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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,339 2,423 3,380
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.58% 9.99% 9.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.48% 10.95% 10.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,039 1,778 2,343
10th Percentile £385 £399 £400
25th Percentile £443 £456 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £667 £650
90th Percentile £704 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 14 106
10th Percentile £39.53 £39.88 £56.38
25th Percentile £55.69 £52.50 £61.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £68.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +5.77% -0.76%
75th Percentile £77.88 £82.72 £78.44
90th Percentile £95.00 £94.25 £87.23
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £73.23 £65.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.65% -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 34,754 22,136 31,448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.71% 91.24% 86.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,164 14,481 20,585
10th Percentile £320 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,141 934 2,241
10th Percentile £15.34 £14.41 £12.87
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.41 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £29.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.07% -20.55% -2.14%
75th Percentile £67.84 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.06 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.41 £36.02
% change year-on-year +49.60% -21.13% +0.06%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 2,218 £550 -3.51% 565
North of England +7 759 £500 -2.44% 294
South East +1 478 £513 +2.40% 304
Yorkshire +2 412 £500 -2.44% 83
Midlands +4 397 £488 -2.50% 107
West Midlands +3 308 £500 -4.58% 65
South West +16 289 £525 -4.55% 128
North West +2 286 £500 - 156
East of England +31 128 £525 +3.45% 77
East Midlands +1 86 £465 -0.80% 42
North East +8 73 £450 -14.29% 58
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
1 240 (5.53%) Confluence
2 119 (2.74%) Apache Spark
3 107 (2.47%) SharePoint
4 82 (1.89%) Apache
5 70 (1.61%) SAS
6 62 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
7 38 (0.88%) CMS
8 25 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
9 24 (0.55%) IIS
9 24 (0.55%) nginx
10 21 (0.48%) OpenStack
11 11 (0.25%) Mendix
11 11 (0.25%) WebSphere
12 10 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 10 (0.23%) HCL Notes
13 9 (0.21%) Camunda
13 9 (0.21%) Jupyter
13 9 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
14 7 (0.16%) ArcGIS
14 7 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 66 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (1.24%) Microsoft Project
3 44 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
5 22 (0.51%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.092%) CPLEX
6 4 (0.092%) Trello
7 3 (0.069%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.046%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.046%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.023%) InDesign
9 1 (0.023%) Maya
9 1 (0.023%) Weka
Business Applications
1 56 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 10 (0.23%) Aladdin
4 10 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
5 9 (0.21%) Maximo
5 9 (0.21%) NEC Housing
6 8 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
7 6 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.092%) Endur
8 4 (0.092%) Magento
8 4 (0.092%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.092%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.069%) Findur
9 3 (0.069%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.069%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 2 (0.046%) Salesforce CRM
10 2 (0.046%) SAP MM
10 2 (0.046%) Summit
10 2 (0.046%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 2,320 (53.47%) Azure
2 1,457 (33.58%) AWS
3 1,254 (28.90%) Azure DevOps
4 711 (16.39%) GitHub
5 563 (12.98%) GCP
6 413 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
7 404 (9.31%) Serverless
8 366 (8.44%) Power Platform
9 237 (5.46%) Amazon S3
10 209 (4.82%) Entra ID
11 207 (4.77%) AWS Lambda
12 202 (4.66%) AWS CloudFormation
13 193 (4.45%) Azure Data Factory
14 189 (4.36%) Azure AKS
15 159 (3.66%) Amazon EKS
16 156 (3.60%) OpenShift
17 144 (3.32%) PaaS
18 141 (3.25%) Azure Monitor
19 133 (3.07%) Dynamics 365
20 132 (3.04%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 198 (4.56%) Firewall
