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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,276 2,441 3,390
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.53% 10.04% 9.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.44% 11.01% 10.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,002 1,804 2,351
10th Percentile £385 £400 £400
25th Percentile £443 £460 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £671 £650
90th Percentile £713 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -1.42% -4.09% -5.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 13 105
10th Percentile £39.53 £38.25 £56.35
25th Percentile £55.31 £51.25 £61.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -0.76%
75th Percentile £79.65 £82.00 £78.75
90th Percentile £95.00 £90.59 £87.28
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £73.23 £65.00
% change year-on-year -7.82% +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 34,368 22,176 31,806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.67% 91.22% 86.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,897 14,509 20,833
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £616 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £519 £525
% change year-on-year -2.69% -1.24% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,148 935 2,251
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.45 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -2.67%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.40 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.40 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +47.48% -21.23% +0.29%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +3 2,187 £550 -4.35% 543
North of England +6 743 £500 -3.80% 270
South East +2 471 £513 -0.87% 309
Yorkshire +3 407 £500 -3.80% 68
Midlands +5 398 £489 -2.25% 114
West Midlands +2 307 £500 -4.03% 62
South West +15 281 £525 -4.55% 117
North West +2 276 £500 - 143
East of England +31 125 £525 +3.45% 80
East Midlands -2 88 £466 -0.53% 52
North East +9 71 £453 -15.81% 61
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
1 236 (5.52%) Confluence
2 119 (2.78%) Apache Spark
3 105 (2.46%) SharePoint
4 81 (1.89%) Apache
5 70 (1.64%) SAS
6 62 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
7 37 (0.87%) CMS
8 25 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
9 24 (0.56%) nginx
10 22 (0.51%) IIS
11 21 (0.49%) OpenStack
12 11 (0.26%) Mendix
13 10 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 10 (0.23%) HCL Notes
14 9 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
14 9 (0.21%) WebSphere
15 8 (0.19%) Camunda
16 7 (0.16%) ArcGIS
16 7 (0.16%) Jupyter
16 7 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 67 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (1.31%) Microsoft Project
3 44 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
5 22 (0.51%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.094%) CPLEX
6 4 (0.094%) Trello
7 3 (0.070%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.047%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.047%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.023%) InDesign
9 1 (0.023%) Maya
9 1 (0.023%) Weka
Business Applications
1 58 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
4 9 (0.21%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.21%) Maximo
4 9 (0.21%) NEC Housing
5 7 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
5 7 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.094%) Endur
7 4 (0.094%) Magento
7 4 (0.094%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.094%) SAP BPC
8 3 (0.070%) Findur
8 3 (0.070%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.070%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.047%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.047%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.047%) SAP MM
9 2 (0.047%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 2,305 (53.91%) Azure
2 1,438 (33.63%) AWS
3 1,250 (29.23%) Azure DevOps
4 703 (16.44%) GitHub
5 554 (12.96%) GCP
6 414 (9.68%) Serverless
7 406 (9.49%) GitHub Actions
8 363 (8.49%) Power Platform
9 236 (5.52%) Amazon S3
10 210 (4.91%) Entra ID
11 209 (4.89%) AWS Lambda
12 200 (4.68%) AWS CloudFormation
13 194 (4.54%) Azure Data Factory
14 186 (4.35%) Azure AKS
15 155 (3.62%) OpenShift
16 154 (3.60%) Amazon EKS
17 147 (3.44%) Azure Monitor
18 142 (3.32%) PaaS
19 137 (3.20%) Dynamics 365
20 127 (2.97%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 197 (4.61%) Firewall
