DevOps Contracts in England

DevOps
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 15 12
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 -4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 2,420 3,478 5,395
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 10.05% 9.43% 11.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.00% 11.00% 12.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,754 2,417 3,951
10th Percentile £390 £400 £425
25th Percentile £450 £466 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £688
90th Percentile £755 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £587
% change year-on-year -4.55% -6.30% +2.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 110 101
10th Percentile £35.00 £56.50 £53.75
25th Percentile £51.25 £61.34 £60.91
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.05% - +0.77%
75th Percentile £82.48 £77.50 £75.67
90th Percentile £92.50 £87.05 £79.50
UK median hourly rate £73.23 £65.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year +11.79% - +2.99%

All Process and 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 21,993 31,623 42,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.30% 85.71% 89.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,286 20,632 29,989
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +0.92%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £768
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 966 2,323 1,520
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.86 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.00 £15.74
Median hourly rate £28.30 £37.50 £37.32
Median % change year-on-year -24.55% +0.48% +49.28%
75th Percentile £59.98 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.05
UK median hourly rate £27.52 £36.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year -24.62% +0.69% +41.16%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in England

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps in England.

Daily rate trend for DevOps in England

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in England

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps in England.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in England

DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2025.

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 2 June 2025. 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 1,439 £550 -4.35% 3,205
North of England +1 330 £500 -2.44% 5,372
South East -5 239 £500 -11.89% 5,971
North West +1 174 £500 -4.76% 2,549
Midlands +4 159 £500 -4.76% 4,502
Yorkshire +1 140 £500 +1.01% 2,184
West Midlands +10 114 £524 -0.19% 2,449
South West -7 110 £550 - 2,834
East Midlands +12 45 £463 +2.78% 1,755
East of England -7 45 £500 -6.37% 3,524
North East +1 19 £525 - 641
DevOps
UK

