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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,433 2,400 3,433
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.62% 10.07% 9.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.51% 11.03% 10.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,102 1,744 2,396
10th Percentile £393 £393 £400
25th Percentile £443 £452 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £653 £650
90th Percentile £700 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £524 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.19% -4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 11 108
10th Percentile £39.53 £35.00 £56.50
25th Percentile £56.38 £51.25 £61.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.50 £65.25
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -0.38%
75th Percentile £77.88 £82.48 £77.81
90th Percentile £93.75 £92.50 £87.14
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £73.23 £65.25
% change year-on-year -4.40% +12.22% -0.38%

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 35,433 21,759 31,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.85% 91.31% 85.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,494 14,185 20,632
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £512 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.19% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,215 937 2,283
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.84
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £46.43 £28.18 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.76% -22.79% -2.46%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.28 £27.52 £36.00
% change year-on-year +53.64% -23.57% -1.09%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +4 2,261 £550 -1.79% 535
North of England +6 797 £500 - 272
South East +4 481 £513 +2.50% 253
Yorkshire +1 454 £500 - 69
Midlands +3 405 £488 -2.50% 113
West Midlands +2 316 £500 -4.58% 78
South West +14 287 £525 -4.55% 113
North West +1 284 £500 - 163
East of England +16 128 £525 +3.45% 63
East Midlands +4 85 £465 +0.54% 35
North East +5 75 £450 -14.29% 43
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
1 244 (5.50%) Confluence
2 122 (2.75%) Apache Spark
3 112 (2.53%) SharePoint
4 86 (1.94%) Apache
5 74 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
6 67 (1.51%) SAS
7 42 (0.95%) CMS
8 25 (0.56%) IIS
9 24 (0.54%) nginx
10 23 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
11 18 (0.41%) OpenStack
12 14 (0.32%) Camunda
12 14 (0.32%) Jupyter
13 12 (0.27%) WebSphere
14 11 (0.25%) Mendix
14 11 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
15 10 (0.23%) HCL Notes
16 9 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
17 8 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
17 8 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 67 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
3 45 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 33 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
5 24 (0.54%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.090%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.090%) CPLEX
6 4 (0.090%) Notion
6 4 (0.090%) Trello
7 2 (0.045%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.045%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.023%) InDesign
8 1 (0.023%) Maya
8 1 (0.023%) Weka
Business Applications
1 57 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
3 10 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
4 9 (0.20%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.20%) Maximo
5 8 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
6 6 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.11%) Endur
7 5 (0.11%) Magento
7 5 (0.11%) NEC Housing
8 4 (0.090%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.090%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.068%) Findur
9 3 (0.068%) OpenText MBPM
9 3 (0.068%) Oracle BPM
9 3 (0.068%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.068%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.068%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.068%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 2,373 (53.53%) Azure
2 1,487 (33.54%) AWS
3 1,295 (29.21%) Azure DevOps
4 721 (16.26%) GitHub
5 556 (12.54%) GCP
6 421 (9.50%) GitHub Actions
7 390 (8.80%) Serverless
8 379 (8.55%) Power Platform
9 239 (5.39%) Amazon S3
10 214 (4.83%) Entra ID
11 203 (4.58%) AWS Lambda
12 191 (4.31%) Azure Data Factory
13 190 (4.29%) AWS CloudFormation
14 184 (4.15%) Azure AKS
15 164 (3.70%) OpenShift
16 154 (3.47%) Amazon EKS
17 141 (3.18%) Azure Monitor
