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 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 16 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,717 2,691 3,566
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.61% 10.09% 9.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.42% 11.10% 11.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,266 1,943 2,436
10th Percentile £390 £363 £400
25th Percentile £444 £438 £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% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 13 116
10th Percentile £38.25 £36.50 £56.50
25th Percentile £61.78 £51.25 £61.51
Median hourly rate £68.75 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -10.71% +6.70%
75th Percentile £77.88 £82.96 £75.63
90th Percentile £94.69 £91.75 £86.32
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £66.25 £70.00
% change year-on-year +5.66% -5.36% +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 37,991 24,251 31,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.46% 90.90% 85.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,934 15,590 20,626
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.65% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £517 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +2.28% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,364 1,224 2,273
10th Percentile £15.32 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.88 £17.98 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -4.70%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.81 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.20 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -6.25%

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 8 July 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 8 July 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 8 July 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 2,426 £550 - 519
North of England +5 871 £500 - 326
Yorkshire +2 470 £500 - 89
South East -7 456 £525 +5.00% 297
Midlands 0 435 £500 - 134
West Midlands -3 345 £500 -2.34% 76
North West 0 323 £510 +7.37% 187
South West +16 297 £520 -5.45% 131
East of England +25 144 £525 +5.00% 93
North East +10 97 £425 -18.66% 52
East Midlands -1 85 £488 +8.33% 57
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 (5.66%) Confluence
2 124 (2.63%) Apache Spark
3 116 (2.46%) SharePoint
4 101 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
5 95 (2.01%) Apache
6 70 (1.48%) SAS
7 49 (1.04%) CMS
8 30 (0.64%) IIS
9 28 (0.59%) Jupyter
10 26 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
10 26 (0.55%) nginx
11 14 (0.30%) Camunda
11 14 (0.30%) OpenStack
11 14 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
11 14 (0.30%) WebSphere
12 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
13 9 (0.19%) Appian
13 9 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
14 7 (0.15%) Tomcat
15 6 (0.13%) Documentum
Applications
1 66 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
3 39 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
4 34 (0.72%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.21%) CPLEX
6 7 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.085%) Notion
9 3 (0.064%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.064%) Trello
10 1 (0.021%) InDesign
10 1 (0.021%) Maya
10 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 64 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.21%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
4 9 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
6 7 (0.15%) Magento
7 6 (0.13%) Endur
7 6 (0.13%) Maximo
7 6 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.11%) OpenText MBPM
8 5 (0.11%) Oracle BPM
8 5 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.085%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.064%) Findur
10 3 (0.064%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.064%) SAP BPC
10 3 (0.064%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.064%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2,504 (53.08%) Azure
2 1,643 (34.83%) AWS
3 1,390 (29.47%) Azure DevOps
4 754 (15.98%) GitHub
5 577 (12.23%) GCP
6 454 (9.62%) GitHub Actions
7 404 (8.56%) Serverless
8 403 (8.54%) Power Platform
9 264 (5.60%) Amazon S3
10 229 (4.85%) AWS Lambda
11 226 (4.79%) Entra ID
12 187 (3.96%) AWS CloudFormation
12 187 (3.96%) Azure AKS
13 169 (3.58%) Amazon EKS
14 164 (3.48%) Azure Data Factory
15 156 (3.31%) Amazon EC2
16 154 (3.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 151 (3.20%) Azure Monitor
18 150 (3.18%) OpenShift
19 142 (3.01%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 217 (4.60%) Firewall
