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 15 October 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 468 441 407
Rank change year-on-year -27 -34 +66
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 179 78 123
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.38% 0.28% 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 £513
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 43,070 25,660 29,897
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.95% 91.15% 93.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,333 16,528 18,273
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% -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 3,798 1,445 1,249
10th Percentile £14.50 £13.80 £15.10
25th Percentile £20.01 £17.33 £21.25
Median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% -6.89%
75th Percentile £67.85 £50.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £41.27
% change year-on-year +65.23% -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 15 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 15 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 -28 96 £600 -2.64% 13
North of England -66 31 £550 +3.77% 15
North West -36 21 £700 +42.28% 6
South West - 18 £550 - 9
Midlands -42 15 £580 -34.98% 5
West Midlands -43 10 £695 -22.09% 3
South East -59 9 £461 - 16
Yorkshire -51 6 £470 -24.76% 5
East Midlands - 5 £488 - 2
North East -34 4 £453 -19.56% 4
East of England -25 3 £850 - 3
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 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.

1 179 (100.00%) DevOps
2 115 (64.25%) Terraform
3 105 (58.66%) CI/CD
4 91 (50.84%) Infrastructure as Code
5 82 (45.81%) Kubernetes
6 72 (40.22%) AWS
7 69 (38.55%) Python
8 68 (37.99%) Azure
9 60 (33.52%) Security Cleared
10 55 (30.73%) SC Cleared
11 54 (30.17%) GitHub
12 53 (29.61%) Docker
13 48 (26.82%) Containerisation
14 44 (24.58%) Azure DevOps
15 41 (22.91%) Platform Engineering
16 40 (22.35%) Linux
17 38 (21.23%) Observability
18 37 (20.67%) GitHub Actions
19 34 (18.99%) Bash
20 33 (18.44%) GitLab
20 33 (18.44%) Jenkins
21 32 (17.88%) Agile
22 31 (17.32%) Ansible
23 29 (16.20%) AI
24 28 (15.64%) Software Engineering
25 25 (13.97%) Continuous Improvement
26 24 (13.41%) Deployment Automation
27 22 (12.29%) Git
27 22 (12.29%) Migration
28 20 (11.17%) Amazon S3

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 (1.12%) 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 (40.22%) AWS
2 68 (37.99%) Azure
3 54 (30.17%) GitHub
4 44 (24.58%) Azure DevOps
5 37 (20.67%) GitHub Actions
6 20 (11.17%) Amazon S3
6 20 (11.17%) Serverless
7 18 (10.06%) Amazon EC2
7 18 (10.06%) Azure AKS
7 18 (10.06%) GCP
8 17 (9.50%) Amazon EKS
9 16 (8.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 16 (8.94%) Amazon ECS
9 16 (8.94%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (7.26%) Azure Key Vault
11 12 (6.70%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (6.15%) Azure Monitor
12 11 (6.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 9 (5.03%) OpenShift
14 7 (3.91%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.35%) DNS
2 3 (1.68%) OpenLDAP
3 2 (1.12%) Firewall
3 2 (1.12%) Multicast
3 2 (1.12%) Network Security
3 2 (1.12%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.12%) VPN
4 1 (0.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.03%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (4.47%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (3.35%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.79%) MySQL
4 5 (2.79%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.23%) Redis
6 3 (1.68%) KDB
6 3 (1.68%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.12%) Kdb+
7 2 (1.12%) 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 (18.44%) GitLab
1 33 (18.44%) Jenkins
2 22 (12.29%) Git
3 5 (2.79%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (2.23%) Bitbucket
4 4 (2.23%) Maven
4 4 (2.23%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.68%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (1.12%) Snyk
7 1 (0.56%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.56%) Claude Code
General
1 23 (12.85%) Social Skills
2 21 (11.73%) Public Sector
3 20 (11.17%) Finance
4 14 (7.82%) Banking
5 9 (5.03%) Military
6 8 (4.47%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.91%) Retail
8 3 (1.68%) Front Office
9 2 (1.12%) Law
10 1 (0.56%) Back Office
10 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.56%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (64.25%) Terraform
2 11 (6.15%) REST
3 9 (5.03%) Kafka
4 8 (4.47%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (3.91%) YAML
6 6 (3.35%) AWS CDK
6 6 (3.35%) Keycloak
6 6 (3.35%) React
7 5 (2.79%) OAuth
8 4 (2.23%) ARM Templates
8 4 (2.23%) Celery
8 4 (2.23%) Django
8 4 (2.23%) JWT
8 4 (2.23%) Vue
9 3 (1.68%) FastAPI
9 3 (1.68%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (1.68%) Flask
10 2 (1.12%) boto
10 2 (1.12%) LDAP
10 2 (1.12%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 36 (20.11%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.03%) Onboarding
3 8 (4.47%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.91%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.23%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.23%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.68%) PKI
6 3 (1.68%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.68%) Replication
7 2 (1.12%) Derivative
7 2 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.12%) 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
8 1 (0.56%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 40 (22.35%) Linux
2 9 (5.03%) Windows
3 8 (4.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (3.91%) Unix
5 4 (2.23%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.12%) CentOS
7 1 (0.56%) VMS
7 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (100.00%) DevOps
2 105 (58.66%) CI/CD
3 91 (50.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 48 (26.82%) Containerisation
5 41 (22.91%) Platform Engineering
6 38 (21.23%) Observability
7 32 (17.88%) Agile
8 29 (16.20%) AI
9 28 (15.64%) Software Engineering
10 25 (13.97%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (13.41%) Deployment Automation
12 22 (12.29%) Migration
13 20 (11.17%) Infrastructure Automation
13 20 (11.17%) Roadmaps
14 18 (10.06%) Secrets Management
15 17 (9.50%) Cloud Security
16 16 (8.94%) Software Delivery
16 16 (8.94%) Technical Leadership
17 15 (8.38%) Stakeholder Management
17 15 (8.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 69 (38.55%) Python
2 34 (18.99%) Bash
3 20 (11.17%) PowerShell
4 13 (7.26%) TypeScript
5 10 (5.59%) Bicep
6 6 (3.35%) C#
6 6 (3.35%) SQL
7 5 (2.79%) Groovy
7 5 (2.79%) Java
8 4 (2.23%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.68%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.12%) Go
11 1 (0.56%) COBOL
11 1 (0.56%) JCL
Qualifications
1 60 (33.52%) Security Cleared
2 55 (30.73%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.15%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (5.03%) Azure Certification
5 8 (4.47%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.35%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (2.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.12%) Degree
9 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.70%) QA
2 6 (3.35%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.35%) WCAG
3 5 (2.79%) GDPR
4 2 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 53 (29.61%) Docker
2 2 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 82 (45.81%) Kubernetes
2 31 (17.32%) Ansible
3 18 (10.06%) Grafana
3 18 (10.06%) Prometheus
4 6 (3.35%) Argo
4 6 (3.35%) Istio
4 6 (3.35%) Packer
5 4 (2.23%) Kustomize
6 3 (1.68%) Karpenter
6 3 (1.68%) Kibana
6 3 (1.68%) Puppet
7 2 (1.12%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.12%) Thomson Reuters DACS
8 1 (0.56%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.56%) Consul
8 1 (0.56%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.56%) linkerd
8 1 (0.56%) Rancher
8 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (8.38%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.70%) Splunk
3 8 (4.47%) Oracle
4 7 (3.91%) Google
5 5 (2.79%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.23%) Databricks
7 2 (1.12%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.12%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.12%) NYFIX
7 2 (1.12%) Refinitiv
7 2 (1.12%) 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