18 140 (3.16%) PaaS
19 134 (3.02%) Amazon EC2
20 133 (3.00%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 209 (4.71%) Firewall
2 114 (2.57%) DNS
3 90 (2.03%) VPN
4 89 (2.01%) Network Security
5 45 (1.02%) TCP/IP
6 40 (0.90%) WAN
7 35 (0.79%) SD-WAN
8 30 (0.68%) BGP
9 26 (0.59%) SSL
10 24 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
11 22 (0.50%) DHCP
11 22 (0.50%) OSPF
12 20 (0.45%) SAN
13 19 (0.43%) HTTP
14 18 (0.41%) IPsec
15 17 (0.38%) Internet
15 17 (0.38%) MPLS
16 16 (0.36%) VXLAN
17 15 (0.34%) LAN
18 14 (0.32%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 253 (5.71%) Power BI
2 225 (5.08%) SQL Server
3 213 (4.80%) PostgreSQL
4 160 (3.61%) NoSQL
5 159 (3.59%) Data Lake
6 132 (2.98%) Relational Database
7 123 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
8 112 (2.53%) MongoDB
9 93 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
9 93 (2.10%) Azure SQL Database
10 86 (1.94%) Delta Lake
11 77 (1.74%) DynamoDB
12 71 (1.60%) Metadata
13 69 (1.56%) Oracle Database
14 62 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
15 56 (1.26%) Big Data
16 55 (1.24%) Redis
17 49 (1.11%) BigQuery
18 48 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
19 46 (1.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 619 (13.96%) Jenkins
2 552 (12.45%) Git
3 521 (11.75%) JIRA
4 448 (10.11%) GitLab
5 93 (2.10%) Selenium
6 91 (2.05%) Postman
7 75 (1.69%) SonarQube
8 72 (1.62%) JUnit
9 59 (1.33%) Bitbucket
10 58 (1.31%) Maven
10 58 (1.31%) REST Assured
11 53 (1.20%) Cucumber
12 46 (1.04%) Artifactory
13 44 (0.99%) JMeter
14 41 (0.92%) Cypress.io
15 40 (0.90%) Gatling
16 34 (0.77%) Gradle
16 34 (0.77%) Mockito
17 29 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
18 26 (0.59%) LoadRunner
General
1 1,124 (25.36%) Social Skills
2 833 (18.79%) Finance
3 538 (12.14%) Public Sector
4 367 (8.28%) Analytical Skills
5 307 (6.93%) Banking
6 134 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
7 72 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
8 68 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 62 (1.40%) Retail
10 54 (1.22%) Legal
11 50 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
12 49 (1.11%) Financial Institution
13 48 (1.08%) Marketing
14 39 (0.88%) Investment Banking
15 38 (0.86%) Front Office
15 38 (0.86%) Military
16 37 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
17 26 (0.59%) Law
18 23 (0.52%) Aerospace
19 20 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 880 (19.85%) DevOps Engineer
2 621 (14.01%) Senior
3 619 (13.96%) Developer
4 534 (12.05%) Architect
5 393 (8.87%) Lead
6 299 (6.74%) Azure Engineer
7 279 (6.29%) Data Engineer
8 269 (6.07%) Analyst
9 187 (4.22%) AWS Engineer
10 169 (3.81%) Cloud Engineer
10 169 (3.81%) Solutions Architect
11 154 (3.47%) Platform Engineer
12 143 (3.23%) Senior DevOps
13 142 (3.20%) Business Analyst
14 141 (3.18%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 138 (3.11%) Software Engineer
16 130 (2.93%) AWS DevOps
16 130 (2.93%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 120 (2.71%) Java Developer
18 119 (2.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 398 (8.98%) REST
2 378 (8.53%) .NET
3 261 (5.89%) Kafka
4 254 (5.73%) React
5 237 (5.35%) Spring
6 228 (5.14%) Spring Boot
7 214 (4.83%) Node.js
8 196 (4.42%) RESTful
9 148 (3.34%) AngularJS
10 130 (2.93%) PySpark
11 128 (2.89%) Playwright
12 126 (2.84%) YAML
13 120 (2.71%) OAuth
14 119 (2.68%) JSON
15 103 (2.32%) SOAP
16 100 (2.26%) Middleware
17 97 (2.19%) HTML
18 94 (2.12%) .NET Framework
19 90 (2.03%) OpenID
20 87 (1.96%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 719 (16.22%) Cloud Native
2 277 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 175 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
4 117 (2.64%) Onboarding
5 102 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
6 92 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
7 91 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
8 82 (1.85%) Public Cloud
9 70 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
10 60 (1.35%) Data Centre
11 55 (1.24%) Management Information System
12 48 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
13 43 (0.97%) AI Agents
13 43 (0.97%) Replication
14 42 (0.95%) Mobile App
15 41 (0.92%) Private Cloud
15 41 (0.92%) Virtual Team
16 40 (0.90%) Security Posture
17 38 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
18 37 (0.83%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 390 (8.80%) Linux
2 228 (5.14%) Windows
3 77 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 64 (1.44%) Unix
5 44 (0.99%) Windows Server
6 34 (0.77%) VMS
