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

 6 months to
6 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 14 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 3,569 3,137 3,543
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.47% 10.26% 9.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.83% 11.67% 10.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,515 2,136 2,635
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 £523 £551 £563
% change year-on-year -5.09% -2.13% -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 27,812 26,873 34,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.40% 87.89% 88.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,725 16,531 23,197
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £406 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -4.11% -0.45%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £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 1,799 953 1,442
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.23 £14.78
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.24 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +18.00%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -1 1,792 £550 -5.98% 620
North of England +2 623 £486 -7.43% 415
Midlands +14 373 £515 -1.90% 226
South East +1 367 £513 -14.58% 553
Yorkshire -1 326 £500 - 170
West Midlands +15 303 £525 - 145
North West +5 262 £453 -14.93% 193
South West +4 224 £538 -10.42% 207
East of England +27 110 £523 -9.13% 161
East Midlands +21 70 £419 -11.84% 73
North East -8 37 £518 -10.00% 54
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
1 238 (6.67%) Confluence
2 81 (2.27%) Apache
3 67 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
4 66 (1.85%) SharePoint
5 62 (1.74%) SAS
6 58 (1.63%) Apache Spark
7 34 (0.95%) CMS
8 32 (0.90%) nginx
9 29 (0.81%) OpenStack
10 27 (0.76%) IIS
11 25 (0.70%) JBoss
12 22 (0.62%) CICS
13 17 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
14 15 (0.42%) WebLogic
15 14 (0.39%) WebSphere
16 10 (0.28%) Mule
17 9 (0.25%) iPlanet
17 9 (0.25%) WebSphere Application Server
18 8 (0.22%) Anypoint
19 6 (0.17%) Camunda
Applications
1 68 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 29 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
4 26 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
5 17 (0.48%) 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 51 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 17 (0.48%) Aladdin
3 17 (0.48%) 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 EBS
11 3 (0.084%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,731 (48.50%) Azure
2 1,290 (36.14%) AWS
3 944 (26.45%) Azure DevOps
4 621 (17.40%) GitHub
5 522 (14.63%) GCP
6 393 (11.01%) Serverless
7 349 (9.78%) GitHub Actions
8 248 (6.95%) Power Platform
9 212 (5.94%) Amazon S3
10 202 (5.66%) AWS Lambda
11 195 (5.46%) AWS CloudFormation
12 162 (4.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 155 (4.34%) Azure AKS
14 148 (4.15%) Amazon EC2
15 146 (4.09%) Azure Data Factory
16 142 (3.98%) SaaS
17 138 (3.87%) Entra ID
18 135 (3.78%) OpenShift
19 128 (3.59%) Dynamics 365
20 124 (3.47%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 180 (5.04%) Firewall
2 120 (3.36%) DNS
3 76 (2.13%) VPN
4 66 (1.85%) Network Security
5 62 (1.74%) SSL
6 57 (1.60%) TCP/IP
7 44 (1.23%) HTTP
8 29 (0.81%) HTTPS
8 29 (0.81%) SSH
9 26 (0.73%) SMTP
9 26 (0.73%) WAN
10 22 (0.62%) FTP
11 19 (0.53%) BGP
12 17 (0.48%) MPLS
13 16 (0.45%) DHCP
14 15 (0.42%) OpenLDAP
15 14 (0.39%) LAN
15 14 (0.39%) SD-WAN
16 13 (0.36%) Kerberos
17 11 (0.31%) IMAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 226 (6.33%) PostgreSQL
2 161 (4.51%) Power BI
3 145 (4.06%) NoSQL
4 132 (3.70%) SQL Server
5 119 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
6 100 (2.80%) MongoDB
