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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,787 2,878 3,369
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.61% 10.42% 10.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.45% 11.49% 11.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,294 2,094 2,300
10th Percentile £385 £360 £400
25th Percentile £438 £425 £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 £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 21 83
10th Percentile £35.00 £35.00 £57.25
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.25 £63.30
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.75% -4.29% +6.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 £82.00 £74.72
90th Percentile £88.00 £92.50 £85.57
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +0.75% -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 38,456 25,047 28,792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.21% 90.72% 85.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,987 16,039 18,801
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £758
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,460 1,391 1,685
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £20.69 £17.87 £18.16
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.90% -4.71%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 4 August 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 2,476 £550 - 1,385
North of England +1 834 £500 +5.26% 426
Midlands +1 460 £488 +2.63% 220
South East -10 460 £525 +5.00% 374
Yorkshire +2 412 £500 +2.04% 133
West Midlands -1 376 £491 -1.80% 154
North West -1 334 £524 +12.69% 227
South West +13 320 £525 +0.96% 190
East of England +15 135 £506 +1.20% 87
North East +12 105 £425 -18.27% 68
East Midlands +4 79 £488 +7.26% 64
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
1 292 (6.10%) Confluence
2 123 (2.57%) SharePoint
3 120 (2.51%) Apache Spark
4 114 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
5 98 (2.05%) Apache
6 74 (1.55%) SAS
7 41 (0.86%) CMS
8 31 (0.65%) IIS
8 31 (0.65%) Jupyter
9 23 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
10 22 (0.46%) nginx
11 14 (0.29%) WebSphere
12 13 (0.27%) Camunda
13 12 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
14 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
15 9 (0.19%) Anypoint
15 9 (0.19%) Appian
16 8 (0.17%) OpenStack
17 7 (0.15%) Tomcat
17 7 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 58 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
2 52 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 33 (0.69%) MS Visio
4 29 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
5 25 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.21%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.21%) CPLEX
7 9 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.15%) Trello
9 4 (0.084%) Notion
10 2 (0.042%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.021%) InDesign
11 1 (0.021%) Maya
11 1 (0.021%) Weka
Business Applications
1 61 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.21%) Aladdin
3 10 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
4 9 (0.19%) Magento
5 8 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
5 8 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
6 6 (0.13%) Maximo
7 5 (0.10%) OpenText MBPM
7 5 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
7 5 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.084%) Endur
8 4 (0.084%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.084%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.063%) Findur
9 3 (0.063%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.063%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.063%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2,578 (53.85%) Azure
2 1,650 (34.47%) AWS
3 1,492 (31.17%) Azure DevOps
4 787 (16.44%) GitHub
5 589 (12.30%) GCP
6 493 (10.30%) GitHub Actions
7 408 (8.52%) Power Platform
8 375 (7.83%) Serverless
9 245 (5.12%) Amazon S3
10 234 (4.89%) Entra ID
11 217 (4.53%) AWS Lambda
12 196 (4.09%) Azure AKS
13 179 (3.74%) AWS CloudFormation
14 174 (3.63%) Amazon EKS
15 173 (3.61%) Azure Data Factory
16 170 (3.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 166 (3.47%) Azure Monitor
18 149 (3.11%) Dynamics 365
19 148 (3.09%) Amazon EC2
20 144 (3.01%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 228 (4.76%) Firewall
2 137 (2.86%) DNS
3 112 (2.34%) VPN
4 103 (2.15%) Network Security
5 56 (1.17%) TCP/IP
