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 12 June 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 457 441 423
Rank change year-on-year -16 -18 +76
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 149 48 107
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.35% 0.20% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.21% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 36 77
10th Percentile £450 £500 £505
25th Percentile £481 £525 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £589 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% -1.88% -7.69%
75th Percentile £663 £653 £675
90th Percentile £725 £713 £760
UK median daily rate £550 £595 £625
% change year-on-year -7.56% -4.80% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile - - £74.09
25th Percentile - - £74.22
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £74.44
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 39,391 22,646 34,789
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.36% 92.37% 92.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,290 14,886 22,782
10th Percentile £325 £293 £288
25th Percentile £414 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.68% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,775 990 2,657
10th Percentile £15.86 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.04 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.99% -24.58% -13.54%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.37
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £27.64 £37.50
% change year-on-year +55.57% -26.29% -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 12 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
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 12 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 -18 76 £575 -6.12% 11
North of England -57 24 £475 -13.64% 13
Midlands -45 19 £488 - 9
South East -61 13 £600 - 12
East Midlands -13 10 £488 - 3
Yorkshire -48 10 £471 -18.17% 6
North East -27 9 £475 -13.64% 3
West Midlands - 9 £695 - 6
East of England -17 6 £600 +37.06% 2
South West -18 6 £488 -27.78% 3
North West -29 5 £633 +31.14% 4
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 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.

1 149 (100.00%) DevOps
2 80 (53.69%) Terraform
3 75 (50.34%) CI/CD
4 66 (44.30%) Infrastructure as Code
5 60 (40.27%) AWS
6 57 (38.26%) Kubernetes
7 54 (36.24%) Azure
8 45 (30.20%) Security Cleared
9 43 (28.86%) Python
10 42 (28.19%) Docker
11 41 (27.52%) SC Cleared
12 38 (25.50%) Platform Engineering
13 35 (23.49%) GitHub
14 33 (22.15%) Azure DevOps
14 33 (22.15%) Linux
15 32 (21.48%) Containerisation
16 30 (20.13%) Ansible
16 30 (20.13%) GitLab
17 27 (18.12%) Agile
18 26 (17.45%) Jenkins
19 25 (16.78%) GitHub Actions
20 21 (14.09%) Observability
21 19 (12.75%) GCP
22 18 (12.08%) Bash
22 18 (12.08%) Infrastructure Automation
23 17 (11.41%) Azure AKS
23 17 (11.41%) Software Engineering
24 16 (10.74%) AI
24 16 (10.74%) Argo
24 16 (10.74%) Site Reliability Engineering

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 (2.01%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 60 (40.27%) AWS
2 54 (36.24%) Azure
3 35 (23.49%) GitHub
4 33 (22.15%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (16.78%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (12.75%) GCP
7 17 (11.41%) Azure AKS
8 15 (10.07%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (8.05%) Amazon S3
10 11 (7.38%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (6.71%) Azure Key Vault
12 9 (6.04%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (6.04%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (5.37%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 8 (5.37%) Serverless
14 7 (4.70%) AWS Lambda
15 5 (3.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 5 (3.36%) Amazon ECS
16 4 (2.68%) OpenShift
16 4 (2.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.36%) VPN
2 3 (2.01%) Firewall
2 3 (2.01%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.04%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (4.70%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (3.36%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.68%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.01%) MySQL
5 3 (2.01%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.34%) Oracle Database 12c
6 2 (1.34%) Redis
7 1 (0.67%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.67%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.67%) Metadata
7 1 (0.67%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.67%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 30 (20.13%) GitLab
