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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,812 2,931 3,332
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.53% 10.64% 10.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.42% 11.72% 11.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,305 2,109 2,278
10th Percentile £385 £361 £400
25th Percentile £438 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.78%
75th Percentile £625 £633 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £519 £550
% change year-on-year +1.25% -5.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 23 76
10th Percentile £35.90 £36.50 £56.13
25th Percentile £55.00 £52.13 £61.51
Median hourly rate £67.00 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -4.29% +6.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 £85.86 £74.44
90th Percentile £93.63 £95.00 £85.13
UK median hourly rate £67.96 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +1.43% -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 38,747 25,016 28,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.82% 90.80% 85.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,944 15,923 18,325
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,477 1,517
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.23 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.80 £17.87 £18.13
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £69.79 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.06 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +63.26% -37.90% -4.71%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 26 August 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 0 2,537 £550 - 525
North of England 0 805 £500 +4.71% 229
South East -9 464 £525 +5.00% 154
Midlands 0 447 £488 -2.50% 103
Yorkshire -1 393 £500 +2.04% 76
West Midlands -3 355 £490 -5.18% 55
North West -2 319 £518 +10.31% 112
South West +5 308 £525 +0.96% 178
East of England +14 143 £505 -2.88% 56
North East +16 110 £425 -18.27% 45
East Midlands +7 88 £455 -0.27% 48
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
1 291 (6.05%) Confluence
2 136 (2.83%) SharePoint
3 120 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
4 112 (2.33%) Apache Spark
5 100 (2.08%) Apache
6 55 (1.14%) SAS
7 40 (0.83%) CMS
8 34 (0.71%) Jupyter
9 32 (0.67%) IIS
10 23 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
11 21 (0.44%) nginx
12 16 (0.33%) Camunda
13 13 (0.27%) OpenStack
14 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
14 11 (0.23%) WebSphere
15 10 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
16 9 (0.19%) Anypoint
16 9 (0.19%) Appian
17 6 (0.12%) Documentum
17 6 (0.12%) Mule
Applications
1 60 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 60 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
2 40 (0.83%) MS Visio
3 30 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.19%) Chatbot
4 9 (0.19%) CPLEX
4 9 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.12%) Trello
6 5 (0.10%) Notion
7 4 (0.083%) Windchill
8 1 (0.021%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
8 1 (0.021%) Gliffy
8 1 (0.021%) InDesign
8 1 (0.021%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 64 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
4 9 (0.19%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
4 9 (0.19%) Magento
5 8 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 6 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
8 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
9 4 (0.083%) Endur
9 4 (0.083%) Maximo
9 4 (0.083%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.083%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.062%) Findur
10 3 (0.062%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.062%) Shopify
10 3 (0.062%) Teamcenter
11 2 (0.042%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 2,640 (54.86%) Azure
2 1,667 (34.64%) AWS
3 1,533 (31.86%) Azure DevOps
4 814 (16.92%) GitHub
5 601 (12.49%) GCP
6 516 (10.72%) GitHub Actions
7 424 (8.81%) Power Platform
8 391 (8.13%) Serverless
9 236 (4.90%) Amazon S3
9 236 (4.90%) Entra ID
10 228 (4.74%) AWS Lambda
11 194 (4.03%) Azure AKS
12 183 (3.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 181 (3.76%) AWS CloudFormation
14 179 (3.72%) Azure Monitor
15 178 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
16 177 (3.68%) Azure Data Factory
17 165 (3.43%) Dynamics 365
18 158 (3.28%) Power Automate
19 145 (3.01%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 229 (4.76%) Firewall
