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 10 June 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 452 435 433
Rank change year-on-year -17 -2 +74
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 147 48 106
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.35% 0.20% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.21% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 36 76
10th Percentile £450 £500 £504
25th Percentile £481 £525 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £589 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% -1.88% -7.69%
75th Percentile £658 £653 £675
90th Percentile £703 £713 £760
UK median daily rate £550 £595 £625
% change year-on-year -7.56% -4.80% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile - - £74.09
25th Percentile - - £74.22
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £74.44
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 - £73.50

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 39,011 22,600 34,789
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.37% 92.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,059 14,872 22,778
10th Percentile £325 £290 £288
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.68% -4.76% -2.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,743 986 2,652
10th Percentile £15.79 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.07 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.80% -24.49% -14.44%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £27.70 £37.50
% change year-on-year +53.43% -26.13% -16.67%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -28 75 £575 -6.12% 9
North of England -60 24 £475 -13.64% 10
Midlands -45 19 £488 - 14
South East -58 13 £600 - 7
East Midlands -18 10 £488 - 5
Yorkshire -51 10 £471 -18.17% 5
North East -16 9 £475 -13.64% 3
West Midlands - 9 £695 - 9
South West -17 6 £488 -27.78% 3
East of England -20 5 £549 +25.56% 1
North West -36 5 £633 +31.14% 2
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 June 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.

1 147 (100.00%) DevOps
2 78 (53.06%) Terraform
3 73 (49.66%) CI/CD
4 64 (43.54%) Infrastructure as Code
5 60 (40.82%) AWS
6 55 (37.41%) Kubernetes
7 52 (35.37%) Azure
8 45 (30.61%) Security Cleared
9 41 (27.89%) Python
9 41 (27.89%) SC Cleared
10 40 (27.21%) Docker
11 38 (25.85%) Platform Engineering
12 35 (23.81%) GitHub
13 33 (22.45%) Azure DevOps
14 31 (21.09%) Linux
15 30 (20.41%) Containerisation
15 30 (20.41%) GitLab
16 28 (19.05%) Ansible
17 26 (17.69%) Jenkins
18 25 (17.01%) Agile
18 25 (17.01%) GitHub Actions
19 21 (14.29%) Observability
20 19 (12.93%) GCP
21 18 (12.24%) Bash
21 18 (12.24%) Infrastructure Automation
22 16 (10.88%) Argo
22 16 (10.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
23 15 (10.20%) Amazon EKS
23 15 (10.20%) Azure AKS
23 15 (10.20%) Grafana

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 3 (2.04%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 60 (40.82%) AWS
2 52 (35.37%) Azure
3 35 (23.81%) GitHub
4 33 (22.45%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (17.01%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (12.93%) GCP
7 15 (10.20%) Amazon EKS
7 15 (10.20%) Azure AKS
8 12 (8.16%) Amazon S3
9 11 (7.48%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (6.80%) Azure Key Vault
11 9 (6.12%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (6.12%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (5.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 8 (5.44%) Serverless
13 7 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (3.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (3.40%) Amazon ECS
15 4 (2.72%) OpenShift
15 4 (2.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.40%) VPN
2 3 (2.04%) Firewall
2 3 (2.04%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (3.40%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.04%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.36%) Oracle Database 12c
4 2 (1.36%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.68%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.68%) Metadata
5 1 (0.68%) MySQL
5 1 (0.68%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.68%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.68%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 30 (20.41%) GitLab
2 26 (17.69%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.08%) Git
4 5 (3.40%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.72%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (2.72%) TeamCity
6 3 (2.04%) Artifactory
6 3 (2.04%) JIRA
6 3 (2.04%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.36%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.68%) RStudio
General
1 18 (12.24%) Banking
2 16 (10.88%) Public Sector
3 15 (10.20%) Social Skills
4 13 (8.84%) Finance
5 3 (2.04%) Military
6 2 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.36%) Law
6 2 (1.36%) Social Science
7 1 (0.68%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.68%) Legal
7 1 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.48%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (3.40%) AWS CDK
2 5 (3.40%) OpenTelemetry
2 5 (3.40%) YAML
3 4 (2.72%) REST
4 3 (2.04%) .NET
4 3 (2.04%) ADO
4 3 (2.04%) Kafka
5 2 (1.36%) LDAP
5 2 (1.36%) OAuth
5 2 (1.36%) OAuth2
5 2 (1.36%) Playwright
5 2 (1.36%) pytest
5 2 (1.36%) RESTful
6 1 (0.68%) Django
6 1 (0.68%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (0.68%) JSON
6 1 (0.68%) Lambda Expressions
6 1 (0.68%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (16.33%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.76%) Public Cloud
3 6 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.40%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.04%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.04%) Replication
6 2 (1.36%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.36%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.68%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.68%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.68%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.68%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 31 (21.09%) Linux
2 5 (3.40%) Windows
3 2 (1.36%) Unix
4 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (100.00%) DevOps
2 73 (49.66%) CI/CD
3 64 (43.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 38 (25.85%) Platform Engineering
5 30 (20.41%) Containerisation
6 25 (17.01%) Agile
7 21 (14.29%) Observability
8 18 (12.24%) Infrastructure Automation
9 16 (10.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 15 (10.20%) Secrets Management
10 15 (10.20%) Software Engineering
11 14 (9.52%) AI
12 13 (8.84%) Technical Leadership
13 12 (8.16%) Microservices
13 12 (8.16%) Test Automation
14 11 (7.48%) Continuous Improvement
14 11 (7.48%) Deployment Automation
14 11 (7.48%) Stakeholder Management
15 10 (6.80%) Decision-Making
15 10 (6.80%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 41 (27.89%) Python
2 18 (12.24%) Bash
3 10 (6.80%) PowerShell
4 8 (5.44%) Bicep
5 7 (4.76%) Go
6 6 (4.08%) C#
7 5 (3.40%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.04%) Groovy
8 3 (2.04%) Java
8 3 (2.04%) SQL
9 2 (1.36%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.68%) COBOL
10 1 (0.68%) JCL
10 1 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 45 (30.61%) Security Cleared
2 41 (27.89%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.08%) AWS Certification
3 6 (4.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 6 (4.08%) Azure Certification
3 6 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (3.40%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.08%) GDPR
2 5 (3.40%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.40%) WCAG
3 3 (2.04%) QA
4 2 (1.36%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 40 (27.21%) Docker
2 2 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.68%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 78 (53.06%) Terraform
2 55 (37.41%) Kubernetes
3 28 (19.05%) Ansible
4 16 (10.88%) Argo
5 15 (10.20%) Grafana
5 15 (10.20%) Prometheus
6 8 (5.44%) Istio
6 8 (5.44%) Packer
7 4 (2.72%) Puppet
8 3 (2.04%) Kustomize
9 2 (1.36%) linkerd
9 2 (1.36%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.68%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.68%) Rancher
Vendors
1 10 (6.80%) Splunk
2 8 (5.44%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.44%) Oracle
2 8 (5.44%) VMware
3 6 (4.08%) Google
4 4 (2.72%) Cisco
4 4 (2.72%) Fortinet
5 3 (2.04%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.36%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.36%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.36%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.68%) Ariba
7 1 (0.68%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.68%) Databricks
7 1 (0.68%) F5
7 1 (0.68%) Refinitiv
7 1 (0.68%) SAP
7 1 (0.68%) Tanium
7 1 (0.68%) Tenable
7 1 (0.68%) Trend Micro