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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 15 18
Rank change year-on-year +2 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing DevOps 3,995 2,672 3,250
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.22% 10.68% 8.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.90% 11.82% 9.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,793 1,889 2,316
10th Percentile £381 £400 £413
25th Percentile £438 £465 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £568
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +0.44% -5.42%
75th Percentile £615 £675 £669
90th Percentile £725 £780 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 18 98
10th Percentile - £37.68 £46.58
25th Percentile £45.46 £61.11 £61.25
Median hourly rate £62.00 £74.72 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.02% +14.95% -0.76%
75th Percentile £77.13 £80.75 £73.80
90th Percentile £88.20 £89.00 £84.77
UK median hourly rate £63.50 £74.44 £65.00
% change year-on-year -14.70% +14.52% -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 30,978 22,606 33,028
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.03% 90.35% 87.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,831 14,326 21,880
10th Percentile £313 £308 £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 £617 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,924 770 2,093
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £13.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +2.94% -5.56%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £59.50
90th Percentile £73.43 £75.28 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £27.72 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year -14.71% -1.52% -5.71%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 2,001 £540 -8.09% 585
North of England +5 729 £500 -4.76% 432
South East 0 426 £525 -8.70% 518
Midlands +11 414 £500 +1.01% 196
Yorkshire +1 382 £500 -3.61% 146
West Midlands +14 331 £515 +3.00% 105
North West +3 297 £492 -6.29% 230
South West +11 259 £525 -12.50% 224
East of England +17 114 £588 +17.50% 177
East Midlands +5 82 £434 -8.68% 88
North East -2 53 £488 -7.14% 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
1 250 (6.26%) Confluence
2 96 (2.40%) Apache Spark
3 84 (2.10%) Apache
4 81 (2.03%) SAS
5 80 (2.00%) SharePoint
6 58 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
7 31 (0.78%) OpenStack
8 29 (0.73%) CMS
8 29 (0.73%) nginx
9 20 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
10 17 (0.43%) IIS
11 13 (0.33%) JBoss
11 13 (0.33%) WebLogic
12 12 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 12 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
13 11 (0.28%) Mendix
14 10 (0.25%) HCL Notes
15 8 (0.20%) GeoServer
15 8 (0.20%) Smallworld
15 8 (0.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 85 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 38 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
4 26 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
5 22 (0.55%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.28%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.20%) Weka
8 4 (0.10%) Trello
9 2 (0.050%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.025%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.025%) InDesign
10 1 (0.025%) Maya
10 1 (0.025%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.025%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 62 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.25%) Endur
3 10 (0.25%) Maximo
4 9 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.20%) Aladdin
5 8 (0.20%) NEC Housing
6 7 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
7 6 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.15%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.075%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.075%) SAP BPC
10 3 (0.075%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.075%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.075%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.075%) VisionPLUS
10 3 (0.075%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2,035 (50.94%) Azure
2 1,393 (34.87%) AWS
3 1,101 (27.56%) Azure DevOps
4 725 (18.15%) GitHub
5 595 (14.89%) GCP
6 439 (10.99%) Serverless
7 385 (9.64%) GitHub Actions
8 329 (8.24%) Power Platform
9 221 (5.53%) Amazon S3
10 208 (5.21%) AWS CloudFormation
10 208 (5.21%) AWS Lambda
11 196 (4.91%) Azure Data Factory
12 184 (4.61%) OpenShift
13 180 (4.51%) Entra ID
14 177 (4.43%) Azure AKS
