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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 16 15
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,766 2,733 3,532
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.65% 10.07% 9.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.47% 11.10% 11.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,301 1,970 2,414
10th Percentile £388 £363 £400
25th Percentile £443 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £703 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 18 113
10th Percentile £38.25 £40.25 £56.50
25th Percentile £61.81 £51.69 £61.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £66.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -5.00% +6.87%
75th Percentile £78.50 £79.63 £77.50
90th Percentile £94.88 £89.88 £86.73
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +4.48% -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 38,219 24,611 31,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.42% 90.71% 85.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,063 15,813 20,400
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £734 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,375 1,290 2,230
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.39 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.10 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -6.09%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.56 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.60 £72.58
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -4.70%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 2,455 £550 - 519
North of England +5 873 £500 +1.63% 390
Yorkshire +2 461 £500 - 115
South East -8 455 £525 +5.00% 359
Midlands 0 442 £492 -0.61% 213
West Midlands -2 351 £500 - 126
North West 0 334 £514 +8.19% 210
South West +16 304 £525 -4.55% 163
East of England +18 145 £525 +5.00% 142
North East +12 97 £425 -18.66% 66
East Midlands 0 86 £488 +5.41% 87
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
1 277 (5.81%) Confluence
2 123 (2.58%) Apache Spark
3 122 (2.56%) SharePoint
4 104 (2.18%) Apache Airflow
5 96 (2.01%) Apache
6 69 (1.45%) SAS
7 49 (1.03%) CMS
8 31 (0.65%) IIS
8 31 (0.65%) Jupyter
9 29 (0.61%) nginx
10 25 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
11 14 (0.29%) Camunda
11 14 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
11 14 (0.29%) WebSphere
12 13 (0.27%) OpenStack
13 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
14 9 (0.19%) Appian
14 9 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
15 7 (0.15%) Tomcat
16 6 (0.13%) Documentum
Applications
1 66 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
3 38 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 36 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
5 33 (0.69%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.21%) CPLEX
7 9 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.15%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.084%) Notion
10 3 (0.063%) Trello
11 2 (0.042%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
12 1 (0.021%) InDesign
12 1 (0.021%) Maya
12 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 64 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.21%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
4 9 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
5 8 (0.17%) Magento
6 7 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.13%) Maximo
8 5 (0.10%) Endur
8 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
8 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
8 5 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.084%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.063%) SAP BPC
10 3 (0.063%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.063%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.063%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 3 (0.063%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2,530 (53.08%) Azure
2 1,666 (34.96%) AWS
3 1,420 (29.79%) Azure DevOps
4 774 (16.24%) GitHub
5 582 (12.21%) GCP
6 470 (9.86%) GitHub Actions
7 403 (8.46%) Serverless
8 400 (8.39%) Power Platform
9 266 (5.58%) Amazon S3
10 232 (4.87%) AWS Lambda
11 220 (4.62%) Entra ID
12 185 (3.88%) AWS CloudFormation
13 181 (3.80%) Azure AKS
14 172 (3.61%) Amazon EKS
15 162 (3.40%) Amazon EC2
16 161 (3.38%) Azure Data Factory
17 160 (3.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 152 (3.19%) Azure Monitor
19 149 (3.13%) OpenShift
20 144 (3.02%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 220 (4.62%) Firewall
2 127 (2.66%) DNS
