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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +4 0 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,346 2,418 3,411
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.57% 9.96% 9.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.49% 10.91% 10.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,052 1,770 2,367
10th Percentile £388 £395 £400
25th Percentile £447 £456 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £663 £650
90th Percentile £703 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.90% -4.55% -5.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 14 107
10th Percentile £39.53 £39.88 £56.40
25th Percentile £55.50 £52.50 £61.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £68.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +5.77% -0.76%
75th Percentile £77.50 £82.72 £78.13
90th Percentile £95.00 £94.25 £87.18
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £73.23 £65.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.65% -0.76%

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 34,792 22,163 31,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.62% 91.27% 86.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,183 14,469 20,624
10th Percentile £325 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £514 £525
% change year-on-year -0.88% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,136 960 2,252
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.42 £12.93
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.20 £15.99
Median hourly rate £46.11 £28.75 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.37% -21.23% -1.75%
75th Percentile £67.84 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.17 £36.05
% change year-on-year +50.90% -21.86% +0.13%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +4 2,216 £550 -2.22% 562
North of England +7 771 £500 -1.72% 298
South East +3 476 £513 +2.65% 299
Yorkshire 0 423 £500 -2.44% 88
Midlands +3 396 £488 -2.50% 98
West Midlands +4 305 £492 -6.08% 65
South West +14 291 £525 -5.83% 117
North West +2 286 £500 - 162
East of England +27 127 £525 +6.33% 83
East Midlands -1 87 £465 +0.54% 33
North East +6 75 £450 -14.29% 51
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
1 238 (5.48%) Confluence
2 122 (2.81%) Apache Spark
3 107 (2.46%) SharePoint
4 85 (1.96%) Apache
5 65 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
5 65 (1.50%) SAS
6 38 (0.87%) CMS
7 25 (0.58%) IIS
8 24 (0.55%) nginx
9 22 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
10 18 (0.41%) OpenStack
11 11 (0.25%) Mendix
11 11 (0.25%) WebSphere
12 10 (0.23%) Camunda
12 10 (0.23%) HCL Notes
12 10 (0.23%) Jupyter
13 9 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
14 7 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
15 6 (0.14%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 63 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (1.24%) Microsoft Project
3 42 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
5 21 (0.48%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.092%) CPLEX
6 4 (0.092%) Trello
7 3 (0.069%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.046%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.046%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.023%) InDesign
9 1 (0.023%) Maya
9 1 (0.023%) Notion
9 1 (0.023%) Weka
Business Applications
1 57 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
3 10 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
4 9 (0.21%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.21%) Maximo
4 9 (0.21%) NEC Housing
5 8 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
6 6 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.12%) Endur
7 5 (0.12%) Magento
8 4 (0.092%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.092%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.069%) Findur
9 3 (0.069%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.069%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 2 (0.046%) SAP Hybris
10 2 (0.046%) SAP MDG
10 2 (0.046%) Summit
10 2 (0.046%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 2,323 (53.45%) Azure
2 1,460 (33.59%) AWS
3 1,258 (28.95%) Azure DevOps
4 702 (16.15%) GitHub
5 564 (12.98%) GCP
6 408 (9.39%) GitHub Actions
7 406 (9.34%) Serverless
8 366 (8.42%) Power Platform
9 236 (5.43%) Amazon S3
10 207 (4.76%) Entra ID
11 205 (4.72%) AWS Lambda
12 195 (4.49%) AWS CloudFormation
13 193 (4.44%) Azure Data Factory
14 189 (4.35%) Azure AKS
15 155 (3.57%) OpenShift
16 152 (3.50%) Amazon EKS
17 140 (3.22%) PaaS
