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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 18
Rank change year-on-year +3 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,092 2,734 3,274
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.24% 10.64% 8.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.94% 11.76% 9.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,860 1,933 2,333
10th Percentile £381 £400 £413
25th Percentile £442 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £563
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +0.44% -6.25%
75th Percentile £614 £675 £668
90th Percentile £719 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 19 99
10th Percentile £43.68 £34.65 £46.64
25th Percentile £45.46 £57.82 £61.25
Median hourly rate £62.75 £74.44 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.70% +14.52% -0.76%
75th Percentile £76.94 £80.75 £73.17
90th Percentile £90.43 £88.50 £84.65
UK median hourly rate £63.50 £73.83 £65.00
% change year-on-year -13.99% +13.59% -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 31,633 23,246 33,278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.88% 90.44% 87.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,235 14,775 22,032
10th Percentile £313 £308 £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 1,951 810 2,137
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.49 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £16.06
Median hourly rate £29.61 £35.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.40% +6.06% -6.46%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £76.34 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £32.81 £32.50
% change year-on-year -14.66% +0.95% -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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -3 2,060 £541 -7.54% 528
North of England +5 739 £500 -4.76% 337
South East +2 441 £525 -8.70% 367
Midlands +13 419 £500 +3.68% 143
Yorkshire +1 389 £500 -4.76% 95
West Midlands +15 337 £515 +5.00% 99
North West +4 298 £496 -5.52% 189
South West +11 266 £525 -12.50% 168
East of England +19 112 £588 +15.76% 84
East Midlands +5 81 £434 -8.68% 43
North East -1 57 £475 -9.52% 56
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
1 256 (6.26%) Confluence
2 98 (2.39%) Apache Spark
3 90 (2.20%) SharePoint
4 83 (2.03%) Apache
5 82 (2.00%) SAS
6 58 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
7 31 (0.76%) OpenStack
8 30 (0.73%) CMS
9 29 (0.71%) nginx
10 26 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
11 18 (0.44%) IIS
12 13 (0.32%) WebLogic
13 12 (0.29%) Mendix
13 12 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
14 11 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 11 (0.27%) HCL Notes
14 11 (0.27%) JBoss
15 8 (0.20%) Camunda
15 8 (0.20%) GeoServer
15 8 (0.20%) Smallworld
Applications
1 86 (2.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 39 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
4 27 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
5 23 (0.56%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.29%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.20%) Weka
8 4 (0.098%) Trello
9 2 (0.049%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.024%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.024%) InDesign
10 1 (0.024%) Maya
10 1 (0.024%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.024%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 69 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.29%) Aladdin
4 11 (0.27%) Maximo
5 9 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
6 8 (0.20%) NEC Housing
7 7 (0.17%) Endur
8 6 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
8 6 (0.15%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 4 (0.098%) Oracle EBS
10 4 (0.098%) Payment Gateway
11 3 (0.073%) Salesforce CRM
11 3 (0.073%) SAP BPC
11 3 (0.073%) SAP CO
11 3 (0.073%) SAP FI
11 3 (0.073%) SAP FI/CO
11 3 (0.073%) Workday HCM
12 2 (0.049%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 2,094 (51.17%) Azure
2 1,413 (34.53%) AWS
3 1,138 (27.81%) Azure DevOps
4 743 (18.16%) GitHub
5 600 (14.66%) GCP
6 450 (11.00%) Serverless
7 399 (9.75%) GitHub Actions
8 340 (8.31%) Power Platform
9 214 (5.23%) Amazon S3
10 212 (5.18%) AWS CloudFormation
11 211 (5.16%) AWS Lambda
12 200 (4.89%) Azure Data Factory
13 197 (4.81%) Entra ID
14 183 (4.47%) OpenShift
15 182 (4.45%) Azure AKS
16 162 (3.96%) Amazon EKS
17 159 (3.89%) Dynamics 365
18 158 (3.86%) Azure Monitor
19 143 (3.49%) SaaS