3 104 (2.18%) Network Security
4 103 (2.16%) VPN
5 50 (1.05%) WAN
6 47 (0.99%) TCP/IP
7 37 (0.78%) SD-WAN
8 35 (0.73%) SSL
9 32 (0.67%) BGP
10 29 (0.61%) Internet
11 27 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
12 24 (0.50%) OSPF
13 22 (0.46%) DHCP
14 21 (0.44%) HTTP
15 18 (0.38%) LAN
15 18 (0.38%) SAN
16 17 (0.36%) MPLS
16 17 (0.36%) VXLAN
17 16 (0.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 16 (0.34%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 267 (5.60%) Power BI
2 249 (5.22%) SQL Server
3 225 (4.72%) PostgreSQL
4 159 (3.34%) NoSQL
5 155 (3.25%) Relational Database
6 148 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
7 137 (2.87%) Data Lake
8 135 (2.83%) MongoDB
9 101 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
10 84 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
11 82 (1.72%) DynamoDB
12 80 (1.68%) Delta Lake
12 80 (1.68%) Metadata
13 77 (1.62%) Oracle Database
14 58 (1.22%) Big Data
15 57 (1.20%) Redis
16 55 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
17 54 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
18 51 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
19 44 (0.92%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 675 (14.16%) Jenkins
2 625 (13.11%) Git
3 570 (11.96%) JIRA
4 483 (10.13%) GitLab
5 106 (2.22%) Selenium
6 91 (1.91%) Postman
7 86 (1.80%) JUnit
7 86 (1.80%) SonarQube
8 70 (1.47%) Maven
9 67 (1.41%) Bitbucket
10 65 (1.36%) REST Assured
11 52 (1.09%) Cucumber
12 47 (0.99%) JMeter
13 46 (0.97%) Cypress.io
14 43 (0.90%) Gradle
15 42 (0.88%) Gatling
16 37 (0.78%) Mockito
17 35 (0.73%) Artifactory
18 33 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
19 30 (0.63%) LoadRunner
General
1 1,200 (25.18%) Social Skills
2 914 (19.18%) Finance
3 636 (13.34%) Public Sector
4 424 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
5 323 (6.78%) Banking
6 121 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
7 102 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 81 (1.70%) Retail
9 70 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
10 55 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
11 54 (1.13%) Marketing
12 53 (1.11%) Legal
13 43 (0.90%) Military
14 40 (0.84%) Investment Banking
15 38 (0.80%) Financial Institution
15 38 (0.80%) Law
16 32 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
17 31 (0.65%) Front Office
18 29 (0.61%) Aerospace
19 28 (0.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 923 (19.37%) DevOps Engineer
2 752 (15.78%) Developer
3 669 (14.04%) Senior
4 570 (11.96%) Architect
5 452 (9.48%) Lead
6 291 (6.11%) Azure Engineer
7 281 (5.90%) Data Engineer
8 260 (5.46%) Analyst
9 215 (4.51%) AWS Engineer
10 190 (3.99%) Platform Engineer
11 180 (3.78%) Cloud Engineer
12 174 (3.65%) Solutions Architect
13 164 (3.44%) Senior DevOps
14 157 (3.29%) Java Developer
15 156 (3.27%) AWS DevOps
16 150 (3.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 149 (3.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 143 (3.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 134 (2.81%) Business Analyst
20 133 (2.79%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 458 (9.61%) REST
2 412 (8.64%) .NET
3 278 (5.83%) Kafka
4 270 (5.67%) Spring
5 254 (5.33%) React
6 249 (5.22%) Spring Boot
7 236 (4.95%) RESTful
8 194 (4.07%) Node.js
9 141 (2.96%) AngularJS
10 137 (2.87%) PySpark
11 135 (2.83%) OAuth
12 134 (2.81%) JSON
13 132 (2.77%) Playwright
14 121 (2.54%) .NET Framework
15 119 (2.50%) SOAP
16 109 (2.29%) HTML
17 97 (2.04%) YAML
18 93 (1.95%) CSS
19 91 (1.91%) OAuth2
20 87 (1.83%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 844 (17.71%) Cloud Native
2 312 (6.55%) Product Ownership
3 218 (4.57%) Distributed Systems
4 145 (3.04%) Onboarding
5 132 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
6 125 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
7 105 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
8 81 (1.70%) Public Cloud
9 74 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
10 65 (1.36%) Data Centre
11 64 (1.34%) Security Posture
12 63 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
13 60 (1.26%) Management Information System
14 54 (1.13%) Data Structures
15 53 (1.11%) AI Agents
16 52 (1.09%) Mobile App
17 51 (1.07%) Replication
18 49 (1.03%) Virtual Team
19 44 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
20 35 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 407 (8.54%) Linux
2 251 (5.27%) Windows
3 91 (1.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 67 (1.41%) Unix
5 56 (1.17%) Windows Server
6 26 (0.55%) Ubuntu
6 26 (0.55%) VMS
