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

 6 months to
1 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 14 17
Rank change year-on-year +3 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing DevOps 3,772 2,785 3,289
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.47% 10.51% 8.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.07% 11.75% 9.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,642 1,918 2,413
10th Percentile £375 £400 £413
25th Percentile £438 £477 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £569
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +1.05% -5.17%
75th Percentile £618 £675 £675
90th Percentile £720 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -7.56% +2.23% -8.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 20 100
10th Percentile - £38.23 £46.18
25th Percentile £45.46 £53.73 £56.65
Median hourly rate £50.00 £67.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +3.85% -0.92%
75th Percentile £79.75 £80.75 £72.84
90th Percentile £95.00 £81.43 £81.44
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £70.36 £65.00
% change year-on-year -21.83% +8.25% -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 28,849 23,705 33,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.71% 89.48% 87.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,454 14,499 22,354
10th Percentile £305 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
75th Percentile £619 £643 £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 1,790 754 1,912
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% -3.47% +2.86%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £62.12
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +7.69%

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 1 February 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 1 February 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 1 February 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 1,889 £538 -10.42% 530
North of England +4 675 £500 -2.44% 277
South East +3 403 £525 -8.70% 349
Midlands +27 395 £515 +3.00% 114
Yorkshire 0 341 £500 -1.48% 92
West Midlands +26 318 £525 +2.54% 78
North West +6 287 £470 -9.31% 155
South West +6 243 £525 -12.50% 128
East of England +18 110 £575 +9.26% 63
East Midlands +16 77 £425 -12.82% 35
North East -6 49 £475 -15.93% 31
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
1 235 (6.23%) Confluence
2 81 (2.15%) Apache
3 80 (2.12%) SharePoint
4 77 (2.04%) Apache Spark
5 76 (2.01%) SAS
6 59 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
7 38 (1.01%) OpenStack
8 36 (0.95%) nginx
9 32 (0.85%) CMS
10 22 (0.58%) IIS
11 19 (0.50%) JBoss
11 19 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
12 11 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 11 (0.29%) WebLogic
13 10 (0.27%) CICS
13 10 (0.27%) HCL Notes
13 10 (0.27%) Mendix
13 10 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
13 10 (0.27%) WebSphere
14 9 (0.24%) iPlanet
Applications
1 90 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 32 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
4 29 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
5 18 (0.48%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.32%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.21%) Weka
8 7 (0.19%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 3 (0.080%) Trello
10 1 (0.027%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.027%) Revit
Business Applications
1 61 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.29%) Endur
4 10 (0.27%) Aladdin
5 9 (0.24%) Maximo
5 9 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
5 9 (0.24%) VisionPLUS
6 8 (0.21%) NEC Housing
7 5 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
7 5 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.11%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.080%) Oracle Assets
9 3 (0.080%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.080%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.080%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.080%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.080%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.080%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,919 (50.87%) Azure
2 1,314 (34.84%) AWS
3 1,032 (27.36%) Azure DevOps
4 694 (18.40%) GitHub
5 562 (14.90%) GCP
6 424 (11.24%) Serverless
7 376 (9.97%) GitHub Actions
8 307 (8.14%) Power Platform
9 207 (5.49%) AWS Lambda
10 202 (5.36%) AWS CloudFormation
11 198 (5.25%) Amazon S3
