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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 16 15
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,759 2,744 3,508
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.63% 10.09% 9.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.44% 11.12% 11.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,289 1,982 2,402
10th Percentile £390 £363 £400
25th Percentile £447 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £703 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 19 105
10th Percentile £37.55 £41.00 £56.56
25th Percentile £61.56 £52.13 £61.60
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.75% -4.29% +6.87%
75th Percentile £78.25 £77.25 £78.75
90th Percentile £94.81 £89.50 £87.28
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% +6.87%

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 38,249 24,669 31,010
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.41% 90.67% 85.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,059 15,837 20,183
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,360 1,307 2,114
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.26 £13.18
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £16.30
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -8.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £53.75 £63.67
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.33 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.88%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 17 July 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 +2 2,447 £550 - 454
North of England +5 861 £500 +2.04% 228
South East -10 456 £525 +5.00% 237
Yorkshire +2 454 £500 - 53
Midlands +2 446 £492 -0.61% 124
West Midlands -3 356 £500 - 91
North West -3 330 £523 +10.11% 128
South West +15 313 £525 -4.11% 116
East of England +25 147 £525 +5.00% 50
North East +13 96 £425 -18.66% 49
East Midlands -2 85 £488 +5.41% 33
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
1 278 (5.84%) Confluence
2 122 (2.56%) Apache Spark
3 119 (2.50%) SharePoint
4 102 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
5 94 (1.98%) Apache
6 67 (1.41%) SAS
7 48 (1.01%) CMS
8 31 (0.65%) IIS
8 31 (0.65%) Jupyter
9 29 (0.61%) nginx
10 24 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
11 15 (0.32%) Camunda
12 14 (0.29%) WebSphere
13 13 (0.27%) OpenStack
13 13 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
14 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
15 9 (0.19%) Appian
15 9 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
16 7 (0.15%) Tomcat
17 6 (0.13%) Documentum
Applications
1 66 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (1.24%) Microsoft Project
3 38 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
3 38 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (0.71%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.21%) CPLEX
6 9 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.13%) Trello
9 4 (0.084%) Notion
10 2 (0.042%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.021%) InDesign
11 1 (0.021%) Maya
11 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 64 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.21%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.19%) Magento
4 9 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
4 9 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
6 7 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.13%) Maximo
7 6 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.11%) Endur
8 5 (0.11%) OpenText MBPM
8 5 (0.11%) Oracle BPM
8 5 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.084%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.063%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.063%) SAP BPC
10 3 (0.063%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.063%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 3 (0.063%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2,540 (53.37%) Azure
2 1,663 (34.94%) AWS
3 1,429 (30.03%) Azure DevOps
4 773 (16.24%) GitHub
5 577 (12.12%) GCP
6 474 (9.96%) GitHub Actions
7 400 (8.41%) Power Platform
8 393 (8.26%) Serverless
9 264 (5.55%) Amazon S3
10 230 (4.83%) AWS Lambda
11 218 (4.58%) Entra ID
12 180 (3.78%) AWS CloudFormation
12 180 (3.78%) Azure AKS
13 168 (3.53%) Amazon EKS
14 164 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
15 160 (3.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 160 (3.36%) Amazon EC2
16 152 (3.19%) Azure Monitor
17 148 (3.11%) OpenShift
18 147 (3.09%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 219 (4.60%) Firewall
2 129 (2.71%) DNS
