Senior DevOps Contract Job Trends in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations daily rate in England is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 September 2026.

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

 6 months to
24 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 475 453 397
Rank change year-on-year -22 -56 +80
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 169 65 119
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.36% 0.23% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.26% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 45 81
10th Percentile £458 £427 £513
25th Percentile £481 £500 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £630
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -8.73% -3.08%
75th Percentile £703 £675 £723
90th Percentile £762 £738 £788
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £630
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.73% -1.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £74.00
75th Percentile - - £74.44
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 - £74.00

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 42,964 25,407 30,277
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.24% 91.30% 92.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,510 16,379 18,703
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.11%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £735 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,556 1,389 1,420
10th Percentile £14.82 £13.75 £14.84
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.44 £21.37
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -45.54% +2.62%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £79.50 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -3.37%

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 24 September 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 24 September 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 -34 85 £600 -4.00% 112
North of England -59 29 £538 +4.88% 43
Midlands -33 19 £488 -39.70% 14
North West -43 17 £709 +50.00% 30
South West - 14 £500 - 19
West Midlands -39 11 £695 -14.04% 5
South East -54 10 £611 - 22
East Midlands - 8 £488 - 9
North East -40 6 £475 -15.56% 6
Yorkshire -41 6 £470 -18.22% 7
East of England - 6 £700 - 7
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 September 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.

1 169 (100.00%) DevOps
2 105 (62.13%) Terraform
3 99 (58.58%) CI/CD
4 84 (49.70%) Infrastructure as Code
5 71 (42.01%) Kubernetes
6 66 (39.05%) AWS
7 63 (37.28%) Python
8 61 (36.09%) Azure
9 58 (34.32%) Security Cleared
10 55 (32.54%) SC Cleared
11 51 (30.18%) GitHub
12 44 (26.04%) Docker
13 42 (24.85%) Platform Engineering
14 41 (24.26%) Containerisation
15 39 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
16 38 (22.49%) Linux
17 37 (21.89%) Observability
18 36 (21.30%) GitHub Actions
19 32 (18.93%) Ansible
20 30 (17.75%) Agile
21 29 (17.16%) Bash
21 29 (17.16%) GitLab
22 25 (14.79%) AI
22 25 (14.79%) Jenkins
22 25 (14.79%) Software Engineering
23 22 (13.02%) Deployment Automation
23 22 (13.02%) Infrastructure Automation
24 20 (11.83%) Continuous Improvement
24 20 (11.83%) Roadmaps
24 20 (11.83%) Secrets Management

