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 23 June 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 448 435 444
Rank change year-on-year -13 +9 +60
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 156 46 109
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.36% 0.18% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.20% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 33 78
10th Percentile £450 £500 £506
25th Percentile £481 £525 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £578 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.75% -7.69%
75th Percentile £663 £653 £675
90th Percentile £725 £720 £760
UK median daily rate £550 £590 £613
% change year-on-year -6.78% -3.67% -5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile - - £74.09
25th Percentile - - £74.22
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £74.44
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 - £73.50

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 40,014 23,037 34,822
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.23% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,629 15,128 22,693
10th Percentile £325 £293 £290
25th Percentile £416 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £633 £638
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.50% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,831 1,043 2,688
10th Percentile £15.99 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.93 £18.13 £16.58
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.00 £39.53
Median % change year-on-year +55.17% -26.63% -10.17%
75th Percentile £67.60 £58.72 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.39
UK median hourly rate £43.25 £27.38 £37.50
% change year-on-year +57.99% -27.00% -14.77%

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 June 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 June 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 -21 78 £575 -6.88% 12
North of England -60 24 £475 -13.64% 9
Midlands -31 21 £513 - 5
South East -49 13 £600 - 12
West Midlands - 11 £695 - 3
East Midlands -8 10 £488 - 2
Yorkshire -48 10 £471 -18.17% 3
North East -28 9 £475 -13.64% 2
South West - 8 £488 - 2
East of England -21 7 £650 +48.57% 2
North West -39 5 £633 +31.14% 4
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 June 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.

1 156 (100.00%) DevOps
2 84 (53.85%) Terraform
3 79 (50.64%) CI/CD
4 71 (45.51%) Infrastructure as Code
5 62 (39.74%) Azure
5 62 (39.74%) Kubernetes
6 61 (39.10%) AWS
7 48 (30.77%) Security Cleared
8 46 (29.49%) Docker
9 44 (28.21%) Python
10 43 (27.56%) SC Cleared
11 37 (23.72%) Linux
11 37 (23.72%) Platform Engineering
12 36 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
12 36 (23.08%) Containerisation
13 35 (22.44%) GitHub
14 34 (21.79%) Ansible
15 31 (19.87%) GitLab
16 30 (19.23%) Agile
17 26 (16.67%) Jenkins
17 26 (16.67%) Observability
18 25 (16.03%) GitHub Actions
19 21 (13.46%) Azure AKS
20 19 (12.18%) GCP
20 19 (12.18%) Infrastructure Automation
20 19 (12.18%) Software Engineering
21 18 (11.54%) AI
21 18 (11.54%) Bash
21 18 (11.54%) Test Automation
22 17 (10.90%) Site Reliability Engineering

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 3 (1.92%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 62 (39.74%) Azure
2 61 (39.10%) AWS
3 36 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (22.44%) GitHub
5 25 (16.03%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (13.46%) Azure AKS
7 19 (12.18%) GCP
8 15 (9.62%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (7.69%) Amazon S3
10 11 (7.05%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (6.41%) Azure Key Vault
12 9 (5.77%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (5.77%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (5.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 6 (3.85%) Serverless
15 5 (3.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 5 (3.21%) Amazon ECS
15 5 (3.21%) AWS Lambda
15 5 (3.21%) OpenShift
16 4 (2.56%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.21%) VPN
2 3 (1.92%) Firewall
2 3 (1.92%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (0.64%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.05%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (3.85%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.21%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.21%) MySQL
5 4 (2.56%) Redis
6 3 (1.92%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.28%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (0.64%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.64%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.64%) Metadata
8 1 (0.64%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.64%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 31 (19.87%) GitLab
2 26 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.85%) Git
4 5 (3.21%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (2.56%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.92%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.92%) JIRA
6 3 (1.92%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.28%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.64%) RStudio
8 1 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 20 (12.82%) Banking
2 16 (10.26%) Public Sector
2 16 (10.26%) Social Skills
3 15 (9.62%) Finance
4 4 (2.56%) Retail
5 3 (1.92%) Military
6 2 (1.28%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.28%) Law
6 2 (1.28%) Social Science
7 1 (0.64%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.64%) Legal
7 1 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.05%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (5.13%) REST
3 6 (3.85%) OAuth
4 5 (3.21%) Django
4 5 (3.21%) OpenTelemetry
4 5 (3.21%) YAML
5 4 (2.56%) ADO
5 4 (2.56%) Celery
5 4 (2.56%) JWT
5 4 (2.56%) React
5 4 (2.56%) Vue
6 3 (1.92%) .NET
6 3 (1.92%) AWS CDK
6 3 (1.92%) Kafka
7 2 (1.28%) LDAP
7 2 (1.28%) OAuth2
7 2 (1.28%) Playwright
7 2 (1.28%) pytest
7 2 (1.28%) RESTful
8 1 (0.64%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 30 (19.23%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.49%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.21%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.56%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.56%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.92%) Replication
7 2 (1.28%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.28%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.64%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.64%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.64%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.64%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 37 (23.72%) Linux
2 8 (5.13%) Windows
3 5 (3.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.56%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.92%) Unix
6 1 (0.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (100.00%) DevOps
2 79 (50.64%) CI/CD
3 71 (45.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 37 (23.72%) Platform Engineering
5 36 (23.08%) Containerisation
6 30 (19.23%) Agile
7 26 (16.67%) Observability
8 19 (12.18%) Infrastructure Automation
8 19 (12.18%) Software Engineering
9 18 (11.54%) AI
9 18 (11.54%) Test Automation
10 17 (10.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 16 (10.26%) Deployment Automation
11 16 (10.26%) Secrets Management
12 13 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
13 12 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (7.69%) Microservices
13 12 (7.69%) Validation
14 11 (7.05%) Mentoring
14 11 (7.05%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (28.21%) Python
2 18 (11.54%) Bash
3 11 (7.05%) Bicep
4 10 (6.41%) PowerShell
5 7 (4.49%) Go
6 6 (3.85%) C#
7 5 (3.21%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.56%) Java
8 4 (2.56%) SQL
9 3 (1.92%) Groovy
10 1 (0.64%) COBOL
10 1 (0.64%) JCL
10 1 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 48 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 43 (27.56%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.85%) AWS Certification
3 6 (3.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 6 (3.85%) Azure Certification
3 6 (3.85%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.21%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.64%) Degree
6 1 (0.64%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.85%) GDPR
2 5 (3.21%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.21%) WCAG
3 3 (1.92%) QA
4 2 (1.28%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 46 (29.49%) Docker
2 2 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.64%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 84 (53.85%) Terraform
2 62 (39.74%) Kubernetes
3 34 (21.79%) Ansible
4 16 (10.26%) Argo
5 15 (9.62%) Grafana
5 15 (9.62%) Prometheus
6 8 (5.13%) Istio
6 8 (5.13%) Packer
7 4 (2.56%) Puppet
8 3 (1.92%) Kustomize
9 2 (1.28%) linkerd
9 2 (1.28%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.64%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.64%) Rancher
Vendors
1 10 (6.41%) Microsoft
1 10 (6.41%) Splunk
2 8 (5.13%) Oracle
3 6 (3.85%) Google
3 6 (3.85%) VMware
4 4 (2.56%) Cisco
4 4 (2.56%) Fortinet
5 3 (1.92%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.28%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.28%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.28%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.64%) Ariba
7 1 (0.64%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.64%) Databricks
7 1 (0.64%) F5
7 1 (0.64%) Refinitiv
7 1 (0.64%) SAP
7 1 (0.64%) Tanium
7 1 (0.64%) Tenable
7 1 (0.64%) Trend Micro