2 106 (2.48%) DNS
3 86 (2.01%) Network Security
4 82 (1.92%) VPN
5 37 (0.87%) TCP/IP
6 35 (0.82%) WAN
7 31 (0.72%) SD-WAN
8 24 (0.56%) BGP
8 24 (0.56%) SSL
9 22 (0.51%) HTTP
10 21 (0.49%) DHCP
11 20 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
12 18 (0.42%) IPsec
13 17 (0.40%) OSPF
13 17 (0.40%) SAN
14 16 (0.37%) MPLS
15 14 (0.33%) LAN
15 14 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
16 12 (0.28%) Internet
16 12 (0.28%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 245 (5.73%) Power BI
2 211 (4.93%) PostgreSQL
3 206 (4.82%) SQL Server
4 156 (3.65%) NoSQL
5 150 (3.51%) Data Lake
6 125 (2.92%) Relational Database
7 119 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
8 96 (2.25%) MongoDB
9 90 (2.10%) Azure SQL Database
10 88 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
11 82 (1.92%) Delta Lake
12 74 (1.73%) DynamoDB
13 69 (1.61%) Metadata
14 67 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
15 65 (1.52%) Oracle Database
16 57 (1.33%) Big Data
17 51 (1.19%) Redis
18 49 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
19 48 (1.12%) Tableau
20 45 (1.05%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 614 (14.36%) Jenkins
2 540 (12.63%) Git
3 517 (12.09%) JIRA
4 426 (9.96%) GitLab
5 82 (1.92%) Postman
6 78 (1.82%) Selenium
7 72 (1.68%) JUnit
8 70 (1.64%) SonarQube
9 64 (1.50%) Bitbucket
10 56 (1.31%) Maven
11 47 (1.10%) Artifactory
12 43 (1.01%) REST Assured
13 41 (0.96%) JMeter
14 40 (0.94%) Cucumber
15 36 (0.84%) Cypress.io
16 34 (0.80%) Gatling
17 32 (0.75%) Mockito
18 30 (0.70%) Gradle
19 25 (0.58%) LoadRunner
19 25 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,086 (25.40%) Social Skills
2 816 (19.08%) Finance
3 517 (12.09%) Public Sector
4 368 (8.61%) Analytical Skills
5 296 (6.92%) Banking
6 135 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
7 65 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
8 64 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 54 (1.26%) Retail
10 53 (1.24%) Marketing
11 49 (1.15%) Financial Institution
11 49 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
12 48 (1.12%) Legal
13 43 (1.01%) Front Office
14 41 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
15 38 (0.89%) Investment Banking
16 33 (0.77%) Military
17 28 (0.65%) Telecoms
18 20 (0.47%) Aerospace
18 20 (0.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 840 (19.64%) DevOps Engineer
2 613 (14.34%) Developer
3 600 (14.03%) Senior
4 509 (11.90%) Architect
5 347 (8.12%) Lead
6 294 (6.88%) Azure Engineer
7 280 (6.55%) Data Engineer
8 263 (6.15%) Analyst
9 178 (4.16%) AWS Engineer
10 163 (3.81%) Solutions Architect
11 159 (3.72%) Cloud Engineer
12 150 (3.51%) Platform Engineer
13 138 (3.23%) Software Engineer
14 134 (3.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 133 (3.11%) Business Analyst
15 133 (3.11%) Senior DevOps
16 130 (3.04%) AWS DevOps
17 124 (2.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 117 (2.74%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 113 (2.64%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 375 (8.77%) REST
2 355 (8.30%) .NET
3 259 (6.06%) Kafka
4 240 (5.61%) Spring
5 233 (5.45%) React
6 226 (5.29%) Node.js
7 225 (5.26%) Spring Boot
8 192 (4.49%) RESTful
9 153 (3.58%) AngularJS
10 129 (3.02%) YAML
11 127 (2.97%) PySpark
12 122 (2.85%) JSON
13 119 (2.78%) Playwright
14 110 (2.57%) OAuth
15 106 (2.48%) Middleware
16 104 (2.43%) HTML
17 96 (2.25%) SOAP
18 88 (2.06%) CSS
19 84 (1.96%) .NET Framework
19 84 (1.96%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 685 (16.02%) Cloud Native
2 264 (6.17%) Product Ownership
3 164 (3.84%) Distributed Systems
4 111 (2.60%) Onboarding
5 92 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
6 86 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
7 83 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
8 79 (1.85%) Public Cloud
9 71 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
10 49 (1.15%) Management Information System
11 45 (1.05%) Data Centre
12 43 (1.01%) Replication
13 40 (0.94%) Private Cloud
14 39 (0.91%) Virtual Team
15 38 (0.89%) Mobile App
16 37 (0.87%) Data Structures
16 37 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
17 36 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
18 35 (0.82%) AI Agents
18 35 (0.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 376 (8.79%) Linux
2 220 (5.14%) Windows
3 67 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 65 (1.52%) Unix
5 39 (0.91%) Windows Server
6 34 (0.80%) VMS
7 21 (0.49%) Ubuntu
8 16 (0.37%) Apple iOS
