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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 17
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 -5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,264 2,539 3,309
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.86% 10.40% 8.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.71% 11.43% 10.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,992 1,868 2,305
10th Percentile £386 £400 £409
25th Percentile £447 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £551
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -0.09% -8.25%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £663
90th Percentile £713 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -6.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 15 92
10th Percentile £39.53 £38.65 £56.25
25th Percentile £45.46 £61.25 £61.25
Median hourly rate £63.73 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.96% +7.69% -0.76%
75th Percentile £75.88 £80.75 £79.22
90th Percentile £85.80 £88.68 £87.46
UK median hourly rate £63.73 £73.23 £65.00
% change year-on-year -12.97% +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 33,547 22,212 32,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.44% 91.02% 86.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,492 14,606 21,309
10th Percentile £314 £311 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,069 881 2,207
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.84 £12.85
25th Percentile £20.09 £18.51 £15.76
Median hourly rate £41.56 £31.76 £34.21
Median % change year-on-year +30.84% -7.16% -8.77%
75th Percentile £66.25 £64.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.25 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £37.16 £30.45 £33.55
% change year-on-year +22.04% -9.24% -7.45%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 2,161 £543 -5.58% 536
North of England +6 742 £500 -4.76% 301
South East +2 456 £525 -4.55% 293
Midlands +5 417 £492 -1.60% 111
Yorkshire 0 395 £500 -4.76% 82
West Midlands +8 326 £500 - 73
South West +11 292 £500 -12.28% 139
North West +1 289 £500 -4.53% 160
East of England +20 120 £550 +8.37% 75
East Midlands +2 88 £455 -4.21% 38
North East +5 65 £475 -11.63% 60
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
1 255 (5.98%) Confluence
2 114 (2.67%) Apache Spark
3 100 (2.35%) SharePoint
4 94 (2.20%) SAS
5 86 (2.02%) Apache
6 67 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
7 34 (0.80%) CMS
8 30 (0.70%) nginx
9 28 (0.66%) OpenStack
10 26 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
11 23 (0.54%) IIS
12 12 (0.28%) Mendix
13 11 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 11 (0.26%) HCL Notes
13 11 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
14 9 (0.21%) WebSphere
15 8 (0.19%) WebLogic
16 7 (0.16%) ArcGIS
16 7 (0.16%) Camunda
17 6 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 75 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 50 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
4 28 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
5 22 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.14%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.14%) Weka
7 5 (0.12%) Trello
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 70 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.23%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.21%) Maximo
4 9 (0.21%) NEC Housing
4 9 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.14%) Endur
5 6 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
5 6 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
5 6 (0.14%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.094%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.094%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.094%) SAP BPC
7 3 (0.070%) Findur
7 3 (0.070%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.070%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.070%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.070%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.070%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 3 (0.070%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 2,266 (53.14%) Azure
2 1,420 (33.30%) AWS
3 1,253 (29.39%) Azure DevOps
4 729 (17.10%) GitHub
5 547 (12.83%) GCP
6 437 (10.25%) Serverless
7 403 (9.45%) GitHub Actions
8 358 (8.40%) Power Platform
9 232 (5.44%) Amazon S3
10 219 (5.14%) AWS Lambda
11 218 (5.11%) AWS CloudFormation
12 217 (5.09%) Entra ID
13 206 (4.83%) Azure Data Factory
14 188 (4.41%) Azure AKS
15 180 (4.22%) OpenShift
16 163 (3.82%) Azure Monitor
