Senior DevOps Contract Job Trends in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations daily rate in England is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 March 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 461 362 469
Rank change year-on-year -99 +107 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 114 113 77
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.46% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.50% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 84 56
10th Percentile £425 £513 £475
25th Percentile £475 £572 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £663 £741 £675
90th Percentile £725 £788 £755
UK median daily rate £570 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -12.27% +8.33% -6.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £74.44
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - £73.97

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 34,044 22,768 35,064
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.00% 93.05% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,494 15,052 23,480
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,236 784 2,269
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.37 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -23.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.00
90th Percentile £76.58 £77.50 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £35.91 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +10.49% - -23.29%

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 19 March 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 19 March 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 -41 67 £575 -11.54% 14
North of England -83 16 £615 +1.99% 15
South East -41 11 £425 -39.29% 12
Midlands -60 9 £892 +137.87% 6
Yorkshire -62 9 £892 +45.04% 4
West Midlands -51 8 £892 +137.87% 5
South West -28 7 £625 -7.41% 3
East of England -16 5 £581 +32.86% 1
North West -36 4 £633 -4.49% 3
North East -12 3 £500 -12.28% 8
East Midlands -35 1 £525 - 1
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 March 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.

1 114 (100.00%) DevOps
2 62 (54.39%) CI/CD
2 62 (54.39%) Terraform
3 58 (50.88%) AWS
4 52 (45.61%) Azure
5 51 (44.74%) Kubernetes
6 47 (41.23%) Infrastructure as Code
7 43 (37.72%) Python
8 37 (32.46%) Security Cleared
9 36 (31.58%) Docker
9 36 (31.58%) Jenkins
10 31 (27.19%) Ansible
10 31 (27.19%) GitLab
11 30 (26.32%) Linux
12 29 (25.44%) Azure DevOps
12 29 (25.44%) GitHub
13 28 (24.56%) Agile
13 28 (24.56%) SC Cleared
14 24 (21.05%) Containerisation
15 21 (18.42%) GitHub Actions
16 20 (17.54%) Observability
17 17 (14.91%) Bash
17 17 (14.91%) GCP
17 17 (14.91%) Grafana
18 16 (14.04%) Prometheus
19 15 (13.16%) Elastic Stack
19 15 (13.16%) PowerShell
20 14 (12.28%) Infrastructure Automation
20 14 (12.28%) Microsoft
21 13 (11.40%) Mentoring