2 26 (17.45%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.03%) Git
4 5 (3.36%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.68%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (2.68%) TeamCity
6 3 (2.01%) Artifactory
6 3 (2.01%) JIRA
6 3 (2.01%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.34%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.67%) RStudio
General
1 18 (12.08%) Banking
2 16 (10.74%) Public Sector
3 15 (10.07%) Social Skills
4 13 (8.72%) Finance
5 3 (2.01%) Military
6 2 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.34%) Law
6 2 (1.34%) Retail
6 2 (1.34%) Social Science
7 1 (0.67%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.67%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.67%) Legal
7 1 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.38%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (4.03%) REST
3 5 (3.36%) AWS CDK
3 5 (3.36%) OpenTelemetry
3 5 (3.36%) YAML
4 4 (2.68%) OAuth
5 3 (2.01%) .NET
5 3 (2.01%) ADO
5 3 (2.01%) Django
5 3 (2.01%) Kafka
6 2 (1.34%) Celery
6 2 (1.34%) JWT
6 2 (1.34%) LDAP
6 2 (1.34%) OAuth2
6 2 (1.34%) Playwright
6 2 (1.34%) pytest
6 2 (1.34%) React
6 2 (1.34%) RESTful
6 2 (1.34%) Vue
7 1 (0.67%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 26 (17.45%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.70%) Public Cloud
3 6 (4.03%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.36%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.01%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.01%) Replication
6 2 (1.34%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.34%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.34%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.67%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.67%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.67%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.67%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 33 (22.15%) Linux
2 5 (3.36%) Windows
3 3 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.34%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (100.00%) DevOps
2 75 (50.34%) CI/CD
3 66 (44.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 38 (25.50%) Platform Engineering
5 32 (21.48%) Containerisation
6 27 (18.12%) Agile
7 21 (14.09%) Observability
8 18 (12.08%) Infrastructure Automation
9 17 (11.41%) Software Engineering
10 16 (10.74%) AI
10 16 (10.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 15 (10.07%) Secrets Management
12 14 (9.40%) Test Automation
13 13 (8.72%) Deployment Automation
13 13 (8.72%) Technical Leadership
14 12 (8.05%) Microservices
15 11 (7.38%) Continuous Improvement
15 11 (7.38%) Stakeholder Management
16 10 (6.71%) Mentoring
16 10 (6.71%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 43 (28.86%) Python
2 18 (12.08%) Bash
3 10 (6.71%) PowerShell
4 8 (5.37%) Bicep
5 7 (4.70%) Go
6 6 (4.03%) C#
7 5 (3.36%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.01%) Groovy
8 3 (2.01%) Java
8 3 (2.01%) SQL
9 2 (1.34%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.67%) COBOL
10 1 (0.67%) JCL
10 1 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 45 (30.20%) Security Cleared
2 41 (27.52%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.03%) AWS Certification
3 6 (4.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 6 (4.03%) Azure Certification
3 6 (4.03%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (3.36%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.03%) GDPR
2 5 (3.36%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.36%) WCAG
3 3 (2.01%) QA
4 2 (1.34%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 42 (28.19%) Docker
2 2 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 80 (53.69%) Terraform
2 57 (38.26%) Kubernetes
3 30 (20.13%) Ansible
4 16 (10.74%) Argo
5 15 (10.07%) Grafana
5 15 (10.07%) Prometheus
6 8 (5.37%) Istio
6 8 (5.37%) Packer
7 4 (2.68%) Puppet
8 3 (2.01%) Kustomize
9 2 (1.34%) linkerd
9 2 (1.34%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.67%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.67%) Rancher
Vendors
1 10 (6.71%) Splunk
2 8 (5.37%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.37%) Oracle
2 8 (5.37%) VMware
3 6 (4.03%) Google
4 4 (2.68%) Cisco
4 4 (2.68%) Fortinet
5 3 (2.01%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.34%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.34%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.34%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.67%) Ariba
7 1 (0.67%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.67%) Databricks
7 1 (0.67%) F5
7 1 (0.67%) Refinitiv
7 1 (0.67%) SAP
7 1 (0.67%) Tanium
7 1 (0.67%) Tenable
7 1 (0.67%) Trend Micro