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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 15 17
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 -5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,226 2,577 3,319
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.13% 10.62% 8.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.91% 11.70% 10.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,948 1,899 2,339
10th Percentile £385 £400 £406
25th Percentile £438 £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 £719 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.91% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 19 87
10th Percentile £39.53 £36.85 £55.60
25th Percentile £45.46 £57.82 £61.25
Median hourly rate £63.73 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.96% +7.69% -0.76%
75th Percentile £75.00 £80.75 £69.00
90th Percentile £91.38 £84.87 £85.65
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 32,731 22,028 32,675
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.21% 90.81% 86.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,968 14,519 21,584
10th Percentile £313 £313 £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 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,997 852 2,159
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £20.30 £16.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £32.66 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.24% -1.05% -12.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.10 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -9.72%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -2 2,134 £550 -4.35% 512
North of England +6 768 £500 -4.76% 306
South East 0 441 £525 -6.25% 307
Midlands +9 414 £496 +0.25% 142
Yorkshire 0 407 £500 -4.76% 86
West Midlands +7 323 £500 +0.50% 98
North West +5 308 £488 -7.13% 159
South West +15 285 £500 -16.67% 165
East of England +19 119 £568 +14.07% 92
East Midlands +2 89 £447 -5.89% 44
North East +6 57 £475 -9.52% 63
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
1 269 (6.37%) Confluence
2 111 (2.63%) Apache Spark
3 89 (2.11%) SharePoint
4 86 (2.04%) Apache
5 82 (1.94%) SAS
6 62 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
7 32 (0.76%) CMS
8 30 (0.71%) OpenStack
9 28 (0.66%) nginx
10 22 (0.52%) IIS
10 22 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
11 12 (0.28%) Mendix
11 12 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
12 11 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 11 (0.26%) HCL Notes
13 9 (0.21%) Camunda
14 7 (0.17%) ArcGIS
14 7 (0.17%) WebLogic
14 7 (0.17%) WebSphere
15 6 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 81 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 50 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
4 28 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
5 22 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.21%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.19%) Weka
8 5 (0.12%) Trello
9 2 (0.047%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.047%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.047%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.024%) InDesign
10 1 (0.024%) Maya
Business Applications
1 66 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.24%) Maximo
3 10 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
4 9 (0.21%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.21%) NEC Housing
5 7 (0.17%) Endur
6 6 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
6 6 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.14%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.095%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.095%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.071%) Findur
8 3 (0.071%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.071%) SAP BPC
8 3 (0.071%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.071%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.071%) SAP FI/CO
8 3 (0.071%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 2,244 (53.10%) Azure
2 1,424 (33.70%) AWS
3 1,247 (29.51%) Azure DevOps
4 774 (18.32%) GitHub
5 594 (14.06%) GCP
6 460 (10.88%) Serverless
7 418 (9.89%) GitHub Actions
8 352 (8.33%) Power Platform
9 227 (5.37%) Amazon S3
10 221 (5.23%) AWS CloudFormation
11 217 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
12 211 (4.99%) Azure Data Factory
13 208 (4.92%) Entra ID
14 182 (4.31%) OpenShift
15 180 (4.26%) Azure AKS
16 166 (3.93%) Azure Monitor
17 162 (3.83%) Amazon EKS
18 150 (3.55%) Dynamics 365
