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 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 16 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,611 2,544 3,559
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.61% 10.07% 9.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.42% 11.02% 11.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,210 1,836 2,432
10th Percentile £390 £367 £400
25th Percentile £441 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 11 118
10th Percentile £39.53 £35.00 £56.50
25th Percentile £61.87 £46.88 £61.60
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year - +1.82% +4.79%
75th Percentile £78.25 £85.86 £74.86
90th Percentile £94.81 £92.50 £86.05
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £76.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -7.89% +8.57% +6.70%

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 37,112 23,092 31,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.37% 91.39% 85.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,409 14,893 20,664
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £418 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,320 1,127 2,324
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.50 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +84.31% -33.11% +1.87%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £73.60
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +4.17%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 27 June 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 +3 2,369 £550 - 451
North of England +7 853 £500 - 247
Yorkshire +2 459 £513 +2.50% 68
South East -4 448 £513 +2.50% 287
Midlands -1 432 £492 -1.60% 101
West Midlands -1 343 £500 -2.44% 62
North West +1 318 £500 +3.09% 137
South West +15 285 £515 -6.36% 110
East of England +24 138 £525 +5.00% 71
North East +10 94 £450 -13.88% 45
East Midlands +1 85 £481 +6.94% 39
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
1 267 (5.79%) Confluence
2 125 (2.71%) Apache Spark
3 115 (2.49%) SharePoint
4 98 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
5 91 (1.97%) Apache
6 73 (1.58%) SAS
7 48 (1.04%) CMS
8 29 (0.63%) IIS
9 28 (0.61%) Jupyter
10 27 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
11 26 (0.56%) nginx
12 15 (0.33%) Camunda
13 14 (0.30%) OpenStack
13 14 (0.30%) WebSphere
14 13 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
15 11 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
16 9 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
17 7 (0.15%) Tomcat
18 6 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
18 6 (0.13%) Mattermost
Applications
1 67 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
3 42 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 35 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
5 32 (0.69%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.22%) CPLEX
7 7 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.087%) Notion
9 3 (0.065%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.065%) Trello
10 2 (0.043%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.022%) InDesign
11 1 (0.022%) Maya
11 1 (0.022%) Weka
Business Applications
1 64 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
4 9 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.17%) Aladdin
5 8 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
5 8 (0.17%) Maximo
6 6 (0.13%) Magento
6 6 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.11%) Endur
7 5 (0.11%) OpenText MBPM
7 5 (0.11%) Oracle BPM
7 5 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.087%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.065%) Findur
9 3 (0.065%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.065%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.065%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.065%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 2,442 (52.96%) Azure
2 1,607 (34.85%) AWS
3 1,346 (29.19%) Azure DevOps
4 738 (16.01%) GitHub
5 556 (12.06%) GCP
6 439 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
7 410 (8.89%) Serverless
8 391 (8.48%) Power Platform
9 261 (5.66%) Amazon S3
10 228 (4.94%) AWS Lambda
11 225 (4.88%) Entra ID
12 189 (4.10%) Azure AKS
13 187 (4.06%) AWS CloudFormation
14 169 (3.67%) Azure Data Factory
15 164 (3.56%) Amazon EKS
16 154 (3.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 151 (3.27%) Amazon EC2
18 146 (3.17%) OpenShift
19 145 (3.14%) Azure Monitor
20 138 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 216 (4.68%) Firewall
2 121 (2.62%) DNS
3 101 (2.19%) Network Security
