Senior DevOps Contract Job Trends in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations daily rate in England is £570, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 457 368 453
Rank change year-on-year -89 +85 +42
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 88 152 114
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.29% 0.49% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.52% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 101 91
10th Percentile £417 £519 £506
25th Percentile £500 £553 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.27% +4.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £703 £750 £738
90th Percentile £738 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £558 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -14.19% +4.00% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £74.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £73.75 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 27,559 29,042 36,964
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.15% 93.00% 93.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,706 17,770 25,618
10th Percentile £281 £300 £295
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,648 1,096 1,418
10th Percentile £14.24 £15.22 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.22 £19.30
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.11
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -11.32% +50.35%
75th Percentile £55.00 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +55.05%

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 14 November 2025.

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 14 November 2025. 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 -39 45 £608 -10.00% 38
North of England -33 27 £535 -13.01% 9
Yorkshire -27 17 £734 +19.27% 2
West Midlands -22 11 £892 +62.18% 3
Midlands -23 11 £892 +62.18% 7
North West -17 9 £509 -5.83% 6
South East -1 4 £413 -37.74% 16
East of England - 3 - - 1
North East -11 2 £563 -16.04% 1
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 November 2025, 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 88 (100.00%) DevOps
2 70 (79.55%) CI/CD
3 64 (72.73%) AWS
4 57 (64.77%) Terraform
5 48 (54.55%) Infrastructure as Code
6 45 (51.14%) Jenkins
7 40 (45.45%) Python
8 36 (40.91%) Ansible
9 35 (39.77%) Kubernetes
10 34 (38.64%) GitLab
11 32 (36.36%) Docker
12 30 (34.09%) Security Cleared
13 29 (32.95%) Azure
14 26 (29.55%) Agile
15 22 (25.00%) GitHub
15 22 (25.00%) SC Cleared
16 21 (23.86%) Amazon EC2
16 21 (23.86%) Git
17 20 (22.73%) Bash
17 20 (22.73%) Containerisation
17 20 (22.73%) GCP
17 20 (22.73%) High Availability
18 19 (21.59%) Amazon S3
18 19 (21.59%) Infrastructure Automation
19 18 (20.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 18 (20.45%) Linux
19 18 (20.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 17 (19.32%) Mentoring
21 16 (18.18%) DNS
21 16 (18.18%) Firewall

