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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 14 14
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,731 3,008 3,302
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.26% 10.91% 10.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.13% 12.00% 11.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,256 2,127 2,229
10th Percentile £381 £363 £400
25th Percentile £438 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -5.17%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £706 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 20 65
10th Percentile £37.25 £41.75 £56.00
25th Percentile £56.38 £58.25 £65.00
Median hourly rate £68.48 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.21% -4.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £78.19 £90.31 £74.44
90th Percentile £93.81 £96.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £69.00 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +2.99% -4.29% +7.69%

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 38,989 25,060 28,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.56% 90.87% 86.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,802 15,892 17,554
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £627 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,803 1,513 1,284
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.74 £17.69 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -2.27%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.71 £66.61
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +0.58%

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 21 September 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 21 September 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 21 September 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 2,507 £550 - 2,939
North of England -2 763 £500 +5.26% 814
South East -11 446 £537 +7.40% 633
Midlands -5 429 £488 -2.74% 325
Yorkshire -2 380 £500 +2.56% 213
West Midlands -8 340 £492 -6.08% 194
South West +5 319 £550 +4.76% 350
North West -7 290 £525 +14.69% 477
East of England +7 153 £504 -4.00% 255
North East +13 108 £450 -13.46% 130
East Midlands -1 86 £464 +3.06% 131
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
1 279 (5.90%) Confluence
2 144 (3.04%) SharePoint
3 122 (2.58%) Apache Airflow
4 114 (2.41%) Apache Spark
5 98 (2.07%) Apache
6 56 (1.18%) SAS
7 41 (0.87%) CMS
8 38 (0.80%) Jupyter
9 24 (0.51%) nginx
10 19 (0.40%) IIS
10 19 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
11 14 (0.30%) Camunda
12 13 (0.27%) OpenStack
13 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
14 9 (0.19%) Anypoint
14 9 (0.19%) Appian
15 8 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
15 8 (0.17%) WebLogic
15 8 (0.17%) WebSphere
16 7 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 63 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
3 45 (0.95%) MS Visio
4 33 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 27 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
6 12 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.17%) CPLEX
7 8 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.13%) Trello
8 6 (0.13%) Windchill
9 5 (0.11%) Notion
10 2 (0.042%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.042%) Mingle
11 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.021%) Gliffy
11 1 (0.021%) Mozilla Thunderbird
11 1 (0.021%) Sketch
11 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 71 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 10 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.19%) Magento
6 7 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 6 (0.13%) Aladdin
7 6 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
7 6 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.13%) SAP MDG
8 5 (0.11%) OpenText MBPM
8 5 (0.11%) Oracle BPM
9 3 (0.063%) Endur
9 3 (0.063%) Maximo
9 3 (0.063%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.063%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.063%) Oracle Payroll
9 3 (0.063%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.063%) Teamcenter
10 2 (0.042%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2,545 (53.79%) Azure
2 1,659 (35.07%) AWS
3 1,470 (31.07%) Azure DevOps
4 798 (16.87%) GitHub
5 616 (13.02%) GCP
6 506 (10.70%) GitHub Actions
7 421 (8.90%) Power Platform
8 396 (8.37%) Serverless
9 248 (5.24%) Amazon S3
10 238 (5.03%) AWS Lambda
11 229 (4.84%) Entra ID
12 202 (4.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 187 (3.95%) Amazon EKS
14 178 (3.76%) Azure AKS
15 169 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
