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 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,261 2,453 3,345
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.58% 10.06% 9.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.47% 11.03% 10.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,986 1,812 2,315
10th Percentile £385 £400 £400
25th Percentile £440 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £650
90th Percentile £711 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -3.60% -2.27% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 14 104
10th Percentile £39.53 £39.88 £56.33
25th Percentile £50.31 £52.50 £61.25
Median hourly rate £67.25 £67.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.37% +3.85% -0.76%
75th Percentile £77.88 £81.69 £79.22
90th Percentile £95.00 £89.64 £87.32
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £71.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year -5.74% +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 34,177 22,233 31,934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.83% 91.20% 86.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,833 14,556 20,949
10th Percentile £318 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,126 928 2,245
10th Percentile £15.36 £14.65 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year +51.53% -16.77% -2.97%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.83
% change year-on-year +43.29% -19.06% -0.47%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 4 May 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 2,182 £538 -6.43% 556
North of England +7 728 £500 -3.82% 291
South East +1 463 £508 -7.73% 310
Yorkshire +2 405 £500 -3.80% 69
Midlands +2 401 £488 -2.50% 117
West Midlands +4 306 £500 -4.58% 64
South West +15 290 £500 -12.28% 118
North West +2 268 £500 - 160
East of England +21 129 £525 +3.45% 91
East Midlands 0 92 £465 -0.80% 53
North East +8 64 £475 -13.64% 62
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
1 233 (5.47%) Confluence
2 117 (2.75%) Apache Spark
3 104 (2.44%) SharePoint
4 82 (1.92%) Apache
5 70 (1.64%) SAS
6 62 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
7 36 (0.84%) CMS
8 25 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
9 24 (0.56%) IIS
9 24 (0.56%) nginx
9 24 (0.56%) OpenStack
10 12 (0.28%) Mendix
11 11 (0.26%) HCL Notes
11 11 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
12 10 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.21%) WebSphere
14 8 (0.19%) Camunda
15 7 (0.16%) ArcGIS
16 6 (0.14%) Mattermost
16 6 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 65 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (1.31%) Microsoft Project
3 42 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
5 22 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.094%) Trello
7 4 (0.094%) Weka
8 3 (0.070%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.047%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.047%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.023%) InDesign
10 1 (0.023%) Maya
Business Applications
1 59 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
4 9 (0.21%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.21%) Maximo
4 9 (0.21%) NEC Housing
5 7 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
5 7 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.094%) Endur
7 4 (0.094%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.094%) SAP BPC
8 3 (0.070%) Findur
8 3 (0.070%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.070%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.070%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.047%) Magento
9 2 (0.047%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.047%) SAP MM
9 2 (0.047%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,303 (54.05%) Azure
2 1,425 (33.44%) AWS
3 1,249 (29.31%) Azure DevOps
4 704 (16.52%) GitHub
5 556 (13.05%) GCP
6 416 (9.76%) Serverless
7 403 (9.46%) GitHub Actions
8 361 (8.47%) Power Platform
9 230 (5.40%) Amazon S3
10 210 (4.93%) Entra ID
11 209 (4.90%) AWS CloudFormation
12 205 (4.81%) AWS Lambda
13 197 (4.62%) Azure Data Factory
14 195 (4.58%) Azure AKS
15 153 (3.59%) OpenShift
16 151 (3.54%) Amazon EKS
16 151 (3.54%) Azure Monitor
17 141 (3.31%) PaaS
18 136 (3.19%) Dynamics 365
19 129 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 193 (4.53%) Firewall
2 107 (2.51%) DNS
3 80 (1.88%) Network Security
3 80 (1.88%) VPN
4 38 (0.89%) TCP/IP
5 32 (0.75%) WAN
6 28 (0.66%) SD-WAN
7 24 (0.56%) HTTP
8 23 (0.54%) BGP
9 21 (0.49%) DHCP
