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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 14 14
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,790 3,116 3,257
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.36% 11.14% 10.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.21% 12.25% 11.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,302 2,192 2,175
10th Percentile £381 £360 £394
25th Percentile £438 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £713 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 21 62
10th Percentile £37.25 £42.50 £46.81
25th Percentile £59.81 £56.75 £65.00
Median hourly rate £68.75 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% -4.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £79.00 £88.75 £74.33
90th Percentile £94.19 £95.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £69.00 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +2.99% -4.29% +7.69%

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 39,226 25,436 27,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.80% 90.90% 86.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,709 16,124 17,045
10th Percentile £325 £294 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £641
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,969 1,568 1,160
10th Percentile £13.70 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.43 £17.87 £20.28
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.69
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.09% -4.07%
75th Percentile £67.25 £45.80 £67.14
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.63% -7.56%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 2,545 £550 - 2,465
North of England -2 800 £500 +5.04% 763
South East -12 447 £525 +5.00% 646
Midlands -7 405 £488 -5.34% 316
Yorkshire -3 382 £500 - 234
South West +6 331 £550 - 276
West Midlands -9 327 £500 -4.76% 209
North West -4 318 £525 +16.67% 409
East of England -1 148 £504 -7.31% 234
North East +12 116 £450 -18.18% 125
East Midlands -6 76 £450 +8.11% 107
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
1 293 (6.12%) Confluence
2 140 (2.92%) SharePoint
3 120 (2.51%) Apache Spark
4 113 (2.36%) Apache Airflow
5 105 (2.19%) Apache
6 46 (0.96%) SAS
7 40 (0.84%) Jupyter
8 38 (0.79%) CMS
9 30 (0.63%) nginx
10 24 (0.50%) IIS
11 18 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
12 15 (0.31%) Camunda
13 13 (0.27%) OpenStack
14 9 (0.19%) Anypoint
14 9 (0.19%) Appian
14 9 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
14 9 (0.19%) WebSphere
15 8 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
15 8 (0.17%) Tomcat
16 7 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 66 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
3 49 (1.02%) MS Visio
4 35 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 33 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
6 14 (0.29%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.17%) CPLEX
7 8 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.17%) Windchill
8 5 (0.10%) Notion
8 5 (0.10%) Trello
9 3 (0.063%) Mingle
10 2 (0.042%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.042%) Gliffy
11 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.021%) Mozilla Thunderbird
11 1 (0.021%) Sketch
11 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 74 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 37 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
4 8 (0.17%) Magento
4 8 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 6 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
5 6 (0.13%) SAP MDG
6 5 (0.10%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.10%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
6 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
6 5 (0.10%) Temenos T24
7 4 (0.084%) Oracle Payroll
7 4 (0.084%) Teamcenter
8 3 (0.063%) Endur
8 3 (0.063%) Maximo
8 3 (0.063%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.063%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.063%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2,595 (54.18%) Azure
2 1,675 (34.97%) AWS
3 1,502 (31.36%) Azure DevOps
4 826 (17.24%) GitHub
5 653 (13.63%) GCP
6 517 (10.79%) GitHub Actions
7 439 (9.16%) Power Platform
8 408 (8.52%) Serverless
9 257 (5.37%) Amazon S3
10 242 (5.05%) Entra ID
11 237 (4.95%) AWS Lambda
12 210 (4.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 210 (4.38%) Amazon EKS
13 186 (3.88%) Azure AKS
14 182 (3.80%) Azure Monitor
15 176 (3.67%) Dynamics 365
16 174 (3.63%) Azure Data Factory
17 167 (3.49%) Amazon EC2
17 167 (3.49%) AWS CloudFormation