2 149 (3.10%) DNS
3 115 (2.39%) VPN
4 103 (2.14%) Network Security
5 64 (1.33%) TCP/IP
6 53 (1.10%) WAN
7 42 (0.87%) SSL
8 39 (0.81%) DHCP
9 38 (0.79%) SD-WAN
10 34 (0.71%) BGP
11 32 (0.67%) Internet
12 30 (0.62%) HTTP
13 29 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
14 25 (0.52%) OSPF
15 23 (0.48%) SSH
16 20 (0.42%) VLAN
17 19 (0.39%) SAN
18 18 (0.37%) LAN
19 17 (0.35%) MPLS
19 17 (0.35%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 293 (6.09%) Power BI
2 260 (5.40%) SQL Server
3 244 (5.07%) PostgreSQL
4 180 (3.74%) Data Warehouse
5 169 (3.51%) NoSQL
6 156 (3.24%) Relational Database
7 145 (3.01%) MongoDB
8 142 (2.95%) Data Lake
9 109 (2.27%) Metadata
10 107 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
11 92 (1.91%) Azure SQL Database
12 79 (1.64%) Delta Lake
13 77 (1.60%) DynamoDB
14 76 (1.58%) Oracle Database
15 69 (1.43%) Redis
16 59 (1.23%) MySQL
17 55 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
18 51 (1.06%) Big Data
18 51 (1.06%) BigQuery
19 50 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 659 (13.69%) Jenkins
2 645 (13.40%) Git
3 571 (11.87%) JIRA
4 517 (10.74%) GitLab
5 116 (2.41%) Selenium
6 84 (1.75%) SonarQube
7 83 (1.72%) Postman
8 76 (1.58%) JUnit
9 73 (1.52%) Bitbucket
9 73 (1.52%) Maven
10 59 (1.23%) REST Assured
11 58 (1.21%) Cypress.io
11 58 (1.21%) JMeter
12 49 (1.02%) Cucumber
12 49 (1.02%) Gradle
13 48 (1.00%) Gatling
14 41 (0.85%) LoadRunner
15 37 (0.77%) Mockito
15 37 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
16 33 (0.69%) Artifactory
General
1 1,255 (26.08%) Social Skills
2 904 (18.79%) Finance
3 658 (13.67%) Public Sector
4 463 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
5 334 (6.94%) Banking
6 137 (2.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 100 (2.08%) Retail
8 87 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
9 68 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
10 57 (1.18%) Legal
11 54 (1.12%) Marketing
11 54 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
12 48 (1.00%) Aerospace
13 47 (0.98%) Investment Banking
14 44 (0.91%) Military
15 42 (0.87%) Telecoms
16 41 (0.85%) Law
17 39 (0.81%) Front Office
18 38 (0.79%) Financial Institution
19 35 (0.73%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 888 (18.45%) DevOps Engineer
2 764 (15.88%) Developer
3 722 (15.00%) Senior
4 560 (11.64%) Architect
5 478 (9.93%) Lead
6 293 (6.09%) Azure Engineer
7 274 (5.69%) Data Engineer
8 236 (4.90%) Analyst
9 196 (4.07%) AWS Engineer
10 195 (4.05%) Platform Engineer
11 172 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
12 169 (3.51%) Senior DevOps
13 162 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
14 156 (3.24%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 155 (3.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 137 (2.85%) AWS DevOps
16 137 (2.85%) Java Developer
17 134 (2.78%) Software Engineer
18 133 (2.76%) Senior Developer
19 124 (2.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,378 (28.64%) Terraform
2 497 (10.33%) REST
3 428 (8.89%) .NET
4 317 (6.59%) Kafka
5 262 (5.44%) RESTful
6 244 (5.07%) React
7 233 (4.84%) Spring
8 219 (4.55%) Spring Boot
9 165 (3.43%) Node.js
10 160 (3.33%) JSON
11 144 (2.99%) OAuth
12 141 (2.93%) PySpark
13 138 (2.87%) Playwright
14 131 (2.72%) .NET Framework
15 119 (2.47%) SOAP
16 117 (2.43%) HTML
17 115 (2.39%) AngularJS
18 107 (2.22%) CSS
19 102 (2.12%) YAML
20 98 (2.04%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 870 (18.08%) Cloud Native
2 365 (7.59%) Product Ownership
3 226 (4.70%) Distributed Systems
4 161 (3.35%) Onboarding
5 160 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
6 136 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
7 135 (2.81%) Hybrid Cloud
8 81 (1.68%) AI Agents
9 79 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
10 71 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
11 68 (1.41%) Management Information System
12 66 (1.37%) Data Structures
13 61 (1.27%) Public Cloud
14 59 (1.23%) Security Posture
15 58 (1.21%) Data Centre
15 58 (1.21%) Replication
16 52 (1.08%) Mobile App
17 50 (1.04%) Virtual Team
18 39 (0.81%) PKI
19 37 (0.77%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 441 (9.16%) Linux
2 268 (5.57%) Windows
3 100 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 85 (1.77%) Unix
5 76 (1.58%) Windows Server
6 32 (0.67%) Ubuntu
7 31 (0.64%) Apple iOS
8 29 (0.60%) VMS
9 21 (0.44%) Android
10 10 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