4 97 (2.10%) VPN
5 48 (1.04%) WAN
6 40 (0.87%) TCP/IP
7 36 (0.78%) SD-WAN
8 32 (0.69%) BGP
9 30 (0.65%) SSL
10 27 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
11 24 (0.52%) Internet
11 24 (0.52%) OSPF
12 20 (0.43%) DHCP
13 18 (0.39%) HTTP
14 17 (0.37%) LAN
14 17 (0.37%) MPLS
14 17 (0.37%) SAN
14 17 (0.37%) VXLAN
15 16 (0.35%) BIG-IP
15 16 (0.35%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 260 (5.64%) Power BI
2 238 (5.16%) SQL Server
3 225 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
4 168 (3.64%) NoSQL
5 153 (3.32%) Relational Database
6 140 (3.04%) Data Lake
7 137 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
7 137 (2.97%) MongoDB
8 100 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
9 88 (1.91%) Azure SQL Database
10 81 (1.76%) DynamoDB
11 80 (1.73%) Delta Lake
12 75 (1.63%) Metadata
13 70 (1.52%) Oracle Database
14 62 (1.34%) Redis
15 58 (1.26%) Big Data
16 57 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
17 55 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
17 55 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
18 42 (0.91%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 650 (14.10%) Jenkins
2 589 (12.77%) Git
3 546 (11.84%) JIRA
4 485 (10.52%) GitLab
5 98 (2.13%) Selenium
6 90 (1.95%) Postman
7 82 (1.78%) SonarQube
8 81 (1.76%) JUnit
9 67 (1.45%) Bitbucket
10 64 (1.39%) REST Assured
11 63 (1.37%) Maven
12 51 (1.11%) Cucumber
13 49 (1.06%) JMeter
14 42 (0.91%) Gatling
15 41 (0.89%) Gradle
16 39 (0.85%) Cypress.io
17 38 (0.82%) Artifactory
18 37 (0.80%) Mockito
19 33 (0.72%) LoadRunner
20 32 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,173 (25.44%) Social Skills
2 897 (19.45%) Finance
3 604 (13.10%) Public Sector
4 394 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
5 326 (7.07%) Banking
6 125 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
7 97 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 73 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
9 72 (1.56%) Retail
10 55 (1.19%) Marketing
11 52 (1.13%) Legal
12 51 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
13 43 (0.93%) Military
14 42 (0.91%) Investment Banking
15 41 (0.89%) Financial Institution
16 35 (0.76%) Law
16 35 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
17 31 (0.67%) Front Office
18 26 (0.56%) Aerospace
19 25 (0.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 892 (19.35%) DevOps Engineer
2 698 (15.14%) Developer
3 648 (14.05%) Senior
4 564 (12.23%) Architect
5 429 (9.30%) Lead
6 288 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
7 283 (6.14%) Data Engineer
8 266 (5.77%) Analyst
9 207 (4.49%) AWS Engineer
10 177 (3.84%) Cloud Engineer
11 175 (3.80%) Solutions Architect
12 171 (3.71%) Platform Engineer
13 156 (3.38%) Senior DevOps
14 150 (3.25%) AWS DevOps
15 143 (3.10%) Java Developer
16 142 (3.08%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 142 (3.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 141 (3.06%) Software Engineer
18 138 (2.99%) Business Analyst
19 137 (2.97%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 431 (9.35%) REST
2 395 (8.57%) .NET
3 266 (5.77%) Kafka
4 260 (5.64%) Spring
5 251 (5.44%) React
6 242 (5.25%) Spring Boot
7 227 (4.92%) RESTful
8 190 (4.12%) Node.js
9 144 (3.12%) AngularJS
10 134 (2.91%) PySpark
11 133 (2.88%) OAuth
12 127 (2.75%) Playwright
13 124 (2.69%) JSON
14 114 (2.47%) .NET Framework
15 113 (2.45%) SOAP
16 104 (2.26%) HTML
17 102 (2.21%) YAML
18 97 (2.10%) OpenID
19 91 (1.97%) Middleware
20 90 (1.95%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 823 (17.85%) Cloud Native
2 306 (6.64%) Product Ownership
3 204 (4.42%) Distributed Systems
4 129 (2.80%) Onboarding
5 117 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
6 112 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
7 101 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
8 80 (1.73%) Public Cloud
9 67 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
10 66 (1.43%) Data Centre
11 65 (1.41%) Management Information System
12 62 (1.34%) Security Posture
13 56 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
14 51 (1.11%) Mobile App
15 50 (1.08%) Data Structures
16 48 (1.04%) AI Agents
17 45 (0.98%) Virtual Team
18 43 (0.93%) Replication
19 42 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
20 33 (0.72%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 402 (8.72%) Linux
2 243 (5.27%) Windows
3 92 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 68 (1.47%) Unix
5 52 (1.13%) Windows Server
6 29 (0.63%) Ubuntu
7 27 (0.59%) VMS
8 23 (0.50%) Apple iOS
