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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 15 17
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 -5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,215 2,564 3,326
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.08% 10.56% 8.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.87% 11.64% 10.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,949 1,890 2,346
10th Percentile £386 £400 £406
25th Percentile £438 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £650
90th Percentile £717 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.91% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 19 87
10th Percentile £39.53 £36.85 £55.60
25th Percentile £45.46 £57.82 £61.25
Median hourly rate £63.73 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.96% +7.69% -0.76%
75th Percentile £75.00 £80.75 £69.00
90th Percentile £91.38 £84.87 £86.19
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 32,752 22,033 32,691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.09% 90.76% 86.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,983 14,520 21,608
10th Percentile £313 £312 £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 £615 £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 2,011 860 2,165
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £20.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.34 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £31.88 £32.50
% change year-on-year +11.36% -1.91% -10.48%

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 31 March 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 31 March 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 31 March 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 -2 2,130 £550 -4.35% 512
North of England +6 760 £500 -4.76% 306
South East 0 443 £525 -4.55% 307
Midlands +10 414 £492 -1.04% 142
Yorkshire 0 408 £500 -4.76% 86
West Midlands +6 323 £500 - 98
North West +6 298 £488 -7.13% 159
South West +13 285 £500 -16.67% 165
East of England +14 115 £568 +14.07% 92
East Midlands +5 89 £449 -5.58% 44
North East +5 58 £475 -9.52% 63
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
1 267 (6.33%) Confluence
2 111 (2.63%) Apache Spark
3 90 (2.14%) SharePoint
4 85 (2.02%) Apache
4 85 (2.02%) SAS
5 64 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
6 30 (0.71%) CMS
7 29 (0.69%) nginx
7 29 (0.69%) OpenStack
8 23 (0.55%) IIS
9 22 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
10 12 (0.28%) Mendix
11 11 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 11 (0.26%) HCL Notes
11 11 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
12 9 (0.21%) Camunda
13 7 (0.17%) ArcGIS
13 7 (0.17%) WebLogic
13 7 (0.17%) WebSphere
14 6 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 81 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 49 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
4 28 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
5 22 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.21%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.14%) Weka
8 5 (0.12%) Trello
9 2 (0.047%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.047%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.047%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.024%) InDesign
10 1 (0.024%) Maya
Business Applications
1 65 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
4 9 (0.21%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.21%) Maximo
4 9 (0.21%) NEC Housing
5 6 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
5 6 (0.14%) Endur
5 6 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
5 6 (0.14%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.095%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.095%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.071%) Findur
7 3 (0.071%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.071%) SAP BPC
7 3 (0.071%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.071%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.071%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.071%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 2,235 (53.02%) Azure
2 1,424 (33.78%) AWS
3 1,237 (29.35%) Azure DevOps
4 766 (18.17%) GitHub
5 587 (13.93%) GCP
6 453 (10.75%) Serverless
7 411 (9.75%) GitHub Actions
8 348 (8.26%) Power Platform
9 226 (5.36%) Amazon S3
10 218 (5.17%) AWS CloudFormation
11 215 (5.10%) AWS Lambda
12 211 (5.01%) Azure Data Factory
13 207 (4.91%) Entra ID
14 183 (4.34%) OpenShift
15 180 (4.27%) Azure AKS
16 162 (3.84%) Azure Monitor
