Senior DevOps Contract Job Trends in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations daily rate in England is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 460 384 459
Rank change year-on-year -76 +75 +34
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 121 98 82
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.40% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.43% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 74 59
10th Percentile £425 £507 £495
25th Percentile £475 £566 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £638 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% +6.25% -7.69%
75th Percentile £652 £734 £666
90th Percentile £725 £757 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £638 £600
% change year-on-year -13.73% +6.25% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
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 - £74.44

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 36,438 22,702 34,531
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.29% 92.70% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,879 15,162 23,005
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £644
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 867 2,382
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.41 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.73 £19.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% -7.14% -19.08%
75th Percentile £67.36 £64.63 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £76.25 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £30.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.73% -13.00% -22.22%

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 19 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 19 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 -33 63 £575 -9.80% 8
North of England -88 17 £525 -11.02% 5
South East -37 13 £425 -39.29% 6
Midlands -56 12 £506 - 4
North East -14 8 £488 -14.47% 1
East Midlands -25 7 £488 - 3
East of England -25 7 £531 +21.35% 1
South West -30 7 £625 -7.41% 2
Yorkshire -67 5 £892 +45.04% 1
West Midlands - 5 £892 - 1
North West -47 4 £633 +10.04% 3
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 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.

1 121 (100.00%) DevOps
2 63 (52.07%) Terraform
3 61 (50.41%) CI/CD
4 54 (44.63%) Azure
5 53 (43.80%) AWS
6 51 (42.15%) Kubernetes
7 48 (39.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 42 (34.71%) Security Cleared
9 37 (30.58%) Python
10 34 (28.10%) SC Cleared
11 32 (26.45%) Docker
12 30 (24.79%) Azure DevOps
12 30 (24.79%) GitHub
12 30 (24.79%) Linux
13 29 (23.97%) Ansible
13 29 (23.97%) Jenkins
14 27 (22.31%) Agile
14 27 (22.31%) GitLab
15 23 (19.01%) Containerisation
15 23 (19.01%) GitHub Actions
15 23 (19.01%) Platform Engineering
16 21 (17.36%) Observability
17 18 (14.88%) GCP
17 18 (14.88%) Infrastructure Automation
18 16 (13.22%) Grafana
19 15 (12.40%) Bash
19 15 (12.40%) Elastic Stack
19 15 (12.40%) Prometheus
20 14 (11.57%) Argo
21 13 (10.74%) PowerShell