2 124 (2.63%) DNS
3 102 (2.16%) Network Security
4 101 (2.14%) VPN
5 50 (1.06%) WAN
6 41 (0.87%) TCP/IP
7 37 (0.78%) SD-WAN
8 35 (0.74%) SSL
9 32 (0.68%) BGP
10 28 (0.59%) Internet
11 27 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
12 24 (0.51%) OSPF
13 21 (0.45%) DHCP
13 21 (0.45%) HTTP
14 18 (0.38%) LAN
15 17 (0.36%) MPLS
15 17 (0.36%) SAN
15 17 (0.36%) VXLAN
16 16 (0.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 16 (0.34%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 271 (5.75%) Power BI
2 246 (5.22%) SQL Server
3 227 (4.81%) PostgreSQL
4 165 (3.50%) NoSQL
5 155 (3.29%) Relational Database
6 143 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
7 137 (2.90%) Data Lake
7 137 (2.90%) MongoDB
8 100 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
9 86 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
10 83 (1.76%) Delta Lake
11 78 (1.65%) DynamoDB
11 78 (1.65%) Metadata
12 75 (1.59%) Oracle Database
13 59 (1.25%) Redis
14 57 (1.21%) Big Data
15 55 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
15 55 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
16 54 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
17 43 (0.91%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 668 (14.16%) Jenkins
2 605 (12.83%) Git
3 557 (11.81%) JIRA
4 489 (10.37%) GitLab
5 101 (2.14%) Selenium
6 93 (1.97%) Postman
7 84 (1.78%) JUnit
8 82 (1.74%) SonarQube
9 67 (1.42%) Bitbucket
10 66 (1.40%) REST Assured
11 65 (1.38%) Maven
12 52 (1.10%) Cucumber
13 50 (1.06%) JMeter
14 44 (0.93%) Gatling
15 42 (0.89%) Cypress.io
16 41 (0.87%) Gradle
17 36 (0.76%) Artifactory
17 36 (0.76%) Mockito
18 34 (0.72%) LoadRunner
19 33 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,200 (25.44%) Social Skills
2 918 (19.46%) Finance
3 622 (13.19%) Public Sector
4 415 (8.80%) Analytical Skills
5 332 (7.04%) Banking
6 126 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
7 98 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 77 (1.63%) Retail
9 70 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
10 55 (1.17%) Marketing
11 54 (1.14%) Legal
12 52 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
13 43 (0.91%) Investment Banking
14 42 (0.89%) Military
15 40 (0.85%) Financial Institution
16 36 (0.76%) Law
17 34 (0.72%) Front Office
17 34 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
18 29 (0.61%) Aerospace
19 27 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 905 (19.19%) DevOps Engineer
2 739 (15.67%) Developer
3 660 (13.99%) Senior
4 575 (12.19%) Architect
5 432 (9.16%) Lead
6 288 (6.11%) Azure Engineer
6 288 (6.11%) Data Engineer
7 259 (5.49%) Analyst
8 209 (4.43%) AWS Engineer
9 181 (3.84%) Platform Engineer
10 178 (3.77%) Cloud Engineer
11 176 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
12 158 (3.35%) Senior DevOps
13 153 (3.24%) Java Developer
14 152 (3.22%) AWS DevOps
15 144 (3.05%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 144 (3.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 140 (2.97%) Software Engineer
17 139 (2.95%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 135 (2.86%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 451 (9.56%) REST
2 407 (8.63%) .NET
3 272 (5.77%) Kafka
4 267 (5.66%) Spring
5 251 (5.32%) React
6 245 (5.19%) Spring Boot
7 237 (5.02%) RESTful
8 194 (4.11%) Node.js
9 144 (3.05%) AngularJS
10 137 (2.90%) OAuth
11 135 (2.86%) Playwright
11 135 (2.86%) PySpark
12 128 (2.71%) JSON
13 119 (2.52%) .NET Framework
14 118 (2.50%) SOAP
15 109 (2.31%) HTML
16 99 (2.10%) YAML
17 96 (2.04%) OpenID
18 95 (2.01%) CSS
19 94 (1.99%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 837 (17.74%) Cloud Native
2 307 (6.51%) Product Ownership
3 210 (4.45%) Distributed Systems
4 138 (2.93%) Onboarding
5 122 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
6 119 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
7 103 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
8 77 (1.63%) Public Cloud
9 73 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
10 64 (1.36%) Management Information System
11 63 (1.34%) Data Centre
11 63 (1.34%) Security Posture
12 61 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
13 52 (1.10%) AI Agents
14 51 (1.08%) Data Structures
14 51 (1.08%) Mobile App
15 48 (1.02%) Replication
16 46 (0.98%) Virtual Team
17 43 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
18 35 (0.74%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 410 (8.69%) Linux
2 257 (5.45%) Windows
3 89 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 68 (1.44%) Unix
5 56 (1.19%) Windows Server
6 26 (0.55%) Ubuntu
6 26 (0.55%) VMS
7 23 (0.49%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.32%) Android
