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 1 October 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 462 460 411
Rank change year-on-year -2 -49 +58
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 171 68 117
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.37% 0.24% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.27% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 46 79
10th Percentile £448 £427 £513
25th Percentile £481 £500 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -13.46% -
75th Percentile £703 £675 £738
90th Percentile £762 £738 £788
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £650
% change year-on-year - -15.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £74.00
75th Percentile - - £74.44
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 - £74.00

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 42,912 25,497 30,028
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.18% 91.25% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,400 16,457 18,407
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.11%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £727 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,611 1,389 1,358
10th Percentile £14.65 £13.80 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £17.33 £21.37
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% -0.46%
75th Percentile £67.84 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £79.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% -2.82%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -35 85 £600 -1.23% 105
North of England -66 32 £525 - 53
North West -37 20 £700 +48.15% 34
Midlands -38 19 £488 -45.35% 15
South West - 15 £525 - 22
West Midlands -35 11 £695 -22.09% 5
South East -52 8 £521 - 21
East Midlands - 8 £488 - 10
North East -33 6 £475 -15.56% 8
Yorkshire -49 6 £470 -24.76% 11
East of England - 6 £700 - 7
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 October 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.

1 171 (100.00%) DevOps
2 109 (63.74%) Terraform
3 102 (59.65%) CI/CD
4 85 (49.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 75 (43.86%) Kubernetes
6 67 (39.18%) AWS
7 63 (36.84%) Python
8 61 (35.67%) Azure
9 60 (35.09%) Security Cleared
10 56 (32.75%) SC Cleared
11 52 (30.41%) GitHub
12 46 (26.90%) Docker
13 42 (24.56%) Containerisation
13 42 (24.56%) Platform Engineering
14 40 (23.39%) Azure DevOps
15 39 (22.81%) Linux
16 35 (20.47%) GitHub Actions
16 35 (20.47%) Observability
17 33 (19.30%) Ansible
18 31 (18.13%) Agile
18 31 (18.13%) Bash
19 29 (16.96%) GitLab
20 28 (16.37%) Jenkins
21 26 (15.20%) AI
21 26 (15.20%) Software Engineering
22 22 (12.87%) Deployment Automation
22 22 (12.87%) Infrastructure Automation
23 21 (12.28%) Git
24 20 (11.70%) Amazon S3
24 20 (11.70%) Continuous Improvement

