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 18 September 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 457 455 404
Rank change year-on-year -2 -51 +79
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 167 64 122
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.36% 0.23% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.25% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 44 84
10th Percentile £455 £427 £514
25th Percentile £481 £500 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £576 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.56% -7.80% -3.85%
75th Percentile £703 £675 £723
90th Percentile £769 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £578 £625
% change year-on-year -4.76% -7.60% -3.85%
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 42,615 25,411 30,652
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.30% 91.36% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,360 16,393 19,112
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% -3.24% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,479 1,371 1,480
10th Percentile £14.92 £13.75 £14.83
25th Percentile £21.14 £17.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £44.46 £25.15 £46.71
Median % change year-on-year +76.76% -46.16% +3.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £54.88 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -29 79 £600 -4.76% 102
North of England -56 31 £525 +2.44% 42
Midlands -31 21 £488 -39.70% 15
North West -41 17 £709 +50.00% 33
South West - 14 £500 - 25
West Midlands -39 11 £695 -14.04% 4
South East -53 10 £611 - 31
East Midlands - 10 £488 - 11
North East -41 7 £475 -15.56% 2
Yorkshire -43 7 £471 -18.17% 7
East of England - 6 £700 - 5
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 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.

1 167 (100.00%) DevOps
2 101 (60.48%) Terraform
3 98 (58.68%) CI/CD
4 82 (49.10%) Infrastructure as Code
5 70 (41.92%) Kubernetes
6 64 (38.32%) AWS
7 61 (36.53%) Azure
8 60 (35.93%) Security Cleared
9 59 (35.33%) Python
10 56 (33.53%) SC Cleared
11 48 (28.74%) GitHub
12 44 (26.35%) Docker
13 42 (25.15%) Containerisation
13 42 (25.15%) Platform Engineering
14 39 (23.35%) Azure DevOps
14 39 (23.35%) Linux
15 36 (21.56%) Observability
16 34 (20.36%) Ansible
17 33 (19.76%) GitHub Actions
18 32 (19.16%) Agile
19 27 (16.17%) Bash
19 27 (16.17%) GitLab
20 25 (14.97%) Jenkins
21 24 (14.37%) Software Engineering
22 23 (13.77%) AI
22 23 (13.77%) Infrastructure Automation
23 22 (13.17%) Deployment Automation
24 21 (12.57%) Continuous Improvement
25 20 (11.98%) Azure AKS
25 20 (11.98%) Roadmaps

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 (1.20%) Apache
1 2 (1.20%) Confluence
2 1 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.60%) nginx
2 1 (0.60%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 64 (38.32%) AWS
2 61 (36.53%) Azure
3 48 (28.74%) GitHub
4 39 (23.35%) Azure DevOps
5 33 (19.76%) GitHub Actions
6 20 (11.98%) Azure AKS
7 18 (10.78%) Amazon S3
8 15 (8.98%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (8.98%) GCP
8 15 (8.98%) Serverless
9 13 (7.78%) Amazon EKS
9 13 (7.78%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (7.78%) Azure Key Vault
10 12 (7.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (5.99%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (5.99%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (5.39%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (5.39%) OpenShift
12 9 (5.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (3.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.99%) VPN
2 4 (2.40%) DNS
2 4 (2.40%) Firewall
3 3 (1.80%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (1.20%) Multicast
4 2 (1.20%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.60%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.39%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (4.19%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (3.59%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.99%) MySQL
4 5 (2.99%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.40%) Redis
6 3 (1.80%) KDB
6 3 (1.80%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.20%) Kdb+
7 2 (1.20%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.60%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.60%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.60%) Metadata
8 1 (0.60%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.60%) Power BI
8 1 (0.60%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.60%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 27 (16.17%) GitLab
2 25 (14.97%) Jenkins
3 15 (8.98%) Git
4 7 (4.19%) Bitbucket
5 5 (2.99%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.40%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.80%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.20%) JIRA