6 49 (1.02%) WAN
7 39 (0.81%) SSL
8 36 (0.75%) SD-WAN
9 35 (0.73%) DHCP
10 31 (0.65%) BGP
10 31 (0.65%) Internet
11 28 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
12 25 (0.52%) OSPF
13 20 (0.42%) HTTP
14 19 (0.40%) VLAN
15 18 (0.38%) SAN
15 18 (0.38%) VXLAN
16 17 (0.36%) MPLS
17 16 (0.33%) BIG-IP
17 16 (0.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 286 (5.97%) Power BI
2 254 (5.31%) SQL Server
3 226 (4.72%) PostgreSQL
4 168 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
5 162 (3.38%) NoSQL
6 150 (3.13%) Relational Database
7 140 (2.92%) Data Lake
8 139 (2.90%) MongoDB
9 94 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
10 91 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
11 89 (1.86%) Metadata
12 84 (1.75%) Delta Lake
13 80 (1.67%) DynamoDB
14 75 (1.57%) Oracle Database
15 57 (1.19%) Big Data
16 56 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
16 56 (1.17%) Redis
17 49 (1.02%) MySQL
18 46 (0.96%) BigQuery
18 46 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 661 (13.81%) Jenkins
2 636 (13.29%) Git
3 574 (11.99%) JIRA
4 485 (10.13%) GitLab
5 103 (2.15%) Selenium
6 89 (1.86%) SonarQube
7 82 (1.71%) Postman
8 78 (1.63%) JUnit
9 74 (1.55%) Bitbucket
10 70 (1.46%) Maven
11 56 (1.17%) REST Assured
12 53 (1.11%) Cypress.io
12 53 (1.11%) JMeter
13 50 (1.04%) Cucumber
14 46 (0.96%) Gatling
15 40 (0.84%) Gradle
15 40 (0.84%) LoadRunner
15 40 (0.84%) Mockito
16 34 (0.71%) Artifactory
17 33 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,209 (25.26%) Social Skills
2 897 (18.74%) Finance
3 659 (13.77%) Public Sector
4 444 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
5 334 (6.98%) Banking
6 124 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 96 (2.01%) Retail
8 92 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
9 65 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
10 57 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
11 56 (1.17%) Legal
12 55 (1.15%) Marketing
13 46 (0.96%) Investment Banking
14 42 (0.88%) Military
15 41 (0.86%) Aerospace
16 40 (0.84%) Financial Institution
17 39 (0.81%) Law
18 38 (0.79%) Front Office
19 36 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
20 35 (0.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 890 (18.59%) DevOps Engineer
2 770 (16.09%) Developer
3 698 (14.58%) Senior
4 544 (11.36%) Architect
5 481 (10.05%) Lead
6 291 (6.08%) Azure Engineer
7 287 (6.00%) Data Engineer
8 249 (5.20%) Analyst
9 207 (4.32%) AWS Engineer
10 194 (4.05%) Platform Engineer
11 178 (3.72%) Cloud Engineer
12 171 (3.57%) Senior DevOps
13 170 (3.55%) Solutions Architect
14 157 (3.28%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 151 (3.15%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 148 (3.09%) Java Developer
17 145 (3.03%) AWS DevOps
18 134 (2.80%) Software Engineer
19 132 (2.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
20 128 (2.67%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 474 (9.90%) REST
2 422 (8.82%) .NET
3 280 (5.85%) Kafka
4 254 (5.31%) RESTful
5 242 (5.06%) React
6 239 (4.99%) Spring
7 219 (4.57%) Spring Boot
8 178 (3.72%) Node.js
9 145 (3.03%) JSON
9 145 (3.03%) PySpark
10 136 (2.84%) OAuth
11 133 (2.78%) AngularJS
11 133 (2.78%) Playwright
12 128 (2.67%) .NET Framework
13 127 (2.65%) SOAP
14 107 (2.24%) HTML
15 100 (2.09%) YAML
16 93 (1.94%) OAuth2
17 92 (1.92%) CSS
18 88 (1.84%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 853 (17.82%) Cloud Native
2 339 (7.08%) Product Ownership
3 229 (4.78%) Distributed Systems
4 141 (2.95%) Onboarding
5 137 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
6 134 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
7 122 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
8 79 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
9 71 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
10 69 (1.44%) Management Information System
11 67 (1.40%) Public Cloud
12 63 (1.32%) AI Agents
12 63 (1.32%) Data Structures
13 62 (1.30%) Security Posture
14 60 (1.25%) Data Centre
15 53 (1.11%) Replication
16 50 (1.04%) Mobile App
17 47 (0.98%) Virtual Team
18 38 (0.79%) PKI
19 36 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 423 (8.84%) Linux
2 265 (5.54%) Windows
3 96 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 72 (1.50%) Unix
5 70 (1.46%) Windows Server
6 28 (0.58%) Ubuntu
7 26 (0.54%) Apple iOS
8 24 (0.50%) VMS
9 18 (0.38%) Android
10 9 (0.19%) Solaris
10 9 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.17%) AIX
