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 10 July 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 456 461 430
Rank change year-on-year +5 -31 +70
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 165 50 118
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.37% 0.18% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.20% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 35 81
10th Percentile £461 £500 £513
25th Percentile £481 £519 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £638
Median % change year-on-year - -9.80% -1.92%
75th Percentile £684 £653 £700
90th Percentile £762 £695 £760
UK median daily rate £550 £576 £646
% change year-on-year -4.56% -10.83% -0.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £74.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £74.22
75th Percentile - - £74.44
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 41,428 24,879 34,445
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 92.04% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,397 16,215 22,554
10th Percentile £325 £293 £300
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £638
90th Percentile £738 £746 £750
UK median daily rate £522 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.40% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,961 1,195 2,501
10th Percentile £16.01 £13.76 £13.00
25th Percentile £22.10 £17.87 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.71% -30.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67.84 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.50 £74.37
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £26.39 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.87% -29.64% -14.05%

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 July 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 July 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 -14 85 £600 +1.91% 12
North of England -62 29 £513 -6.82% 18
Midlands -35 21 £513 - 4
West Midlands - 11 £695 -
East Midlands -5 10 £488 - 4
North West -35 10 £651 +34.92% 12
Yorkshire -44 10 £471 -18.17% 2
North East -30 9 £475 -13.64% 4
South East -52 9 £700 - 4
South West - 9 £488 - 2
East of England - 7 £650 - 1
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 July 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.

1 165 (100.00%) DevOps
2 95 (57.58%) Terraform
3 88 (53.33%) CI/CD
4 80 (48.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 70 (42.42%) Kubernetes
6 69 (41.82%) AWS
7 60 (36.36%) Azure
8 56 (33.94%) Security Cleared
9 53 (32.12%) Python
10 52 (31.52%) SC Cleared
11 48 (29.09%) Docker
12 44 (26.67%) Linux
13 42 (25.45%) GitHub
14 41 (24.85%) Containerisation
15 39 (23.64%) Platform Engineering
16 36 (21.82%) Azure DevOps
17 35 (21.21%) Ansible
18 34 (20.61%) Observability
19 30 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
19 30 (18.18%) GitLab
20 29 (17.58%) Agile
21 28 (16.97%) Jenkins
22 24 (14.55%) Bash
23 22 (13.33%) Software Engineering
24 21 (12.73%) Azure AKS
25 20 (12.12%) GCP
25 20 (12.12%) Infrastructure Automation
25 20 (12.12%) Test Automation
26 19 (11.52%) AI
27 18 (10.91%) 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 (1.82%) Confluence
2 1 (0.61%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 69 (41.82%) AWS
2 60 (36.36%) Azure
3 42 (25.45%) GitHub
4 36 (21.82%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (12.73%) Azure AKS
7 20 (12.12%) GCP
8 16 (9.70%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (8.48%) Amazon S3
10 12 (7.27%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (6.06%) Azure Key Vault
13 9 (5.45%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (4.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 8 (4.85%) OpenShift
15 7 (4.24%) Amazon ECS
15 7 (4.24%) Serverless
16 6 (3.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 6 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
17 4 (2.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.03%) VPN
2 4 (2.42%) Firewall
3 3 (1.82%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (0.61%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.88%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (4.24%) MongoDB
3 6 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (3.64%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.03%) MySQL
5 4 (2.42%) Redis
6 3 (1.82%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.21%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (0.61%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.61%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.61%) Metadata
8 1 (0.61%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.61%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 30 (18.18%) GitLab
2 28 (16.97%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.24%) Git
4 5 (3.03%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.82%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.82%) JIRA
5 3 (1.82%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.21%) Liquibase
6 2 (1.21%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.61%) RStudio
7 1 (0.61%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 19 (11.52%) Banking
1 19 (11.52%) Finance
2 18 (10.91%) Social Skills
3 16 (9.70%) Public Sector
4 4 (2.42%) Retail
5 3 (1.82%) Military
6 2 (1.21%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.21%) Law
6 2 (1.21%) Social Science
7 1 (0.61%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.48%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (4.85%) REST
3 6 (3.64%) OAuth
4 5 (3.03%) Django
4 5 (3.03%) OpenTelemetry
4 5 (3.03%) YAML
5 4 (2.42%) ADO
5 4 (2.42%) Celery
5 4 (2.42%) JWT
5 4 (2.42%) Kafka
5 4 (2.42%) React
5 4 (2.42%) Vue
6 3 (1.82%) .NET
6 3 (1.82%) AWS CDK
7 2 (1.21%) Keycloak
7 2 (1.21%) LDAP
7 2 (1.21%) OAuth2
7 2 (1.21%) Playwright
7 2 (1.21%) pytest
7 2 (1.21%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 34 (20.61%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.64%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.03%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.03%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.42%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.82%) Replication
7 2 (1.21%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.21%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.61%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.61%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.61%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.61%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 44 (26.67%) Linux
2 9 (5.45%) Windows
3 5 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.42%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.82%) Unix
6 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (100.00%) DevOps
2 88 (53.33%) CI/CD
3 80 (48.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (24.85%) Containerisation
5 39 (23.64%) Platform Engineering
6 34 (20.61%) Observability
7 29 (17.58%) Agile
8 22 (13.33%) Software Engineering
9 20 (12.12%) Infrastructure Automation
9 20 (12.12%) Test Automation
10 19 (11.52%) AI
11 18 (10.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 16 (9.70%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (9.70%) Deployment Automation
12 16 (9.70%) Roadmaps
12 16 (9.70%) Secrets Management
13 15 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
14 13 (7.88%) Mentoring
15 12 (7.27%) Microservices
15 12 (7.27%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (32.12%) Python
2 24 (14.55%) Bash
3 11 (6.67%) Bicep
3 11 (6.67%) PowerShell
4 8 (4.85%) Go
5 7 (4.24%) TypeScript
6 6 (3.64%) C#
7 5 (3.03%) Java
8 4 (2.42%) SQL
9 3 (1.82%) Groovy
10 1 (0.61%) COBOL
10 1 (0.61%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.61%) JCL
10 1 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 56 (33.94%) Security Cleared
2 52 (31.52%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.24%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (3.64%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 6 (3.64%) Azure Certification
4 6 (3.64%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.61%) Degree
6 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.24%) QA
2 6 (3.64%) GDPR
3 5 (3.03%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.03%) WCAG
4 2 (1.21%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 48 (29.09%) Docker
2 2 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.61%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 95 (57.58%) Terraform
2 70 (42.42%) Kubernetes
3 35 (21.21%) Ansible
4 18 (10.91%) Grafana
4 18 (10.91%) Prometheus
5 16 (9.70%) Argo
6 8 (4.85%) Istio
6 8 (4.85%) Packer
7 4 (2.42%) Puppet
8 3 (1.82%) Kustomize
9 2 (1.21%) Karpenter
9 2 (1.21%) linkerd
9 2 (1.21%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.61%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.61%) Kibana
10 1 (0.61%) Rancher
Vendors
1 14 (8.48%) Splunk
2 12 (7.27%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.85%) Oracle
4 6 (3.64%) Google
5 4 (2.42%) Cisco
5 4 (2.42%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.82%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.82%) VMware
7 2 (1.21%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.21%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.21%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.61%) Ariba
8 1 (0.61%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.61%) Databricks
8 1 (0.61%) F5
8 1 (0.61%) Informatica
8 1 (0.61%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.61%) SAP
8 1 (0.61%) Tanium
8 1 (0.61%) Trend Micro