3 103 (2.16%) VPN
4 102 (2.14%) Network Security
5 49 (1.03%) TCP/IP
5 49 (1.03%) WAN
6 35 (0.74%) SD-WAN
6 35 (0.74%) SSL
7 32 (0.67%) BGP
8 29 (0.61%) Internet
9 27 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
10 24 (0.50%) DHCP
10 24 (0.50%) OSPF
11 21 (0.44%) HTTP
12 19 (0.40%) SAN
13 18 (0.38%) LAN
14 17 (0.36%) MPLS
14 17 (0.36%) VXLAN
15 16 (0.34%) BIG-IP
15 16 (0.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 270 (5.67%) Power BI
2 247 (5.19%) SQL Server
3 221 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
4 158 (3.32%) NoSQL
5 155 (3.26%) Relational Database
6 150 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
7 140 (2.94%) Data Lake
8 135 (2.84%) MongoDB
9 100 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
10 84 (1.77%) Azure SQL Database
11 82 (1.72%) Metadata
12 81 (1.70%) DynamoDB
13 77 (1.62%) Delta Lake
13 77 (1.62%) Oracle Database
14 57 (1.20%) Big Data
15 56 (1.18%) Redis
16 54 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
17 52 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
18 51 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
19 43 (0.90%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 666 (13.99%) Jenkins
2 620 (13.03%) Git
3 567 (11.91%) JIRA
4 481 (10.11%) GitLab
5 109 (2.29%) Selenium
6 88 (1.85%) Postman
7 87 (1.83%) SonarQube
8 84 (1.77%) JUnit
9 68 (1.43%) Maven
10 66 (1.39%) Bitbucket
11 65 (1.37%) REST Assured
12 52 (1.09%) Cucumber
13 49 (1.03%) Cypress.io
14 47 (0.99%) JMeter
15 42 (0.88%) Gatling
15 42 (0.88%) Gradle
16 38 (0.80%) Mockito
17 34 (0.71%) Artifactory
18 31 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
19 30 (0.63%) LoadRunner
General
1 1,201 (25.24%) Social Skills
2 913 (19.18%) Finance
3 641 (13.47%) Public Sector
4 426 (8.95%) Analytical Skills
5 321 (6.75%) Banking
6 121 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
7 101 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 84 (1.77%) Retail
9 71 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
10 57 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
11 54 (1.13%) Marketing
12 53 (1.11%) Legal
13 42 (0.88%) Military
14 40 (0.84%) Investment Banking
15 38 (0.80%) Law
16 36 (0.76%) Financial Institution
17 34 (0.71%) Telecoms
18 32 (0.67%) Front Office
19 31 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
20 29 (0.61%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 912 (19.16%) DevOps Engineer
2 754 (15.84%) Developer
3 665 (13.97%) Senior
4 562 (11.81%) Architect
5 454 (9.54%) Lead
6 294 (6.18%) Azure Engineer
7 280 (5.88%) Data Engineer
8 264 (5.55%) Analyst
9 210 (4.41%) AWS Engineer
10 190 (3.99%) Platform Engineer
11 178 (3.74%) Cloud Engineer
12 172 (3.61%) Solutions Architect
13 165 (3.47%) Senior DevOps
14 154 (3.24%) Java Developer
15 152 (3.19%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 151 (3.17%) AWS DevOps
16 151 (3.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 138 (2.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 137 (2.88%) Business Analyst
19 132 (2.77%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 457 (9.60%) REST
2 410 (8.62%) .NET
3 272 (5.72%) Kafka
4 263 (5.53%) Spring
5 260 (5.46%) React
6 244 (5.13%) Spring Boot
7 240 (5.04%) RESTful
8 193 (4.06%) Node.js
9 141 (2.96%) AngularJS
10 136 (2.86%) PySpark
11 135 (2.84%) Playwright
12 134 (2.82%) JSON
13 133 (2.79%) OAuth
14 121 (2.54%) .NET Framework
15 118 (2.48%) SOAP
16 113 (2.37%) HTML
17 97 (2.04%) CSS
17 97 (2.04%) YAML
18 93 (1.95%) OAuth2
19 86 (1.81%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 835 (17.55%) Cloud Native
2 320 (6.72%) Product Ownership
3 213 (4.48%) Distributed Systems
4 145 (3.05%) Onboarding
5 133 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
6 124 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
7 106 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
8 75 (1.58%) Public Cloud
9 74 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
10 66 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
11 64 (1.34%) Security Posture
12 63 (1.32%) Data Centre
13 58 (1.22%) Management Information System
14 56 (1.18%) Data Structures
15 54 (1.13%) AI Agents
16 52 (1.09%) Mobile App
17 51 (1.07%) Replication
18 47 (0.99%) Virtual Team
19 44 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
20 35 (0.74%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 403 (8.47%) Linux
2 250 (5.25%) Windows
3 91 (1.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 66 (1.39%) Unix
5 57 (1.20%) Windows Server
6 27 (0.57%) Ubuntu
7 25 (0.53%) Apple iOS
7 25 (0.53%) VMS
8 17 (0.36%) Android
9 10 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
