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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 16 15
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,794 2,755 3,514
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.65% 10.12% 9.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.47% 11.16% 11.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,311 1,993 2,406
10th Percentile £390 £363 £396
25th Percentile £445 £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 38,446 24,678 30,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.44% 90.65% 85.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,172 15,843 20,140
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 £746 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,378 1,309 2,090
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.28 £13.18
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £16.83
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 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.50 £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 18 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 18 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 18 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 2,462 £550 - 454
North of England +5 867 £500 +2.04% 231
South East -8 460 £525 +5.00% 241
Yorkshire +2 455 £500 - 56
Midlands +1 452 £491 -0.81% 121
West Midlands -2 361 £500 - 88
North West -5 333 £523 +10.11% 127
South West +14 316 £525 -0.94% 111
East of England +23 148 £525 +5.00% 50
North East +13 98 £425 -18.66% 50
East Midlands +1 86 £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
1 283 (5.90%) Confluence
2 124 (2.59%) Apache Spark
3 123 (2.57%) SharePoint
4 104 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
5 96 (2.00%) Apache
6 67 (1.40%) SAS
7 48 (1.00%) CMS
8 31 (0.65%) IIS
8 31 (0.65%) Jupyter
9 30 (0.63%) nginx
10 24 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
11 15 (0.31%) 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 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
3 38 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
3 38 (0.79%) 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 (0.083%) 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 65 (1.36%) 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
5 8 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.13%) Maximo
6 6 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.10%) Endur
7 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
7 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
7 5 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.083%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.063%) Findur
9 3 (0.063%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.063%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.063%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.063%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 2,555 (53.30%) Azure
2 1,672 (34.88%) AWS
3 1,437 (29.97%) Azure DevOps
4 778 (16.23%) GitHub
5 578 (12.06%) GCP
6 476 (9.93%) GitHub Actions
7 403 (8.41%) Power Platform
8 396 (8.26%) Serverless
9 266 (5.55%) Amazon S3
10 232 (4.84%) AWS Lambda
11 223 (4.65%) Entra ID
12 184 (3.84%) AWS CloudFormation
13 183 (3.82%) Azure AKS
14 170 (3.55%) Amazon EKS
15 165 (3.44%) Azure Data Factory
16 162 (3.38%) Amazon EC2
17 161 (3.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 156 (3.25%) Azure Monitor
19 149 (3.11%) Dynamics 365
20 148 (3.09%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 222 (4.63%) Firewall
2 133 (2.77%) DNS
3 107 (2.23%) VPN
4 104 (2.17%) Network Security
5 54 (1.13%) TCP/IP
6 49 (1.02%) WAN
7 35 (0.73%) SD-WAN
7 35 (0.73%) SSL
8 32 (0.67%) BGP
9 29 (0.60%) Internet
10 27 (0.56%) DHCP
10 27 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
11 24 (0.50%) OSPF
12 21 (0.44%) HTTP
13 19 (0.40%) SAN
14 18 (0.38%) LAN
15 17 (0.35%) MPLS
15 17 (0.35%) VXLAN
16 16 (0.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 16 (0.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 271 (5.65%) Power BI
2 250 (5.21%) SQL Server
3 223 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
4 158 (3.30%) NoSQL