9 21 (0.49%) SSL
10 18 (0.42%) IPsec
10 18 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
11 16 (0.38%) MPLS
11 16 (0.38%) OSPF
12 15 (0.35%) SAN
13 14 (0.33%) LAN
13 14 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
14 12 (0.28%) Internet
15 11 (0.26%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 243 (5.70%) Power BI
2 212 (4.98%) SQL Server
3 211 (4.95%) PostgreSQL
4 160 (3.75%) NoSQL
5 148 (3.47%) Data Lake
6 123 (2.89%) Relational Database
7 119 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
8 94 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
9 91 (2.14%) MongoDB
10 86 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
11 81 (1.90%) Delta Lake
12 75 (1.76%) DynamoDB
13 68 (1.60%) Metadata
14 67 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
14 67 (1.57%) Oracle Database
15 56 (1.31%) Big Data
16 50 (1.17%) Redis
17 49 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
18 48 (1.13%) Tableau
19 45 (1.06%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 609 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 532 (12.49%) Git
3 517 (12.13%) JIRA
4 411 (9.65%) GitLab
5 84 (1.97%) Selenium
6 81 (1.90%) Postman
7 75 (1.76%) JUnit
8 70 (1.64%) SonarQube
9 63 (1.48%) Bitbucket
10 55 (1.29%) Maven
11 47 (1.10%) Artifactory
12 45 (1.06%) Cucumber
12 45 (1.06%) REST Assured
13 41 (0.96%) Cypress.io
14 39 (0.92%) JMeter
15 34 (0.80%) Gatling
15 34 (0.80%) Mockito
16 27 (0.63%) Gradle
17 26 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
18 25 (0.59%) TestRail
General
1 1,120 (26.28%) Social Skills
2 820 (19.24%) Finance
3 508 (11.92%) Public Sector
4 370 (8.68%) Analytical Skills
5 296 (6.95%) Banking
6 142 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
7 64 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
8 63 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 53 (1.24%) Retail
10 51 (1.20%) Financial Institution
11 49 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
12 48 (1.13%) Legal
12 48 (1.13%) Marketing
13 44 (1.03%) Front Office
14 42 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
15 39 (0.92%) Investment Banking
16 31 (0.73%) Military
17 29 (0.68%) Telecoms
18 23 (0.54%) Law
19 18 (0.42%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 828 (19.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 622 (14.60%) Developer
3 592 (13.89%) Senior
4 498 (11.69%) Architect
5 349 (8.19%) Lead
6 293 (6.88%) Azure Engineer
7 279 (6.55%) Data Engineer
8 258 (6.05%) Analyst
9 179 (4.20%) AWS Engineer
10 157 (3.68%) Cloud Engineer
11 155 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
12 146 (3.43%) Platform Engineer
13 138 (3.24%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 135 (3.17%) AWS DevOps
14 135 (3.17%) Software Engineer
15 132 (3.10%) Business Analyst
16 125 (2.93%) Senior DevOps
17 121 (2.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 117 (2.75%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 109 (2.56%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 384 (9.01%) REST
2 356 (8.35%) .NET
3 257 (6.03%) Kafka
4 242 (5.68%) Node.js
5 236 (5.54%) React
5 236 (5.54%) Spring
6 221 (5.19%) Spring Boot
7 194 (4.55%) RESTful
8 156 (3.66%) AngularJS
9 129 (3.03%) YAML
10 126 (2.96%) Playwright
11 122 (2.86%) PySpark
12 121 (2.84%) JSON
13 109 (2.56%) OAuth
14 104 (2.44%) HTML
14 104 (2.44%) Middleware
15 96 (2.25%) SOAP
16 91 (2.14%) CSS
17 88 (2.07%) .NET Framework
17 88 (2.07%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 683 (16.03%) Cloud Native
2 265 (6.22%) Product Ownership
3 158 (3.71%) Distributed Systems
4 116 (2.72%) Onboarding
5 87 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
5 87 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
6 83 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
7 81 (1.90%) Public Cloud
8 68 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
9 52 (1.22%) Management Information System
10 43 (1.01%) Data Centre
10 43 (1.01%) Private Cloud
10 43 (1.01%) Virtual Team
11 39 (0.92%) Replication
11 39 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
12 36 (0.84%) Data Structures
12 36 (0.84%) Mobile App
13 35 (0.82%) AI Agents
13 35 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
14 34 (0.80%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 374 (8.78%) Linux
2 224 (5.26%) Windows
3 65 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 65 (1.53%) Unix
4 39 (0.92%) Windows Server
5 35 (0.82%) VMS
6 21 (0.49%) Ubuntu
7 13 (0.31%) Android
8 11 (0.26%) Apple iOS
8 11 (0.26%) CentOS
