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 27 September 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 469 458 405
Rank change year-on-year -11 -53 +91
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 167 65 119
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.36% 0.23% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.26% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 43 81
10th Percentile £462 £427 £513
25th Percentile £481 £500 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £638
Median % change year-on-year - -13.73% -1.92%
75th Percentile £703 £675 £723
90th Percentile £762 £738 £788
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £638
% change year-on-year - -13.73% -
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 42,739 25,487 30,416
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.18% 91.27% 93.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,336 16,425 18,705
10th Percentile £325 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.67%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £730 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,574 1,402 1,402
10th Percentile £14.82 £13.75 £14.99
25th Percentile £20.53 £17.44 £21.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% -
75th Percentile £67.89 £53.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.94% -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 27 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 27 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 -27 84 £600 -1.23% 105
North of England -62 29 £538 +4.88% 50
Midlands -25 19 £488 -39.70% 12
North West -44 17 £709 +50.00% 37
South West - 15 £525 - 23
West Midlands -41 11 £695 -14.04% 4
South East -59 8 £521 - 19
East Midlands - 8 £488 - 8
North East -33 6 £475 -15.56% 6
Yorkshire -54 6 £470 -18.22% 7
East of England - 6 £700 - 6
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 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.

1 167 (100.00%) DevOps
2 103 (61.68%) Terraform
3 96 (57.49%) CI/CD
4 83 (49.70%) Infrastructure as Code
5 71 (42.51%) Kubernetes
6 66 (39.52%) AWS
7 61 (36.53%) Python
8 59 (35.33%) Azure
8 59 (35.33%) Security Cleared
9 56 (33.53%) SC Cleared
10 48 (28.74%) GitHub
11 43 (25.75%) Docker
12 42 (25.15%) Platform Engineering
13 40 (23.95%) Containerisation
14 38 (22.75%) Azure DevOps
14 38 (22.75%) Linux
15 36 (21.56%) Observability
16 34 (20.36%) GitHub Actions
17 32 (19.16%) Ansible
18 29 (17.37%) Bash
18 29 (17.37%) GitLab
19 28 (16.77%) Agile
20 26 (15.57%) Software Engineering
21 25 (14.97%) AI
22 24 (14.37%) Jenkins
23 22 (13.17%) Deployment Automation
24 21 (12.57%) Infrastructure Automation
25 20 (11.98%) Continuous Improvement
25 20 (11.98%) Roadmaps
26 19 (11.38%) 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 (1.20%) Apache
2 1 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.60%) nginx
2 1 (0.60%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 66 (39.52%) AWS
2 59 (35.33%) Azure
3 48 (28.74%) GitHub
4 38 (22.75%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (20.36%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (11.38%) Amazon S3
7 18 (10.78%) Azure AKS
8 17 (10.18%) Serverless
9 15 (8.98%) Amazon EC2
9 15 (8.98%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (8.98%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (8.98%) GCP
10 14 (8.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 13 (7.78%) Azure Key Vault
12 12 (7.19%) Amazon ECS
13 11 (6.59%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (5.39%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (5.39%) OpenShift
14 9 (5.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 6 (3.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.99%) DNS
1 5 (2.99%) VPN
2 4 (2.40%) Firewall
3 3 (1.80%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (1.20%) Multicast
4 2 (1.20%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.60%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.39%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (4.19%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (3.59%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.99%) MySQL
4 5 (2.99%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.40%) Redis
6 3 (1.80%) KDB
6 3 (1.80%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.20%) Kdb+
7 2 (1.20%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.60%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.60%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.60%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.60%) Power BI
8 1 (0.60%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.60%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 29 (17.37%) GitLab
2 24 (14.37%) Jenkins
3 15 (8.98%) Git
4 5 (2.99%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.80%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.20%) Snyk