16 168 (3.55%) AWS CloudFormation
17 167 (3.53%) Azure Data Factory
17 167 (3.53%) Dynamics 365
18 158 (3.34%) Amazon EC2
19 152 (3.21%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 221 (4.67%) Firewall
2 142 (3.00%) DNS
3 110 (2.33%) VPN
4 105 (2.22%) Network Security
5 69 (1.46%) TCP/IP
6 52 (1.10%) SSL
7 46 (0.97%) WAN
8 40 (0.85%) DHCP
9 31 (0.66%) BGP
10 30 (0.63%) HTTP
11 29 (0.61%) SD-WAN
12 28 (0.59%) Internet
13 24 (0.51%) SSH
13 24 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
14 23 (0.49%) OSPF
15 19 (0.40%) VLAN
16 17 (0.36%) LAN
16 17 (0.36%) SAN
17 16 (0.34%) BIG-IP
17 16 (0.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 286 (6.05%) Power BI
2 248 (5.24%) SQL Server
3 240 (5.07%) PostgreSQL
4 183 (3.87%) Data Warehouse
5 158 (3.34%) NoSQL
6 149 (3.15%) Data Lake
7 143 (3.02%) Relational Database
8 142 (3.00%) MongoDB
9 117 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
9 117 (2.47%) Metadata
10 82 (1.73%) Delta Lake
11 80 (1.69%) DynamoDB
12 76 (1.61%) Oracle Database
13 74 (1.56%) MySQL
14 73 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
15 68 (1.44%) Redis
16 56 (1.18%) Big Data
17 55 (1.16%) BigQuery
18 54 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
19 53 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 676 (14.29%) Git
2 649 (13.72%) Jenkins
3 540 (11.41%) GitLab
4 531 (11.22%) JIRA
5 124 (2.62%) Selenium
6 88 (1.86%) SonarQube
7 80 (1.69%) Maven
8 79 (1.67%) Postman
9 78 (1.65%) JUnit
10 64 (1.35%) Cucumber
11 60 (1.27%) Bitbucket
12 58 (1.23%) Cypress.io
13 56 (1.18%) REST Assured
14 55 (1.16%) JMeter
15 54 (1.14%) Gradle
16 41 (0.87%) Gatling
17 40 (0.85%) Mockito
18 36 (0.76%) Claude Code
18 36 (0.76%) Visual Studio
19 35 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,242 (26.25%) Social Skills
2 870 (18.39%) Finance
3 618 (13.06%) Public Sector
4 467 (9.87%) Analytical Skills
5 347 (7.33%) Banking
6 148 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 104 (2.20%) Retail
8 79 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
9 77 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
10 55 (1.16%) Aerospace
10 55 (1.16%) Marketing
11 52 (1.10%) Legal
11 52 (1.10%) Military
12 51 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
13 44 (0.93%) Telecoms
14 43 (0.91%) Investment Banking
15 41 (0.87%) Law
16 39 (0.82%) Manufacturing
17 37 (0.78%) Front Office
18 36 (0.76%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 900 (19.02%) DevOps Engineer
2 736 (15.56%) Senior
3 732 (15.47%) Developer
4 563 (11.90%) Architect
5 463 (9.79%) Lead
6 291 (6.15%) Azure Engineer
7 274 (5.79%) Data Engineer
8 230 (4.86%) Analyst
9 196 (4.14%) AWS Engineer
10 187 (3.95%) Platform Engineer
11 177 (3.74%) Cloud Engineer
12 167 (3.53%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 166 (3.51%) Senior DevOps
14 158 (3.34%) Solutions Architect
15 153 (3.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 140 (2.96%) Java Developer
17 132 (2.79%) AWS DevOps
18 131 (2.77%) Software Engineer
19 130 (2.75%) Senior Developer
20 121 (2.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,386 (29.30%) Terraform
2 507 (10.72%) REST
3 399 (8.43%) .NET
4 327 (6.91%) Kafka
5 266 (5.62%) RESTful
6 247 (5.22%) React
7 240 (5.07%) Spring
8 237 (5.01%) Spring Boot
9 158 (3.34%) JSON
10 154 (3.26%) Node.js
11 152 (3.21%) OAuth
12 139 (2.94%) PySpark
13 127 (2.68%) Playwright
14 117 (2.47%) HTML
15 115 (2.43%) .NET Framework
16 114 (2.41%) SOAP
17 111 (2.35%) CSS
18 102 (2.16%) OAuth2
19 97 (2.05%) AngularJS
20 96 (2.03%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 864 (18.26%) Cloud Native
2 364 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 218 (4.61%) Distributed Systems
4 177 (3.74%) Onboarding
5 175 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
6 136 (2.87%) Hybrid Cloud
7 122 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
8 99 (2.09%) AI Agents
9 85 (1.80%) Management Information System
10 69 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
11 68 (1.44%) Security Posture
12 64 (1.35%) Data Structures
13 63 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
13 63 (1.33%) Public Cloud
13 63 (1.33%) Replication
14 58 (1.23%) Data Centre
15 56 (1.18%) Virtual Team
16 50 (1.06%) Mobile App
17 44 (0.93%) PKI
18 41 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 473 (10.00%) Linux
2 276 (5.83%) Windows
3 112 (2.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 90 (1.90%) Unix
5 81 (1.71%) Windows Server
6 36 (0.76%) Ubuntu
7 31 (0.66%) Apple iOS
8 28 (0.59%) VMS
9 21 (0.44%) Android
10 13 (0.27%) CentOS