2 108 (2.49%) DNS
3 87 (2.01%) Network Security
4 85 (1.96%) VPN
5 41 (0.94%) TCP/IP
6 35 (0.81%) WAN
7 31 (0.71%) SD-WAN
8 25 (0.58%) BGP
9 24 (0.55%) SSL
10 22 (0.51%) HTTP
11 21 (0.48%) DHCP
12 20 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
13 18 (0.41%) IPsec
13 18 (0.41%) OSPF
14 17 (0.39%) SAN
15 16 (0.37%) MPLS
16 14 (0.32%) LAN
16 14 (0.32%) Reverse Proxy
17 13 (0.30%) Internet
17 13 (0.30%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 245 (5.65%) Power BI
2 211 (4.86%) PostgreSQL
3 210 (4.84%) SQL Server
4 160 (3.69%) NoSQL
5 152 (3.50%) Data Lake
6 136 (3.13%) Relational Database
7 120 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
8 108 (2.49%) MongoDB
9 89 (2.05%) Azure SQL Database
10 88 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
11 82 (1.89%) Delta Lake
12 73 (1.68%) DynamoDB
13 68 (1.57%) Metadata
14 67 (1.54%) Oracle Database
15 64 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
16 56 (1.29%) Big Data
17 53 (1.22%) Redis
18 48 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
19 47 (1.08%) Tableau
20 46 (1.06%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 627 (14.45%) Jenkins
2 550 (12.68%) Git
3 522 (12.03%) JIRA
4 433 (9.98%) GitLab
5 90 (2.07%) Postman
6 86 (1.98%) Selenium
7 71 (1.64%) SonarQube
8 70 (1.61%) JUnit
9 62 (1.43%) Bitbucket
10 56 (1.29%) Maven
11 54 (1.24%) REST Assured
12 49 (1.13%) Artifactory
12 49 (1.13%) Cucumber
13 44 (1.01%) JMeter
14 41 (0.94%) Gatling
15 38 (0.88%) Cypress.io
16 32 (0.74%) Gradle
17 28 (0.65%) Mockito
18 27 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
19 26 (0.60%) LoadRunner
General
1 1,097 (25.28%) Social Skills
2 820 (18.90%) Finance
3 522 (12.03%) Public Sector
4 368 (8.48%) Analytical Skills
5 293 (6.75%) Banking
6 136 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
7 66 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
8 64 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 56 (1.29%) Retail
10 51 (1.18%) Financial Institution
11 50 (1.15%) Marketing
12 48 (1.11%) Legal
12 48 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
13 42 (0.97%) Front Office
14 40 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
15 37 (0.85%) Investment Banking
15 37 (0.85%) Military
16 27 (0.62%) Telecoms
17 23 (0.53%) Aerospace
18 21 (0.48%) Law
Job Titles
1 856 (19.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 613 (14.13%) Developer
3 605 (13.94%) Senior
4 517 (11.92%) Architect
5 363 (8.37%) Lead
6 298 (6.87%) Azure Engineer
7 282 (6.50%) Data Engineer
8 267 (6.15%) Analyst
9 177 (4.08%) AWS Engineer
10 164 (3.78%) Solutions Architect
11 162 (3.73%) Cloud Engineer
12 152 (3.50%) Platform Engineer
13 141 (3.25%) Software Engineer
14 139 (3.20%) Senior DevOps
15 137 (3.16%) Business Analyst
16 135 (3.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 128 (2.95%) AWS DevOps
17 128 (2.95%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 115 (2.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 112 (2.58%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 386 (8.90%) REST
2 357 (8.23%) .NET
3 269 (6.20%) Kafka
4 245 (5.65%) Spring
5 240 (5.53%) React
6 230 (5.30%) Spring Boot
7 227 (5.23%) Node.js
8 197 (4.54%) RESTful
9 148 (3.41%) AngularJS
10 130 (3.00%) Playwright
11 127 (2.93%) JSON
11 127 (2.93%) PySpark
12 126 (2.90%) YAML
13 113 (2.60%) OAuth
14 103 (2.37%) Middleware
15 100 (2.30%) SOAP
16 99 (2.28%) HTML
17 88 (2.03%) .NET Framework
17 88 (2.03%) OpenID
18 86 (1.98%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 684 (15.76%) Cloud Native
2 270 (6.22%) Product Ownership
3 166 (3.83%) Distributed Systems
4 114 (2.63%) Onboarding
5 94 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
6 85 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
7 84 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
8 82 (1.89%) Public Cloud
9 73 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
10 49 (1.13%) Management Information System
11 48 (1.11%) Data Centre
12 43 (0.99%) Replication
13 40 (0.92%) Virtual Team
14 39 (0.90%) AI Agents
14 39 (0.90%) Mobile App
14 39 (0.90%) Private Cloud
14 39 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
15 38 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
16 37 (0.85%) Data Structures
17 34 (0.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 382 (8.80%) Linux
2 222 (5.12%) Windows
3 68 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 66 (1.52%) Unix
5 41 (0.94%) Windows Server
6 34 (0.78%) VMS
7 23 (0.53%) Ubuntu
8 18 (0.41%) Apple iOS
