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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,872 2,918 3,335
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.66% 10.58% 10.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.54% 11.65% 11.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,353 2,106 2,287
10th Percentile £386 £360 £400
25th Percentile £440 £425 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.78%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £650
90th Percentile £700 £734 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 23 78
10th Percentile £35.90 £36.50 £56.18
25th Percentile £55.00 £52.13 £61.34
Median hourly rate £67.00 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -4.29% +6.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 £85.86 £74.33
90th Percentile £90.70 £95.00 £85.08
UK median hourly rate £67.60 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +0.90% -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 38,841 25,050 28,543
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.95% 90.82% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,105 15,945 18,525
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% -2.61% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,548 1,450 1,590
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.20 £14.12
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.87 £18.14
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +5.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.45 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +65.23% -38.57% +0.61%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 2,539 £550 - 1,240
North of England 0 821 £500 +3.90% 395
South East -7 478 £525 +5.00% 385
Midlands +1 468 £488 -2.50% 169
Yorkshire 0 404 £500 +1.44% 100
West Midlands 0 381 £490 -4.85% 110
South West +8 322 £525 +0.96% 179
North West -3 321 £525 +11.11% 216
East of England +11 139 £505 +1.00% 114
North East +14 113 £431 -17.86% 85
East Midlands +3 83 £488 +6.85% 58
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
1 289 (5.93%) Confluence
2 132 (2.71%) SharePoint
3 119 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
4 118 (2.42%) Apache Spark
5 100 (2.05%) Apache
6 76 (1.56%) SAS
7 40 (0.82%) CMS
8 34 (0.70%) Jupyter
9 32 (0.66%) IIS
10 22 (0.45%) 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 (0.18%) Anypoint
14 9 (0.18%) Appian
15 7 (0.14%) Tomcat
15 7 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 61 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
2 59 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 39 (0.80%) MS Visio
4 31 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 30 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
6 10 (0.21%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.18%) CPLEX
8 8 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
9 7 (0.14%) Trello
10 5 (0.10%) Notion
11 3 (0.062%) Windchill
12 1 (0.021%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
12 1 (0.021%) Gliffy
12 1 (0.021%) InDesign
12 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 60 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.23%) Aladdin
3 11 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
4 10 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
5 9 (0.18%) Magento
6 8 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
6 8 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 5 (0.10%) Maximo
8 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
8 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
9 4 (0.082%) Endur
9 4 (0.082%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.082%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.062%) Findur
10 3 (0.062%) SAP BPC
10 3 (0.062%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.062%) Shopify
10 3 (0.062%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,649 (54.37%) Azure
2 1,688 (34.65%) AWS
3 1,538 (31.57%) Azure DevOps
4 816 (16.75%) GitHub
5 609 (12.50%) GCP
6 513 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
7 421 (8.64%) Power Platform
8 385 (7.90%) Serverless
9 241 (4.95%) Entra ID
10 237 (4.86%) Amazon S3
11 223 (4.58%) AWS Lambda
12 195 (4.00%) Azure AKS
13 182 (3.74%) AWS CloudFormation
14 181 (3.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 180 (3.69%) Amazon EKS
15 180 (3.69%) Azure Data Factory
16 175 (3.59%) Azure Monitor
17 153 (3.14%) Dynamics 365
18 152 (3.12%) Power Automate
