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 May 2026.

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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 444 408 443
Rank change year-on-year -36 +35 +70
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 144 58 91
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.35% 0.24% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.26% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 46 70
10th Percentile £438 £500 £498
25th Percentile £481 £525 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £620 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.24% +3.27% -7.69%
75th Percentile £663 £684 £675
90th Percentile £716 £744 £751
UK median daily rate £550 £620 £625
% change year-on-year -11.24% -0.86% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £74.44
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £68.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 - £73.97

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 38,465 21,947 33,912
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 92.32% 92.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,812 14,594 22,464
10th Percentile £322 £293 £283
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,684 883 2,505
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.20 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.00 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +55.17% -22.00% -17.38%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.94 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.55
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £27.53 £36.50
% change year-on-year +54.38% -24.58% -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 27 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 27 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 27 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 73 £575 -8.73% 18
North of England -64 22 £500 -11.11% 3
Midlands -54 17 £488 - 8
South East -45 14 £600 - 8
East Midlands -22 10 £488 - 1
North East -18 9 £475 -13.64%
South West -23 8 £544 -19.44% 7
Yorkshire -52 8 £510 -11.26% 1
West Midlands - 7 £695 - 7
East of England -25 5 £549 +25.56% 1
North West -41 5 £633 -4.49% 2
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 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.

1 144 (100.00%) DevOps
2 75 (52.08%) Terraform
3 68 (47.22%) CI/CD
4 59 (40.97%) Infrastructure as Code
5 58 (40.28%) AWS
6 54 (37.50%) Kubernetes
7 51 (35.42%) Azure
8 46 (31.94%) Security Cleared
9 40 (27.78%) SC Cleared
10 38 (26.39%) Python
11 37 (25.69%) Docker
12 36 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
13 33 (22.92%) Linux
14 30 (20.83%) GitHub
15 29 (20.14%) Ansible
15 29 (20.14%) Azure DevOps
16 27 (18.75%) GitLab
17 25 (17.36%) Containerisation
18 23 (15.97%) Agile
18 23 (15.97%) Jenkins
18 23 (15.97%) Observability
19 20 (13.89%) GitHub Actions
20 19 (13.19%) GCP
21 17 (11.81%) Infrastructure Automation
22 15 (10.42%) Argo
22 15 (10.42%) Bash
22 15 (10.42%) Software Engineering
23 14 (9.72%) Grafana
23 14 (9.72%) Prometheus
24 13 (9.03%) Azure AKS

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 (2.08%) Confluence
2 2 (1.39%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 58 (40.28%) AWS
2 51 (35.42%) Azure
3 30 (20.83%) GitHub
4 29 (20.14%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (13.89%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (13.19%) GCP
7 13 (9.03%) Azure AKS
8 12 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (6.94%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (6.94%) Azure Key Vault
9 10 (6.94%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (5.56%) Amazon S3
10 8 (5.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 7 (4.86%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (2.78%) OpenShift
12 4 (2.78%) Serverless
13 3 (2.08%) Azure API Management
13 3 (2.08%) CloudFront
13 3 (2.08%) Power Automate
13 3 (2.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.47%) VPN
2 3 (2.08%) Firewall
2 3 (2.08%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (0.69%) DNS
3 1 (0.69%) HTTP
3 1 (0.69%) Internet
3 1 (0.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.86%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (4.86%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (3.47%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (2.08%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (1.39%) Oracle Database 12c
4 2 (1.39%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.69%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.69%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.69%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.69%) Metadata
5 1 (0.69%) MySQL
5 1 (0.69%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.69%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 27 (18.75%) GitLab
2 23 (15.97%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.47%) Bitbucket
3 5 (3.47%) Git
4 4 (2.78%) Artifactory
4 4 (2.78%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.08%) JIRA
5 3 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.39%) Liquibase
6 2 (1.39%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.69%) RStudio
General
1 18 (12.50%) Banking
2 16 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 15 (10.42%) Social Skills
4 14 (9.72%) Finance
5 2 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.39%) Military
5 2 (1.39%) Social Science
6 1 (0.69%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.69%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.69%) Legal
6 1 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.64%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (4.17%) YAML
3 5 (3.47%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (2.78%) REST
5 3 (2.08%) .NET
5 3 (2.08%) ADO
6 2 (1.39%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (1.39%) AWS CDK
6 2 (1.39%) JSON
6 2 (1.39%) Kafka
6 2 (1.39%) Lambda Expressions
6 2 (1.39%) LDAP
6 2 (1.39%) OAuth
6 2 (1.39%) OAuth2
6 2 (1.39%) Playwright
6 2 (1.39%) pytest
6 2 (1.39%) RESTful
7 1 (0.69%) Django
7 1 (0.69%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (0.69%) JSON Schema
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.89%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.86%) Public Cloud
3 5 (3.47%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.08%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.08%) Replication
5 2 (1.39%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.69%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.69%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.69%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.69%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 33 (22.92%) Linux
2 8 (5.56%) Windows
3 3 (2.08%) Unix
4 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (100.00%) DevOps
2 68 (47.22%) CI/CD
3 59 (40.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 36 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
5 25 (17.36%) Containerisation
6 23 (15.97%) Agile
6 23 (15.97%) Observability
7 17 (11.81%) Infrastructure Automation
8 15 (10.42%) Software Engineering
9 13 (9.03%) Secrets Management
9 13 (9.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 12 (8.33%) Test Automation
11 11 (7.64%) AI
11 11 (7.64%) Technical Leadership
12 10 (6.94%) Decision-Making
13 9 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
13 9 (6.25%) Mentoring
13 9 (6.25%) Migration
13 9 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
14 8 (5.56%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 38 (26.39%) Python
2 15 (10.42%) Bash
3 10 (6.94%) Bicep
3 10 (6.94%) PowerShell
4 7 (4.86%) Go
5 6 (4.17%) C#
6 4 (2.78%) Java
6 4 (2.78%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.08%) Groovy
7 3 (2.08%) SQL
8 2 (1.39%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.69%) COBOL
9 1 (0.69%) JCL
9 1 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 46 (31.94%) Security Cleared
2 40 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.86%) Azure Certification
4 5 (3.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.78%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.08%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.78%) GDPR
2 3 (2.08%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.08%) WCAG
3 2 (1.39%) QA
4 1 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 37 (25.69%) Docker
2 2 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.69%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 75 (52.08%) Terraform
2 54 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 29 (20.14%) Ansible
4 15 (10.42%) Argo
5 14 (9.72%) Grafana
5 14 (9.72%) Prometheus
6 8 (5.56%) Packer
7 7 (4.86%) Istio
8 4 (2.78%) Puppet
9 3 (2.08%) Kustomize
10 2 (1.39%) linkerd
10 2 (1.39%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.69%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.69%) Rancher
Vendors
1 10 (6.94%) Microsoft
1 10 (6.94%) Splunk
2 9 (6.25%) VMware
3 8 (5.56%) Oracle
4 6 (4.17%) Google
5 5 (3.47%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.78%) Cisco
6 4 (2.78%) Fortinet
7 3 (2.08%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.39%) Databricks
8 2 (1.39%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.39%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.69%) Ariba
9 1 (0.69%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.69%) F5
9 1 (0.69%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.69%) SAP
9 1 (0.69%) Tanium
9 1 (0.69%) Tenable
9 1 (0.69%) Trend Micro