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 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 15 17
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 -5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,119 2,627 3,288
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.19% 10.63% 8.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.93% 11.74% 9.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,870 1,900 2,336
10th Percentile £385 £400 £411
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £551 £553
Median % change year-on-year -4.72% -0.32% -7.88%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £656
90th Percentile £714 £775 £744
UK median daily rate £519 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.72% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 20 93
10th Percentile £39.53 £35.20 £50.25
25th Percentile £45.46 £58.61 £61.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +11.54% -0.76%
75th Percentile £77.13 £80.75 £68.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £88.00 £85.40
UK median hourly rate £66.25 £73.23 £65.00
% change year-on-year -9.53% +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 31,861 22,379 32,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.57% 86.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,379 14,469 21,822
10th Percentile £313 £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 £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,986 803 2,148
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.03 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.32 £34.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.12% +6.15% -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%

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 14 March 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 14 March 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 14 March 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 -1 2,073 £541 -7.54% 533
North of England +5 744 £500 -4.76% 330
South East -1 440 £525 -8.30% 343
Midlands +14 411 £500 +2.30% 158
Yorkshire +1 387 £500 -4.76% 108
West Midlands +13 331 £500 +2.04% 98
North West +3 302 £492 -6.29% 172
South West +15 272 £525 -12.50% 144
East of England +18 117 £575 +13.30% 78
East Midlands +4 78 £438 -7.89% 59
North East +2 60 £475 -9.52% 53
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
1 261 (6.34%) Confluence
2 108 (2.62%) Apache Spark
3 85 (2.06%) Apache
4 84 (2.04%) SharePoint
5 77 (1.87%) SAS
6 59 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
7 31 (0.75%) OpenStack
8 30 (0.73%) CMS
9 27 (0.66%) nginx
10 22 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
11 20 (0.49%) IIS
12 12 (0.29%) Mendix
12 12 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
13 11 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 11 (0.27%) HCL Notes
13 11 (0.27%) WebLogic
14 9 (0.22%) Camunda
14 9 (0.22%) JBoss
15 8 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
15 8 (0.19%) Smallworld
Applications
1 85 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 43 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
4 26 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
5 22 (0.53%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.29%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.19%) Weka
8 4 (0.097%) Trello
9 2 (0.049%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.024%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.024%) InDesign
10 1 (0.024%) Maya
10 1 (0.024%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 67 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.29%) Aladdin
4 11 (0.27%) Maximo
5 10 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
6 8 (0.19%) NEC Housing
7 6 (0.15%) Endur
7 6 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.15%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.097%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.097%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.073%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.073%) SAP BPC
10 3 (0.073%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.073%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.073%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.073%) Workday HCM
11 2 (0.049%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 2,145 (52.08%) Azure
2 1,410 (34.23%) AWS
3 1,172 (28.45%) Azure DevOps
4 762 (18.50%) GitHub
5 595 (14.45%) GCP
6 456 (11.07%) Serverless
7 405 (9.83%) GitHub Actions
8 345 (8.38%) Power Platform
9 217 (5.27%) Amazon S3
10 214 (5.20%) AWS CloudFormation
10 214 (5.20%) AWS Lambda
11 209 (5.07%) Azure Data Factory
