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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 16 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,774 2,714 3,572
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.65% 10.04% 9.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.45% 11.07% 11.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,307 1,961 2,439
10th Percentile £390 £363 £400
25th Percentile £446 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £706 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 18 115
10th Percentile £38.25 £40.25 £56.50
25th Percentile £61.78 £51.69 £61.43
Median hourly rate £68.75 £66.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.38% -5.00% +6.87%
75th Percentile £77.88 £79.63 £76.25
90th Percentile £94.69 £89.88 £86.46
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +4.48% -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 38,339 24,527 31,778
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.54% 90.74% 85.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,173 15,771 20,632
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £733 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +2.48% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,381 1,262 2,268
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.21 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.98 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.09%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.00 £62.00
90th Percentile £82.50 £70.16 £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 10 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 10 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 10 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 2,446 £550 - 501
North of England +5 881 £500 - 276
Yorkshire +3 471 £500 - 72
South East -5 463 £525 +5.00% 277
Midlands -1 442 £500 - 126
West Midlands -4 351 £500 -1.43% 81
North West -2 332 £510 +7.37% 158
South West +16 305 £523 -5.00% 119
East of England +17 148 £525 +5.00% 74
North East +13 97 £425 -18.27% 47
East Midlands -2 86 £488 +8.33% 45
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
1 271 (5.68%) Confluence
2 126 (2.64%) Apache Spark
3 117 (2.45%) SharePoint
4 101 (2.12%) Apache Airflow
5 96 (2.01%) Apache
6 71 (1.49%) SAS
7 49 (1.03%) CMS
8 30 (0.63%) IIS
8 30 (0.63%) Jupyter
9 26 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
9 26 (0.54%) nginx
10 14 (0.29%) Camunda
10 14 (0.29%) OpenStack
10 14 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
10 14 (0.29%) WebSphere
11 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
12 9 (0.19%) Appian
12 9 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
13 7 (0.15%) Tomcat
14 6 (0.13%) Documentum
Applications
1 69 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (1.24%) Microsoft Project
3 41 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 35 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
5 34 (0.71%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.21%) CPLEX
7 9 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.15%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.084%) Notion
10 3 (0.063%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.063%) Trello
11 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.021%) InDesign
11 1 (0.021%) Maya
11 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 65 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (0.65%) 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
5 8 (0.17%) Magento
6 7 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.13%) Endur
7 6 (0.13%) Maximo
7 6 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
8 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
8 5 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.084%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.063%) Findur
10 3 (0.063%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.063%) SAP BPC
10 3 (0.063%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.063%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 2,529 (52.97%) Azure
2 1,671 (35.00%) AWS
3 1,406 (29.45%) Azure DevOps
4 766 (16.05%) GitHub
5 583 (12.21%) GCP
6 462 (9.68%) GitHub Actions
7 406 (8.50%) Serverless
8 404 (8.46%) Power Platform
9 269 (5.63%) Amazon S3
10 232 (4.86%) AWS Lambda
11 228 (4.78%) Entra ID
12 189 (3.96%) AWS CloudFormation
13 187 (3.92%) Azure AKS
14 170 (3.56%) Amazon EKS
15 165 (3.46%) Azure Data Factory
16 158 (3.31%) Amazon EC2
17 157 (3.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 153 (3.20%) Azure Monitor
19 150 (3.14%) OpenShift