17 156 (3.66%) Amazon EKS
18 147 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
19 144 (3.38%) PaaS
20 141 (3.31%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 193 (4.53%) Firewall
2 106 (2.49%) DNS
3 86 (2.02%) Network Security
4 77 (1.81%) VPN
5 38 (0.89%) TCP/IP
6 24 (0.56%) HTTP
7 23 (0.54%) WAN
8 22 (0.52%) SD-WAN
8 22 (0.52%) SSL
9 21 (0.49%) DHCP
10 17 (0.40%) BGP
10 17 (0.40%) IPsec
11 16 (0.38%) MPLS
12 15 (0.35%) SAN
13 14 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
14 12 (0.28%) Internet
14 12 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
15 11 (0.26%) LAN
15 11 (0.26%) OpenVPN
16 10 (0.23%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 231 (5.42%) Power BI
2 224 (5.25%) PostgreSQL
3 204 (4.78%) SQL Server
4 164 (3.85%) NoSQL
5 146 (3.42%) Data Lake
6 120 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
7 117 (2.74%) Relational Database
8 95 (2.23%) Azure SQL Database
9 94 (2.20%) MongoDB
10 86 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
11 75 (1.76%) Oracle Database
12 74 (1.74%) Delta Lake
12 74 (1.74%) DynamoDB
13 72 (1.69%) Metadata
14 67 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
15 55 (1.29%) Big Data
16 54 (1.27%) Tableau
17 49 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
18 48 (1.13%) Redis
19 44 (1.03%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 636 (14.92%) Jenkins
2 558 (13.09%) Git
3 554 (12.99%) JIRA
4 421 (9.87%) GitLab
5 111 (2.60%) Selenium
6 96 (2.25%) JUnit
7 82 (1.92%) Postman
8 70 (1.64%) SonarQube
9 65 (1.52%) Bitbucket
10 52 (1.22%) Maven
11 51 (1.20%) Cucumber
12 50 (1.17%) Artifactory
13 47 (1.10%) REST Assured
14 41 (0.96%) Cypress.io
15 38 (0.89%) JMeter
16 34 (0.80%) Mockito
17 33 (0.77%) Oracle APEX
18 32 (0.75%) Gatling
19 31 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
20 27 (0.63%) TestRail
General
1 1,174 (27.53%) Social Skills
2 801 (18.79%) Finance
3 515 (12.08%) Public Sector
4 368 (8.63%) Analytical Skills
5 306 (7.18%) Banking
6 147 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
7 69 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
8 56 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 55 (1.29%) Retail
10 54 (1.27%) Marketing
11 50 (1.17%) Financial Institution
12 49 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
13 48 (1.13%) Front Office
14 42 (0.98%) Investment Banking
14 42 (0.98%) Legal
14 42 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
15 33 (0.77%) Telecoms
16 31 (0.73%) Military
17 23 (0.54%) Law
18 18 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 775 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 646 (15.15%) Developer
3 597 (14.00%) Senior
4 489 (11.47%) Architect
5 360 (8.44%) Lead
6 288 (6.75%) Azure Engineer
7 268 (6.29%) Data Engineer
8 255 (5.98%) Analyst
9 192 (4.50%) AWS Engineer
10 156 (3.66%) Platform Engineer
11 154 (3.61%) Cloud Engineer
12 148 (3.47%) AWS DevOps
13 146 (3.42%) Solutions Architect
14 140 (3.28%) Software Engineer
15 135 (3.17%) Business Analyst
16 131 (3.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 129 (3.03%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 123 (2.88%) Senior Developer
19 121 (2.84%) Senior DevOps
20 114 (2.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 416 (9.76%) REST
2 349 (8.18%) .NET
3 257 (6.03%) Node.js
4 256 (6.00%) Kafka
5 242 (5.68%) React
6 236 (5.53%) Spring
7 219 (5.14%) Spring Boot
8 197 (4.62%) RESTful
9 155 (3.64%) AngularJS
10 138 (3.24%) YAML
11 131 (3.07%) JSON
12 121 (2.84%) Playwright
13 119 (2.79%) PySpark
14 116 (2.72%) OAuth
15 111 (2.60%) HTML
16 105 (2.46%) Middleware
17 103 (2.42%) SOAP
18 93 (2.18%) CSS
19 85 (1.99%) XML
20 84 (1.97%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 637 (14.94%) Cloud Native
2 260 (6.10%) Product Ownership
3 149 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
4 107 (2.51%) Onboarding
5 89 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
6 88 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
6 88 (2.06%) Public Cloud
7 83 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
8 63 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
9 53 (1.24%) Virtual Team
10 51 (1.20%) Management Information System
11 43 (1.01%) Private Cloud
12 39 (0.91%) Security Posture
12 39 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
13 38 (0.89%) Data Centre
13 38 (0.89%) Data Structures
14 37 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
15 36 (0.84%) AI Agents
15 36 (0.84%) NHS
16 33 (0.77%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 387 (9.08%) Linux
2 223 (5.23%) Windows
3 70 (1.64%) Unix
