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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,847 2,922 3,335
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.62% 10.59% 10.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.50% 11.66% 11.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,336 2,107 2,289
10th Percentile £385 £360 £400
25th Percentile £438 £425 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.78%
75th Percentile £625 £634 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.01% -5.50% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 23 78
10th Percentile £35.45 £36.50 £56.18
25th Percentile £55.00 £52.13 £61.34
Median hourly rate £67.00 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -4.29% +6.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 £85.86 £74.33
90th Percentile £91.60 £95.00 £85.08
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +0.75% -4.29% +6.87%

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 38,776 25,061 28,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.95% 90.80% 85.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,043 15,975 18,472
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £530
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -3.77% -3.64%
75th Percentile £630 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,543 1,444 1,583
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.22 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.88 £18.12
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.83%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.21 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.63 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +65.54% -38.57% -0.24%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 20 August 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 2,541 £550 - 782
North of England 0 809 £500 +3.63% 280
South East -7 476 £525 +5.00% 328
Midlands -1 461 £488 -2.50% 139
Yorkshire 0 393 £500 +1.44% 76
West Midlands -2 368 £490 -4.85% 91
North West -3 320 £525 +10.53% 150
South West +8 317 £525 +2.44% 149
East of England +17 137 £505 +1.00% 84
North East +15 113 £431 -17.86% 55
East Midlands +3 89 £475 +4.11% 48
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 (5.96%) Confluence
2 134 (2.76%) SharePoint
3 116 (2.39%) Apache Airflow
4 115 (2.37%) Apache Spark
5 99 (2.04%) Apache
6 64 (1.32%) SAS
7 40 (0.83%) CMS
8 35 (0.72%) Jupyter
9 32 (0.66%) IIS
10 22 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
11 21 (0.43%) nginx
12 13 (0.27%) Camunda
13 11 (0.23%) OpenStack
13 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
13 11 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
13 11 (0.23%) WebSphere
14 9 (0.19%) Anypoint
14 9 (0.19%) Appian
15 7 (0.14%) Tomcat
15 7 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 61 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
2 60 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 40 (0.83%) MS Visio
4 32 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 31 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
6 10 (0.21%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.19%) CPLEX
8 8 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
9 7 (0.14%) Trello
10 5 (0.10%) Notion
11 3 (0.062%) Windchill
12 1 (0.021%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
12 1 (0.021%) Gliffy
12 1 (0.021%) InDesign
12 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 61 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.21%) Aladdin
3 10 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
4 9 (0.19%) Magento
5 8 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
5 8 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 6 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.10%) Maximo
8 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
8 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
9 4 (0.083%) Endur
9 4 (0.083%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.083%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.062%) Findur
10 3 (0.062%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.062%) Shopify
10 3 (0.062%) Teamcenter
11 2 (0.041%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 2,652 (54.71%) Azure
2 1,684 (34.74%) AWS
3 1,540 (31.77%) Azure DevOps
4 820 (16.92%) GitHub
5 604 (12.46%) GCP
6 517 (10.67%) GitHub Actions
7 421 (8.69%) Power Platform
8 391 (8.07%) Serverless
9 240 (4.95%) Entra ID
10 234 (4.83%) Amazon S3
11 228 (4.70%) AWS Lambda
12 196 (4.04%) Azure AKS
13 180 (3.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 180 (3.71%) AWS CloudFormation
