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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,241 2,528 3,296
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.72% 10.31% 8.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.58% 11.33% 10.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,970 1,875 2,281
10th Percentile £388 £400 £406
25th Percentile £443 £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 £713 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -4.63% -1.82% -6.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 15 97
10th Percentile £39.53 £41.50 £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 £84.40
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 33,718 22,322 32,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.24% 91.07% 86.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,550 14,669 21,082
10th Percentile £315 £310 £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 £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,104 894 2,218
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.84 £12.85
25th Percentile £20.32 £18.51 £15.86
Median hourly rate £41.94 £31.64 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.55% -9.60% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67.25 £64.31 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.18 £72.33
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% -6.67%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 2,166 £538 -6.43% 548
North of England +6 743 £500 -4.76% 330
South East -1 447 £513 -6.82% 277
Yorkshire +1 404 £500 -4.76% 82
Midlands +3 394 £492 -1.60% 134
West Midlands +5 303 £500 -3.47% 72
South West +12 295 £500 -12.28% 152
North West +5 282 £500 -3.26% 181
East of England +22 122 £525 +1.94% 86
East Midlands +1 88 £463 -2.63% 62
North East +7 64 £475 -9.52% 68
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
1 251 (5.92%) Confluence
2 116 (2.74%) Apache Spark
3 102 (2.41%) SharePoint
4 87 (2.05%) Apache
5 70 (1.65%) SAS
6 68 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
7 35 (0.83%) CMS
8 32 (0.75%) nginx
9 26 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
10 24 (0.57%) OpenStack
11 22 (0.52%) 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%) WebLogic
14 9 (0.21%) WebSphere
15 7 (0.17%) ArcGIS
15 7 (0.17%) Camunda
16 6 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 70 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 50 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
3 29 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
4 23 (0.54%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.14%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.12%) Trello
6 5 (0.12%) Weka
7 3 (0.071%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.047%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.047%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.024%) InDesign
9 1 (0.024%) Maya
Business Applications
1 68 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.24%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.21%) Maximo
4 9 (0.21%) NEC Housing
4 9 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
5 6 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.12%) Endur
6 5 (0.12%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.094%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.094%) SAP BPC
8 3 (0.071%) Findur
8 3 (0.071%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.071%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 3 (0.071%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 2 (0.047%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.047%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.047%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 2,271 (53.55%) Azure
2 1,414 (33.34%) AWS
3 1,257 (29.64%) Azure DevOps
4 728 (17.17%) GitHub
5 541 (12.76%) GCP
6 437 (10.30%) Serverless
7 407 (9.60%) GitHub Actions
8 355 (8.37%) Power Platform
9 234 (5.52%) Amazon S3
10 221 (5.21%) Entra ID
11 217 (5.12%) AWS CloudFormation
11 217 (5.12%) AWS Lambda
12 207 (4.88%) Azure Data Factory
13 194 (4.57%) Azure AKS
14 162 (3.82%) OpenShift
15 160 (3.77%) Azure Monitor
16 157 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
17 142 (3.35%) Dynamics 365
17 142 (3.35%) PaaS
18 134 (3.16%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 193 (4.55%) Firewall
2 102 (2.41%) DNS
3 84 (1.98%) Network Security
4 80 (1.89%) VPN
5 39 (0.92%) TCP/IP
6 25 (0.59%) WAN
7 24 (0.57%) HTTP
8 23 (0.54%) SD-WAN
9 22 (0.52%) DHCP
9 22 (0.52%) SSL
10 18 (0.42%) BGP