9 15 (0.33%) Android
10 11 (0.24%) CentOS
11 9 (0.20%) Solaris
11 9 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
13 5 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
13 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.087%) Alpine Linux
14 4 (0.087%) Data ONTAP
14 4 (0.087%) Mac OS
14 4 (0.087%) Windows 10
15 3 (0.065%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,639 (57.23%) CI/CD
2 1,766 (38.30%) Agile
3 1,200 (26.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 733 (15.90%) Containerisation
5 716 (15.53%) Problem-Solving
6 665 (14.42%) Microservices
7 656 (14.23%) Test Automation
8 649 (14.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 586 (12.71%) Stakeholder Management
10 578 (12.54%) AI
11 567 (12.30%) Migration
12 552 (11.97%) Observability
13 547 (11.86%) Scrum
14 533 (11.56%) Analytics
15 496 (10.76%) Software Engineering
16 491 (10.65%) Platform Engineering
17 414 (8.98%) Data Modelling
18 394 (8.54%) Roadmaps
19 386 (8.37%) Technical Leadership
20 376 (8.15%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1,290 (27.98%) Python
2 889 (19.28%) SQL
3 641 (13.90%) Java
4 432 (9.37%) C#
5 339 (7.35%) Bash
6 333 (7.22%) PowerShell
7 331 (7.18%) JavaScript
8 234 (5.07%) TypeScript
9 158 (3.43%) Bicep
10 91 (1.97%) Go
11 61 (1.32%) Scala
12 54 (1.17%) Shell Script
13 50 (1.08%) Apex Code
13 50 (1.08%) T-SQL
14 48 (1.04%) PL/SQL
15 42 (0.91%) Groovy
16 28 (0.61%) C++
17 23 (0.50%) Kotlin
18 22 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 19 (0.41%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,471 (31.90%) Security Cleared
2 1,230 (26.68%) SC Cleared
3 297 (6.44%) Degree
4 185 (4.01%) Azure Certification
5 152 (3.30%) DV Cleared
6 146 (3.17%) AWS Certification
7 117 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 111 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 72 (1.56%) CISSP
10 68 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
11 46 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
12 43 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 43 (0.93%) ISTQB
13 39 (0.85%) PMP
14 38 (0.82%) PMI Certification
15 37 (0.80%) Master's Degree
16 36 (0.78%) CISM
17 22 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
18 21 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 21 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 405 (8.78%) QA
2 218 (4.73%) Data Quality
3 152 (3.30%) GDPR
4 135 (2.93%) Accessibility
5 109 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 103 (2.23%) NIST
7 62 (1.34%) NCSC
8 61 (1.32%) WCAG
9 48 (1.04%) PCI DSS
10 35 (0.76%) SLA
11 27 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 25 (0.54%) GRC
13 24 (0.52%) PMO
14 16 (0.35%) HIPAA
15 13 (0.28%) SOC 2
16 11 (0.24%) ISO 20022
16 11 (0.24%) PSD2
17 10 (0.22%) SEPA
18 8 (0.17%) NIST 800
19 7 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 894 (19.39%) Docker
2 163 (3.54%) Active Directory
3 73 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
4 62 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 27 (0.59%) vSphere
6 21 (0.46%) VMware NSX
7 17 (0.37%) Squid
7 17 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
8 16 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
9 14 (0.30%) Hyper-V
9 14 (0.30%) Postfix
10 7 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
11 6 (0.13%) Corosync
11 6 (0.13%) KVM
11 6 (0.13%) RACF
12 5 (0.11%) Firmware
12 5 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
12 5 (0.11%) SRDF
13 4 (0.087%) IAG
13 4 (0.087%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,304 (28.28%) Terraform
2 1,166 (25.29%) Kubernetes
3 452 (9.80%) Ansible
4 298 (6.46%) Grafana
5 257 (5.57%) Prometheus
6 76 (1.65%) Argo
7 68 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
8 60 (1.30%) Puppet
9 34 (0.74%) Istio
10 33 (0.72%) Progress Chef
11 29 (0.63%) Packer
12 26 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
13 25 (0.54%) vCenter Server
14 22 (0.48%) Kibana
15 17 (0.37%) HP ALM
16 16 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 16 (0.35%) Consul
17 14 (0.30%) Kustomize
18 12 (0.26%) FortiGate
18 12 (0.26%) Rancher
Vendors
1 820 (17.78%) Microsoft
2 242 (5.25%) Databricks
3 238 (5.16%) Oracle
4 211 (4.58%) Google
5 180 (3.90%) ServiceNow
6 164 (3.56%) Splunk
7 146 (3.17%) Salesforce
8 111 (2.41%) Dynatrace
8 111 (2.41%) Red Hat
9 107 (2.32%) SAP
10 97 (2.10%) VMware
11 60 (1.30%) OpenAI
12 51 (1.11%) IBM
13 50 (1.08%) Atlassian
14 44 (0.95%) CyberArk
14 44 (0.95%) Informatica
15 38 (0.82%) Foundry
16 35 (0.76%) Cisco
17 32 (0.69%) AppDynamics
17 32 (0.69%) Okta