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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,327 2,425 3,411
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.54% 9.97% 9.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.46% 10.93% 10.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,039 1,779 2,368
10th Percentile £385 £400 £400
25th Percentile £443 £456 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% -1.00% -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £664 £650
90th Percentile £703 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -5.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 14 107
10th Percentile £39.53 £39.88 £56.40
25th Percentile £55.38 £52.50 £61.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £68.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +5.77% -0.76%
75th Percentile £77.50 £82.72 £78.13
90th Percentile £95.00 £94.25 £87.18
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 34,728 22,194 31,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.62% 91.24% 86.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,149 14,504 20,626
10th Percentile £322 £306 £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 £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £507 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.65% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,129 949 2,251
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.38 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.22 £15.97
Median hourly rate £45.78 £29.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.86% -20.55% +0.29%
75th Percentile £67.84 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.40 £28.18 £36.02
% change year-on-year +50.46% -21.77% +0.06%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 2,208 £550 -2.65% 553
North of England +8 767 £500 -1.96% 294
South East +2 474 £513 +2.40% 305
Yorkshire +2 418 £500 -2.20% 81
Midlands +4 391 £488 -2.50% 100
West Midlands 0 302 £492 -6.08% 66
South West +15 289 £525 -5.83% 124
North West +2 287 £500 - 159
East of England +30 128 £525 +5.00% 77
East Midlands -2 86 £465 -0.80% 34
North East +8 75 £450 -14.29% 57
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
1 237 (5.48%) Confluence
2 121 (2.80%) Apache Spark
3 108 (2.50%) SharePoint
4 84 (1.94%) Apache
5 65 (1.50%) SAS
6 64 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
7 38 (0.88%) CMS
8 25 (0.58%) IIS
9 24 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
9 24 (0.55%) nginx
10 18 (0.42%) OpenStack
11 11 (0.25%) Mendix
11 11 (0.25%) WebSphere
12 10 (0.23%) Camunda
12 10 (0.23%) HCL Notes
12 10 (0.23%) Jupyter
13 9 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
14 7 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
15 6 (0.14%) Mattermost
Applications
1 63 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
3 42 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
5 21 (0.49%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.092%) CPLEX
6 4 (0.092%) Trello
7 3 (0.069%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.046%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.046%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.023%) InDesign
9 1 (0.023%) Maya
9 1 (0.023%) Notion
9 1 (0.023%) Weka
Business Applications
1 58 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
3 10 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
4 9 (0.21%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.21%) Maximo
4 9 (0.21%) NEC Housing
5 8 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
6 6 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.12%) Magento
8 4 (0.092%) Endur
8 4 (0.092%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.092%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.069%) Findur
9 3 (0.069%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.069%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 2 (0.046%) SAP MM
10 2 (0.046%) Shopify
10 2 (0.046%) Summit
10 2 (0.046%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 2,316 (53.52%) Azure
2 1,445 (33.39%) AWS
3 1,252 (28.93%) Azure DevOps
4 702 (16.22%) GitHub
5 562 (12.99%) GCP
6 407 (9.41%) GitHub Actions
7 399 (9.22%) Serverless
8 364 (8.41%) Power Platform
9 231 (5.34%) Amazon S3
10 210 (4.85%) Entra ID
11 201 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
12 197 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
13 192 (4.44%) Azure Data Factory
14 191 (4.41%) Azure AKS
15 155 (3.58%) OpenShift
16 153 (3.54%) Amazon EKS
