Senior DevOps Contract Job Trends in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations daily rate in England is £576, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 November 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 452 376 457
Rank change year-on-year -76 +81 +50
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 89 151 112
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.29% 0.49% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.52% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 100 89
10th Percentile £420 £519 £506
25th Percentile £500 £552 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £576 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -11.35% +4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £684 £750 £738
90th Percentile £738 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £575 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -6.54%
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 27,858 28,874 36,736
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.22% 92.96% 93.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,854 17,655 25,362
10th Percentile £281 £300 £292
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -1.69% -2.91%
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 1,695 1,080 1,421
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £15.32
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.25 £19.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -12.82% +43.38%
75th Percentile £56.60 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -30.14% -20.00% +50.00%

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 21 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 21 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 -65 46 £616 -8.70% 36
North of England -36 25 £543 -11.79% 8
Yorkshire -32 15 £892 +45.04%
West Midlands -13 12 £892 +62.18% 3
Midlands -22 12 £892 +62.18% 8
North West -13 9 £509 -5.83% 7
South East +3 4 £413 -45.00% 17
East of England - 3 - - 3
North East -10 2 £563 -4.66% 1
South West -14 2 £650 -1.89% 9
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 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 89 (100.00%) DevOps
2 70 (78.65%) CI/CD
3 64 (71.91%) AWS
4 57 (64.04%) Terraform
5 47 (52.81%) Infrastructure as Code
6 45 (50.56%) Jenkins
7 43 (48.31%) Python
8 37 (41.57%) Ansible
9 36 (40.45%) Kubernetes
10 34 (38.20%) GitLab
11 33 (37.08%) Docker
12 31 (34.83%) Azure
13 29 (32.58%) Security Cleared
14 27 (30.34%) Agile
15 24 (26.97%) GitHub
16 21 (23.60%) Amazon EC2
16 21 (23.60%) SC Cleared
17 20 (22.47%) Bash
17 20 (22.47%) GCP
17 20 (22.47%) Git
17 20 (22.47%) High Availability
18 19 (21.35%) Amazon S3
18 19 (21.35%) Containerisation
19 18 (20.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 18 (20.22%) Infrastructure Automation
19 18 (20.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 17 (19.10%) Linux
20 17 (19.10%) Mentoring
21 16 (17.98%) Firewall
22 15 (16.85%) DNS

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 (5.62%) Confluence
2 4 (4.49%) IIS
3 3 (3.37%) Apache
3 3 (3.37%) iPlanet
3 3 (3.37%) JBoss
3 3 (3.37%) WebSphere
3 3 (3.37%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (2.25%) CMS
5 1 (1.12%) Headless CMS
5 1 (1.12%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.12%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 64 (71.91%) AWS
2 31 (34.83%) Azure
3 24 (26.97%) GitHub
4 21 (23.60%) Amazon EC2
5 20 (22.47%) GCP
6 19 (21.35%) Amazon S3
7 18 (20.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 18 (20.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 14 (15.73%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (14.61%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (13.48%) Amazon ELB
10 12 (13.48%) Serverless
11 6 (6.74%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (6.74%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (5.62%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (5.62%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 4 (4.49%) Azure API Management
13 4 (4.49%) Entra ID
14 3 (3.37%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (3.37%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 16 (17.98%) Firewall
2 15 (16.85%) DNS
3 14 (15.73%) TCP/IP
4 13 (14.61%) SSL
5 12 (13.48%) VPN
6 9 (10.11%) Network Security
7 3 (3.37%) Kerberos
8 2 (2.25%) Multicast
9 1 (1.12%) DHCP
9 1 (1.12%) DNSSEC
9 1 (1.12%) HTTP
9 1 (1.12%) HTTPS
9 1 (1.12%) Internet
9 1 (1.12%) VLAN
9 1 (1.12%) VoIP
9 1 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.87%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (5.62%) MongoDB
3 4 (4.49%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.37%) MySQL
4 3 (3.37%) Oracle Database
4 3 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.25%) KDB
6 1 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.12%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.12%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.12%) Metadata
6 1 (1.12%) Redis
6 1 (1.12%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 45 (50.56%) Jenkins
2 34 (38.20%) GitLab
3 20 (22.47%) Git
4 6 (6.74%) JIRA
4 6 (6.74%) TeamCity
5 5 (5.62%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (4.49%) Liquibase
7 3 (3.37%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (3.37%) CA Release Automation