15 162 (4.06%) Amazon EKS
16 149 (3.73%) Dynamics 365
17 148 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
18 142 (3.55%) SaaS
19 131 (3.28%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 192 (4.81%) Firewall
2 107 (2.68%) DNS
3 83 (2.08%) Network Security
3 83 (2.08%) VPN
4 52 (1.30%) TCP/IP
5 32 (0.80%) SSL
6 25 (0.63%) HTTP
7 20 (0.50%) WAN
8 17 (0.43%) DHCP
8 17 (0.43%) SD-WAN
9 16 (0.40%) HTTPS
10 15 (0.38%) Kerberos
11 12 (0.30%) MPLS
11 12 (0.30%) SAN
12 11 (0.28%) BGP
12 11 (0.28%) Reverse Proxy
13 9 (0.23%) Internet
13 9 (0.23%) IPsec
14 8 (0.20%) LAN
14 8 (0.20%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 230 (5.76%) PostgreSQL
2 213 (5.33%) Power BI
3 162 (4.06%) SQL Server
4 154 (3.85%) NoSQL
5 124 (3.10%) Data Lake
6 102 (2.55%) Relational Database
7 99 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
8 95 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
9 94 (2.35%) MongoDB
10 78 (1.95%) Azure SQL Database
11 75 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
12 72 (1.80%) Oracle Database
13 65 (1.63%) DynamoDB
14 58 (1.45%) Delta Lake
15 54 (1.35%) Redis
16 51 (1.28%) MySQL
17 49 (1.23%) Tableau
18 47 (1.18%) Metadata
19 42 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
19 42 (1.05%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 692 (17.32%) Jenkins
2 553 (13.84%) Git
3 537 (13.44%) JIRA
4 494 (12.37%) GitLab
5 119 (2.98%) Selenium
6 93 (2.33%) JUnit
7 77 (1.93%) Postman
8 66 (1.65%) Bitbucket
9 62 (1.55%) SonarQube
10 55 (1.38%) Cucumber
11 51 (1.28%) Maven
12 49 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
13 46 (1.15%) Cypress.io
14 45 (1.13%) Artifactory
15 42 (1.05%) REST Assured
16 35 (0.88%) Oracle APEX
17 33 (0.83%) JMeter
18 31 (0.78%) Liquibase
19 30 (0.75%) Gradle
20 28 (0.70%) CircleCI
General
1 1,199 (30.01%) Social Skills
2 754 (18.87%) Finance
3 487 (12.19%) Public Sector
4 350 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
5 319 (7.98%) Banking
6 145 (3.63%) Documentation Skills
7 74 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
8 66 (1.65%) Financial Institution
9 52 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 52 (1.30%) Retail
10 51 (1.28%) Marketing
11 46 (1.15%) Front Office
12 43 (1.08%) Investment Banking
13 42 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
14 38 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
15 37 (0.93%) Telecoms
16 32 (0.80%) Military
17 27 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
18 26 (0.65%) Legal
19 24 (0.60%) Law
Job Titles
1 741 (18.55%) DevOps Engineer
2 639 (15.99%) Developer
3 554 (13.87%) Senior
4 422 (10.56%) Architect
5 328 (8.21%) Lead
6 245 (6.13%) Azure Engineer
7 234 (5.86%) Data Engineer
8 227 (5.68%) Analyst
9 207 (5.18%) AWS Engineer
10 162 (4.06%) Cloud Engineer
11 158 (3.95%) AWS DevOps
12 147 (3.68%) Software Engineer
13 138 (3.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 138 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
14 128 (3.20%) Solutions Architect
15 123 (3.08%) Business Analyst
16 119 (2.98%) Senior Developer
17 116 (2.90%) Senior DevOps
18 108 (2.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 104 (2.60%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 435 (10.89%) REST
2 324 (8.11%) .NET
3 258 (6.46%) React
4 257 (6.43%) Node.js
5 223 (5.58%) Kafka
6 213 (5.33%) Spring
7 199 (4.98%) RESTful
8 194 (4.86%) Spring Boot
9 151 (3.78%) AngularJS
10 147 (3.68%) JSON
11 129 (3.23%) HTML
12 126 (3.15%) YAML
13 118 (2.95%) OAuth
14 114 (2.85%) Elastic Stack
14 114 (2.85%) Playwright
15 108 (2.70%) XML
16 107 (2.68%) SOAP
17 105 (2.63%) PySpark
18 100 (2.50%) Middleware
19 98 (2.45%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 579 (14.49%) Cloud Native
2 213 (5.33%) Product Ownership
3 140 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
4 108 (2.70%) Onboarding
5 105 (2.63%) Public Cloud
6 83 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
7 78 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
8 68 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
9 54 (1.35%) Management Information System
10 50 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
10 50 (1.25%) Security Posture
11 46 (1.15%) Virtual Team
12 44 (1.10%) Private Cloud
13 36 (0.90%) Data Centre
14 35 (0.88%) NHS
14 35 (0.88%) Replication
15 34 (0.85%) Data Structures
16 33 (0.83%) AI Agents
16 33 (0.83%) Mobile App
17 31 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 430 (10.76%) Linux
2 211 (5.28%) Windows
3 83 (2.08%) Unix
4 59 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 39 (0.98%) VMS
