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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 14 14
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,872 3,165 3,237
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.40% 11.25% 10.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.25% 12.38% 11.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,370 2,236 2,174
10th Percentile £381 £363 £387
25th Percentile £438 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 21 55
10th Percentile £37.25 £42.50 £46.18
25th Percentile £57.44 £56.75 £65.00
Median hourly rate £68.75 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% -4.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £78.81 £88.75 -
90th Percentile £94.31 £95.00 £79.95
UK median hourly rate £69.50 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +3.73% -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 39,775 25,570 27,639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.94% 90.90% 86.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,015 16,235 16,841
10th Percentile £325 £294 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,044 1,594 1,106
10th Percentile £13.70 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.41 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £67.47 £44.80 £66.90
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -10.11%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -1 2,603 £550 - 2,065
North of England -4 802 £500 +4.17% 647
South East -10 456 £543 +8.50% 502
Midlands -8 422 £486 -5.58% 235
Yorkshire -4 382 £500 - 219
West Midlands -7 344 £490 -6.67% 140
South West +5 326 £550 - 234
North West -4 322 £521 +15.80% 327
East of England -2 146 £505 -4.94% 202
North East +11 112 £450 -18.18% 106
East Midlands -11 76 £425 +1.19% 95
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
1 301 (6.18%) Confluence
2 142 (2.91%) SharePoint
3 122 (2.50%) Apache Spark
4 116 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
5 109 (2.24%) Apache
6 56 (1.15%) SAS
7 42 (0.86%) Jupyter
8 39 (0.80%) CMS
9 31 (0.64%) nginx
10 24 (0.49%) IIS
11 19 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
12 15 (0.31%) Camunda
13 13 (0.27%) OpenStack
14 9 (0.18%) Anypoint
14 9 (0.18%) Appian
14 9 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
14 9 (0.18%) WebSphere
15 8 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
15 8 (0.16%) Tomcat
16 7 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 68 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
3 53 (1.09%) MS Visio
4 39 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 32 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
6 14 (0.29%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
8 8 (0.16%) CPLEX
8 8 (0.16%) Windchill
9 5 (0.10%) Notion
9 5 (0.10%) Trello
10 3 (0.062%) Mingle
11 2 (0.041%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.041%) Gliffy
12 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
12 1 (0.021%) Mozilla Thunderbird
12 1 (0.021%) Sketch
12 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 73 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 36 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
4 8 (0.16%) Magento
4 8 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 6 (0.12%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
5 6 (0.12%) SAP MDG
6 5 (0.10%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
6 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
6 5 (0.10%) Temenos T24
7 4 (0.082%) Oracle Payroll
7 4 (0.082%) Teamcenter
8 3 (0.062%) Endur
8 3 (0.062%) Maximo
8 3 (0.062%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (0.062%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.062%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2,637 (54.13%) Azure
2 1,687 (34.63%) AWS
3 1,535 (31.51%) Azure DevOps
4 847 (17.39%) GitHub
5 662 (13.59%) GCP
6 530 (10.88%) GitHub Actions
7 446 (9.15%) Power Platform
8 418 (8.58%) Serverless
9 258 (5.30%) Amazon S3
10 250 (5.13%) Entra ID
11 240 (4.93%) AWS Lambda
12 215 (4.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 214 (4.39%) Amazon EKS
14 190 (3.90%) Azure AKS
15 187 (3.84%) Azure Monitor
16 180 (3.69%) Dynamics 365
17 177 (3.63%) Azure Data Factory
18 171 (3.51%) AWS CloudFormation
19 169 (3.47%) Amazon EC2
20 161 (3.30%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 220 (4.52%) Firewall
2 158 (3.24%) DNS
3 114 (2.34%) Network Security
4 112 (2.30%) VPN
5 81 (1.66%) TCP/IP