20 145 (3.04%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 218 (4.57%) Firewall
2 126 (2.64%) DNS
3 103 (2.16%) Network Security
4 101 (2.12%) VPN
5 50 (1.05%) WAN
6 42 (0.88%) TCP/IP
7 37 (0.78%) SD-WAN
8 35 (0.73%) SSL
9 32 (0.67%) BGP
10 28 (0.59%) Internet
11 27 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
12 24 (0.50%) OSPF
13 22 (0.46%) HTTP
14 21 (0.44%) DHCP
15 18 (0.38%) LAN
16 17 (0.36%) MPLS
16 17 (0.36%) SAN
16 17 (0.36%) VXLAN
17 16 (0.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 16 (0.34%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 271 (5.68%) Power BI
2 247 (5.17%) SQL Server
3 228 (4.78%) PostgreSQL
4 164 (3.44%) NoSQL
5 159 (3.33%) Relational Database
6 147 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
7 138 (2.89%) Data Lake
8 137 (2.87%) MongoDB
9 100 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
10 86 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
11 82 (1.72%) Delta Lake
12 80 (1.68%) DynamoDB
13 78 (1.63%) Metadata
14 75 (1.57%) Oracle Database
15 59 (1.24%) Big Data
16 58 (1.21%) Redis
17 56 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
17 56 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
18 54 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
19 43 (0.90%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 671 (14.06%) Jenkins
2 615 (12.88%) Git
3 567 (11.88%) JIRA
4 491 (10.28%) GitLab
5 103 (2.16%) Selenium
6 95 (1.99%) Postman
7 85 (1.78%) JUnit
8 83 (1.74%) SonarQube
9 67 (1.40%) Bitbucket
10 66 (1.38%) Maven
10 66 (1.38%) REST Assured
11 52 (1.09%) Cucumber
12 51 (1.07%) JMeter
13 45 (0.94%) Gatling
14 43 (0.90%) Cypress.io
15 42 (0.88%) Gradle
16 37 (0.78%) Mockito
17 36 (0.75%) Artifactory
18 34 (0.71%) LoadRunner
18 34 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,219 (25.53%) Social Skills
2 922 (19.31%) Finance
3 628 (13.15%) Public Sector
4 422 (8.84%) Analytical Skills
5 335 (7.02%) Banking
6 128 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
7 101 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 80 (1.68%) Retail
9 69 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
10 55 (1.15%) Marketing
10 55 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
11 54 (1.13%) Legal
12 43 (0.90%) Investment Banking
12 43 (0.90%) Military
13 38 (0.80%) Financial Institution
14 37 (0.78%) Law
15 35 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
16 34 (0.71%) Front Office
17 29 (0.61%) Aerospace
18 27 (0.57%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 919 (19.25%) DevOps Engineer
2 751 (15.73%) Developer
3 672 (14.08%) Senior
4 573 (12.00%) Architect
5 445 (9.32%) Lead
6 289 (6.05%) Azure Engineer
6 289 (6.05%) Data Engineer
7 263 (5.51%) Analyst
8 214 (4.48%) AWS Engineer
9 187 (3.92%) Platform Engineer
10 182 (3.81%) Cloud Engineer
11 177 (3.71%) Solutions Architect
12 165 (3.46%) Senior DevOps
13 156 (3.27%) AWS DevOps
13 156 (3.27%) Java Developer
14 151 (3.16%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 144 (3.02%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 143 (3.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 141 (2.95%) Software Engineer
18 138 (2.89%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 458 (9.59%) REST
2 409 (8.57%) .NET
3 275 (5.76%) Kafka
4 268 (5.61%) Spring
5 255 (5.34%) React
6 245 (5.13%) Spring Boot
7 241 (5.05%) RESTful
8 198 (4.15%) Node.js
9 144 (3.02%) AngularJS
10 138 (2.89%) OAuth
11 137 (2.87%) PySpark
12 135 (2.83%) Playwright
13 132 (2.76%) JSON
14 119 (2.49%) SOAP
15 118 (2.47%) .NET Framework
16 110 (2.30%) HTML
17 100 (2.09%) YAML
18 96 (2.01%) CSS
19 94 (1.97%) OAuth2
19 94 (1.97%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 853 (17.87%) Cloud Native
2 313 (6.56%) Product Ownership
3 209 (4.38%) Distributed Systems
4 143 (3.00%) Onboarding
5 127 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
6 123 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
7 104 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
8 78 (1.63%) Public Cloud
9 73 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
10 64 (1.34%) Management Information System
10 64 (1.34%) Security Posture
11 63 (1.32%) Data Centre
12 62 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
13 53 (1.11%) AI Agents
13 53 (1.11%) Mobile App
14 52 (1.09%) Data Structures
15 49 (1.03%) Replication
16 46 (0.96%) Virtual Team
17 43 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
18 35 (0.73%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 414 (8.67%) Linux
2 257 (5.38%) Windows
3 89 (1.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 68 (1.42%) Unix