17 158 (3.75%) Amazon EKS
18 149 (3.53%) Dynamics 365
19 136 (3.23%) PaaS
20 134 (3.18%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 197 (4.67%) Firewall
2 110 (2.61%) DNS
3 87 (2.06%) Network Security
4 82 (1.95%) VPN
5 42 (1.00%) TCP/IP
6 30 (0.71%) WAN
7 29 (0.69%) SD-WAN
8 24 (0.57%) SSL
9 23 (0.55%) HTTP
10 20 (0.47%) DHCP
11 17 (0.40%) BGP
12 16 (0.38%) MPLS
13 14 (0.33%) IPsec
13 14 (0.33%) SAN
14 11 (0.26%) 5G
14 11 (0.26%) Internet
14 11 (0.26%) OpenVPN
14 11 (0.26%) Reverse Proxy
15 10 (0.24%) Kerberos
15 10 (0.24%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 235 (5.58%) PostgreSQL
2 221 (5.24%) Power BI
3 192 (4.56%) SQL Server
4 170 (4.03%) NoSQL
5 147 (3.49%) Data Lake
6 120 (2.85%) Relational Database
7 108 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
8 94 (2.23%) MongoDB
9 93 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
10 91 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
11 73 (1.73%) Delta Lake
12 69 (1.64%) Oracle Database
13 68 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
14 67 (1.59%) DynamoDB
15 64 (1.52%) Metadata
16 54 (1.28%) Tableau
17 53 (1.26%) Big Data
18 52 (1.23%) Redis
19 45 (1.07%) BigQuery
20 43 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 682 (16.18%) Jenkins
2 564 (13.38%) JIRA
3 555 (13.17%) Git
4 464 (11.01%) GitLab
5 109 (2.59%) Selenium
6 94 (2.23%) JUnit
7 79 (1.87%) Postman
8 70 (1.66%) Bitbucket
9 64 (1.52%) SonarQube
10 54 (1.28%) Cucumber
11 50 (1.19%) Artifactory
11 50 (1.19%) Maven
12 46 (1.09%) REST Assured
13 41 (0.97%) Cypress.io
14 36 (0.85%) JMeter
15 34 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
16 33 (0.78%) Oracle APEX
17 31 (0.74%) Mockito
18 29 (0.69%) Liquibase
19 28 (0.66%) MLflow
General
1 1,205 (28.59%) Social Skills
2 811 (19.24%) Finance
3 515 (12.22%) Public Sector
4 372 (8.83%) Analytical Skills
5 330 (7.83%) Banking
6 150 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
7 68 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
8 64 (1.52%) Financial Institution
9 59 (1.40%) Retail
10 57 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 51 (1.21%) Marketing
12 50 (1.19%) Front Office
13 49 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
14 47 (1.12%) Investment Banking
15 41 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
16 38 (0.90%) Telecoms
17 37 (0.88%) Legal
18 26 (0.62%) Military
19 22 (0.52%) Law
20 20 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 743 (17.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 646 (15.33%) Developer
3 584 (13.86%) Senior
4 470 (11.15%) Architect
5 358 (8.49%) Lead
6 271 (6.43%) Azure Engineer
7 267 (6.33%) Data Engineer
8 235 (5.58%) Analyst
9 196 (4.65%) AWS Engineer
10 161 (3.82%) Cloud Engineer
11 154 (3.65%) Platform Engineer
12 149 (3.53%) AWS DevOps
13 144 (3.42%) Software Engineer
14 141 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
15 126 (2.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 126 (2.99%) Senior Developer
16 123 (2.92%) Business Analyst
17 121 (2.87%) Senior DevOps
18 115 (2.73%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 112 (2.66%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 456 (10.82%) REST
2 342 (8.11%) .NET
3 256 (6.07%) Kafka
4 255 (6.05%) Node.js
5 248 (5.88%) React
6 231 (5.48%) Spring
7 215 (5.10%) Spring Boot
8 201 (4.77%) RESTful
9 157 (3.72%) AngularJS
10 145 (3.44%) JSON
11 141 (3.35%) YAML
12 119 (2.82%) Playwright
13 118 (2.80%) PySpark
14 117 (2.78%) OAuth
15 114 (2.70%) HTML
16 108 (2.56%) Middleware
16 108 (2.56%) SOAP
17 106 (2.51%) Elastic Stack
18 98 (2.33%) XML
19 93 (2.21%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 608 (14.42%) Cloud Native
2 248 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 160 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
4 109 (2.59%) Onboarding
5 105 (2.49%) Public Cloud
6 88 (2.09%) Hybrid Cloud
7 87 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
8 80 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
9 62 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
10 54 (1.28%) Virtual Team
11 53 (1.26%) Management Information System
12 41 (0.97%) Security Posture
13 40 (0.95%) Private Cloud
14 39 (0.93%) Data Structures
14 39 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
15 37 (0.88%) Data Centre
16 36 (0.85%) AI Agents
17 33 (0.78%) NHS
18 32 (0.76%) Replication
19 30 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 419 (9.94%) Linux
2 227 (5.39%) Windows
3 75 (1.78%) Unix
4 61 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 42 (1.00%) VMS
6 39 (0.93%) Windows Server
