Senior DevOps Contract Job Trends in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations daily rate in England is £570, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025.

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

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 447 406 461
Rank change year-on-year -41 +55 +59
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 81 127 121
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.29% 0.40% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.43% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 86 98
10th Percentile £427 £513 £511
25th Percentile £500 £538 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -12.27% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £684 £747 £738
90th Percentile £738 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £566 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -13.00% +4.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £74.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £73.75 -

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 25,877 29,537 38,059
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.09% 93.01% 93.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,643 18,048 26,525
10th Percentile £281 £300 £300
25th Percentile £404 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,469 1,194 1,399
10th Percentile £13.83 £15.10 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £21.25 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% -7.61% +59.17%
75th Percentile £50.00 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.96 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +64.94%

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 22 October 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 22 October 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 -37 45 £608 -6.54% 28
North of England -10 25 £525 +5.00% 6
Yorkshire -6 16 £575 +15.00% 1
West Midlands -14 10 £892 +62.18% 3
Midlands -24 10 £892 +62.18% 5
North West -9 8 £492 - 4
East of England - 2 - - 5
North East - 2 £563 - 1
South East +8 1 - - 23
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 October 2025, 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 81 (100.00%) DevOps
2 65 (80.25%) CI/CD
3 62 (76.54%) AWS
4 52 (64.20%) Terraform
5 46 (56.79%) Infrastructure as Code
6 41 (50.62%) Jenkins
7 36 (44.44%) Ansible
7 36 (44.44%) Python
8 32 (39.51%) Docker
8 32 (39.51%) GitLab
8 32 (39.51%) Kubernetes
9 30 (37.04%) Security Cleared
10 24 (29.63%) Azure
11 23 (28.40%) SC Cleared
12 22 (27.16%) Agile
13 21 (25.93%) Amazon EC2
13 21 (25.93%) Git
14 20 (24.69%) Containerisation
14 20 (24.69%) GCP
14 20 (24.69%) High Availability
15 19 (23.46%) Bash
16 18 (22.22%) Amazon S3
16 18 (22.22%) GitHub
16 18 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
16 18 (22.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 17 (20.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 17 (20.99%) DNS
17 17 (20.99%) Mentoring
18 16 (19.75%) Firewall
18 16 (19.75%) Linux