12 181 (4.80%) Azure Data Factory
13 167 (4.43%) Azure AKS
14 163 (4.32%) Entra ID
15 161 (4.27%) OpenShift
16 150 (3.98%) Dynamics 365
17 144 (3.82%) SaaS
18 141 (3.74%) Amazon EKS
19 137 (3.63%) Azure Monitor
20 130 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 180 (4.77%) Firewall
2 101 (2.68%) DNS
3 78 (2.07%) Network Security
4 74 (1.96%) VPN
5 50 (1.33%) TCP/IP
6 39 (1.03%) SSL
7 31 (0.82%) HTTP
8 28 (0.74%) HTTPS
9 22 (0.58%) WAN
10 19 (0.50%) DHCP
11 16 (0.42%) BGP
11 16 (0.42%) Kerberos
11 16 (0.42%) SD-WAN
12 15 (0.40%) MPLS
13 14 (0.37%) SSH
14 13 (0.34%) FTP
14 13 (0.34%) SMTP
15 12 (0.32%) LAN
16 10 (0.27%) Internet
17 9 (0.24%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 208 (5.51%) PostgreSQL
2 201 (5.33%) Power BI
3 143 (3.79%) SQL Server
4 142 (3.76%) NoSQL
5 109 (2.89%) Amazon RDS
6 108 (2.86%) Data Lake
7 96 (2.55%) Relational Database
8 85 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
9 84 (2.23%) MongoDB
10 78 (2.07%) Oracle Database
11 70 (1.86%) Azure SQL Database
12 68 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
13 54 (1.43%) DynamoDB
14 50 (1.33%) Redis
14 50 (1.33%) Tableau
15 48 (1.27%) MySQL
16 46 (1.22%) Metadata
17 45 (1.19%) Delta Lake
18 39 (1.03%) Pentaho
19 36 (0.95%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 660 (17.50%) Jenkins
2 534 (14.16%) JIRA
3 527 (13.97%) Git
4 480 (12.73%) GitLab
5 110 (2.92%) Selenium
6 83 (2.20%) JUnit
7 81 (2.15%) Postman
8 67 (1.78%) SonarQube
9 63 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
10 56 (1.48%) Bitbucket
11 48 (1.27%) Cypress.io
12 47 (1.25%) Artifactory
12 47 (1.25%) Cucumber
13 44 (1.17%) Maven
14 41 (1.09%) Gradle
15 36 (0.95%) Oracle APEX
15 36 (0.95%) REST Assured
16 33 (0.87%) CircleCI
17 32 (0.85%) Liquibase
18 31 (0.82%) JMeter
General
1 1,188 (31.50%) Social Skills
2 697 (18.48%) Finance
3 448 (11.88%) Public Sector
4 321 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
5 318 (8.43%) Banking
6 143 (3.79%) Documentation Skills
7 75 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
8 64 (1.70%) Financial Institution
9 59 (1.56%) Marketing
10 58 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 46 (1.22%) Front Office
11 46 (1.22%) Retail
12 44 (1.17%) Investment Banking
13 43 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
14 42 (1.11%) Telecoms
15 32 (0.85%) Military
16 27 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
17 26 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
18 25 (0.66%) Law
19 24 (0.64%) Legal
Job Titles
1 707 (18.74%) DevOps Engineer
2 638 (16.91%) Developer
3 504 (13.36%) Senior
4 367 (9.73%) Architect
5 288 (7.64%) Lead
6 225 (5.97%) Azure Engineer
7 205 (5.43%) AWS Engineer
8 202 (5.36%) Analyst
9 199 (5.28%) Data Engineer
10 155 (4.11%) AWS DevOps
11 141 (3.74%) Cloud Engineer
11 141 (3.74%) Software Engineer
12 135 (3.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 132 (3.50%) Platform Engineer
14 126 (3.34%) Senior Developer
15 117 (3.10%) Solutions Architect
16 115 (3.05%) Business Analyst
17 101 (2.68%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 101 (2.68%) Senior DevOps
18 94 (2.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 437 (11.59%) REST
2 305 (8.09%) .NET
3 248 (6.57%) React
4 241 (6.39%) Node.js
5 216 (5.73%) Kafka
6 201 (5.33%) RESTful
7 195 (5.17%) Spring
8 178 (4.72%) Spring Boot
9 165 (4.37%) JSON
10 125 (3.31%) XML
10 125 (3.31%) YAML
11 123 (3.26%) AngularJS
12 121 (3.21%) OAuth
13 120 (3.18%) Elastic Stack
14 116 (3.08%) HTML
14 116 (3.08%) SOAP
15 100 (2.65%) Playwright
16 94 (2.49%) Middleware
17 91 (2.41%) CSS
18 85 (2.25%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 534 (14.16%) Cloud Native
2 208 (5.51%) Product Ownership
3 137 (3.63%) Distributed Systems
4 106 (2.81%) Onboarding
5 103 (2.73%) Public Cloud
6 74 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
7 67 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
8 66 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
9 49 (1.30%) Management Information System
10 48 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
10 48 (1.27%) Virtual Team
11 46 (1.22%) Private Cloud
11 46 (1.22%) Security Posture
12 45 (1.19%) Replication
13 39 (1.03%) Data Centre
13 39 (1.03%) Mobile App
14 36 (0.95%) NHS
15 34 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
16 33 (0.87%) AI Agents
17 29 (0.77%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 426 (11.29%) Linux
2 219 (5.81%) Windows
3 82 (2.17%) Unix
