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 4 October 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 471 449 408
Rank change year-on-year -22 -41 +63
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 177 73 125
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.38% 0.26% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.29% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 48 85
10th Percentile £460 £427 £505
25th Percentile £481 £500 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £563 £638
Median % change year-on-year - -11.76% -1.92%
75th Percentile £703 £675 £738
90th Percentile £762 £738 £788
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £638
% change year-on-year -2.22% -11.76% -
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 42,663 25,579 30,167
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.09% 91.10% 93.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,165 16,474 18,507
10th Percentile £325 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.11%
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% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,652 1,417 1,347
10th Percentile £14.56 £13.80 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £17.33 £21.37
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -42.71% -4.32%
75th Percentile £67.84 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £79.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £42.91
% change year-on-year +65.94% -41.39% -3.57%

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 4 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 4 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 -30 93 £600 -1.23% 127
North of England -63 30 £550 +4.76% 73
North West -32 20 £700 +48.15% 48
Midlands -35 17 £488 -45.35% 22
South West - 17 £550 - 28
West Midlands -44 10 £695 -22.09% 6
South East -52 8 £521 - 35
East Midlands - 7 £488 - 16
Yorkshire -51 6 £470 -24.76% 13
East of England - 6 £700 - 15
North East -37 4 £453 -19.56% 12
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 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.

1 177 (100.00%) DevOps
2 112 (63.28%) Terraform
3 104 (58.76%) CI/CD
4 90 (50.85%) Infrastructure as Code
5 80 (45.20%) Kubernetes
6 70 (39.55%) AWS
7 65 (36.72%) Python
8 64 (36.16%) Azure
9 59 (33.33%) Security Cleared
10 54 (30.51%) GitHub
10 54 (30.51%) SC Cleared
11 48 (27.12%) Docker
12 45 (25.42%) Containerisation
12 45 (25.42%) Platform Engineering
13 43 (24.29%) Azure DevOps
14 39 (22.03%) Linux
15 37 (20.90%) GitHub Actions
15 37 (20.90%) Observability
16 34 (19.21%) Ansible
17 32 (18.08%) Bash
18 31 (17.51%) Agile
19 30 (16.95%) GitLab
20 29 (16.38%) Jenkins
21 28 (15.82%) AI
22 27 (15.25%) Software Engineering
23 23 (12.99%) Deployment Automation
23 23 (12.99%) Infrastructure Automation
24 22 (12.43%) Continuous Improvement
24 22 (12.43%) Git
25 21 (11.86%) 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 (1.13%) 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 70 (39.55%) AWS
2 64 (36.16%) Azure
3 54 (30.51%) GitHub
4 43 (24.29%) Azure DevOps
5 37 (20.90%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (11.86%) Amazon S3
7 19 (10.73%) GCP
8 18 (10.17%) Azure AKS
8 18 (10.17%) Serverless
9 17 (9.60%) Amazon EC2
10 16 (9.04%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (8.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 15 (8.47%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (7.91%) Azure Key Vault
13 13 (7.34%) Amazon ECS
14 10 (5.65%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (5.65%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (5.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 9 (5.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 9 (5.08%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.39%) DNS
2 5 (2.82%) VPN
3 3 (1.69%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (1.13%) Firewall
4 2 (1.13%) Multicast
4 2 (1.13%) Network Security
4 2 (1.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.65%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (4.52%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (3.95%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.82%) MySQL
4 5 (2.82%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.26%) Redis
6 3 (1.69%) KDB
6 3 (1.69%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.13%) Kdb+
7 2 (1.13%) 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 30 (16.95%) GitLab
2 29 (16.38%) Jenkins
3 22 (12.43%) Git
4 5 (2.82%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.26%) SonarQube
5 4 (2.26%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (1.69%) Maven
6 3 (1.69%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (1.13%) Snyk
8 1 (0.56%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.56%) Claude Code
General
1 21 (11.86%) Social Skills
