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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 14 14
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,795 3,093 3,273
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.31% 11.04% 10.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.16% 12.13% 11.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,298 2,188 2,184
10th Percentile £381 £360 £400
25th Percentile £438 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £557
Median % change year-on-year - -5.70% -4.01%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £704 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 21 62
10th Percentile £37.25 £42.50 £53.00
25th Percentile £61.74 £56.75 £65.31
Median hourly rate £68.75 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% -4.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £79.00 £88.75 £74.44
90th Percentile £93.88 £95.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £69.50 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +3.73% -4.29% +7.69%

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 39,417 25,490 28,010
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.73% 90.96% 86.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,890 16,169 17,141
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,564 1,197
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.44 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.59 £17.87 £20.25
Median hourly rate £40.08 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.36% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.00 £67.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.43 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £42.27
% change year-on-year +53.96% -40.49% -0.55%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -1 2,531 £550 - 2,502
North of England -3 800 £500 +5.26% 913
South East -12 451 £525 +5.00% 718
Midlands -7 418 £488 -5.34% 414
Yorkshire -3 390 £500 +1.46% 279
West Midlands -8 335 £500 -4.76% 248
South West +5 332 £550 +1.38% 404
North West -3 316 £525 +16.67% 481
East of England +2 155 £505 -6.05% 297
North East +11 110 £450 -18.18% 162
East Midlands -8 81 £459 +9.23% 166
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
1 297 (6.19%) Confluence
2 141 (2.94%) SharePoint
3 121 (2.52%) Apache Spark
4 113 (2.36%) Apache Airflow
5 105 (2.19%) Apache
6 47 (0.98%) SAS
7 40 (0.83%) CMS
7 40 (0.83%) Jupyter
8 23 (0.48%) IIS
8 23 (0.48%) nginx
9 19 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
10 15 (0.31%) Camunda
11 13 (0.27%) OpenStack
12 9 (0.19%) Anypoint
12 9 (0.19%) Appian
12 9 (0.19%) WebSphere
13 8 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
13 8 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
13 8 (0.17%) Tomcat
14 7 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 63 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
3 48 (1.00%) MS Visio
4 32 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 31 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
6 14 (0.29%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.17%) CPLEX
7 8 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.17%) Windchill
8 5 (0.10%) Notion
8 5 (0.10%) Trello
9 3 (0.063%) Mingle
10 2 (0.042%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.042%) Gliffy
11 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.021%) Mozilla Thunderbird
11 1 (0.021%) Sketch
11 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 72 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 37 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
4 10 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.17%) Magento
5 8 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 6 (0.13%) Aladdin
6 6 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
6 6 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.13%) SAP MDG
7 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
7 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
7 5 (0.10%) Temenos T24
8 4 (0.083%) Oracle Payroll
8 4 (0.083%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.063%) Endur
9 3 (0.063%) Maximo
9 3 (0.063%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.063%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.063%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 2,571 (53.62%) Azure
2 1,667 (34.77%) AWS
3 1,494 (31.16%) Azure DevOps
4 810 (16.89%) GitHub
5 640 (13.35%) GCP
6 511 (10.66%) GitHub Actions
7 434 (9.05%) Power Platform
8 402 (8.38%) Serverless
9 257 (5.36%) Amazon S3
10 235 (4.90%) AWS Lambda
11 233 (4.86%) Entra ID
12 209 (4.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 209 (4.36%) Amazon EKS
13 181 (3.77%) Azure AKS
14 175 (3.65%) Azure Data Factory
15 174 (3.63%) Dynamics 365