18 138 (3.18%) Azure Monitor
19 133 (3.06%) Dynamics 365
20 131 (3.01%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 198 (4.56%) Firewall
2 109 (2.51%) DNS
3 89 (2.05%) Network Security
4 84 (1.93%) VPN
5 41 (0.94%) TCP/IP
6 36 (0.83%) WAN
7 32 (0.74%) SD-WAN
8 26 (0.60%) BGP
9 24 (0.55%) SSL
10 22 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
11 21 (0.48%) DHCP
11 21 (0.48%) HTTP
12 19 (0.44%) OSPF
13 18 (0.41%) IPsec
14 17 (0.39%) SAN
15 16 (0.37%) MPLS
16 14 (0.32%) Internet
16 14 (0.32%) LAN
16 14 (0.32%) Reverse Proxy
16 14 (0.32%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 244 (5.61%) Power BI
2 214 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
2 214 (4.92%) SQL Server
3 163 (3.75%) NoSQL
4 153 (3.52%) Data Lake
5 136 (3.13%) Relational Database
6 118 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
7 110 (2.53%) MongoDB
8 90 (2.07%) Azure SQL Database
9 87 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
10 84 (1.93%) Delta Lake
11 77 (1.77%) DynamoDB
12 71 (1.63%) Metadata
13 69 (1.59%) Oracle Database
14 64 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
15 56 (1.29%) Big Data
16 52 (1.20%) Redis
17 48 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
18 46 (1.06%) BigQuery
18 46 (1.06%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 617 (14.20%) Jenkins
2 549 (12.63%) Git
3 510 (11.73%) JIRA
4 431 (9.92%) GitLab
5 90 (2.07%) Postman
5 90 (2.07%) Selenium
6 72 (1.66%) SonarQube
7 71 (1.63%) JUnit
8 62 (1.43%) Bitbucket
9 59 (1.36%) Maven
10 56 (1.29%) REST Assured
11 48 (1.10%) Artifactory
11 48 (1.10%) Cucumber
12 45 (1.04%) JMeter
13 41 (0.94%) Cypress.io
13 41 (0.94%) Gatling
14 33 (0.76%) Gradle
15 30 (0.69%) Mockito
16 26 (0.60%) LoadRunner
17 25 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,098 (25.26%) Social Skills
2 817 (18.80%) Finance
3 530 (12.20%) Public Sector
4 368 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
5 297 (6.83%) Banking
6 132 (3.04%) Documentation Skills
7 70 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
8 64 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 58 (1.33%) Retail
10 50 (1.15%) Financial Institution
10 50 (1.15%) Legal
10 50 (1.15%) Marketing
11 48 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
12 41 (0.94%) Front Office
12 41 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
13 37 (0.85%) Military
14 36 (0.83%) Investment Banking
15 23 (0.53%) Telecoms
16 22 (0.51%) Aerospace
16 22 (0.51%) Law
Job Titles
1 867 (19.95%) DevOps Engineer
2 621 (14.29%) Developer
3 607 (13.97%) Senior
4 520 (11.97%) Architect
5 367 (8.44%) Lead
6 299 (6.88%) Azure Engineer
7 273 (6.28%) Data Engineer
8 261 (6.01%) Analyst
9 179 (4.12%) AWS Engineer
10 168 (3.87%) Solutions Architect
11 163 (3.75%) Cloud Engineer
12 154 (3.54%) Platform Engineer
13 141 (3.24%) Senior DevOps
14 140 (3.22%) Software Engineer
15 137 (3.15%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 133 (3.06%) Business Analyst
17 130 (2.99%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 128 (2.95%) AWS DevOps
19 118 (2.72%) Java Developer
20 116 (2.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 387 (8.90%) REST
2 360 (8.28%) .NET
3 269 (6.19%) Kafka
4 246 (5.66%) React
5 244 (5.61%) Spring
6 229 (5.27%) Spring Boot
7 224 (5.15%) Node.js
8 200 (4.60%) RESTful
9 149 (3.43%) AngularJS
10 129 (2.97%) PySpark
11 128 (2.95%) Playwright
12 126 (2.90%) YAML
13 121 (2.78%) JSON
14 112 (2.58%) OAuth
15 102 (2.35%) Middleware
16 101 (2.32%) SOAP
17 97 (2.23%) HTML
18 89 (2.05%) OpenID
19 88 (2.02%) .NET Framework
20 84 (1.93%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 689 (15.85%) Cloud Native
2 272 (6.26%) Product Ownership
3 168 (3.87%) Distributed Systems
4 111 (2.55%) Onboarding
5 96 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
6 86 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
7 84 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
8 78 (1.79%) Public Cloud
9 69 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
10 50 (1.15%) Data Centre
10 50 (1.15%) Management Information System
11 44 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
12 41 (0.94%) Replication
13 40 (0.92%) Virtual Team
14 39 (0.90%) Mobile App
15 38 (0.87%) AI Agents
15 38 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
16 37 (0.85%) Data Structures
16 37 (0.85%) Private Cloud
17 36 (0.83%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 377 (8.67%) Linux
2 220 (5.06%) Windows
3 66 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 65 (1.50%) Unix
5 40 (0.92%) Windows Server
6 34 (0.78%) VMS
