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 15 May 2026.

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

 6 months to
15 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 451 403 446
Rank change year-on-year -48 +43 +56
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 137 65 87
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.27% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.29% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 51 65
10th Percentile £438 £494 £485
25th Percentile £480 £525 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £656 £681 £675
90th Percentile £703 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £630 £600
% change year-on-year -12.70% +5.00% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £74.44
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £68.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 - £74.44

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 37,605 22,375 33,819
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 92.47% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,373 14,887 22,423
10th Percentile £316 £300 £281
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,580 908 2,438
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.00 £12.87
25th Percentile £20.90 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £46.14 £30.20 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +52.78% -18.77% -17.38%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.09 £28.60 £37.18
% change year-on-year +50.66% -23.08% -17.38%

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 15 May 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior DevOps in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior DevOps 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 15 May 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 -37 67 £575 -9.45% 17
North of England -61 19 £525 -8.70% 6
Midlands -49 18 £488 - 7
South East -42 16 £463 - 6
East Midlands -18 11 £488 - 3
North East -13 9 £475 -9.52% 1
South West -26 7 £600 -11.11% 8
West Midlands - 7 £695 - 4
East of England -27 6 £531 +21.35% 1
North West -34 5 £633 -4.49% 4
Yorkshire -61 5 £721 +25.39% 1
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 May 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.

1 137 (100.00%) DevOps
2 67 (48.91%) Terraform
3 66 (48.18%) CI/CD
4 55 (40.15%) AWS
5 52 (37.96%) Azure
5 52 (37.96%) Kubernetes
6 51 (37.23%) Infrastructure as Code
7 46 (33.58%) Security Cleared
8 38 (27.74%) SC Cleared
9 37 (27.01%) Docker
9 37 (27.01%) Python
10 33 (24.09%) Platform Engineering
11 30 (21.90%) Ansible
11 30 (21.90%) GitHub
11 30 (21.90%) Linux
12 28 (20.44%) Azure DevOps
13 27 (19.71%) Agile
14 26 (18.98%) Containerisation
14 26 (18.98%) GitLab
14 26 (18.98%) Jenkins
15 21 (15.33%) GitHub Actions
16 20 (14.60%) Observability
17 18 (13.14%) GCP
17 18 (13.14%) Infrastructure Automation
18 16 (11.68%) Bash
19 15 (10.95%) Argo
19 15 (10.95%) Azure AKS
19 15 (10.95%) Grafana
20 14 (10.22%) Prometheus
21 13 (9.49%) Elastic Stack

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 4 (2.92%) Confluence
2 2 (1.46%) Apache
3 1 (0.73%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 55 (40.15%) AWS
2 52 (37.96%) Azure
3 30 (21.90%) GitHub
4 28 (20.44%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (15.33%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (13.14%) GCP
7 15 (10.95%) Azure AKS
8 11 (8.03%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (6.57%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (5.84%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (5.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 7 (5.11%) Amazon S3
11 7 (5.11%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (4.38%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (4.38%) Serverless
13 4 (2.92%) OpenShift
14 3 (2.19%) AWS Lambda
14 3 (2.19%) Azure Data Factory
14 3 (2.19%) Power Automate
14 3 (2.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.65%) VPN
2 3 (2.19%) Firewall
3 2 (1.46%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (0.73%) DNS
4 1 (0.73%) HTTP
4 1 (0.73%) Internet
4 1 (0.73%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.38%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (4.38%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (2.92%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (2.92%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.46%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (1.46%) Oracle Database
3 2 (1.46%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.73%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.73%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.73%) Metadata
4 1 (0.73%) MySQL
4 1 (0.73%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.73%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (0.73%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.73%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 26 (18.98%) GitLab
1 26 (18.98%) Jenkins
2 8 (5.84%) Git
3 5 (3.65%) Artifactory
3 5 (3.65%) Bitbucket
3 5 (3.65%) JIRA
4 4 (2.92%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (2.92%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.19%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.46%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.73%) RStudio
General
1 17 (12.41%) Banking
2 16 (11.68%) Public Sector
3 15 (10.95%) Social Skills
4 14 (10.22%) Finance
5 4 (2.92%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.46%) Military
6 2 (1.46%) Social Science
7 1 (0.73%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.73%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.73%) Legal
7 1 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.73%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.49%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (4.38%) REST
3 5 (3.65%) .NET
3 5 (3.65%) YAML
4 4 (2.92%) ADO
4 4 (2.92%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (2.19%) Kafka
6 2 (1.46%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.46%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (1.46%) AWS CDK
6 2 (1.46%) GraphQL
6 2 (1.46%) JSON
6 2 (1.46%) Lambda Expressions
6 2 (1.46%) OAuth
6 2 (1.46%) OAuth2
6 2 (1.46%) Playwright
6 2 (1.46%) pytest
6 2 (1.46%) RESTful
7 1 (0.73%) Django
7 1 (0.73%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.87%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.11%) Public Cloud
3 5 (3.65%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.46%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.46%) Replication
6 1 (0.73%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.73%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.73%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.73%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.73%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.73%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 30 (21.90%) Linux
2 6 (4.38%) Windows
3 4 (2.92%) Unix
4 1 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (100.00%) DevOps
2 66 (48.18%) CI/CD
3 51 (37.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (24.09%) Platform Engineering
5 27 (19.71%) Agile
6 26 (18.98%) Containerisation
7 20 (14.60%) Observability
8 18 (13.14%) Infrastructure Automation
9 13 (9.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 12 (8.76%) Secrets Management
11 11 (8.03%) Software Engineering
11 11 (8.03%) Test Automation
12 9 (6.57%) AI
12 9 (6.57%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (6.57%) Technical Leadership
13 8 (5.84%) GitOps
13 8 (5.84%) Incident Response
13 8 (5.84%) Mentoring
13 8 (5.84%) Microservices
13 8 (5.84%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 37 (27.01%) Python
2 16 (11.68%) Bash
3 12 (8.76%) PowerShell
4 9 (6.57%) Bicep
5 8 (5.84%) Go
6 7 (5.11%) C#
7 5 (3.65%) Java
8 3 (2.19%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.46%) Groovy
9 2 (1.46%) PHP
9 2 (1.46%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.46%) SQL
10 1 (0.73%) COBOL
10 1 (0.73%) JCL
10 1 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.73%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 46 (33.58%) Security Cleared
2 38 (27.74%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.11%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.92%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.19%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.73%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.46%) QA
2 1 (0.73%) GDPR
System Software
1 37 (27.01%) Docker
2 2 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.73%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 67 (48.91%) Terraform
2 52 (37.96%) Kubernetes
3 30 (21.90%) Ansible
4 15 (10.95%) Argo
4 15 (10.95%) Grafana
5 14 (10.22%) Prometheus
6 7 (5.11%) Istio
6 7 (5.11%) Packer
7 5 (3.65%) Puppet
8 2 (1.46%) Kustomize
8 2 (1.46%) linkerd
8 2 (1.46%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.73%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.73%) Rancher
Vendors
1 10 (7.30%) Microsoft
1 10 (7.30%) Splunk
2 9 (6.57%) VMware
3 6 (4.38%) Oracle
4 5 (3.65%) Google
4 5 (3.65%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.92%) Cisco
5 4 (2.92%) Fortinet
6 3 (2.19%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.46%) Databricks
7 2 (1.46%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.73%) Ariba
8 1 (0.73%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.73%) F5
8 1 (0.73%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.73%) SAP
8 1 (0.73%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.73%) Tanium
8 1 (0.73%) Tenable
8 1 (0.73%) Trend Micro
43 Senior DevOps jobs in England