 90 (2.47%) Data Lake
8 84 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
9 82 (2.25%) Relational Database
10 80 (2.20%) Oracle Database
11 63 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
12 55 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
13 53 (1.45%) MySQL
14 50 (1.37%) Redis
15 49 (1.35%) DynamoDB
16 44 (1.21%) Delta Lake
17 43 (1.18%) Metadata
18 40 (1.10%) Tableau
19 37 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
19 37 (1.02%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 686 (18.83%) Jenkins
2 567 (15.56%) Git
3 539 (14.80%) JIRA
4 475 (13.04%) GitLab
5 121 (3.32%) Selenium
6 85 (2.33%) SonarQube
7 77 (2.11%) JUnit
8 73 (2.00%) Postman
9 71 (1.95%) Sonatype Nexus
10 65 (1.78%) Bitbucket
11 53 (1.45%) Cucumber
12 51 (1.40%) Artifactory
12 51 (1.40%) Cypress.io
13 47 (1.29%) Liquibase
14 43 (1.18%) Gradle
15 40 (1.10%) CircleCI
15 40 (1.10%) Maven
16 37 (1.02%) Oracle APEX
17 29 (0.80%) TeamCity
18 28 (0.77%) JMeter
General
1 1,158 (31.79%) Social Skills
2 672 (18.45%) Finance
3 431 (11.83%) Public Sector
4 330 (9.06%) Banking
5 280 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
6 103 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
7 68 (1.87%) Financial Institution
8 60 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 60 (1.65%) Investment Banking
8 60 (1.65%) Marketing
9 53 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
10 51 (1.40%) Retail
11 50 (1.37%) Telecoms
12 48 (1.32%) Front Office
13 37 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
14 32 (0.88%) Back Office
14 32 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
15 26 (0.71%) Law
16 25 (0.69%) Manufacturing
16 25 (0.69%) Military
Job Titles
1 661 (18.14%) Developer
1 661 (18.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 498 (13.67%) Senior
3 305 (8.37%) Architect
4 272 (7.47%) Lead
5 212 (5.82%) AWS Engineer
6 182 (5.00%) Data Engineer
7 181 (4.97%) Azure Engineer
8 172 (4.72%) Analyst
9 163 (4.47%) AWS DevOps
10 147 (4.04%) Software Engineer
11 140 (3.84%) Cloud Engineer
12 137 (3.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 135 (3.71%) Senior Developer
14 134 (3.68%) Platform Engineer
15 101 (2.77%) Senior DevOps
16 96 (2.64%) Consultant
17 94 (2.58%) Solutions Architect
18 90 (2.47%) Business Analyst
18 90 (2.47%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 410 (11.25%) REST
2 315 (8.65%) .NET
3 237 (6.51%) RESTful
4 231 (6.34%) Node.js
5 223 (6.12%) React
6 211 (5.79%) Kafka
7 184 (5.05%) JSON
8 161 (4.42%) Spring
9 145 (3.98%) Spring Boot
10 137 (3.76%) SOAP
11 135 (3.71%) Elastic Stack
12 130 (3.57%) AngularJS
12 130 (3.57%) HTML
13 125 (3.43%) XML
14 112 (3.07%) YAML
15 109 (2.99%) OAuth
16 89 (2.44%) Playwright
17 88 (2.42%) CSS
18 74 (2.03%) .NET Core
18 74 (2.03%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 498 (13.67%) Cloud Native
2 191 (5.24%) Product Ownership
3 147 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
4 108 (2.96%) Onboarding
5 88 (2.42%) Public Cloud
6 87 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
7 73 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
8 58 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
9 56 (1.54%) Mobile App
10 54 (1.48%) Replication
11 51 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
12 47 (1.29%) Security Posture
13 42 (1.15%) Data Centre
13 42 (1.15%) Virtual Team
14 39 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
15 37 (1.02%) Management Information System
16 36 (0.99%) Algorithms
16 36 (0.99%) NHS
17 35 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
17 35 (0.96%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 452 (12.41%) Linux
2 217 (5.96%) Windows
3 90 (2.47%) Unix
4 56 (1.54%) Windows Server
5 54 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 49 (1.35%) VMS
7 40 (1.10%) Android
8 31 (0.85%) Apple iOS
9 27 (0.74%) Ubuntu
10 19 (0.52%) Amazon Linux
10 19 (0.52%) Windows 10
11 16 (0.44%) CentOS
12 11 (0.30%) Solaris
13 9 (0.25%) zOS
14 7 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
15 6 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
16 4 (0.11%) Mac OS
17 3 (0.082%) Debian