18 156 (3.26%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 221 (4.61%) Firewall
2 151 (3.15%) DNS
3 113 (2.36%) Network Security
4 111 (2.32%) VPN
5 79 (1.65%) TCP/IP
6 50 (1.04%) SSL
7 44 (0.92%) DHCP
8 43 (0.90%) WAN
9 35 (0.73%) BGP
10 32 (0.67%) HTTP
11 29 (0.61%) Internet
12 26 (0.54%) OSPF
12 26 (0.54%) SSH
13 25 (0.52%) SD-WAN
14 19 (0.40%) LAN
14 19 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
15 18 (0.38%) VLAN
16 17 (0.35%) BIG-IP
16 17 (0.35%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 15 (0.31%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 290 (6.05%) Power BI
2 256 (5.34%) SQL Server
3 247 (5.16%) PostgreSQL
4 187 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
5 157 (3.28%) NoSQL
6 151 (3.15%) Data Lake
7 144 (3.01%) MongoDB
8 135 (2.82%) Relational Database
9 126 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
10 119 (2.48%) Metadata
11 86 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
12 81 (1.69%) Delta Lake
13 75 (1.57%) DynamoDB
14 74 (1.54%) MySQL
15 73 (1.52%) Oracle Database
16 71 (1.48%) Redis
17 56 (1.17%) Big Data
18 55 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 53 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
19 53 (1.11%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 703 (14.68%) Git
2 678 (14.15%) Jenkins
3 566 (11.82%) GitLab
4 538 (11.23%) JIRA
5 126 (2.63%) Selenium
6 82 (1.71%) SonarQube
7 81 (1.69%) Maven
8 79 (1.65%) JUnit
9 77 (1.61%) Postman
10 73 (1.52%) Cucumber
11 61 (1.27%) Bitbucket
12 60 (1.25%) Cypress.io
13 59 (1.23%) REST Assured
14 55 (1.15%) JMeter
15 54 (1.13%) Gradle
16 41 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
17 40 (0.84%) Mockito
18 38 (0.79%) Claude Code
18 38 (0.79%) Gatling
18 38 (0.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,288 (26.89%) Social Skills
2 920 (19.21%) Finance
3 639 (13.34%) Public Sector
4 489 (10.21%) Analytical Skills
5 371 (7.75%) Banking
6 145 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 108 (2.25%) Retail
8 86 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
9 71 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
10 62 (1.29%) Aerospace
11 57 (1.19%) Military
12 54 (1.13%) Marketing
13 52 (1.09%) Investment Banking
14 48 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
15 47 (0.98%) Telecoms
16 46 (0.96%) Manufacturing
17 44 (0.92%) Legal
18 43 (0.90%) Law
18 43 (0.90%) Local Government
19 41 (0.86%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 919 (19.19%) DevOps Engineer
2 762 (15.91%) Senior
3 737 (15.39%) Developer
4 560 (11.69%) Architect
5 477 (9.96%) Lead
6 289 (6.03%) Azure Engineer
7 279 (5.82%) Data Engineer
8 227 (4.74%) Analyst
9 199 (4.15%) AWS Engineer
10 185 (3.86%) Platform Engineer
11 176 (3.67%) Cloud Engineer
11 176 (3.67%) Senior DevOps
12 160 (3.34%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 160 (3.34%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 155 (3.24%) Solutions Architect
14 137 (2.86%) AWS DevOps
15 136 (2.84%) Java Developer
16 132 (2.76%) Software Engineer
17 126 (2.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 123 (2.57%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,455 (30.38%) Terraform
2 564 (11.77%) REST
3 422 (8.81%) .NET
4 338 (7.06%) Kafka
5 269 (5.62%) RESTful
6 259 (5.41%) React
7 233 (4.86%) Spring
8 229 (4.78%) Spring Boot
9 166 (3.47%) OAuth
10 161 (3.36%) JSON
11 146 (3.05%) Node.js
12 136 (2.84%) PySpark
13 132 (2.76%) Playwright
14 123 (2.57%) .NET Framework
15 122 (2.55%) HTML
16 114 (2.38%) CSS
16 114 (2.38%) SOAP
17 106 (2.21%) Middleware
17 106 (2.21%) OAuth2
18 101 (2.11%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 889 (18.56%) Cloud Native
2 362 (7.56%) Product Ownership
3 218 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
4 204 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
5 192 (4.01%) Onboarding
6 145 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
7 126 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
8 105 (2.19%) AI Agents
9 95 (1.98%) Management Information System
10 72 (1.50%) Security Posture
11 70 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
12 67 (1.40%) Public Cloud
13 65 (1.36%) Data Structures
14 63 (1.32%) Replication
15 61 (1.27%) Data Centre
15 61 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
16 53 (1.11%) PKI
17 51 (1.06%) Mobile App
18 49 (1.02%) Virtual Team
19 46 (0.96%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 511 (10.67%) Linux
2 296 (6.18%) Windows
3 118 (2.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 97 (2.03%) Unix
5 89 (1.86%) Windows Server
6 37 (0.77%) Ubuntu
7 30 (0.63%) VMS
8 27 (0.56%) Apple iOS
9 19 (0.40%) Android