11 8 (0.17%) AIX
11 8 (0.17%) CentOS
11 8 (0.17%) Solaris
11 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.17%) zOS
12 7 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
14 4 (0.083%) Alpine Linux
14 4 (0.083%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,803 (58.25%) CI/CD
2 1,955 (40.63%) Agile
3 1,341 (27.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 812 (16.87%) Continuous Improvement
5 773 (16.06%) Containerisation
6 772 (16.04%) Stakeholder Management
7 768 (15.96%) Problem-Solving
8 751 (15.61%) Test Automation
9 709 (14.73%) AI
10 703 (14.61%) Microservices
11 646 (13.42%) Observability
12 605 (12.57%) Software Engineering
13 604 (12.55%) Platform Engineering
14 583 (12.12%) Scrum
15 576 (11.97%) Migration
16 528 (10.97%) Analytics
17 497 (10.33%) Technical Leadership
18 457 (9.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 430 (8.94%) Roadmaps
20 409 (8.50%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,379 (28.66%) Python
2 895 (18.60%) SQL
3 685 (14.24%) Java
4 438 (9.10%) C#
4 438 (9.10%) PowerShell
5 404 (8.40%) Bash
6 377 (7.83%) JavaScript
7 261 (5.42%) TypeScript
8 216 (4.49%) Bicep
9 74 (1.54%) Go
10 64 (1.33%) Shell Script
11 56 (1.16%) T-SQL
12 55 (1.14%) Groovy
13 54 (1.12%) Scala
14 51 (1.06%) Apex Code
14 51 (1.06%) PL/SQL
15 31 (0.64%) C++
16 29 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 29 (0.60%) Perl
17 21 (0.44%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,541 (32.02%) Security Cleared
2 1,298 (26.97%) SC Cleared
3 307 (6.38%) Degree
4 201 (4.18%) Azure Certification
5 181 (3.76%) DV Cleared
6 157 (3.26%) AWS Certification
7 132 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 114 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
9 93 (1.93%) Microsoft Certification
10 68 (1.41%) CISSP
11 51 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
12 48 (1.00%) ISTQB
13 44 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 38 (0.79%) PMP
15 35 (0.73%) PMI Certification
16 33 (0.69%) Master's Degree
17 29 (0.60%) CISM
18 24 (0.50%) CCNP
19 23 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
20 22 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 471 (9.79%) QA
2 245 (5.09%) Data Quality
3 159 (3.30%) Accessibility
4 116 (2.41%) GDPR
5 89 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 76 (1.58%) NIST
7 74 (1.54%) WCAG
8 48 (1.00%) PMO
9 46 (0.96%) NCSC
10 35 (0.73%) SLA
11 32 (0.67%) PCI DSS
12 28 (0.58%) GRC
13 24 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 13 (0.27%) ISO 20022
15 11 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
16 10 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
17 9 (0.19%) HIPAA
17 9 (0.19%) HL7
17 9 (0.19%) SEPA
18 6 (0.12%) PSD2
System Software
1 948 (19.70%) Docker
2 158 (3.28%) Active Directory
3 72 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 70 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (0.48%) Hyper-V
6 22 (0.46%) vSphere
7 20 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
8 17 (0.35%) VMware NSX
9 14 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
10 13 (0.27%) Squid
11 11 (0.23%) IAG
12 10 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
12 10 (0.21%) Postfix
13 8 (0.17%) KVM
14 6 (0.12%) Corosync
14 6 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
15 5 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 5 (0.10%) Firmware
15 5 (0.10%) NFS
16 4 (0.083%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,233 (25.62%) Kubernetes
2 470 (9.77%) Ansible
3 311 (6.46%) Grafana
4 264 (5.49%) Prometheus
5 73 (1.52%) Argo
6 57 (1.18%) Puppet
7 52 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
8 44 (0.91%) Progress Chef
9 38 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
10 32 (0.67%) Packer
11 27 (0.56%) Istio
12 21 (0.44%) Kibana
13 19 (0.39%) vCenter Server
14 18 (0.37%) Kustomize
14 18 (0.37%) SCCM
15 17 (0.35%) Kubeflow
16 14 (0.29%) HP ALM
17 13 (0.27%) Control-M
17 13 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
18 12 (0.25%) systemd
Vendors
1 965 (20.05%) Microsoft
2 253 (5.26%) Databricks
3 246 (5.11%) Oracle
4 223 (4.63%) Google
5 189 (3.93%) ServiceNow
6 165 (3.43%) Splunk
7 143 (2.97%) Salesforce
8 129 (2.68%) Dynatrace
9 100 (2.08%) VMware
10 98 (2.04%) SAP
11 93 (1.93%) Red Hat
12 62 (1.29%) IBM
13 51 (1.06%) Informatica
14 47 (0.98%) Cisco
15 46 (0.96%) OpenAI
16 44 (0.91%) AppDynamics
17 43 (0.89%) Atlassian
18 36 (0.75%) Foundry
19 35 (0.73%) MuleSoft
20 32 (0.67%) CyberArk