Senior DevOps Contract Job Trends in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations daily rate in England is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 471 362 481
Rank change year-on-year -109 +119 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 119 112 78
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.32% 0.45% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.49% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 83 57
10th Percentile £425 £513 £475
25th Percentile £475 £569 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £663 £738 £675
90th Percentile £734 £788 £754
UK median daily rate £566 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -13.00% +8.33% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £74.44
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - £73.97

All Contract IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,524 22,954 34,992
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.05% 93.06% 92.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,808 15,206 23,386
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £408 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,266 799 2,282
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.05 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.50 £21.24 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -23.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.99
90th Percentile £76.58 £77.25 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £32.91 £32.50
% change year-on-year +9.41% +1.25% -23.53%

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior DevOps' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Senior DevOps job vacancy trend in England

Senior DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior DevOps job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior DevOps job vacancies in England

Senior DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps in England over the 6 months to 22 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Senior DevOps in England

Senior DevOps
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior DevOps job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior DevOps job vacancies in England

Senior 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 Senior DevOps within the England region over the 6 months to 22 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 -37 68 £575 -11.54% 14
North of England -87 18 £575 -4.56% 16
South East -41 11 £425 -39.29% 11
Midlands -49 11 £892 +137.87% 8
Yorkshire -61 10 £892 +45.04% 4
West Midlands -59 8 £892 +137.87% 6
South West -41 7 £625 -7.41% 2
East of England -18 5 £581 +32.86% 1
North East -17 4 £513 -10.09% 9
North West -31 4 £633 -4.49% 3
East Midlands -32 3 £525 - 2
Senior DevOps
UK

Senior DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 22 March 2026, Senior DevOps contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Senior DevOps in the job title.

1 119 (100.00%) DevOps
2 65 (54.62%) CI/CD
3 62 (52.10%) Terraform
4 59 (49.58%) AWS
5 55 (46.22%) Azure
6 53 (44.54%) Kubernetes
7 48 (40.34%) Infrastructure as Code
8 43 (36.13%) Python
9 41 (34.45%) Security Cleared
10 39 (32.77%) Docker
11 38 (31.93%) Jenkins
12 34 (28.57%) Ansible
13 33 (27.73%) Linux
14 32 (26.89%) Azure DevOps
15 31 (26.05%) Agile
15 31 (26.05%) GitLab
15 31 (26.05%) SC Cleared
16 29 (24.37%) GitHub
17 26 (21.85%) Containerisation
18 21 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
19 20 (16.81%) Observability
20 17 (14.29%) Bash
20 17 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
20 17 (14.29%) GCP
20 17 (14.29%) Grafana
21 16 (13.45%) Infrastructure Automation
21 16 (13.45%) Prometheus
22 15 (12.61%) PowerShell
23 14 (11.76%) Mentoring
23 14 (11.76%) Microsoft