19 133 (3.15%) SaaS
20 132 (3.12%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 194 (4.59%) Firewall
2 109 (2.58%) DNS
3 87 (2.06%) Network Security
4 83 (1.96%) VPN
5 43 (1.02%) TCP/IP
6 31 (0.73%) WAN
7 29 (0.69%) SD-WAN
8 23 (0.54%) SSL
9 22 (0.52%) HTTP
10 20 (0.47%) DHCP
11 17 (0.40%) BGP
11 17 (0.40%) MPLS
12 14 (0.33%) IPsec
12 14 (0.33%) SAN
13 11 (0.26%) 5G
13 11 (0.26%) Internet
13 11 (0.26%) LAN
13 11 (0.26%) OpenVPN
13 11 (0.26%) Reverse Proxy
14 10 (0.24%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 237 (5.61%) PostgreSQL
2 224 (5.30%) Power BI
3 192 (4.54%) SQL Server
4 175 (4.14%) NoSQL
5 147 (3.48%) Data Lake
6 119 (2.82%) Relational Database
7 106 (2.51%) Data Warehouse
8 96 (2.27%) MongoDB
9 93 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
9 93 (2.20%) Azure SQL Database
10 71 (1.68%) Delta Lake
11 69 (1.63%) DynamoDB
12 68 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
12 68 (1.61%) Oracle Database
13 61 (1.44%) Metadata
14 54 (1.28%) Redis
14 54 (1.28%) Tableau
15 53 (1.25%) Big Data
16 45 (1.06%) BigQuery
16 45 (1.06%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 690 (16.33%) Jenkins
2 566 (13.39%) JIRA
3 554 (13.11%) Git
4 471 (11.15%) GitLab
5 109 (2.58%) Selenium
6 95 (2.25%) JUnit
7 77 (1.82%) Postman
8 71 (1.68%) Bitbucket
9 66 (1.56%) SonarQube
10 54 (1.28%) Cucumber
11 51 (1.21%) Artifactory
12 50 (1.18%) Maven
13 45 (1.06%) REST Assured
14 41 (0.97%) Cypress.io
15 36 (0.85%) JMeter
15 36 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
16 33 (0.78%) Oracle APEX
17 31 (0.73%) Mockito
18 30 (0.71%) Liquibase
19 27 (0.64%) MLflow
General
1 1,219 (28.85%) Social Skills
2 818 (19.36%) Finance
3 518 (12.26%) Public Sector
4 376 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
5 331 (7.83%) Banking
6 148 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
7 70 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
8 65 (1.54%) Financial Institution
9 58 (1.37%) Retail
10 57 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 51 (1.21%) Marketing
12 50 (1.18%) Front Office
13 48 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
14 47 (1.11%) Investment Banking
15 42 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
16 38 (0.90%) Telecoms
17 33 (0.78%) Legal
18 27 (0.64%) Military
19 22 (0.52%) Law
20 21 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 750 (17.75%) DevOps Engineer
2 650 (15.38%) Developer
3 584 (13.82%) Senior
4 471 (11.15%) Architect
5 360 (8.52%) Lead
6 269 (6.37%) Azure Engineer
7 266 (6.29%) Data Engineer
8 237 (5.61%) Analyst
9 196 (4.64%) AWS Engineer
10 161 (3.81%) Cloud Engineer
11 153 (3.62%) Platform Engineer
12 148 (3.50%) AWS DevOps
13 145 (3.43%) Software Engineer
14 140 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
15 125 (2.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 125 (2.96%) Senior Developer
16 123 (2.91%) Business Analyst
17 121 (2.86%) Senior DevOps
18 115 (2.72%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 111 (2.63%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 457 (10.81%) REST
2 348 (8.23%) .NET
3 262 (6.20%) Kafka
4 251 (5.94%) Node.js
5 249 (5.89%) React
6 231 (5.47%) Spring
7 215 (5.09%) Spring Boot
8 202 (4.78%) RESTful
9 159 (3.76%) AngularJS
10 149 (3.53%) JSON
11 141 (3.34%) YAML
12 121 (2.86%) Playwright
13 118 (2.79%) PySpark
14 117 (2.77%) HTML
15 115 (2.72%) OAuth
16 109 (2.58%) Elastic Stack
17 107 (2.53%) SOAP
18 106 (2.51%) Middleware
19 98 (2.32%) XML
20 95 (2.25%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 604 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 247 (5.84%) Product Ownership
3 159 (3.76%) Distributed Systems
4 109 (2.58%) Onboarding
5 105 (2.48%) Public Cloud
6 92 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
7 88 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
8 81 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
9 63 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
10 53 (1.25%) Management Information System
11 51 (1.21%) Virtual Team
12 41 (0.97%) Private Cloud
12 41 (0.97%) Security Posture
13 40 (0.95%) Data Structures
14 39 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
15 37 (0.88%) Data Centre
16 36 (0.85%) AI Agents
17 33 (0.78%) Replication
18 32 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
18 32 (0.76%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 423 (10.01%) Linux
2 227 (5.37%) Windows
3 75 (1.77%) Unix
4 60 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 42 (0.99%) VMS
6 39 (0.92%) Windows Server
7 22 (0.52%) Ubuntu