4 50 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 50 (1.33%) Windows Server
5 46 (1.22%) VMS
6 30 (0.80%) Ubuntu
7 21 (0.56%) Android
8 19 (0.50%) Apple iOS
8 19 (0.50%) Windows 10
9 17 (0.45%) CentOS
10 10 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
11 9 (0.24%) Solaris
12 8 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
13 6 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.080%) zOS
16 2 (0.053%) Debian
17 1 (0.027%) Embedded Linux
17 1 (0.027%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,152 (57.05%) CI/CD
2 1,486 (39.40%) Agile
3 954 (25.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 750 (19.88%) Problem-Solving
5 724 (19.19%) Containerisation
6 581 (15.40%) Test Automation
7 546 (14.48%) Microservices
8 458 (12.14%) Analytics
9 447 (11.85%) Continuous Improvement
10 440 (11.66%) Migration
11 414 (10.98%) Scrum
12 389 (10.31%) Observability
13 385 (10.21%) AI
14 364 (9.65%) Stakeholder Management
15 340 (9.01%) Software Engineering
16 304 (8.06%) Mentoring
17 297 (7.87%) Data Modelling
18 268 (7.10%) Business Intelligence
19 262 (6.95%) Data Pipeline
20 261 (6.92%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1,128 (29.90%) Python
2 768 (20.36%) SQL
3 492 (13.04%) Java
4 359 (9.52%) JavaScript
5 352 (9.33%) C#
6 323 (8.56%) PowerShell
7 289 (7.66%) Bash
8 262 (6.95%) TypeScript
9 125 (3.31%) Go
10 124 (3.29%) Bicep
11 73 (1.94%) PL/SQL
12 54 (1.43%) Scala
13 51 (1.35%) Shell Script
14 47 (1.25%) Groovy
15 40 (1.06%) T-SQL
16 39 (1.03%) Ruby
17 38 (1.01%) C++
18 24 (0.64%) Perl
19 21 (0.56%) PHP
19 21 (0.56%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,194 (31.65%) Security Cleared
2 984 (26.09%) SC Cleared
3 340 (9.01%) Degree
4 180 (4.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 177 (4.69%) Azure Certification
6 131 (3.47%) DV Cleared
7 114 (3.02%) AWS Certification
8 80 (2.12%) Master's Degree
9 77 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
10 68 (1.80%) CISSP
11 57 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
12 54 (1.43%) CISM
13 38 (1.01%) ISTQB
14 35 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 32 (0.85%) PMI Certification
16 28 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
17 25 (0.66%) PMP
18 24 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 22 (0.58%) IIBA
20 18 (0.48%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 319 (8.46%) QA
2 157 (4.16%) GDPR
3 139 (3.69%) Data Quality
4 125 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 115 (3.05%) NIST
6 91 (2.41%) Accessibility
7 67 (1.78%) NCSC
8 31 (0.82%) PCI DSS
9 27 (0.72%) WCAG
10 25 (0.66%) HIPAA
10 25 (0.66%) SLA
11 24 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 20 (0.53%) PSD2
13 19 (0.50%) PMO
14 18 (0.48%) ISO 20022
15 17 (0.45%) SOC 2
16 16 (0.42%) SEPA
17 10 (0.27%) NIST 800
18 8 (0.21%) HL7
19 7 (0.19%) MiFID
System Software
1 951 (25.21%) Docker
2 162 (4.29%) Active Directory
3 65 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (0.85%) vSphere
6 17 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
6 17 (0.45%) VMware NSX
7 14 (0.37%) Squid
8 13 (0.34%) DFS Replication
9 11 (0.29%) Lustre
9 11 (0.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 9 (0.24%) GPFS
10 9 (0.24%) Hyper-V
11 8 (0.21%) Tivoli Directory Server
12 7 (0.19%) Dovecot
12 7 (0.19%) Firmware
12 7 (0.19%) NFS
12 7 (0.19%) Postfix
12 7 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
12 7 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,131 (29.98%) Terraform
2 1,105 (29.29%) Kubernetes
3 458 (12.14%) Ansible
4 263 (6.97%) Grafana
5 240 (6.36%) Prometheus
6 77 (2.04%) Argo
7 70 (1.86%) Puppet
8 55 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
9 37 (0.98%) Kibana
10 36 (0.95%) Istio
10 36 (0.95%) Progress Chef
11 31 (0.82%) Packer
12 21 (0.56%) Podman
13 16 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 16 (0.42%) Rancher
14 15 (0.40%) Consul
14 15 (0.40%) logstash
14 15 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
14 15 (0.40%) SCCM
15 14 (0.37%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 663 (17.58%) Microsoft
2 290 (7.69%) Oracle
3 217 (5.75%) Google
4 216 (5.73%) Databricks
5 207 (5.49%) Splunk
6 136 (3.61%) ServiceNow
7 122 (3.23%) Red Hat
8 108 (2.86%) VMware
9 95 (2.52%) Salesforce
10 93 (2.47%) SAP
11 65 (1.72%) OpenAI
12 60 (1.59%) Dynatrace
13 55 (1.46%) CyberArk
14 42 (1.11%) Talend
15 41 (1.09%) IBM
16 40 (1.06%) Atlassian
16 40 (1.06%) F5
17 38 (1.01%) Denodo
18 32 (0.85%) Palo Alto
19 29 (0.77%) MuleSoft
1,312 DevOps jobs in England