7 3 (3.37%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.25%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.25%) CircleCI
8 2 (2.25%) Gradle
8 2 (2.25%) RStudio
9 1 (1.12%) Maven
General
1 18 (20.22%) Banking
2 16 (17.98%) Social Skills
3 14 (15.73%) Public Sector
4 13 (14.61%) Finance
5 5 (5.62%) Military
6 4 (4.49%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.49%) Financial Institution
6 4 (4.49%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.37%) Billing
7 3 (3.37%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.25%) Front Office
8 2 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.25%) Retail
8 2 (2.25%) Retail Banking
8 2 (2.25%) Social Science
9 1 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.12%) Legal
9 1 (1.12%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.11%) .NET
2 8 (8.99%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (6.74%) OAuth
3 6 (6.74%) REST
4 5 (5.62%) .NET Core
4 5 (5.62%) OpenID
4 5 (5.62%) RESTful
4 5 (5.62%) SAML
5 4 (4.49%) Kafka
5 4 (4.49%) React
6 3 (3.37%) AngularJS
6 3 (3.37%) LDAP
6 3 (3.37%) Web Services
7 2 (2.25%) ARM Templates
7 2 (2.25%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (2.25%) GraphQL
7 2 (2.25%) Node.js
7 2 (2.25%) OAuth2
7 2 (2.25%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.12%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.99%) Cloud Native
1 8 (8.99%) Public Cloud
2 5 (5.62%) Legacy Applications
3 4 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.37%) Private Cloud
4 3 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.25%) Derivative
5 2 (2.25%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.25%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.25%) Replication
6 1 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.12%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.12%) Clustering
6 1 (1.12%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.12%) IBM XIV
6 1 (1.12%) PKI
6 1 (1.12%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.12%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (19.10%) Linux
2 5 (5.62%) Unix
3 4 (4.49%) Windows
4 3 (3.37%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.12%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (100.00%) DevOps
2 70 (78.65%) CI/CD
3 47 (52.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (30.34%) Agile
5 20 (22.47%) High Availability
6 19 (21.35%) Containerisation
7 18 (20.22%) Infrastructure Automation
8 17 (19.10%) Mentoring
9 15 (16.85%) Root Cause Analysis
10 14 (15.73%) Observability
11 13 (14.61%) DevSecOps
11 13 (14.61%) Incident Response
12 12 (13.48%) Continuous Integration
13 10 (11.24%) Microservices
14 9 (10.11%) Test Automation
15 8 (8.99%) Continuous Delivery
15 8 (8.99%) Continuous Improvement
15 8 (8.99%) Problem-Solving
16 7 (7.87%) Deployment Automation
16 7 (7.87%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 43 (48.31%) Python
2 20 (22.47%) Bash
3 12 (13.48%) Go
4 11 (12.36%) SQL
5 8 (8.99%) PowerShell
6 7 (7.87%) Java
7 6 (6.74%) C#
7 6 (6.74%) JavaScript
7 6 (6.74%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.37%) Groovy
8 3 (3.37%) PHP
8 3 (3.37%) Rust
8 3 (3.37%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.25%) Perl
9 2 (2.25%) PromQL
10 1 (1.12%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 29 (32.58%) Security Cleared
2 21 (23.60%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.49%) AWS Certification
3 4 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.49%) Degree
3 4 (4.49%) Master's Degree
4 3 (3.37%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.25%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (2.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.12%) IIBA
6 1 (1.12%) ISEB
6 1 (1.12%) OCP
6 1 (1.12%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.25%) Data Quality
1 2 (2.25%) EMIR
1 2 (2.25%) MiFID
2 1 (1.12%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.12%) NCSC
2 1 (1.12%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.12%) QA
System Software
1 33 (37.08%) Docker
2 5 (5.62%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.49%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (3.37%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 3 (3.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 57 (64.04%) Terraform
2 37 (41.57%) Ansible
3 36 (40.45%) Kubernetes
4 12 (13.48%) Grafana
5 11 (12.36%) Prometheus
6 5 (5.62%) Progress Chef
7 4 (4.49%) Argo
7 4 (4.49%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (3.37%) CA Single Sign-On
8 3 (3.37%) CA Wily
8 3 (3.37%) Istio
8 3 (3.37%) Tivoli
9 2 (2.25%) Kibana
9 2 (2.25%) Packer
9 2 (2.25%) Rancher
9 2 (2.25%) Thomson Reuters DACS
10 1 (1.12%) CASB
10 1 (1.12%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (1.12%) Puppet
10 1 (1.12%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (15.73%) Splunk
2 12 (13.48%) CheckPoint
2 12 (13.48%) F5
2 12 (13.48%) Microsoft
2 12 (13.48%) Palo Alto
3 8 (8.99%) Google
4 4 (4.49%) Dynatrace
4 4 (4.49%) IBM
4 4 (4.49%) Oracle
5 3 (3.37%) AppDynamics
5 3 (3.37%) Broadcom
5 3 (3.37%) Databricks
5 3 (3.37%) VMware
5 3 (3.37%) Zscaler
6 2 (2.25%) Bloomberg
6 2 (2.25%) NYFIX
6 2 (2.25%) Okta
6 2 (2.25%) Refinitiv
7 1 (1.12%) OneLogin
7 1 (1.12%) UiPath