2 20 (11.30%) Finance
3 19 (10.73%) Public Sector
4 16 (9.04%) Banking
5 8 (4.52%) Military
6 7 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.95%) Retail
7 3 (1.69%) Front Office
8 2 (1.13%) Law
9 1 (0.56%) Back Office
9 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.56%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (63.28%) Terraform
2 11 (6.21%) REST
3 9 (5.08%) Kafka
4 8 (4.52%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (4.52%) YAML
5 6 (3.39%) Keycloak
5 6 (3.39%) React
6 5 (2.82%) AWS CDK
6 5 (2.82%) OAuth
7 4 (2.26%) Celery
7 4 (2.26%) Django
7 4 (2.26%) JWT
7 4 (2.26%) Vue
8 3 (1.69%) ARM Templates
8 3 (1.69%) FastAPI
8 3 (1.69%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (1.69%) Flask
8 3 (1.69%) RESTful
9 2 (1.13%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (1.13%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 39 (22.03%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.52%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (4.52%) Onboarding
3 7 (3.95%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.26%) Private Cloud
4 4 (2.26%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.26%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.69%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.69%) PKI
5 3 (1.69%) Replication
6 2 (1.13%) Derivative
6 2 (1.13%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.56%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.56%) Equities
7 1 (0.56%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.56%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.56%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 39 (22.03%) Linux
2 9 (5.08%) Windows
3 8 (4.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (3.95%) Unix
5 4 (2.26%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.13%) CentOS
7 1 (0.56%) VMS
7 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (100.00%) DevOps
2 104 (58.76%) CI/CD
3 90 (50.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 45 (25.42%) Containerisation
4 45 (25.42%) Platform Engineering
5 37 (20.90%) Observability
6 31 (17.51%) Agile
7 28 (15.82%) AI
8 27 (15.25%) Software Engineering
9 23 (12.99%) Deployment Automation
9 23 (12.99%) Infrastructure Automation
10 22 (12.43%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (11.30%) Roadmaps
11 20 (11.30%) Secrets Management
12 19 (10.73%) Migration
13 18 (10.17%) Technical Leadership
14 15 (8.47%) Cloud Security
14 15 (8.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 15 (8.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 15 (8.47%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 65 (36.72%) Python
2 32 (18.08%) Bash
3 18 (10.17%) PowerShell
4 12 (6.78%) TypeScript
5 10 (5.65%) Bicep
6 6 (3.39%) C#
6 6 (3.39%) SQL
7 5 (2.82%) Groovy
7 5 (2.82%) Java
8 4 (2.26%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.69%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.13%) Go
11 1 (0.56%) COBOL
11 1 (0.56%) JCL
Qualifications
1 59 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 54 (30.51%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.21%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (4.52%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.95%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.82%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.13%) Degree
9 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.78%) QA
2 6 (3.39%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.39%) WCAG
3 5 (2.82%) GDPR
4 2 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 48 (27.12%) Docker
2 2 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.56%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 80 (45.20%) Kubernetes
2 34 (19.21%) Ansible
3 18 (10.17%) Grafana
3 18 (10.17%) Prometheus
4 10 (5.65%) Argo
5 7 (3.95%) Istio
6 6 (3.39%) Packer
7 4 (2.26%) Kustomize
8 3 (1.69%) Karpenter
8 3 (1.69%) Kibana
9 2 (1.13%) Puppet
9 2 (1.13%) Thomson Reuters DACS
10 1 (0.56%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.56%) Consul
10 1 (0.56%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.56%) Rancher
10 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 14 (7.91%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.78%) Splunk
3 9 (5.08%) Oracle
4 7 (3.95%) Google
5 5 (2.82%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.26%) Databricks
7 2 (1.13%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.13%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.13%) NYFIX
7 2 (1.13%) Refinitiv
7 2 (1.13%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.13%) VMware
8 1 (0.56%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.56%) Apple
8 1 (0.56%) Cisco
8 1 (0.56%) F5
8 1 (0.56%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.56%) Informatica
8 1 (0.56%) Tanium
8 1 (0.56%) Trend Micro