9 10 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.16%) Windows 10
11 6 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.12%) Solaris
13 4 (0.094%) Amazon Linux
13 4 (0.094%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (0.094%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.070%) Debian
14 3 (0.070%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.070%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,372 (55.67%) CI/CD
2 1,592 (37.36%) Agile
3 1,050 (24.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 706 (16.57%) Problem-Solving
5 703 (16.50%) Containerisation
6 624 (14.64%) Microservices
7 599 (14.06%) Test Automation
8 550 (12.91%) Continuous Improvement
9 518 (12.16%) Migration
10 508 (11.92%) Analytics
11 494 (11.59%) Observability
12 474 (11.12%) Stakeholder Management
13 463 (10.87%) Scrum
14 445 (10.44%) AI
15 416 (9.76%) Software Engineering
16 400 (9.39%) Data Modelling
17 349 (8.19%) Platform Engineering
18 346 (8.12%) Mentoring
19 336 (7.89%) Data Pipeline
20 333 (7.82%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,171 (27.48%) Python
2 891 (20.91%) SQL
3 566 (13.28%) Java
4 419 (9.83%) C#
5 325 (7.63%) JavaScript
6 302 (7.09%) PowerShell
7 288 (6.76%) Bash
8 243 (5.70%) TypeScript
9 142 (3.33%) Bicep
10 97 (2.28%) Go
11 68 (1.60%) Scala
12 66 (1.55%) PL/SQL
13 50 (1.17%) Shell Script
14 41 (0.96%) T-SQL
15 40 (0.94%) Groovy
16 36 (0.84%) Apex Code
17 30 (0.70%) C++
18 24 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 24 (0.56%) Ruby
19 21 (0.49%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,386 (32.53%) Security Cleared
2 1,144 (26.85%) SC Cleared
3 291 (6.83%) Degree
4 192 (4.51%) Azure Certification
5 140 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 140 (3.29%) DV Cleared
6 116 (2.72%) AWS Certification
7 106 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 65 (1.53%) CISSP
9 49 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
10 47 (1.10%) CISM
10 47 (1.10%) ISTQB
10 47 (1.10%) Master's Degree
11 40 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 40 (0.94%) PMI Certification
12 38 (0.89%) PMP
13 37 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
14 21 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 21 (0.49%) IIBA
14 21 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 386 (9.06%) QA
2 196 (4.60%) Data Quality
3 164 (3.85%) GDPR
4 122 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 114 (2.68%) NIST
6 97 (2.28%) Accessibility
7 58 (1.36%) NCSC
8 42 (0.99%) PCI DSS
9 41 (0.96%) WCAG
10 31 (0.73%) SLA
11 30 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 27 (0.63%) PMO
13 17 (0.40%) GRC
14 15 (0.35%) HIPAA
14 15 (0.35%) ISO 20022
15 14 (0.33%) NIST 800
16 13 (0.31%) PSD2
17 11 (0.26%) SEPA
17 11 (0.26%) SOC 2
18 8 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 846 (19.85%) Docker
2 161 (3.78%) Active Directory
3 70 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
4 61 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 32 (0.75%) vSphere
6 24 (0.56%) VMware NSX
7 15 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
8 12 (0.28%) Postfix
8 12 (0.28%) Squid
9 11 (0.26%) Hyper-V
10 10 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
11 8 (0.19%) Firmware
12 7 (0.16%) Lustre
12 7 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 6 (0.14%) Corosync
13 6 (0.14%) HDFS
14 5 (0.12%) GPFS
14 5 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
14 5 (0.12%) RACF
15 4 (0.094%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,188 (27.88%) Terraform
2 1,123 (26.36%) Kubernetes
3 430 (10.09%) Ansible
4 275 (6.45%) Grafana
5 233 (5.47%) Prometheus
6 88 (2.07%) Argo
7 65 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
8 61 (1.43%) Puppet
9 47 (1.10%) Istio
10 24 (0.56%) Packer
11 23 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
11 23 (0.54%) Progress Chef
12 22 (0.52%) Kibana
12 22 (0.52%) vCenter Server
13 19 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 19 (0.45%) Rancher
14 16 (0.38%) HP ALM
15 15 (0.35%) FortiGate
16 13 (0.31%) Consul
17 12 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 767 (18.00%) Microsoft
2 267 (6.27%) Oracle
3 244 (5.73%) Databricks
4 195 (4.58%) Google
5 174 (4.08%) Splunk
6 158 (3.71%) ServiceNow
7 130 (3.05%) Red Hat
8 125 (2.93%) Salesforce
9 109 (2.56%) VMware
10 99 (2.32%) SAP
11 86 (2.02%) Dynatrace
12 65 (1.53%) OpenAI
13 56 (1.31%) CyberArk
14 47 (1.10%) Atlassian
15 41 (0.96%) IBM
16 36 (0.84%) AppDynamics
17 35 (0.82%) Foundry
17 35 (0.82%) Informatica
18 33 (0.77%) Denodo
19 31 (0.73%) Cisco