20 136 (3.32%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 187 (4.57%) Firewall
2 100 (2.44%) DNS
3 78 (1.91%) Network Security
4 76 (1.86%) VPN
5 44 (1.08%) TCP/IP
6 24 (0.59%) HTTP
7 23 (0.56%) SSL
7 23 (0.56%) WAN
8 20 (0.49%) SD-WAN
9 18 (0.44%) DHCP
10 16 (0.39%) HTTPS
11 15 (0.37%) MPLS
12 14 (0.34%) BGP
13 13 (0.32%) Kerberos
13 13 (0.32%) SAN
14 11 (0.27%) Internet
14 11 (0.27%) Reverse Proxy
15 10 (0.24%) OpenVPN
16 9 (0.22%) IPsec
16 9 (0.22%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 236 (5.77%) PostgreSQL
2 214 (5.23%) Power BI
3 167 (4.08%) SQL Server
4 159 (3.89%) NoSQL
5 126 (3.08%) Data Lake
6 105 (2.57%) Relational Database
7 101 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
8 100 (2.44%) MongoDB
9 96 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
10 81 (1.98%) Azure SQL Database
11 74 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
12 71 (1.74%) Oracle Database
13 66 (1.61%) DynamoDB
14 59 (1.44%) Delta Lake
15 56 (1.37%) Redis
16 51 (1.25%) Tableau
17 50 (1.22%) MySQL
18 49 (1.20%) Metadata
19 43 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
19 43 (1.05%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 694 (16.96%) Jenkins
2 549 (13.42%) Git
3 543 (13.27%) JIRA
4 491 (12.00%) GitLab
5 119 (2.91%) Selenium
6 93 (2.27%) JUnit
7 77 (1.88%) Postman
8 67 (1.64%) Bitbucket
9 60 (1.47%) SonarQube
10 55 (1.34%) Cucumber
11 48 (1.17%) Artifactory
12 47 (1.15%) Maven
13 45 (1.10%) Cypress.io
14 43 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
15 42 (1.03%) REST Assured
16 35 (0.86%) Oracle APEX
17 30 (0.73%) JMeter
17 30 (0.73%) Liquibase
18 28 (0.68%) CircleCI
18 28 (0.68%) Gradle
General
1 1,215 (29.69%) Social Skills
2 788 (19.26%) Finance
3 508 (12.41%) Public Sector
4 358 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
5 327 (7.99%) Banking
6 145 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
7 76 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
8 69 (1.69%) Financial Institution
9 53 (1.30%) Marketing
9 53 (1.30%) Retail
10 52 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 47 (1.15%) Front Office
12 44 (1.08%) Investment Banking
12 44 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
13 38 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
13 38 (0.93%) Telecoms
14 29 (0.71%) Military
15 28 (0.68%) Legal
15 28 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
16 25 (0.61%) Law
Job Titles
1 740 (18.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 665 (16.25%) Developer
3 553 (13.51%) Senior
4 438 (10.70%) Architect
5 343 (8.38%) Lead
6 250 (6.11%) Azure Engineer
7 239 (5.84%) Data Engineer
8 229 (5.60%) Analyst
9 205 (5.01%) AWS Engineer
10 164 (4.01%) Cloud Engineer
11 160 (3.91%) AWS DevOps
12 150 (3.67%) Software Engineer
13 141 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
14 138 (3.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 129 (3.15%) Solutions Architect
16 123 (3.01%) Business Analyst
17 119 (2.91%) Senior Developer
18 112 (2.74%) Senior DevOps
19 106 (2.59%) Full-Stack Developer
20 105 (2.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 444 (10.85%) REST
2 336 (8.21%) .NET
3 266 (6.50%) Node.js
4 259 (6.33%) React
5 225 (5.50%) Kafka
6 217 (5.30%) Spring
7 197 (4.81%) RESTful
8 195 (4.77%) Spring Boot
9 154 (3.76%) AngularJS
10 148 (3.62%) JSON
11 132 (3.23%) YAML
12 130 (3.18%) HTML
13 118 (2.88%) OAuth
14 117 (2.86%) Playwright
15 115 (2.81%) Elastic Stack
16 114 (2.79%) SOAP
17 107 (2.61%) XML
18 106 (2.59%) PySpark
19 101 (2.47%) CSS
20 100 (2.44%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 599 (14.64%) Cloud Native
2 222 (5.43%) Product Ownership
3 143 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
4 114 (2.79%) Onboarding
5 106 (2.59%) Public Cloud
6 87 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
7 80 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
8 67 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
9 55 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
10 53 (1.30%) Management Information System
11 50 (1.22%) Security Posture
12 47 (1.15%) Virtual Team
13 43 (1.05%) Private Cloud
14 40 (0.98%) Data Centre
15 36 (0.88%) AI Agents
16 35 (0.86%) Data Structures
16 35 (0.86%) NHS
17 34 (0.83%) Mobile App
17 34 (0.83%) Replication
18 31 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 431 (10.53%) Linux
2 216 (5.28%) Windows
3 79 (1.93%) Unix
4 62 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 40 (0.98%) VMS
6 39 (0.95%) Windows Server
7 24 (0.59%) Ubuntu