7 22 (0.52%) Ubuntu
8 14 (0.33%) CentOS
9 9 (0.21%) Windows 10
10 7 (0.17%) Android
10 7 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
11 6 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.12%) Apple iOS
13 4 (0.095%) Solaris
13 4 (0.095%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.071%) Oracle Linux
14 3 (0.071%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.071%) zOS
15 2 (0.047%) Debian
15 2 (0.047%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,364 (56.09%) CI/CD
2 1,622 (38.48%) Agile
3 1,042 (24.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 775 (18.39%) Problem-Solving
5 738 (17.51%) Containerisation
6 628 (14.90%) Test Automation
7 623 (14.78%) Microservices
8 542 (12.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 532 (12.62%) Analytics
10 491 (11.65%) Migration
11 470 (11.15%) Scrum
12 467 (11.08%) Observability
13 464 (11.01%) Stakeholder Management
14 460 (10.91%) AI
15 390 (9.25%) Software Engineering
16 385 (9.13%) Data Modelling
17 352 (8.35%) Mentoring
18 338 (8.02%) Data Pipeline
19 315 (7.47%) Platform Engineering
20 308 (7.31%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1,265 (30.01%) Python
2 908 (21.54%) SQL
3 547 (12.98%) Java
4 416 (9.87%) C#
5 362 (8.59%) JavaScript
6 333 (7.90%) PowerShell
7 305 (7.24%) Bash
8 257 (6.10%) TypeScript
9 140 (3.32%) Bicep
10 115 (2.73%) Go
11 81 (1.92%) PL/SQL
12 64 (1.52%) Scala
13 47 (1.12%) Shell Script
14 44 (1.04%) T-SQL
15 41 (0.97%) Groovy
16 37 (0.88%) C++
17 29 (0.69%) Apex Code
17 29 (0.69%) Ruby
18 23 (0.55%) Rust
19 21 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1,360 (32.27%) Security Cleared
2 1,104 (26.19%) SC Cleared
3 322 (7.64%) Degree
4 187 (4.44%) Azure Certification
5 165 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 145 (3.44%) DV Cleared
7 114 (2.70%) AWS Certification
8 95 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
9 79 (1.87%) CISSP
10 66 (1.57%) Master's Degree
11 58 (1.38%) CISM
12 48 (1.14%) ISTQB
12 48 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
13 45 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 40 (0.95%) PMI Certification
15 34 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
15 34 (0.81%) PMP
16 22 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 21 (0.50%) IIBA
18 20 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 375 (8.90%) QA
2 187 (4.44%) Data Quality
3 170 (4.03%) GDPR
4 138 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 122 (2.89%) NIST
6 85 (2.02%) Accessibility
7 70 (1.66%) NCSC
8 37 (0.88%) PCI DSS
9 35 (0.83%) WCAG
10 29 (0.69%) PMO
10 29 (0.69%) SLA
11 27 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 17 (0.40%) HIPAA
13 15 (0.36%) ISO 20022
14 14 (0.33%) NIST 800
15 13 (0.31%) PSD2
15 13 (0.31%) SOC 2
16 11 (0.26%) GRC
16 11 (0.26%) SEPA
17 9 (0.21%) HL7
System Software
1 930 (22.06%) Docker
2 169 (4.01%) Active Directory
3 71 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
4 70 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 45 (1.07%) vSphere
6 30 (0.71%) VMware NSX
7 15 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
8 12 (0.28%) Hyper-V
9 11 (0.26%) Squid
10 9 (0.21%) Lustre
10 9 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 8 (0.19%) Firmware
11 8 (0.19%) Postfix
12 7 (0.17%) GPFS
12 7 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
13 6 (0.14%) HDFS
14 5 (0.12%) KVM
14 5 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
14 5 (0.12%) RACF
15 4 (0.095%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 1,203 (28.54%) Terraform
2 1,153 (27.35%) Kubernetes
3 454 (10.77%) Ansible
4 284 (6.74%) Grafana
5 238 (5.65%) Prometheus
6 91 (2.16%) Argo
7 67 (1.59%) Puppet
7 67 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
8 49 (1.16%) Istio
9 29 (0.69%) Packer
10 28 (0.66%) Progress Chef
10 28 (0.66%) vCenter Server
11 23 (0.55%) Kibana
12 21 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 19 (0.45%) Rancher
14 17 (0.40%) FortiGate
14 17 (0.40%) Podman
15 16 (0.38%) Consul
15 16 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
16 15 (0.36%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 738 (17.51%) Microsoft
2 293 (6.95%) Oracle
3 258 (6.12%) Databricks
4 214 (5.08%) Google
5 188 (4.46%) Splunk
6 148 (3.51%) ServiceNow
7 137 (3.25%) Red Hat
8 119 (2.82%) VMware
9 111 (2.63%) Salesforce
10 96 (2.28%) SAP
11 72 (1.71%) OpenAI
12 67 (1.59%) Atlassian
13 66 (1.57%) Dynatrace
14 60 (1.42%) CyberArk
15 42 (1.00%) Talend
16 39 (0.93%) IBM
17 37 (0.88%) Denodo
18 33 (0.78%) Foundry
19 31 (0.74%) Cisco
20 29 (0.69%) Pure Storage