17 142 (3.28%) PaaS
18 140 (3.24%) Azure Monitor
19 134 (3.10%) Dynamics 365
20 128 (2.96%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 200 (4.62%) Firewall
2 109 (2.52%) DNS
3 87 (2.01%) Network Security
4 84 (1.94%) VPN
5 41 (0.95%) TCP/IP
6 36 (0.83%) WAN
7 32 (0.74%) SD-WAN
8 26 (0.60%) BGP
9 24 (0.55%) SSL
10 22 (0.51%) HTTP
10 22 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
11 21 (0.49%) DHCP
12 19 (0.44%) OSPF
13 18 (0.42%) IPsec
14 17 (0.39%) SAN
15 16 (0.37%) MPLS
16 14 (0.32%) Internet
16 14 (0.32%) LAN
16 14 (0.32%) Reverse Proxy
16 14 (0.32%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 244 (5.64%) Power BI
2 213 (4.92%) SQL Server
3 210 (4.85%) PostgreSQL
4 161 (3.72%) NoSQL
5 151 (3.49%) Data Lake
6 136 (3.14%) Relational Database
7 118 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
8 109 (2.52%) MongoDB
9 89 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
10 83 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
10 83 (1.92%) Delta Lake
11 73 (1.69%) DynamoDB
12 69 (1.59%) Metadata
13 68 (1.57%) Oracle Database
14 64 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
15 55 (1.27%) Big Data
16 52 (1.20%) Redis
17 48 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
18 46 (1.06%) BigQuery
18 46 (1.06%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 615 (14.21%) Jenkins
2 544 (12.57%) Git
3 506 (11.69%) JIRA
4 429 (9.91%) GitLab
5 89 (2.06%) Postman
6 87 (2.01%) Selenium
7 69 (1.59%) JUnit
7 69 (1.59%) SonarQube
8 62 (1.43%) Bitbucket
9 56 (1.29%) Maven
10 55 (1.27%) REST Assured
11 48 (1.11%) Artifactory
11 48 (1.11%) Cucumber
12 45 (1.04%) JMeter
13 41 (0.95%) Gatling
14 38 (0.88%) Cypress.io
15 33 (0.76%) Gradle
16 28 (0.65%) Mockito
17 26 (0.60%) LoadRunner
18 25 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,092 (25.24%) Social Skills
2 812 (18.77%) Finance
3 526 (12.16%) Public Sector
4 365 (8.44%) Analytical Skills
5 297 (6.86%) Banking
6 131 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
7 67 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
8 63 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 58 (1.34%) Retail
10 51 (1.18%) Financial Institution
10 51 (1.18%) Marketing
11 50 (1.16%) Legal
12 48 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
13 42 (0.97%) Front Office
14 40 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
15 37 (0.86%) Military
16 36 (0.83%) Investment Banking
17 23 (0.53%) Telecoms
18 22 (0.51%) Aerospace
19 21 (0.49%) Law
Job Titles
1 859 (19.85%) DevOps Engineer
2 618 (14.28%) Developer
3 606 (14.01%) Senior
4 518 (11.97%) Architect
5 363 (8.39%) Lead
6 299 (6.91%) Azure Engineer
7 273 (6.31%) Data Engineer
8 260 (6.01%) Analyst
9 176 (4.07%) AWS Engineer
10 167 (3.86%) Solutions Architect
11 163 (3.77%) Cloud Engineer
12 152 (3.51%) Platform Engineer
13 140 (3.24%) Software Engineer
14 139 (3.21%) Senior DevOps
15 137 (3.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 133 (3.07%) Business Analyst
17 128 (2.96%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 125 (2.89%) AWS DevOps
19 116 (2.68%) Java Developer
20 113 (2.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 382 (8.83%) REST
2 361 (8.34%) .NET
3 265 (6.12%) Kafka
4 243 (5.62%) Spring
5 242 (5.59%) React
6 228 (5.27%) Spring Boot
7 220 (5.08%) Node.js
8 196 (4.53%) RESTful
9 149 (3.44%) AngularJS
10 128 (2.96%) PySpark
11 127 (2.94%) Playwright
12 124 (2.87%) JSON
13 123 (2.84%) YAML
14 110 (2.54%) OAuth
15 101 (2.33%) Middleware
16 98 (2.26%) HTML
16 98 (2.26%) SOAP
17 90 (2.08%) .NET Framework
18 88 (2.03%) OpenID
19 84 (1.94%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 680 (15.72%) Cloud Native
2 272 (6.29%) Product Ownership
3 163 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
4 111 (2.57%) Onboarding
5 94 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
6 84 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
7 83 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
8 81 (1.87%) Public Cloud
9 70 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
10 50 (1.16%) Data Centre
11 49 (1.13%) Management Information System
12 41 (0.95%) Replication
12 41 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
13 40 (0.92%) Virtual Team
14 39 (0.90%) Mobile App
15 38 (0.88%) AI Agents
15 38 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
16 37 (0.86%) Data Structures
16 37 (0.86%) Private Cloud
17 35 (0.81%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 375 (8.67%) Linux
2 220 (5.08%) Windows
