Senior DevOps Contract Job Trends in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations daily rate in England is £566, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 April 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 457 370 464
Rank change year-on-year -87 +94 +18
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 122 105 85
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.43% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.46% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 78 62
10th Percentile £425 £510 £500
25th Percentile £475 £566 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £566 £644 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.13% +7.29% -7.69%
75th Percentile £663 £738 £670
90th Percentile £725 £779 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -15.38% +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 35,993 22,652 34,626
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.87% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,660 15,166 23,117
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,393 844 2,319
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.84 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.18 £20.29 £16.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £33.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.79% - -24.25%
75th Percentile £65.88 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £76.25 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £31.76 £34.00
% change year-on-year +25.94% -6.59% -23.65%

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 7 April 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 7 April 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 -52 67 £575 -11.54% 15
North of England -82 17 £525 -11.02% 16
South East -45 13 £425 -39.29% 13
Midlands -59 12 £525 +40.00% 9
North East -14 8 £488 -14.47% 9
South West -33 7 £625 -7.41% 2
East Midlands -27 6 £488 - 3
West Midlands -55 6 £892 +137.87% 6
East of England -31 5 £513 +17.14%
Yorkshire -64 5 £892 +45.04% 3
North West -37 4 £633 -4.49% 4
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 April 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.

1 122 (100.00%) DevOps
2 61 (50.00%) Terraform
3 60 (49.18%) CI/CD
4 56 (45.90%) Azure
5 55 (45.08%) AWS
6 49 (40.16%) Kubernetes
7 45 (36.89%) Infrastructure as Code
8 43 (35.25%) Security Cleared
9 39 (31.97%) Python
10 35 (28.69%) SC Cleared
11 33 (27.05%) Docker
12 32 (26.23%) Azure DevOps
13 30 (24.59%) Jenkins
13 30 (24.59%) Linux
14 29 (23.77%) Agile
14 29 (23.77%) GitHub
15 27 (22.13%) Ansible
16 26 (21.31%) GitLab
17 23 (18.85%) Containerisation
18 22 (18.03%) GitHub Actions
18 22 (18.03%) Observability
19 18 (14.75%) Platform Engineering
20 16 (13.11%) Grafana
21 15 (12.30%) Elastic Stack
21 15 (12.30%) GCP
21 15 (12.30%) Infrastructure Automation
21 15 (12.30%) PowerShell
21 15 (12.30%) Prometheus
22 14 (11.48%) Bash
23 13 (10.66%) Azure AKS