7 24 (0.50%) Apple iOS
8 16 (0.34%) Android
9 9 (0.19%) Solaris
9 9 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.15%) CentOS
11 6 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
11 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
11 6 (0.13%) zOS
12 5 (0.10%) AIX
12 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.084%) Data ONTAP
13 4 (0.084%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,727 (57.22%) CI/CD
2 1,858 (38.98%) Agile
3 1,261 (26.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 768 (16.11%) Containerisation
5 742 (15.57%) Problem-Solving
6 695 (14.58%) Continuous Improvement
7 694 (14.56%) Test Automation
8 687 (14.41%) Microservices
9 628 (13.18%) Stakeholder Management
10 618 (12.97%) AI
11 579 (12.15%) Scrum
12 578 (12.13%) Migration
12 578 (12.13%) Observability
13 537 (11.27%) Software Engineering
14 526 (11.04%) Platform Engineering
15 512 (10.74%) Analytics
16 414 (8.69%) Data Modelling
17 408 (8.56%) Technical Leadership
18 403 (8.46%) Roadmaps
19 402 (8.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,336 (28.03%) Python
2 894 (18.76%) SQL
3 679 (14.25%) Java
4 433 (9.09%) C#
5 365 (7.66%) Bash
6 355 (7.45%) PowerShell
7 353 (7.41%) JavaScript
8 252 (5.29%) TypeScript
9 156 (3.27%) Bicep
10 94 (1.97%) Go
11 58 (1.22%) PL/SQL
11 58 (1.22%) Scala
12 56 (1.17%) Shell Script
13 54 (1.13%) T-SQL
14 51 (1.07%) Apex Code
15 46 (0.97%) Groovy
16 26 (0.55%) Kotlin
17 25 (0.52%) C++
18 22 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 19 (0.40%) C
Qualifications
1 1,524 (31.98%) Security Cleared
2 1,272 (26.69%) SC Cleared
3 296 (6.21%) Degree
4 188 (3.94%) Azure Certification
5 171 (3.59%) DV Cleared
6 161 (3.38%) AWS Certification
7 128 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 111 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
9 71 (1.49%) CISSP
10 70 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
11 51 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
12 46 (0.97%) ISTQB
13 45 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 38 (0.80%) PMP
15 37 (0.78%) Master's Degree
16 35 (0.73%) PMI Certification
17 32 (0.67%) CISM
18 25 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 23 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
20 21 (0.44%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 423 (8.88%) QA
2 222 (4.66%) Data Quality
3 149 (3.13%) Accessibility
4 145 (3.04%) GDPR
5 95 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 92 (1.93%) NIST
7 69 (1.45%) WCAG
8 60 (1.26%) NCSC
9 41 (0.86%) PCI DSS
10 35 (0.73%) PMO
11 31 (0.65%) SLA
12 25 (0.52%) GRC
13 23 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 14 (0.29%) HIPAA
15 11 (0.23%) ISO 20022
15 11 (0.23%) PSD2
15 11 (0.23%) SOC 2
16 10 (0.21%) SEPA
17 8 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
18 7 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 919 (19.28%) Docker
2 160 (3.36%) Active Directory
3 74 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
4 63 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 27 (0.57%) vSphere
6 22 (0.46%) VMware NSX
7 19 (0.40%) Squid
8 18 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
9 16 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
10 14 (0.29%) Postfix
11 13 (0.27%) Hyper-V
12 9 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
13 6 (0.13%) Corosync
13 6 (0.13%) IAG
13 6 (0.13%) KVM
13 6 (0.13%) RACF
14 5 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
14 5 (0.10%) NFS
14 5 (0.10%) SRDF
15 4 (0.084%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,349 (28.30%) Terraform
2 1,201 (25.20%) Kubernetes
3 457 (9.59%) Ansible
4 317 (6.65%) Grafana
5 272 (5.71%) Prometheus
6 83 (1.74%) Argo
7 70 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
8 56 (1.17%) Puppet
9 36 (0.76%) Progress Chef
10 33 (0.69%) Istio
11 31 (0.65%) Packer
12 26 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
12 26 (0.55%) vCenter Server
13 20 (0.42%) Kibana
14 17 (0.36%) Consul
15 16 (0.34%) HP ALM
15 16 (0.34%) Kustomize
16 15 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 14 (0.29%) Kubeflow
18 12 (0.25%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 858 (18.00%) Microsoft
2 260 (5.46%) Oracle
3 238 (4.99%) Databricks
4 214 (4.49%) Google
5 181 (3.80%) ServiceNow
6 172 (3.61%) Splunk
7 147 (3.08%) Salesforce
8 114 (2.39%) Dynatrace
9 112 (2.35%) SAP
10 105 (2.20%) Red Hat
11 97 (2.04%) VMware
12 55 (1.15%) IBM
13 54 (1.13%) OpenAI
14 50 (1.05%) Atlassian
15 47 (0.99%) Informatica
16 44 (0.92%) CyberArk
16 44 (0.92%) Foundry
17 38 (0.80%) Cisco
18 33 (0.69%) AppDynamics
19 31 (0.65%) Okta