6 2 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.20%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.60%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.60%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.60%) Maven
General
1 21 (12.57%) Social Skills
2 19 (11.38%) Finance
3 17 (10.18%) Public Sector
4 14 (8.38%) Banking
5 7 (4.19%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.19%) Military
5 7 (4.19%) Retail
6 3 (1.80%) Front Office
7 2 (1.20%) Law
8 1 (0.60%) Back Office
8 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.60%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.60%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (61.68%) Terraform
2 10 (5.99%) REST
3 9 (5.39%) Kafka
4 8 (4.79%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (4.19%) YAML
6 6 (3.59%) OAuth
6 6 (3.59%) React
7 5 (2.99%) Keycloak
8 4 (2.40%) AWS CDK
8 4 (2.40%) Celery
8 4 (2.40%) Django
8 4 (2.40%) JWT
8 4 (2.40%) Vue
9 3 (1.80%) FastAPI
9 3 (1.80%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (1.80%) Flask
9 3 (1.80%) OpenTelemetry
9 3 (1.80%) RESTful
10 2 (1.20%) ARM Templates
10 2 (1.20%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 35 (20.96%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.39%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.19%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.59%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.40%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.40%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.80%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.80%) Replication
7 2 (1.20%) Derivative
7 2 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.20%) PKI
7 2 (1.20%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.60%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.60%) Equities
8 1 (0.60%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.60%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 38 (22.75%) Linux
2 9 (5.39%) Windows
3 8 (4.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (3.59%) Unix
5 4 (2.40%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.20%) CentOS
7 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (100.00%) DevOps
2 96 (57.49%) CI/CD
3 83 (49.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (25.15%) Platform Engineering
5 40 (23.95%) Containerisation
6 36 (21.56%) Observability
7 28 (16.77%) Agile
8 26 (15.57%) Software Engineering
9 25 (14.97%) AI
10 22 (13.17%) Deployment Automation
11 21 (12.57%) Infrastructure Automation
12 20 (11.98%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (11.98%) Roadmaps
13 19 (11.38%) Secrets Management
14 17 (10.18%) Technical Leadership
15 16 (9.58%) Migration
16 15 (8.98%) Test Automation
17 14 (8.38%) Software Delivery
17 14 (8.38%) Stakeholder Management
17 14 (8.38%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 61 (36.53%) Python
2 29 (17.37%) Bash
3 16 (9.58%) PowerShell
4 10 (5.99%) TypeScript
5 9 (5.39%) Bicep
6 6 (3.59%) C#
6 6 (3.59%) SQL
7 4 (2.40%) Groovy
8 3 (1.80%) Java
8 3 (1.80%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.80%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.20%) Go
10 1 (0.60%) COBOL
10 1 (0.60%) JCL
Qualifications
1 59 (35.33%) Security Cleared
2 56 (33.53%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.99%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (4.79%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.59%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.99%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.20%) Degree
9 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.19%) QA
2 6 (3.59%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.59%) WCAG
3 5 (2.99%) GDPR
4 2 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.60%) NCSC
System Software
1 43 (25.75%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 71 (42.51%) Kubernetes
2 32 (19.16%) Ansible
3 17 (10.18%) Grafana
3 17 (10.18%) Prometheus
4 10 (5.99%) Argo
5 6 (3.59%) Packer
6 5 (2.99%) Istio
7 4 (2.40%) Kustomize
8 3 (1.80%) Kibana
9 2 (1.20%) Karpenter
9 2 (1.20%) Puppet
9 2 (1.20%) Thomson Reuters DACS
10 1 (0.60%) Consul
10 1 (0.60%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.60%) linkerd
10 1 (0.60%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.60%) Rancher
10 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.60%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 12 (7.19%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.59%) Splunk
3 9 (5.39%) Oracle
4 5 (2.99%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.40%) Cisco
5 4 (2.40%) Fortinet
5 4 (2.40%) Google
6 3 (1.80%) Databricks
7 2 (1.20%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.20%) NYFIX
7 2 (1.20%) Refinitiv
7 2 (1.20%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.20%) VMware
8 1 (0.60%) Apple
8 1 (0.60%) ESET
8 1 (0.60%) F5
8 1 (0.60%) Informatica
8 1 (0.60%) Okta
8 1 (0.60%) Tanium
8 1 (0.60%) Trend Micro