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 (1.18%) Apache
2 1 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.59%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.59%) nginx
2 1 (0.59%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 66 (39.05%) AWS
2 61 (36.09%) Azure
3 51 (30.18%) GitHub
4 39 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
5 36 (21.30%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (11.24%) Amazon S3
7 18 (10.65%) Azure AKS
8 17 (10.06%) Serverless
9 15 (8.88%) Amazon EC2
9 15 (8.88%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (8.88%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (8.88%) GCP
10 14 (8.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 14 (8.28%) Azure Key Vault
11 12 (7.10%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (6.51%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (6.51%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (5.33%) OpenShift
13 9 (5.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (3.55%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.96%) DNS
1 5 (2.96%) VPN
2 4 (2.37%) Firewall
3 3 (1.78%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (1.18%) Multicast
4 2 (1.18%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.59%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (4.14%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (3.55%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.96%) MySQL
4 5 (2.96%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.37%) Redis
6 3 (1.78%) KDB
6 3 (1.78%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.18%) Kdb+
7 2 (1.18%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (0.59%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.59%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.59%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.59%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.59%) Power BI
8 1 (0.59%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.59%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 29 (17.16%) GitLab
2 25 (14.79%) Jenkins
3 15 (8.88%) Git
4 5 (2.96%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.78%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.18%) Snyk
6 2 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.18%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.59%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.59%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.59%) Maven
General
1 21 (12.43%) Social Skills
2 19 (11.24%) Finance
3 17 (10.06%) Public Sector
4 15 (8.88%) Banking
5 7 (4.14%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.14%) Military
5 7 (4.14%) Retail
6 3 (1.78%) Front Office
7 2 (1.18%) Law
8 1 (0.59%) Back Office
8 1 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.59%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.59%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (62.13%) Terraform
2 10 (5.92%) REST
3 9 (5.33%) Kafka
4 8 (4.73%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (4.73%) YAML
5 6 (3.55%) OAuth
5 6 (3.55%) React
6 5 (2.96%) Keycloak
7 4 (2.37%) AWS CDK
7 4 (2.37%) Celery
7 4 (2.37%) Django
7 4 (2.37%) JWT
7 4 (2.37%) Vue
8 3 (1.78%) .NET
8 3 (1.78%) FastAPI
8 3 (1.78%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (1.78%) Flask
8 3 (1.78%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (1.78%) RESTful
9 2 (1.18%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 34 (20.12%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.55%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (3.55%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.37%) Private Cloud
4 4 (2.37%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.78%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.78%) Replication
6 2 (1.18%) Derivative
6 2 (1.18%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.18%) PKI
6 2 (1.18%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.59%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.59%) Equities
7 1 (0.59%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.59%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 38 (22.49%) Linux
2 9 (5.33%) Windows
3 8 (4.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (3.55%) Unix
5 4 (2.37%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.18%) CentOS
7 1 (0.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (100.00%) DevOps
2 99 (58.58%) CI/CD
3 84 (49.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (24.85%) Platform Engineering
5 41 (24.26%) Containerisation
6 37 (21.89%) Observability
7 30 (17.75%) Agile
8 25 (14.79%) AI
8 25 (14.79%) Software Engineering
9 22 (13.02%) Deployment Automation
9 22 (13.02%) Infrastructure Automation
10 20 (11.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 20 (11.83%) Roadmaps
10 20 (11.83%) Secrets Management
11 17 (10.06%) Technical Leadership
12 16 (9.47%) Migration
12 16 (9.47%) Test Automation
13 14 (8.28%) Software Delivery
13 14 (8.28%) Stakeholder Management
13 14 (8.28%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 63 (37.28%) Python
2 29 (17.16%) Bash
3 16 (9.47%) PowerShell
4 9 (5.33%) Bicep
4 9 (5.33%) TypeScript
5 8 (4.73%) C#
6 6 (3.55%) SQL
7 4 (2.37%) Groovy
8 3 (1.78%) Java
8 3 (1.78%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.78%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.18%) Go
10 1 (0.59%) COBOL
10 1 (0.59%) JCL
Qualifications
1 58 (34.32%) Security Cleared
2 55 (32.54%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (4.73%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.55%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.96%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.18%) Degree
9 1 (0.59%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.10%) QA
2 6 (3.55%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.55%) WCAG
3 5 (2.96%) GDPR
4 2 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.59%) NCSC
System Software
1 44 (26.04%) Docker
2 1 (0.59%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 71 (42.01%) Kubernetes
2 32 (18.93%) Ansible
3 17 (10.06%) Grafana
3 17 (10.06%) Prometheus
4 10 (5.92%) Argo
5 6 (3.55%) Packer
6 5 (2.96%) Istio
7 4 (2.37%) Kustomize
8 3 (1.78%) Kibana
9 2 (1.18%) Karpenter
9 2 (1.18%) Puppet
9 2 (1.18%) Thomson Reuters DACS
10 1 (0.59%) Consul
10 1 (0.59%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.59%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.59%) linkerd
10 1 (0.59%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.59%) Rancher
10 1 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.59%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (7.69%) Microsoft
1 13 (7.69%) Splunk
2 9 (5.33%) Oracle
3 5 (2.96%) Red Hat
4 4 (2.37%) Cisco
4 4 (2.37%) Databricks
4 4 (2.37%) Fortinet
4 4 (2.37%) Google
5 2 (1.18%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.18%) NYFIX
5 2 (1.18%) Refinitiv
5 2 (1.18%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.18%) VMware
6 1 (0.59%) Apple
6 1 (0.59%) ESET
6 1 (0.59%) F5
6 1 (0.59%) Informatica
6 1 (0.59%) Okta
6 1 (0.59%) Tanium
6 1 (0.59%) Trend Micro
241 Senior DevOps jobs in England