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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 16 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,642 2,561 3,540
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.61% 10.04% 9.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.43% 11.01% 11.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,226 1,847 2,417
10th Percentile £388 £365 £400
25th Percentile £443 £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 11 116
10th Percentile £38.89 £35.00 £56.50
25th Percentile £61.78 £46.88 £61.51
Median hourly rate £68.75 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% - +6.70%
75th Percentile £77.88 £85.86 £75.63
90th Percentile £94.69 £92.50 £86.32
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £76.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -7.89% +8.57% +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 37,351 23,260 31,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.35% 91.20% 85.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,546 14,980 20,587
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £418 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £504 £525
% change year-on-year +2.18% -4.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,338 1,158 2,330
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.23 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.32% -33.83% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.38 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £72.93
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +4.17%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 30 June 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 2,377 £550 - 422
North of England +7 862 £500 - 227
Yorkshire +2 463 £510 +2.00% 66
South East -4 453 £525 +5.00% 281
Midlands 0 435 £492 -1.60% 102
West Midlands -1 343 £500 -2.39% 65
North West +1 323 £500 +3.09% 126
South West +15 289 £525 -4.55% 97
East of England +23 139 £525 +5.00% 69
North East +10 94 £450 -13.88% 38
East Midlands 0 88 £475 +5.56% 37
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
1 266 (5.73%) Confluence
2 124 (2.67%) Apache Spark
3 116 (2.50%) SharePoint
4 98 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
5 91 (1.96%) Apache
6 73 (1.57%) SAS
7 48 (1.03%) CMS
8 29 (0.62%) IIS
9 28 (0.60%) Jupyter
10 27 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
11 26 (0.56%) nginx
12 15 (0.32%) Camunda
13 14 (0.30%) OpenStack
13 14 (0.30%) WebSphere
14 13 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
15 11 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
16 9 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
17 7 (0.15%) Tomcat
18 6 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
18 6 (0.13%) Mattermost
Applications
1 67 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
3 42 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 35 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
5 32 (0.69%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.22%) CPLEX
7 7 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.086%) Notion
8 4 (0.086%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.065%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.065%) Trello
10 1 (0.022%) InDesign
10 1 (0.022%) Maya
10 1 (0.022%) Weka
Business Applications
1 64 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
4 9 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.17%) Aladdin
5 8 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
5 8 (0.17%) Maximo
6 6 (0.13%) Magento
6 6 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.11%) Endur
7 5 (0.11%) OpenText MBPM
7 5 (0.11%) Oracle BPM
7 5 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.086%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.065%) Findur
9 3 (0.065%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.065%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.065%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.065%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 2,461 (53.02%) Azure
2 1,613 (34.75%) AWS
3 1,358 (29.25%) Azure DevOps
4 740 (15.94%) GitHub
5 558 (12.02%) GCP
6 441 (9.50%) GitHub Actions
7 411 (8.85%) Serverless
8 400 (8.62%) Power Platform
9 262 (5.64%) Amazon S3
10 227 (4.89%) AWS Lambda
11 225 (4.85%) Entra ID
12 189 (4.07%) Azure AKS
13 187 (4.03%) AWS CloudFormation
14 171 (3.68%) Azure Data Factory
15 165 (3.55%) Amazon EKS
16 154 (3.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 152 (3.27%) Amazon EC2
18 148 (3.19%) Azure Monitor
