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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 14 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 3,580 3,148 3,528
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.49% 10.26% 9.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.84% 11.67% 10.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,527 2,144 2,624
10th Percentile £363 £400 £413
25th Percentile £425 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £623 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £558 £563
% change year-on-year -6.73% -0.89% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 33 87
10th Percentile - £42.24 £46.18
25th Percentile £45.46 £56.25 £48.09
Median hourly rate £59.25 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.36% +7.69% -0.92%
75th Percentile £77.50 £74.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £80.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £59.25 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -15.36% +7.69% -0.92%

All Process and 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 27,877 26,975 33,843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.47% 87.88% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,778 16,586 23,069
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £649 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,797 956 1,438
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.24 £14.72
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.23 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.04 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.21% -22.94% +21.43%

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 5 December 2025.

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 5 December 2025.

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 5 December 2025. 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 0 1,787 £550 -5.98% 490
North of England +2 628 £485 -5.60% 283
Midlands +15 375 £515 -1.90% 128
South East 0 375 £506 -15.63% 426
Yorkshire -1 327 £500 - 111
West Midlands +16 303 £525 -4.55% 89
North West +6 265 £452 -16.39% 131
South West +3 227 £543 -9.58% 155
East of England +25 110 £523 -9.13% 92
East Midlands +22 72 £418 -12.11% 36
North East -9 38 £520 -9.57% 43
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
1 239 (6.68%) Confluence
2 82 (2.29%) Apache
3 67 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
4 66 (1.84%) SharePoint
5 62 (1.73%) SAS
6 58 (1.62%) Apache Spark
7 35 (0.98%) CMS
8 33 (0.92%) nginx
9 29 (0.81%) OpenStack
10 27 (0.75%) IIS
11 25 (0.70%) JBoss
12 23 (0.64%) CICS
13 17 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
14 14 (0.39%) WebLogic
14 14 (0.39%) WebSphere
15 10 (0.28%) Mule
16 9 (0.25%) iPlanet
16 9 (0.25%) WebSphere Application Server
17 8 (0.22%) Anypoint
18 6 (0.17%) Camunda
Applications
1 69 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 29 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
4 26 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
5 17 (0.47%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.36%) Chatbot
7 11 (0.31%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 8 (0.22%) Weka
9 7 (0.20%) Trello
10 1 (0.028%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.028%) Moqups
10 1 (0.028%) Revit
Business Applications
1 53 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 17 (0.47%) Aladdin
3 17 (0.47%) Endur
4 15 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
5 14 (0.39%) VisionPLUS
6 9 (0.25%) Maximo
7 7 (0.20%) Oracle BPM
8 6 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
8 6 (0.17%) NEC Housing
9 5 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 4 (0.11%) Fidessa
10 4 (0.11%) SAP CO
10 4 (0.11%) SAP ERP
10 4 (0.11%) SAP FI
10 4 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
10 4 (0.11%) thinkFolio
10 4 (0.11%) Workday HCM
11 3 (0.084%) Oracle ERP
11 3 (0.084%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,737 (48.52%) Azure
2 1,296 (36.20%) AWS
3 945 (26.40%) Azure DevOps
4 624 (17.43%) GitHub
5 523 (14.61%) GCP
6 394 (11.01%) Serverless
7 349 (9.75%) GitHub Actions
8 249 (6.96%) Power Platform
9 212 (5.92%) Amazon S3
10 201 (5.61%) AWS Lambda
11 197 (5.50%) AWS CloudFormation
12 163 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 153 (4.27%) Azure AKS
14 149 (4.16%) Amazon EC2
15 145 (4.05%) Azure Data Factory
16 142 (3.97%) SaaS
17 141 (3.94%) Entra ID