12 199 (4.83%) Entra ID
13 181 (4.39%) OpenShift
14 178 (4.32%) Azure AKS
15 167 (4.05%) Amazon EKS
16 165 (4.01%) Azure Monitor
17 155 (3.76%) Dynamics 365
18 139 (3.37%) SaaS
19 138 (3.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 192 (4.66%) Firewall
2 103 (2.50%) DNS
3 81 (1.97%) Network Security
4 76 (1.85%) VPN
5 44 (1.07%) TCP/IP
6 25 (0.61%) WAN
7 23 (0.56%) SD-WAN
8 22 (0.53%) HTTP
8 22 (0.53%) SSL
9 20 (0.49%) DHCP
10 15 (0.36%) BGP
10 15 (0.36%) HTTPS
10 15 (0.36%) MPLS
11 13 (0.32%) Internet
11 13 (0.32%) SAN
12 12 (0.29%) IPsec
13 11 (0.27%) Kerberos
13 11 (0.27%) LAN
13 11 (0.27%) Reverse Proxy
14 10 (0.24%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 235 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
2 218 (5.29%) Power BI
3 174 (4.22%) SQL Server
4 164 (3.98%) NoSQL
5 139 (3.37%) Data Lake
6 104 (2.52%) Relational Database
7 99 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
7 99 (2.40%) MongoDB
8 98 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
9 89 (2.16%) Azure SQL Database
10 69 (1.68%) Oracle Database
11 68 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
12 67 (1.63%) Delta Lake
13 65 (1.58%) DynamoDB
14 57 (1.38%) Redis
15 53 (1.29%) Metadata
16 51 (1.24%) Tableau
17 48 (1.17%) Big Data
17 48 (1.17%) MySQL
18 44 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 674 (16.36%) Jenkins
2 556 (13.50%) Git
3 548 (13.30%) JIRA
4 473 (11.48%) GitLab
5 120 (2.91%) Selenium
6 98 (2.38%) JUnit
7 84 (2.04%) Postman
8 69 (1.68%) Bitbucket
9 61 (1.48%) SonarQube
10 57 (1.38%) Cucumber
11 47 (1.14%) Artifactory
11 47 (1.14%) Cypress.io
12 45 (1.09%) Maven
13 44 (1.07%) REST Assured
14 41 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
15 38 (0.92%) JMeter
16 34 (0.83%) Oracle APEX
17 27 (0.66%) CircleCI
17 27 (0.66%) Gradle
17 27 (0.66%) Mockito
General
1 1,198 (29.08%) Social Skills
2 799 (19.40%) Finance
3 514 (12.48%) Public Sector
4 365 (8.86%) Analytical Skills
5 323 (7.84%) Banking
6 146 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
7 75 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
8 65 (1.58%) Financial Institution
9 57 (1.38%) Retail
10 52 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 50 (1.21%) Marketing
12 48 (1.17%) Front Office
13 44 (1.07%) Investment Banking
14 42 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
15 39 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
16 37 (0.90%) Telecoms
17 30 (0.73%) Legal
17 30 (0.73%) Military
18 27 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
19 24 (0.58%) Law
Job Titles
1 727 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
2 660 (16.02%) Developer
3 561 (13.62%) Senior
4 453 (11.00%) Architect
5 354 (8.59%) Lead
6 259 (6.29%) Azure Engineer
7 252 (6.12%) Data Engineer
8 231 (5.61%) Analyst
9 202 (4.90%) AWS Engineer
10 164 (3.98%) Cloud Engineer
11 157 (3.81%) AWS DevOps
12 144 (3.50%) Software Engineer
13 141 (3.42%) Platform Engineer
14 135 (3.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 135 (3.28%) Solutions Architect
15 122 (2.96%) Business Analyst
16 119 (2.89%) Senior Developer
17 112 (2.72%) Senior DevOps
18 109 (2.65%) Full-Stack Developer
19 106 (2.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 457 (11.09%) REST
2 332 (8.06%) .NET
3 263 (6.39%) Node.js
4 253 (6.14%) React
5 237 (5.75%) Kafka
6 230 (5.58%) Spring
7 202 (4.90%) Spring Boot
8 195 (4.73%) RESTful
9 160 (3.88%) AngularJS
10 150 (3.64%) JSON
11 133 (3.23%) YAML
12 126 (3.06%) HTML
13 119 (2.89%) SOAP
14 116 (2.82%) OAuth
15 114 (2.77%) Playwright
15 114 (2.77%) PySpark
16 107 (2.60%) XML
17 105 (2.55%) Elastic Stack
18 103 (2.50%) Middleware
19 101 (2.45%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 605 (14.69%) Cloud Native
2 230 (5.58%) Product Ownership
3 142 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
4 110 (2.67%) Onboarding
5 103 (2.50%) Public Cloud
6 95 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
7 83 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
8 71 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
9 54 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
10 51 (1.24%) Management Information System
11 48 (1.17%) Virtual Team
12 45 (1.09%) Security Posture
13 42 (1.02%) Private Cloud
14 41 (1.00%) Data Centre
15 39 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
16 38 (0.92%) AI Agents
17 37 (0.90%) Data Structures
18 35 (0.85%) NHS
19 33 (0.80%) Mobile App
20 32 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 421 (10.22%) Linux
2 216 (5.24%) Windows
3 75 (1.82%) Unix
4 59 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 40 (0.97%) Windows Server