19 145 (3.12%) OpenShift
20 141 (3.04%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 216 (4.65%) Firewall
2 121 (2.61%) DNS
3 103 (2.22%) Network Security
4 97 (2.09%) VPN
5 48 (1.03%) WAN
6 40 (0.86%) TCP/IP
7 36 (0.78%) SD-WAN
8 32 (0.69%) BGP
8 32 (0.69%) SSL
9 27 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
10 24 (0.52%) Internet
10 24 (0.52%) OSPF
11 20 (0.43%) DHCP
12 18 (0.39%) HTTP
13 17 (0.37%) LAN
13 17 (0.37%) MPLS
13 17 (0.37%) SAN
13 17 (0.37%) VXLAN
14 16 (0.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 16 (0.34%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 268 (5.77%) Power BI
2 242 (5.21%) SQL Server
3 226 (4.87%) PostgreSQL
4 168 (3.62%) NoSQL
5 153 (3.30%) Relational Database
6 142 (3.06%) Data Lake
7 140 (3.02%) Data Warehouse
8 137 (2.95%) MongoDB
9 101 (2.18%) Amazon RDS
10 89 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
11 80 (1.72%) Delta Lake
11 80 (1.72%) DynamoDB
12 75 (1.62%) Metadata
13 71 (1.53%) Oracle Database
14 61 (1.31%) Redis
15 58 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
16 57 (1.23%) Big Data
17 55 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
17 55 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
18 42 (0.90%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 651 (14.02%) Jenkins
2 592 (12.75%) Git
3 546 (11.76%) JIRA
4 483 (10.40%) GitLab
5 99 (2.13%) Selenium
6 91 (1.96%) Postman
7 85 (1.83%) JUnit
8 82 (1.77%) SonarQube
9 67 (1.44%) Bitbucket
10 65 (1.40%) Maven
10 65 (1.40%) REST Assured
11 52 (1.12%) Cucumber
12 49 (1.06%) JMeter
13 42 (0.90%) Gatling
13 42 (0.90%) Gradle
14 39 (0.84%) Cypress.io
15 37 (0.80%) Artifactory
15 37 (0.80%) Mockito
16 33 (0.71%) LoadRunner
17 32 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,177 (25.36%) Social Skills
2 902 (19.43%) Finance
3 608 (13.10%) Public Sector
4 402 (8.66%) Analytical Skills
5 326 (7.02%) Banking
6 126 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
7 97 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 72 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
8 72 (1.55%) Retail
9 55 (1.18%) Marketing
10 53 (1.14%) Legal
11 52 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
12 43 (0.93%) Military
13 42 (0.90%) Investment Banking
14 41 (0.88%) Financial Institution
15 35 (0.75%) Law
15 35 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
16 31 (0.67%) Front Office
17 26 (0.56%) Aerospace
17 26 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 896 (19.30%) DevOps Engineer
2 709 (15.27%) Developer
3 652 (14.05%) Senior
4 567 (12.21%) Architect
5 430 (9.26%) Lead
6 290 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
7 284 (6.12%) Data Engineer
8 265 (5.71%) Analyst
9 209 (4.50%) AWS Engineer
10 177 (3.81%) Cloud Engineer
11 175 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
12 174 (3.75%) Platform Engineer
13 156 (3.36%) Senior DevOps
14 152 (3.27%) AWS DevOps
15 146 (3.15%) Java Developer
16 142 (3.06%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 142 (3.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 139 (2.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 139 (2.99%) Software Engineer
18 138 (2.97%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 434 (9.35%) REST
2 398 (8.57%) .NET
3 268 (5.77%) Kafka
4 265 (5.71%) Spring
5 248 (5.34%) React
6 246 (5.30%) Spring Boot
7 228 (4.91%) RESTful
8 189 (4.07%) Node.js
9 144 (3.10%) AngularJS
10 137 (2.95%) PySpark
11 132 (2.84%) OAuth
12 128 (2.76%) Playwright
13 125 (2.69%) JSON
14 114 (2.46%) .NET Framework
14 114 (2.46%) SOAP
15 105 (2.26%) HTML
16 101 (2.18%) YAML
17 97 (2.09%) OpenID
18 91 (1.96%) CSS
18 91 (1.96%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 824 (17.75%) Cloud Native
2 303 (6.53%) Product Ownership
3 207 (4.46%) Distributed Systems
4 128 (2.76%) Onboarding
5 117 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
6 115 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
7 102 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
8 80 (1.72%) Public Cloud
9 68 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
10 66 (1.42%) Data Centre
11 65 (1.40%) Management Information System
12 62 (1.34%) Security Posture
13 56 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
14 52 (1.12%) Data Structures
15 51 (1.10%) Mobile App
16 49 (1.06%) AI Agents
17 45 (0.97%) Replication
17 45 (0.97%) Virtual Team
18 43 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
19 33 (0.71%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 405 (8.72%) Linux
2 246 (5.30%) Windows