19 146 (3.00%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 235 (4.82%) Firewall
2 145 (2.98%) DNS
3 116 (2.38%) VPN
4 104 (2.13%) Network Security
5 61 (1.25%) TCP/IP
6 53 (1.09%) WAN
7 42 (0.86%) SSL
8 39 (0.80%) SD-WAN
9 37 (0.76%) DHCP
10 33 (0.68%) BGP
11 32 (0.66%) Internet
12 29 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
13 26 (0.53%) HTTP
13 26 (0.53%) OSPF
14 20 (0.41%) SAN
14 20 (0.41%) VLAN
15 18 (0.37%) LAN
15 18 (0.37%) SSH
15 18 (0.37%) VXLAN
16 17 (0.35%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 291 (5.97%) Power BI
2 255 (5.23%) SQL Server
3 237 (4.86%) PostgreSQL
4 175 (3.59%) Data Warehouse
5 173 (3.55%) NoSQL
6 154 (3.16%) Relational Database
7 144 (2.96%) Data Lake
8 141 (2.89%) MongoDB
9 106 (2.18%) Metadata
10 101 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
11 93 (1.91%) Azure SQL Database
12 83 (1.70%) Delta Lake
13 78 (1.60%) DynamoDB
14 74 (1.52%) Oracle Database
15 64 (1.31%) Redis
16 57 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
17 56 (1.15%) Big Data
18 53 (1.09%) BigQuery
19 52 (1.07%) MySQL
20 47 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 685 (14.06%) Jenkins
2 666 (13.67%) Git
3 581 (11.93%) JIRA
4 519 (10.65%) GitLab
5 113 (2.32%) Selenium
6 87 (1.79%) SonarQube
7 82 (1.68%) Postman
8 79 (1.62%) JUnit
9 78 (1.60%) Bitbucket
10 73 (1.50%) Maven
11 58 (1.19%) Cypress.io
12 56 (1.15%) JMeter
13 55 (1.13%) REST Assured
14 50 (1.03%) Cucumber
15 48 (0.99%) Gatling
16 45 (0.92%) Gradle
17 41 (0.84%) LoadRunner
18 37 (0.76%) Mockito
19 34 (0.70%) Artifactory
19 34 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,267 (26.01%) Social Skills
2 923 (18.94%) Finance
3 666 (13.67%) Public Sector
4 467 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
5 338 (6.94%) Banking
6 136 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 103 (2.11%) Retail
8 91 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
9 68 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
10 57 (1.17%) Legal
11 56 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
12 53 (1.09%) Marketing
13 49 (1.01%) Investment Banking
14 46 (0.94%) Aerospace
15 42 (0.86%) Front Office
15 42 (0.86%) Military
16 40 (0.82%) Financial Institution
16 40 (0.82%) Law
17 39 (0.80%) Telecoms
18 34 (0.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 885 (18.17%) DevOps Engineer
2 770 (15.80%) Developer
3 725 (14.88%) Senior
4 549 (11.27%) Architect
5 491 (10.08%) Lead
6 297 (6.10%) Azure Engineer
7 294 (6.03%) Data Engineer
8 244 (5.01%) Analyst
9 201 (4.13%) AWS Engineer
10 193 (3.96%) Platform Engineer
11 183 (3.76%) Cloud Engineer
12 170 (3.49%) Senior DevOps
13 163 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
14 156 (3.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 153 (3.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 143 (2.94%) Java Developer
17 141 (2.89%) AWS DevOps
18 136 (2.79%) Senior Developer
18 136 (2.79%) Software Engineer
19 128 (2.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 500 (10.26%) REST
2 428 (8.78%) .NET
3 309 (6.34%) Kafka
4 267 (5.48%) RESTful
5 242 (4.97%) React
6 235 (4.82%) Spring
7 218 (4.47%) Spring Boot
8 168 (3.45%) Node.js
9 157 (3.22%) JSON
10 143 (2.94%) PySpark
11 140 (2.87%) OAuth
12 135 (2.77%) Playwright
13 128 (2.63%) .NET Framework
14 127 (2.61%) AngularJS
15 121 (2.48%) SOAP
16 113 (2.32%) HTML
17 105 (2.16%) YAML
18 98 (2.01%) CSS
19 97 (1.99%) OAuth2
20 87 (1.79%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 891 (18.29%) Cloud Native
2 352 (7.22%) Product Ownership
3 234 (4.80%) Distributed Systems
4 156 (3.20%) Enterprise Software
5 155 (3.18%) Onboarding
6 138 (2.83%) Hybrid Cloud
7 136 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
8 80 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
9 77 (1.58%) AI Agents
10 71 (1.46%) Management Information System
11 69 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
12 68 (1.40%) Security Posture
13 61 (1.25%) Data Structures
13 61 (1.25%) Public Cloud
14 58 (1.19%) Data Centre
15 53 (1.09%) Replication
16 51 (1.05%) Mobile App
16 51 (1.05%) Virtual Team
17 44 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
18 38 (0.78%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 454 (9.32%) Linux
2 279 (5.73%) Windows
3 107 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 90 (1.85%) Unix
5 77 (1.58%) Windows Server
6 29 (0.60%) Apple iOS
6 29 (0.60%) Ubuntu
7 26 (0.53%) VMS
8 18 (0.37%) Android
9 9 (0.18%) Solaris
9 9 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.16%) AIX