10 9 (0.19%) Solaris
11 7 (0.15%) CentOS
11 7 (0.15%) zOS
12 6 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
12 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
12 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (0.11%) AIX
13 5 (0.11%) Mac OS
14 4 (0.084%) Data ONTAP
14 4 (0.084%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,721 (57.18%) CI/CD
2 1,871 (39.31%) Agile
3 1,250 (26.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 760 (15.97%) Containerisation
5 738 (15.51%) Problem-Solving
6 703 (14.77%) Continuous Improvement
7 692 (14.54%) Test Automation
8 691 (14.52%) Microservices
9 642 (13.49%) Stakeholder Management
10 629 (13.22%) AI
11 584 (12.27%) Scrum
12 581 (12.21%) Observability
13 575 (12.08%) Migration
14 544 (11.43%) Software Engineering
15 528 (11.09%) Platform Engineering
16 509 (10.70%) Analytics
17 414 (8.70%) Technical Leadership
18 412 (8.66%) Data Modelling
19 408 (8.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 404 (8.49%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,325 (27.84%) Python
2 895 (18.81%) SQL
3 670 (14.08%) Java
4 431 (9.06%) C#
5 366 (7.69%) Bash
6 356 (7.48%) PowerShell
7 354 (7.44%) JavaScript
8 256 (5.38%) TypeScript
9 155 (3.26%) Bicep
10 94 (1.98%) Go
11 58 (1.22%) PL/SQL
12 56 (1.18%) Scala
12 56 (1.18%) T-SQL
13 55 (1.16%) Shell Script
14 51 (1.07%) Apex Code
15 47 (0.99%) Groovy
16 26 (0.55%) C++
16 26 (0.55%) Kotlin
17 22 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 21 (0.44%) C
Qualifications
1 1,520 (31.94%) Security Cleared
2 1,266 (26.60%) SC Cleared
3 298 (6.26%) Degree
4 188 (3.95%) Azure Certification
5 172 (3.61%) DV Cleared
6 159 (3.34%) AWS Certification
7 121 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
8 111 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
9 71 (1.49%) CISSP
10 70 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
11 52 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
12 47 (0.99%) ISTQB
13 43 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 39 (0.82%) Master's Degree
15 38 (0.80%) PMP
16 36 (0.76%) PMI Certification
17 32 (0.67%) CISM
18 25 (0.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 24 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
20 22 (0.46%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 427 (8.97%) QA
2 218 (4.58%) Data Quality
3 150 (3.15%) Accessibility
4 143 (3.00%) GDPR
5 94 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 91 (1.91%) NIST
7 69 (1.45%) WCAG
8 58 (1.22%) NCSC
9 39 (0.82%) PCI DSS
10 36 (0.76%) PMO
11 31 (0.65%) SLA
12 26 (0.55%) GRC
13 23 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 13 (0.27%) HIPAA
15 10 (0.21%) SOC 2
16 9 (0.19%) ISO 20022
16 9 (0.19%) PSD2
17 8 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
17 8 (0.17%) SEPA
18 7 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 916 (19.25%) Docker
2 160 (3.36%) Active Directory
3 72 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
4 66 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 28 (0.59%) vSphere
6 22 (0.46%) VMware NSX
7 19 (0.40%) Squid
8 18 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
9 16 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
10 14 (0.29%) Hyper-V
10 14 (0.29%) Postfix
11 9 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
12 8 (0.17%) KVM
13 7 (0.15%) IAG
14 6 (0.13%) Corosync
14 6 (0.13%) RACF
15 5 (0.11%) Firmware
15 5 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
15 5 (0.11%) NFS
15 5 (0.11%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 1,335 (28.05%) Terraform
2 1,188 (24.96%) Kubernetes
3 457 (9.60%) Ansible
4 316 (6.64%) Grafana
5 271 (5.69%) Prometheus
6 84 (1.77%) Argo
7 69 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
8 54 (1.13%) Puppet
9 35 (0.74%) Progress Chef
10 31 (0.65%) Packer
11 30 (0.63%) Istio
12 28 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
13 26 (0.55%) vCenter Server
14 19 (0.40%) Kibana
15 17 (0.36%) Consul
16 16 (0.34%) HP ALM
17 15 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 15 (0.32%) Kustomize
18 14 (0.29%) Kubeflow
19 12 (0.25%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 863 (18.13%) Microsoft
2 255 (5.36%) Oracle
3 236 (4.96%) Databricks
4 207 (4.35%) Google
5 182 (3.82%) ServiceNow
6 167 (3.51%) Splunk
7 147 (3.09%) Salesforce
8 115 (2.42%) Dynatrace
9 111 (2.33%) SAP
10 105 (2.21%) Red Hat
11 100 (2.10%) VMware
12 58 (1.22%) IBM
13 53 (1.11%) OpenAI
14 49 (1.03%) Atlassian
15 46 (0.97%) Informatica
16 44 (0.92%) CyberArk
17 42 (0.88%) Foundry
18 40 (0.84%) Cisco
19 33 (0.69%) AppDynamics
20 31 (0.65%) Okta