9 15 (0.35%) Android
10 11 (0.26%) CentOS
11 10 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (0.16%) Windows 10
13 6 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
14 5 (0.12%) Solaris
15 4 (0.094%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.094%) Windows Server 2012
16 3 (0.070%) Debian
16 3 (0.070%) Mac OS
16 3 (0.070%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,394 (55.99%) CI/CD
2 1,578 (36.90%) Agile
3 1,063 (24.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 714 (16.70%) Containerisation
5 694 (16.23%) Problem-Solving
6 625 (14.62%) Microservices
7 598 (13.99%) Test Automation
8 550 (12.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 523 (12.23%) Migration
10 505 (11.81%) Analytics
11 503 (11.76%) Observability
12 479 (11.20%) Stakeholder Management
13 455 (10.64%) Scrum
14 446 (10.43%) AI
15 418 (9.78%) Software Engineering
16 405 (9.47%) Data Modelling
17 364 (8.51%) Platform Engineering
18 341 (7.97%) Mentoring
19 337 (7.88%) Data Pipeline
20 335 (7.83%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,175 (27.48%) Python
2 877 (20.51%) SQL
3 572 (13.38%) Java
4 409 (9.57%) C#
5 311 (7.27%) JavaScript
5 311 (7.27%) PowerShell
6 296 (6.92%) Bash
7 233 (5.45%) TypeScript
8 142 (3.32%) Bicep
9 98 (2.29%) Go
10 67 (1.57%) Scala
11 55 (1.29%) PL/SQL
12 51 (1.19%) Shell Script
13 41 (0.96%) Groovy
14 40 (0.94%) T-SQL
15 37 (0.87%) Apex Code
16 31 (0.72%) C++
17 25 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 24 (0.56%) Ruby
19 21 (0.49%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,390 (32.51%) Security Cleared
2 1,144 (26.75%) SC Cleared
3 286 (6.69%) Degree
4 196 (4.58%) Azure Certification
5 142 (3.32%) DV Cleared
6 134 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 116 (2.71%) AWS Certification
8 107 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
9 66 (1.54%) CISSP
10 52 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
11 47 (1.10%) CISM
12 46 (1.08%) Master's Degree
13 44 (1.03%) ISTQB
14 39 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 39 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
15 38 (0.89%) PMI Certification
16 36 (0.84%) PMP
17 24 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
18 21 (0.49%) IIBA
18 21 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 383 (8.96%) QA
2 203 (4.75%) Data Quality
3 163 (3.81%) GDPR
4 120 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 115 (2.69%) NIST
6 97 (2.27%) Accessibility
7 59 (1.38%) NCSC
8 44 (1.03%) PCI DSS
9 42 (0.98%) WCAG
10 31 (0.72%) SLA
11 29 (0.68%) PMO
11 29 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 17 (0.40%) GRC
13 15 (0.35%) ISO 20022
14 14 (0.33%) HIPAA
14 14 (0.33%) PSD2
15 13 (0.30%) NIST 800
16 12 (0.28%) SEPA
17 11 (0.26%) SOC 2
18 8 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 844 (19.74%) Docker
2 163 (3.81%) Active Directory
3 70 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
4 60 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 30 (0.70%) vSphere
6 21 (0.49%) VMware NSX
7 16 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.33%) Squid
9 12 (0.28%) Postfix
10 10 (0.23%) Hyper-V
10 10 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
11 8 (0.19%) Firmware
12 6 (0.14%) Corosync
12 6 (0.14%) HDFS
13 5 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
13 5 (0.12%) RACF
14 4 (0.094%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
14 4 (0.094%) Lustre
14 4 (0.094%) NFS
14 4 (0.094%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1,196 (27.97%) Terraform
2 1,117 (26.12%) Kubernetes
3 433 (10.13%) Ansible
4 280 (6.55%) Grafana
5 235 (5.50%) Prometheus
6 88 (2.06%) Argo
7 66 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
8 62 (1.45%) Puppet
9 46 (1.08%) Istio
10 24 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
10 24 (0.56%) Progress Chef
11 23 (0.54%) Kibana
11 23 (0.54%) Packer
12 20 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 20 (0.47%) vCenter Server
13 17 (0.40%) Rancher
14 16 (0.37%) HP ALM
15 14 (0.33%) FortiGate
16 13 (0.30%) Consul
17 12 (0.28%) SCCM
Vendors
1 758 (17.73%) Microsoft
2 253 (5.92%) Oracle
3 247 (5.78%) Databricks
4 197 (4.61%) Google
5 175 (4.09%) Splunk
6 158 (3.70%) ServiceNow
7 129 (3.02%) Red Hat
8 127 (2.97%) Salesforce
9 102 (2.39%) VMware
10 98 (2.29%) SAP
11 89 (2.08%) Dynatrace
12 60 (1.40%) OpenAI
13 52 (1.22%) CyberArk
14 46 (1.08%) Atlassian
15 39 (0.91%) IBM
16 37 (0.87%) AppDynamics
17 36 (0.84%) Informatica
18 34 (0.80%) Foundry
19 33 (0.77%) Denodo
20 32 (0.75%) Cisco