Senior DevOps Contract Job Trends in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations daily rate in England is £549, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 June 2026.

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

 6 months to
3 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 446 414 445
Rank change year-on-year -32 +31 +64
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 143 55 97
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.23% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.25% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 44 73
10th Percentile £443 £500 £509
25th Percentile £480 £525 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.45% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £658 £675 £675
90th Percentile £703 £734 £760
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £74.44
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £68.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 - £73.50

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 38,507 22,115 34,261
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.38% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,765 14,615 22,560
10th Percentile £325 £290 £285
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £517 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -1.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £504 £525
% change year-on-year +1.69% -4.00% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,712 936 2,585
10th Percentile £15.79 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.57 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year +52.21% -21.68% -16.11%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £62.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +51.79% -25.33% -16.67%

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 3 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior DevOps in England over the 6 months to 3 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior DevOps 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 3 June 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 -45 72 £575 -6.12% 24
North of England -64 24 £475 -13.64% 2
Midlands -37 19 £488 - 11
South East -50 12 £600 - 10
East Midlands -18 10 £488 - 2
Yorkshire -56 10 £471 -18.17% 2
North East -24 9 £475 -13.64%
West Midlands - 9 £695 - 9
South West -22 6 £488 -27.78% 7
East of England -26 5 £549 +25.56% 1
North West -33 5 £633 +31.14%
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 June 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.

1 143 (100.00%) DevOps
2 75 (52.45%) Terraform
3 71 (49.65%) CI/CD
4 60 (41.96%) Infrastructure as Code
5 56 (39.16%) AWS
6 52 (36.36%) Kubernetes
7 51 (35.66%) Azure
8 43 (30.07%) Security Cleared
9 38 (26.57%) Python
10 37 (25.87%) SC Cleared
11 36 (25.17%) Docker
11 36 (25.17%) Platform Engineering
12 33 (23.08%) GitHub
13 31 (21.68%) Azure DevOps
13 31 (21.68%) Linux
14 29 (20.28%) Ansible
15 28 (19.58%) GitLab
16 25 (17.48%) Containerisation
17 24 (16.78%) Agile
18 23 (16.08%) GitHub Actions
18 23 (16.08%) Jenkins
18 23 (16.08%) Observability
19 19 (13.29%) GCP
20 18 (12.59%) Infrastructure Automation
21 16 (11.19%) Argo
21 16 (11.19%) Bash
22 15 (10.49%) Grafana
22 15 (10.49%) Prometheus
22 15 (10.49%) Secrets Management
23 14 (9.79%) 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 3 (2.10%) Confluence
2 2 (1.40%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 56 (39.16%) AWS
2 51 (35.66%) Azure
3 33 (23.08%) GitHub
4 31 (21.68%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (16.08%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (13.29%) GCP
7 14 (9.79%) Azure AKS
8 12 (8.39%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
10 10 (6.99%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (6.99%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (6.29%) Amazon S3
12 8 (5.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 7 (4.90%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (3.50%) Serverless
15 4 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
15 4 (2.80%) CloudFront
15 4 (2.80%) OpenShift
15 4 (2.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 3 (2.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.50%) VPN
2 3 (2.10%) Firewall
2 3 (2.10%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.90%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (3.50%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.10%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.40%) Oracle Database 12c
4 2 (1.40%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.70%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.70%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.70%) Metadata
5 1 (0.70%) MySQL
5 1 (0.70%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.70%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (19.58%) GitLab
2 23 (16.08%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.50%) Artifactory
3 5 (3.50%) Bitbucket
3 5 (3.50%) Git
4 4 (2.80%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (2.80%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.10%) JIRA
5 3 (2.10%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.40%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.70%) RStudio
General
1 18 (12.59%) Banking
2 16 (11.19%) Public Sector
2 16 (11.19%) Social Skills
3 13 (9.09%) Finance
4 2 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (1.40%) Military
4 2 (1.40%) Social Science
5 1 (0.70%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
5 1 (0.70%) Legal
5 1 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (3.50%) OpenTelemetry
2 5 (3.50%) YAML
3 4 (2.80%) REST
4 3 (2.10%) .NET
4 3 (2.10%) ADO
4 3 (2.10%) AWS CDK
5 2 (1.40%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (1.40%) JSON
5 2 (1.40%) Kafka
5 2 (1.40%) LDAP
5 2 (1.40%) OAuth
5 2 (1.40%) OAuth2
5 2 (1.40%) Playwright
5 2 (1.40%) pytest
5 2 (1.40%) RESTful
6 1 (0.70%) Django
6 1 (0.70%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (0.70%) JSON Schema
6 1 (0.70%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.99%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.90%) Public Cloud
3 5 (3.50%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.10%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.10%) Replication
5 2 (1.40%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.70%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.70%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.70%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.70%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 31 (21.68%) Linux
2 7 (4.90%) Windows
3 2 (1.40%) Unix
4 1 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (100.00%) DevOps
2 71 (49.65%) CI/CD
3 60 (41.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 36 (25.17%) Platform Engineering
5 25 (17.48%) Containerisation
6 24 (16.78%) Agile
7 23 (16.08%) Observability
8 18 (12.59%) Infrastructure Automation
9 15 (10.49%) Secrets Management
10 14 (9.79%) Software Engineering
11 13 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 12 (8.39%) Technical Leadership
12 12 (8.39%) Test Automation
13 11 (7.69%) AI
13 11 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (6.99%) Decision-Making
14 10 (6.99%) Mentoring
14 10 (6.99%) Stakeholder Management
15 9 (6.29%) Deployment Automation
15 9 (6.29%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 38 (26.57%) Python
2 16 (11.19%) Bash
3 11 (7.69%) PowerShell
4 9 (6.29%) Bicep
5 7 (4.90%) Go
6 6 (4.20%) C#
7 4 (2.80%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.10%) Groovy
8 3 (2.10%) Java
8 3 (2.10%) SQL
9 2 (1.40%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.70%) COBOL
10 1 (0.70%) JCL
10 1 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 43 (30.07%) Security Cleared
2 37 (25.87%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.90%) Azure Certification
4 6 (4.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.80%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 4 (2.80%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.20%) GDPR
2 5 (3.50%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.50%) WCAG
3 3 (2.10%) QA
4 2 (1.40%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 36 (25.17%) Docker
2 2 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.70%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 75 (52.45%) Terraform
2 52 (36.36%) Kubernetes
3 29 (20.28%) Ansible
4 16 (11.19%) Argo
5 15 (10.49%) Grafana
5 15 (10.49%) Prometheus
6 8 (5.59%) Istio
6 8 (5.59%) Packer
7 4 (2.80%) Puppet
8 3 (2.10%) Kustomize
9 2 (1.40%) linkerd
9 2 (1.40%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.70%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.70%) Rancher
Vendors
1 10 (6.99%) Splunk
2 9 (6.29%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.29%) VMware
3 8 (5.59%) Oracle
4 6 (4.20%) Google
5 4 (2.80%) Cisco
5 4 (2.80%) Fortinet
5 4 (2.80%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.10%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.40%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.40%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.70%) Ariba
8 1 (0.70%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.70%) Databricks
8 1 (0.70%) F5
8 1 (0.70%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.70%) SAP
8 1 (0.70%) Tanium
8 1 (0.70%) Tenable
8 1 (0.70%) Trend Micro
53 Senior DevOps jobs in England