11 10 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
11 10 (0.21%) zOS
12 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
12 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
13 7 (0.15%) AIX
13 7 (0.15%) Solaris
14 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.085%) Alpine Linux
15 4 (0.085%) Data ONTAP
15 4 (0.085%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,828 (59.78%) CI/CD
2 1,929 (40.77%) Agile
3 1,385 (29.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 824 (17.42%) Stakeholder Management
5 815 (17.23%) Continuous Improvement
6 776 (16.40%) AI
7 763 (16.13%) Containerisation
8 759 (16.04%) Problem-Solving
9 754 (15.94%) Test Automation
10 694 (14.67%) Microservices
11 675 (14.27%) Observability
12 644 (13.61%) Software Engineering
13 632 (13.36%) Platform Engineering
14 582 (12.30%) Scrum
15 569 (12.03%) Migration
16 539 (11.39%) Technical Leadership
17 514 (10.86%) Analytics
18 450 (9.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 438 (9.26%) Roadmaps
20 422 (8.92%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,394 (29.47%) Python
2 840 (17.76%) SQL
3 698 (14.75%) Java
4 430 (9.09%) C#
4 430 (9.09%) PowerShell
5 412 (8.71%) Bash
6 386 (8.16%) JavaScript
7 268 (5.66%) TypeScript
8 214 (4.52%) Bicep
9 84 (1.78%) Go
10 63 (1.33%) Shell Script
11 57 (1.20%) Groovy
12 55 (1.16%) T-SQL
13 54 (1.14%) Scala
14 47 (0.99%) PL/SQL
15 45 (0.95%) Apex Code
16 32 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 30 (0.63%) C++
17 30 (0.63%) Perl
18 24 (0.51%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,523 (32.19%) Security Cleared
2 1,273 (26.91%) SC Cleared
3 327 (6.91%) Degree
4 214 (4.52%) Azure Certification
5 209 (4.42%) DV Cleared
6 166 (3.51%) AWS Certification
7 139 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 123 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 110 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 74 (1.56%) CISSP
11 49 (1.04%) ISTQB
12 48 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
13 43 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 40 (0.85%) PMP
15 39 (0.82%) Master's Degree
16 34 (0.72%) PMI Certification
17 31 (0.66%) CISM
18 20 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 20 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 20 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 475 (10.04%) QA
2 249 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 160 (3.38%) Accessibility
4 114 (2.41%) GDPR
5 83 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 78 (1.65%) WCAG
7 74 (1.56%) NIST
8 47 (0.99%) NCSC
9 44 (0.93%) PMO
10 31 (0.66%) SLA
11 27 (0.57%) PCI DSS
12 26 (0.55%) GRC
13 20 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 19 (0.40%) ISO 20022
15 15 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
16 12 (0.25%) HIPAA
16 12 (0.25%) SEPA
17 10 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
17 10 (0.21%) SOC 2
18 9 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 947 (20.02%) Docker
2 145 (3.06%) Active Directory
3 71 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
4 64 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
6 20 (0.42%) Hyper-V
6 20 (0.42%) vSphere
7 16 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 13 (0.27%) VMware NSX
9 12 (0.25%) Squid
10 11 (0.23%) IAG
11 9 (0.19%) Postfix
12 8 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
13 6 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 6 (0.13%) Corosync
13 6 (0.13%) KVM
13 6 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
14 5 (0.11%) NFS
14 5 (0.11%) RACF
15 4 (0.085%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1,238 (26.17%) Kubernetes
2 469 (9.91%) Ansible
3 306 (6.47%) Grafana
4 261 (5.52%) Prometheus
5 62 (1.31%) Argo
6 54 (1.14%) Puppet
7 46 (0.97%) Progress Chef
7 46 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
8 45 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
9 32 (0.68%) Packer
10 27 (0.57%) Kibana
11 20 (0.42%) Kubeflow
12 19 (0.40%) Kustomize
13 18 (0.38%) Istio
14 16 (0.34%) SCCM
15 15 (0.32%) HP ALM
15 15 (0.32%) vCenter Server
16 13 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
16 13 (0.27%) SCOM
16 13 (0.27%) systemd
Vendors
1 954 (20.16%) Microsoft
2 264 (5.58%) Databricks
3 243 (5.14%) Google
4 238 (5.03%) Oracle
5 193 (4.08%) ServiceNow
6 166 (3.51%) Splunk
7 140 (2.96%) Salesforce
8 128 (2.71%) Dynatrace
9 102 (2.16%) VMware
10 93 (1.97%) Red Hat
10 93 (1.97%) SAP
11 66 (1.40%) IBM
12 58 (1.23%) OpenAI
13 47 (0.99%) Foundry
14 46 (0.97%) Cisco
15 41 (0.87%) Informatica
16 39 (0.82%) AppDynamics
17 34 (0.72%) MuleSoft
18 33 (0.70%) Atlassian
19 31 (0.66%) Okta