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 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,282 2,511 3,327
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.78% 10.21% 8.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.65% 11.21% 10.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,006 1,858 2,302
10th Percentile £388 £400 £406
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £650
90th Percentile £713 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -4.45% -2.00% -5.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 15 98
10th Percentile £39.53 £41.50 £56.25
25th Percentile £45.46 £53.75 £61.25
Median hourly rate £63.73 £67.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +3.85% -0.76%
75th Percentile £75.00 £80.75 £82.67
90th Percentile £83.75 £88.68 £87.46
UK median hourly rate £63.73 £73.23 £65.00
% change year-on-year -12.97% +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 33,845 22,404 32,231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.18% 91.08% 86.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,654 14,697 21,192
10th Percentile £315 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,105 910 2,231
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.70 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £30.62 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.82% -12.53% -6.67%
75th Percentile £67.25 £63.75 £59.22
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £29.07 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.60% -16.94% -6.67%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 24 April 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 +2 2,186 £538 -6.52% 459
North of England +6 748 £500 -3.85% 279
South East -1 454 £505 -8.18% 286
Yorkshire 0 407 £500 -4.28% 67
Midlands +3 391 £490 -2.00% 115
South West +14 300 £500 -11.89% 115
West Midlands +9 298 £500 -3.47% 58
North West +4 281 £500 -3.26% 152
East of England +21 128 £525 +1.94% 88
East Midlands 0 90 £465 -2.11% 56
North East +5 67 £475 -9.52% 60
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
1 242 (5.65%) Confluence
2 119 (2.78%) Apache Spark
3 102 (2.38%) SharePoint
4 87 (2.03%) Apache
5 69 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
6 67 (1.56%) SAS
7 34 (0.79%) CMS
8 32 (0.75%) nginx
9 27 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
10 24 (0.56%) OpenStack
11 22 (0.51%) IIS
12 12 (0.28%) Mendix
13 11 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 11 (0.26%) HCL Notes
13 11 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
14 9 (0.21%) WebLogic
14 9 (0.21%) WebSphere
15 7 (0.16%) ArcGIS
15 7 (0.16%) Camunda
16 6 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 71 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
3 48 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
5 22 (0.51%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.12%) Trello
7 5 (0.12%) Weka
8 3 (0.070%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.047%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.047%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.023%) InDesign
10 1 (0.023%) Maya
Business Applications
1 68 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.21%) Aladdin
3 9 (0.21%) Maximo
3 9 (0.21%) NEC Housing
3 9 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
4 7 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
5 6 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
5 6 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.12%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.093%) Endur
7 4 (0.093%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.093%) SAP BPC
8 3 (0.070%) Findur
8 3 (0.070%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.070%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.047%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.047%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.047%) SAP MM
9 2 (0.047%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 2,310 (53.95%) Azure
2 1,436 (33.54%) AWS
3 1,273 (29.73%) Azure DevOps
4 724 (16.91%) GitHub
5 548 (12.80%) GCP
6 439 (10.25%) Serverless
7 409 (9.55%) GitHub Actions
8 356 (8.31%) Power Platform
9 235 (5.49%) Amazon S3
10 219 (5.11%) AWS CloudFormation
11 216 (5.04%) AWS Lambda
11 216 (5.04%) Entra ID
12 205 (4.79%) Azure Data Factory
13 198 (4.62%) Azure AKS
14 164 (3.83%) Azure Monitor
15 161 (3.76%) OpenShift
16 157 (3.67%) Amazon EKS
17 145 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
17 145 (3.39%) PaaS
18 133 (3.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 192 (4.48%) Firewall