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 5 (5.68%) Confluence
2 4 (4.55%) IIS
3 3 (3.41%) Apache
3 3 (3.41%) iPlanet
3 3 (3.41%) JBoss
3 3 (3.41%) WebSphere
3 3 (3.41%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (2.27%) CMS
5 1 (1.14%) Headless CMS
5 1 (1.14%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 64 (72.73%) AWS
2 29 (32.95%) Azure
3 22 (25.00%) GitHub
4 21 (23.86%) Amazon EC2
5 20 (22.73%) GCP
6 19 (21.59%) Amazon S3
7 18 (20.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 18 (20.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 13 (14.77%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (14.77%) Serverless
9 12 (13.64%) Amazon ELB
9 12 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (7.95%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (7.95%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (5.68%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (5.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 4 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (4.55%) Azure API Management
12 4 (4.55%) Entra ID
13 3 (3.41%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 16 (18.18%) DNS
1 16 (18.18%) Firewall
2 15 (17.05%) TCP/IP
3 14 (15.91%) SSL
4 12 (13.64%) VPN
5 9 (10.23%) Network Security
6 3 (3.41%) Kerberos
7 2 (2.27%) Multicast
8 1 (1.14%) DHCP
8 1 (1.14%) DNSSEC
8 1 (1.14%) HTTP
8 1 (1.14%) HTTPS
8 1 (1.14%) Internet
8 1 (1.14%) VLAN
8 1 (1.14%) VoIP
8 1 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (6.82%) MongoDB
3 4 (4.55%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.41%) MySQL
4 3 (3.41%) Oracle Database
4 3 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.27%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.27%) KDB
5 2 (2.27%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.14%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.14%) Metadata
6 1 (1.14%) Redis
6 1 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 45 (51.14%) Jenkins
2 34 (38.64%) GitLab
3 21 (23.86%) Git
4 6 (6.82%) TeamCity
5 5 (5.68%) JIRA
6 4 (4.55%) Liquibase
6 4 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (3.41%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (3.41%) CA Release Automation
8 2 (2.27%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.27%) CircleCI
8 2 (2.27%) Gradle
8 2 (2.27%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.14%) Jaeger
9 1 (1.14%) Maven
9 1 (1.14%) RStudio
9 1 (1.14%) Terragrunt
General
1 18 (20.45%) Banking
2 15 (17.05%) Public Sector
2 15 (17.05%) Social Skills
3 14 (15.91%) Finance
4 6 (6.82%) Military
5 4 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.55%) Financial Institution
5 4 (4.55%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.41%) Billing
7 2 (2.27%) Front Office
7 2 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.27%) Retail
7 2 (2.27%) Retail Banking
7 2 (2.27%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.14%) Legal
8 1 (1.14%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.14%) Social Science
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.23%) .NET
2 6 (6.82%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (6.82%) OAuth
2 6 (6.82%) REST
3 5 (5.68%) .NET Core
3 5 (5.68%) OpenID
3 5 (5.68%) RESTful
3 5 (5.68%) SAML
4 4 (4.55%) React
5 3 (3.41%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.41%) Kafka
5 3 (3.41%) LDAP
5 3 (3.41%) Web Services
6 2 (2.27%) ARM Templates
6 2 (2.27%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (2.27%) GraphQL
6 2 (2.27%) Node.js
6 2 (2.27%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.14%) MACH
7 1 (1.14%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 8 (9.09%) Public Cloud
2 5 (5.68%) Legacy Applications
3 4 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.27%) Derivative
5 2 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.27%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.27%) PKI
5 2 (2.27%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.27%) Replication
6 1 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.14%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.14%) Clustering
6 1 (1.14%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.14%) IBM XIV
6 1 (1.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 18 (20.45%) Linux
2 5 (5.68%) Unix
2 5 (5.68%) Windows
3 3 (3.41%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.14%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (100.00%) DevOps
2 70 (79.55%) CI/CD
3 48 (54.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (29.55%) Agile
5 20 (22.73%) Containerisation
5 20 (22.73%) High Availability
6 19 (21.59%) Infrastructure Automation
7 17 (19.32%) Mentoring
8 16 (18.18%) Observability
9 15 (17.05%) Root Cause Analysis
10 13 (14.77%) DevSecOps
10 13 (14.77%) Incident Response
11 12 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
12 11 (12.50%) Microservices
13 9 (10.23%) Test Automation
14 8 (9.09%) Continuous Delivery
14 8 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
14 8 (9.09%) Migration
14 8 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
15 7 (7.95%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 40 (45.45%) Python
2 20 (22.73%) Bash
3 11 (12.50%) Go
3 11 (12.50%) SQL
4 8 (9.09%) PowerShell
5 7 (7.95%) Java
6 6 (6.82%) C#
6 6 (6.82%) Shell Script
7 5 (5.68%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.41%) Groovy
8 3 (3.41%) PHP
8 3 (3.41%) Rust
8 3 (3.41%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.27%) Perl
9 2 (2.27%) PromQL
10 1 (1.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 30 (34.09%) Security Cleared
2 22 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.55%) AWS Certification
3 4 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.55%) Degree
3 4 (4.55%) Master's Degree
4 3 (3.41%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.27%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (2.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.14%) IIBA
6 1 (1.14%) ISEB
6 1 (1.14%) OCP
6 1 (1.14%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.27%) Data Quality
1 2 (2.27%) EMIR
1 2 (2.27%) MiFID
2 1 (1.14%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.14%) NCSC
2 1 (1.14%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.14%) QA
System Software
1 32 (36.36%) Docker
2 5 (5.68%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.41%) Tivoli Directory Server
3 3 (3.41%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 57 (64.77%) Terraform
2 36 (40.91%) Ansible
3 35 (39.77%) Kubernetes
4 12 (13.64%) Grafana
4 12 (13.64%) Prometheus
5 5 (5.68%) Progress Chef
6 4 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (3.41%) Argo
7 3 (3.41%) CA Single Sign-On
7 3 (3.41%) CA Wily
7 3 (3.41%) Istio
7 3 (3.41%) Tivoli
8 2 (2.27%) Kibana
8 2 (2.27%) Packer
8 2 (2.27%) Thomson Reuters DACS
9 1 (1.14%) CASB
9 1 (1.14%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (1.14%) Kiali
9 1 (1.14%) Puppet
9 1 (1.14%) Rancher
Vendors
1 15 (17.05%) Splunk
2 12 (13.64%) CheckPoint
2 12 (13.64%) F5
2 12 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 12 (13.64%) Palo Alto
3 8 (9.09%) Google
4 4 (4.55%) Dynatrace
4 4 (4.55%) IBM
4 4 (4.55%) Oracle
5 3 (3.41%) AppDynamics
5 3 (3.41%) Broadcom
5 3 (3.41%) Databricks
5 3 (3.41%) Zscaler
6 2 (2.27%) Bloomberg
6 2 (2.27%) NYFIX
6 2 (2.27%) Okta
6 2 (2.27%) Refinitiv
6 2 (2.27%) VMware
7 1 (1.14%) OneLogin
7 1 (1.14%) UiPath