3 67 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 66 (1.53%) Unix
5 41 (0.95%) Windows Server
6 35 (0.81%) VMS
7 22 (0.51%) Ubuntu
8 18 (0.42%) Apple iOS
9 16 (0.37%) Android
10 11 (0.25%) 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 (0.092%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.092%) Windows Server 2012
16 3 (0.069%) Mac OS
16 3 (0.069%) Oracle Linux
16 3 (0.069%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,423 (56.00%) CI/CD
2 1,576 (36.42%) Agile
3 1,083 (25.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 702 (16.22%) Containerisation
5 683 (15.78%) Problem-Solving
6 625 (14.44%) Microservices
7 599 (13.84%) Test Automation
8 564 (13.03%) Continuous Improvement
9 527 (12.18%) Migration
10 523 (12.09%) Observability
11 498 (11.51%) Analytics
12 488 (11.28%) Stakeholder Management
13 468 (10.82%) Scrum
14 467 (10.79%) AI
15 423 (9.78%) Software Engineering
16 406 (9.38%) Data Modelling
17 382 (8.83%) Platform Engineering
18 352 (8.13%) Mentoring
19 343 (7.93%) Roadmaps
20 337 (7.79%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 1,172 (27.09%) Python
2 869 (20.08%) SQL
3 588 (13.59%) Java
4 411 (9.50%) C#
5 311 (7.19%) JavaScript
5 311 (7.19%) PowerShell
6 304 (7.03%) Bash
7 230 (5.32%) TypeScript
8 146 (3.37%) Bicep
9 92 (2.13%) Go
10 68 (1.57%) Scala
11 54 (1.25%) PL/SQL
12 52 (1.20%) Shell Script
13 42 (0.97%) Apex Code
14 41 (0.95%) Groovy
14 41 (0.95%) T-SQL
15 29 (0.67%) C++
16 25 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 23 (0.53%) Ruby
18 22 (0.51%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,401 (32.38%) Security Cleared
2 1,146 (26.48%) SC Cleared
3 285 (6.59%) Degree
4 193 (4.46%) Azure Certification
5 145 (3.35%) DV Cleared
6 126 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 115 (2.66%) AWS Certification
8 107 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 64 (1.48%) CISSP
10 53 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
11 46 (1.06%) ISTQB
12 45 (1.04%) CISM
12 45 (1.04%) Master's Degree
13 41 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
14 39 (0.90%) PMI Certification
15 37 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 37 (0.86%) PMP
16 24 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
17 21 (0.49%) IIBA
18 20 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 381 (8.81%) QA
2 201 (4.65%) Data Quality
3 161 (3.72%) GDPR
4 118 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 113 (2.61%) NIST
6 106 (2.45%) Accessibility
7 60 (1.39%) NCSC
8 49 (1.13%) WCAG
9 46 (1.06%) PCI DSS
10 33 (0.76%) SLA
11 31 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 29 (0.67%) PMO
13 19 (0.44%) GRC
14 15 (0.35%) HIPAA
15 13 (0.30%) ISO 20022
15 13 (0.30%) NIST 800
16 12 (0.28%) PSD2
17 11 (0.25%) SOC 2
18 10 (0.23%) SEPA
19 8 (0.18%) HL7
System Software
1 839 (19.39%) Docker
2 157 (3.63%) Active Directory
3 69 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
4 58 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 31 (0.72%) vSphere
6 21 (0.49%) VMware NSX
7 17 (0.39%) Squid
8 16 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.28%) Postfix
10 10 (0.23%) Hyper-V
10 10 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
11 8 (0.18%) Firmware
12 6 (0.14%) Corosync
12 6 (0.14%) RACF
13 5 (0.12%) HDFS
13 5 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
14 4 (0.092%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
14 4 (0.092%) Lustre
14 4 (0.092%) NFS
14 4 (0.092%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1,201 (27.76%) Terraform
2 1,111 (25.68%) Kubernetes
3 437 (10.10%) Ansible
4 286 (6.61%) Grafana
5 240 (5.55%) Prometheus
6 83 (1.92%) Argo
7 66 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
8 63 (1.46%) Puppet
9 49 (1.13%) Istio
10 24 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
10 24 (0.55%) Packer
10 24 (0.55%) Progress Chef
11 22 (0.51%) Kibana
12 20 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 20 (0.46%) vCenter Server
13 17 (0.39%) HP ALM
14 15 (0.35%) Rancher
15 14 (0.32%) FortiGate
16 13 (0.30%) Consul
17 12 (0.28%) SCCM
Vendors
1 767 (17.73%) Microsoft
2 251 (5.80%) Databricks
3 249 (5.75%) Oracle
4 195 (4.51%) Google
5 180 (4.16%) Splunk
6 162 (3.74%) ServiceNow
7 134 (3.10%) Salesforce
8 130 (3.00%) Red Hat
9 101 (2.33%) SAP
10 100 (2.31%) VMware
11 94 (2.17%) Dynatrace
12 60 (1.39%) OpenAI
13 47 (1.09%) CyberArk
14 45 (1.04%) Atlassian
15 42 (0.97%) IBM
16 37 (0.86%) AppDynamics
17 36 (0.83%) Foundry
17 36 (0.83%) Informatica
18 33 (0.76%) Cisco
19 28 (0.65%) Denodo