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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,822 2,947 3,334
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.56% 10.62% 10.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.45% 11.69% 11.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,312 2,124 2,279
10th Percentile £385 £360 £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 £634 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 23 76
10th Percentile £36.12 £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 £93.44 £95.00 £85.13
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +0.75% -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 38,743 25,202 28,504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.81% 90.84% 85.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,962 16,051 18,351
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £627 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £751
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,572 1,476 1,524
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.25 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.17 £17.87 £18.08
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 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +67.00% -38.57% -3.67%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 2,545 £550 - 466
North of England 0 801 £500 +4.17% 258
South East -11 464 £525 +5.00% 283
Midlands 0 453 £488 -2.50% 125
Yorkshire 0 395 £500 +1.46% 77
West Midlands -1 360 £490 -5.50% 78
North West -3 312 £523 +10.69% 133
South West +5 311 £525 +1.45% 164
East of England +11 139 £505 -3.35% 52
North East +15 111 £425 -19.05% 51
East Midlands +10 89 £455 -1.62% 47
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
1 288 (5.97%) Confluence
2 134 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 118 (2.45%) Apache Airflow
4 114 (2.36%) Apache Spark
5 99 (2.05%) Apache
6 60 (1.24%) SAS
7 41 (0.85%) CMS
8 34 (0.71%) Jupyter
9 32 (0.66%) IIS
10 22 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
11 20 (0.41%) nginx
12 13 (0.27%) Camunda
13 11 (0.23%) OpenStack
13 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
13 11 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
13 11 (0.23%) WebSphere
14 9 (0.19%) Anypoint
14 9 (0.19%) Appian
15 6 (0.12%) Documentum
15 6 (0.12%) Mule
Applications
1 61 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
2 59 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 40 (0.83%) MS Visio
4 31 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 29 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
6 9 (0.19%) Chatbot
6 9 (0.19%) CPLEX
7 8 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.12%) Trello
9 5 (0.10%) Notion
10 4 (0.083%) Windchill
11 1 (0.021%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.021%) Gliffy
11 1 (0.021%) InDesign
11 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 63 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
4 10 (0.21%) Aladdin
5 9 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
5 9 (0.19%) Magento
6 8 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 6 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.10%) Maximo
9 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
9 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
10 4 (0.083%) Endur
10 4 (0.083%) Oracle ERP
10 4 (0.083%) SAP MDG
11 3 (0.062%) Findur
11 3 (0.062%) SAP ERP
11 3 (0.062%) Shopify
11 3 (0.062%) Teamcenter
12 2 (0.041%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 2,646 (54.87%) Azure
2 1,669 (34.61%) AWS
3 1,538 (31.90%) Azure DevOps
4 812 (16.84%) GitHub
5 602 (12.48%) GCP
6 513 (10.64%) GitHub Actions
7 424 (8.79%) Power Platform
8 389 (8.07%) Serverless
9 238 (4.94%) Entra ID
10 233 (4.83%) Amazon S3
11 229 (4.75%) AWS Lambda
12 197 (4.09%) Azure AKS
13 179 (3.71%) Amazon EKS
14 178 (3.69%) AWS CloudFormation
14 178 (3.69%) Azure Monitor
15 177 (3.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 177 (3.67%) Azure Data Factory
16 163 (3.38%) Dynamics 365
17 154 (3.19%) Power Automate
18 144 (2.99%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 228 (4.73%) Firewall
2 146 (3.03%) DNS
3 115 (2.38%) VPN
4 102 (2.12%) Network Security
5 63 (1.31%) TCP/IP
6 54 (1.12%) WAN
