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 6 May 2026.

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

 6 months to
6 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 454 399 457
Rank change year-on-year -55 +58 +54
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 128 82 84
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.34% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.36% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 64 62
10th Percentile £438 £502 £500
25th Percentile £480 £558 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £635 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.39% +5.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £653 £738 £675
90th Percentile £709 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £635 £600
% change year-on-year -13.39% +5.83% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £74.44
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 - £74.44

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 37,510 22,588 34,189
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.29% 92.59% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,386 15,045 22,708
10th Percentile £313 £300 £280
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £643
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £514 £525
% change year-on-year -1.75% -2.10% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,561 914 2,433
10th Percentile £15.72 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.89 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £47.00 £30.90 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.09% -15.34% -17.05%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.82
UK median hourly rate £44.00 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.72% -20.55% -18.89%

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 6 May 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior DevOps in England over the 6 months to 6 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior DevOps 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 6 May 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 -29 65 £588 -7.48% 13
North of England -69 17 £525 -11.02% 4
South East -38 15 £463 -33.93% 5
Midlands -56 15 £488 - 7
East Midlands -19 11 £488 - 2
North East -17 9 £475 -16.67% 1
South West -30 7 £625 -7.41% 6
East of England -29 6 £531 +21.35%
Yorkshire -65 5 £721 +4.87%
West Midlands - 4 £715 - 5
North West -46 3 £651 -1.74% 3
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 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.

1 128 (100.00%) DevOps
2 64 (50.00%) Terraform
3 60 (46.88%) CI/CD
4 52 (40.63%) AWS
5 51 (39.84%) Kubernetes
6 50 (39.06%) Azure
7 48 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 42 (32.81%) Security Cleared
9 37 (28.91%) Python
10 35 (27.34%) Docker
10 35 (27.34%) SC Cleared
11 32 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
12 29 (22.66%) GitHub
13 28 (21.88%) Azure DevOps
13 28 (21.88%) Linux
14 27 (21.09%) Jenkins
15 26 (20.31%) Ansible
15 26 (20.31%) GitLab
16 25 (19.53%) Containerisation
17 24 (18.75%) Agile
18 22 (17.19%) GitHub Actions
19 20 (15.63%) Observability
20 18 (14.06%) GCP
20 18 (14.06%) Infrastructure Automation
21 16 (12.50%) Grafana
22 15 (11.72%) Prometheus
23 14 (10.94%) Argo
23 14 (10.94%) Azure AKS
23 14 (10.94%) Bash
23 14 (10.94%) Elastic Stack

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 4 (3.13%) Confluence
2 2 (1.56%) Apache
3 1 (0.78%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 52 (40.63%) AWS
2 50 (39.06%) Azure
3 29 (22.66%) GitHub
4 28 (21.88%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (17.19%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (14.06%) GCP
7 14 (10.94%) Azure AKS
8 10 (7.81%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 7 (5.47%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (5.47%) Amazon S3
10 7 (5.47%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (5.47%) Serverless
11 6 (4.69%) Azure Key Vault
12 4 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (3.13%) OpenShift
13 3 (2.34%) Azure API Management
13 3 (2.34%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (2.34%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.13%) VPN
2 3 (2.34%) Firewall
3 2 (1.56%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (0.78%) DNS
4 1 (0.78%) HTTP
4 1 (0.78%) Internet
4 1 (0.78%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.69%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (3.91%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (2.34%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (2.34%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.78%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.78%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.78%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.78%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.78%) Metadata
5 1 (0.78%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.78%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (0.78%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 27 (21.09%) Jenkins
2 26 (20.31%) GitLab
3 7 (5.47%) Git
4 5 (3.91%) Artifactory
4 5 (3.91%) Bitbucket
4 5 (3.91%) JIRA
4 5 (3.91%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (3.13%) SonarQube
5 4 (3.13%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.56%) Liquibase
6 2 (1.56%) RStudio
General
1 18 (14.06%) Banking
2 15 (11.72%) Social Skills
3 14 (10.94%) Finance
4 13 (10.16%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.34%) Social Science
7 1 (0.78%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.78%) Legal
7 1 (0.78%) Military
7 1 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (10.94%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (4.69%) REST
3 5 (3.91%) .NET
3 5 (3.91%) YAML
4 4 (3.13%) ADO
4 4 (3.13%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (2.34%) Kafka
6 2 (1.56%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.56%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (1.56%) AWS CDK
6 2 (1.56%) GraphQL
6 2 (1.56%) Lambda Expressions
6 2 (1.56%) OAuth
6 2 (1.56%) OAuth2
6 2 (1.56%) Playwright
6 2 (1.56%) pytest
6 2 (1.56%) RESTful
7 1 (0.78%) JSON Schema
7 1 (0.78%) LDAP
7 1 (0.78%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.84%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.47%) Public Cloud
3 6 (4.69%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.56%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.56%) Replication
6 1 (0.78%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.78%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.78%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.78%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.78%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.78%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 28 (21.88%) Linux
2 6 (4.69%) Windows
3 4 (3.13%) Unix
4 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (100.00%) DevOps
2 60 (46.88%) CI/CD
3 48 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 32 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
5 25 (19.53%) Containerisation
6 24 (18.75%) Agile
7 20 (15.63%) Observability
8 18 (14.06%) Infrastructure Automation
9 12 (9.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 11 (8.59%) Secrets Management
10 11 (8.59%) Software Engineering
10 11 (8.59%) Test Automation
11 9 (7.03%) AI
11 9 (7.03%) Microservices
12 8 (6.25%) GitOps
12 8 (6.25%) Mentoring
12 8 (6.25%) Migration
13 7 (5.47%) Continuous Improvement
13 7 (5.47%) DevSecOps
13 7 (5.47%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 37 (28.91%) Python
2 14 (10.94%) Bash
3 12 (9.38%) PowerShell
4 9 (7.03%) Bicep
5 8 (6.25%) Go
6 7 (5.47%) C#
7 5 (3.91%) Java
8 3 (2.34%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.56%) Groovy
9 2 (1.56%) PHP
9 2 (1.56%) SQL
10 1 (0.78%) COBOL
10 1 (0.78%) JCL
10 1 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 42 (32.81%) Security Cleared
2 35 (27.34%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.47%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.13%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.34%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.78%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.56%) QA
2 1 (0.78%) GDPR
System Software
1 35 (27.34%) Docker
2 3 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.78%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 64 (50.00%) Terraform
2 51 (39.84%) Kubernetes
3 26 (20.31%) Ansible
4 16 (12.50%) Grafana
5 15 (11.72%) Prometheus
6 14 (10.94%) Argo
7 7 (5.47%) Istio
8 5 (3.91%) Packer
8 5 (3.91%) Puppet
9 2 (1.56%) Kustomize
9 2 (1.56%) linkerd
9 2 (1.56%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.56%) Rancher
10 1 (0.78%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 10 (7.81%) Microsoft
1 10 (7.81%) Splunk
1 10 (7.81%) VMware
2 5 (3.91%) Google
2 5 (3.91%) Oracle
2 5 (3.91%) Red Hat
3 3 (2.34%) Cisco
3 3 (2.34%) Dynatrace
3 3 (2.34%) Fortinet
4 2 (1.56%) Databricks
4 2 (1.56%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.78%) Ariba
5 1 (0.78%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.78%) Refinitiv
5 1 (0.78%) SAP
5 1 (0.78%) ServiceNow
33 Senior DevOps jobs in England