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 2 (1.17%) Apache
2 1 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.58%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.58%) nginx
2 1 (0.58%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 67 (39.18%) AWS
2 61 (35.67%) Azure
3 52 (30.41%) GitHub
4 40 (23.39%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (20.47%) GitHub Actions
6 20 (11.70%) Amazon S3
7 18 (10.53%) Azure AKS
7 18 (10.53%) GCP
8 17 (9.94%) Amazon EC2
8 17 (9.94%) Serverless
9 16 (9.36%) Amazon EKS
10 15 (8.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 15 (8.77%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (8.19%) Azure Key Vault
12 13 (7.60%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (5.85%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (5.85%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (5.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (5.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 9 (5.26%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.51%) DNS
2 5 (2.92%) VPN
3 3 (1.75%) Firewall
3 3 (1.75%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (1.17%) Multicast
4 2 (1.17%) Network Security
4 2 (1.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (4.68%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (3.51%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.92%) MySQL
4 5 (2.92%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.34%) Redis
6 3 (1.75%) KDB
6 3 (1.75%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.17%) Kdb+
7 2 (1.17%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (0.58%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.58%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.58%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.58%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.58%) Power BI
8 1 (0.58%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.58%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 29 (16.96%) GitLab
2 28 (16.37%) Jenkins
3 21 (12.28%) Git
4 5 (2.92%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.34%) SonarQube
5 4 (2.34%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (1.75%) Maven
6 3 (1.75%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (1.17%) Snyk
8 1 (0.58%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.58%) Claude Code
General
1 21 (12.28%) Social Skills
2 20 (11.70%) Finance
3 18 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 16 (9.36%) Banking
5 8 (4.68%) Military
6 7 (4.09%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.09%) Retail
7 3 (1.75%) Front Office
8 2 (1.17%) Law
9 1 (0.58%) Back Office
9 1 (0.58%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.58%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (63.74%) Terraform
2 11 (6.43%) REST
3 9 (5.26%) Kafka
4 8 (4.68%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (4.68%) YAML
5 6 (3.51%) React
6 5 (2.92%) Keycloak
6 5 (2.92%) OAuth
7 4 (2.34%) AWS CDK
7 4 (2.34%) Celery
7 4 (2.34%) Django
7 4 (2.34%) JWT
7 4 (2.34%) Vue
8 3 (1.75%) ARM Templates
8 3 (1.75%) FastAPI
8 3 (1.75%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (1.75%) Flask
8 3 (1.75%) RESTful
9 2 (1.17%) LDAP
9 2 (1.17%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 36 (21.05%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.68%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.09%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.34%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.34%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.75%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.75%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.75%) Replication
7 2 (1.17%) Derivative
7 2 (1.17%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.17%) PKI
7 2 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.58%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.58%) Equities
8 1 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.58%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.58%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 39 (22.81%) Linux
2 9 (5.26%) Windows
3 8 (4.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (4.09%) Unix
5 4 (2.34%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.17%) CentOS
7 1 (0.58%) VMS
7 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (100.00%) DevOps
2 102 (59.65%) CI/CD
3 85 (49.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (24.56%) Containerisation
4 42 (24.56%) Platform Engineering
5 35 (20.47%) Observability
6 31 (18.13%) Agile
7 26 (15.20%) AI
7 26 (15.20%) Software Engineering
8 22 (12.87%) Deployment Automation
8 22 (12.87%) Infrastructure Automation
9 20 (11.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (11.70%) Roadmaps
10 19 (11.11%) Secrets Management
11 18 (10.53%) Migration
12 17 (9.94%) Technical Leadership
13 15 (8.77%) Cloud Security
13 15 (8.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 15 (8.77%) Software Delivery
13 15 (8.77%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 63 (36.84%) Python
2 31 (18.13%) Bash
3 17 (9.94%) PowerShell
4 10 (5.85%) Bicep
4 10 (5.85%) TypeScript
5 6 (3.51%) C#
5 6 (3.51%) SQL
6 5 (2.92%) Groovy
6 5 (2.92%) Java
7 4 (2.34%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.75%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.17%) Go
10 1 (0.58%) COBOL
10 1 (0.58%) JCL
Qualifications
1 60 (35.09%) Security Cleared
2 56 (32.75%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (4.68%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.51%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.92%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.17%) Degree
9 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.02%) QA
2 6 (3.51%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.51%) WCAG
3 5 (2.92%) GDPR
4 2 (1.17%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.58%) NCSC
System Software
1 46 (26.90%) Docker
2 2 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.58%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 75 (43.86%) Kubernetes
2 33 (19.30%) Ansible
3 18 (10.53%) Grafana
4 17 (9.94%) Prometheus
5 10 (5.85%) Argo
6 7 (4.09%) Istio
7 6 (3.51%) Packer
8 4 (2.34%) Kustomize
9 3 (1.75%) Kibana
10 2 (1.17%) Karpenter
10 2 (1.17%) Puppet
10 2 (1.17%) Thomson Reuters DACS
11 1 (0.58%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.58%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.58%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.58%) linkerd
11 1 (0.58%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.58%) Rancher
11 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.58%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (7.60%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.43%) Splunk
3 9 (5.26%) Oracle
4 7 (4.09%) Google
5 5 (2.92%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.34%) Databricks
7 2 (1.17%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.17%) Cisco
7 2 (1.17%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.17%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.17%) NYFIX
7 2 (1.17%) Refinitiv
7 2 (1.17%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.17%) VMware
8 1 (0.58%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.58%) Apple
8 1 (0.58%) Checkmarx
8 1 (0.58%) Informatica
8 1 (0.58%) Tenable
8 1 (0.58%) Trend Micro