Senior DevOps Contract Job Trends in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations daily rate in England is £558, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 462 380 467
Rank change year-on-year -82 +87 +17
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 120 102 83
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.42% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.45% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 75 60
10th Percentile £424 £513 £498
25th Percentile £475 £575 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.17% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £663 £738 £661
90th Percentile £725 £783 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -7.69%
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 36,221 22,584 34,712
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.76% 92.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,810 15,127 23,151
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,401 842 2,352
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.84 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £20.26 £16.25
Median hourly rate £44.00 £32.50 £34.23
Median % change year-on-year +35.38% -5.05% -21.54%
75th Percentile £66.50 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £76.25 £71.87
UK median hourly rate £40.54 £31.58 £35.00
% change year-on-year +28.37% -9.77% -21.81%

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 10 April 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 10 April 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 -54 65 £575 -11.54% 15
North of England -88 17 £525 -11.02% 16
South East -39 13 £425 -39.29% 13
Midlands -54 11 £525 - 9
North East -16 8 £488 -14.47% 9
South West -33 7 £625 -7.41% 2
East Midlands -28 6 £488 - 3
East of England -30 6 £513 +17.14%
Yorkshire -64 5 £892 +45.04% 3
West Midlands - 5 £892 - 6
North West -34 4 £633 -4.49% 4
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 April 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.

1 120 (100.00%) DevOps
2 62 (51.67%) Terraform
3 61 (50.83%) CI/CD
4 56 (46.67%) Azure
5 54 (45.00%) AWS
6 49 (40.83%) Kubernetes
7 47 (39.17%) Infrastructure as Code
8 43 (35.83%) Security Cleared
9 38 (31.67%) Python
10 35 (29.17%) SC Cleared
11 32 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
11 32 (26.67%) Docker
12 30 (25.00%) Jenkins
12 30 (25.00%) Linux
13 29 (24.17%) Agile
13 29 (24.17%) GitHub
14 28 (23.33%) Ansible
15 27 (22.50%) GitLab
16 22 (18.33%) Containerisation
16 22 (18.33%) GitHub Actions
16 22 (18.33%) Observability
17 20 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
18 17 (14.17%) Infrastructure Automation
19 16 (13.33%) GCP
19 16 (13.33%) Grafana
20 15 (12.50%) Bash
20 15 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
20 15 (12.50%) Prometheus
21 14 (11.67%) PowerShell
22 12 (10.00%) Argo

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 4 (3.33%) Confluence
2 2 (1.67%) Apache
2 2 (1.67%) CMS
3 1 (0.83%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.83%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.83%) Sitecore CMS
Cloud Services
1 56 (46.67%) Azure
2 54 (45.00%) AWS
3 32 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (24.17%) GitHub
5 22 (18.33%) GitHub Actions
6 16 (13.33%) GCP
7 12 (10.00%) Azure AKS
8 11 (9.17%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
9 10 (8.33%) Serverless
10 8 (6.67%) Amazon S3
11 7 (5.83%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (5.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 5 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (4.17%) Azure API Management
13 5 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
14 4 (3.33%) Azure Functions
14 4 (3.33%) Entra ID
15 3 (2.50%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.33%) Firewall
2 2 (1.67%) VPN
3 1 (0.83%) DNS
3 1 (0.83%) HTTP
3 1 (0.83%) Internet
3 1 (0.83%) Network Security
3 1 (0.83%) SSL
3 1 (0.83%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (4.17%) MongoDB
3 4 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.67%) MySQL
6 1 (0.83%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.83%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.83%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.83%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.83%) Metadata
6 1 (0.83%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.83%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 30 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 27 (22.50%) GitLab
3 6 (5.00%) Git
4 5 (4.17%) Artifactory
4 5 (4.17%) JIRA
4 5 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (3.33%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.33%) SonarQube
5 4 (3.33%) TeamCity
6 3 (2.50%) Liquibase
7 2 (1.67%) RStudio
General
1 18 (15.00%) Banking
2 15 (12.50%) Finance
2 15 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 15 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 4 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (2.50%) Billing
4 3 (2.50%) Social Science
5 2 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.67%) Financial Institution
5 2 (1.67%) Military
5 2 (1.67%) Retail
5 2 (1.67%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.83%) Legal
6 1 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (8.33%) .NET
3 9 (7.50%) REST
4 6 (5.00%) .NET Core
5 5 (4.17%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (3.33%) ADO
6 4 (3.33%) GraphQL
6 4 (3.33%) OAuth
6 4 (3.33%) OAuth2
6 4 (3.33%) YAML
7 3 (2.50%) Kafka
7 3 (2.50%) React
7 3 (2.50%) RESTful
8 2 (1.67%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.67%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (1.67%) ARM Templates
8 2 (1.67%) AWS CDK
8 2 (1.67%) Lambda Expressions
8 2 (1.67%) Playwright
8 2 (1.67%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.83%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.67%) Public Cloud
3 4 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.33%) Private Cloud
4 2 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.83%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.83%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.83%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.83%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.83%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.83%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.83%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 30 (25.00%) Linux
2 7 (5.83%) Windows
3 4 (3.33%) Unix
4 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (100.00%) DevOps
2 61 (50.83%) CI/CD
3 47 (39.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (24.17%) Agile
5 22 (18.33%) Containerisation
5 22 (18.33%) Observability
6 20 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
7 17 (14.17%) Infrastructure Automation
8 12 (10.00%) Microservices
9 11 (9.17%) Test Automation
10 10 (8.33%) AI
10 10 (8.33%) Migration
10 10 (8.33%) Software Engineering
11 9 (7.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (7.50%) DevSecOps
11 9 (7.50%) Incident Response
12 8 (6.67%) Mentoring
12 8 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 7 (5.83%) Analytics
13 7 (5.83%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 38 (31.67%) Python
2 15 (12.50%) Bash
3 14 (11.67%) PowerShell
4 10 (8.33%) Go
5 9 (7.50%) C#
6 8 (6.67%) Bicep
7 7 (5.83%) JavaScript
8 6 (5.00%) Java
9 4 (3.33%) PHP
9 4 (3.33%) SQL
10 2 (1.67%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.83%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 43 (35.83%) Security Cleared
2 35 (29.17%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.83%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.33%) AWS Certification
4 4 (3.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 4 (3.33%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.67%) Degree
7 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.67%) Data Quality
1 2 (1.67%) QA
2 1 (0.83%) GDPR
System Software
1 32 (26.67%) Docker
2 4 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.83%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.83%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 62 (51.67%) Terraform
2 49 (40.83%) Kubernetes
3 28 (23.33%) Ansible
4 16 (13.33%) Grafana
5 15 (12.50%) Prometheus
6 12 (10.00%) Argo
7 8 (6.67%) Istio
8 5 (4.17%) Packer
8 5 (4.17%) Puppet
9 2 (1.67%) Kibana
9 2 (1.67%) linkerd
9 2 (1.67%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.67%) Rancher
10 1 (0.83%) CASB
Vendors
1 12 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.17%) Splunk
3 9 (7.50%) VMware
4 5 (4.17%) Dynatrace
4 5 (4.17%) Oracle
4 5 (4.17%) Red Hat
5 3 (2.50%) Cisco
5 3 (2.50%) Databricks
5 3 (2.50%) Fortinet
5 3 (2.50%) Google
6 2 (1.67%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.83%) Ariba
7 1 (0.83%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.83%) Refinitiv
7 1 (0.83%) SAP
7 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.83%) Sitecore