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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 16 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,585 2,524 3,545
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.58% 10.10% 9.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.41% 11.06% 11.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,214 1,827 2,437
10th Percentile £388 £375 £400
25th Percentile £440 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £650
90th Percentile £703 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 11 116
10th Percentile £39.53 £35.00 £56.50
25th Percentile £61.87 £46.88 £61.51
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% +2.89%
75th Percentile £77.50 £85.86 £75.63
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 £86.32
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £76.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -7.89% +8.57% +6.70%

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 36,943 22,820 31,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.26% 91.36% 85.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,357 14,745 20,676
10th Percentile £325 £300 £303
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +2.09% -4.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,312 1,098 2,392
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.06 £37.63
Median % change year-on-year +73.67% -28.07% +7.07%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £74.13 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 23 June 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 +4 2,349 £550 - 438
North of England +7 848 £500 - 248
Yorkshire +2 456 £511 +2.25% 67
South East -3 449 £511 +2.25% 267
Midlands -1 437 £491 -1.80% 100
West Midlands +1 347 £500 -3.24% 60
North West +2 319 £500 +2.09% 143
South West +15 289 £515 -6.36% 93
East of England +25 136 £525 +7.69% 66
North East +8 91 £450 -14.29% 41
East Midlands 0 86 £466 +2.59% 40
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
1 274 (5.98%) Confluence
2 127 (2.77%) Apache Spark
3 112 (2.44%) SharePoint
4 97 (2.12%) Apache Airflow
5 90 (1.96%) Apache
6 76 (1.66%) SAS
7 48 (1.05%) CMS
8 28 (0.61%) IIS
8 28 (0.61%) Jupyter
8 28 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
9 26 (0.57%) nginx
10 16 (0.35%) Camunda
11 14 (0.31%) OpenStack
12 13 (0.28%) WebSphere
13 12 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
14 10 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
15 9 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
16 7 (0.15%) Mendix
16 7 (0.15%) Tomcat
17 6 (0.13%) Mattermost
Applications
1 70 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
3 47 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
5 27 (0.59%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.22%) CPLEX
7 7 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.087%) Notion
9 3 (0.065%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.065%) Trello
10 2 (0.044%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.022%) InDesign
11 1 (0.022%) Maya
11 1 (0.022%) Weka
Business Applications
1 61 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
4 10 (0.22%) Maximo
5 9 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
6 8 (0.17%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
7 6 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.11%) Endur
8 5 (0.11%) Magento
8 5 (0.11%) OpenText MBPM
8 5 (0.11%) Oracle BPM
8 5 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.087%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.087%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.065%) Findur
10 3 (0.065%) SAP BPC
10 3 (0.065%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.065%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.065%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 2,423 (52.85%) Azure
2 1,595 (34.79%) AWS
3 1,340 (29.23%) Azure DevOps
4 728 (15.88%) GitHub
5 555 (12.10%) GCP
6 432 (9.42%) GitHub Actions
7 408 (8.90%) Serverless
8 391 (8.53%) Power Platform
9 259 (5.65%) Amazon S3
10 228 (4.97%) AWS Lambda
11 219 (4.78%) Entra ID
12 186 (4.06%) Azure AKS
13 185 (4.03%) AWS CloudFormation
14 171 (3.73%) Azure Data Factory
15 164 (3.58%) Amazon EKS
16 153 (3.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 151 (3.29%) Amazon EC2
18 146 (3.18%) OpenShift
19 138 (3.01%) Azure Monitor
20 135 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 219 (4.78%) Firewall
2 119 (2.60%) DNS
3 102 (2.22%) Network Security
4 98 (2.14%) VPN
5 48 (1.05%) WAN
6 41 (0.89%) TCP/IP
7 36 (0.79%) SD-WAN
