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 4 July 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 455 446 443
Rank change year-on-year -9 -3 +56
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 156 50 116
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.35% 0.19% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.21% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 35 81
10th Percentile £453 £500 £513
25th Percentile £481 £519 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £630
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -8.73% -3.08%
75th Percentile £663 £653 £688
90th Percentile £725 £695 £760
UK median daily rate £550 £578 £643
% change year-on-year -4.76% -10.12% -1.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £74.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £74.22
75th Percentile - - £74.44
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 - £73.50

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 40,631 24,276 34,700
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.40% 92.17% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,859 15,839 22,711
10th Percentile £325 £292 £300
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £638
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,929 1,140 2,561
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.99 £12.88
25th Percentile £21.93 £17.98 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.08 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.28% -29.81% -8.45%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.88 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £26.50 £37.75
% change year-on-year +62.26% -29.80% -12.21%

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 July 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 July 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 -20 80 £575 -2.34% 23
North of England -60 24 £475 -13.64% 17
Midlands -35 21 £513 - 3
West Midlands - 11 £695 -
East Midlands -6 10 £488 - 3
South East -48 10 £700 - 14
Yorkshire -50 10 £471 -18.17% 2
North East -28 9 £475 -13.64%
South West - 9 £488 - 3
East of England - 7 £650 - 2
North West -38 5 £633 +31.14% 15
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 July 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.

1 156 (100.00%) DevOps
2 87 (55.77%) Terraform
3 82 (52.56%) CI/CD
4 73 (46.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 65 (41.67%) Kubernetes
6 63 (40.38%) AWS
7 59 (37.82%) Azure
8 53 (33.97%) Security Cleared
9 49 (31.41%) SC Cleared
10 48 (30.77%) Docker
11 47 (30.13%) Python
12 41 (26.28%) Linux
13 38 (24.36%) GitHub
14 37 (23.72%) Platform Engineering
15 36 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
16 35 (22.44%) Containerisation
17 34 (21.79%) Ansible
18 30 (19.23%) GitLab
19 29 (18.59%) Agile
20 28 (17.95%) GitHub Actions
20 28 (17.95%) Jenkins
20 28 (17.95%) Observability
21 21 (13.46%) Azure AKS
22 20 (12.82%) Infrastructure Automation
22 20 (12.82%) Software Engineering
23 19 (12.18%) Bash
23 19 (12.18%) Test Automation
24 18 (11.54%) GCP
24 18 (11.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
25 17 (10.90%) AI

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 (1.92%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 63 (40.38%) AWS
2 59 (37.82%) Azure
3 38 (24.36%) GitHub
4 36 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (17.95%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (13.46%) Azure AKS
7 18 (11.54%) GCP
8 16 (10.26%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (8.97%) Amazon S3
10 12 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (7.05%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (6.41%) Azure Key Vault
13 9 (5.77%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (5.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 7 (4.49%) Amazon ECS
15 7 (4.49%) Serverless
16 6 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 6 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
16 6 (3.85%) OpenShift
17 4 (2.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.21%) VPN
2 3 (1.92%) Firewall
2 3 (1.92%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (0.64%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (4.49%) MongoDB
3 6 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (3.85%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.21%) MySQL
5 4 (2.56%) Redis
6 3 (1.92%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.28%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (0.64%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.64%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.64%) Metadata
8 1 (0.64%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.64%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 30 (19.23%) GitLab
2 28 (17.95%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.85%) Git
4 5 (3.21%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.92%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.92%) JIRA
5 3 (1.92%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.28%) Liquibase
6 2 (1.28%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.64%) RStudio
7 1 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 19 (12.18%) Banking
2 17 (10.90%) Finance
2 17 (10.90%) Social Skills
3 16 (10.26%) Public Sector
4 4 (2.56%) Retail
5 2 (1.28%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.28%) Law
5 2 (1.28%) Military
5 2 (1.28%) Social Science
6 1 (0.64%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (5.13%) REST
3 6 (3.85%) OAuth
4 5 (3.21%) Django
4 5 (3.21%) OpenTelemetry
4 5 (3.21%) YAML
5 4 (2.56%) ADO
5 4 (2.56%) Celery
5 4 (2.56%) JWT
5 4 (2.56%) Kafka
5 4 (2.56%) React
5 4 (2.56%) Vue
6 3 (1.92%) .NET
6 3 (1.92%) AWS CDK
7 2 (1.28%) Keycloak
7 2 (1.28%) LDAP
7 2 (1.28%) OAuth2
7 2 (1.28%) Playwright
7 2 (1.28%) pytest
7 2 (1.28%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 33 (21.15%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.77%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.21%) Private Cloud
3 5 (3.21%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.56%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.92%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.92%) Replication
6 2 (1.28%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.28%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.64%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.64%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.64%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 41 (26.28%) Linux
2 9 (5.77%) Windows
3 5 (3.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.56%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.92%) Unix
6 1 (0.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (100.00%) DevOps
2 82 (52.56%) CI/CD
3 73 (46.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 37 (23.72%) Platform Engineering
5 35 (22.44%) Containerisation
6 29 (18.59%) Agile
7 28 (17.95%) Observability
8 20 (12.82%) Infrastructure Automation
8 20 (12.82%) Software Engineering
9 19 (12.18%) Test Automation
10 18 (11.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 17 (10.90%) AI
12 16 (10.26%) Deployment Automation
12 16 (10.26%) Secrets Management
13 15 (9.62%) Continuous Improvement
14 14 (8.97%) Technical Leadership
15 13 (8.33%) Mentoring
16 12 (7.69%) Microservices
16 12 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
16 12 (7.69%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 47 (30.13%) Python
2 19 (12.18%) Bash
3 11 (7.05%) Bicep
3 11 (7.05%) PowerShell
4 7 (4.49%) Go
5 6 (3.85%) C#
5 6 (3.85%) TypeScript
6 5 (3.21%) Java
7 4 (2.56%) SQL
8 3 (1.92%) Groovy
9 1 (0.64%) COBOL
9 1 (0.64%) JCL
9 1 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 53 (33.97%) Security Cleared
2 49 (31.41%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.85%) AWS Certification
3 6 (3.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 6 (3.85%) Azure Certification
3 6 (3.85%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.21%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.64%) Degree
6 1 (0.64%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.85%) GDPR
2 5 (3.21%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.21%) WCAG
3 3 (1.92%) QA
4 2 (1.28%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 48 (30.77%) Docker
2 2 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.64%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 87 (55.77%) Terraform
2 65 (41.67%) Kubernetes
3 34 (21.79%) Ansible
4 16 (10.26%) Argo
4 16 (10.26%) Grafana
4 16 (10.26%) Prometheus
5 8 (5.13%) Istio
5 8 (5.13%) Packer
6 4 (2.56%) Puppet
7 3 (1.92%) Kustomize
8 2 (1.28%) Karpenter
8 2 (1.28%) linkerd
8 2 (1.28%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.64%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.64%) Rancher
Vendors
1 12 (7.69%) Splunk
2 11 (7.05%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.13%) Oracle
4 6 (3.85%) Google
5 4 (2.56%) Cisco
5 4 (2.56%) Fortinet
5 4 (2.56%) VMware
6 3 (1.92%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.28%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.28%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.28%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.64%) Ariba
8 1 (0.64%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.64%) Databricks
8 1 (0.64%) Informatica
8 1 (0.64%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.64%) SAP
8 1 (0.64%) Tanium
8 1 (0.64%) Tenable
8 1 (0.64%) Trend Micro