Senior DevOps Skill Set
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 4 (3.36%) Confluence
2 2 (1.68%) Apache
2 2 (1.68%) CMS
3 1 (0.84%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.84%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.84%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 59 (49.58%) AWS
2 55 (46.22%) Azure
3 32 (26.89%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (24.37%) GitHub
5 21 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (14.29%) GCP
7 13 (10.92%) Azure AKS
8 11 (9.24%) Serverless
9 10 (8.40%) Amazon S3
9 10 (8.40%) Azure Monitor
10 9 (7.56%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (7.56%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (5.88%) Azure API Management
12 6 (5.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (5.04%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (5.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 6 (5.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 5 (4.20%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (4.20%) Azure Key Vault
14 4 (3.36%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.36%) DNS
1 4 (3.36%) Firewall
1 4 (3.36%) Network Security
1 4 (3.36%) SSL
1 4 (3.36%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.52%) VPN
3 2 (1.68%) Multicast
4 1 (0.84%) HTTP
4 1 (0.84%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.72%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.20%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.36%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (2.52%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.68%) KDB
6 2 (1.68%) MySQL
6 2 (1.68%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.84%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.84%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.84%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.84%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.84%) Metadata
7 1 (0.84%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.84%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 38 (31.93%) Jenkins
2 31 (26.05%) GitLab
3 8 (6.72%) Git
4 6 (5.04%) TeamCity
5 5 (4.20%) Artifactory
5 5 (4.20%) JIRA
5 5 (4.20%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (3.36%) Liquibase
6 4 (3.36%) SonarQube
7 3 (2.52%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.52%) RStudio
8 2 (1.68%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.68%) Gradle
General
1 19 (15.97%) Banking
1 19 (15.97%) Finance
2 18 (15.13%) Social Skills
3 15 (12.61%) Public Sector
4 4 (3.36%) Social Science
5 3 (2.52%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.52%) Billing
5 3 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.68%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.68%) Front Office
6 2 (1.68%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.68%) Military
6 2 (1.68%) Retail
6 2 (1.68%) Retail Banking
6 2 (1.68%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.84%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (9.24%) .NET
3 10 (8.40%) REST
4 7 (5.88%) .NET Core
5 4 (3.36%) ADO
5 4 (3.36%) GraphQL
5 4 (3.36%) Kafka
5 4 (3.36%) React
6 3 (2.52%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.52%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (2.52%) OAuth
6 3 (2.52%) OAuth2
6 3 (2.52%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (2.52%) RESTful
7 2 (1.68%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (1.68%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.68%) AWS CDK
7 2 (1.68%) Lambda Expressions
7 2 (1.68%) OpenID
7 2 (1.68%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.45%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.72%) Public Cloud
3 4 (3.36%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.52%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.52%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.52%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.68%) Derivative
5 2 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.84%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.84%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.84%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (0.84%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.84%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.84%) Replication
6 1 (0.84%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 33 (27.73%) Linux
2 6 (5.04%) Windows
3 4 (3.36%) Unix
4 2 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (100.00%) DevOps
2 65 (54.62%) CI/CD
3 48 (40.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (26.05%) Agile
5 26 (21.85%) Containerisation
6 20 (16.81%) Observability
7 16 (13.45%) Infrastructure Automation
8 14 (11.76%) Mentoring
9 13 (10.92%) Platform Engineering
10 12 (10.08%) DevSecOps
10 12 (10.08%) Incident Response
10 12 (10.08%) Migration
10 12 (10.08%) Software Engineering
11 11 (9.24%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (9.24%) Microservices
11 11 (9.24%) Test Automation
12 9 (7.56%) High Availability
13 8 (6.72%) AI
13 8 (6.72%) Continuous Delivery
13 8 (6.72%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 43 (36.13%) Python
2 17 (14.29%) Bash
3 15 (12.61%) PowerShell
4 11 (9.24%) Go
5 8 (6.72%) C#
5 8 (6.72%) Java
6 7 (5.88%) Bicep
6 7 (5.88%) JavaScript
6 7 (5.88%) SQL
7 4 (3.36%) PHP
8 3 (2.52%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.68%) Rust
9 2 (1.68%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 41 (34.45%) Security Cleared
2 31 (26.05%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.56%) Azure Certification
4 6 (5.04%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 4 (3.36%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.52%) Degree
6 3 (2.52%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.68%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.84%) IIBA
8 1 (0.84%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.68%) Data Quality
1 2 (1.68%) EMIR
1 2 (1.68%) MiFID
1 2 (1.68%) QA
2 1 (0.84%) GDPR
System Software
1 39 (32.77%) Docker
2 5 (4.20%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.84%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 62 (52.10%) Terraform
2 53 (44.54%) Kubernetes
3 34 (28.57%) Ansible
4 17 (14.29%) Grafana
5 16 (13.45%) Prometheus
6 9 (7.56%) Argo
6 9 (7.56%) Istio
7 6 (5.04%) Packer
8 5 (4.20%) Puppet
9 3 (2.52%) Rancher
10 2 (1.68%) Kibana
10 2 (1.68%) linkerd
10 2 (1.68%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.68%) Thomson Reuters DACS
11 1 (0.84%) CASB
Vendors
1 14 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.40%) Splunk
3 9 (7.56%) VMware
4 5 (4.20%) Dynatrace
4 5 (4.20%) Google
4 5 (4.20%) Red Hat
5 4 (3.36%) Oracle
6 3 (2.52%) Bloomberg
6 3 (2.52%) CheckPoint
6 3 (2.52%) F5
6 3 (2.52%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.52%) Refinitiv
7 2 (1.68%) Databricks
7 2 (1.68%) NYFIX
7 2 (1.68%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.84%) Ariba
8 1 (0.84%) SAP
8 1 (0.84%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.84%) Sitecore