9 16 (0.37%) Android
10 11 (0.25%) CentOS
11 10 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (0.16%) Windows 10
13 6 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
14 5 (0.12%) Solaris
15 4 (0.092%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.092%) Windows Server 2012
16 3 (0.069%) Mac OS
16 3 (0.069%) Oracle Linux
16 3 (0.069%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,436 (56.14%) CI/CD
2 1,588 (36.60%) Agile
3 1,083 (24.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 705 (16.25%) Containerisation
5 699 (16.11%) Problem-Solving
6 631 (14.54%) Microservices
7 605 (13.94%) Test Automation
8 564 (13.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 528 (12.17%) Migration
10 522 (12.03%) Observability
11 506 (11.66%) Analytics
12 485 (11.18%) Stakeholder Management
13 470 (10.83%) Scrum
14 460 (10.60%) AI
15 426 (9.82%) Software Engineering
16 409 (9.43%) Data Modelling
17 376 (8.67%) Platform Engineering
18 357 (8.23%) Mentoring
19 342 (7.88%) Data Pipeline
19 342 (7.88%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,184 (27.29%) Python
2 880 (20.28%) SQL
3 589 (13.57%) Java
4 408 (9.40%) C#
5 315 (7.26%) JavaScript
6 311 (7.17%) PowerShell
7 304 (7.01%) Bash
8 233 (5.37%) TypeScript
9 144 (3.32%) Bicep
10 95 (2.19%) Go
11 67 (1.54%) Scala
12 53 (1.22%) PL/SQL
13 52 (1.20%) Shell Script
14 42 (0.97%) Groovy
15 41 (0.94%) Apex Code
16 40 (0.92%) T-SQL
17 30 (0.69%) C++
18 25 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 23 (0.53%) Ruby
20 21 (0.48%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,407 (32.43%) Security Cleared
2 1,156 (26.64%) SC Cleared
3 288 (6.64%) Degree
4 191 (4.40%) Azure Certification
5 144 (3.32%) DV Cleared
6 132 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 118 (2.72%) AWS Certification
8 107 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 68 (1.57%) CISSP
10 51 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
11 49 (1.13%) CISM
12 46 (1.06%) ISTQB
12 46 (1.06%) Master's Degree
13 41 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
14 40 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 39 (0.90%) PMI Certification
16 37 (0.85%) PMP
17 24 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
18 21 (0.48%) IIBA
19 20 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 389 (8.97%) QA
2 204 (4.70%) Data Quality
3 164 (3.78%) GDPR
4 122 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 117 (2.70%) NIST
6 105 (2.42%) Accessibility
7 61 (1.41%) NCSC
8 47 (1.08%) WCAG
9 45 (1.04%) PCI DSS
10 32 (0.74%) SLA
11 31 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 30 (0.69%) PMO
13 19 (0.44%) GRC
14 15 (0.35%) HIPAA
14 15 (0.35%) ISO 20022
15 14 (0.32%) PSD2
16 13 (0.30%) NIST 800
17 12 (0.28%) SEPA
18 11 (0.25%) SOC 2
19 8 (0.18%) HL7
System Software
1 853 (19.66%) Docker
2 163 (3.76%) Active Directory
3 72 (1.66%) Virtual Machines
4 59 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 31 (0.71%) vSphere
6 21 (0.48%) VMware NSX
7 17 (0.39%) Squid
8 16 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.28%) Postfix
10 10 (0.23%) Hyper-V
10 10 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
11 8 (0.18%) Firmware
12 6 (0.14%) Corosync
12 6 (0.14%) HDFS
12 6 (0.14%) RACF
13 5 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
14 4 (0.092%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
14 4 (0.092%) Lustre
14 4 (0.092%) NFS
14 4 (0.092%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1,209 (27.86%) Terraform
2 1,121 (25.84%) Kubernetes
3 438 (10.09%) Ansible
4 289 (6.66%) Grafana
5 240 (5.53%) Prometheus
6 86 (1.98%) Argo
7 65 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
8 63 (1.45%) Puppet
9 49 (1.13%) Istio
10 24 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
10 24 (0.55%) Packer
10 24 (0.55%) Progress Chef
11 22 (0.51%) Kibana
12 20 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 20 (0.46%) vCenter Server
13 17 (0.39%) HP ALM
14 16 (0.37%) Rancher
15 14 (0.32%) FortiGate
16 13 (0.30%) Consul
17 12 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 765 (17.63%) Microsoft
2 256 (5.90%) Oracle
3 252 (5.81%) Databricks
4 194 (4.47%) Google
5 180 (4.15%) Splunk
6 164 (3.78%) ServiceNow
7 134 (3.09%) Salesforce
8 130 (3.00%) Red Hat
9 103 (2.37%) SAP
10 102 (2.35%) VMware
11 94 (2.17%) Dynatrace
12 60 (1.38%) OpenAI
13 51 (1.18%) CyberArk
14 45 (1.04%) Atlassian
15 41 (0.94%) IBM
16 36 (0.83%) AppDynamics
16 36 (0.83%) Foundry
16 36 (0.83%) Informatica
17 34 (0.78%) Cisco
18 33 (0.76%) Denodo