2 103 (2.41%) DNS
3 82 (1.91%) Network Security
4 81 (1.89%) VPN
5 39 (0.91%) TCP/IP
6 25 (0.58%) HTTP
6 25 (0.58%) WAN
7 23 (0.54%) SD-WAN
7 23 (0.54%) SSL
8 22 (0.51%) DHCP
9 17 (0.40%) IPsec
10 16 (0.37%) BGP
11 15 (0.35%) MPLS
11 15 (0.35%) SAN
12 14 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
13 12 (0.28%) Internet
13 12 (0.28%) LAN
13 12 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
14 11 (0.26%) OpenVPN
15 10 (0.23%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 233 (5.44%) Power BI
2 222 (5.18%) PostgreSQL
3 211 (4.93%) SQL Server
4 165 (3.85%) NoSQL
5 148 (3.46%) Data Lake
6 120 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
6 120 (2.80%) Relational Database
7 97 (2.27%) MongoDB
8 94 (2.20%) Azure SQL Database
9 88 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
10 80 (1.87%) Delta Lake
11 74 (1.73%) DynamoDB
12 68 (1.59%) Metadata
12 68 (1.59%) Oracle Database
13 67 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
14 59 (1.38%) Big Data
15 54 (1.26%) Tableau
16 49 (1.14%) Redis
17 47 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
18 43 (1.00%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 613 (14.32%) Jenkins
2 544 (12.70%) Git
3 538 (12.56%) JIRA
4 411 (9.60%) GitLab
5 89 (2.08%) Selenium
6 81 (1.89%) JUnit
7 80 (1.87%) Postman
8 70 (1.63%) Bitbucket
8 70 (1.63%) SonarQube
9 54 (1.26%) Maven
10 49 (1.14%) Artifactory
10 49 (1.14%) Cucumber
11 46 (1.07%) REST Assured
12 41 (0.96%) Cypress.io
13 37 (0.86%) JMeter
14 34 (0.79%) Gatling
15 33 (0.77%) Mockito
16 31 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
17 30 (0.70%) Oracle APEX
18 28 (0.65%) TestRail
General
1 1,155 (26.97%) Social Skills
2 808 (18.87%) Finance
3 518 (12.10%) Public Sector
4 370 (8.64%) Analytical Skills
5 305 (7.12%) Banking
6 145 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
7 65 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
8 60 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 57 (1.33%) Retail
10 51 (1.19%) Marketing
11 50 (1.17%) Financial Institution
12 47 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
13 46 (1.07%) Front Office
14 43 (1.00%) Legal
14 43 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
15 42 (0.98%) Investment Banking
16 33 (0.77%) Telecoms
17 31 (0.72%) Military
18 23 (0.54%) Law
19 16 (0.37%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 817 (19.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 637 (14.88%) Developer
3 595 (13.90%) Senior
4 496 (11.58%) Architect
5 356 (8.31%) Lead
6 297 (6.94%) Azure Engineer
7 270 (6.31%) Data Engineer
8 250 (5.84%) Analyst
9 193 (4.51%) AWS Engineer
10 159 (3.71%) Solutions Architect
11 158 (3.69%) Cloud Engineer
12 153 (3.57%) Platform Engineer
13 150 (3.50%) AWS DevOps
14 138 (3.22%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 138 (3.22%) Software Engineer
15 134 (3.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 131 (3.06%) Business Analyst
17 126 (2.94%) Senior DevOps
18 120 (2.80%) Senior Developer
19 118 (2.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 396 (9.25%) REST
2 364 (8.50%) .NET
3 254 (5.93%) Kafka
4 252 (5.89%) Node.js
5 239 (5.58%) React
6 236 (5.51%) Spring
7 219 (5.11%) Spring Boot
8 195 (4.55%) RESTful
9 157 (3.67%) AngularJS
10 134 (3.13%) YAML
11 131 (3.06%) JSON
12 128 (2.99%) Playwright
13 119 (2.78%) PySpark
14 117 (2.73%) OAuth
15 110 (2.57%) HTML
16 103 (2.41%) Middleware
17 101 (2.36%) SOAP
18 92 (2.15%) CSS
19 88 (2.06%) OpenTelemetry
20 87 (2.03%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 653 (15.25%) Cloud Native
2 262 (6.12%) Product Ownership
3 158 (3.69%) Distributed Systems
4 112 (2.62%) Onboarding
5 93 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
6 90 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
7 88 (2.06%) Public Cloud
8 81 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
9 63 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
10 54 (1.26%) Virtual Team
11 51 (1.19%) Management Information System
12 45 (1.05%) Private Cloud
13 41 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
14 38 (0.89%) Data Centre
15 37 (0.86%) Data Structures
15 37 (0.86%) Replication
16 36 (0.84%) AI Agents
16 36 (0.84%) NHS
16 36 (0.84%) Security Posture
17 35 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 385 (8.99%) Linux
2 220 (5.14%) Windows
3 72 (1.68%) Unix
4 68 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 40 (0.93%) Windows Server
6 37 (0.86%) VMS
7 22 (0.51%) Ubuntu
8 12 (0.28%) Android