13 180 (3.71%) Azure Data Factory
14 179 (3.69%) Amazon EKS
15 177 (3.65%) Azure Monitor
16 155 (3.20%) Dynamics 365
17 153 (3.16%) Power Automate
18 145 (2.99%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 231 (4.77%) Firewall
2 143 (2.95%) DNS
3 115 (2.37%) VPN
4 104 (2.15%) Network Security
5 63 (1.30%) TCP/IP
6 53 (1.09%) WAN
7 42 (0.87%) SSL
8 38 (0.78%) SD-WAN
9 37 (0.76%) DHCP
10 33 (0.68%) BGP
11 32 (0.66%) Internet
12 29 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
13 26 (0.54%) HTTP
13 26 (0.54%) OSPF
14 21 (0.43%) SAN
15 20 (0.41%) VLAN
16 18 (0.37%) LAN
16 18 (0.37%) SSH
16 18 (0.37%) VXLAN
17 17 (0.35%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 290 (5.98%) Power BI
2 258 (5.32%) SQL Server
3 244 (5.03%) PostgreSQL
4 176 (3.63%) Data Warehouse
5 172 (3.55%) NoSQL
6 153 (3.16%) Relational Database
7 141 (2.91%) Data Lake
7 141 (2.91%) MongoDB
8 106 (2.19%) Metadata
9 100 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
10 93 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
11 81 (1.67%) Delta Lake
12 76 (1.57%) DynamoDB
13 75 (1.55%) Oracle Database
14 69 (1.42%) Redis
15 57 (1.18%) MySQL
16 56 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
17 55 (1.13%) Big Data
18 51 (1.05%) BigQuery
19 48 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 672 (13.86%) Jenkins
2 655 (13.51%) Git
3 574 (11.84%) JIRA
4 517 (10.67%) GitLab
5 111 (2.29%) Selenium
6 86 (1.77%) SonarQube
7 82 (1.69%) Postman
8 79 (1.63%) Bitbucket
9 75 (1.55%) JUnit
10 73 (1.51%) Maven
11 58 (1.20%) Cypress.io
12 56 (1.16%) JMeter
13 55 (1.13%) REST Assured
14 50 (1.03%) Cucumber
15 48 (0.99%) Gatling
16 46 (0.95%) Gradle
17 41 (0.85%) LoadRunner
18 37 (0.76%) Mockito
19 34 (0.70%) Artifactory
19 34 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,256 (25.91%) Social Skills
2 921 (19.00%) Finance
3 665 (13.72%) Public Sector
4 467 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
5 338 (6.97%) Banking
6 136 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 101 (2.08%) Retail
8 91 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
9 68 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
10 56 (1.16%) Legal
11 55 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
12 54 (1.11%) Marketing
13 48 (0.99%) Investment Banking
14 46 (0.95%) Aerospace
15 42 (0.87%) Front Office
15 42 (0.87%) Military
16 40 (0.83%) Financial Institution
16 40 (0.83%) Law
16 40 (0.83%) Telecoms
17 35 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 885 (18.26%) DevOps Engineer
2 771 (15.91%) Developer
3 719 (14.83%) Senior
4 549 (11.33%) Architect
5 485 (10.01%) Lead
6 297 (6.13%) Azure Engineer
7 284 (5.86%) Data Engineer
8 235 (4.85%) Analyst
9 198 (4.09%) AWS Engineer
10 196 (4.04%) Platform Engineer
11 179 (3.69%) Cloud Engineer
12 168 (3.47%) Senior DevOps
13 162 (3.34%) Solutions Architect
14 156 (3.22%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 154 (3.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 142 (2.93%) Java Developer
17 139 (2.87%) AWS DevOps
18 135 (2.79%) Senior Developer
18 135 (2.79%) Software Engineer
19 126 (2.60%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,380 (28.47%) Terraform
2 501 (10.34%) REST
3 433 (8.93%) .NET
4 307 (6.33%) Kafka
5 267 (5.51%) RESTful
6 242 (4.99%) React
7 233 (4.81%) Spring
8 215 (4.44%) Spring Boot
9 166 (3.42%) Node.js
10 156 (3.22%) JSON
11 143 (2.95%) PySpark
12 141 (2.91%) Playwright
13 139 (2.87%) OAuth
14 131 (2.70%) .NET Framework
15 126 (2.60%) AngularJS
16 121 (2.50%) SOAP
17 113 (2.33%) HTML
18 107 (2.21%) YAML
19 98 (2.02%) CSS
20 96 (1.98%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 878 (18.11%) Cloud Native
2 353 (7.28%) Product Ownership
3 233 (4.81%) Distributed Systems
4 157 (3.24%) Enterprise Software
5 155 (3.20%) Onboarding
6 136 (2.81%) Hybrid Cloud
6 136 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
7 80 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
8 79 (1.63%) AI Agents
9 71 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
10 69 (1.42%) Management Information System
11 65 (1.34%) Security Posture
12 61 (1.26%) Data Structures
13 59 (1.22%) Public Cloud
14 58 (1.20%) Data Centre
15 53 (1.09%) Replication
16 51 (1.05%) Mobile App
16 51 (1.05%) Virtual Team
17 43 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
18 38 (0.78%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 450 (9.28%) Linux
2 278 (5.74%) Windows
3 106 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 89 (1.84%) Unix
5 77 (1.59%) Windows Server
6 29 (0.60%) Apple iOS
6 29 (0.60%) Ubuntu
7 28 (0.58%) VMS
8 18 (0.37%) Android
