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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,796 2,931 3,326
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.50% 10.63% 10.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.38% 11.71% 11.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,293 2,102 2,284
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% -6.30%
75th Percentile £625 £626 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 24 71
10th Percentile £36.57 £37.25 £56.00
25th Percentile £55.13 £52.56 £63.30
Median hourly rate £67.25 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.37% -4.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £84.41 £74.22
90th Percentile £94.56 £95.00 £85.25
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +0.75% -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 38,738 25,035 28,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.83% 90.79% 85.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,882 15,942 18,107
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,595 1,467 1,443
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.87 £18.63
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 £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.09 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +63.39% -40.82% +2.41%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 2,533 £550 - 2,068
North of England 0 799 £500 +5.26% 552
South East -7 462 £525 +5.00% 453
Midlands -2 446 £488 -2.50% 224
Yorkshire -1 392 £500 +2.04% 161
West Midlands -4 351 £490 -5.50% 130
North West -2 312 £519 +15.37% 295
South West +6 311 £543 +3.83% 291
East of England +14 143 £506 -3.62% 167
North East +13 112 £431 -17.07% 100
East Midlands +6 91 £464 +3.06% 94
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
1 293 (6.11%) Confluence
2 133 (2.77%) SharePoint
3 120 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
4 113 (2.36%) Apache Spark
5 101 (2.11%) Apache
6 54 (1.13%) SAS
7 41 (0.85%) CMS
8 35 (0.73%) Jupyter
9 30 (0.63%) IIS
10 22 (0.46%) nginx
11 17 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
12 15 (0.31%) Camunda
13 13 (0.27%) OpenStack
14 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
14 11 (0.23%) WebSphere
15 10 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
16 9 (0.19%) Anypoint
16 9 (0.19%) Appian
17 6 (0.13%) Documentum
17 6 (0.13%) Mule
Applications
1 61 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 61 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
2 40 (0.83%) MS Visio
3 32 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
5 10 (0.21%) Chatbot
6 9 (0.19%) CPLEX
6 9 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.13%) Trello
8 5 (0.10%) Notion
8 5 (0.10%) Windchill
9 1 (0.021%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
9 1 (0.021%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.021%) Mingle
9 1 (0.021%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 67 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 9 (0.19%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.19%) Magento
5 8 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
6 7 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 6 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
8 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
9 4 (0.083%) Endur
9 4 (0.083%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.083%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.063%) Findur
10 3 (0.063%) Maximo
10 3 (0.063%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.063%) Shopify
10 3 (0.063%) Teamcenter
11 2 (0.042%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 2,628 (54.80%) Azure
2 1,669 (34.80%) AWS
3 1,530 (31.90%) Azure DevOps
4 814 (16.97%) GitHub
5 595 (12.41%) GCP
6 514 (10.72%) GitHub Actions
7 429 (8.94%) Power Platform
8 394 (8.22%) Serverless
9 241 (5.03%) Amazon S3
10 232 (4.84%) AWS Lambda
11 231 (4.82%) Entra ID
12 189 (3.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 185 (3.86%) Azure AKS
14 179 (3.73%) Azure Data Factory
14 179 (3.73%) Azure Monitor
15 175 (3.65%) Amazon EKS
15 175 (3.65%) AWS CloudFormation
16 166 (3.46%) Dynamics 365
17 156 (3.25%) Power Automate
18 149 (3.11%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 235 (4.90%) Firewall
2 150 (3.13%) DNS
3 116 (2.42%) VPN
4 104 (2.17%) Network Security
5 67 (1.40%) TCP/IP
6 52 (1.08%) WAN
7 45 (0.94%) SSL
8 41 (0.85%) DHCP
9 37 (0.77%) SD-WAN
10 32 (0.67%) BGP
