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 14 September 2026.

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

 6 months to
14 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 465 447 398
Rank change year-on-year -18 -49 +81
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 164 62 121
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.36% 0.22% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.25% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 44 83
10th Percentile £454 £441 £514
25th Percentile £481 £500 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £589 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% -5.80% -3.85%
75th Percentile £703 £675 £723
90th Percentile £770 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £590 £625
% change year-on-year -6.78% -5.60% -3.85%
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 - £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 42,472 25,165 30,541
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 91.31% 93.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,344 16,231 19,205
10th Percentile £325 £280 £304
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -3.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,400 1,346 1,510
10th Percentile £14.96 £13.67 £14.64
25th Percentile £21.14 £17.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £43.08 £25.15 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +71.27% -47.05% +5.56%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.35 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -1.71%

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 14 September 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 14 September 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 -41 76 £600 -4.76% 103
North of England -66 31 £525 - 34
Midlands -32 21 £488 -39.70% 9
North West -43 17 £709 +44.05% 24
South West - 14 £494 - 20
West Midlands -41 11 £695 -14.04% 3
South East -45 10 £611 - 29
East Midlands - 10 £488 - 6
North East -34 7 £475 -15.56% 3
Yorkshire -40 7 £471 -18.17% 7
East of England - 6 £700 - 8
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 September 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.