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 (1.75%) Apache
1 2 (1.75%) CMS
1 2 (1.75%) Confluence
2 1 (0.88%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.88%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.88%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 58 (50.88%) AWS
2 52 (45.61%) Azure
3 29 (25.44%) Azure DevOps
3 29 (25.44%) GitHub
4 21 (18.42%) GitHub Actions
5 17 (14.91%) GCP
6 11 (9.65%) Azure AKS
6 11 (9.65%) Serverless
7 10 (8.77%) Amazon S3
7 10 (8.77%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (7.89%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (7.02%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (6.14%) Azure API Management
11 6 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (5.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 6 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (4.39%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (4.39%) Azure Key Vault
13 4 (3.51%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.51%) DNS
1 4 (3.51%) Firewall
1 4 (3.51%) Network Security
1 4 (3.51%) SSL
1 4 (3.51%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.63%) VPN
3 2 (1.75%) Multicast
4 1 (0.88%) HTTP
4 1 (0.88%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.02%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (6.14%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.39%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.75%) KDB
5 2 (1.75%) MySQL
5 2 (1.75%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.88%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.88%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.88%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.88%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.88%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.88%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 36 (31.58%) Jenkins
2 31 (27.19%) GitLab
3 6 (5.26%) Git
3 6 (5.26%) TeamCity
4 4 (3.51%) Liquibase
5 3 (2.63%) Artifactory
5 3 (2.63%) JIRA
5 3 (2.63%) RStudio
5 3 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.75%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.75%) Gradle
6 2 (1.75%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.88%) Bitbucket
General
1 19 (16.67%) Banking
1 19 (16.67%) Finance
2 16 (14.04%) Social Skills
3 14 (12.28%) Public Sector
4 4 (3.51%) Social Science
5 3 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.63%) Billing
5 3 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.75%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.75%) Front Office
6 2 (1.75%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.75%) Military
6 2 (1.75%) Retail
6 2 (1.75%) Retail Banking
6 2 (1.75%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.88%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.16%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (9.65%) .NET
3 10 (8.77%) REST
4 7 (6.14%) .NET Core
5 4 (3.51%) GraphQL
5 4 (3.51%) Kafka
5 4 (3.51%) React
6 3 (2.63%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.63%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (2.63%) OAuth
6 3 (2.63%) OAuth2
6 3 (2.63%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (2.63%) RESTful
7 2 (1.75%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (1.75%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.75%) AWS CDK
7 2 (1.75%) Lambda Expressions
7 2 (1.75%) OpenID
7 2 (1.75%) SAML
7 2 (1.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.28%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.02%) Public Cloud
3 4 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.63%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.63%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.63%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.75%) Derivative
5 2 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.88%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.88%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.88%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (0.88%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.88%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.88%) Replication
6 1 (0.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 30 (26.32%) Linux
2 6 (5.26%) Windows
3 2 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (100.00%) DevOps
2 62 (54.39%) CI/CD
3 47 (41.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (24.56%) Agile
5 24 (21.05%) Containerisation
6 20 (17.54%) Observability
7 14 (12.28%) Infrastructure Automation
8 13 (11.40%) Mentoring
9 12 (10.53%) DevSecOps
9 12 (10.53%) Migration
9 12 (10.53%) Software Engineering
10 11 (9.65%) Platform Engineering
11 10 (8.77%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (8.77%) Incident Response
11 10 (8.77%) Test Automation
12 9 (7.89%) High Availability
12 9 (7.89%) Microservices
13 8 (7.02%) AI
13 8 (7.02%) Continuous Delivery
13 8 (7.02%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 43 (37.72%) Python
2 17 (14.91%) Bash
3 15 (13.16%) PowerShell
4 11 (9.65%) Go
5 8 (7.02%) C#
6 7 (6.14%) Bicep
6 7 (6.14%) JavaScript
6 7 (6.14%) SQL
7 6 (5.26%) Java
8 4 (3.51%) PHP
9 3 (2.63%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.75%) Rust
10 2 (1.75%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 37 (32.46%) Security Cleared
2 28 (24.56%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.89%) Azure Certification
4 6 (5.26%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.63%) Degree
6 3 (2.63%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.75%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.88%) IIBA
8 1 (0.88%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.75%) Data Quality
1 2 (1.75%) EMIR
1 2 (1.75%) MiFID
1 2 (1.75%) QA
2 1 (0.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 36 (31.58%) Docker
2 5 (4.39%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 62 (54.39%) Terraform
2 51 (44.74%) Kubernetes
3 31 (27.19%) Ansible
4 17 (14.91%) Grafana
5 16 (14.04%) Prometheus
6 9 (7.89%) Argo
7 7 (6.14%) Istio
8 5 (4.39%) Packer
9 3 (2.63%) Puppet
9 3 (2.63%) Rancher
10 2 (1.75%) Kibana
10 2 (1.75%) linkerd
10 2 (1.75%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.75%) Thomson Reuters DACS
11 1 (0.88%) CASB
Vendors
1 14 (12.28%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.77%) Splunk
3 9 (7.89%) VMware
4 5 (4.39%) Dynatrace
4 5 (4.39%) Google
4 5 (4.39%) Red Hat
5 4 (3.51%) Oracle
6 3 (2.63%) Bloomberg
6 3 (2.63%) CheckPoint
6 3 (2.63%) F5
6 3 (2.63%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.63%) Refinitiv
7 2 (1.75%) Databricks
7 2 (1.75%) NYFIX
8 1 (0.88%) Ariba
8 1 (0.88%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.88%) SAP
8 1 (0.88%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.88%) Sitecore