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 28 October 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 476 433 375
Rank change year-on-year -43 -58 +86
Contract Senior DevOps jobs 181 83 133
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.39% 0.29% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.32% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 52 88
10th Percentile £452 £427 £513
25th Percentile £481 £500 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £576 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.56% -11.35% +4.00%
75th Percentile £703 £716 £741
90th Percentile £762 £738 £788
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -4.35% -11.54% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £74.00
75th Percentile - - £74.11
90th Percentile £66.25 - £74.31
UK median hourly rate £62.50 - £73.75

All Contract IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job adverts in England matching a recognised job title. The table also shows what proportion of all contract IT job adverts they make up.

6 months to
28 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Contract job adverts in England matching a recognised job title 42,567 26,229 28,988
% of contract job adverts matching a recognised job title 91.71% 91.15% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,117 16,846 17,700
10th Percentile £325 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -2.33%
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 3,820 1,509 1,124
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.00 £15.10
25th Percentile £19.71 £17.48 £21.25
Median hourly rate £41.71 £25.15 £42.27
Median % change year-on-year +65.84% -40.49% -7.88%
75th Percentile £68.13 £50.00 £67.01
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £39.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -36.33% -12.22%

Senior DevOps Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract Senior DevOps job postings 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 Senior DevOps jobs in England over the 6 months to 28 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 Senior DevOps jobs within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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		 Job Ads
Past 6 Months		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
London -34 99 £588 -4.67% 10
North of England -58 36 £554 +4.53% 14
North West -27 26 £700 +42.28% 8
South West - 18 £550 - 10
Midlands -38 13 £695 -22.09% 7
West Midlands -39 10 £695 -22.09% 3
Yorkshire -40 7 £471 -35.86% 2
South East -51 7 £400 - 11
North East -36 3 - - 4
East Midlands - 3 £488 - 4
East of England -18 2 £850 - 2
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 October 2026, Senior DevOps contract job ads cited 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 Senior DevOps job ads across the England region.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1DevOps100.0%181
2Terraform62.4%113
3CI/CD61.9%112
4Infrastructure as Code51.4%93
5Kubernetes44.8%81
6Python42.5%77
7Azure39.2%71
8AWS36.5%66
9GitHub33.1%60
10Security Cleared32.0%58
11SC Cleared29.3%53
12Docker27.6%50
13Observability25.4%46
14Azure DevOps24.9%45
14Containerisation24.9%45
16Jenkins23.8%43
17Linux22.1%40
18Ansible21.0%38
19Platform Engineering20.4%37
20GitHub Actions19.9%36
21Bash19.3%35
22GitLab18.8%34
23Agile17.7%32
24Git17.1%31
25AI16.0%29
26Software Engineering14.9%27
27Continuous Improvement14.4%26
27Grafana14.4%26
29Secrets Management13.8%25
30Deployment Automation13.3%24

Senior DevOps Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

RankJob TitleShareJob Ads
1Senior DevOps Engineer92.3%167
2Azure DevOps Engineer17.7%32
3Senior AWS DevOps Engineer12.7%23
4Senior Cloud Engineer6.6%12
5Artificial Intelligence Engineer6.1%11
5DevOps Automation Engineer6.1%11
7Senior Automation Engineer5.5%10
8Senior Infrastructure Engineer4.4%8
9Python Engineer3.9%7
9Senior Platform Engineer3.9%7
11GCP DevOps3.3%6
11Principal DevOps Engineer3.3%6
11Senior DevOps Consultant3.3%6
14DevOps Platform Engineer2.8%5
14Lead DevOps Engineer2.8%5
16DevOps Architect2.2%4
16DevOps Manager2.2%4
16GCP DevOps Engineer2.2%4
16Linux DevOps Engineer2.2%4
16Linux/Unix DevOps2.2%4
53 Senior DevOps jobs in England