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 (3.31%) Confluence
2 2 (1.65%) Apache
2 2 (1.65%) CMS
3 1 (0.83%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.83%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.83%) Sitecore CMS
Cloud Services
1 54 (44.63%) Azure
2 53 (43.80%) AWS
3 30 (24.79%) Azure DevOps
3 30 (24.79%) GitHub
4 23 (19.01%) GitHub Actions
5 18 (14.88%) GCP
6 12 (9.92%) Azure AKS
7 11 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (8.26%) Azure Monitor
8 10 (8.26%) Serverless
9 8 (6.61%) Amazon S3
9 8 (6.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 7 (5.79%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (4.96%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (4.13%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (4.13%) Azure API Management
12 5 (4.13%) Azure Key Vault
13 4 (3.31%) Azure Functions
13 4 (3.31%) Entra ID
14 3 (2.48%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.31%) VPN
2 3 (2.48%) Firewall
3 1 (0.83%) DNS
3 1 (0.83%) HTTP
3 1 (0.83%) Internet
3 1 (0.83%) Network Security
3 1 (0.83%) SSL
3 1 (0.83%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.61%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (5.79%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.13%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.31%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (2.48%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.83%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.83%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.83%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.83%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.83%) Metadata
6 1 (0.83%) MySQL
6 1 (0.83%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.83%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 29 (23.97%) Jenkins
2 27 (22.31%) GitLab
3 6 (4.96%) Git
4 5 (4.13%) Artifactory
4 5 (4.13%) JIRA
4 5 (4.13%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (3.31%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.31%) SonarQube
5 4 (3.31%) TeamCity
6 3 (2.48%) Liquibase
7 2 (1.65%) RStudio
General
1 19 (15.70%) Banking
2 15 (12.40%) Finance
2 15 (12.40%) Public Sector
3 14 (11.57%) Social Skills
4 4 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.48%) Billing
5 3 (2.48%) Social Science
6 2 (1.65%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.65%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.65%) Military
6 2 (1.65%) Retail
6 2 (1.65%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.83%) Legal
7 1 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.40%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (7.44%) .NET
2 9 (7.44%) REST
3 5 (4.13%) .NET Core
3 5 (4.13%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (3.31%) ADO
4 4 (3.31%) GraphQL
4 4 (3.31%) OAuth
4 4 (3.31%) OAuth2
4 4 (3.31%) YAML
5 3 (2.48%) Kafka
5 3 (2.48%) RESTful
6 2 (1.65%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.65%) AWS CDK
6 2 (1.65%) Lambda Expressions
6 2 (1.65%) OpenID
6 2 (1.65%) Playwright
6 2 (1.65%) pytest
6 2 (1.65%) React
6 2 (1.65%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (16.53%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.61%) Public Cloud
3 6 (4.96%) Private Cloud
4 4 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.83%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.83%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.83%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.83%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.83%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.83%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.83%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 30 (24.79%) Linux
2 7 (5.79%) Windows
3 4 (3.31%) Unix
4 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (100.00%) DevOps
2 61 (50.41%) CI/CD
3 48 (39.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (22.31%) Agile
5 23 (19.01%) Containerisation
5 23 (19.01%) Platform Engineering
6 21 (17.36%) Observability
7 18 (14.88%) Infrastructure Automation
8 12 (9.92%) Microservices
9 11 (9.09%) Test Automation
10 10 (8.26%) AI
10 10 (8.26%) Secrets Management
10 10 (8.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 10 (8.26%) Software Engineering
11 9 (7.44%) DevSecOps
11 9 (7.44%) Migration
12 8 (6.61%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (6.61%) GitOps
12 8 (6.61%) Incident Response
12 8 (6.61%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 37 (30.58%) Python
2 15 (12.40%) Bash
3 13 (10.74%) PowerShell
4 10 (8.26%) Go
5 9 (7.44%) C#
6 8 (6.61%) Bicep
7 7 (5.79%) JavaScript
8 6 (4.96%) Java
9 4 (3.31%) PHP
10 3 (2.48%) SQL
11 2 (1.65%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.83%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 42 (34.71%) Security Cleared
2 34 (28.10%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.79%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.31%) AWS Certification
4 4 (3.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 4 (3.31%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.65%) Degree
7 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.65%) Data Quality
1 2 (1.65%) QA
2 1 (0.83%) GDPR
System Software
1 32 (26.45%) Docker
2 3 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.83%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.83%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 63 (52.07%) Terraform
2 51 (42.15%) Kubernetes
3 29 (23.97%) Ansible
4 16 (13.22%) Grafana
5 15 (12.40%) Prometheus
6 14 (11.57%) Argo
7 8 (6.61%) Istio
8 5 (4.13%) Packer
8 5 (4.13%) Puppet
9 2 (1.65%) linkerd
9 2 (1.65%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.65%) Rancher
10 1 (0.83%) CASB
10 1 (0.83%) Kibana
Vendors
1 12 (9.92%) Microsoft
1 12 (9.92%) Splunk
2 10 (8.26%) VMware
3 5 (4.13%) Oracle
3 5 (4.13%) Red Hat
4 4 (3.31%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.48%) Cisco
5 3 (2.48%) Fortinet
5 3 (2.48%) Google
6 2 (1.65%) Databricks
6 2 (1.65%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.83%) Ariba
7 1 (0.83%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.83%) Refinitiv
7 1 (0.83%) SAP
7 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.83%) Sitecore