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 August 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 449 461 412
Rank change year-on-year +12 -49 +79
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 174 50 123
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.38% 0.18% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.20% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 37 85
10th Percentile £462 £490 £513
25th Percentile £481 £513 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £578 £638
Median % change year-on-year -0.43% -9.41% -5.56%
75th Percentile £700 £653 £710
90th Percentile £764 £680 £775
UK median daily rate £558 £590 £650
% change year-on-year -5.44% -9.23% -
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 - £73.75

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 42,140 25,508 30,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.51% 91.65% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,526 16,531 20,304
10th Percentile £325 £285 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,165 1,327 1,793
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.53 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.48 £21.25
Median hourly rate £42.65 £25.30 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.58% -43.78% +5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% +1.18%

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 August 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 August 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 -30 89 £575 -5.35% 72
North of England -37 34 £538 +0.47% 20
Midlands - 21 £488 - 7
North West -29 16 £700 +64.71% 12
West Midlands - 11 £695 - 4
North East -35 10 £475 -13.64% 5
East Midlands - 10 £488 - 3
South East -64 9 £700 - 12
South West - 9 £488 - 15
Yorkshire -38 8 £471 -12.47% 3
East of England - 6 £700 - 2
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 August 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.

1 174 (100.00%) DevOps
2 102 (58.62%) Terraform
3 96 (55.17%) CI/CD
4 83 (47.70%) Infrastructure as Code
5 75 (43.10%) AWS
5 75 (43.10%) Kubernetes
6 64 (36.78%) Azure
7 61 (35.06%) Security Cleared
8 57 (32.76%) SC Cleared
9 56 (32.18%) Python
10 51 (29.31%) Docker
11 47 (27.01%) Containerisation
11 47 (27.01%) GitHub
12 44 (25.29%) Linux
13 42 (24.14%) Platform Engineering
14 38 (21.84%) Ansible
14 38 (21.84%) Azure DevOps
15 36 (20.69%) Observability
16 33 (18.97%) GitHub Actions
17 32 (18.39%) GitLab
18 31 (17.82%) Agile
19 28 (16.09%) Bash
19 28 (16.09%) Jenkins
20 25 (14.37%) Azure AKS
21 22 (12.64%) Infrastructure Automation
21 22 (12.64%) Test Automation
22 21 (12.07%) AI
22 21 (12.07%) Software Engineering
23 19 (10.92%) Continuous Improvement
23 19 (10.92%) GCP