6 36 (0.90%) Windows Server
7 24 (0.60%) Ubuntu
8 17 (0.43%) CentOS
9 12 (0.30%) Android
10 11 (0.28%) Apple iOS
10 11 (0.28%) Windows 10
11 9 (0.23%) Solaris
12 7 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
13 6 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.075%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.050%) Debian
16 2 (0.050%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.050%) zOS
17 1 (0.025%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,299 (57.55%) CI/CD
2 1,560 (39.05%) Agile
3 1,013 (25.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 772 (19.32%) Problem-Solving
5 742 (18.57%) Containerisation
6 601 (15.04%) Test Automation
7 581 (14.54%) Microservices
8 509 (12.74%) Analytics
9 506 (12.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 468 (11.71%) Migration
11 446 (11.16%) Scrum
12 434 (10.86%) AI
13 428 (10.71%) Observability
14 412 (10.31%) Stakeholder Management
15 374 (9.36%) Software Engineering
16 361 (9.04%) Data Modelling
17 340 (8.51%) Mentoring
18 292 (7.31%) Data Pipeline
19 287 (7.18%) Business Intelligence
20 279 (6.98%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,219 (30.51%) Python
2 845 (21.15%) SQL
3 523 (13.09%) Java
4 387 (9.69%) C#
5 385 (9.64%) JavaScript
6 319 (7.98%) PowerShell
7 316 (7.91%) Bash
8 269 (6.73%) TypeScript
9 129 (3.23%) Go
10 127 (3.18%) Bicep
11 79 (1.98%) PL/SQL
12 60 (1.50%) Scala
13 45 (1.13%) Shell Script
14 44 (1.10%) T-SQL
15 40 (1.00%) C++
16 39 (0.98%) Ruby
17 37 (0.93%) Groovy
18 27 (0.68%) Rust
19 21 (0.53%) Perl
19 21 (0.53%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,286 (32.19%) Security Cleared
2 1,048 (26.23%) SC Cleared
3 337 (8.44%) Degree
4 192 (4.81%) Azure Certification
5 177 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 140 (3.50%) DV Cleared
7 127 (3.18%) AWS Certification
8 87 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
9 77 (1.93%) Master's Degree
10 74 (1.85%) CISSP
11 56 (1.40%) CISM
12 54 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
13 44 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 44 (1.10%) ISTQB
14 35 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
15 34 (0.85%) PMI Certification
16 28 (0.70%) PMP
17 26 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 23 (0.58%) IIBA
19 21 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 350 (8.76%) QA
2 162 (4.06%) Data Quality
3 161 (4.03%) GDPR
4 120 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 112 (2.80%) NIST
6 89 (2.23%) Accessibility
7 66 (1.65%) NCSC
8 33 (0.83%) PCI DSS
9 31 (0.78%) WCAG
10 25 (0.63%) SLA
11 24 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 21 (0.53%) HIPAA
12 21 (0.53%) PMO
13 16 (0.40%) SOC 2
14 15 (0.38%) ISO 20022
15 13 (0.33%) PSD2
16 11 (0.28%) NIST 800
17 10 (0.25%) SEPA
18 8 (0.20%) GRC
18 8 (0.20%) HL7
System Software
1 947 (23.70%) Docker
2 162 (4.06%) Active Directory
3 73 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
4 68 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
5 41 (1.03%) vSphere
6 24 (0.60%) VMware NSX
7 14 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.28%) Lustre
8 11 (0.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 10 (0.25%) Squid
10 9 (0.23%) GPFS
11 8 (0.20%) Postfix
11 8 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
12 7 (0.18%) Firmware
12 7 (0.18%) Hyper-V
13 6 (0.15%) HDFS
13 6 (0.15%) NFS
14 5 (0.13%) DFS Replication
14 5 (0.13%) RACF
14 5 (0.13%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 1,187 (29.71%) Terraform
2 1,139 (28.51%) Kubernetes
3 460 (11.51%) Ansible
4 277 (6.93%) Grafana
5 236 (5.91%) Prometheus
6 88 (2.20%) Argo
7 71 (1.78%) Puppet
8 60 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
9 44 (1.10%) Istio
10 31 (0.78%) Kibana
11 30 (0.75%) Packer
11 30 (0.75%) Progress Chef
12 23 (0.58%) vCenter Server
13 20 (0.50%) Podman
14 18 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 17 (0.43%) Consul
15 17 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
15 17 (0.43%) Rancher
16 16 (0.40%) FortiGate
17 14 (0.35%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 685 (17.15%) Microsoft
2 279 (6.98%) Oracle
3 245 (6.13%) Databricks
4 231 (5.78%) Google
5 199 (4.98%) Splunk
6 144 (3.60%) ServiceNow
7 136 (3.40%) Red Hat
8 116 (2.90%) VMware
9 101 (2.53%) Salesforce
10 95 (2.38%) SAP
11 69 (1.73%) OpenAI
12 58 (1.45%) Dynatrace
13 57 (1.43%) Atlassian
14 55 (1.38%) CyberArk
15 42 (1.05%) Talend
16 39 (0.98%) IBM
17 38 (0.95%) Denodo
18 36 (0.90%) F5
19 33 (0.83%) Foundry
20 30 (0.75%) Palo Alto