Senior DevOps Contract Job Trends in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations daily rate in England is £563, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 467 446 405
Rank change year-on-year -21 -41 +69
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 180 77 123
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.38% 0.27% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.30% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 50 84
10th Percentile £453 £448 £504
25th Percentile £481 £500 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £576 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.39% -11.35% -
75th Percentile £703 £675 £741
90th Percentile £762 £738 £788
UK median daily rate £550 £578 £650
% change year-on-year -4.76% -11.15% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 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 43,082 25,631 29,757
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.00% 91.12% 93.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,349 16,509 18,162
10th Percentile £325 £276 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,775 1,440 1,248
10th Percentile £14.50 £13.80 £15.10
25th Percentile £20.25 £17.32 £21.25
Median hourly rate £42.31 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.23% -41.51% -6.89%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.81 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £25.15 £41.27
% change year-on-year +65.84% -39.05% -8.30%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -46 96 £600 -2.64% 107
North of England -66 31 £550 +3.77% 55
North West -37 21 £700 +42.28% 31
South West - 18 £550 - 14
Midlands -46 15 £580 -34.98% 11
West Midlands -46 10 £695 -22.09% 5
South East -54 9 £461 - 33
Yorkshire -44 6 £470 -24.76% 11
East Midlands - 5 £488 - 6
East of England -25 4 £850 - 7
North East -39 4 £453 -19.56% 13
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 October 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.

1 180 (100.00%) DevOps
2 116 (64.44%) Terraform
3 106 (58.89%) CI/CD
4 92 (51.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 83 (46.11%) Kubernetes
6 72 (40.00%) AWS
7 69 (38.33%) Python
8 68 (37.78%) Azure
9 60 (33.33%) Security Cleared
10 55 (30.56%) GitHub
10 55 (30.56%) SC Cleared
11 53 (29.44%) Docker
12 48 (26.67%) Containerisation
13 44 (24.44%) Azure DevOps
14 42 (23.33%) Platform Engineering
15 40 (22.22%) Linux
16 38 (21.11%) GitHub Actions
16 38 (21.11%) Observability
17 34 (18.89%) Bash
18 33 (18.33%) GitLab
18 33 (18.33%) Jenkins
19 32 (17.78%) Agile
19 32 (17.78%) Ansible
20 29 (16.11%) AI
21 28 (15.56%) Software Engineering
22 25 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
23 24 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
24 22 (12.22%) Git
24 22 (12.22%) Migration
25 21 (11.67%) Infrastructure Automation

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 (1.11%) Apache
2 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.56%) nginx
2 1 (0.56%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 72 (40.00%) AWS
2 68 (37.78%) Azure
3 55 (30.56%) GitHub
4 44 (24.44%) Azure DevOps
5 38 (21.11%) GitHub Actions
6 20 (11.11%) Amazon S3
6 20 (11.11%) Serverless
7 19 (10.56%) GCP
8 18 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
8 18 (10.00%) Azure AKS
9 17 (9.44%) Amazon EKS
10 16 (8.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (8.89%) Amazon ECS
10 16 (8.89%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (7.22%) Azure Key Vault
12 12 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (6.11%) Azure Monitor
13 11 (6.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (5.00%) OpenShift
15 7 (3.89%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.33%) DNS
2 3 (1.67%) OpenLDAP
2 3 (1.67%) VPN
3 2 (1.11%) Firewall
3 2 (1.11%) Multicast
3 2 (1.11%) Network Security
3 2 (1.11%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (3.33%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.78%) MySQL
4 5 (2.78%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.22%) Redis
6 3 (1.67%) KDB
6 3 (1.67%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.11%) Kdb+
7 2 (1.11%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.56%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.56%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.56%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.56%) Power BI
8 1 (0.56%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 33 (18.33%) GitLab
1 33 (18.33%) Jenkins
2 22 (12.22%) Git
3 5 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (2.22%) Bitbucket
4 4 (2.22%) Maven
4 4 (2.22%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.67%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (1.11%) Snyk