10 8 (0.16%) CentOS
10 8 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
10 8 (0.16%) zOS
11 7 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
12 6 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
13 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
14 4 (0.082%) Alpine Linux
14 4 (0.082%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,833 (58.15%) CI/CD
2 1,977 (40.58%) Agile
3 1,337 (27.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 817 (16.77%) Continuous Improvement
5 787 (16.15%) Containerisation
6 777 (15.95%) Problem-Solving
7 761 (15.62%) Test Automation
8 759 (15.58%) Stakeholder Management
9 709 (14.55%) AI
10 704 (14.45%) Microservices
11 636 (13.05%) Observability
12 607 (12.46%) Scrum
13 595 (12.21%) Software Engineering
14 590 (12.11%) Platform Engineering
15 581 (11.93%) Migration
16 552 (11.33%) Analytics
17 493 (10.12%) Technical Leadership
18 459 (9.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 437 (8.97%) Data Modelling
20 424 (8.70%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,400 (28.74%) Python
2 921 (18.90%) SQL
3 686 (14.08%) Java
4 444 (9.11%) C#
5 439 (9.01%) PowerShell
6 415 (8.52%) Bash
7 382 (7.84%) JavaScript
8 262 (5.38%) TypeScript
9 206 (4.23%) Bicep
10 79 (1.62%) Go
11 63 (1.29%) Shell Script
12 57 (1.17%) T-SQL
13 56 (1.15%) PL/SQL
14 53 (1.09%) Scala
15 51 (1.05%) Apex Code
15 51 (1.05%) Groovy
16 30 (0.62%) C++
17 29 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 27 (0.55%) Perl
19 21 (0.43%) C
Qualifications
1 1,573 (32.29%) Security Cleared
2 1,326 (27.22%) SC Cleared
3 306 (6.28%) Degree
4 200 (4.11%) Azure Certification
5 185 (3.80%) DV Cleared
6 163 (3.35%) AWS Certification
7 136 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 111 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
9 86 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
10 75 (1.54%) CISSP
11 53 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
12 51 (1.05%) ISTQB
13 43 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 40 (0.82%) PMP
15 36 (0.74%) PMI Certification
16 33 (0.68%) Master's Degree
17 31 (0.64%) CISM
18 25 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
19 24 (0.49%) CCNP
20 23 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 468 (9.61%) QA
2 253 (5.19%) Data Quality
3 158 (3.24%) Accessibility
4 129 (2.65%) GDPR
5 92 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 78 (1.60%) NIST
7 74 (1.52%) WCAG
8 49 (1.01%) NCSC
9 45 (0.92%) PMO
10 36 (0.74%) PCI DSS
11 35 (0.72%) SLA
12 29 (0.60%) GRC
13 25 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 11 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
14 11 (0.23%) HIPAA
14 11 (0.23%) ISO 20022
15 10 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
16 8 (0.16%) SEPA
17 7 (0.14%) HL7
17 7 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 956 (19.62%) Docker
2 167 (3.43%) Active Directory
3 75 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 69 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (0.47%) Hyper-V
6 22 (0.45%) vSphere
7 20 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
8 17 (0.35%) VMware NSX
9 15 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
10 12 (0.25%) Squid
11 11 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
11 11 (0.23%) Postfix
12 10 (0.21%) IAG
13 8 (0.16%) 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
15 5 (0.10%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 1,384 (28.41%) Terraform
2 1,259 (25.84%) Kubernetes
3 481 (9.87%) Ansible
4 314 (6.44%) Grafana
5 265 (5.44%) Prometheus
6 74 (1.52%) Argo
7 59 (1.21%) Puppet
8 54 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
9 49 (1.01%) Progress Chef
10 37 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
11 32 (0.66%) Packer
12 30 (0.62%) Istio
13 19 (0.39%) vCenter Server
14 18 (0.37%) Kibana
14 18 (0.37%) Kustomize
14 18 (0.37%) SCCM
15 16 (0.33%) Kubeflow
16 14 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
17 13 (0.27%) HP ALM
18 12 (0.25%) Control-M
Vendors
1 953 (19.56%) Microsoft
2 254 (5.21%) Oracle
3 250 (5.13%) Databricks
4 235 (4.82%) Google
5 197 (4.04%) ServiceNow
6 161 (3.30%) Splunk
7 146 (3.00%) Salesforce
8 132 (2.71%) Dynatrace
9 103 (2.11%) SAP
9 103 (2.11%) VMware
10 101 (2.07%) Red Hat
11 60 (1.23%) IBM
12 51 (1.05%) Informatica
13 48 (0.99%) Atlassian
13 48 (0.99%) Cisco
14 44 (0.90%) OpenAI
15 43 (0.88%) AppDynamics
16 38 (0.78%) Foundry
17 36 (0.74%) Denodo
18 34 (0.70%) CyberArk