5 56 (1.17%) Windows Server
6 26 (0.54%) Ubuntu
6 26 (0.54%) VMS
7 23 (0.48%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.31%) 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 (0.10%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.10%) zOS
13 4 (0.084%) AIX
13 4 (0.084%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (0.084%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,749 (57.58%) CI/CD
2 1,842 (38.58%) Agile
3 1,265 (26.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 785 (16.44%) Containerisation
5 752 (15.75%) Problem-Solving
6 697 (14.60%) Test Automation
7 695 (14.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 689 (14.43%) Microservices
9 618 (12.95%) Stakeholder Management
10 611 (12.80%) AI
11 585 (12.25%) Observability
12 574 (12.02%) Scrum
13 572 (11.98%) Migration
14 532 (11.14%) Software Engineering
15 530 (11.10%) Platform Engineering
16 527 (11.04%) Analytics
17 415 (8.69%) Data Modelling
18 409 (8.57%) Roadmaps
19 408 (8.55%) Technical Leadership
20 403 (8.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,341 (28.09%) Python
2 904 (18.94%) SQL
3 674 (14.12%) Java
4 437 (9.15%) C#
5 362 (7.58%) Bash
6 351 (7.35%) JavaScript
7 350 (7.33%) PowerShell
8 254 (5.32%) TypeScript
9 162 (3.39%) Bicep
10 95 (1.99%) Go
11 65 (1.36%) Scala
12 56 (1.17%) PL/SQL
12 56 (1.17%) Shell Script
13 53 (1.11%) T-SQL
14 51 (1.07%) Apex Code
15 46 (0.96%) Groovy
16 31 (0.65%) C++
17 26 (0.54%) Kotlin
18 22 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 20 (0.42%) C
Qualifications
1 1,527 (31.99%) Security Cleared
2 1,276 (26.73%) SC Cleared
3 301 (6.30%) Degree
4 185 (3.88%) Azure Certification
5 166 (3.48%) DV Cleared
6 154 (3.23%) AWS Certification
7 124 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
8 116 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 73 (1.53%) CISSP
9 73 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
10 50 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
11 45 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 45 (0.94%) ISTQB
12 40 (0.84%) Master's Degree
13 38 (0.80%) PMP
14 36 (0.75%) PMI Certification
15 34 (0.71%) CISM
16 23 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
17 21 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 21 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 423 (8.86%) QA
2 222 (4.65%) Data Quality
3 148 (3.10%) GDPR
4 147 (3.08%) Accessibility
5 100 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 94 (1.97%) NIST
7 66 (1.38%) WCAG
8 61 (1.28%) NCSC
9 43 (0.90%) PCI DSS
10 33 (0.69%) PMO
10 33 (0.69%) SLA
11 25 (0.52%) GRC
11 25 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 16 (0.34%) HIPAA
13 13 (0.27%) SOC 2
14 11 (0.23%) ISO 20022
14 11 (0.23%) PSD2
15 10 (0.21%) SEPA
16 8 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
17 7 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 927 (19.42%) Docker
2 165 (3.46%) Active Directory
3 74 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
4 64 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 27 (0.57%) vSphere
6 22 (0.46%) VMware NSX
7 19 (0.40%) Squid
8 18 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
9 16 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
10 14 (0.29%) Hyper-V
10 14 (0.29%) Postfix
11 8 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
12 6 (0.13%) Corosync
12 6 (0.13%) IAG
12 6 (0.13%) KVM
12 6 (0.13%) RACF
13 5 (0.10%) Firmware
13 5 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.10%) NFS
13 5 (0.10%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 1,358 (28.45%) Terraform
2 1,218 (25.51%) Kubernetes
3 462 (9.68%) Ansible
4 316 (6.62%) Grafana
5 274 (5.74%) Prometheus
6 81 (1.70%) Argo
7 68 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
8 58 (1.21%) Puppet
9 35 (0.73%) Progress Chef
10 33 (0.69%) Istio
11 31 (0.65%) Packer
12 26 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
12 26 (0.54%) vCenter Server
13 21 (0.44%) Kibana
14 17 (0.36%) Consul
15 16 (0.34%) HP ALM
15 16 (0.34%) Kustomize
16 15 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 13 (0.27%) Kubeflow
18 12 (0.25%) Rancher
Vendors
1 856 (17.93%) Microsoft
2 256 (5.36%) Oracle
3 242 (5.07%) Databricks
4 213 (4.46%) Google
5 185 (3.88%) ServiceNow
6 172 (3.60%) Splunk
7 145 (3.04%) Salesforce
8 114 (2.39%) Dynatrace
9 111 (2.33%) SAP
10 102 (2.14%) Red Hat
11 98 (2.05%) VMware
12 56 (1.17%) OpenAI
13 54 (1.13%) IBM
14 48 (1.01%) Atlassian
15 47 (0.98%) Informatica
16 46 (0.96%) CyberArk
17 44 (0.92%) Foundry
18 36 (0.75%) Cisco
19 33 (0.69%) AppDynamics
19 33 (0.69%) Okta