6 50 (1.03%) SSL
7 45 (0.92%) DHCP
8 44 (0.90%) WAN
9 36 (0.74%) BGP
10 32 (0.66%) HTTP
10 32 (0.66%) Internet
11 27 (0.55%) SSH
12 26 (0.53%) OSPF
12 26 (0.53%) SD-WAN
13 19 (0.39%) LAN
13 19 (0.39%) VLAN
14 18 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
15 17 (0.35%) BIG-IP
15 17 (0.35%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 15 (0.31%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 289 (5.93%) Power BI
2 260 (5.34%) SQL Server
3 254 (5.21%) PostgreSQL
4 180 (3.69%) Data Warehouse
5 158 (3.24%) NoSQL
6 152 (3.12%) Data Lake
7 149 (3.06%) MongoDB
8 134 (2.75%) Relational Database
9 129 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
10 121 (2.48%) Metadata
11 87 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
12 80 (1.64%) Delta Lake
13 78 (1.60%) MySQL
14 77 (1.58%) DynamoDB
15 76 (1.56%) Oracle Database
16 70 (1.44%) Redis
17 58 (1.19%) Big Data
18 56 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 53 (1.09%) BigQuery
20 50 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 717 (14.72%) Git
2 699 (14.35%) Jenkins
3 570 (11.70%) GitLab
4 549 (11.27%) JIRA
5 132 (2.71%) Selenium
6 82 (1.68%) Maven
7 81 (1.66%) JUnit
7 81 (1.66%) Postman
8 80 (1.64%) SonarQube
9 76 (1.56%) Cucumber
10 65 (1.33%) Cypress.io
11 63 (1.29%) Bitbucket
12 60 (1.23%) REST Assured
13 56 (1.15%) Gradle
14 55 (1.13%) JMeter
15 42 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
16 41 (0.84%) Claude Code
17 40 (0.82%) Mockito
17 40 (0.82%) Visual Studio
18 38 (0.78%) Gatling
General
1 1,327 (27.24%) Social Skills
2 953 (19.56%) Finance
3 655 (13.44%) Public Sector
4 508 (10.43%) Analytical Skills
5 393 (8.07%) Banking
6 146 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 112 (2.30%) Retail
8 87 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
9 72 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
10 61 (1.25%) Aerospace
11 57 (1.17%) Marketing
12 54 (1.11%) Investment Banking
13 53 (1.09%) Military
14 49 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
14 49 (1.01%) Telecoms
15 47 (0.96%) Financial Institution
16 46 (0.94%) Local Government
16 46 (0.94%) Manufacturing
17 44 (0.90%) Legal
18 42 (0.86%) Law
Job Titles
1 924 (18.97%) DevOps Engineer
2 766 (15.72%) Senior
3 750 (15.39%) Developer
4 570 (11.70%) Architect
5 485 (9.95%) Lead
6 298 (6.12%) Azure Engineer
7 290 (5.95%) Data Engineer
8 222 (4.56%) Analyst
9 201 (4.13%) AWS Engineer
10 194 (3.98%) Platform Engineer
11 181 (3.72%) Cloud Engineer
12 180 (3.69%) Senior DevOps
13 164 (3.37%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 163 (3.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 154 (3.16%) Solutions Architect
16 138 (2.83%) AWS DevOps
17 135 (2.77%) Java Developer
17 135 (2.77%) Software Engineer
18 128 (2.63%) Senior Developer
19 127 (2.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,485 (30.48%) Terraform
2 586 (12.03%) REST
3 441 (9.05%) .NET
4 344 (7.06%) Kafka
5 275 (5.64%) RESTful
6 263 (5.40%) React
7 240 (4.93%) Spring
8 237 (4.86%) Spring Boot
9 170 (3.49%) OAuth
10 161 (3.30%) JSON
11 148 (3.04%) Node.js
12 139 (2.85%) PySpark
13 136 (2.79%) Playwright
14 123 (2.52%) .NET Framework
15 121 (2.48%) HTML
16 120 (2.46%) SOAP
17 113 (2.32%) CSS
18 109 (2.24%) Middleware
18 109 (2.24%) OAuth2
19 99 (2.03%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 913 (18.74%) Cloud Native
2 381 (7.82%) Product Ownership
3 224 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
4 208 (4.27%) Enterprise Software
5 198 (4.06%) Onboarding
6 147 (3.02%) Hybrid Cloud
7 130 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
8 109 (2.24%) AI Agents
9 96 (1.97%) Management Information System
10 74 (1.52%) Security Posture
11 71 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
12 70 (1.44%) Public Cloud
13 65 (1.33%) Data Structures
14 64 (1.31%) Data Centre
15 61 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
16 60 (1.23%) Replication
17 53 (1.09%) PKI
18 50 (1.03%) Mobile App
18 50 (1.03%) Virtual Team
19 48 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 514 (10.55%) Linux
2 301 (6.18%) Windows
3 118 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 101 (2.07%) Unix
5 92 (1.89%) Windows Server
6 39 (0.80%) Ubuntu
7 30 (0.62%) VMS
8 26 (0.53%) Apple iOS
9 18 (0.37%) Android
10 16 (0.33%) CentOS
11 10 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
11 10 (0.21%) zOS
12 8 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