7 1 (0.56%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.56%) Claude Code
General
1 23 (12.78%) Social Skills
2 21 (11.67%) Public Sector
3 20 (11.11%) Finance
4 15 (8.33%) Banking
5 9 (5.00%) Military
6 8 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.89%) Retail
8 3 (1.67%) Front Office
9 2 (1.11%) Law
10 1 (0.56%) Back Office
10 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.56%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (64.44%) Terraform
2 11 (6.11%) REST
3 9 (5.00%) Kafka
4 8 (4.44%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (3.89%) YAML
6 6 (3.33%) AWS CDK
6 6 (3.33%) Keycloak
6 6 (3.33%) React
7 5 (2.78%) OAuth
8 4 (2.22%) ARM Templates
8 4 (2.22%) Celery
8 4 (2.22%) Django
8 4 (2.22%) JWT
8 4 (2.22%) Vue
9 3 (1.67%) FastAPI
9 3 (1.67%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (1.67%) Flask
10 2 (1.11%) boto
10 2 (1.11%) LDAP
10 2 (1.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 37 (20.56%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 8 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.89%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.22%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.22%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.67%) PKI
6 3 (1.67%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.67%) Replication
7 2 (1.11%) Derivative
7 2 (1.11%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.11%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.56%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.56%) Equities
8 1 (0.56%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.56%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 40 (22.22%) Linux
2 9 (5.00%) Windows
3 8 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (3.89%) Unix
5 4 (2.22%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.11%) CentOS
7 1 (0.56%) VMS
7 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (100.00%) DevOps
2 106 (58.89%) CI/CD
3 92 (51.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 48 (26.67%) Containerisation
5 42 (23.33%) Platform Engineering
6 38 (21.11%) Observability
7 32 (17.78%) Agile
8 29 (16.11%) AI
9 28 (15.56%) Software Engineering
10 25 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
12 22 (12.22%) Migration
13 21 (11.67%) Infrastructure Automation
14 20 (11.11%) Roadmaps
15 19 (10.56%) Secrets Management
16 17 (9.44%) Cloud Security
16 17 (9.44%) Technical Leadership
17 16 (8.89%) Software Delivery
18 15 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
18 15 (8.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 69 (38.33%) Python
2 34 (18.89%) Bash
3 20 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 13 (7.22%) TypeScript
5 10 (5.56%) Bicep
6 6 (3.33%) C#
6 6 (3.33%) SQL
7 5 (2.78%) Groovy
7 5 (2.78%) Java
8 4 (2.22%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.67%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.11%) Go
11 1 (0.56%) COBOL
11 1 (0.56%) JCL
Qualifications
1 60 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 55 (30.56%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.11%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (5.00%) Azure Certification
5 8 (4.44%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.33%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.11%) Degree
9 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.67%) QA
2 6 (3.33%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.33%) WCAG
3 5 (2.78%) GDPR
4 2 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 53 (29.44%) Docker
2 2 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 83 (46.11%) Kubernetes
2 32 (17.78%) Ansible
3 18 (10.00%) Grafana
3 18 (10.00%) Prometheus
4 7 (3.89%) Argo
5 6 (3.33%) Istio
5 6 (3.33%) Packer
6 4 (2.22%) Kustomize
7 3 (1.67%) Karpenter
7 3 (1.67%) Kibana
7 3 (1.67%) Puppet
8 2 (1.11%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.11%) Thomson Reuters DACS
9 1 (0.56%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.56%) Consul
9 1 (0.56%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.56%) linkerd
9 1 (0.56%) Rancher
9 1 (0.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.67%) Splunk
3 8 (4.44%) Oracle
4 7 (3.89%) Google
5 5 (2.78%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.22%) Databricks
7 2 (1.11%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.11%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.11%) NYFIX
7 2 (1.11%) Refinitiv
7 2 (1.11%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.56%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.56%) Apple
8 1 (0.56%) Checkmarx
8 1 (0.56%) Cisco
8 1 (0.56%) ESET
8 1 (0.56%) Informatica
8 1 (0.56%) Okta
8 1 (0.56%) Tenable
8 1 (0.56%) VMware