6 39 (0.95%) VMS
7 22 (0.53%) Ubuntu
8 15 (0.36%) CentOS
9 11 (0.27%) Android
10 9 (0.22%) Windows 10
11 8 (0.19%) Apple iOS
12 7 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
13 6 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.12%) Solaris
15 4 (0.097%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.049%) Debian
16 2 (0.049%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.049%) zOS
17 1 (0.024%) Embedded Linux
17 1 (0.024%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,340 (56.81%) CI/CD
2 1,604 (38.94%) Agile
3 1,016 (24.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 775 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
5 740 (17.97%) Containerisation
6 618 (15.00%) Test Automation
7 611 (14.83%) Microservices
8 539 (13.09%) Analytics
9 524 (12.72%) Continuous Improvement
10 497 (12.07%) Migration
11 464 (11.26%) Scrum
12 457 (11.09%) AI
13 451 (10.95%) Observability
14 443 (10.76%) Stakeholder Management
15 374 (9.08%) Software Engineering
16 370 (8.98%) Data Modelling
17 346 (8.40%) Mentoring
18 309 (7.50%) Data Pipeline
19 290 (7.04%) ETL
20 286 (6.94%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,250 (30.35%) Python
2 893 (21.68%) SQL
3 539 (13.09%) Java
4 399 (9.69%) C#
5 384 (9.32%) JavaScript
6 329 (7.99%) PowerShell
7 300 (7.28%) Bash
8 261 (6.34%) TypeScript
9 139 (3.37%) Bicep
10 121 (2.94%) Go
11 79 (1.92%) PL/SQL
12 64 (1.55%) Scala
13 45 (1.09%) T-SQL
14 42 (1.02%) Shell Script
15 41 (1.00%) C++
16 39 (0.95%) Ruby
17 34 (0.83%) Groovy
18 26 (0.63%) Rust
19 23 (0.56%) Apex Code
19 23 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1,325 (32.17%) Security Cleared
2 1,074 (26.07%) SC Cleared
3 343 (8.33%) Degree
4 197 (4.78%) Azure Certification
5 178 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 142 (3.45%) DV Cleared
7 125 (3.03%) AWS Certification
8 91 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
9 74 (1.80%) CISSP
10 73 (1.77%) Master's Degree
11 56 (1.36%) CISM
12 52 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
13 49 (1.19%) ISTQB
14 43 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 39 (0.95%) PMI Certification
16 34 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
17 31 (0.75%) PMP
18 24 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 24 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
19 23 (0.56%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 363 (8.81%) QA
2 172 (4.18%) Data Quality
3 166 (4.03%) GDPR
4 131 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 116 (2.82%) NIST
6 90 (2.18%) Accessibility
7 67 (1.63%) NCSC
8 37 (0.90%) PCI DSS
9 31 (0.75%) WCAG
10 26 (0.63%) SLA
11 25 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 24 (0.58%) PMO
13 20 (0.49%) HIPAA
14 15 (0.36%) ISO 20022
14 15 (0.36%) SOC 2
15 13 (0.32%) PSD2
16 11 (0.27%) NIST 800
17 10 (0.24%) GRC
17 10 (0.24%) SEPA
18 8 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 935 (22.70%) Docker
2 164 (3.98%) Active Directory
3 75 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
4 65 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 41 (1.00%) vSphere
6 25 (0.61%) VMware NSX
7 14 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.27%) Lustre
8 11 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 10 (0.24%) Hyper-V
10 9 (0.22%) GPFS
10 9 (0.22%) Squid
11 8 (0.19%) Firmware
12 7 (0.17%) Postfix
13 6 (0.15%) HDFS
14 5 (0.12%) KVM
14 5 (0.12%) RACF
14 5 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
15 4 (0.097%) NFS
15 4 (0.097%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1,196 (29.04%) Terraform
2 1,144 (27.77%) Kubernetes
3 450 (10.92%) Ansible
4 279 (6.77%) Grafana
5 234 (5.68%) Prometheus
6 91 (2.21%) Argo
7 69 (1.68%) Puppet
8 57 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
9 48 (1.17%) Istio
10 30 (0.73%) Packer
11 25 (0.61%) Kibana
12 24 (0.58%) Progress Chef
12 24 (0.58%) vCenter Server
13 19 (0.46%) Podman
13 19 (0.46%) Rancher
14 18 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 17 (0.41%) Consul
16 16 (0.39%) FortiGate
16 16 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
17 14 (0.34%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 717 (17.41%) Microsoft
2 276 (6.70%) Oracle
3 260 (6.31%) Databricks
4 233 (5.66%) Google
5 186 (4.52%) Splunk
6 144 (3.50%) ServiceNow
7 136 (3.30%) Red Hat
8 113 (2.74%) VMware
9 100 (2.43%) Salesforce
10 98 (2.38%) SAP
11 74 (1.80%) OpenAI
12 64 (1.55%) Atlassian
13 61 (1.48%) Dynatrace
14 58 (1.41%) CyberArk
15 38 (0.92%) Talend
16 37 (0.90%) IBM
17 34 (0.83%) Denodo
17 34 (0.83%) Foundry
18 27 (0.66%) BeyondTrust
18 27 (0.66%) Cisco