18 2 (0.055%) Windows Server 2012
19 1 (0.027%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,061 (56.57%) CI/CD
2 1,537 (42.19%) Agile
3 911 (25.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 724 (19.87%) Containerisation
5 717 (19.68%) Problem-Solving
6 567 (15.56%) Test Automation
7 546 (14.99%) Microservices
8 443 (12.16%) Scrum
9 408 (11.20%) Migration
10 388 (10.65%) Continuous Improvement
11 381 (10.46%) Analytics
12 368 (10.10%) Software Engineering
13 354 (9.72%) AI
14 345 (9.47%) Observability
15 296 (8.13%) Stakeholder Management
16 270 (7.41%) Mentoring
17 249 (6.84%) DevSecOps
18 248 (6.81%) Data Pipeline
19 245 (6.73%) Data Modelling
19 245 (6.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,177 (32.31%) Python
2 711 (19.52%) SQL
3 509 (13.97%) Java
4 378 (10.38%) JavaScript
5 355 (9.74%) C#
6 334 (9.17%) Bash
7 332 (9.11%) PowerShell
8 261 (7.16%) TypeScript
9 162 (4.45%) Go
10 111 (3.05%) Bicep
11 79 (2.17%) PL/SQL
12 66 (1.81%) Shell Script
13 57 (1.56%) Groovy
14 53 (1.45%) C++
15 39 (1.07%) Scala
16 38 (1.04%) Ruby
17 37 (1.02%) Perl
18 34 (0.93%) T-SQL
19 30 (0.82%) Kotlin
20 28 (0.77%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,059 (29.07%) Security Cleared
2 873 (23.96%) SC Cleared
3 330 (9.06%) Degree
4 184 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 160 (4.39%) Azure Certification
6 125 (3.43%) DV Cleared
7 123 (3.38%) AWS Certification
8 76 (2.09%) Master's Degree
9 67 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
10 63 (1.73%) CISSP
11 53 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
12 41 (1.13%) CISM
13 40 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 32 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
14 32 (0.88%) ISTQB
15 29 (0.80%) PMI Certification
16 23 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 23 (0.63%) PMP
17 18 (0.49%) Oracle Certification
18 15 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 337 (9.25%) QA
2 145 (3.98%) GDPR
3 113 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 110 (3.02%) Data Quality
5 97 (2.66%) NIST
6 82 (2.25%) Accessibility
7 45 (1.24%) NCSC
8 26 (0.71%) PCI DSS
9 25 (0.69%) HIPAA
10 23 (0.63%) WCAG
11 18 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 16 (0.44%) SLA
13 15 (0.41%) PMO
13 15 (0.41%) PSD2
14 14 (0.38%) ISO 20022
15 13 (0.36%) MiFID
16 11 (0.30%) EU AI Act
16 11 (0.30%) SEPA
16 11 (0.30%) SOC 2
17 10 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 957 (26.27%) Docker
2 155 (4.25%) Active Directory
3 60 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 58 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (0.66%) vSphere
6 18 (0.49%) DFS Replication
7 15 (0.41%) VMware NSX
8 13 (0.36%) Squid
9 12 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
10 11 (0.30%) Dovecot
10 11 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
10 11 (0.30%) Postfix
11 10 (0.27%) Lustre
11 10 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 8 (0.22%) GPFS
12 8 (0.22%) Hyper-V
12 8 (0.22%) NFS
12 8 (0.22%) Tivoli Directory Server
12 8 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
13 7 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1,120 (30.74%) Terraform
2 1,088 (29.87%) Kubernetes
3 488 (13.40%) Ansible
4 279 (7.66%) Grafana
5 262 (7.19%) Prometheus
6 79 (2.17%) Argo
7 70 (1.92%) Puppet
8 53 (1.45%) Progress Chef
9 50 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
10 42 (1.15%) Kibana
11 35 (0.96%) Packer
12 34 (0.93%) Istio
13 22 (0.60%) Podman
14 18 (0.49%) ITRS Geneos
15 17 (0.47%) Nessus
15 17 (0.47%) Proxmox
16 16 (0.44%) logstash
17 15 (0.41%) Rancher
17 15 (0.41%) SCCM
18 14 (0.38%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 615 (16.88%) Microsoft
2 303 (8.32%) Oracle
3 211 (5.79%) Google
4 205 (5.63%) Splunk
5 190 (5.22%) Databricks
6 155 (4.25%) ServiceNow
7 103 (2.83%) Red Hat
8 100 (2.74%) SAP
8 100 (2.74%) VMware
9 95 (2.61%) Salesforce
10 61 (1.67%) Dynatrace
11 47 (1.29%) F5
11 47 (1.29%) OpenAI
12 43 (1.18%) IBM
13 39 (1.07%) Palo Alto
14 38 (1.04%) CyberArk
15 37 (1.02%) Talend
16 35 (0.96%) Atlassian
17 34 (0.93%) Denodo
18 31 (0.85%) MuleSoft
2,236 DevOps jobs in England