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 110 (4.55%) Confluence
2 86 (3.55%) Apache
3 84 (3.47%) Apache Spark
4 50 (2.07%) Apache Airflow
5 48 (1.98%) SharePoint
6 28 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
7 19 (0.79%) CMS
7 19 (0.79%) nginx
8 16 (0.66%) JBoss
9 13 (0.54%) Oracle Coherence
10 12 (0.50%) WebSphere
11 11 (0.45%) Tomcat
12 9 (0.37%) IIS
12 9 (0.37%) SAS
13 8 (0.33%) GemFire
14 7 (0.29%) ArcGIS
14 7 (0.29%) CICS
14 7 (0.29%) OpenStack
15 6 (0.25%) Camunda
16 5 (0.21%) Anypoint
Applications
1 21 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (0.74%) MS Visio
3 13 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.25%) Trello
5 4 (0.17%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.041%) InVision
6 1 (0.041%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 29 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.54%) Endur
3 12 (0.50%) FLEXCUBE
3 12 (0.50%) Oracle BPM
4 7 (0.29%) Unit4 Business World
5 6 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
6 5 (0.21%) Maximo
6 5 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
7 4 (0.17%) Shopify
8 3 (0.12%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.12%) SAP PM
8 3 (0.12%) VisionPLUS
9 2 (0.083%) Aladdin
9 2 (0.083%) Dynamics AX
9 2 (0.083%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.083%) Oracle Applications
9 2 (0.083%) SAP BPC
9 2 (0.083%) SAP Hybris
9 2 (0.083%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,149 (47.48%) Azure
2 858 (35.45%) AWS
3 653 (26.98%) Azure DevOps
4 257 (10.62%) Serverless
5 245 (10.12%) GCP
6 239 (9.88%) GitHub
7 168 (6.94%) Power Platform
8 141 (5.83%) AWS Lambda
9 129 (5.33%) Amazon S3
10 98 (4.05%) GitHub Actions
10 98 (4.05%) PaaS
11 96 (3.97%) AWS CloudFormation
11 96 (3.97%) OpenShift
12 93 (3.84%) Azure AKS
13 89 (3.68%) IaaS
14 88 (3.64%) Azure Data Factory
15 83 (3.43%) Amazon EC2
15 83 (3.43%) Dynamics 365
16 80 (3.31%) Entra ID
16 80 (3.31%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 141 (5.83%) Firewall
2 110 (4.55%) DNS
3 63 (2.60%) TCP/IP
4 52 (2.15%) HTTP
5 49 (2.02%) VPN
6 48 (1.98%) DHCP
7 32 (1.32%) Network Security
8 30 (1.24%) SSL
9 26 (1.07%) SMTP
10 18 (0.74%) SAN
11 16 (0.66%) WAN
12 13 (0.54%) LAN
13 12 (0.50%) BGP
13 12 (0.50%) HTTPS
14 11 (0.45%) Internet
14 11 (0.45%) Intrusion Detection
15 10 (0.41%) Kerberos
16 8 (0.33%) FTP
16 8 (0.33%) OSPF
17 6 (0.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (5.99%) PostgreSQL
2 142 (5.87%) SQL Server
3 119 (4.92%) NoSQL
4 109 (4.50%) Relational Database
5 101 (4.17%) Power BI
6 89 (3.68%) MongoDB
7 82 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
8 63 (2.60%) Big Data
9 62 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
10 58 (2.40%) Data Lake
11 53 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
12 49 (2.02%) DynamoDB
13 45 (1.86%) Amazon Athena
14 44 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
14 44 (1.82%) MySQL
15 32 (1.32%) Oracle Database
16 29 (1.20%) RDBMS
17 27 (1.12%) Amazon Aurora
18 26 (1.07%) Apache Iceberg
18 26 (1.07%) Redis
Development Applications
1 428 (17.69%) Jenkins
2 306 (12.64%) Git
3 261 (10.79%) JIRA
4 256 (10.58%) GitLab
5 88 (3.64%) Selenium
6 72 (2.98%) SonarQube
7 61 (2.52%) JUnit
8 60 (2.48%) Bitbucket
9 52 (2.15%) Maven
9 52 (2.15%) TeamCity
10 50 (2.07%) Postman
11 48 (1.98%) Gradle
12 41 (1.69%) JMeter
12 41 (1.69%) Mockito
13 37 (1.53%) Sonatype Nexus
14 34 (1.40%) Cypress.io
15 33 (1.36%) Artifactory
15 33 (1.36%) Liquibase
16 32 (1.32%) Cucumber
17 25 (1.03%) Visual Studio
General
1 661 (27.31%) Social Skills
2 532 (21.98%) Finance
3 325 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
4 250 (10.33%) Public Sector
5 225 (9.30%) Banking
6 84 (3.47%) Investment Banking
7 67 (2.77%) Marketing
7 67 (2.77%) Telecoms
8 66 (2.73%) Front Office
9 61 (2.52%) Retail
10 50 (2.07%) Manufacturing
11 40 (1.65%) Electronics
11 40 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
12 37 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
13 35 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
13 35 (1.45%) Military
14 29 (1.20%) Law
15 24 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 16 (0.66%) Financial Institution
17 15 (0.62%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 539 (22.27%) Developer
2 481 (19.88%) DevOps Engineer
3 285 (11.78%) Senior
4 250 (10.33%) Architect
5 207 (8.55%) Lead
6 162 (6.69%) AWS Engineer
7 151 (6.24%) Azure Engineer
8 130 (5.37%) AWS DevOps
9 113 (4.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 106 (4.38%) Data Engineer
11 100 (4.13%) Java Developer
12 99 (4.09%) Analyst
13 92 (3.80%) Cloud Engineer
14 90 (3.72%) Senior Developer
15 78 (3.22%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 71 (2.93%) Solutions Architect
17 70 (2.89%) Software Engineer
18 61 (2.52%) Consultant
19 60 (2.48%) C# Developer
20 56 (2.31%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 260 (10.74%) .NET
2 217 (8.97%) Kafka
3 183 (7.56%) React
4 157 (6.49%) REST
5 111 (4.59%) Spring
6 103 (4.26%) Spring Boot
7 99 (4.09%) RESTful
8 95 (3.93%) Node.js
9 87 (3.60%) AngularJS
10 84 (3.47%) HTML
11 83 (3.43%) Web Services
12 81 (3.35%) CSS
13 72 (2.98%) Elastic Stack
14 66 (2.73%) SOAP
15 65 (2.69%) .NET Core
16 64 (2.64%) JSON
17 63 (2.60%) ARM Templates
18 62 (2.56%) ASP.NET
19 57 (2.36%) OAuth
20 50 (2.07%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 141 (5.83%) Cloud Native
2 104 (4.30%) Product Ownership