7 42 (0.87%) SSL
8 39 (0.81%) SD-WAN
9 38 (0.79%) DHCP
10 35 (0.73%) BGP
11 32 (0.66%) Internet
12 29 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
13 26 (0.54%) OSPF
14 25 (0.52%) HTTP
15 20 (0.41%) VLAN
16 19 (0.39%) SAN
16 19 (0.39%) SSH
17 18 (0.37%) LAN
17 18 (0.37%) MPLS
17 18 (0.37%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 294 (6.10%) Power BI
2 256 (5.31%) SQL Server
3 244 (5.06%) PostgreSQL
4 180 (3.73%) Data Warehouse
5 170 (3.53%) NoSQL
6 154 (3.19%) Relational Database
7 142 (2.94%) Data Lake
8 141 (2.92%) MongoDB
9 109 (2.26%) Metadata
10 103 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
11 91 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
12 78 (1.62%) Delta Lake
13 76 (1.58%) DynamoDB
13 76 (1.58%) Oracle Database
14 68 (1.41%) Redis
15 58 (1.20%) MySQL
16 57 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
17 54 (1.12%) Big Data
18 51 (1.06%) BigQuery
19 50 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 661 (13.71%) Jenkins
2 648 (13.44%) Git
3 571 (11.84%) JIRA
4 510 (10.58%) GitLab
5 113 (2.34%) Selenium
6 83 (1.72%) Postman
7 82 (1.70%) SonarQube
8 76 (1.58%) Bitbucket
9 73 (1.51%) JUnit
10 71 (1.47%) Maven
11 58 (1.20%) Cypress.io
11 58 (1.20%) JMeter
12 55 (1.14%) REST Assured
13 50 (1.04%) Cucumber
14 48 (1.00%) Gatling
15 46 (0.95%) Gradle
16 41 (0.85%) LoadRunner
17 35 (0.73%) Mockito
18 33 (0.68%) Artifactory
18 33 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,247 (25.86%) Social Skills
2 907 (18.81%) Finance
3 662 (13.73%) Public Sector
4 464 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
5 333 (6.91%) Banking
6 137 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 102 (2.12%) Retail
8 90 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
9 67 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
10 57 (1.18%) Legal
11 56 (1.16%) Marketing
12 54 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
13 47 (0.97%) Aerospace
13 47 (0.97%) Investment Banking
14 42 (0.87%) Military
15 41 (0.85%) Front Office
16 40 (0.83%) Law
16 40 (0.83%) Telecoms
17 37 (0.77%) Financial Institution
18 34 (0.71%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 886 (18.37%) DevOps Engineer
2 768 (15.93%) Developer
3 719 (14.91%) Senior
4 560 (11.61%) Architect
5 485 (10.06%) Lead
6 295 (6.12%) Azure Engineer
7 278 (5.77%) Data Engineer
8 232 (4.81%) Analyst
9 192 (3.98%) Platform Engineer
10 190 (3.94%) AWS Engineer
11 175 (3.63%) Cloud Engineer
12 166 (3.44%) Senior DevOps
13 163 (3.38%) Solutions Architect
14 156 (3.24%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 152 (3.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 140 (2.90%) Java Developer
17 135 (2.80%) Software Engineer
18 134 (2.78%) Senior Developer
19 132 (2.74%) AWS DevOps
20 123 (2.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,378 (28.58%) Terraform
2 498 (10.33%) REST
3 436 (9.04%) .NET
4 310 (6.43%) Kafka
5 267 (5.54%) RESTful
6 241 (5.00%) React
7 233 (4.83%) Spring
8 215 (4.46%) Spring Boot
9 163 (3.38%) Node.js
10 160 (3.32%) JSON
11 144 (2.99%) PySpark
12 142 (2.94%) OAuth
13 137 (2.84%) Playwright
14 130 (2.70%) .NET Framework
15 124 (2.57%) AngularJS
16 120 (2.49%) SOAP
17 117 (2.43%) HTML
18 102 (2.12%) CSS
18 102 (2.12%) YAML
19 99 (2.05%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 877 (18.19%) Cloud Native
2 362 (7.51%) Product Ownership
3 228 (4.73%) Distributed Systems
4 159 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
5 154 (3.19%) Onboarding
6 139 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
7 133 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
8 80 (1.66%) AI Agents
9 78 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
10 70 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
11 68 (1.41%) Management Information System
12 62 (1.29%) Data Structures
13 60 (1.24%) Security Posture
14 59 (1.22%) Public Cloud
15 58 (1.20%) Data Centre
16 56 (1.16%) Replication
17 52 (1.08%) Mobile App
18 50 (1.04%) Virtual Team
19 42 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
20 38 (0.79%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 436 (9.04%) Linux
2 271 (5.62%) Windows
3 99 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 87 (1.80%) Unix
5 75 (1.56%) Windows Server