8 32 (0.70%) BGP
9 27 (0.59%) SSL
9 27 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
10 24 (0.52%) OSPF
11 22 (0.48%) Internet
12 19 (0.41%) DHCP
13 18 (0.39%) HTTP
14 17 (0.37%) LAN
14 17 (0.37%) MPLS
14 17 (0.37%) VXLAN
15 16 (0.35%) BIG-IP
15 16 (0.35%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 16 (0.35%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 260 (5.67%) Power BI
2 226 (4.93%) SQL Server
3 217 (4.73%) PostgreSQL
4 165 (3.60%) NoSQL
5 155 (3.38%) Relational Database
6 145 (3.16%) Data Lake
7 136 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
8 130 (2.84%) MongoDB
9 102 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
10 88 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
11 80 (1.74%) Delta Lake
12 78 (1.70%) DynamoDB
13 75 (1.64%) Metadata
14 70 (1.53%) Oracle Database
15 62 (1.35%) Redis
16 57 (1.24%) Big Data
16 57 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
17 56 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
18 55 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
19 42 (0.92%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 634 (13.83%) Jenkins
2 575 (12.54%) Git
3 551 (12.02%) JIRA
4 480 (10.47%) GitLab
5 90 (1.96%) Selenium
6 85 (1.85%) Postman
7 82 (1.79%) SonarQube
8 79 (1.72%) JUnit
9 65 (1.42%) Bitbucket
10 63 (1.37%) Maven
11 58 (1.26%) REST Assured
12 50 (1.09%) Cucumber
13 47 (1.03%) JMeter
14 41 (0.89%) Gatling
14 41 (0.89%) Gradle
15 37 (0.81%) Artifactory
15 37 (0.81%) Mockito
16 36 (0.79%) Cypress.io
17 30 (0.65%) LoadRunner
17 30 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,178 (25.69%) Social Skills
2 891 (19.43%) Finance
3 602 (13.13%) Public Sector
4 388 (8.46%) Analytical Skills
5 324 (7.07%) Banking
6 128 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
7 94 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 72 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
9 69 (1.50%) Retail
10 55 (1.20%) Marketing
11 52 (1.13%) Legal
12 50 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
13 44 (0.96%) Military
14 43 (0.94%) Financial Institution
15 38 (0.83%) Investment Banking
15 38 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
16 33 (0.72%) Law
17 30 (0.65%) Front Office
18 26 (0.57%) Aerospace
19 24 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 892 (19.45%) DevOps Engineer
2 679 (14.81%) Developer
3 649 (14.15%) Senior
4 569 (12.41%) Architect
5 425 (9.27%) Lead
6 292 (6.37%) Azure Engineer
7 284 (6.19%) Data Engineer
8 268 (5.85%) Analyst
9 202 (4.41%) AWS Engineer
10 177 (3.86%) Solutions Architect
11 176 (3.84%) Cloud Engineer
12 168 (3.66%) Platform Engineer
13 156 (3.40%) Senior DevOps
14 145 (3.16%) AWS DevOps
15 144 (3.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 143 (3.12%) Business Analyst
17 142 (3.10%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 140 (3.05%) Software Engineer
19 138 (3.01%) Java Developer
20 132 (2.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 422 (9.20%) REST
2 381 (8.31%) .NET
3 262 (5.71%) Kafka
4 255 (5.56%) Spring
5 253 (5.52%) React
6 241 (5.26%) Spring Boot
7 221 (4.82%) RESTful
8 189 (4.12%) Node.js
9 144 (3.14%) AngularJS
10 137 (2.99%) PySpark
11 129 (2.81%) OAuth
12 120 (2.62%) JSON
13 119 (2.60%) Playwright
14 110 (2.40%) .NET Framework
15 108 (2.36%) SOAP
15 108 (2.36%) YAML
16 105 (2.29%) HTML
17 94 (2.05%) Middleware
17 94 (2.05%) OpenID
18 90 (1.96%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 811 (17.69%) Cloud Native
2 304 (6.63%) Product Ownership
3 203 (4.43%) Distributed Systems
4 128 (2.79%) Onboarding
5 115 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
6 109 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
7 101 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
8 82 (1.79%) Public Cloud
9 68 (1.48%) Data Centre
10 66 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
11 62 (1.35%) Management Information System
12 61 (1.33%) Security Posture
13 55 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
14 51 (1.11%) Mobile App
15 49 (1.07%) Data Structures
16 48 (1.05%) AI Agents
17 42 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
17 42 (0.92%) Virtual Team
18 40 (0.87%) Replication
19 34 (0.74%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 394 (8.59%) Linux
2 241 (5.26%) Windows
3 92 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 68 (1.48%) Unix
5 48 (1.05%) Windows Server
6 28 (0.61%) Ubuntu
6 28 (0.61%) VMS
7 23 (0.50%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.33%) Android
9 14 (0.31%) CentOS
10 9 (0.20%) Solaris