18 136 (3.80%) OpenShift
19 132 (3.69%) Dynamics 365
20 123 (3.44%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 178 (4.97%) Firewall
2 120 (3.35%) DNS
3 75 (2.09%) VPN
4 64 (1.79%) Network Security
5 62 (1.73%) SSL
6 56 (1.56%) TCP/IP
7 44 (1.23%) HTTP
8 30 (0.84%) SSH
9 29 (0.81%) HTTPS
10 27 (0.75%) SMTP
11 26 (0.73%) WAN
12 23 (0.64%) FTP
13 17 (0.47%) BGP
14 16 (0.45%) DHCP
15 15 (0.42%) MPLS
15 15 (0.42%) OpenLDAP
16 14 (0.39%) LAN
16 14 (0.39%) SD-WAN
17 13 (0.36%) Kerberos
18 11 (0.31%) IMAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 228 (6.37%) PostgreSQL
2 161 (4.50%) Power BI
3 146 (4.08%) NoSQL
4 134 (3.74%) SQL Server
5 120 (3.35%) Amazon RDS
6 100 (2.79%) MongoDB
7 83 (2.32%) Data Warehouse
8 81 (2.26%) Relational Database
9 79 (2.21%) Data Lake
10 74 (2.07%) Oracle Database
11 60 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
12 53 (1.48%) Redis
13 50 (1.40%) DynamoDB
14 49 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
15 47 (1.31%) MySQL
16 42 (1.17%) Metadata
17 41 (1.15%) Delta Lake
18 37 (1.03%) Big Data
19 35 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
19 35 (0.98%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 674 (18.83%) Jenkins
2 562 (15.70%) Git
3 544 (15.20%) JIRA
4 458 (12.79%) GitLab
5 122 (3.41%) Selenium
6 90 (2.51%) SonarQube
7 83 (2.32%) JUnit
8 78 (2.18%) Sonatype Nexus
9 70 (1.96%) Bitbucket
10 66 (1.84%) Postman
11 53 (1.48%) Cucumber
12 50 (1.40%) Liquibase
13 47 (1.31%) Cypress.io
13 47 (1.31%) Maven
14 42 (1.17%) Gradle
15 39 (1.09%) Artifactory
16 36 (1.01%) Oracle APEX
17 32 (0.89%) CircleCI
18 29 (0.81%) TeamCity
19 28 (0.78%) JMeter
General
1 1,149 (32.09%) Social Skills
2 659 (18.41%) Finance
3 429 (11.98%) Public Sector
4 327 (9.13%) Banking
5 274 (7.65%) Analytical Skills
6 101 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
7 68 (1.90%) Financial Institution
8 61 (1.70%) Investment Banking
9 60 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 59 (1.65%) Marketing
11 53 (1.48%) Telecoms
12 51 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
13 48 (1.34%) Retail
14 43 (1.20%) Front Office
15 37 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
16 31 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
17 30 (0.84%) Back Office
18 27 (0.75%) Military
19 25 (0.70%) Manufacturing
20 23 (0.64%) Law
Job Titles
1 678 (18.94%) Developer
2 626 (17.49%) DevOps Engineer
3 492 (13.74%) Senior
4 301 (8.41%) Architect
5 272 (7.60%) Lead
6 221 (6.17%) AWS Engineer
7 183 (5.11%) Analyst
8 173 (4.83%) Data Engineer
9 171 (4.78%) Azure Engineer
10 168 (4.69%) AWS DevOps
11 141 (3.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 139 (3.88%) Software Engineer
13 137 (3.83%) Cloud Engineer
14 136 (3.80%) Senior Developer
15 133 (3.72%) Platform Engineer
16 98 (2.74%) Business Analyst
17 97 (2.71%) Java Developer
18 95 (2.65%) Consultant
18 95 (2.65%) Senior DevOps
19 93 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 392 (10.95%) REST
2 307 (8.58%) .NET
3 241 (6.73%) RESTful
4 218 (6.09%) React
5 212 (5.92%) Node.js
6 201 (5.61%) Kafka
7 180 (5.03%) JSON
8 159 (4.44%) Spring
9 144 (4.02%) SOAP
9 144 (4.02%) Spring Boot
10 141 (3.94%) HTML
11 132 (3.69%) Elastic Stack
12 129 (3.60%) AngularJS
13 118 (3.30%) XML
14 112 (3.13%) OAuth
15 108 (3.02%) YAML
16 95 (2.65%) CSS
17 77 (2.15%) Playwright
18 73 (2.04%) .NET Core
18 73 (2.04%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 487 (13.60%) Cloud Native
2 194 (5.42%) Product Ownership
3 146 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
4 110 (3.07%) Onboarding
5 82 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
5 82 (2.29%) Public Cloud
6 70 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
7 61 (1.70%) Mobile App
8 59 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
9 58 (1.62%) Replication
10 52 (1.45%) Security Posture
11 49 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
12 43 (1.20%) Virtual Team
13 42 (1.17%) Data Centre
14 38 (1.06%) Algorithms
14 38 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
15 37 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
16 36 (1.01%) Management Information System
17 35 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 33 (0.92%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 435 (12.15%) Linux
2 210 (5.87%) Windows
3 91 (2.54%) Unix
4 56 (1.56%) Windows Server
5 53 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 46 (1.28%) Android
6 46 (1.28%) VMS