8 18 (0.44%) CentOS
9 12 (0.29%) Android
10 10 (0.24%) Apple iOS
10 10 (0.24%) Windows 10
11 8 (0.20%) Solaris
12 7 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
13 6 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.098%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.049%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.049%) Debian
15 2 (0.049%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.049%) zOS
16 1 (0.024%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,334 (57.04%) CI/CD
2 1,599 (39.08%) Agile
3 1,023 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 779 (19.04%) Problem-Solving
5 751 (18.35%) Containerisation
6 613 (14.98%) Test Automation
7 597 (14.59%) Microservices
8 523 (12.78%) Analytics
9 521 (12.73%) Continuous Improvement
10 481 (11.75%) Migration
11 464 (11.34%) Scrum
12 448 (10.95%) AI
13 443 (10.83%) Observability
14 432 (10.56%) Stakeholder Management
15 378 (9.24%) Software Engineering
16 367 (8.97%) Data Modelling
17 347 (8.48%) Mentoring
18 296 (7.23%) Data Pipeline
19 289 (7.06%) Business Intelligence
20 285 (6.96%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1,239 (30.28%) Python
2 868 (21.21%) SQL
3 528 (12.90%) Java
4 403 (9.85%) C#
5 386 (9.43%) JavaScript
6 333 (8.14%) PowerShell
7 311 (7.60%) Bash
8 275 (6.72%) TypeScript
9 131 (3.20%) Bicep
10 129 (3.15%) Go
11 79 (1.93%) PL/SQL
12 60 (1.47%) Scala
13 46 (1.12%) T-SQL
14 43 (1.05%) Shell Script
15 41 (1.00%) C++
16 39 (0.95%) Ruby
17 36 (0.88%) Groovy
18 26 (0.64%) Rust
19 23 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
20 22 (0.54%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 1,322 (32.31%) Security Cleared
2 1,078 (26.34%) SC Cleared
3 343 (8.38%) Degree
4 197 (4.81%) Azure Certification
5 181 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 142 (3.47%) DV Cleared
7 127 (3.10%) AWS Certification
8 89 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 77 (1.88%) Master's Degree
10 75 (1.83%) CISSP
11 57 (1.39%) CISM
12 56 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
13 44 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 44 (1.08%) ISTQB
14 37 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
15 36 (0.88%) PMI Certification
16 29 (0.71%) PMP
17 26 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 23 (0.56%) IIBA
19 22 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 354 (8.65%) QA
2 166 (4.06%) GDPR
3 165 (4.03%) Data Quality
4 123 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 114 (2.79%) NIST
6 90 (2.20%) Accessibility
7 68 (1.66%) NCSC
8 36 (0.88%) PCI DSS
9 31 (0.76%) WCAG
10 25 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 25 (0.61%) SLA
11 21 (0.51%) HIPAA
11 21 (0.51%) PMO
12 16 (0.39%) SOC 2
13 15 (0.37%) ISO 20022
14 13 (0.32%) PSD2
15 11 (0.27%) NIST 800
16 10 (0.24%) GRC
16 10 (0.24%) SEPA
17 8 (0.20%) HL7
System Software
1 953 (23.29%) Docker
2 167 (4.08%) Active Directory
3 74 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
4 72 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 41 (1.00%) vSphere
6 24 (0.59%) VMware NSX
7 14 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.27%) Lustre
8 11 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 10 (0.24%) Squid
10 9 (0.22%) GPFS
11 8 (0.20%) Hyper-V
11 8 (0.20%) Postfix
11 8 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
12 7 (0.17%) Firmware
13 6 (0.15%) HDFS
13 6 (0.15%) NFS
14 5 (0.12%) RACF
15 4 (0.098%) DFS Replication
15 4 (0.098%) KVM
Systems Management
1 1,194 (29.18%) Terraform
2 1,161 (28.37%) Kubernetes
3 462 (11.29%) Ansible
4 280 (6.84%) Grafana
5 237 (5.79%) Prometheus
6 88 (2.15%) Argo
7 73 (1.78%) Puppet
8 58 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
9 48 (1.17%) Istio
10 32 (0.78%) Packer
11 31 (0.76%) Kibana
12 28 (0.68%) Progress Chef
13 23 (0.56%) vCenter Server
14 20 (0.49%) Podman
15 19 (0.46%) Rancher
16 18 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 17 (0.42%) Consul
17 17 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
18 16 (0.39%) FortiGate
19 14 (0.34%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 712 (17.40%) Microsoft
2 276 (6.74%) Oracle
3 247 (6.04%) Databricks
4 232 (5.67%) Google
5 194 (4.74%) Splunk
6 148 (3.62%) ServiceNow
7 136 (3.32%) Red Hat
8 120 (2.93%) VMware
9 103 (2.52%) Salesforce
10 95 (2.32%) SAP
11 71 (1.74%) OpenAI
12 62 (1.52%) Atlassian
13 56 (1.37%) CyberArk
14 54 (1.32%) Dynatrace
15 43 (1.05%) Talend
16 39 (0.95%) Denodo
17 38 (0.93%) IBM
18 33 (0.81%) Foundry
19 32 (0.78%) Cisco
20 27 (0.66%) MuleSoft