Senior DevOps Contract Job Trends in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations daily rate in England is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 442 366 450
Rank change year-on-year -76 +84 +44
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 103 138 98
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.50% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.54% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 97 77
10th Percentile £413 £503 £475
25th Percentile £492 £563 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £688
90th Percentile £738 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £570 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -12.27% +8.33% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £74.04 -
25th Percentile £72.50 £74.11 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £74.22 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% - -
75th Percentile £77.50 £74.33 -
90th Percentile - £74.40 -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £74.22 -
% change year-on-year +1.05% - -

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 28,919 25,671 33,979
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.43% 92.86% 93.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,508 15,889 23,197
10th Percentile £300 £300 £280
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,740 809 1,448
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.91 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.39 £21.25 £19.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% -22.22% +36.36%
75th Percentile £62.31 £64.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £74.50 £76.67
UK median hourly rate £26.30 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.08% -27.78% +40.82%

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 3 January 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 3 January 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 -53 50 £628 -10.36% 16
North of England -58 24 £535 -13.01% 22
Yorkshire -43 15 £892 +35.67% 9
Midlands -29 14 £892 +137.87% 17
West Midlands -24 13 £892 +137.87% 8
South East -6 10 £425 -39.29% 24
North West -25 9 £509 -32.20% 7
South West -23 5 £650 -3.70% 16
East of England -15 4 £513 +17.14% 12
North East -12 1 £575 -2.54% 6
East Midlands - 1 £525 - 8
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 January 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.

1 103 (100.00%) DevOps
2 73 (70.87%) CI/CD
3 63 (61.17%) AWS
4 62 (60.19%) Terraform
5 48 (46.60%) Jenkins
5 48 (46.60%) Python
6 46 (44.66%) Infrastructure as Code
7 41 (39.81%) Kubernetes
8 39 (37.86%) Ansible
8 39 (37.86%) Azure
8 39 (37.86%) Security Cleared
9 38 (36.89%) Docker
10 36 (34.95%) GitLab
11 31 (30.10%) Agile
12 27 (26.21%) GitHub
13 26 (25.24%) SC Cleared
14 24 (23.30%) Containerisation
15 23 (22.33%) Linux
16 22 (21.36%) Git
17 21 (20.39%) Amazon EC2
17 21 (20.39%) Bash
18 20 (19.42%) GitHub Actions
18 20 (19.42%) High Availability
19 19 (18.45%) Amazon S3
20 18 (17.48%) Azure DevOps
20 18 (17.48%) Infrastructure Automation
21 17 (16.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
21 17 (16.50%) GCP
21 17 (16.50%) Mentoring
21 17 (16.50%) Virtual Private Cloud