3 60 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
4 57 (2.36%) Onboarding
5 47 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 46 (1.90%) Public Cloud
7 42 (1.74%) Data Centre
8 38 (1.57%) Management Information System
9 33 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
9 33 (1.36%) PKI
10 32 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
10 32 (1.32%) Mobile App
11 30 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
12 29 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
12 29 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
13 26 (1.07%) Algorithms
13 26 (1.07%) Data Structures
14 25 (1.03%) Replication
15 24 (0.99%) Clustering
15 24 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 322 (13.31%) Linux
2 199 (8.22%) Windows
3 80 (3.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 80 (3.31%) Windows Server
4 54 (2.23%) Unix
5 24 (0.99%) Android
6 22 (0.91%) CentOS
7 20 (0.83%) VMS
8 18 (0.74%) Solaris
9 15 (0.62%) Ubuntu
10 12 (0.50%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.25%) Rocky
12 4 (0.17%) AIX
12 4 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.17%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
13 3 (0.12%) HPUX
13 3 (0.12%) SUSE
13 3 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 3 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,106 (45.70%) CI/CD
2 961 (39.71%) Agile
3 485 (20.04%) Problem-Solving
4 446 (18.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 356 (14.71%) Microservices
6 349 (14.42%) Containerisation
7 321 (13.26%) Test Automation
8 278 (11.49%) Software Engineering
9 258 (10.66%) Migration
10 235 (9.71%) Scrum
11 211 (8.72%) Analytics
12 210 (8.68%) Continuous Integration
13 180 (7.44%) Configuration Management
14 176 (7.27%) Mentoring
15 169 (6.98%) Stakeholder Management
16 168 (6.94%) Continuous Improvement
17 162 (6.69%) TDD
18 150 (6.20%) Artificial Intelligence
18 150 (6.20%) Full-Stack Development
19 149 (6.16%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 747 (30.87%) Python
2 502 (20.74%) SQL
3 461 (19.05%) Java
4 300 (12.40%) C#
5 264 (10.91%) PowerShell
6 251 (10.37%) JavaScript
7 202 (8.35%) Bash
8 159 (6.57%) TypeScript
9 86 (3.55%) Go
10 76 (3.14%) Bicep
11 55 (2.27%) Shell Script
12 47 (1.94%) C++
13 43 (1.78%) Scala
14 41 (1.69%) Perl
15 32 (1.32%) PL/SQL
16 24 (0.99%) Kotlin
17 23 (0.95%) PHP
18 21 (0.87%) Groovy
18 21 (0.87%) Ruby
19 14 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 547 (22.60%) Security Cleared
2 432 (17.85%) SC Cleared
3 194 (8.02%) Degree
4 99 (4.09%) DV Cleared
5 73 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 72 (2.98%) AWS Certification
7 69 (2.85%) Azure Certification
8 31 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 25 (1.03%) Master's Degree
10 24 (0.99%) Numerate Degree
11 21 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
12 20 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
12 20 (0.83%) ISTQB
13 19 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
14 17 (0.70%) CISSP
15 15 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
15 15 (0.62%) PMI Certification
15 15 (0.62%) PMP
16 14 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 12 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (6.69%) QA
2 64 (2.64%) GDPR
3 54 (2.23%) Data Quality
4 38 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 34 (1.40%) NIST
6 30 (1.24%) Accessibility
7 15 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 14 (0.58%) SOC 2
9 12 (0.50%) HIPAA
9 12 (0.50%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.41%) PMO
10 10 (0.41%) SLA
11 8 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 6 (0.25%) NCSC
13 5 (0.21%) EMIR
13 5 (0.21%) WCAG
14 4 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.17%) MiFID
14 4 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
15 3 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 494 (20.41%) Docker
2 120 (4.96%) Active Directory
3 62 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (0.58%) Hyper-V
7 13 (0.54%) vSphere
8 9 (0.37%) BitLocker
8 9 (0.37%) Microsoft App-V
8 9 (0.37%) Terminal Services
9 8 (0.33%) GridGain
9 8 (0.33%) Postfix
10 7 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.25%) DFS Replication
12 4 (0.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 4 (0.17%) NFS
12 4 (0.17%) Veritas File System
12 4 (0.17%) Veritas Volume Manager
13 3 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
13 3 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 699 (28.88%) Terraform
2 677 (27.98%) Kubernetes
3 355 (14.67%) Ansible
4 127 (5.25%) Grafana
5 119 (4.92%) Prometheus
6 85 (3.51%) Puppet
7 47 (1.94%) Progress Chef
8 33 (1.36%) Kibana
9 27 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
10 25 (1.03%) Argo
10 25 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
11 21 (0.87%) Istio
12 19 (0.79%) Packer
13 18 (0.74%) Podman
14 15 (0.62%) Nagios
15 12 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
15 12 (0.50%) vCenter Server
16 10 (0.41%) HP ALM
16 10 (0.41%) ITRS Geneos
16 10 (0.41%) QRadar
Vendors
1 384 (15.87%) Microsoft
2 167 (6.90%) Oracle
3 97 (4.01%) Databricks
4 95 (3.93%) VMware
5 93 (3.84%) Splunk
6 86 (3.55%) Google
7 79 (3.26%) Red Hat
8 74 (3.06%) SAP
9 58 (2.40%) ServiceNow
10 39 (1.61%) Salesforce
11 31 (1.28%) Cisco
11 31 (1.28%) IBM
12 29 (1.20%) MuleSoft
13 27 (1.12%) Atlassian
14 24 (0.99%) Citrix
15 23 (0.95%) Dynatrace
16 22 (0.91%) HP
17 20 (0.83%) AppDynamics
18 19 (0.79%) Fortinet
19 15 (0.62%) CyberArk