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 (1.72%) Confluence
2 1 (0.57%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 75 (43.10%) AWS
2 64 (36.78%) Azure
3 47 (27.01%) GitHub
4 38 (21.84%) Azure DevOps
5 33 (18.97%) GitHub Actions
6 25 (14.37%) Azure AKS
7 19 (10.92%) GCP
8 18 (10.34%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (8.62%) Amazon S3
10 12 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (6.32%) Azure Key Vault
12 9 (5.17%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (5.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 9 (5.17%) Serverless
13 8 (4.60%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (4.60%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (4.60%) OpenShift
14 7 (4.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 5 (2.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.87%) VPN
2 4 (2.30%) Firewall
3 3 (1.72%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (0.57%) DNS
4 1 (0.57%) Multicast
4 1 (0.57%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.47%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (4.02%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (4.02%) MongoDB
3 6 (3.45%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.87%) MySQL
5 4 (2.30%) Redis
6 3 (1.72%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.15%) KDB
7 2 (1.15%) Oracle Database 12c
7 2 (1.15%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.57%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.57%) Kdb+
8 1 (0.57%) Metadata
8 1 (0.57%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.57%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 32 (18.39%) GitLab
2 28 (16.09%) Jenkins
3 10 (5.75%) Git
4 6 (3.45%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.30%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.72%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.72%) JIRA
6 3 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.57%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.57%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.57%) Snyk
7 1 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.57%) TeamCity
General
1 20 (11.49%) Finance
2 19 (10.92%) Social Skills
3 18 (10.34%) Banking
3 18 (10.34%) Public Sector
4 6 (3.45%) Retail
5 4 (2.30%) Military
6 3 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.15%) Front Office
7 2 (1.15%) Law
8 1 (0.57%) Back Office
8 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.57%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.47%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (4.02%) OAuth
2 7 (4.02%) REST
3 6 (3.45%) Kafka
3 6 (3.45%) React
4 5 (2.87%) Django
4 5 (2.87%) OpenTelemetry
4 5 (2.87%) YAML
5 4 (2.30%) ADO
5 4 (2.30%) Celery
5 4 (2.30%) JWT
5 4 (2.30%) Vue
6 3 (1.72%) .NET
6 3 (1.72%) AWS CDK
6 3 (1.72%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (1.72%) OAuth2
7 2 (1.15%) Keycloak
7 2 (1.15%) Playwright
7 2 (1.15%) pytest
7 2 (1.15%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 36 (20.69%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.17%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.45%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (2.30%) Private Cloud
4 4 (2.30%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.30%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.72%) Replication
6 2 (1.15%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.15%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.57%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.57%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.57%) Derivative
7 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.57%) Equities
7 1 (0.57%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.57%) PKI
7 1 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 44 (25.29%) Linux
2 9 (5.17%) Windows
3 5 (2.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.87%) Unix
4 4 (2.30%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (100.00%) DevOps
2 96 (55.17%) CI/CD
3 83 (47.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (27.01%) Containerisation
5 42 (24.14%) Platform Engineering
6 36 (20.69%) Observability
7 31 (17.82%) Agile
8 22 (12.64%) Infrastructure Automation
8 22 (12.64%) Test Automation
9 21 (12.07%) AI
9 21 (12.07%) Software Engineering
10 19 (10.92%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (10.34%) Roadmaps
11 18 (10.34%) Secrets Management
11 18 (10.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 17 (9.77%) Deployment Automation
13 15 (8.62%) Mentoring
13 15 (8.62%) Technical Leadership
14 14 (8.05%) Microservices
15 12 (6.90%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 56 (32.18%) Python
2 28 (16.09%) Bash
3 15 (8.62%) PowerShell
4 11 (6.32%) Bicep
5 8 (4.60%) C#
6 7 (4.02%) Go
6 7 (4.02%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.45%) Java
8 5 (2.87%) SQL
9 3 (1.72%) Groovy
10 2 (1.15%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.57%) COBOL
11 1 (0.57%) JCL
11 1 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 61 (35.06%) Security Cleared
2 57 (32.76%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (3.45%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 6 (3.45%) Azure Certification
4 6 (3.45%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.57%) Degree
6 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.17%) QA
2 6 (3.45%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.45%) GDPR
2 6 (3.45%) WCAG
3 2 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 51 (29.31%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 102 (58.62%) Terraform
2 75 (43.10%) Kubernetes
3 38 (21.84%) Ansible
4 19 (10.92%) Grafana
4 19 (10.92%) Prometheus
5 15 (8.62%) Argo
6 9 (5.17%) Istio
6 9 (5.17%) Packer
7 4 (2.30%) Kustomize
7 4 (2.30%) Puppet
8 2 (1.15%) Karpenter
8 2 (1.15%) Kibana
8 2 (1.15%) linkerd
8 2 (1.15%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.57%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.57%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 13 (7.47%) Splunk
2 11 (6.32%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.60%) Oracle
4 5 (2.87%) Google
5 4 (2.30%) Cisco
5 4 (2.30%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.72%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.15%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.15%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.15%) Refinitiv
7 2 (1.15%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.15%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.15%) VMware
8 1 (0.57%) Ariba
8 1 (0.57%) F5
8 1 (0.57%) Informatica
8 1 (0.57%) NYFIX
8 1 (0.57%) SAP
8 1 (0.57%) Tenable
8 1 (0.57%) Trend Micro