4 65 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 38 (0.89%) VMS
6 37 (0.87%) Windows Server
7 22 (0.52%) Ubuntu
8 12 (0.28%) Android
8 12 (0.28%) CentOS
9 9 (0.21%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.19%) Windows 10
10 8 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.12%) Solaris
12 4 (0.094%) Windows Server 2008
12 4 (0.094%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.094%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.070%) Debian
13 3 (0.070%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.070%) Oracle Linux
14 2 (0.047%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,362 (55.39%) CI/CD
2 1,647 (38.63%) Agile
3 1,038 (24.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 755 (17.71%) Problem-Solving
5 718 (16.84%) Containerisation
6 622 (14.59%) Microservices
7 604 (14.17%) Test Automation
8 560 (13.13%) Continuous Improvement
9 545 (12.78%) Analytics
10 520 (12.20%) Migration
11 489 (11.47%) Scrum
12 478 (11.21%) Observability
13 469 (11.00%) Stakeholder Management
14 456 (10.69%) AI
15 405 (9.50%) Data Modelling
16 401 (9.40%) Software Engineering
17 359 (8.42%) Mentoring
18 343 (8.04%) Data Pipeline
19 342 (8.02%) Platform Engineering
20 319 (7.48%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1,223 (28.68%) Python
2 927 (21.74%) SQL
3 559 (13.11%) Java
4 421 (9.87%) C#
5 359 (8.42%) JavaScript
6 313 (7.34%) PowerShell
7 299 (7.01%) Bash
8 247 (5.79%) TypeScript
9 145 (3.40%) Bicep
10 96 (2.25%) Go
11 87 (2.04%) PL/SQL
12 70 (1.64%) Scala
13 49 (1.15%) Shell Script
14 45 (1.06%) T-SQL
15 35 (0.82%) Groovy
16 31 (0.73%) Apex Code
16 31 (0.73%) C++
17 30 (0.70%) Ruby
18 22 (0.52%) Rust
19 21 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1,383 (32.43%) Security Cleared
2 1,138 (26.69%) SC Cleared
3 304 (7.13%) Degree
4 193 (4.53%) Azure Certification
5 146 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 138 (3.24%) DV Cleared
7 112 (2.63%) AWS Certification
8 111 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 69 (1.62%) CISSP
10 51 (1.20%) CISM
11 50 (1.17%) ISTQB
11 50 (1.17%) Master's Degree
12 48 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
13 41 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 38 (0.89%) PMI Certification
15 36 (0.84%) PMP
16 33 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
17 22 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 21 (0.49%) IIBA
18 21 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 387 (9.08%) QA
2 196 (4.60%) Data Quality
3 159 (3.73%) GDPR
4 126 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 117 (2.74%) NIST
6 90 (2.11%) Accessibility
7 64 (1.50%) NCSC
8 37 (0.87%) WCAG
9 36 (0.84%) PCI DSS
10 28 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 28 (0.66%) SLA
11 24 (0.56%) PMO
12 15 (0.35%) ISO 20022
13 14 (0.33%) GRC
13 14 (0.33%) HIPAA
13 14 (0.33%) NIST 800
14 12 (0.28%) PSD2
15 11 (0.26%) SOC 2
16 10 (0.23%) SEPA
17 9 (0.21%) HL7
System Software
1 899 (21.08%) Docker
2 168 (3.94%) Active Directory
3 76 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
5 45 (1.06%) vSphere
6 31 (0.73%) VMware NSX
7 13 (0.30%) Hyper-V
8 12 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (0.26%) Postfix
9 11 (0.26%) Squid
9 11 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (0.21%) Lustre
10 9 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 8 (0.19%) Firmware
12 7 (0.16%) GPFS
13 6 (0.14%) HDFS
14 5 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
14 5 (0.12%) RACF
15 4 (0.094%) KVM
15 4 (0.094%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,189 (27.88%) Terraform
2 1,149 (26.95%) Kubernetes
3 427 (10.01%) Ansible
4 261 (6.12%) Grafana
5 219 (5.14%) Prometheus
6 94 (2.20%) Argo
7 66 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
8 63 (1.48%) Puppet
9 50 (1.17%) Istio
10 30 (0.70%) vCenter Server
11 29 (0.68%) Packer
12 22 (0.52%) Kibana
12 22 (0.52%) Progress Chef
13 20 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 20 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
14 19 (0.45%) Rancher
15 18 (0.42%) FortiGate
16 15 (0.35%) Consul
16 15 (0.35%) HP ALM
17 11 (0.26%) linkerd
Vendors
1 756 (17.73%) Microsoft
2 306 (7.18%) Oracle
3 254 (5.96%) Databricks
4 199 (4.67%) Google
5 172 (4.03%) Splunk
6 152 (3.56%) ServiceNow
7 139 (3.26%) Red Hat
8 125 (2.93%) VMware
9 117 (2.74%) Salesforce
10 101 (2.37%) SAP
11 72 (1.69%) OpenAI
12 68 (1.59%) Dynatrace
13 65 (1.52%) Atlassian
14 56 (1.31%) CyberArk
15 42 (0.98%) Talend
16 41 (0.96%) IBM
17 40 (0.94%) Denodo
18 34 (0.80%) Foundry
19 32 (0.75%) Cisco
20 30 (0.70%) AppDynamics