5 157 (3.27%) Relational Database
6 150 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
7 140 (2.92%) Data Lake
8 136 (2.84%) MongoDB
9 102 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
10 83 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
10 83 (1.73%) Metadata
11 82 (1.71%) DynamoDB
12 78 (1.63%) Oracle Database
13 77 (1.61%) Delta Lake
14 59 (1.23%) Big Data
15 57 (1.19%) Redis
16 55 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
17 52 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
18 51 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
19 43 (0.90%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 667 (13.91%) Jenkins
2 626 (13.06%) Git
3 574 (11.97%) JIRA
4 483 (10.08%) GitLab
5 110 (2.29%) Selenium
6 89 (1.86%) Postman
7 87 (1.81%) SonarQube
8 84 (1.75%) JUnit
9 68 (1.42%) Maven
10 67 (1.40%) Bitbucket
11 65 (1.36%) REST Assured
12 53 (1.11%) Cucumber
13 50 (1.04%) Cypress.io
14 48 (1.00%) JMeter
15 42 (0.88%) Gatling
15 42 (0.88%) Gradle
16 38 (0.79%) Mockito
17 35 (0.73%) Artifactory
18 31 (0.65%) LoadRunner
18 31 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,211 (25.26%) Social Skills
2 917 (19.13%) Finance
3 648 (13.52%) Public Sector
4 430 (8.97%) Analytical Skills
5 323 (6.74%) Banking
6 120 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
7 106 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 84 (1.75%) Retail
9 71 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
10 57 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
11 54 (1.13%) Legal
11 54 (1.13%) Marketing
12 44 (0.92%) Military
13 41 (0.86%) Investment Banking
14 38 (0.79%) Law
15 36 (0.75%) Financial Institution
16 34 (0.71%) Telecoms
17 33 (0.69%) Front Office
18 31 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
19 29 (0.60%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 916 (19.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 760 (15.85%) Developer
3 675 (14.08%) Senior
4 564 (11.76%) Architect
5 457 (9.53%) Lead
6 294 (6.13%) Azure Engineer
7 281 (5.86%) Data Engineer
8 267 (5.57%) Analyst
9 212 (4.42%) AWS Engineer
10 195 (4.07%) Platform Engineer
11 178 (3.71%) Cloud Engineer
12 172 (3.59%) Solutions Architect
13 167 (3.48%) Senior DevOps
14 154 (3.21%) Java Developer
15 153 (3.19%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 153 (3.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 150 (3.13%) AWS DevOps
17 138 (2.88%) Business Analyst
18 137 (2.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 131 (2.73%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 458 (9.55%) REST
2 414 (8.64%) .NET
3 275 (5.74%) Kafka
4 263 (5.49%) React
4 263 (5.49%) Spring
5 244 (5.09%) Spring Boot
6 241 (5.03%) RESTful
7 193 (4.03%) Node.js
8 143 (2.98%) AngularJS
9 137 (2.86%) PySpark
10 136 (2.84%) JSON
11 135 (2.82%) Playwright
12 133 (2.77%) OAuth
13 122 (2.54%) .NET Framework
14 118 (2.46%) SOAP
15 114 (2.38%) HTML
16 98 (2.04%) CSS
16 98 (2.04%) YAML
17 93 (1.94%) OAuth2
18 87 (1.81%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 839 (17.50%) Cloud Native
2 325 (6.78%) Product Ownership
3 216 (4.51%) Distributed Systems
4 147 (3.07%) Onboarding
5 134 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
6 126 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
7 109 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
8 76 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
9 75 (1.56%) Public Cloud
10 66 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
11 65 (1.36%) Security Posture
12 63 (1.31%) Data Centre
13 61 (1.27%) Management Information System
14 57 (1.19%) Data Structures
15 55 (1.15%) AI Agents
16 52 (1.08%) Mobile App
17 51 (1.06%) Replication
18 49 (1.02%) Virtual Team
19 44 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
20 35 (0.73%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 413 (8.61%) Linux
2 256 (5.34%) Windows
3 94 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 67 (1.40%) Unix
5 61 (1.27%) Windows Server
6 27 (0.56%) Ubuntu
7 26 (0.54%) VMS
8 25 (0.52%) Apple iOS
9 17 (0.35%) Android
10 10 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
11 9 (0.19%) Solaris
12 8 (0.17%) CentOS