16 171 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
16 171 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
17 163 (3.40%) Amazon EC2
18 155 (3.23%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 220 (4.59%) Firewall
2 145 (3.02%) DNS
3 110 (2.29%) VPN
4 108 (2.25%) Network Security
5 76 (1.58%) TCP/IP
6 51 (1.06%) SSL
7 44 (0.92%) WAN
8 41 (0.86%) DHCP
9 34 (0.71%) BGP
10 31 (0.65%) HTTP
11 30 (0.63%) Internet
12 26 (0.54%) SD-WAN
13 25 (0.52%) OSPF
13 25 (0.52%) SSH
14 21 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
15 19 (0.40%) LAN
16 18 (0.38%) VLAN
17 17 (0.35%) BIG-IP
17 17 (0.35%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 17 (0.35%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 291 (6.07%) Power BI
2 255 (5.32%) SQL Server
3 248 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
4 186 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
5 159 (3.32%) NoSQL
6 152 (3.17%) Data Lake
7 146 (3.04%) MongoDB
8 134 (2.79%) Relational Database
9 121 (2.52%) Amazon RDS
10 119 (2.48%) Metadata
11 81 (1.69%) Delta Lake
12 78 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
13 74 (1.54%) MySQL
14 73 (1.52%) DynamoDB
14 73 (1.52%) Oracle Database
15 69 (1.44%) Redis
16 56 (1.17%) Big Data
17 55 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 54 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
18 54 (1.13%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 692 (14.43%) Git
2 657 (13.70%) Jenkins
3 557 (11.62%) GitLab
4 547 (11.41%) JIRA
5 124 (2.59%) Selenium
6 82 (1.71%) SonarQube
7 81 (1.69%) Maven
8 79 (1.65%) JUnit
9 77 (1.61%) Postman
10 73 (1.52%) Cucumber
11 62 (1.29%) Bitbucket
12 61 (1.27%) REST Assured
13 58 (1.21%) Cypress.io
14 57 (1.19%) JMeter
15 55 (1.15%) Gradle
16 41 (0.86%) Gatling
17 40 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
18 39 (0.81%) Mockito
19 38 (0.79%) Claude Code
20 37 (0.77%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,272 (26.53%) Social Skills
2 917 (19.12%) Finance
3 629 (13.12%) Public Sector
4 483 (10.07%) Analytical Skills
5 372 (7.76%) Banking
6 144 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 108 (2.25%) Retail
8 85 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
9 70 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
10 58 (1.21%) Aerospace
11 56 (1.17%) Marketing
12 54 (1.13%) Military
13 49 (1.02%) Investment Banking
14 48 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
15 47 (0.98%) Manufacturing
15 47 (0.98%) Telecoms
16 44 (0.92%) Legal
17 42 (0.88%) Local Government
18 41 (0.86%) Financial Institution
19 40 (0.83%) Law
Job Titles
1 919 (19.17%) DevOps Engineer
2 752 (15.68%) Senior
3 739 (15.41%) Developer
4 559 (11.66%) Architect
5 473 (9.86%) Lead
6 291 (6.07%) Azure Engineer
7 279 (5.82%) Data Engineer
8 234 (4.88%) Analyst
9 197 (4.11%) AWS Engineer
10 187 (3.90%) Platform Engineer
11 177 (3.69%) Cloud Engineer
11 177 (3.69%) Senior DevOps
12 165 (3.44%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 161 (3.36%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 151 (3.15%) Solutions Architect
15 137 (2.86%) Java Developer
16 136 (2.84%) AWS DevOps
17 133 (2.77%) Software Engineer
18 125 (2.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 123 (2.57%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,434 (29.91%) Terraform
2 546 (11.39%) REST
3 416 (8.68%) .NET
4 339 (7.07%) Kafka
5 272 (5.67%) RESTful
6 257 (5.36%) React
7 233 (4.86%) Spring
8 230 (4.80%) Spring Boot
9 161 (3.36%) JSON
10 158 (3.30%) OAuth
11 145 (3.02%) Node.js
12 135 (2.82%) PySpark
13 128 (2.67%) Playwright
14 123 (2.57%) HTML
15 122 (2.54%) .NET Framework
16 115 (2.40%) CSS
16 115 (2.40%) SOAP
17 102 (2.13%) Middleware
18 101 (2.11%) OAuth2
19 98 (2.04%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 884 (18.44%) Cloud Native
2 368 (7.67%) Product Ownership
3 215 (4.48%) Distributed Systems
4 193 (4.03%) Enterprise Software
5 187 (3.90%) Onboarding
6 139 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
7 126 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
8 105 (2.19%) AI Agents
9 85 (1.77%) Management Information System
10 72 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
11 69 (1.44%) Security Posture
12 68 (1.42%) Public Cloud
13 64 (1.33%) Replication
14 63 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
14 63 (1.31%) Data Structures
15 62 (1.29%) Data Centre
16 53 (1.11%) Virtual Team
17 52 (1.08%) Mobile App
18 50 (1.04%) PKI
19 43 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 493 (10.28%) Linux
2 282 (5.88%) Windows
3 118 (2.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 95 (1.98%) Unix
5 84 (1.75%) Windows Server
6 38 (0.79%) Ubuntu
7 30 (0.63%) Apple iOS
7 30 (0.63%) VMS