8 2 (1.20%) Snyk
8 2 (1.20%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.60%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.60%) Maven
General
1 23 (13.77%) Social Skills
2 18 (10.78%) Finance
2 18 (10.78%) Public Sector
3 15 (8.98%) Banking
4 7 (4.19%) Military
4 7 (4.19%) Retail
5 6 (3.59%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.80%) Front Office
7 2 (1.20%) Law
8 1 (0.60%) Back Office
8 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.60%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.60%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (60.48%) Terraform
2 10 (5.99%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (4.79%) Kafka
3 8 (4.79%) REST
3 8 (4.79%) YAML
4 6 (3.59%) OAuth
4 6 (3.59%) React
5 5 (2.99%) Keycloak
6 4 (2.40%) ADO
6 4 (2.40%) Celery
6 4 (2.40%) Django
6 4 (2.40%) JWT
6 4 (2.40%) Vue
7 3 (1.80%) .NET
7 3 (1.80%) AWS CDK
7 3 (1.80%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (1.80%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (1.80%) RESTful
8 2 (1.20%) ARM Templates
8 2 (1.20%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 34 (20.36%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.79%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.59%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.40%) Private Cloud
4 4 (2.40%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.80%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.80%) Replication
6 2 (1.20%) Derivative
6 2 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.20%) PKI
6 2 (1.20%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.60%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.60%) Equities
7 1 (0.60%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.60%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 39 (23.35%) Linux
2 9 (5.39%) Windows
3 7 (4.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (4.19%) Unix
4 4 (2.40%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.20%) CentOS
6 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (100.00%) DevOps
2 98 (58.68%) CI/CD
3 82 (49.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (25.15%) Containerisation
4 42 (25.15%) Platform Engineering
5 36 (21.56%) Observability
6 32 (19.16%) Agile
7 24 (14.37%) Software Engineering
8 23 (13.77%) AI
8 23 (13.77%) Infrastructure Automation
9 22 (13.17%) Deployment Automation
10 21 (12.57%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (11.98%) Roadmaps
11 20 (11.98%) Secrets Management
12 17 (10.18%) Test Automation
13 16 (9.58%) Technical Leadership
14 15 (8.98%) Migration
15 14 (8.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 14 (8.38%) Stakeholder Management
15 14 (8.38%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 59 (35.33%) Python
2 27 (16.17%) Bash
3 15 (8.98%) PowerShell
4 9 (5.39%) Bicep
4 9 (5.39%) TypeScript
5 8 (4.79%) C#
6 6 (3.59%) SQL
7 5 (2.99%) Java
8 4 (2.40%) Groovy
9 3 (1.80%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.80%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.20%) Go
11 1 (0.60%) COBOL
11 1 (0.60%) JCL
Qualifications
1 60 (35.93%) Security Cleared
2 56 (33.53%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.99%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (4.79%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.99%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.40%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.20%) Degree
9 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.59%) QA
2 6 (3.59%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.59%) WCAG
3 5 (2.99%) GDPR
4 2 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.60%) NCSC
System Software
1 44 (26.35%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 70 (41.92%) Kubernetes
2 34 (20.36%) Ansible
3 17 (10.18%) Grafana
3 17 (10.18%) Prometheus
4 10 (5.99%) Argo
5 7 (4.19%) Istio
5 7 (4.19%) Packer
6 4 (2.40%) Kustomize
6 4 (2.40%) Puppet
7 3 (1.80%) Kibana
8 2 (1.20%) Karpenter
8 2 (1.20%) Thomson Reuters DACS
9 1 (0.60%) Consul
9 1 (0.60%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.60%) linkerd
9 1 (0.60%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.60%) Rancher
9 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.60%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (7.78%) Splunk
2 12 (7.19%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.79%) Oracle
4 4 (2.40%) Cisco
4 4 (2.40%) Fortinet
4 4 (2.40%) Google
4 4 (2.40%) Red Hat
5 3 (1.80%) Databricks
6 2 (1.20%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.20%) NYFIX
6 2 (1.20%) Refinitiv
6 2 (1.20%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.20%) VMware
7 1 (0.60%) Apple
7 1 (0.60%) F5
7 1 (0.60%) Informatica
7 1 (0.60%) Okta
7 1 (0.60%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.60%) Tanium
7 1 (0.60%) Trend Micro