7 25 (0.56%) Ubuntu
8 17 (0.38%) Apple iOS
9 14 (0.32%) Android
10 12 (0.27%) CentOS
11 10 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (0.16%) Windows 10
13 6 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
14 5 (0.11%) Solaris
15 4 (0.090%) Data ONTAP
15 4 (0.090%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.090%) Windows Server 2012
16 3 (0.068%) Mac OS
16 3 (0.068%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,492 (56.21%) CI/CD
2 1,602 (36.14%) Agile
3 1,121 (25.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 682 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 680 (15.34%) Containerisation
6 630 (14.21%) Microservices
7 618 (13.94%) Test Automation
8 590 (13.31%) Continuous Improvement
9 544 (12.27%) Migration
10 539 (12.16%) Observability
11 514 (11.59%) Analytics
11 514 (11.59%) Stakeholder Management
12 502 (11.32%) AI
13 492 (11.10%) Scrum
14 448 (10.11%) Software Engineering
15 415 (9.36%) Data Modelling
16 413 (9.32%) Platform Engineering
17 371 (8.37%) Mentoring
18 363 (8.19%) Roadmaps
19 357 (8.05%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1,204 (27.16%) Python
2 892 (20.12%) SQL
3 605 (13.65%) Java
4 413 (9.32%) C#
5 323 (7.29%) PowerShell
6 316 (7.13%) Bash
7 315 (7.11%) JavaScript
8 230 (5.19%) TypeScript
9 147 (3.32%) Bicep
10 92 (2.08%) Go
11 65 (1.47%) Scala
12 54 (1.22%) Shell Script
13 49 (1.11%) PL/SQL
14 45 (1.02%) Apex Code
15 43 (0.97%) T-SQL
16 40 (0.90%) Groovy
17 28 (0.63%) C++
18 27 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 23 (0.52%) Ruby
20 21 (0.47%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,409 (31.78%) Security Cleared
2 1,155 (26.05%) SC Cleared
3 291 (6.56%) Degree
4 195 (4.40%) Azure Certification
5 146 (3.29%) DV Cleared
6 125 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 118 (2.66%) AWS Certification
8 110 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
9 70 (1.58%) CISSP
10 58 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
11 48 (1.08%) CISM
12 45 (1.02%) ISTQB
13 42 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
14 40 (0.90%) Master's Degree
15 37 (0.83%) PMI Certification
16 36 (0.81%) PMP
17 34 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 23 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
19 21 (0.47%) IIBA
19 21 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 381 (8.59%) QA
2 207 (4.67%) Data Quality
3 162 (3.65%) GDPR
4 118 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 114 (2.57%) NIST
6 108 (2.44%) Accessibility
7 61 (1.38%) NCSC
8 51 (1.15%) WCAG
9 45 (1.02%) PCI DSS
10 39 (0.88%) SLA
11 30 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 28 (0.63%) PMO
13 20 (0.45%) GRC
14 15 (0.34%) HIPAA
15 13 (0.29%) NIST 800
15 13 (0.29%) SOC 2
16 12 (0.27%) ISO 20022
17 11 (0.25%) PSD2
18 9 (0.20%) SEPA
19 7 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 838 (18.90%) Docker
2 160 (3.61%) Active Directory
3 68 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
4 60 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 32 (0.72%) vSphere
6 21 (0.47%) VMware NSX
7 17 (0.38%) Squid
7 17 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.32%) Postfix
9 11 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
10 10 (0.23%) Hyper-V
11 8 (0.18%) Firmware
12 7 (0.16%) RACF
13 6 (0.14%) Corosync
14 5 (0.11%) HDFS
14 5 (0.11%) NFS
14 5 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
14 5 (0.11%) SRDF
15 4 (0.090%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 4 (0.090%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,234 (27.84%) Terraform
2 1,122 (25.31%) Kubernetes
3 450 (10.15%) Ansible
4 301 (6.79%) Grafana
5 254 (5.73%) Prometheus
6 86 (1.94%) Argo
7 70 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
8 61 (1.38%) Puppet
9 45 (1.02%) Istio
10 27 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
10 27 (0.61%) Packer
10 27 (0.61%) Progress Chef
11 22 (0.50%) Kibana
12 21 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 21 (0.47%) vCenter Server
13 16 (0.36%) Consul
13 16 (0.36%) HP ALM
14 14 (0.32%) FortiGate
14 14 (0.32%) Rancher
15 12 (0.27%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 792 (17.87%) Microsoft
2 257 (5.80%) Databricks
3 251 (5.66%) Oracle
4 197 (4.44%) Google
5 176 (3.97%) Splunk
6 163 (3.68%) ServiceNow
7 137 (3.09%) Salesforce
8 135 (3.05%) Red Hat
9 103 (2.32%) VMware
10 100 (2.26%) SAP
11 93 (2.10%) Dynatrace
12 60 (1.35%) OpenAI
13 47 (1.06%) Atlassian
14 45 (1.02%) CyberArk
14 45 (1.02%) IBM
15 37 (0.83%) Foundry
15 37 (0.83%) Informatica
16 36 (0.81%) Cisco
17 35 (0.79%) AppDynamics
18 28 (0.63%) Denodo