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 18 July 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 453 450 442
Rank change year-on-year -3 -8 +52
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 167 50 115
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.37% 0.18% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.20% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 35 79
10th Percentile £461 £485 £512
25th Percentile £481 £509 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -11.54% -
75th Percentile £701 £653 £716
90th Percentile £771 £683 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £578 £650
% change year-on-year -4.76% -11.15% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £74.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £74.22
75th Percentile - - £74.44
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 41,608 25,011 33,561
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 91.87% 92.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,417 16,274 22,046
10th Percentile £325 £290 £300
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,980 1,235 2,309
10th Percentile £16.01 £13.75 £13.25
25th Percentile £22.08 £17.87 £18.00
Median hourly rate £45.56 £27.64 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +64.82% -31.46% -6.22%
75th Percentile £68.00 £57.37 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.01 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.69 £25.30 £40.00
% change year-on-year +72.69% -36.75% -5.88%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -7 84 £600 - 9
North of England -57 33 £525 - 15
Midlands -34 21 £513 - 3
North West -42 13 £709 +73.93% 9
West Midlands - 11 £695 -
East Midlands -3 10 £488 - 3
North East -26 10 £475 -13.64% 5
Yorkshire -37 10 £471 -12.47% 1
South East -49 9 £700 - 6
South West - 9 £488 - 2
East of England - 6 £700 -
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 July 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.

1 167 (100.00%) DevOps
2 98 (58.68%) Terraform
3 89 (53.29%) CI/CD
4 80 (47.90%) Infrastructure as Code
5 73 (43.71%) AWS
6 71 (42.51%) Kubernetes
7 61 (36.53%) Azure
8 59 (35.33%) Security Cleared
9 55 (32.93%) SC Cleared
10 53 (31.74%) Python
11 49 (29.34%) Docker
12 45 (26.95%) Containerisation
12 45 (26.95%) Linux
13 42 (25.15%) GitHub
14 39 (23.35%) Platform Engineering
15 37 (22.16%) Ansible
16 36 (21.56%) Azure DevOps
16 36 (21.56%) Observability
17 32 (19.16%) GitLab
18 30 (17.96%) Agile
18 30 (17.96%) GitHub Actions
19 28 (16.77%) Jenkins
20 25 (14.97%) Bash
21 22 (13.17%) Software Engineering
22 21 (12.57%) Azure AKS
23 20 (11.98%) AI
23 20 (11.98%) GCP
23 20 (11.98%) Infrastructure Automation
23 20 (11.98%) Test Automation
24 19 (11.38%) Grafana

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 (1.80%) Confluence
2 1 (0.60%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 73 (43.71%) AWS
2 61 (36.53%) Azure
3 42 (25.15%) GitHub
4 36 (21.56%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (17.96%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (12.57%) Azure AKS
7 20 (11.98%) GCP
8 17 (10.18%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (8.38%) Amazon S3
10 12 (7.19%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (7.19%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (5.99%) Azure Key Vault
12 9 (5.39%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (4.79%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (4.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 8 (4.79%) OpenShift
13 8 (4.79%) Serverless
14 7 (4.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (4.19%) AWS Lambda
15 5 (2.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.99%) VPN
2 4 (2.40%) Firewall
3 3 (1.80%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (0.60%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.78%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (4.19%) MongoDB
3 6 (3.59%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (3.59%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.99%) MySQL
5 4 (2.40%) Redis
6 3 (1.80%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.20%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.60%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.60%) Metadata
8 1 (0.60%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.60%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.60%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 32 (19.16%) GitLab
2 28 (16.77%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.79%) Git
4 5 (2.99%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.80%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.80%) JIRA
5 3 (1.80%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.80%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.20%) Liquibase
6 2 (1.20%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.60%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 19 (11.38%) Banking
1 19 (11.38%) Finance
1 19 (11.38%) Social Skills
2 17 (10.18%) Public Sector
3 5 (2.99%) Retail
4 4 (2.40%) Military
5 2 (1.20%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.20%) Law
6 1 (0.60%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.38%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (4.79%) REST
3 6 (3.59%) OAuth
4 5 (2.99%) Django
4 5 (2.99%) Kafka
4 5 (2.99%) OpenTelemetry
4 5 (2.99%) React
4 5 (2.99%) YAML
5 4 (2.40%) ADO
5 4 (2.40%) Celery
5 4 (2.40%) JWT
5 4 (2.40%) Vue
6 3 (1.80%) .NET
6 3 (1.80%) AWS CDK
7 2 (1.20%) Keycloak
7 2 (1.20%) LDAP
7 2 (1.20%) OAuth2
7 2 (1.20%) Playwright
7 2 (1.20%) pytest
7 2 (1.20%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 35 (20.96%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.99%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.59%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.99%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.40%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.40%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.80%) Replication
7 2 (1.20%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.60%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.60%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.60%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.60%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 45 (26.95%) Linux
2 9 (5.39%) Windows
3 5 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.40%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.40%) Unix
5 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (100.00%) DevOps
2 89 (53.29%) CI/CD
3 80 (47.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 45 (26.95%) Containerisation
5 39 (23.35%) Platform Engineering
6 36 (21.56%) Observability
7 30 (17.96%) Agile
8 22 (13.17%) Software Engineering
9 20 (11.98%) AI
9 20 (11.98%) Infrastructure Automation
9 20 (11.98%) Test Automation
10 18 (10.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 17 (10.18%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (10.18%) Roadmaps
11 17 (10.18%) Secrets Management
12 16 (9.58%) Deployment Automation
13 15 (8.98%) Technical Leadership
14 14 (8.38%) Mentoring
15 13 (7.78%) Microservices
16 12 (7.19%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (31.74%) Python
2 25 (14.97%) Bash
3 11 (6.59%) Bicep
3 11 (6.59%) PowerShell
4 8 (4.79%) Go
5 7 (4.19%) TypeScript
6 6 (3.59%) C#
7 5 (2.99%) Java
8 4 (2.40%) SQL
9 3 (1.80%) Groovy
10 1 (0.60%) COBOL
10 1 (0.60%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.60%) JCL
10 1 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 59 (35.33%) Security Cleared
2 55 (32.93%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.19%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (3.59%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 6 (3.59%) Azure Certification
4 6 (3.59%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.60%) Degree
6 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.79%) QA
2 6 (3.59%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.59%) GDPR
2 6 (3.59%) WCAG
3 2 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 49 (29.34%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 98 (58.68%) Terraform
2 71 (42.51%) Kubernetes
3 37 (22.16%) Ansible
4 19 (11.38%) Grafana
4 19 (11.38%) Prometheus
5 16 (9.58%) Argo
6 8 (4.79%) Istio
6 8 (4.79%) Packer
7 4 (2.40%) Puppet
8 3 (1.80%) Kustomize
9 2 (1.20%) Karpenter
9 2 (1.20%) linkerd
9 2 (1.20%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.60%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.60%) Kibana
Vendors
1 14 (8.38%) Splunk
2 12 (7.19%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.79%) Oracle
4 6 (3.59%) Google
5 4 (2.40%) Cisco
5 4 (2.40%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.80%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.20%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.20%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.20%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.20%) VMware
8 1 (0.60%) Ariba
8 1 (0.60%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.60%) Databricks
8 1 (0.60%) F5
8 1 (0.60%) Informatica
8 1 (0.60%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.60%) SAP
8 1 (0.60%) Tanium
8 1 (0.60%) Trend Micro