1 164 (100.00%) DevOps
2 100 (60.98%) Terraform
3 98 (59.76%) CI/CD
4 83 (50.61%) Infrastructure as Code
5 70 (42.68%) Kubernetes
6 66 (40.24%) AWS
7 61 (37.20%) Security Cleared
8 60 (36.59%) Azure
9 57 (34.76%) Python
10 56 (34.15%) SC Cleared
11 49 (29.88%) GitHub
12 44 (26.83%) Docker
13 43 (26.22%) Containerisation
14 42 (25.61%) Platform Engineering
15 38 (23.17%) Linux
16 37 (22.56%) Azure DevOps
16 37 (22.56%) Observability
17 36 (21.95%) Ansible
18 34 (20.73%) Agile
19 33 (20.12%) GitHub Actions
20 28 (17.07%) GitLab
21 26 (15.85%) Bash
21 26 (15.85%) Jenkins
22 23 (14.02%) Software Engineering
23 22 (13.41%) Continuous Improvement
23 22 (13.41%) Deployment Automation
24 21 (12.80%) AI
24 21 (12.80%) Infrastructure Automation
25 20 (12.20%) Azure AKS
25 20 (12.20%) 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 (1.22%) Apache
1 2 (1.22%) Confluence
2 1 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.61%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.61%) nginx
2 1 (0.61%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 66 (40.24%) AWS
2 60 (36.59%) Azure
3 49 (29.88%) GitHub
4 37 (22.56%) Azure DevOps
5 33 (20.12%) GitHub Actions
6 20 (12.20%) Azure AKS
7 18 (10.98%) Amazon S3
8 15 (9.15%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (9.15%) GCP
8 15 (9.15%) Serverless
9 13 (7.93%) Amazon EKS
9 13 (7.93%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (7.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 12 (7.32%) Azure Key Vault
11 10 (6.10%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (6.10%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (5.49%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (5.49%) OpenShift
12 9 (5.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (3.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.05%) VPN
2 4 (2.44%) Firewall
3 3 (1.83%) DNS
3 3 (1.83%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (1.22%) Multicast
4 2 (1.22%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.61%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.49%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (4.27%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (3.66%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.05%) MySQL
4 5 (3.05%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.44%) Redis
6 3 (1.83%) KDB
6 3 (1.83%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.22%) Kdb+
7 2 (1.22%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (0.61%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.61%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.61%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.61%) Metadata
8 1 (0.61%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.61%) Power BI
8 1 (0.61%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (17.07%) GitLab
2 26 (15.85%) Jenkins
3 13 (7.93%) Git
4 7 (4.27%) Bitbucket
5 5 (3.05%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.83%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.22%) JIRA
8 2 (1.22%) Snyk
9 1 (0.61%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.61%) Maven
9 1 (0.61%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 21 (12.80%) Social Skills
2 19 (11.59%) Public Sector
3 16 (9.76%) Finance
4 15 (9.15%) Banking
5 7 (4.27%) Military
5 7 (4.27%) Retail
6 5 (3.05%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.83%) Front Office
8 2 (1.22%) Law
9 1 (0.61%) Back Office
9 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.61%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (60.98%) Terraform
2 10 (6.10%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (4.88%) Kafka
4 7 (4.27%) REST
4 7 (4.27%) YAML
5 6 (3.66%) OAuth
5 6 (3.66%) React
6 4 (2.44%) ADO
6 4 (2.44%) Celery
6 4 (2.44%) Django
6 4 (2.44%) FIX Protocol
6 4 (2.44%) JWT
6 4 (2.44%) Vue
7 3 (1.83%) .NET
7 3 (1.83%) AWS CDK
7 3 (1.83%) Keycloak
7 3 (1.83%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (1.83%) RESTful
8 2 (1.22%) boto
8 2 (1.22%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 32 (19.51%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.66%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.44%) Private Cloud
4 4 (2.44%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.83%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.83%) Replication
6 2 (1.22%) Derivative
6 2 (1.22%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.22%) PKI
6 2 (1.22%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.61%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.61%) Equities
7 1 (0.61%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 38 (23.17%) Linux
2 9 (5.49%) Windows
3 7 (4.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (3.66%) Unix
5 4 (2.44%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.22%) CentOS
7 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (100.00%) DevOps
2 98 (59.76%) CI/CD
3 83 (50.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 43 (26.22%) Containerisation
5 42 (25.61%) Platform Engineering
6 37 (22.56%) Observability
7 34 (20.73%) Agile
8 23 (14.02%) Software Engineering
9 22 (13.41%) Continuous Improvement
9 22 (13.41%) Deployment Automation
10 21 (12.80%) AI
10 21 (12.80%) Infrastructure Automation
11 20 (12.20%) Roadmaps
12 19 (11.59%) Secrets Management
13 18 (10.98%) Test Automation
14 16 (9.76%) Technical Leadership
15 15 (9.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 14 (8.54%) Configuration Management
16 14 (8.54%) Stakeholder Management
17 13 (7.93%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 57 (34.76%) Python
2 26 (15.85%) Bash
3 15 (9.15%) PowerShell
4 9 (5.49%) Bicep
5 8 (4.88%) C#
5 8 (4.88%) TypeScript
6 6 (3.66%) SQL
7 5 (3.05%) Java
8 4 (2.44%) Groovy
9 3 (1.83%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.83%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.22%) Go
11 1 (0.61%) COBOL
11 1 (0.61%) JCL
Qualifications
1 61 (37.20%) Security Cleared
2 56 (34.15%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.10%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (3.66%) Azure Certification
4 6 (3.66%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.44%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.22%) Degree
8 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.71%) QA
2 6 (3.66%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.66%) WCAG
3 5 (3.05%) GDPR
4 2 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.61%) NCSC
System Software
1 44 (26.83%) Docker
2 1 (0.61%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 70 (42.68%) Kubernetes
2 36 (21.95%) Ansible
3 18 (10.98%) Grafana
3 18 (10.98%) Prometheus
4 11 (6.71%) Argo
5 7 (4.27%) Istio
5 7 (4.27%) Packer
6 5 (3.05%) Puppet
7 4 (2.44%) Kustomize
8 3 (1.83%) Kibana
9 2 (1.22%) Karpenter
9 2 (1.22%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.22%) Thomson Reuters DACS
10 1 (0.61%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.61%) Consul
10 1 (0.61%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.61%) linkerd
10 1 (0.61%) Rancher
10 1 (0.61%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (7.93%) Splunk
2 11 (6.71%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.27%) Oracle
4 4 (2.44%) Cisco
4 4 (2.44%) Fortinet
4 4 (2.44%) Google
5 3 (1.83%) Bloomberg
5 3 (1.83%) Red Hat
5 3 (1.83%) Refinitiv
6 2 (1.22%) Databricks
6 2 (1.22%) NYFIX
6 2 (1.22%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.22%) VMware
7 1 (0.61%) Apple
7 1 (0.61%) F5
7 1 (0.61%) Informatica
7 1 (0.61%) Okta
7 1 (0.61%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.61%) Tanium
7 1 (0.61%) Trend Micro
220 Senior DevOps jobs in England