10 32 (0.67%) Internet
11 29 (0.60%) HTTP
11 29 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
12 24 (0.50%) OSPF
13 23 (0.48%) SSH
14 20 (0.42%) VLAN
15 19 (0.40%) SAN
16 18 (0.38%) LAN
17 16 (0.33%) BIG-IP
17 16 (0.33%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 296 (6.17%) Power BI
2 261 (5.44%) SQL Server
3 240 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
4 184 (3.84%) Data Warehouse
5 168 (3.50%) NoSQL
6 153 (3.19%) Relational Database
7 144 (3.00%) Data Lake
8 139 (2.90%) MongoDB
9 112 (2.34%) Metadata
10 110 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
11 89 (1.86%) Azure SQL Database
12 85 (1.77%) Delta Lake
13 79 (1.65%) DynamoDB
14 76 (1.58%) Oracle Database
15 70 (1.46%) Redis
16 67 (1.40%) MySQL
17 55 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
18 52 (1.08%) Big Data
18 52 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 51 (1.06%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 660 (13.76%) Jenkins
2 647 (13.49%) Git
3 565 (11.78%) JIRA
4 522 (10.88%) GitLab
5 117 (2.44%) Selenium
6 87 (1.81%) SonarQube
7 84 (1.75%) Postman
8 77 (1.61%) JUnit
9 76 (1.58%) Maven
10 68 (1.42%) Bitbucket
11 59 (1.23%) JMeter
11 59 (1.23%) REST Assured
12 58 (1.21%) Cypress.io
13 50 (1.04%) Gradle
14 49 (1.02%) Cucumber
15 48 (1.00%) Gatling
16 41 (0.85%) LoadRunner
17 39 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
18 37 (0.77%) Mockito
19 34 (0.71%) Artifactory
General
1 1,259 (26.25%) Social Skills
2 898 (18.72%) Finance
3 652 (13.59%) Public Sector
4 464 (9.67%) Analytical Skills
5 334 (6.96%) Banking
6 138 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 100 (2.09%) Retail
8 85 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
9 72 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
10 56 (1.17%) Legal
11 55 (1.15%) Marketing
12 54 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
13 51 (1.06%) Aerospace
14 48 (1.00%) Investment Banking
14 48 (1.00%) Military
15 42 (0.88%) Telecoms
16 41 (0.85%) Law
17 39 (0.81%) Financial Institution
17 39 (0.81%) Front Office
18 37 (0.77%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 894 (18.64%) DevOps Engineer
2 749 (15.62%) Developer
3 724 (15.10%) Senior
4 556 (11.59%) Architect
5 474 (9.88%) Lead
6 295 (6.15%) Azure Engineer
7 275 (5.73%) Data Engineer
8 240 (5.00%) Analyst
9 195 (4.07%) Platform Engineer
10 193 (4.02%) AWS Engineer
11 175 (3.65%) Cloud Engineer
12 162 (3.38%) Senior DevOps
13 159 (3.32%) Solutions Architect
14 158 (3.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 149 (3.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 141 (2.94%) Java Developer
17 135 (2.81%) Software Engineer
18 134 (2.79%) AWS DevOps
18 134 (2.79%) Senior Developer
19 123 (2.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,393 (29.05%) Terraform
2 489 (10.20%) REST
3 416 (8.67%) .NET
4 321 (6.69%) Kafka
5 265 (5.53%) RESTful
6 251 (5.23%) React
7 239 (4.98%) Spring
8 225 (4.69%) Spring Boot
9 164 (3.42%) Node.js
10 158 (3.29%) JSON
11 142 (2.96%) PySpark
12 137 (2.86%) OAuth
13 136 (2.84%) Playwright
14 121 (2.52%) .NET Framework
15 115 (2.40%) HTML
16 112 (2.34%) CSS
17 107 (2.23%) SOAP
18 105 (2.19%) AngularJS
19 100 (2.09%) YAML
20 93 (1.94%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 872 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 364 (7.59%) Product Ownership
3 224 (4.67%) Distributed Systems
4 161 (3.36%) Enterprise Software
5 159 (3.32%) Onboarding
6 137 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
7 134 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
8 87 (1.81%) AI Agents
9 73 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
10 72 (1.50%) Management Information System
11 69 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
12 63 (1.31%) Data Structures
12 63 (1.31%) Public Cloud
13 62 (1.29%) Replication
13 62 (1.29%) Security Posture
14 58 (1.21%) Data Centre
15 50 (1.04%) Mobile App
15 50 (1.04%) Virtual Team
16 39 (0.81%) PKI
17 38 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 452 (9.42%) Linux
2 272 (5.67%) Windows
3 104 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 92 (1.92%) Unix
5 84 (1.75%) Windows Server
6 32 (0.67%) Ubuntu
7 31 (0.65%) Apple iOS
8 30 (0.63%) VMS
9 21 (0.44%) Android
10 10 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
11 8 (0.17%) AIX
11 8 (0.17%) Solaris
11 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
11 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.17%) zOS