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 5 (6.17%) Confluence
2 4 (4.94%) IIS
3 3 (3.70%) Apache
3 3 (3.70%) iPlanet
3 3 (3.70%) JBoss
3 3 (3.70%) WebSphere
3 3 (3.70%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (1.23%) CMS
4 1 (1.23%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 62 (76.54%) AWS
2 24 (29.63%) Azure
3 21 (25.93%) Amazon EC2
4 20 (24.69%) GCP
5 18 (22.22%) Amazon S3
5 18 (22.22%) GitHub
5 18 (22.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 17 (20.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 12 (14.81%) Amazon ELB
8 10 (12.35%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (11.11%) Serverless
10 8 (9.88%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (6.17%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (6.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 4 (4.94%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
14 3 (3.70%) Datadog
14 3 (3.70%) Kong
14 3 (3.70%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 17 (20.99%) DNS
2 16 (19.75%) Firewall
2 16 (19.75%) TCP/IP
3 13 (16.05%) SSL
4 12 (14.81%) VPN
5 9 (11.11%) Network Security
6 3 (3.70%) Kerberos
7 2 (2.47%) HTTP
7 2 (2.47%) Internet
7 2 (2.47%) Multicast
8 1 (1.23%) DHCP
8 1 (1.23%) DNSSEC
8 1 (1.23%) HTTPS
8 1 (1.23%) VLAN
8 1 (1.23%) VoIP
8 1 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (4.94%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.70%) MySQL
3 3 (3.70%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.70%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.47%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (2.47%) KDB
4 2 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.47%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.23%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.23%) Metadata
5 1 (1.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 41 (50.62%) Jenkins
2 32 (39.51%) GitLab
3 21 (25.93%) Git
4 7 (8.64%) TeamCity
5 5 (6.17%) JIRA
6 4 (4.94%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (3.70%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (3.70%) CA Release Automation
7 3 (3.70%) Liquibase
8 2 (2.47%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.47%) CircleCI
8 2 (2.47%) Gradle
8 2 (2.47%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.23%) Jaeger
9 1 (1.23%) Maven
9 1 (1.23%) RStudio
9 1 (1.23%) Terragrunt
General
1 16 (19.75%) Banking
2 13 (16.05%) Finance
3 12 (14.81%) Public Sector
4 11 (13.58%) Social Skills
5 5 (6.17%) Military
6 4 (4.94%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.70%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.47%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.47%) Front Office
8 2 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.47%) Retail Banking
8 2 (2.47%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.23%) Legal
9 1 (1.23%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.23%) Social Science
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (6.17%) .NET
3 4 (4.94%) OAuth
3 4 (4.94%) RESTful
4 3 (3.70%) LDAP
4 3 (3.70%) OpenID
4 3 (3.70%) React
4 3 (3.70%) REST
4 3 (3.70%) SAML
5 2 (2.47%) .NET Core
5 2 (2.47%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.47%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (2.47%) Kafka
5 2 (2.47%) Node.js
5 2 (2.47%) Web Services
6 1 (1.23%) cloud-init
6 1 (1.23%) Flutter
6 1 (1.23%) Keycloak
6 1 (1.23%) Next.js
6 1 (1.23%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.88%) Cloud Native
1 8 (9.88%) Public Cloud
2 4 (4.94%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.47%) Derivative
4 2 (2.47%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.47%) PKI
4 2 (2.47%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.47%) Replication
4 2 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.23%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.23%) Clustering
5 1 (1.23%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.23%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.23%) IBM XIV
5 1 (1.23%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (19.75%) Linux
2 5 (6.17%) Unix
3 4 (4.94%) Windows
4 3 (3.70%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.23%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (100.00%) DevOps
2 65 (80.25%) CI/CD
3 46 (56.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (27.16%) Agile
5 20 (24.69%) Containerisation
5 20 (24.69%) High Availability
6 18 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
7 17 (20.99%) Mentoring
8 14 (17.28%) Observability
9 13 (16.05%) Incident Response
9 13 (16.05%) Root Cause Analysis
10 11 (13.58%) Continuous Integration
10 11 (13.58%) DevSecOps
11 8 (9.88%) Deployment Automation
11 8 (9.88%) Microservices
11 8 (9.88%) Migration
11 8 (9.88%) Test Automation
12 7 (8.64%) Continuous Improvement
13 6 (7.41%) Cloud Security
13 6 (7.41%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 36 (44.44%) Python
2 19 (23.46%) Bash
3 10 (12.35%) SQL
4 9 (11.11%) Go
5 6 (7.41%) Java
5 6 (7.41%) PowerShell
6 5 (6.17%) Shell Script
7 3 (3.70%) C#
7 3 (3.70%) Groovy
7 3 (3.70%) Rust
7 3 (3.70%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.47%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.47%) Perl
8 2 (2.47%) PromQL
9 1 (1.23%) PHP
9 1 (1.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 30 (37.04%) Security Cleared
2 23 (28.40%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.94%) AWS Certification
3 4 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.94%) Degree
4 3 (3.70%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.47%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.23%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.23%) IIBA
6 1 (1.23%) ISEB
6 1 (1.23%) OCP
6 1 (1.23%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.47%) EMIR
1 2 (2.47%) MiFID
2 1 (1.23%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.23%) NCSC
2 1 (1.23%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.23%) QA
System Software
1 32 (39.51%) Docker
2 4 (4.94%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.70%) Tivoli Directory Server
3 3 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 52 (64.20%) Terraform
2 36 (44.44%) Ansible
3 32 (39.51%) Kubernetes
4 12 (14.81%) Grafana
4 12 (14.81%) Prometheus
5 7 (8.64%) Progress Chef
6 4 (4.94%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (3.70%) CA Single Sign-On
7 3 (3.70%) CA Wily
7 3 (3.70%) Puppet
7 3 (3.70%) Tivoli
8 2 (2.47%) Argo
8 2 (2.47%) Istio
8 2 (2.47%) Kibana
8 2 (2.47%) Packer
8 2 (2.47%) Thomson Reuters DACS
9 1 (1.23%) CASB
9 1 (1.23%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (1.23%) Kiali
9 1 (1.23%) Rancher
Vendors
1 13 (16.05%) Splunk
2 12 (14.81%) CheckPoint
2 12 (14.81%) F5
2 12 (14.81%) Palo Alto
3 10 (12.35%) Microsoft
4 8 (9.88%) Google
5 4 (4.94%) Dynatrace
5 4 (4.94%) IBM
5 4 (4.94%) Oracle
6 3 (3.70%) AppDynamics
6 3 (3.70%) Broadcom
6 3 (3.70%) Databricks
6 3 (3.70%) Zscaler
7 2 (2.47%) Bloomberg
7 2 (2.47%) NYFIX
7 2 (2.47%) Okta
7 2 (2.47%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.47%) Refinitiv
7 2 (2.47%) VMware
8 1 (1.23%) Citrix