12 7 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
12 7 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
12 7 (0.15%) zOS
13 6 (0.13%) CentOS
13 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
14 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
15 4 (0.084%) Alpine Linux
15 4 (0.084%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,754 (57.53%) CI/CD
2 1,912 (39.94%) Agile
3 1,280 (26.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 769 (16.06%) Containerisation
5 766 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 755 (15.77%) Problem-Solving
7 723 (15.10%) Test Automation
8 686 (14.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 685 (14.31%) Microservices
10 679 (14.18%) AI
11 610 (12.74%) Observability
12 607 (12.68%) Scrum
13 581 (12.14%) Software Engineering
14 568 (11.87%) Platform Engineering
15 566 (11.82%) Migration
16 543 (11.34%) Analytics
17 449 (9.38%) Technical Leadership
18 443 (9.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 431 (9.00%) Data Modelling
20 413 (8.63%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,353 (28.26%) Python
2 900 (18.80%) SQL
3 669 (13.98%) Java
4 438 (9.15%) C#
5 394 (8.23%) PowerShell
6 390 (8.15%) Bash
7 375 (7.83%) JavaScript
8 262 (5.47%) TypeScript
9 192 (4.01%) Bicep
10 84 (1.75%) Go
11 58 (1.21%) T-SQL
12 56 (1.17%) PL/SQL
13 54 (1.13%) Shell Script
14 51 (1.07%) Apex Code
15 49 (1.02%) Scala
16 48 (1.00%) Groovy
17 32 (0.67%) C++
18 27 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 25 (0.52%) C
19 25 (0.52%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,528 (31.92%) Security Cleared
2 1,278 (26.70%) SC Cleared
3 298 (6.23%) Degree
4 200 (4.18%) Azure Certification
5 182 (3.80%) DV Cleared
6 162 (3.38%) AWS Certification
7 130 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 109 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
9 81 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
10 74 (1.55%) CISSP
11 51 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
12 45 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 45 (0.94%) ISTQB
13 39 (0.81%) PMP
14 34 (0.71%) PMI Certification
15 32 (0.67%) Master's Degree
16 30 (0.63%) CISM
17 24 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 22 (0.46%) CCNP
18 22 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 443 (9.25%) QA
2 238 (4.97%) Data Quality
3 153 (3.20%) Accessibility
4 133 (2.78%) GDPR
5 83 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 74 (1.55%) NIST
6 74 (1.55%) WCAG
7 47 (0.98%) NCSC
8 42 (0.88%) PMO
9 37 (0.77%) PCI DSS
10 27 (0.56%) SLA
11 26 (0.54%) GRC
12 23 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
13 10 (0.21%) HIPAA
14 9 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.17%) ISO 20022
15 8 (0.17%) PSD2
16 7 (0.15%) SEPA
16 7 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 932 (19.47%) Docker
2 170 (3.55%) Active Directory
3 74 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
4 67 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (0.44%) Hyper-V
5 21 (0.44%) vSphere
6 17 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (0.36%) VMware NSX
7 14 (0.29%) Postfix
7 14 (0.29%) Squid
8 13 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
10 8 (0.17%) KVM
11 7 (0.15%) IAG
12 6 (0.13%) Corosync
13 5 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.10%) NFS
13 5 (0.10%) SRDF
14 4 (0.084%) Firmware
14 4 (0.084%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1,351 (28.22%) Terraform
2 1,199 (25.05%) Kubernetes
3 468 (9.78%) Ansible
4 308 (6.43%) Grafana
5 259 (5.41%) Prometheus
6 75 (1.57%) Argo
7 57 (1.19%) Puppet
8 54 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
9 41 (0.86%) Progress Chef
10 34 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
11 30 (0.63%) Packer
12 28 (0.58%) Istio
13 19 (0.40%) vCenter Server
14 17 (0.36%) SCCM
15 15 (0.31%) Kibana
15 15 (0.31%) Kustomize
16 14 (0.29%) Kubeflow
16 14 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
17 12 (0.25%) HAProxy
18 11 (0.23%) systemd
Vendors
1 899 (18.78%) Microsoft
2 251 (5.24%) Oracle
3 244 (5.10%) Databricks
4 223 (4.66%) Google
5 185 (3.86%) ServiceNow
6 157 (3.28%) Splunk
7 149 (3.11%) Salesforce
8 125 (2.61%) Dynatrace
9 108 (2.26%) SAP
10 100 (2.09%) Red Hat
11 95 (1.98%) VMware
12 58 (1.21%) IBM
13 51 (1.07%) Atlassian
14 49 (1.02%) Informatica
15 45 (0.94%) OpenAI
16 44 (0.92%) Cisco
17 41 (0.86%) AppDynamics
18 35 (0.73%) Foundry
19 33 (0.69%) Denodo
20 32 (0.67%) MuleSoft