8 14 (0.33%) CentOS
9 9 (0.21%) Windows 10
10 7 (0.17%) Android
10 7 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
11 6 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.12%) Apple iOS
13 4 (0.095%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.071%) Oracle Linux
14 3 (0.071%) Solaris
14 3 (0.071%) zOS
15 2 (0.047%) Debian
15 2 (0.047%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 2 (0.047%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,377 (56.25%) CI/CD
2 1,628 (38.52%) Agile
3 1,050 (24.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 782 (18.50%) Problem-Solving
5 750 (17.75%) Containerisation
6 628 (14.86%) Test Automation
7 627 (14.84%) Microservices
8 551 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
9 532 (12.59%) Analytics
10 489 (11.57%) Migration
11 473 (11.19%) Scrum
12 465 (11.00%) Observability
13 464 (10.98%) Stakeholder Management
14 459 (10.86%) AI
15 398 (9.42%) Software Engineering
16 381 (9.02%) Data Modelling
17 354 (8.38%) Mentoring
18 335 (7.93%) Data Pipeline
19 314 (7.43%) Platform Engineering
20 306 (7.24%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1,283 (30.36%) Python
2 914 (21.63%) SQL
3 551 (13.04%) Java
4 420 (9.94%) C#
5 368 (8.71%) JavaScript
6 337 (7.97%) PowerShell
7 319 (7.55%) Bash
8 257 (6.08%) TypeScript
9 140 (3.31%) Bicep
10 120 (2.84%) Go
11 79 (1.87%) PL/SQL
12 64 (1.51%) Scala
13 47 (1.11%) Shell Script
14 44 (1.04%) T-SQL
15 41 (0.97%) Groovy
16 39 (0.92%) C++
17 30 (0.71%) Ruby
18 29 (0.69%) Apex Code
19 26 (0.62%) Rust
20 21 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1,349 (31.92%) Security Cleared
2 1,094 (25.89%) SC Cleared
3 327 (7.74%) Degree
4 191 (4.52%) Azure Certification
5 168 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 142 (3.36%) DV Cleared
7 117 (2.77%) AWS Certification
8 96 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
9 79 (1.87%) CISSP
10 67 (1.59%) Master's Degree
11 58 (1.37%) CISM
12 48 (1.14%) ISTQB
12 48 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
13 45 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 40 (0.95%) PMI Certification
15 34 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
15 34 (0.80%) PMP
16 25 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 22 (0.52%) IIBA
18 20 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 378 (8.94%) QA
2 186 (4.40%) Data Quality
3 169 (4.00%) GDPR
4 137 (3.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 122 (2.89%) NIST
6 87 (2.06%) Accessibility
7 69 (1.63%) NCSC
8 37 (0.88%) PCI DSS
9 35 (0.83%) WCAG
10 29 (0.69%) PMO
10 29 (0.69%) SLA
11 28 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 17 (0.40%) HIPAA
13 15 (0.35%) ISO 20022
14 14 (0.33%) NIST 800
15 13 (0.31%) PSD2
15 13 (0.31%) SOC 2
16 11 (0.26%) GRC
16 11 (0.26%) SEPA
17 9 (0.21%) HL7
System Software
1 941 (22.27%) Docker
2 169 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 70 (1.66%) Virtual Machines
4 69 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 45 (1.06%) vSphere
6 30 (0.71%) VMware NSX
7 15 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.26%) Hyper-V
8 11 (0.26%) Lustre
8 11 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 11 (0.26%) Squid
9 9 (0.21%) GPFS
10 8 (0.19%) Firmware
10 8 (0.19%) Postfix
11 6 (0.14%) HDFS
11 6 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
12 5 (0.12%) KVM
12 5 (0.12%) RACF
13 4 (0.095%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
13 4 (0.095%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1,214 (28.73%) Terraform
2 1,164 (27.54%) Kubernetes
3 468 (11.07%) Ansible
4 289 (6.84%) Grafana
5 244 (5.77%) Prometheus
6 91 (2.15%) Argo
7 69 (1.63%) Puppet
8 66 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
9 49 (1.16%) Istio
10 30 (0.71%) Packer
11 28 (0.66%) Progress Chef
11 28 (0.66%) vCenter Server
12 23 (0.54%) Kibana
13 20 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 20 (0.47%) Rancher
14 17 (0.40%) Consul
14 17 (0.40%) FortiGate
14 17 (0.40%) Podman
15 16 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
16 14 (0.33%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 740 (17.51%) Microsoft
2 288 (6.81%) Oracle
3 259 (6.13%) Databricks
4 218 (5.16%) Google
5 189 (4.47%) Splunk
6 147 (3.48%) ServiceNow
7 137 (3.24%) Red Hat
8 118 (2.79%) VMware
9 110 (2.60%) Salesforce
10 95 (2.25%) SAP
11 72 (1.70%) OpenAI
12 68 (1.61%) Atlassian
12 68 (1.61%) Dynatrace
13 61 (1.44%) CyberArk
14 41 (0.97%) Talend
15 37 (0.88%) IBM
16 36 (0.85%) Denodo
17 33 (0.78%) Foundry
18 29 (0.69%) Cisco
18 29 (0.69%) Pure Storage