12 7 (0.15%) CentOS
13 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
14 4 (0.083%) Alpine Linux
14 4 (0.083%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,808 (58.55%) CI/CD
2 1,952 (40.70%) Agile
3 1,357 (28.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 810 (16.89%) Continuous Improvement
5 780 (16.26%) Stakeholder Management
6 771 (16.08%) Containerisation
7 760 (15.85%) Problem-Solving
8 743 (15.49%) Test Automation
9 735 (15.33%) AI
10 705 (14.70%) Microservices
11 648 (13.51%) Observability
12 621 (12.95%) Software Engineering
13 614 (12.80%) Platform Engineering
14 584 (12.18%) Scrum
15 571 (11.91%) Migration
16 519 (10.82%) Analytics
17 507 (10.57%) Technical Leadership
18 456 (9.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 438 (9.13%) Roadmaps
20 407 (8.49%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,405 (29.30%) Python
2 890 (18.56%) SQL
3 693 (14.45%) Java
4 435 (9.07%) PowerShell
5 429 (8.94%) C#
6 413 (8.61%) Bash
7 379 (7.90%) JavaScript
8 263 (5.48%) TypeScript
9 214 (4.46%) Bicep
10 74 (1.54%) Go
11 67 (1.40%) Shell Script
12 58 (1.21%) T-SQL
13 56 (1.17%) Groovy
14 54 (1.13%) Scala
15 49 (1.02%) Apex Code
16 47 (0.98%) PL/SQL
17 31 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 31 (0.65%) Perl
18 29 (0.60%) C++
19 21 (0.44%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,528 (31.86%) Security Cleared
2 1,288 (26.86%) SC Cleared
3 313 (6.53%) Degree
4 204 (4.25%) Azure Certification
5 187 (3.90%) DV Cleared
6 160 (3.34%) AWS Certification
7 136 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 120 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
9 101 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
10 70 (1.46%) CISSP
11 48 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
12 47 (0.98%) ISTQB
13 45 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 39 (0.81%) PMP
15 35 (0.73%) PMI Certification
16 32 (0.67%) Master's Degree
17 30 (0.63%) CISM
18 21 (0.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 21 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
19 20 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 467 (9.74%) QA
2 245 (5.11%) Data Quality
3 160 (3.34%) Accessibility
4 117 (2.44%) GDPR
5 94 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 80 (1.67%) NIST
7 76 (1.58%) WCAG
8 49 (1.02%) PMO
9 46 (0.96%) NCSC
10 33 (0.69%) SLA
11 31 (0.65%) PCI DSS
12 26 (0.54%) GRC
13 22 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 14 (0.29%) ISO 20022
15 12 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
16 10 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
17 9 (0.19%) HIPAA
17 9 (0.19%) HL7
17 9 (0.19%) SEPA
18 8 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 959 (20.00%) Docker
2 158 (3.29%) Active Directory
3 74 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
4 73 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 24 (0.50%) Hyper-V
6 22 (0.46%) vSphere
7 20 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
8 17 (0.35%) VMware NSX
9 14 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
10 13 (0.27%) Squid
11 11 (0.23%) IAG
12 9 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
12 9 (0.19%) Postfix
13 7 (0.15%) KVM
14 6 (0.13%) Corosync
14 6 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
15 5 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 5 (0.10%) Firmware
16 4 (0.083%) Embedded Firmware
16 4 (0.083%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,246 (25.98%) Kubernetes
2 480 (10.01%) Ansible
3 310 (6.46%) Grafana
4 263 (5.48%) Prometheus
5 71 (1.48%) Argo
6 58 (1.21%) Puppet
7 51 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
8 46 (0.96%) Progress Chef
9 40 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
10 31 (0.65%) Packer
11 24 (0.50%) Istio
12 22 (0.46%) Kibana
13 19 (0.40%) vCenter Server
14 18 (0.38%) Kustomize
14 18 (0.38%) SCCM
15 17 (0.35%) Kubeflow
16 13 (0.27%) Control-M
16 13 (0.27%) HP ALM
17 12 (0.25%) Oracle RMAN
17 12 (0.25%) SCOM
Vendors
1 962 (20.06%) Microsoft
2 257 (5.36%) Databricks
3 244 (5.09%) Oracle
4 225 (4.69%) Google
5 184 (3.84%) ServiceNow
6 166 (3.46%) Splunk
7 143 (2.98%) Salesforce
8 130 (2.71%) Dynatrace
9 106 (2.21%) VMware
10 99 (2.06%) Red Hat
11 96 (2.00%) SAP
12 61 (1.27%) IBM
13 52 (1.08%) Informatica
14 50 (1.04%) OpenAI
15 46 (0.96%) Cisco
16 43 (0.90%) AppDynamics
17 40 (0.83%) Foundry
18 39 (0.81%) Atlassian
19 35 (0.73%) MuleSoft
20 33 (0.69%) CyberArk