7 84 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
8 80 (2.24%) Relational Database
9 79 (2.21%) Data Lake
10 73 (2.05%) Oracle Database
11 60 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
12 52 (1.46%) Redis
13 50 (1.40%) DynamoDB
13 50 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
14 47 (1.32%) MySQL
15 42 (1.18%) Metadata
16 41 (1.15%) Delta Lake
17 37 (1.04%) Big Data
18 35 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
18 35 (0.98%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 673 (18.86%) Jenkins
2 563 (15.77%) Git
3 543 (15.21%) JIRA
4 456 (12.78%) GitLab
5 121 (3.39%) Selenium
6 90 (2.52%) SonarQube
7 83 (2.33%) JUnit
8 78 (2.19%) Sonatype Nexus
9 70 (1.96%) Bitbucket
10 66 (1.85%) Postman
11 52 (1.46%) Cucumber
12 50 (1.40%) Liquibase
13 47 (1.32%) Cypress.io
14 46 (1.29%) Maven
15 42 (1.18%) Gradle
16 39 (1.09%) Artifactory
17 36 (1.01%) Oracle APEX
18 33 (0.92%) CircleCI
19 29 (0.81%) TeamCity
20 28 (0.78%) JMeter
General
1 1,149 (32.19%) Social Skills
2 656 (18.38%) Finance
3 430 (12.05%) Public Sector
4 327 (9.16%) Banking
5 279 (7.82%) Analytical Skills
6 101 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
7 66 (1.85%) Financial Institution
8 61 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 61 (1.71%) Investment Banking
9 59 (1.65%) Marketing
10 53 (1.49%) Telecoms
11 51 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
12 48 (1.34%) Retail
13 45 (1.26%) Front Office
14 38 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
15 31 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
16 30 (0.84%) Back Office
17 27 (0.76%) Military
18 25 (0.70%) Manufacturing
19 24 (0.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 672 (18.83%) Developer
2 624 (17.48%) DevOps Engineer
3 493 (13.81%) Senior
4 299 (8.38%) Architect
5 267 (7.48%) Lead
6 218 (6.11%) AWS Engineer
7 182 (5.10%) Analyst
8 174 (4.88%) Data Engineer
9 172 (4.82%) Azure Engineer
10 165 (4.62%) AWS DevOps
11 139 (3.89%) Software Engineer
12 138 (3.87%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 137 (3.84%) Cloud Engineer
14 136 (3.81%) Senior Developer
15 133 (3.73%) Platform Engineer
16 98 (2.75%) Business Analyst
17 97 (2.72%) Java Developer
18 95 (2.66%) Consultant
18 95 (2.66%) Senior DevOps
19 94 (2.63%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 392 (10.98%) REST
2 302 (8.46%) .NET
3 241 (6.75%) RESTful
4 217 (6.08%) React
5 212 (5.94%) Node.js
6 201 (5.63%) Kafka
7 182 (5.10%) JSON
8 159 (4.46%) Spring
9 145 (4.06%) SOAP
10 143 (4.01%) Spring Boot
11 140 (3.92%) HTML
12 132 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
13 129 (3.61%) AngularJS
14 120 (3.36%) XML
15 112 (3.14%) OAuth
16 108 (3.03%) YAML
17 94 (2.63%) CSS
18 77 (2.16%) Playwright
19 73 (2.05%) GraphQL
20 72 (2.02%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 488 (13.67%) Cloud Native
2 193 (5.41%) Product Ownership
3 146 (4.09%) Distributed Systems
4 110 (3.08%) Onboarding
5 82 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
5 82 (2.30%) Public Cloud
6 70 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
7 60 (1.68%) Mobile App
8 59 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
9 58 (1.63%) Replication
10 50 (1.40%) Security Posture
11 48 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
12 44 (1.23%) Virtual Team
13 41 (1.15%) Data Centre
14 38 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
15 37 (1.04%) Algorithms
15 37 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
16 36 (1.01%) Management Information System
17 35 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 33 (0.92%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 431 (12.08%) Linux
2 210 (5.88%) Windows
3 90 (2.52%) Unix
4 56 (1.57%) Windows Server
5 53 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 46 (1.29%) Android
7 45 (1.26%) VMS