7 22 (0.51%) Ubuntu
8 18 (0.41%) Apple iOS
9 15 (0.35%) Android
10 11 (0.25%) CentOS
11 10 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (0.16%) Windows 10
13 6 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
14 5 (0.12%) Solaris
15 4 (0.092%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.092%) Windows Server 2012
16 3 (0.069%) Mac OS
16 3 (0.069%) Oracle Linux
16 3 (0.069%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,437 (56.07%) CI/CD
2 1,589 (36.56%) Agile
3 1,082 (24.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 706 (16.24%) Containerisation
5 686 (15.78%) Problem-Solving
6 636 (14.63%) Microservices
7 601 (13.83%) Test Automation
8 569 (13.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 529 (12.17%) Observability
10 528 (12.15%) Migration
11 495 (11.39%) Analytics
12 493 (11.34%) Stakeholder Management
13 478 (11.00%) Scrum
14 477 (10.98%) AI
15 426 (9.80%) Software Engineering
16 407 (9.36%) Data Modelling
17 392 (9.02%) Platform Engineering
18 355 (8.17%) Mentoring
19 343 (7.89%) Data Pipeline
20 342 (7.87%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,173 (26.99%) Python
2 875 (20.13%) SQL
3 592 (13.62%) Java
4 411 (9.46%) C#
5 313 (7.20%) JavaScript
6 309 (7.11%) PowerShell
7 304 (6.99%) Bash
8 226 (5.20%) TypeScript
9 145 (3.34%) Bicep
10 90 (2.07%) Go
11 68 (1.56%) Scala
12 54 (1.24%) PL/SQL
13 52 (1.20%) Shell Script
14 42 (0.97%) Apex Code
15 41 (0.94%) Groovy
15 41 (0.94%) T-SQL
16 29 (0.67%) C++
17 25 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 23 (0.53%) Ruby
19 21 (0.48%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,406 (32.35%) Security Cleared
2 1,154 (26.55%) SC Cleared
3 285 (6.56%) Degree
4 195 (4.49%) Azure Certification
5 148 (3.41%) DV Cleared
6 125 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 117 (2.69%) AWS Certification
8 107 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 63 (1.45%) CISSP
10 53 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
11 46 (1.06%) ISTQB
12 45 (1.04%) Master's Degree
13 44 (1.01%) CISM
14 41 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
15 39 (0.90%) PMI Certification
16 38 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 37 (0.85%) PMP
18 24 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
19 21 (0.48%) IIBA
20 20 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 383 (8.81%) QA
2 201 (4.62%) Data Quality
3 160 (3.68%) GDPR
4 116 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 111 (2.55%) NIST
6 106 (2.44%) Accessibility
7 60 (1.38%) NCSC
8 49 (1.13%) WCAG
9 46 (1.06%) PCI DSS
10 33 (0.76%) SLA
11 31 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 29 (0.67%) PMO
13 19 (0.44%) GRC
14 15 (0.35%) HIPAA
15 13 (0.30%) ISO 20022
15 13 (0.30%) NIST 800
16 12 (0.28%) PSD2
17 11 (0.25%) SOC 2
18 10 (0.23%) SEPA
19 8 (0.18%) HL7
System Software
1 851 (19.58%) Docker
2 156 (3.59%) Active Directory
3 68 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
4 58 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 31 (0.71%) vSphere
6 21 (0.48%) VMware NSX
7 17 (0.39%) Squid
7 17 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
8 13 (0.30%) Postfix
9 10 (0.23%) Hyper-V
9 10 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (0.18%) Firmware
11 6 (0.14%) Corosync
11 6 (0.14%) RACF
12 5 (0.12%) HDFS
12 5 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
13 4 (0.092%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
13 4 (0.092%) Lustre
13 4 (0.092%) NFS
13 4 (0.092%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1,201 (27.63%) Terraform
2 1,122 (25.82%) Kubernetes
3 439 (10.10%) Ansible
4 289 (6.65%) Grafana
5 240 (5.52%) Prometheus
6 83 (1.91%) Argo
7 66 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
8 63 (1.45%) Puppet
9 48 (1.10%) Istio
10 25 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
11 24 (0.55%) Packer
11 24 (0.55%) Progress Chef
12 23 (0.53%) Kibana
13 20 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 20 (0.46%) vCenter Server
14 17 (0.39%) HP ALM
15 15 (0.35%) Rancher
16 14 (0.32%) FortiGate
17 13 (0.30%) Consul
18 12 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 770 (17.72%) Microsoft
2 253 (5.82%) Databricks
3 251 (5.78%) Oracle
4 194 (4.46%) Google
5 179 (4.12%) Splunk
6 167 (3.84%) ServiceNow
7 135 (3.11%) Salesforce
8 129 (2.97%) Red Hat
9 103 (2.37%) SAP
10 100 (2.30%) VMware
11 95 (2.19%) Dynatrace
12 60 (1.38%) OpenAI
13 47 (1.08%) Atlassian
14 45 (1.04%) CyberArk
15 42 (0.97%) IBM
16 36 (0.83%) AppDynamics
16 36 (0.83%) Foundry
16 36 (0.83%) Informatica
17 33 (0.76%) Cisco
18 28 (0.64%) Denodo