3 92 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 68 (1.46%) Unix
5 54 (1.16%) Windows Server
6 29 (0.62%) Ubuntu
7 28 (0.60%) VMS
8 23 (0.50%) Apple iOS
9 15 (0.32%) Android
10 11 (0.24%) CentOS
11 9 (0.19%) Solaris
11 9 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
13 5 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
13 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.086%) Alpine Linux
14 4 (0.086%) Data ONTAP
14 4 (0.086%) Mac OS
14 4 (0.086%) Windows 10
15 3 (0.065%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,652 (57.13%) CI/CD
2 1,769 (38.11%) Agile
3 1,203 (25.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 735 (15.83%) Containerisation
5 721 (15.53%) Problem-Solving
6 668 (14.39%) Microservices
7 660 (14.22%) Test Automation
8 656 (14.13%) Continuous Improvement
9 590 (12.71%) Stakeholder Management
10 583 (12.56%) AI
11 568 (12.24%) Migration
12 557 (12.00%) Observability
13 549 (11.83%) Scrum
14 534 (11.50%) Analytics
15 502 (10.81%) Software Engineering
16 496 (10.69%) Platform Engineering
17 418 (9.00%) Data Modelling
18 394 (8.49%) Roadmaps
19 384 (8.27%) Technical Leadership
20 375 (8.08%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1,298 (27.96%) Python
2 896 (19.30%) SQL
3 645 (13.89%) Java
4 433 (9.33%) C#
5 344 (7.41%) Bash
6 336 (7.24%) PowerShell
7 330 (7.11%) JavaScript
8 236 (5.08%) TypeScript
9 159 (3.43%) Bicep
10 91 (1.96%) Go
11 63 (1.36%) Scala
12 54 (1.16%) Shell Script
13 52 (1.12%) T-SQL
14 50 (1.08%) Apex Code
14 50 (1.08%) PL/SQL
15 42 (0.90%) Groovy
16 28 (0.60%) C++
17 24 (0.52%) Kotlin
18 22 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 20 (0.43%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,484 (31.97%) Security Cleared
2 1,240 (26.71%) SC Cleared
3 303 (6.53%) Degree
4 187 (4.03%) Azure Certification
5 153 (3.30%) DV Cleared
6 147 (3.17%) AWS Certification
7 120 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 113 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
9 73 (1.57%) CISSP
10 69 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
11 47 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
12 43 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 43 (0.93%) ISTQB
13 39 (0.84%) PMP
14 38 (0.82%) Master's Degree
14 38 (0.82%) PMI Certification
15 36 (0.78%) CISM
16 22 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
17 21 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 21 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 407 (8.77%) QA
2 218 (4.70%) Data Quality
3 152 (3.27%) GDPR
4 135 (2.91%) Accessibility
5 109 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 104 (2.24%) NIST
7 61 (1.31%) NCSC
7 61 (1.31%) WCAG
8 48 (1.03%) PCI DSS
9 35 (0.75%) SLA
10 27 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 25 (0.54%) GRC
12 24 (0.52%) PMO
13 16 (0.34%) HIPAA
14 13 (0.28%) SOC 2
15 11 (0.24%) ISO 20022
15 11 (0.24%) PSD2
16 10 (0.22%) SEPA
17 8 (0.17%) NIST 800
18 7 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 897 (19.32%) Docker
2 163 (3.51%) Active Directory
3 75 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
4 62 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 27 (0.58%) vSphere
6 21 (0.45%) VMware NSX
7 19 (0.41%) Squid
8 17 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
9 16 (0.34%) 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%) Firmware
13 5 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.11%) SRDF
14 4 (0.086%) HDFS
14 4 (0.086%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,310 (28.22%) Terraform
2 1,167 (25.14%) Kubernetes
3 455 (9.80%) Ansible
4 297 (6.40%) Grafana
5 257 (5.54%) Prometheus
6 76 (1.64%) Argo
7 68 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
8 60 (1.29%) Puppet
9 34 (0.73%) Istio
10 33 (0.71%) Progress Chef
11 29 (0.62%) Packer
12 26 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
13 25 (0.54%) vCenter Server
14 22 (0.47%) Kibana
15 17 (0.37%) Consul
16 16 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 16 (0.34%) HP ALM
17 14 (0.30%) Kustomize
18 12 (0.26%) HAProxy
18 12 (0.26%) Rancher
Vendors
1 832 (17.92%) Microsoft
2 244 (5.26%) Databricks
3 242 (5.21%) Oracle
4 212 (4.57%) Google
5 181 (3.90%) ServiceNow
6 166 (3.58%) Splunk
7 146 (3.15%) Salesforce
8 111 (2.39%) Dynatrace
8 111 (2.39%) Red Hat
9 107 (2.31%) SAP
10 98 (2.11%) VMware
11 59 (1.27%) OpenAI
12 52 (1.12%) IBM
13 50 (1.08%) Atlassian
14 45 (0.97%) Informatica
15 44 (0.95%) CyberArk
16 40 (0.86%) Foundry
17 36 (0.78%) Cisco
18 32 (0.69%) AppDynamics
18 32 (0.69%) Okta