9 9 (0.19%) Solaris
9 9 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.17%) AIX
10 8 (0.17%) CentOS
10 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
10 8 (0.17%) zOS
11 7 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
12 6 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
13 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
14 4 (0.083%) Alpine Linux
14 4 (0.083%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,814 (58.06%) CI/CD
2 1,954 (40.31%) Agile
3 1,332 (27.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 811 (16.73%) Continuous Improvement
5 777 (16.03%) Containerisation
6 772 (15.93%) Problem-Solving
7 760 (15.68%) Stakeholder Management
8 754 (15.56%) Test Automation
9 707 (14.59%) AI
10 703 (14.50%) Microservices
11 632 (13.04%) Observability
12 599 (12.36%) Scrum
13 598 (12.34%) Software Engineering
14 595 (12.28%) Platform Engineering
15 579 (11.95%) Migration
16 540 (11.14%) Analytics
17 489 (10.09%) Technical Leadership
18 456 (9.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 425 (8.77%) Data Modelling
20 423 (8.73%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,396 (28.80%) Python
2 909 (18.75%) SQL
3 683 (14.09%) Java
4 449 (9.26%) C#
5 440 (9.08%) PowerShell
6 413 (8.52%) Bash
7 382 (7.88%) JavaScript
8 261 (5.38%) TypeScript
9 208 (4.29%) Bicep
10 78 (1.61%) Go
11 64 (1.32%) Shell Script
12 57 (1.18%) T-SQL
13 56 (1.16%) PL/SQL
14 53 (1.09%) Scala
15 52 (1.07%) Groovy
16 51 (1.05%) Apex Code
17 30 (0.62%) C++
18 29 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 28 (0.58%) Perl
20 21 (0.43%) C
Qualifications
1 1,562 (32.23%) Security Cleared
2 1,316 (27.15%) SC Cleared
3 305 (6.29%) Degree
4 198 (4.09%) Azure Certification
5 181 (3.73%) DV Cleared
6 162 (3.34%) AWS Certification
7 136 (2.81%) BPSS Clearance
8 110 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 87 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 74 (1.53%) CISSP
11 52 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
12 50 (1.03%) ISTQB
13 44 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 39 (0.80%) PMP
15 35 (0.72%) Master's Degree
15 35 (0.72%) PMI Certification
16 31 (0.64%) CISM
17 25 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
18 24 (0.50%) CCNP
19 23 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 470 (9.70%) QA
2 245 (5.05%) Data Quality
3 157 (3.24%) Accessibility
4 126 (2.60%) GDPR
5 90 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 76 (1.57%) NIST
7 73 (1.51%) WCAG
8 48 (0.99%) NCSC
9 45 (0.93%) PMO
10 35 (0.72%) PCI DSS
10 35 (0.72%) SLA
11 29 (0.60%) GRC
12 25 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 11 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
13 11 (0.23%) HIPAA
13 11 (0.23%) ISO 20022
14 10 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
15 9 (0.19%) SEPA
16 7 (0.14%) HL7
17 6 (0.12%) PSD2
System Software
1 950 (19.60%) Docker
2 162 (3.34%) Active Directory
3 76 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 69 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (0.47%) Hyper-V
6 22 (0.45%) vSphere
7 21 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
8 17 (0.35%) VMware NSX
9 14 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
10 12 (0.25%) Squid
11 11 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
12 10 (0.21%) IAG
12 10 (0.21%) Postfix
13 8 (0.17%) KVM
14 6 (0.12%) Corosync
14 6 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
15 5 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 5 (0.10%) Firmware
15 5 (0.10%) NFS
15 5 (0.10%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 1,245 (25.69%) Kubernetes
2 482 (9.94%) Ansible
3 315 (6.50%) Grafana
4 264 (5.45%) Prometheus
5 73 (1.51%) Argo
6 59 (1.22%) Puppet
7 53 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
8 47 (0.97%) Progress Chef
9 37 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
10 32 (0.66%) Packer
11 30 (0.62%) Istio
12 19 (0.39%) Kibana
12 19 (0.39%) vCenter Server
13 18 (0.37%) Kustomize
13 18 (0.37%) SCCM
14 17 (0.35%) Kubeflow
15 14 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
16 13 (0.27%) Control-M
16 13 (0.27%) HP ALM
17 12 (0.25%) systemd
Vendors
1 956 (19.72%) Microsoft
2 250 (5.16%) Databricks
2 250 (5.16%) Oracle
3 229 (4.72%) Google
4 196 (4.04%) ServiceNow
5 160 (3.30%) Splunk
6 146 (3.01%) Salesforce
7 133 (2.74%) Dynatrace
8 103 (2.13%) VMware
9 100 (2.06%) SAP
10 99 (2.04%) Red Hat
11 59 (1.22%) IBM
12 51 (1.05%) Informatica
13 48 (0.99%) Atlassian
13 48 (0.99%) Cisco
14 44 (0.91%) AppDynamics
14 44 (0.91%) OpenAI
15 38 (0.78%) Foundry
16 34 (0.70%) CyberArk
16 34 (0.70%) MuleSoft