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 20 August 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 459 450 389
Rank change year-on-year -9 -61 +92
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 168 48 128
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.37% 0.17% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.19% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 37 87
10th Percentile £463 £490 £513
25th Percentile £481 £513 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £578 £638
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -9.41% -5.56%
75th Percentile £701 £653 £723
90th Percentile £762 £680 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £590 £646
% change year-on-year -6.78% -8.70% -0.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 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 - £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 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 42,197 25,269 30,827
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 91.56% 92.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,494 16,320 20,128
10th Percentile £325 £281 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,196 1,350 1,742
10th Percentile £15.24 £13.64 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.79 £21.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £26.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.46% -42.22% +6.95%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.33
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% +2.38%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 -22 84 £588 -3.29% 31
North of England -33 34 £538 +0.47% 10
Midlands - 21 £488 - 1
North West -23 17 £700 +64.71% 5
West Midlands - 11 £695 - 1
North East -31 10 £475 -13.64% 4
East Midlands - 10 £488 -
South East -49 9 £700 - 10
South West - 9 £488 - 7
Yorkshire -38 7 £471 -12.47% 1
East of England - 6 £700 - 2
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 August 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.

1 168 (100.00%) DevOps
2 98 (58.33%) Terraform
3 93 (55.36%) CI/CD
4 78 (46.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 73 (43.45%) Kubernetes
6 71 (42.26%) AWS
7 63 (37.50%) Azure
8 62 (36.90%) Security Cleared
9 58 (34.52%) SC Cleared
10 54 (32.14%) Python
11 48 (28.57%) Docker
12 47 (27.98%) GitHub
13 44 (26.19%) Containerisation
14 42 (25.00%) Linux
14 42 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
15 38 (22.62%) Azure DevOps
16 37 (22.02%) Ansible
17 35 (20.83%) Observability
18 33 (19.64%) GitHub Actions
19 30 (17.86%) Agile
19 30 (17.86%) GitLab
20 28 (16.67%) Bash
21 27 (16.07%) Jenkins
22 24 (14.29%) Azure AKS
23 21 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
24 20 (11.90%) Infrastructure Automation
24 20 (11.90%) Software Engineering
24 20 (11.90%) Test Automation
25 19 (11.31%) AI
25 19 (11.31%) Roadmaps

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 (1.19%) Confluence
2 1 (0.60%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 71 (42.26%) AWS
2 63 (37.50%) Azure
3 47 (27.98%) GitHub
4 38 (22.62%) Azure DevOps
5 33 (19.64%) GitHub Actions
6 24 (14.29%) Azure AKS
7 18 (10.71%) Amazon EKS
8 17 (10.12%) GCP
9 16 (9.52%) Amazon S3
10 12 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (7.14%) Serverless
11 10 (5.95%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (5.95%) Azure Key Vault
12 9 (5.36%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (5.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 8 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (4.76%) OpenShift
14 5 (2.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.98%) VPN
2 4 (2.38%) Firewall
3 3 (1.79%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (1.19%) Multicast
5 1 (0.60%) DNS
5 1 (0.60%) Network Security
5 1 (0.60%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.55%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (4.17%) MongoDB
3 5 (2.98%) MySQL
3 5 (2.98%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.38%) Redis
5 3 (1.79%) KDB
5 3 (1.79%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.19%) Kdb+
6 2 (1.19%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (0.60%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.60%) Metadata
7 1 (0.60%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.60%) Power BI
7 1 (0.60%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.60%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 30 (17.86%) GitLab
2 27 (16.07%) Jenkins
3 10 (5.95%) Git
4 7 (4.17%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.38%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.79%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.19%) JIRA
8 1 (0.60%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.60%) Snyk
8 1 (0.60%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 19 (11.31%) Social Skills
2 17 (10.12%) Finance
3 16 (9.52%) Banking
3 16 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 7 (4.17%) Retail
5 5 (2.98%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.38%) Military
7 3 (1.79%) Front Office
8 2 (1.19%) Law
9 1 (0.60%) Back Office
9 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.60%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (58.33%) Terraform
2 12 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (3.57%) Kafka
3 6 (3.57%) OAuth
3 6 (3.57%) React
3 6 (3.57%) REST
4 5 (2.98%) YAML
5 4 (2.38%) ADO
5 4 (2.38%) Celery
5 4 (2.38%) Django
5 4 (2.38%) FIX Protocol
5 4 (2.38%) JWT
5 4 (2.38%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (2.38%) Vue
6 3 (1.79%) AWS CDK
7 2 (1.19%) .NET
7 2 (1.19%) Keycloak
7 2 (1.19%) LDAP
7 2 (1.19%) OAuth2
7 2 (1.19%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 33 (19.64%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.57%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (2.38%) Private Cloud
4 4 (2.38%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.79%) Replication
6 2 (1.19%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.19%) Derivative
6 2 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.19%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.60%) Equities
7 1 (0.60%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.60%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 42 (25.00%) Linux
2 9 (5.36%) Windows
3 5 (2.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.98%) Unix
4 4 (2.38%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (100.00%) DevOps
2 93 (55.36%) CI/CD
3 78 (46.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 44 (26.19%) Containerisation
5 42 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
6 35 (20.83%) Observability
7 30 (17.86%) Agile
8 21 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (11.90%) Infrastructure Automation
9 20 (11.90%) Software Engineering
9 20 (11.90%) Test Automation
10 19 (11.31%) AI
10 19 (11.31%) Roadmaps
11 18 (10.71%) Secrets Management
12 17 (10.12%) Deployment Automation
12 17 (10.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 15 (8.93%) Mentoring
13 15 (8.93%) Technical Leadership
14 14 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
15 13 (7.74%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 54 (32.14%) Python
2 28 (16.67%) Bash
3 17 (10.12%) PowerShell
4 10 (5.95%) Bicep
5 8 (4.76%) C#
6 7 (4.17%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.57%) Java
8 5 (2.98%) SQL
9 3 (1.79%) Go
9 3 (1.79%) Groovy
10 2 (1.19%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.60%) COBOL
11 1 (0.60%) JCL
11 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 62 (36.90%) Security Cleared
2 58 (34.52%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.95%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (3.57%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 6 (3.57%) Azure Certification
4 6 (3.57%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.60%) Degree
6 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.36%) QA
2 6 (3.57%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.57%) WCAG
3 5 (2.98%) GDPR
4 2 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 48 (28.57%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 73 (43.45%) Kubernetes
2 37 (22.02%) Ansible
3 18 (10.71%) Grafana
3 18 (10.71%) Prometheus
4 14 (8.33%) Argo
5 9 (5.36%) Istio
5 9 (5.36%) Packer
6 4 (2.38%) Kustomize
6 4 (2.38%) Puppet
7 3 (1.79%) Kibana
8 2 (1.19%) Karpenter
8 2 (1.19%) linkerd
8 2 (1.19%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.19%) Thomson Reuters DACS
9 1 (0.60%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 12 (7.14%) Splunk
2 11 (6.55%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.17%) Oracle
4 4 (2.38%) Cisco
4 4 (2.38%) Fortinet
4 4 (2.38%) Google
5 3 (1.79%) Bloomberg
5 3 (1.79%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.79%) Refinitiv
6 2 (1.19%) NYFIX
6 2 (1.19%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.19%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.19%) VMware
7 1 (0.60%) Ariba
7 1 (0.60%) F5
7 1 (0.60%) Informatica
7 1 (0.60%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.60%) SAP
7 1 (0.60%) Tanium
7 1 (0.60%) Trend Micro