13 7 (0.15%) zOS
14 6 (0.13%) AIX
14 6 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
14 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
14 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
16 4 (0.083%) Data ONTAP
16 4 (0.083%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,739 (57.13%) CI/CD
2 1,887 (39.36%) Agile
3 1,260 (26.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 763 (15.92%) Containerisation
5 747 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
6 712 (14.85%) Continuous Improvement
7 696 (14.52%) Test Automation
8 694 (14.48%) Microservices
9 647 (13.50%) Stakeholder Management
10 639 (13.33%) AI
11 591 (12.33%) Observability
12 587 (12.24%) Scrum
13 579 (12.08%) Migration
14 547 (11.41%) Software Engineering
15 537 (11.20%) Platform Engineering
16 518 (10.81%) Analytics
17 419 (8.74%) Technical Leadership
18 414 (8.64%) Data Modelling
18 414 (8.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 408 (8.51%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,335 (27.85%) Python
2 899 (18.75%) SQL
3 674 (14.06%) Java
4 436 (9.09%) C#
5 373 (7.78%) Bash
6 363 (7.57%) PowerShell
7 356 (7.43%) JavaScript
8 257 (5.36%) TypeScript
9 161 (3.36%) Bicep
10 94 (1.96%) Go
11 58 (1.21%) PL/SQL
12 57 (1.19%) Scala
13 56 (1.17%) T-SQL
14 55 (1.15%) Shell Script
15 51 (1.06%) Apex Code
16 47 (0.98%) Groovy
17 27 (0.56%) C++
18 26 (0.54%) Kotlin
19 22 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 21 (0.44%) C
Qualifications
1 1,528 (31.87%) Security Cleared
2 1,270 (26.49%) SC Cleared
3 302 (6.30%) Degree
4 190 (3.96%) Azure Certification
5 175 (3.65%) DV Cleared
6 160 (3.34%) AWS Certification
7 122 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
8 112 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 72 (1.50%) CISSP
9 72 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
10 52 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
11 48 (1.00%) ISTQB
12 43 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 39 (0.81%) Master's Degree
13 39 (0.81%) PMP
14 37 (0.77%) PMI Certification
15 32 (0.67%) CISM
16 25 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 24 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
18 22 (0.46%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 432 (9.01%) QA
2 220 (4.59%) Data Quality
3 154 (3.21%) Accessibility
4 145 (3.02%) GDPR
5 93 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 90 (1.88%) NIST
7 72 (1.50%) WCAG
8 57 (1.19%) NCSC
9 39 (0.81%) PCI DSS
10 36 (0.75%) PMO
11 31 (0.65%) SLA
12 26 (0.54%) 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
1 920 (19.19%) Docker
2 164 (3.42%) Active Directory
3 74 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
4 66 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 28 (0.58%) vSphere
6 22 (0.46%) VMware NSX
7 19 (0.40%) Squid
8 18 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
9 16 (0.33%) 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 (0.10%) Firmware
15 5 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
15 5 (0.10%) NFS
15 5 (0.10%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 1,349 (28.14%) Terraform
2 1,193 (24.89%) Kubernetes
3 465 (9.70%) Ansible
4 320 (6.68%) Grafana
5 273 (5.69%) Prometheus
6 84 (1.75%) Argo
7 70 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
8 54 (1.13%) Puppet
9 36 (0.75%) Progress Chef
10 31 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
10 31 (0.65%) Packer
11 30 (0.63%) Istio
12 26 (0.54%) vCenter Server
13 19 (0.40%) Kibana
14 17 (0.35%) Consul
15 16 (0.33%) HP ALM
16 15 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 15 (0.31%) Kustomize
17 14 (0.29%) Kubeflow
17 14 (0.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 872 (18.19%) Microsoft
2 258 (5.38%) Oracle
3 238 (4.96%) Databricks
4 209 (4.36%) Google
5 185 (3.86%) ServiceNow
6 170 (3.55%) Splunk
7 147 (3.07%) Salesforce
8 116 (2.42%) Dynatrace
9 111 (2.32%) SAP
10 107 (2.23%) Red Hat
11 101 (2.11%) VMware
12 58 (1.21%) IBM
13 54 (1.13%) OpenAI
14 49 (1.02%) Atlassian
15 46 (0.96%) Informatica
16 43 (0.90%) CyberArk
16 43 (0.90%) Foundry
17 41 (0.86%) Cisco
18 33 (0.69%) AppDynamics
19 32 (0.67%) Okta