8 40 (1.12%) Apple iOS
9 27 (0.76%) Ubuntu
10 21 (0.59%) Amazon Linux
11 18 (0.50%) CentOS
12 16 (0.45%) Windows 10
13 12 (0.34%) Solaris
14 11 (0.31%) zOS
15 6 (0.17%) Mac OS
16 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
16 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
17 3 (0.084%) Debian
18 2 (0.056%) SUSE
19 1 (0.028%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,006 (56.21%) CI/CD
2 1,547 (43.35%) Agile
3 878 (24.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 712 (19.95%) Problem-Solving
5 703 (19.70%) Containerisation
6 552 (15.47%) Test Automation
7 535 (14.99%) Microservices
8 450 (12.61%) Scrum
9 387 (10.84%) Migration
10 382 (10.70%) Continuous Improvement
11 372 (10.42%) Analytics
12 354 (9.92%) Software Engineering
13 336 (9.41%) AI
14 304 (8.52%) Observability
15 293 (8.21%) Stakeholder Management
16 267 (7.48%) Mentoring
17 244 (6.84%) Data Pipeline
18 239 (6.70%) SDLC
19 238 (6.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 236 (6.61%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 1,150 (32.22%) Python
2 689 (19.31%) SQL
3 505 (14.15%) Java
4 374 (10.48%) JavaScript
5 348 (9.75%) C#
6 324 (9.08%) Bash
7 316 (8.85%) PowerShell
8 243 (6.81%) TypeScript
9 161 (4.51%) Go
10 102 (2.86%) Bicep
11 74 (2.07%) PL/SQL
12 60 (1.68%) Groovy
12 60 (1.68%) Shell Script
13 52 (1.46%) C++
14 42 (1.18%) Scala
15 40 (1.12%) Perl
16 38 (1.06%) Ruby
17 32 (0.90%) T-SQL
18 27 (0.76%) Kotlin
19 25 (0.70%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,007 (28.22%) Security Cleared
2 835 (23.40%) SC Cleared
3 318 (8.91%) Degree
4 174 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 142 (3.98%) Azure Certification
6 123 (3.45%) AWS Certification
7 118 (3.31%) DV Cleared
8 74 (2.07%) Master's Degree
9 60 (1.68%) CISSP
10 55 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
11 51 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
12 41 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 39 (1.09%) CISM
14 34 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
14 34 (0.95%) ISTQB
15 28 (0.78%) PMI Certification
16 23 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 23 (0.64%) PMP
17 15 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
17 15 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 330 (9.25%) QA
2 140 (3.92%) GDPR
3 109 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 106 (2.97%) Data Quality
5 90 (2.52%) NIST
6 80 (2.24%) Accessibility
7 42 (1.18%) NCSC
8 27 (0.76%) 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 9 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 921 (25.81%) Docker
2 165 (4.62%) Active Directory
3 66 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 55 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (0.67%) vSphere
6 22 (0.62%) 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 1,069 (29.95%) Terraform
2 1,036 (29.03%) Kubernetes
3 473 (13.25%) Ansible
4 258 (7.23%) Grafana
5 249 (6.98%) Prometheus
6 74 (2.07%) Puppet
7 67 (1.88%) Argo
8 63 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
9 53 (1.49%) Progress Chef
10 40 (1.12%) Kibana
11 37 (1.04%) Packer
12 23 (0.64%) Istio
13 21 (0.59%) Podman
14 18 (0.50%) ITRS Geneos
15 17 (0.48%) Nessus
15 17 (0.48%) Proxmox
16 16 (0.45%) CA Endevor
16 16 (0.45%) logstash
17 15 (0.42%) Rancher
18 14 (0.39%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 606 (16.98%) Microsoft
2 274 (7.68%) Oracle
3 203 (5.69%) Google
4 187 (5.24%) Splunk
5 181 (5.07%) Databricks
6 153 (4.29%) ServiceNow
7 98 (2.75%) Salesforce
7 98 (2.75%) VMware
8 97 (2.72%) SAP
9 88 (2.47%) Red Hat
10 54 (1.51%) Dynatrace
11 47 (1.32%) F5
12 46 (1.29%) IBM
12 46 (1.29%) OpenAI
13 39 (1.09%) Palo Alto
14 38 (1.06%) MuleSoft
15 37 (1.04%) Talend
16 35 (0.98%) Atlassian
16 35 (0.98%) CyberArk
17 34 (0.95%) Denodo
1,958 DevOps jobs in England