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 (3.28%) Confluence
2 2 (1.64%) Apache
2 2 (1.64%) CMS
3 1 (0.82%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.82%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.82%) Sitecore CMS
Cloud Services
1 56 (45.90%) Azure
2 55 (45.08%) AWS
3 32 (26.23%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (23.77%) GitHub
5 22 (18.03%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (12.30%) GCP
7 13 (10.66%) Azure AKS
8 11 (9.02%) Amazon EKS
8 11 (9.02%) Azure Monitor
9 10 (8.20%) Serverless
10 8 (6.56%) Amazon S3
11 7 (5.74%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (4.92%) Azure API Management
12 6 (4.92%) Azure Key Vault
13 5 (4.10%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (4.10%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (4.10%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 4 (3.28%) Azure Functions
14 4 (3.28%) Entra ID
15 3 (2.46%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.28%) Firewall
2 2 (1.64%) Multicast
3 1 (0.82%) DNS
3 1 (0.82%) HTTP
3 1 (0.82%) Internet
3 1 (0.82%) Network Security
3 1 (0.82%) SSL
3 1 (0.82%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.82%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.56%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (6.56%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (4.10%) MongoDB
3 4 (3.28%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (2.46%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.64%) KDB
5 2 (1.64%) MySQL
6 1 (0.82%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.82%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.82%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.82%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.82%) Metadata
6 1 (0.82%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.82%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.82%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 30 (24.59%) Jenkins
2 26 (21.31%) GitLab
3 6 (4.92%) Git
4 5 (4.10%) Artifactory
4 5 (4.10%) JIRA
4 5 (4.10%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (3.28%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.28%) SonarQube
5 4 (3.28%) TeamCity
6 3 (2.46%) Liquibase
7 2 (1.64%) RStudio
8 1 (0.82%) CircleCI
General
1 19 (15.57%) Banking
2 17 (13.93%) Finance
2 17 (13.93%) Social Skills
3 15 (12.30%) Public Sector
4 4 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.46%) Billing
5 3 (2.46%) Social Science
6 2 (1.64%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.64%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.64%) Front Office
6 2 (1.64%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.64%) Military
6 2 (1.64%) Retail
6 2 (1.64%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.82%) Legal
7 1 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.30%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (8.20%) .NET
3 9 (7.38%) REST
4 6 (4.92%) .NET Core
5 5 (4.10%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (3.28%) ADO
6 4 (3.28%) GraphQL
6 4 (3.28%) OAuth
6 4 (3.28%) OAuth2
6 4 (3.28%) YAML
7 3 (2.46%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (2.46%) Kafka
7 3 (2.46%) React
7 3 (2.46%) RESTful
8 2 (1.64%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.64%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (1.64%) Lambda Expressions
8 2 (1.64%) OpenID
8 2 (1.64%) pytest
8 2 (1.64%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.93%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.56%) Public Cloud
3 4 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.46%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.64%) Derivative
5 2 (1.64%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.82%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.82%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.82%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.82%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.82%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.82%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.82%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 30 (24.59%) Linux
2 6 (4.92%) Windows
3 4 (3.28%) Unix
4 2 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (100.00%) DevOps
2 60 (49.18%) CI/CD
3 45 (36.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (23.77%) Agile
5 23 (18.85%) Containerisation
6 22 (18.03%) Observability
7 18 (14.75%) Platform Engineering
8 15 (12.30%) Infrastructure Automation
9 12 (9.84%) Microservices
10 11 (9.02%) Migration
11 10 (8.20%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (8.20%) Software Engineering
11 10 (8.20%) Test Automation
12 9 (7.38%) AI
12 9 (7.38%) DevSecOps
12 9 (7.38%) Incident Response
12 9 (7.38%) Mentoring
13 7 (5.74%) Secrets Management
13 7 (5.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 7 (5.74%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 39 (31.97%) Python
2 15 (12.30%) PowerShell
3 14 (11.48%) Bash
4 11 (9.02%) C#
5 10 (8.20%) Go
6 8 (6.56%) Bicep
7 7 (5.74%) JavaScript
8 6 (4.92%) Java
8 6 (4.92%) SQL
9 4 (3.28%) PHP
10 2 (1.64%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 43 (35.25%) Security Cleared
2 35 (28.69%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.56%) Azure Certification
4 5 (4.10%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.46%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.64%) Degree
8 1 (0.82%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.82%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.64%) Data Quality
1 2 (1.64%) EMIR
1 2 (1.64%) MiFID
1 2 (1.64%) QA
2 1 (0.82%) GDPR
System Software
1 33 (27.05%) Docker
2 4 (3.28%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 61 (50.00%) Terraform
2 49 (40.16%) Kubernetes
3 27 (22.13%) Ansible
4 16 (13.11%) Grafana
5 15 (12.30%) Prometheus
6 11 (9.02%) Argo
7 8 (6.56%) Istio
8 5 (4.10%) Packer
8 5 (4.10%) Puppet
9 2 (1.64%) Kibana
9 2 (1.64%) linkerd
9 2 (1.64%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.64%) Rancher
9 2 (1.64%) Thomson Reuters DACS
10 1 (0.82%) CASB
Vendors
1 13 (10.66%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.02%) Splunk
3 8 (6.56%) VMware
4 5 (4.10%) Dynatrace
4 5 (4.10%) Oracle
4 5 (4.10%) Red Hat
5 3 (2.46%) Bloomberg
5 3 (2.46%) Cisco
5 3 (2.46%) Databricks
5 3 (2.46%) Fortinet
5 3 (2.46%) Google
5 3 (2.46%) Refinitiv
6 2 (1.64%) NYFIX
6 2 (1.64%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.82%) Ariba
7 1 (0.82%) SAP
7 1 (0.82%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.82%) Sitecore