Senior DevOps Contract Job Trends in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations daily rate in England is £576, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 448 406 471
Rank change year-on-year -42 +65 +78
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 64 122 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.37% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.40% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 84 96
10th Percentile £427 £514 £513
25th Percentile £500 £538 £545
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £576 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.80% -3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £675 £723 £738
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £578 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -7.60% -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £74.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £74.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 25,377 30,623 39,527
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.32% 92.98% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,381 19,128 27,584
10th Percentile £280 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,363 1,485 1,349
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.60 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.31 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%
75th Percentile £54.88 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.49 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Senior DevOps in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 -32 34 £630 -3.08% 24
North of England +4 23 £513 +2.50% 13
Yorkshire -3 13 £575 +15.00% 2
North West -10 9 £473 - 10
West Midlands -6 6 £809 +47.00% 2
Midlands -15 6 £809 +47.00% 2
North East - 2 £563 - 1
South East +9 1 - - 17
Senior DevOps
UK

Senior DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, Senior DevOps contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Senior DevOps in the job title.

1 64 (100.00%) DevOps
2 55 (85.94%) AWS
3 49 (76.56%) CI/CD
4 45 (70.31%) Terraform
5 39 (60.94%) Infrastructure as Code
6 32 (50.00%) Jenkins
7 31 (48.44%) Ansible
8 28 (43.75%) Docker
8 28 (43.75%) Kubernetes
9 27 (42.19%) Security Cleared
9 27 (42.19%) Python
10 25 (39.06%) GitLab
11 22 (34.38%) SC Cleared
12 20 (31.25%) Amazon EC2
13 19 (29.69%) Azure
13 19 (29.69%) Git
13 19 (29.69%) Containerisation
14 18 (28.13%) Bash
15 17 (26.56%) GCP
16 16 (25.00%) High Availability
16 16 (25.00%) Agile
16 16 (25.00%) DNS
17 15 (23.44%) TCP/IP
17 15 (23.44%) Linux
18 14 (21.88%) Prometheus
18 14 (21.88%) Grafana
18 14 (21.88%) Infrastructure Automation
19 13 (20.31%) Public Sector
19 13 (20.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 13 (20.31%) Amazon S3