6 30 (0.62%) Apple iOS
7 29 (0.60%) Ubuntu
8 28 (0.58%) VMS
9 20 (0.41%) Android
10 8 (0.17%) AIX
10 8 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
10 8 (0.17%) Solaris
10 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.17%) zOS
11 7 (0.15%) CentOS
11 7 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (0.083%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (0.083%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,806 (58.19%) CI/CD
2 1,956 (40.56%) Agile
3 1,334 (27.66%) Infrastructure as Code
4 811 (16.82%) Continuous Improvement
5 772 (16.01%) Containerisation
6 765 (15.86%) Problem-Solving
7 760 (15.76%) Stakeholder Management
8 753 (15.62%) Test Automation
9 711 (14.74%) AI
10 702 (14.56%) Microservices
11 635 (13.17%) Observability
12 604 (12.53%) Software Engineering
13 599 (12.42%) Platform Engineering
14 589 (12.21%) Scrum
15 583 (12.09%) Migration
16 530 (10.99%) Analytics
17 499 (10.35%) Technical Leadership
18 455 (9.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 422 (8.75%) Roadmaps
20 415 (8.61%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,381 (28.64%) Python
2 904 (18.75%) SQL
3 688 (14.27%) Java
4 449 (9.31%) C#
5 436 (9.04%) PowerShell
6 403 (8.36%) Bash
7 384 (7.96%) JavaScript
8 263 (5.45%) TypeScript
9 214 (4.44%) Bicep
10 75 (1.56%) Go
11 62 (1.29%) Shell Script
12 57 (1.18%) T-SQL
13 53 (1.10%) Groovy
13 53 (1.10%) PL/SQL
14 52 (1.08%) Scala
15 51 (1.06%) Apex Code
16 31 (0.64%) C++
17 29 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 29 (0.60%) Perl
18 21 (0.44%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,556 (32.27%) Security Cleared
2 1,310 (27.17%) SC Cleared
3 303 (6.28%) Degree
4 200 (4.15%) Azure Certification
5 182 (3.77%) DV Cleared
6 159 (3.30%) AWS Certification
7 131 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 111 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
9 90 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
10 67 (1.39%) CISSP
11 51 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
12 49 (1.02%) ISTQB
13 44 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 38 (0.79%) PMP
15 34 (0.71%) PMI Certification
16 33 (0.68%) Master's Degree
17 28 (0.58%) CISM
18 25 (0.52%) CCNP
19 22 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
20 21 (0.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 474 (9.83%) QA
2 247 (5.12%) Data Quality
3 156 (3.24%) Accessibility
4 118 (2.45%) GDPR
5 88 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 74 (1.53%) NIST
7 72 (1.49%) WCAG
8 46 (0.95%) NCSC
9 45 (0.93%) PMO
10 35 (0.73%) SLA
11 31 (0.64%) PCI DSS
12 28 (0.58%) GRC
13 24 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 12 (0.25%) 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
1 942 (19.54%) Docker
2 160 (3.32%) Active Directory
3 72 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 70 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (0.48%) Hyper-V
6 22 (0.46%) vSphere
7 20 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
8 17 (0.35%) VMware NSX
9 14 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
10 12 (0.25%) Squid
11 10 (0.21%) IAG
11 10 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
12 9 (0.19%) 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 (25.57%) Kubernetes
2 473 (9.81%) Ansible
3 310 (6.43%) Grafana
4 261 (5.41%) Prometheus
5 73 (1.51%) Argo
6 56 (1.16%) Puppet
7 53 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
8 45 (0.93%) Progress Chef
9 37 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
10 31 (0.64%) Packer
11 27 (0.56%) Istio
12 19 (0.39%) Kibana
12 19 (0.39%) vCenter Server
13 18 (0.37%) Kustomize
13 18 (0.37%) SCCM
14 17 (0.35%) Kubeflow
15 13 (0.27%) Control-M
15 13 (0.27%) HP ALM
15 13 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
16 12 (0.25%) systemd
Vendors
1 957 (19.85%) Microsoft
2 251 (5.21%) Databricks
3 246 (5.10%) Oracle
4 228 (4.73%) Google
5 188 (3.90%) ServiceNow
6 159 (3.30%) Splunk
7 143 (2.97%) Salesforce
8 130 (2.70%) Dynatrace
9 100 (2.07%) VMware
10 97 (2.01%) SAP
11 95 (1.97%) Red Hat
12 58 (1.20%) IBM
13 53 (1.10%) Informatica
14 48 (1.00%) Cisco
15 47 (0.97%) Atlassian
16 45 (0.93%) OpenAI
17 44 (0.91%) AppDynamics
18 38 (0.79%) Foundry
19 34 (0.71%) MuleSoft
20 32 (0.66%) CyberArk