7 40 (1.12%) Apple iOS
8 27 (0.75%) Ubuntu
9 22 (0.61%) Amazon Linux
10 18 (0.50%) CentOS
11 16 (0.45%) Windows 10
12 12 (0.34%) Solaris
13 11 (0.31%) zOS
14 6 (0.17%) Mac OS
15 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
16 3 (0.084%) Debian
17 2 (0.056%) SUSE
18 1 (0.028%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,008 (56.09%) CI/CD
2 1,548 (43.24%) Agile
3 887 (24.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 708 (19.78%) Problem-Solving
5 705 (19.69%) Containerisation
6 555 (15.50%) Test Automation
7 537 (15.00%) Microservices
8 451 (12.60%) Scrum
9 389 (10.87%) Migration
10 380 (10.61%) Continuous Improvement
11 373 (10.42%) Analytics
12 351 (9.80%) Software Engineering
13 337 (9.41%) AI
14 305 (8.52%) Observability
15 293 (8.18%) Stakeholder Management
16 269 (7.51%) Mentoring
17 243 (6.79%) Data Pipeline
18 239 (6.68%) SDLC
18 239 (6.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 236 (6.59%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 1,148 (32.07%) Python
2 690 (19.27%) SQL
3 507 (14.16%) Java
4 375 (10.47%) JavaScript
5 349 (9.75%) C#
6 326 (9.11%) Bash
7 317 (8.85%) PowerShell
8 244 (6.82%) TypeScript
9 160 (4.47%) Go
10 105 (2.93%) Bicep
11 74 (2.07%) PL/SQL
12 61 (1.70%) Groovy
13 60 (1.68%) Shell Script
14 51 (1.42%) C++
15 42 (1.17%) Scala
16 41 (1.15%) Perl
17 38 (1.06%) Ruby
18 32 (0.89%) T-SQL
19 27 (0.75%) Kotlin
20 25 (0.70%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,006 (28.10%) Security Cleared
2 835 (23.32%) SC Cleared
3 315 (8.80%) Degree
4 172 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 141 (3.94%) Azure Certification
6 124 (3.46%) AWS Certification
7 118 (3.30%) DV Cleared
8 72 (2.01%) Master's Degree
9 60 (1.68%) CISSP
10 55 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
11 51 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
12 41 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 39 (1.09%) CISM
14 34 (0.95%) ISTQB
15 33 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
16 28 (0.78%) PMI Certification
17 23 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 23 (0.64%) PMP
18 15 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
18 15 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 328 (9.16%) QA
2 140 (3.91%) GDPR
3 109 (3.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 106 (2.96%) Data Quality
5 90 (2.51%) NIST
6 82 (2.29%) Accessibility
7 42 (1.17%) NCSC
8 27 (0.75%) PCI DSS
9 26 (0.73%) HIPAA
10 20 (0.56%) WCAG
11 18 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 16 (0.45%) SLA
13 15 (0.42%) MiFID
14 14 (0.39%) PSD2
15 13 (0.36%) ISO 20022
15 13 (0.36%) SEPA
16 12 (0.34%) PMO
17 11 (0.31%) EU AI Act
17 11 (0.31%) SOC 2
18 10 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 918 (25.64%) Docker
2 167 (4.66%) Active Directory
3 66 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 55 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (0.67%) vSphere
6 23 (0.64%) DFS Replication
7 14 (0.39%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.34%) Squid
9 11 (0.31%) Dovecot
9 11 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
9 11 (0.31%) Postfix
9 11 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
10 9 (0.25%) Lustre
10 9 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 8 (0.22%) GPFS
11 8 (0.22%) Hyper-V
11 8 (0.22%) NFS
11 8 (0.22%) Tivoli Directory Server
11 8 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
12 7 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1,078 (30.11%) Terraform
2 1,035 (28.91%) Kubernetes
3 476 (13.30%) Ansible
4 259 (7.23%) Grafana
5 250 (6.98%) Prometheus
6 76 (2.12%) Puppet
7 66 (1.84%) Argo
8 63 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
9 52 (1.45%) Progress Chef
10 39 (1.09%) Kibana
11 38 (1.06%) Packer
12 23 (0.64%) Istio
13 21 (0.59%) Podman
14 18 (0.50%) ITRS Geneos
15 17 (0.47%) Nessus
15 17 (0.47%) Proxmox
16 16 (0.45%) CA Endevor
17 15 (0.42%) logstash
17 15 (0.42%) Rancher
18 14 (0.39%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 614 (17.15%) Microsoft
2 275 (7.68%) Oracle
3 204 (5.70%) Google
4 187 (5.22%) Splunk
5 180 (5.03%) Databricks
6 154 (4.30%) ServiceNow
7 98 (2.74%) VMware
8 97 (2.71%) Salesforce
8 97 (2.71%) SAP
9 92 (2.57%) Red Hat
10 54 (1.51%) Dynatrace
11 46 (1.28%) IBM
11 46 (1.28%) OpenAI
12 45 (1.26%) F5
13 38 (1.06%) Palo Alto
14 37 (1.03%) MuleSoft
14 37 (1.03%) Talend
15 35 (0.98%) Atlassian
15 35 (0.98%) CyberArk
16 34 (0.95%) Denodo