Senior DevOps Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (7.81%) Confluence
2 4 (6.25%) IIS
3 3 (4.69%) Apache
3 3 (4.69%) iPlanet
3 3 (4.69%) JBoss
3 3 (4.69%) WebSphere
3 3 (4.69%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 55 (85.94%) AWS
2 20 (31.25%) Amazon EC2
3 19 (29.69%) Azure
4 17 (26.56%) GCP
5 13 (20.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 13 (20.31%) Amazon S3
6 12 (18.75%) GitHub
6 12 (18.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 9 (14.06%) Amazon ELB
8 8 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (10.94%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (10.94%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (10.94%) Serverless
10 5 (7.81%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (4.69%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (4.69%) Datadog
12 3 (4.69%) Kong
12 3 (4.69%) OpenShift
13 2 (3.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (25.00%) DNS
2 15 (23.44%) TCP/IP
3 12 (18.75%) Firewall
4 10 (15.63%) SSL
5 9 (14.06%) VPN
6 5 (7.81%) Network Security
7 4 (6.25%) HTTP
7 4 (6.25%) Internet
8 3 (4.69%) Kerberos
9 1 (1.56%) DHCP
9 1 (1.56%) DNSSEC
9 1 (1.56%) HTTPS
9 1 (1.56%) VLAN
9 1 (1.56%) VoIP
9 1 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.06%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (4.69%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.69%) Oracle Database
4 2 (3.13%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.13%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.56%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.56%) Metadata
5 1 (1.56%) MySQL
5 1 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 32 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 25 (39.06%) GitLab
3 19 (29.69%) Git
4 5 (7.81%) JIRA
4 5 (7.81%) TeamCity
5 4 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (4.69%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (4.69%) CA Release Automation
7 2 (3.13%) Bitbucket
7 2 (3.13%) Liquibase
7 2 (3.13%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.56%) Jaeger
8 1 (1.56%) Maven
8 1 (1.56%) Subversion
8 1 (1.56%) Terragrunt
General
1 13 (20.31%) Public Sector
2 12 (18.75%) Banking
3 10 (15.63%) Finance
4 6 (9.38%) Social Skills
5 5 (7.81%) Military
6 2 (3.13%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.13%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.56%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Legal
7 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (6.25%) OAuth
3 3 (4.69%) LDAP
3 3 (4.69%) OpenID
3 3 (4.69%) SAML
4 2 (3.13%) REST
4 2 (3.13%) RESTful
4 2 (3.13%) Web Services
5 1 (1.56%) .NET
5 1 (1.56%) Bootstrap
5 1 (1.56%) Django
5 1 (1.56%) HTML
5 1 (1.56%) JSON
5 1 (1.56%) Kafka
5 1 (1.56%) Laravel
5 1 (1.56%) Middleware
5 1 (1.56%) Node.js
5 1 (1.56%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.56%) Vue
5 1 (1.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.94%) Public Cloud
2 4 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.13%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (3.13%) PKI
4 1 (1.56%) Clustering
4 1 (1.56%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.56%) IBM XIV
4 1 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.56%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (23.44%) Linux
2 5 (7.81%) Unix
3 4 (6.25%) Windows
4 3 (4.69%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.56%) CentOS
5 1 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (100.00%) DevOps
2 49 (76.56%) CI/CD
3 39 (60.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (29.69%) Containerisation
5 16 (25.00%) Agile
5 16 (25.00%) High Availability
6 14 (21.88%) Infrastructure Automation
7 12 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
8 11 (17.19%) Mentoring
8 11 (17.19%) Observability
9 10 (15.63%) Deployment Automation
10 8 (12.50%) Configuration Management
10 8 (12.50%) DevSecOps
10 8 (12.50%) Incident Response
11 7 (10.94%) Root Cause Analysis
11 7 (10.94%) Test Automation
12 6 (9.38%) Microservices
13 5 (7.81%) Decision-Making
13 5 (7.81%) Platform Engineering
13 5 (7.81%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 27 (42.19%) Python
2 18 (28.13%) Bash
3 8 (12.50%) Go
4 6 (9.38%) Shell Script
4 6 (9.38%) SQL
5 4 (6.25%) Java
6 3 (4.69%) Groovy
6 3 (4.69%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.13%) Perl
7 2 (3.13%) PromQL
7 2 (3.13%) Ruby
8 1 (1.56%) C#
8 1 (1.56%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.56%) PHP
8 1 (1.56%) Rust
Qualifications
1 27 (42.19%) Security Cleared
2 22 (34.38%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.69%) AWS Certification
3 3 (4.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 3 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.69%) Degree
4 2 (3.13%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.56%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.56%) OCP
5 1 (1.56%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.13%) QA
2 1 (1.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.56%) GDPR
2 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.56%) NCSC
2 1 (1.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (43.75%) Docker
2 4 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.69%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 1 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 45 (70.31%) Terraform
2 31 (48.44%) Ansible
3 28 (43.75%) Kubernetes
4 14 (21.88%) Grafana
4 14 (21.88%) Prometheus
5 10 (15.63%) Progress Chef
6 6 (9.38%) Puppet
7 4 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (4.69%) CA Single Sign-On
8 3 (4.69%) CA Wily
8 3 (4.69%) Tivoli
9 2 (3.13%) Argo
10 1 (1.56%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (1.56%) Kiali
10 1 (1.56%) Packer
10 1 (1.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (18.75%) Splunk
2 9 (14.06%) CheckPoint
2 9 (14.06%) F5
2 9 (14.06%) Palo Alto
3 7 (10.94%) Microsoft
4 6 (9.38%) Google
5 5 (7.81%) Red Hat
6 4 (6.25%) IBM
6 4 (6.25%) Oracle
7 3 (4.69%) AppDynamics
7 3 (4.69%) Broadcom
7 3 (4.69%) Zscaler
8 2 (3.13%) Databricks
8 2 (3.13%) Dynatrace
8 2 (3.13%) Okta
9 1 (1.56%) Citrix
9 1 (1.56%) OneLogin
9 1 (1.56%) Rollbar
9 1 (1.56%) UiPath
9 1 (1.56%) VMware