11 17 (0.40%) IPsec
11 17 (0.40%) MPLS
12 15 (0.35%) SAN
13 14 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
14 12 (0.28%) Internet
14 12 (0.28%) LAN
14 12 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
15 11 (0.26%) OpenVPN
16 10 (0.24%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 231 (5.45%) Power BI
2 226 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
3 208 (4.90%) SQL Server
4 165 (3.89%) NoSQL
5 148 (3.49%) Data Lake
6 119 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
6 119 (2.81%) Relational Database
7 97 (2.29%) MongoDB
8 95 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
9 88 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
10 77 (1.82%) Delta Lake
11 74 (1.74%) DynamoDB
12 71 (1.67%) Metadata
13 68 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
14 66 (1.56%) Oracle Database
15 55 (1.30%) Big Data
16 54 (1.27%) Tableau
17 50 (1.18%) Redis
18 48 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
19 43 (1.01%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 614 (14.48%) Jenkins
2 544 (12.83%) JIRA
3 541 (12.76%) Git
4 410 (9.67%) GitLab
5 92 (2.17%) Selenium
6 83 (1.96%) JUnit
7 81 (1.91%) Postman
8 70 (1.65%) SonarQube
9 68 (1.60%) Bitbucket
10 54 (1.27%) Maven
11 49 (1.16%) Artifactory
12 48 (1.13%) Cucumber
13 47 (1.11%) REST Assured
14 42 (0.99%) Cypress.io
15 37 (0.87%) JMeter
16 34 (0.80%) Gatling
16 34 (0.80%) Mockito
17 32 (0.75%) Oracle APEX
18 30 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
19 27 (0.64%) TestRail
General
1 1,153 (27.19%) Social Skills
2 803 (18.93%) Finance
3 513 (12.10%) Public Sector
4 366 (8.63%) Analytical Skills
5 302 (7.12%) Banking
6 147 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
7 67 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
8 58 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 56 (1.32%) Retail
10 52 (1.23%) Marketing
11 50 (1.18%) Financial Institution
12 48 (1.13%) Front Office
13 47 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
14 43 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
15 42 (0.99%) Investment Banking
16 41 (0.97%) Legal
17 33 (0.78%) Telecoms
18 31 (0.73%) Military
19 22 (0.52%) Law
20 17 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 796 (18.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 637 (15.02%) Developer
3 594 (14.01%) Senior
4 486 (11.46%) Architect
5 353 (8.32%) Lead
6 293 (6.91%) Azure Engineer
7 267 (6.30%) Data Engineer
8 249 (5.87%) Analyst
9 193 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
10 159 (3.75%) Cloud Engineer
11 151 (3.56%) AWS DevOps
11 151 (3.56%) Platform Engineer
12 149 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
13 141 (3.32%) Software Engineer
14 136 (3.21%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 135 (3.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 132 (3.11%) Business Analyst
17 122 (2.88%) Senior Developer
18 120 (2.83%) Senior DevOps
19 114 (2.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 393 (9.27%) REST
2 353 (8.32%) .NET
3 258 (6.08%) Kafka
4 254 (5.99%) Node.js
5 238 (5.61%) React
6 234 (5.52%) Spring
7 217 (5.12%) Spring Boot
8 195 (4.60%) RESTful
9 152 (3.58%) AngularJS
10 135 (3.18%) YAML
11 130 (3.07%) JSON
12 127 (2.99%) Playwright
13 121 (2.85%) PySpark
14 117 (2.76%) OAuth
15 109 (2.57%) HTML
16 104 (2.45%) Middleware
17 96 (2.26%) SOAP
18 91 (2.15%) CSS
19 85 (2.00%) OpenID
20 84 (1.98%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 643 (15.16%) Cloud Native
2 261 (6.15%) Product Ownership
3 153 (3.61%) Distributed Systems
4 109 (2.57%) Onboarding
5 94 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
6 89 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
7 87 (2.05%) Public Cloud
8 81 (1.91%) Hybrid Cloud
9 63 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
10 54 (1.27%) Virtual Team
11 51 (1.20%) Management Information System
12 44 (1.04%) Private Cloud
13 41 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
14 38 (0.90%) Data Centre
15 37 (0.87%) Data Structures
15 37 (0.87%) Replication
16 36 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
16 36 (0.85%) NHS
16 36 (0.85%) Security Posture
17 35 (0.83%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 384 (9.05%) Linux
2 220 (5.19%) Windows
3 70 (1.65%) Unix
4 67 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 39 (0.92%) Windows Server
6 38 (0.90%) VMS
7 22 (0.52%) Ubuntu
8 12 (0.28%) Android
8 12 (0.28%) CentOS
9 10 (0.24%) Apple iOS
9 10 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.17%) Windows 10