8 22 (0.46%) Android
9 15 (0.31%) CentOS
10 10 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
10 10 (0.21%) zOS
11 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
11 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (0.15%) AIX
13 6 (0.13%) Solaris
14 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
15 4 (0.083%) Alpine Linux
15 4 (0.083%) Data ONTAP
15 4 (0.083%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,892 (60.31%) CI/CD
2 1,969 (41.06%) Agile
3 1,418 (29.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 858 (17.89%) Stakeholder Management
5 834 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
6 826 (17.23%) AI
7 789 (16.45%) Test Automation
8 775 (16.16%) Problem-Solving
9 773 (16.12%) Containerisation
10 697 (14.54%) Microservices
11 693 (14.45%) Observability
12 661 (13.79%) Software Engineering
13 659 (13.74%) Platform Engineering
14 593 (12.37%) Scrum
15 583 (12.16%) Migration
16 550 (11.47%) Technical Leadership
17 511 (10.66%) Analytics
18 451 (9.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 442 (9.22%) Roadmaps
20 423 (8.82%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,443 (30.09%) Python
2 855 (17.83%) SQL
3 696 (14.52%) Java
4 444 (9.26%) PowerShell
5 443 (9.24%) C#
6 437 (9.11%) Bash
7 394 (8.22%) JavaScript
8 275 (5.74%) TypeScript
9 223 (4.65%) Bicep
10 93 (1.94%) Go
11 65 (1.36%) Shell Script
12 58 (1.21%) T-SQL
13 54 (1.13%) Scala
14 51 (1.06%) Groovy
15 45 (0.94%) PL/SQL
16 40 (0.83%) Apex Code
17 33 (0.69%) C++
17 33 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 29 (0.60%) Perl
19 27 (0.56%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,541 (32.14%) Security Cleared
2 1,278 (26.65%) SC Cleared
3 342 (7.13%) Degree
4 223 (4.65%) DV Cleared
5 216 (4.50%) Azure Certification
6 175 (3.65%) AWS Certification
7 149 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
8 129 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
9 108 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
10 71 (1.48%) CISSP
11 51 (1.06%) ISTQB
11 51 (1.06%) PMP
12 49 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
13 44 (0.92%) PMI Certification
14 40 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 39 (0.81%) Master's Degree
16 28 (0.58%) CISM
17 23 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 20 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 20 (0.42%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 490 (10.22%) QA
2 252 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 169 (3.52%) Accessibility
4 108 (2.25%) GDPR
5 83 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 79 (1.65%) WCAG
7 68 (1.42%) NIST
8 44 (0.92%) NCSC
8 44 (0.92%) PMO
9 30 (0.63%) SLA
10 29 (0.60%) PCI DSS
11 26 (0.54%) GRC
12 20 (0.42%) ISO 20022
13 17 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 14 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
14 14 (0.29%) HIPAA
15 13 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
15 13 (0.27%) SOC 2
16 12 (0.25%) SEPA
17 9 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 962 (20.06%) Docker
2 144 (3.00%) Active Directory
3 70 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
4 66 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 23 (0.48%) vSphere
6 20 (0.42%) Hyper-V
7 19 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
8 18 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (0.23%) Squid
9 11 (0.23%) VMware NSX
10 10 (0.21%) IAG
11 8 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
12 6 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 6 (0.13%) Corosync
12 6 (0.13%) KVM
12 6 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
12 6 (0.13%) Postfix
13 5 (0.10%) RACF
14 4 (0.083%) Firmware
14 4 (0.083%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,270 (26.49%) Kubernetes
2 489 (10.20%) Ansible
3 314 (6.55%) Grafana
4 270 (5.63%) Prometheus
5 64 (1.33%) Argo
6 56 (1.17%) Puppet
7 48 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
8 46 (0.96%) Progress Chef
9 39 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
10 33 (0.69%) Packer
11 30 (0.63%) Kibana
12 23 (0.48%) Istio
12 23 (0.48%) Kubeflow
13 19 (0.40%) Kustomize
14 16 (0.33%) SCCM
15 15 (0.31%) vCenter Server
16 13 (0.27%) Control-M
16 13 (0.27%) HP ALM
16 13 (0.27%) SCOM
17 12 (0.25%) systemd
Vendors
1 977 (20.38%) Microsoft
2 274 (5.71%) Databricks
3 262 (5.46%) Google
4 228 (4.75%) Oracle
5 183 (3.82%) ServiceNow
6 170 (3.55%) Splunk
7 133 (2.77%) Salesforce
8 131 (2.73%) Dynatrace
9 101 (2.11%) VMware
10 97 (2.02%) SAP
11 92 (1.92%) Red Hat
12 66 (1.38%) IBM
13 61 (1.27%) OpenAI
14 48 (1.00%) Foundry
15 43 (0.90%) Cisco
16 40 (0.83%) Informatica
17 38 (0.79%) AppDynamics
18 36 (0.75%) MuleSoft
19 32 (0.67%) Atlassian
20 30 (0.63%) Okta