10 15 (0.31%) CentOS
11 10 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
11 10 (0.21%) zOS
12 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
12 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
13 7 (0.15%) AIX
14 6 (0.13%) Solaris
15 4 (0.084%) Alpine Linux
15 4 (0.084%) Windows Server 2008
16 3 (0.063%) Mac OS
16 3 (0.063%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,916 (60.88%) CI/CD
2 1,946 (40.63%) Agile
3 1,442 (30.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 877 (18.31%) Stakeholder Management
5 837 (17.47%) Continuous Improvement
6 833 (17.39%) AI
7 804 (16.78%) Test Automation
8 778 (16.24%) Containerisation
8 778 (16.24%) Problem-Solving
9 702 (14.66%) Observability
10 701 (14.63%) Microservices
11 669 (13.97%) Platform Engineering
12 668 (13.95%) Software Engineering
13 587 (12.25%) Scrum
14 586 (12.23%) Migration
15 559 (11.67%) Technical Leadership
16 516 (10.77%) Analytics
17 454 (9.48%) Roadmaps
17 454 (9.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 422 (8.81%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,454 (30.35%) Python
2 849 (17.72%) SQL
3 691 (14.43%) Java
4 460 (9.60%) PowerShell
5 451 (9.42%) Bash
6 450 (9.39%) C#
7 400 (8.35%) JavaScript
8 289 (6.03%) TypeScript
9 232 (4.84%) Bicep
10 94 (1.96%) Go
11 65 (1.36%) Shell Script
12 58 (1.21%) T-SQL
13 57 (1.19%) Groovy
14 54 (1.13%) Scala
15 44 (0.92%) PL/SQL
16 41 (0.86%) Apex Code
17 33 (0.69%) C++
18 32 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 29 (0.61%) Perl
20 27 (0.56%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,556 (32.48%) Security Cleared
2 1,293 (26.99%) SC Cleared
3 346 (7.22%) Degree
4 230 (4.80%) DV Cleared
5 217 (4.53%) Azure Certification
6 180 (3.76%) AWS Certification
7 157 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
8 132 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
9 105 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
10 74 (1.54%) CISSP
11 52 (1.09%) ISTQB
11 52 (1.09%) PMP
12 50 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
13 46 (0.96%) PMI Certification
14 41 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 39 (0.81%) Master's Degree
16 31 (0.65%) CISM
17 24 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 21 (0.44%) CCNP
19 20 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 496 (10.35%) QA
2 252 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 170 (3.55%) Accessibility
4 108 (2.25%) GDPR
5 88 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 78 (1.63%) WCAG
7 66 (1.38%) NIST
8 45 (0.94%) NCSC
8 45 (0.94%) PMO
9 30 (0.63%) PCI DSS
9 30 (0.63%) SLA
10 26 (0.54%) GRC
11 19 (0.40%) ISO 20022
12 16 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 14 (0.29%) HIPAA
13 14 (0.29%) SOC 2
14 13 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
14 13 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
15 12 (0.25%) SEPA
16 9 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 975 (20.35%) Docker
2 151 (3.15%) Active Directory
3 70 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
4 64 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 22 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 22 (0.46%) vSphere
6 20 (0.42%) Hyper-V
7 17 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
8 11 (0.23%) Squid
8 11 (0.23%) VMware NSX
9 10 (0.21%) IAG
10 8 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
11 6 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 6 (0.13%) Corosync
11 6 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
11 6 (0.13%) Postfix
12 5 (0.10%) KVM
12 5 (0.10%) RACF
13 4 (0.084%) Firmware
13 4 (0.084%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1,274 (26.60%) Kubernetes
2 492 (10.27%) Ansible
3 318 (6.64%) Grafana
4 267 (5.57%) Prometheus
5 61 (1.27%) Argo
6 56 (1.17%) Puppet
7 49 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
8 47 (0.98%) Progress Chef
9 38 (0.79%) Kibana
9 38 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
10 33 (0.69%) Packer
11 23 (0.48%) Istio
11 23 (0.48%) Kubeflow
12 20 (0.42%) Kustomize
13 19 (0.40%) SCCM
14 13 (0.27%) Control-M
14 13 (0.27%) HP ALM
14 13 (0.27%) SCOM
14 13 (0.27%) vCenter Server
15 12 (0.25%) systemd
Vendors
1 993 (20.73%) Microsoft
2 277 (5.78%) Databricks
3 270 (5.64%) Google
4 226 (4.72%) Oracle
5 187 (3.90%) ServiceNow
6 163 (3.40%) Splunk
7 138 (2.88%) Dynatrace
8 132 (2.76%) Salesforce
9 99 (2.07%) VMware
10 98 (2.05%) SAP
11 89 (1.86%) Red Hat
12 66 (1.38%) IBM
13 62 (1.29%) OpenAI
14 48 (1.00%) Foundry
15 44 (0.92%) Cisco
16 40 (0.84%) Informatica
17 39 (0.81%) MuleSoft
18 35 (0.73%) AppDynamics
19 32 (0.67%) Atlassian
20 31 (0.65%) Okta