12 8 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
13 7 (0.14%) AIX
13 7 (0.14%) macOS
14 6 (0.12%) Solaris
15 5 (0.10%) Alpine Linux
16 4 (0.082%) Windows Server 2008
17 3 (0.062%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,975 (61.06%) CI/CD
2 1,990 (40.85%) Agile
3 1,471 (30.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 907 (18.62%) Stakeholder Management
5 868 (17.82%) Continuous Improvement
6 851 (17.47%) AI
7 828 (17.00%) Test Automation
8 799 (16.40%) Problem-Solving
9 794 (16.30%) Containerisation
10 718 (14.74%) Observability
11 708 (14.53%) Microservices
12 684 (14.04%) Platform Engineering
13 683 (14.02%) Software Engineering
14 611 (12.54%) Migration
15 593 (12.17%) Scrum
16 567 (11.64%) Technical Leadership
17 517 (10.61%) Analytics
18 469 (9.63%) Roadmaps
19 459 (9.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 435 (8.93%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,492 (30.62%) Python
2 855 (17.55%) SQL
3 709 (14.55%) Java
4 475 (9.75%) PowerShell
5 463 (9.50%) C#
6 458 (9.40%) Bash
7 406 (8.33%) JavaScript
8 298 (6.12%) TypeScript
9 243 (4.99%) Bicep
10 97 (1.99%) Go
11 67 (1.38%) Shell Script
12 60 (1.23%) Groovy
13 57 (1.17%) T-SQL
14 54 (1.11%) Scala
15 43 (0.88%) Apex Code
16 42 (0.86%) PL/SQL
17 34 (0.70%) C++
18 32 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 30 (0.62%) Kotlin
19 30 (0.62%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,569 (32.20%) Security Cleared
2 1,304 (26.77%) SC Cleared
3 349 (7.16%) Degree
4 238 (4.89%) DV Cleared
5 222 (4.56%) Azure Certification
6 193 (3.96%) AWS Certification
7 153 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
8 131 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
9 105 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
10 77 (1.58%) CISSP
11 58 (1.19%) ISTQB
12 57 (1.17%) PMP
13 51 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
13 51 (1.05%) PMI Certification
14 41 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 39 (0.80%) Master's Degree
16 32 (0.66%) CISM
17 24 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 21 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 21 (0.43%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 503 (10.32%) QA
2 263 (5.40%) Data Quality
3 172 (3.53%) Accessibility
4 117 (2.40%) GDPR
5 92 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 78 (1.60%) WCAG
7 64 (1.31%) NIST
8 46 (0.94%) PMO
9 45 (0.92%) NCSC
10 32 (0.66%) PCI DSS
11 30 (0.62%) SLA
12 24 (0.49%) GRC
13 19 (0.39%) ISO 20022
14 16 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 15 (0.31%) HIPAA
15 15 (0.31%) SOC 2
16 13 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
16 13 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
17 12 (0.25%) SEPA
18 9 (0.18%) HL7
System Software
1 996 (20.44%) Docker
2 153 (3.14%) Active Directory
3 72 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
4 64 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 23 (0.47%) vSphere
6 22 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
7 20 (0.41%) Hyper-V
8 17 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (0.23%) Squid
9 11 (0.23%) VMware NSX
10 10 (0.21%) IAG
11 8 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
12 6 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 6 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
12 6 (0.12%) Postfix
13 5 (0.10%) KVM
13 5 (0.10%) RACF
14 4 (0.082%) BitLocker
14 4 (0.082%) Firmware
14 4 (0.082%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1,303 (26.74%) Kubernetes
2 493 (10.12%) Ansible
3 325 (6.67%) Grafana
4 272 (5.58%) Prometheus
5 61 (1.25%) Argo
6 53 (1.09%) Puppet
7 51 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
8 47 (0.96%) Progress Chef
9 39 (0.80%) Kibana
10 38 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
11 33 (0.68%) Packer
12 25 (0.51%) Kubeflow
13 24 (0.49%) Istio
14 20 (0.41%) Kustomize
14 20 (0.41%) SCCM
15 13 (0.27%) Control-M
15 13 (0.27%) HP ALM
15 13 (0.27%) SCOM
15 13 (0.27%) vCenter Server
16 12 (0.25%) systemd
Vendors
1 1,016 (20.85%) Microsoft
2 284 (5.83%) Databricks
3 281 (5.77%) Google
4 235 (4.82%) Oracle
5 181 (3.72%) ServiceNow
6 166 (3.41%) Splunk
7 142 (2.91%) Dynatrace
8 138 (2.83%) Salesforce
9 99 (2.03%) SAP
9 99 (2.03%) VMware
10 91 (1.87%) Red Hat
11 66 (1.35%) IBM
12 63 (1.29%) OpenAI
13 51 (1.05%) Foundry
14 44 (0.90%) Cisco
15 40 (0.82%) Informatica
15 40 (0.82%) MuleSoft
16 34 (0.70%) AppDynamics
17 33 (0.68%) Atlassian
18 32 (0.66%) Okta