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 23 February 2026.

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

 6 months to
23 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 452 371 481
Rank change year-on-year -81 +110 +8
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 111 115 80
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.32% 0.45% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.48% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 83 61
10th Percentile £425 £514 £475
25th Percentile £483 £575 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £650
90th Percentile £752 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £74.44 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.75% - -
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £74.44 -
% change year-on-year +0.75% - -

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 31,876 23,857 35,159
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.89% 92.97% 92.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,202 15,057 23,560
10th Percentile £305 £300 £272
25th Percentile £410 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,049 719 2,153
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.25 £13.23
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.00 £16.54
Median hourly rate £33.17 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.86% +2.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.68 £75.30 £71.87
UK median hourly rate £31.76 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.27% - -12.01%

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 23 February 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 23 February 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 -43 56 £625 -3.85% 11
North of England -56 24 £525 -14.63% 11
Yorkshire -53 17 £892 +45.04% 1
Midlands -39 15 £892 +137.87% 1
West Midlands -42 14 £892 +137.87% 1
South East -19 11 £425 -39.29% 17
East of England -24 5 £581 +32.86% 5
South West -29 5 £650 -3.70% 1
North West -35 5 £492 -25.74% 4
North East -20 2 £513 -13.14% 6
East Midlands -26 1 £525 -
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 February 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.

1 111 (100.00%) DevOps
2 70 (63.06%) CI/CD
3 67 (60.36%) Terraform
4 63 (56.76%) AWS
5 51 (45.95%) Python
6 50 (45.05%) Infrastructure as Code
7 46 (41.44%) Jenkins
7 46 (41.44%) Kubernetes
8 45 (40.54%) Docker
9 44 (39.64%) Azure
10 40 (36.04%) Ansible
11 38 (34.23%) GitLab
12 37 (33.33%) Security Cleared
13 30 (27.03%) Linux
14 28 (25.23%) Agile
15 26 (23.42%) GitHub
15 26 (23.42%) SC Cleared
16 24 (21.62%) Containerisation
17 22 (19.82%) Azure DevOps
18 21 (18.92%) Bash
19 20 (18.02%) Git
20 19 (17.12%) Infrastructure Automation
21 18 (16.22%) Amazon S3
21 18 (16.22%) GitHub Actions
21 18 (16.22%) High Availability
21 18 (16.22%) Mentoring
22 17 (15.32%) GCP
23 16 (14.41%) Amazon EC2
23 16 (14.41%) Observability
24 15 (13.51%) Amazon CloudWatch