11 6 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.12%) Solaris
13 4 (0.094%) Amazon Linux
13 4 (0.094%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (0.094%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.071%) Debian
14 3 (0.071%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.071%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,341 (55.20%) CI/CD
2 1,615 (38.08%) Agile
3 1,037 (24.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 722 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
5 699 (16.48%) Containerisation
6 624 (14.71%) Microservices
7 590 (13.91%) Test Automation
8 555 (13.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 522 (12.31%) Analytics
10 517 (12.19%) Migration
11 475 (11.20%) Observability
12 473 (11.15%) Scrum
13 458 (10.80%) Stakeholder Management
14 457 (10.78%) AI
15 407 (9.60%) Software Engineering
16 397 (9.36%) Data Modelling
17 355 (8.37%) Mentoring
18 341 (8.04%) Platform Engineering
19 327 (7.71%) Data Pipeline
20 321 (7.57%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,198 (28.25%) Python
2 918 (21.65%) SQL
3 556 (13.11%) Java
4 419 (9.88%) C#
5 350 (8.25%) JavaScript
6 312 (7.36%) PowerShell
7 287 (6.77%) Bash
8 243 (5.73%) TypeScript
9 146 (3.44%) Bicep
10 95 (2.24%) Go
11 85 (2.00%) PL/SQL
12 71 (1.67%) Scala
13 50 (1.18%) Shell Script
14 42 (0.99%) T-SQL
15 37 (0.87%) Groovy
16 32 (0.75%) Apex Code
17 31 (0.73%) C++
18 29 (0.68%) Ruby
19 22 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 22 (0.52%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,364 (32.16%) Security Cleared
2 1,126 (26.55%) SC Cleared
3 306 (7.22%) Degree
4 198 (4.67%) Azure Certification
5 144 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 136 (3.21%) DV Cleared
7 115 (2.71%) AWS Certification
8 110 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 70 (1.65%) CISSP
10 51 (1.20%) CISM
11 50 (1.18%) Master's Degree
12 49 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
13 47 (1.11%) ISTQB
14 40 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 38 (0.90%) PMI Certification
16 36 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
16 36 (0.85%) PMP
17 22 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 21 (0.50%) IIBA
18 21 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 373 (8.80%) QA
2 193 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 161 (3.80%) GDPR
4 123 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 115 (2.71%) NIST
6 90 (2.12%) Accessibility
7 60 (1.41%) NCSC
8 36 (0.85%) PCI DSS
8 36 (0.85%) WCAG
9 29 (0.68%) SLA
10 27 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 25 (0.59%) PMO
12 15 (0.35%) ISO 20022
13 14 (0.33%) GRC
13 14 (0.33%) HIPAA
13 14 (0.33%) NIST 800
14 13 (0.31%) SOC 2
15 12 (0.28%) PSD2
16 10 (0.24%) SEPA
17 9 (0.21%) HL7
System Software
1 875 (20.63%) Docker
2 169 (3.98%) Active Directory
3 66 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 65 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
5 34 (0.80%) vSphere
6 26 (0.61%) VMware NSX
7 14 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 13 (0.31%) Hyper-V
9 12 (0.28%) Postfix
9 12 (0.28%) Squid
10 11 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
11 8 (0.19%) Firmware
11 8 (0.19%) Lustre
11 8 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 6 (0.14%) GPFS
12 6 (0.14%) HDFS
13 5 (0.12%) Corosync
13 5 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
13 5 (0.12%) RACF
14 4 (0.094%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,187 (27.99%) Terraform
2 1,127 (26.57%) Kubernetes
3 419 (9.88%) Ansible
4 264 (6.22%) Grafana
5 222 (5.23%) Prometheus
6 93 (2.19%) Argo
7 66 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
8 62 (1.46%) Puppet
9 50 (1.18%) Istio
10 29 (0.68%) Packer
11 26 (0.61%) vCenter Server
12 24 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
13 22 (0.52%) Progress Chef
14 20 (0.47%) Kibana
14 20 (0.47%) Rancher
15 19 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 18 (0.42%) FortiGate
17 16 (0.38%) Consul
18 15 (0.35%) HP ALM
19 12 (0.28%) SCCM
Vendors
1 763 (17.99%) Microsoft
2 287 (6.77%) Oracle
3 255 (6.01%) Databricks
4 198 (4.67%) Google
5 173 (4.08%) Splunk
6 156 (3.68%) ServiceNow
7 134 (3.16%) Red Hat
8 117 (2.76%) Salesforce
9 115 (2.71%) VMware
10 98 (2.31%) SAP
11 72 (1.70%) OpenAI
12 69 (1.63%) Dynatrace
13 62 (1.46%) Atlassian
14 55 (1.30%) CyberArk
15 41 (0.97%) IBM
16 34 (0.80%) Foundry
17 33 (0.78%) Cisco
18 32 (0.75%) Talend
19 31 (0.73%) AppDynamics
19 31 (0.73%) Denodo