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 5 (4.85%) Apache
2 4 (3.88%) Confluence
2 4 (3.88%) IIS
3 3 (2.91%) iPlanet
3 3 (2.91%) JBoss
3 3 (2.91%) WebSphere
3 3 (2.91%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (1.94%) CMS
5 1 (0.97%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.97%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.97%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 63 (61.17%) AWS
2 39 (37.86%) Azure
3 27 (26.21%) GitHub
4 21 (20.39%) Amazon EC2
5 20 (19.42%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (18.45%) Amazon S3
7 18 (17.48%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (16.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 17 (16.50%) GCP
8 17 (16.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 14 (13.59%) Serverless
10 12 (11.65%) Amazon ELB
11 8 (7.77%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (5.83%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (5.83%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (4.85%) Azure AKS
14 4 (3.88%) Azure API Management
14 4 (3.88%) Azure Functions
14 4 (3.88%) Azure Key Vault
14 4 (3.88%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 15 (14.56%) DNS
1 15 (14.56%) Firewall
1 15 (14.56%) TCP/IP
2 12 (11.65%) SSL
2 12 (11.65%) VPN
3 9 (8.74%) Network Security
4 3 (2.91%) Kerberos
5 2 (1.94%) HTTP
5 2 (1.94%) Internet
5 2 (1.94%) Multicast
6 1 (0.97%) DHCP
6 1 (0.97%) VLAN
6 1 (0.97%) VoIP
6 1 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.77%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (4.85%) MongoDB
3 4 (3.88%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.91%) MySQL
4 3 (2.91%) Oracle Database
4 3 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.94%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.94%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.94%) KDB
6 1 (0.97%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.97%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.97%) Redis
6 1 (0.97%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 48 (46.60%) Jenkins
2 36 (34.95%) GitLab
3 22 (21.36%) Git
4 7 (6.80%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (5.83%) TeamCity
6 5 (4.85%) JIRA
7 4 (3.88%) Liquibase
7 4 (3.88%) SonarQube
8 3 (2.91%) Artifactory
8 3 (2.91%) Bitbucket
8 3 (2.91%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (2.91%) CA Release Automation
9 2 (1.94%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.94%) Gradle
9 2 (1.94%) RStudio
10 1 (0.97%) Maven
General
1 19 (18.45%) Social Skills
2 16 (15.53%) Banking
2 16 (15.53%) Public Sector
3 12 (11.65%) Finance
4 6 (5.83%) Military
5 4 (3.88%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.91%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.91%) Billing
6 3 (2.91%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.94%) Front Office
7 2 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.94%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.94%) Retail
7 2 (1.94%) Retail Banking
7 2 (1.94%) Social Science
8 1 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.97%) Legal
8 1 (0.97%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.68%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (9.71%) .NET
2 10 (9.71%) REST
3 7 (6.80%) .NET Core
4 5 (4.85%) OAuth
4 5 (4.85%) OpenID
4 5 (4.85%) RESTful
4 5 (4.85%) SAML
5 4 (3.88%) GraphQL
5 4 (3.88%) Kafka
5 4 (3.88%) React
6 3 (2.91%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.91%) LDAP
6 3 (2.91%) Web Services
7 2 (1.94%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.94%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (1.94%) Lambda Expressions
7 2 (1.94%) Node.js
7 2 (1.94%) OAuth2
7 2 (1.94%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.71%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.77%) Public Cloud
3 5 (4.85%) Legacy Applications
4 4 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.91%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.91%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.94%) Derivative
6 2 (1.94%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.94%) Replication
7 1 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.97%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.97%) Clustering
7 1 (0.97%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.97%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.97%) PKI
7 1 (0.97%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.97%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 23 (22.33%) Linux
2 8 (7.77%) Windows
3 6 (5.83%) Unix
4 3 (2.91%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.97%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (100.00%) DevOps
2 73 (70.87%) CI/CD
3 46 (44.66%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (30.10%) Agile
5 24 (23.30%) Containerisation
6 20 (19.42%) High Availability
7 18 (17.48%) Infrastructure Automation
8 17 (16.50%) Mentoring
9 16 (15.53%) DevSecOps
9 16 (15.53%) Observability
10 15 (14.56%) Root Cause Analysis
11 14 (13.59%) Continuous Integration
12 13 (12.62%) Incident Response
13 11 (10.68%) Microservices
13 11 (10.68%) Migration
13 11 (10.68%) Software Engineering
14 10 (9.71%) Continuous Delivery
14 10 (9.71%) Platform Engineering
15 8 (7.77%) Problem-Solving
16 7 (6.80%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 48 (46.60%) Python
2 21 (20.39%) Bash
3 12 (11.65%) PowerShell
4 10 (9.71%) Go
5 9 (8.74%) Java
5 9 (8.74%) SQL
6 8 (7.77%) JavaScript
7 7 (6.80%) C#
7 7 (6.80%) Shell Script
8 5 (4.85%) PHP
9 3 (2.91%) Groovy
9 3 (2.91%) Rust
9 3 (2.91%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.94%) Bicep
11 1 (0.97%) Perl
11 1 (0.97%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 39 (37.86%) Security Cleared
2 26 (25.24%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.85%) Azure Certification
3 5 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (4.85%) Degree
4 4 (3.88%) AWS Certification
4 4 (3.88%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.94%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (1.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.94%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.97%) IIBA
7 1 (0.97%) ISEB
7 1 (0.97%) OCP
7 1 (0.97%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.91%) QA
2 2 (1.94%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.94%) EMIR
2 2 (1.94%) MiFID
3 1 (0.97%) NCSC
3 1 (0.97%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 38 (36.89%) Docker
2 5 (4.85%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.85%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.91%) Tivoli Directory Server
3 3 (2.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.97%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 62 (60.19%) Terraform
2 41 (39.81%) Kubernetes
3 39 (37.86%) Ansible
4 13 (12.62%) Grafana
5 12 (11.65%) Prometheus
6 5 (4.85%) Progress Chef
7 4 (3.88%) Istio
8 3 (2.91%) CA Single Sign-On
8 3 (2.91%) CA Wily
8 3 (2.91%) Puppet
8 3 (2.91%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (2.91%) Tivoli
9 2 (1.94%) Argo
9 2 (1.94%) Kibana
9 2 (1.94%) Packer
9 2 (1.94%) Rancher
9 2 (1.94%) Thomson Reuters DACS
10 1 (0.97%) CASB
10 1 (0.97%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.97%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (12.62%) Splunk
2 12 (11.65%) CheckPoint
2 12 (11.65%) F5
2 12 (11.65%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.65%) Palo Alto
3 8 (7.77%) VMware
4 5 (4.85%) Google
5 4 (3.88%) Databricks
5 4 (3.88%) Dynatrace
5 4 (3.88%) IBM
5 4 (3.88%) Oracle
5 4 (3.88%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.91%) AppDynamics
6 3 (2.91%) Broadcom
6 3 (2.91%) Zscaler
7 2 (1.94%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.94%) NYFIX
7 2 (1.94%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.97%) Citrix
8 1 (0.97%) Okta