8 12 (0.28%) CentOS
9 10 (0.23%) Apple iOS
9 10 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.16%) Windows 10
11 6 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.12%) Solaris
13 4 (0.093%) Amazon Linux
13 4 (0.093%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (0.093%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.070%) Debian
14 3 (0.070%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.070%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,365 (55.23%) CI/CD
2 1,623 (37.90%) Agile
3 1,050 (24.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 724 (16.91%) Problem-Solving
5 705 (16.46%) Containerisation
6 626 (14.62%) Microservices
7 593 (13.85%) Test Automation
8 554 (12.94%) Continuous Improvement
9 525 (12.26%) Analytics
10 522 (12.19%) Migration
11 486 (11.35%) Observability
12 473 (11.05%) Scrum
13 461 (10.77%) Stakeholder Management
14 459 (10.72%) AI
15 415 (9.69%) Software Engineering
16 399 (9.32%) Data Modelling
17 360 (8.41%) Mentoring
18 350 (8.17%) Platform Engineering
19 333 (7.78%) Data Pipeline
20 328 (7.66%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,197 (27.95%) Python
2 916 (21.39%) SQL
3 557 (13.01%) Java
4 428 (10.00%) C#
5 348 (8.13%) JavaScript
6 311 (7.26%) PowerShell
7 293 (6.84%) Bash
8 242 (5.65%) TypeScript
9 149 (3.48%) Bicep
10 97 (2.27%) Go
11 84 (1.96%) PL/SQL
12 70 (1.63%) Scala
13 52 (1.21%) Shell Script
14 42 (0.98%) T-SQL
15 38 (0.89%) Groovy
16 34 (0.79%) Apex Code
17 31 (0.72%) C++
18 27 (0.63%) Ruby
19 22 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 22 (0.51%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,390 (32.46%) Security Cleared
2 1,148 (26.81%) SC Cleared
3 307 (7.17%) Degree
4 196 (4.58%) Azure Certification
5 146 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 142 (3.32%) DV Cleared
7 119 (2.78%) AWS Certification
8 112 (2.62%) BPSS Clearance
9 70 (1.63%) CISSP
10 51 (1.19%) CISM
11 50 (1.17%) Master's Degree
11 50 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
12 47 (1.10%) ISTQB
13 41 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 39 (0.91%) PMI Certification
15 37 (0.86%) PMP
16 36 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
17 22 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 21 (0.49%) IIBA
18 21 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 383 (8.94%) QA
2 193 (4.51%) Data Quality
3 164 (3.83%) GDPR
4 123 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 116 (2.71%) NIST
6 89 (2.08%) Accessibility
7 60 (1.40%) NCSC
8 38 (0.89%) PCI DSS
8 38 (0.89%) WCAG
9 30 (0.70%) SLA
10 27 (0.63%) PMO
10 27 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 15 (0.35%) GRC
11 15 (0.35%) ISO 20022
12 14 (0.33%) HIPAA
12 14 (0.33%) NIST 800
13 12 (0.28%) PSD2
13 12 (0.28%) SOC 2
14 10 (0.23%) SEPA
15 9 (0.21%) HL7
System Software
1 874 (20.41%) Docker
2 165 (3.85%) Active Directory
3 66 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
4 64 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 33 (0.77%) vSphere
6 25 (0.58%) VMware NSX
7 14 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 13 (0.30%) Hyper-V
9 12 (0.28%) Postfix
9 12 (0.28%) Squid
10 11 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
11 8 (0.19%) Firmware
11 8 (0.19%) Lustre
11 8 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 6 (0.14%) GPFS
12 6 (0.14%) HDFS
13 5 (0.12%) Corosync
13 5 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
13 5 (0.12%) RACF
14 4 (0.093%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,197 (27.95%) Terraform
2 1,129 (26.37%) Kubernetes
3 430 (10.04%) Ansible
4 269 (6.28%) Grafana
5 228 (5.32%) Prometheus
6 91 (2.13%) Argo
7 68 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
8 63 (1.47%) Puppet
9 49 (1.14%) Istio
10 28 (0.65%) Packer
11 24 (0.56%) vCenter Server
12 23 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
12 23 (0.54%) Progress Chef
13 21 (0.49%) Kibana
13 21 (0.49%) Rancher
14 19 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 17 (0.40%) Consul
16 16 (0.37%) FortiGate
17 15 (0.35%) HP ALM
18 12 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 775 (18.10%) Microsoft
2 287 (6.70%) Oracle
3 251 (5.86%) Databricks
4 192 (4.48%) Google
5 178 (4.16%) Splunk
6 158 (3.69%) ServiceNow
7 132 (3.08%) Red Hat
8 119 (2.78%) Salesforce
9 113 (2.64%) VMware
10 99 (2.31%) SAP
11 76 (1.77%) Dynatrace
12 70 (1.63%) OpenAI
13 59 (1.38%) Atlassian
14 55 (1.28%) CyberArk
15 41 (0.96%) IBM
16 34 (0.79%) Foundry
17 33 (0.77%) Cisco
18 31 (0.72%) AppDynamics
19 30 (0.70%) Talend
20 29 (0.68%) Denodo