10 9 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
11 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
12 5 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
12 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.087%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (0.087%) Data ONTAP
13 4 (0.087%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.087%) Windows 10
14 3 (0.065%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,608 (56.88%) CI/CD
2 1,735 (37.84%) Agile
3 1,188 (25.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 719 (15.68%) Containerisation
5 708 (15.44%) Problem-Solving
6 660 (14.39%) Microservices
7 641 (13.98%) Continuous Improvement
8 639 (13.94%) Test Automation
9 589 (12.85%) Stakeholder Management
10 565 (12.32%) AI
11 564 (12.30%) Migration
12 550 (12.00%) Observability
13 543 (11.84%) Analytics
14 536 (11.69%) Scrum
15 491 (10.71%) Software Engineering
16 478 (10.43%) Platform Engineering
17 421 (9.18%) Data Modelling
18 392 (8.55%) Roadmaps
19 389 (8.48%) Technical Leadership
20 380 (8.29%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1,283 (27.98%) Python
2 884 (19.28%) SQL
3 635 (13.85%) Java
4 421 (9.18%) C#
5 327 (7.13%) Bash
6 325 (7.09%) JavaScript
7 321 (7.00%) PowerShell
8 226 (4.93%) TypeScript
9 156 (3.40%) Bicep
10 91 (1.98%) Go
11 60 (1.31%) Scala
12 54 (1.18%) Shell Script
13 49 (1.07%) Apex Code
14 48 (1.05%) T-SQL
15 46 (1.00%) PL/SQL
16 39 (0.85%) Groovy
17 27 (0.59%) C++
18 25 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 22 (0.48%) Kotlin
19 22 (0.48%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,466 (31.97%) Security Cleared
2 1,221 (26.63%) SC Cleared
3 295 (6.43%) Degree
4 192 (4.19%) Azure Certification
5 152 (3.32%) DV Cleared
6 149 (3.25%) AWS Certification
7 118 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 110 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 75 (1.64%) CISSP
10 67 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
11 44 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
11 44 (0.96%) ISTQB
12 43 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 40 (0.87%) CISM
14 39 (0.85%) Master's Degree
14 39 (0.85%) PMI Certification
14 39 (0.85%) PMP
15 23 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
16 21 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 21 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 391 (8.53%) QA
2 223 (4.86%) Data Quality
3 155 (3.38%) GDPR
4 128 (2.79%) Accessibility
5 114 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 109 (2.38%) NIST
7 65 (1.42%) NCSC
8 59 (1.29%) WCAG
9 48 (1.05%) PCI DSS
10 37 (0.81%) SLA
11 29 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 24 (0.52%) GRC
12 24 (0.52%) PMO
13 16 (0.35%) HIPAA
14 13 (0.28%) SOC 2
15 11 (0.24%) ISO 20022
15 11 (0.24%) NIST 800
15 11 (0.24%) PSD2
16 10 (0.22%) SEPA
17 7 (0.15%) COBIT
System Software
1 873 (19.04%) Docker
2 164 (3.58%) Active Directory
3 68 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
4 61 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 26 (0.57%) vSphere
6 21 (0.46%) VMware NSX
7 17 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
8 16 (0.35%) Squid
9 14 (0.31%) Hyper-V
9 14 (0.31%) Postfix
10 7 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
11 6 (0.13%) Corosync
11 6 (0.13%) Firmware
11 6 (0.13%) KVM
11 6 (0.13%) RACF
12 5 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
12 5 (0.11%) SRDF
13 4 (0.087%) NFS
13 4 (0.087%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,293 (28.20%) Terraform
2 1,140 (24.86%) Kubernetes
3 458 (9.99%) Ansible
4 296 (6.46%) Grafana
5 257 (5.61%) Prometheus
6 74 (1.61%) Argo
7 67 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
8 62 (1.35%) Puppet
9 35 (0.76%) Istio
10 30 (0.65%) Progress Chef
11 29 (0.63%) Packer
12 26 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
13 25 (0.55%) vCenter Server
14 22 (0.48%) Kibana
15 17 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 16 (0.35%) Consul
17 15 (0.33%) HP ALM
18 14 (0.31%) Kustomize
19 13 (0.28%) FortiGate
20 12 (0.26%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 813 (17.73%) Microsoft
2 240 (5.23%) Databricks
3 234 (5.10%) Oracle
4 211 (4.60%) Google
5 173 (3.77%) ServiceNow
6 165 (3.60%) Splunk
7 144 (3.14%) Salesforce
8 121 (2.64%) Red Hat
9 107 (2.33%) SAP
10 105 (2.29%) Dynatrace
11 97 (2.12%) VMware
12 62 (1.35%) OpenAI
13 54 (1.18%) IBM
14 52 (1.13%) Atlassian
15 45 (0.98%) CyberArk
16 43 (0.94%) Informatica
17 37 (0.81%) Foundry
18 35 (0.76%) Cisco
19 33 (0.72%) AppDynamics
20 32 (0.70%) Okta