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 (4.50%) Apache
2 3 (2.70%) IIS
2 3 (2.70%) iPlanet
2 3 (2.70%) JBoss
2 3 (2.70%) WebSphere
2 3 (2.70%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (1.80%) CMS
3 2 (1.80%) Confluence
4 1 (0.90%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.90%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.90%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 63 (56.76%) AWS
2 44 (39.64%) Azure
3 26 (23.42%) GitHub
4 22 (19.82%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (16.22%) Amazon S3
5 18 (16.22%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (15.32%) GCP
7 16 (14.41%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (13.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 15 (13.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 13 (11.71%) Serverless
10 12 (10.81%) Amazon ELB
11 10 (9.01%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (6.31%) Azure AKS
13 5 (4.50%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (4.50%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (4.50%) Azure Key Vault
14 4 (3.60%) Azure API Management
14 4 (3.60%) Azure Functions
14 4 (3.60%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 14 (12.61%) Firewall
2 12 (10.81%) DNS
2 12 (10.81%) SSL
2 12 (10.81%) TCP/IP
2 12 (10.81%) VPN
3 9 (8.11%) Network Security
4 3 (2.70%) Kerberos
5 2 (1.80%) Multicast
6 1 (0.90%) HTTP
6 1 (0.90%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.31%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (4.50%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.60%) MongoDB
3 4 (3.60%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (2.70%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.80%) KDB
5 2 (1.80%) MySQL
6 1 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.90%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.90%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.90%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.90%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 46 (41.44%) Jenkins
2 38 (34.23%) GitLab
3 20 (18.02%) Git
4 7 (6.31%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (6.31%) TeamCity
5 6 (5.41%) Liquibase
6 3 (2.70%) Artifactory
6 3 (2.70%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (2.70%) CA Release Automation
6 3 (2.70%) JIRA
6 3 (2.70%) RStudio
6 3 (2.70%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.80%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.80%) Gradle
8 1 (0.90%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.90%) Maven
General
1 20 (18.02%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.22%) Banking
3 15 (13.51%) Finance
4 14 (12.61%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.50%) Military
6 4 (3.60%) Financial Institution
6 4 (3.60%) Social Science
7 3 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.70%) Billing
7 3 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.80%) Front Office
8 2 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.80%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.80%) Retail
8 2 (1.80%) Retail Banking
8 2 (1.80%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.90%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.51%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (10.81%) REST
3 11 (9.91%) .NET
4 7 (6.31%) .NET Core
5 6 (5.41%) OAuth
6 5 (4.50%) OpenID
6 5 (4.50%) RESTful
6 5 (4.50%) SAML
7 4 (3.60%) GraphQL
7 4 (3.60%) React
8 3 (2.70%) AngularJS
8 3 (2.70%) Kafka
8 3 (2.70%) LDAP
8 3 (2.70%) OAuth2
9 2 (1.80%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (1.80%) ARM Templates
9 2 (1.80%) AWS CDK
9 2 (1.80%) FIX Protocol
9 2 (1.80%) Lambda Expressions
9 2 (1.80%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.61%) Cloud Native
2 11 (9.91%) Public Cloud
3 6 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.60%) Legacy Applications
4 4 (3.60%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.70%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.80%) Derivative
6 2 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.90%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.90%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.90%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.90%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.90%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.90%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.90%) Replication
7 1 (0.90%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 30 (27.03%) Linux
2 9 (8.11%) Windows
3 5 (4.50%) Unix
4 3 (2.70%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (100.00%) DevOps
2 70 (63.06%) CI/CD
3 50 (45.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (25.23%) Agile
5 24 (21.62%) Containerisation
6 19 (17.12%) Infrastructure Automation
7 18 (16.22%) High Availability
7 18 (16.22%) Mentoring
8 16 (14.41%) Observability
9 15 (13.51%) DevSecOps
9 15 (13.51%) Root Cause Analysis
10 14 (12.61%) Incident Response
10 14 (12.61%) Software Engineering
11 12 (10.81%) Continuous Delivery
12 11 (9.91%) Continuous Integration
12 11 (9.91%) Migration
13 9 (8.11%) Microservices
13 9 (8.11%) Platform Engineering
14 8 (7.21%) Cost Optimisation
14 8 (7.21%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 51 (45.95%) Python
2 21 (18.92%) Bash
3 12 (10.81%) Go
3 12 (10.81%) PowerShell
4 10 (9.01%) SQL
5 8 (7.21%) C#
5 8 (7.21%) JavaScript
6 7 (6.31%) Java
7 6 (5.41%) Shell Script
8 4 (3.60%) PHP
9 3 (2.70%) Bicep
9 3 (2.70%) Groovy
9 3 (2.70%) Rust
9 3 (2.70%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 37 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 26 (23.42%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.41%) Azure Certification
4 5 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (4.50%) Degree
5 4 (3.60%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.60%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.80%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (1.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.80%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.90%) IIBA
8 1 (0.90%) ISEB
8 1 (0.90%) OCP
8 1 (0.90%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.80%) Data Quality
1 2 (1.80%) EMIR
1 2 (1.80%) MiFID
1 2 (1.80%) QA
2 1 (0.90%) GDPR
System Software
1 45 (40.54%) Docker
2 6 (5.41%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (3.60%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.70%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 3 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 67 (60.36%) Terraform
2 46 (41.44%) Kubernetes
3 40 (36.04%) Ansible
4 13 (11.71%) Grafana
5 12 (10.81%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.60%) Argo
6 4 (3.60%) Istio
6 4 (3.60%) Packer
6 4 (3.60%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.70%) CA Single Sign-On
7 3 (2.70%) CA Wily
7 3 (2.70%) Rancher
7 3 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (2.70%) Tivoli
8 2 (1.80%) Kibana
8 2 (1.80%) Puppet
8 2 (1.80%) Thomson Reuters DACS
9 1 (0.90%) CASB
Vendors
1 13 (11.71%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.81%) CheckPoint
2 12 (10.81%) F5
2 12 (10.81%) Palo Alto
3 11 (9.91%) Splunk
4 9 (8.11%) VMware
5 6 (5.41%) Google
6 5 (4.50%) Dynatrace
6 5 (4.50%) Oracle
7 4 (3.60%) Databricks
8 3 (2.70%) AppDynamics
8 3 (2.70%) Broadcom
8 3 (2.70%) IBM
8 3 (2.70%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.70%) Zscaler
9 2 (1.80%) Bloomberg
9 2 (1.80%) NYFIX
9 2 (1.80%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.90%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.90%) Sitecore
38 Senior DevOps jobs in England