9 9 (0.19%) Solaris
9 9 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.17%) CentOS
11 6 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
11 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
12 5 (0.11%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.11%) zOS
13 4 (0.085%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (0.085%) Data ONTAP
13 4 (0.085%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,716 (57.58%) CI/CD
2 1,813 (38.44%) Agile
3 1,238 (26.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 768 (16.28%) Containerisation
5 740 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
6 685 (14.52%) Test Automation
7 676 (14.33%) Microservices
8 673 (14.27%) Continuous Improvement
9 605 (12.83%) Stakeholder Management
10 598 (12.68%) AI
11 573 (12.15%) Observability
12 566 (12.00%) Migration
13 561 (11.89%) Scrum
14 522 (11.07%) Analytics
15 520 (11.02%) Software Engineering
16 517 (10.96%) Platform Engineering
17 416 (8.82%) Data Modelling
18 400 (8.48%) Roadmaps
19 392 (8.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 392 (8.31%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1,317 (27.92%) Python
2 901 (19.10%) SQL
3 667 (14.14%) Java
4 436 (9.24%) C#
5 355 (7.53%) Bash
6 348 (7.38%) PowerShell
7 343 (7.27%) JavaScript
8 249 (5.28%) TypeScript
9 163 (3.46%) Bicep
10 94 (1.99%) Go
11 64 (1.36%) Scala
12 56 (1.19%) Shell Script
13 54 (1.14%) PL/SQL
14 53 (1.12%) T-SQL
15 51 (1.08%) Apex Code
16 46 (0.98%) Groovy
17 30 (0.64%) C++
18 26 (0.55%) Kotlin
19 22 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 19 (0.40%) C
Qualifications
1 1,510 (32.01%) Security Cleared
2 1,258 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 299 (6.34%) Degree
4 184 (3.90%) Azure Certification
5 162 (3.43%) DV Cleared
6 147 (3.12%) AWS Certification
7 118 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 116 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
9 72 (1.53%) CISSP
10 69 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
11 47 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
12 44 (0.93%) ISTQB
13 43 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 39 (0.83%) PMP
15 38 (0.81%) Master's Degree
16 37 (0.78%) PMI Certification
17 34 (0.72%) CISM
18 23 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
19 21 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 21 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 409 (8.67%) QA
2 219 (4.64%) Data Quality
3 149 (3.16%) GDPR
4 141 (2.99%) Accessibility
5 104 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 97 (2.06%) NIST
7 66 (1.40%) WCAG
8 60 (1.27%) NCSC
9 45 (0.95%) PCI DSS
10 34 (0.72%) SLA
11 31 (0.66%) PMO
12 26 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 25 (0.53%) GRC
14 16 (0.34%) HIPAA
15 13 (0.28%) SOC 2
16 11 (0.23%) ISO 20022
16 11 (0.23%) PSD2
17 10 (0.21%) SEPA
18 7 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
18 7 (0.15%) HL7
System Software
1 917 (19.44%) Docker
2 164 (3.48%) Active Directory
3 74 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
4 63 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 27 (0.57%) vSphere
6 22 (0.47%) VMware NSX
7 19 (0.40%) Squid
8 18 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
9 15 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
10 14 (0.30%) Hyper-V
10 14 (0.30%) Postfix
11 7 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
12 6 (0.13%) Corosync
12 6 (0.13%) KVM
12 6 (0.13%) RACF
13 5 (0.11%) IAG
13 5 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.11%) NFS
13 5 (0.11%) SRDF
14 4 (0.085%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1,335 (28.30%) Terraform
2 1,196 (25.36%) Kubernetes
3 457 (9.69%) Ansible
4 314 (6.66%) Grafana
5 272 (5.77%) Prometheus
6 79 (1.67%) Argo
7 68 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
8 59 (1.25%) Puppet
9 35 (0.74%) Progress Chef
10 33 (0.70%) Istio
11 31 (0.66%) Packer
12 26 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
12 26 (0.55%) vCenter Server
13 21 (0.45%) Kibana
14 17 (0.36%) Consul
15 16 (0.34%) HP ALM
15 16 (0.34%) Kustomize
16 15 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 12 (0.25%) HAProxy
17 12 (0.25%) Rancher
Vendors
1 845 (17.91%) Microsoft
2 252 (5.34%) Oracle
3 239 (5.07%) Databricks
4 214 (4.54%) Google
5 186 (3.94%) ServiceNow
6 172 (3.65%) Splunk
7 145 (3.07%) Salesforce
8 113 (2.40%) Dynatrace
9 110 (2.33%) SAP
10 102 (2.16%) Red Hat
11 98 (2.08%) VMware
12 57 (1.21%) OpenAI
13 53 (1.12%) IBM
14 48 (1.02%) Atlassian
15 46 (0.98%) CyberArk
15 46 (0.98%) Informatica
16 43 (0.91%) Foundry
17 35 (0.74%) Cisco
18 33 (0.70%) AppDynamics
18 33 (0.70%) Okta