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 12 March 2026.

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

 6 months to
12 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 462 363 482
Rank change year-on-year -99 +119 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 109 117 78
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.30% 0.47% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.51% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 85 55
10th Percentile £425 £513 £475
25th Percentile £475 £563 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £660 £750 £663
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -4.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £74.44 £74.44
Median % change year-on-year +0.75% - -
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £74.44 £73.97
% change year-on-year +0.75% +0.64% -

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 33,519 22,927 35,267
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.01% 93.04% 92.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,140 15,037 23,588
10th Percentile £310 £300 £270
25th Percentile £413 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £638
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 2,206 758 2,285
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.32 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.34 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% +7.69% -23.29%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.25 £77.28 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £33.45 £32.50
% change year-on-year +4.63% +2.92% -23.29%

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 12 March 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 12 March 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 -49 61 £575 -11.54% 17
North of England -75 17 £595 -1.29% 10
South East -36 11 £425 -39.29% 12
Midlands -53 9 £892 +137.87% 4
Yorkshire -68 9 £892 +45.04% 2
West Midlands -54 8 £892 +137.87% 2
South West -30 6 £625 -7.41% 4
East of England -21 5 £581 +32.86% 2
North West -40 5 £615 -7.25% 2
North East -17 3 £500 -12.28% 6
East Midlands -32 1 £525 - 2
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 March 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.

1 109 (100.00%) DevOps
2 60 (55.05%) CI/CD
3 58 (53.21%) Terraform
4 55 (50.46%) AWS
5 48 (44.04%) Azure
6 46 (42.20%) Kubernetes
7 44 (40.37%) Infrastructure as Code
7 44 (40.37%) Python
8 36 (33.03%) Docker
9 35 (32.11%) Jenkins
10 34 (31.19%) Security Cleared
11 30 (27.52%) Ansible
11 30 (27.52%) GitLab
12 29 (26.61%) Azure DevOps
12 29 (26.61%) GitHub
13 28 (25.69%) Linux
14 26 (23.85%) Agile
15 25 (22.94%) SC Cleared
16 23 (21.10%) Containerisation
17 21 (19.27%) GitHub Actions
18 17 (15.60%) Observability
19 16 (14.68%) Bash
20 15 (13.76%) GCP
20 15 (13.76%) PowerShell
21 14 (12.84%) Grafana
21 14 (12.84%) Infrastructure Automation
21 14 (12.84%) Microsoft
22 13 (11.93%) Elastic Stack
22 13 (11.93%) Prometheus
23 12 (11.01%) Mentoring

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 (2.75%) Apache
2 2 (1.83%) CMS
2 2 (1.83%) Confluence
3 1 (0.92%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.92%) IIS
3 1 (0.92%) iPlanet
3 1 (0.92%) JBoss
3 1 (0.92%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.92%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.92%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.92%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 55 (50.46%) AWS
2 48 (44.04%) Azure
3 29 (26.61%) Azure DevOps
3 29 (26.61%) GitHub
4 21 (19.27%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (13.76%) GCP
6 11 (10.09%) Azure AKS
6 11 (10.09%) Serverless
7 10 (9.17%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (8.26%) Amazon S3
9 8 (7.34%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (7.34%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (6.42%) Azure API Management
11 6 (5.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (5.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 6 (5.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (4.59%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (4.59%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (4.59%) Azure Key Vault
13 4 (3.67%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.59%) Firewall
2 4 (3.67%) DNS
2 4 (3.67%) Network Security
2 4 (3.67%) SSL
2 4 (3.67%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.75%) VPN
4 2 (1.83%) Multicast
5 1 (0.92%) HTTP
5 1 (0.92%) Internet
5 1 (0.92%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.42%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (5.50%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.59%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.75%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.83%) KDB
5 2 (1.83%) MySQL
5 2 (1.83%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.92%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.92%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.92%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.92%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.92%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.92%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 35 (32.11%) Jenkins
2 30 (27.52%) GitLab
3 7 (6.42%) Git
4 6 (5.50%) TeamCity
5 4 (3.67%) Liquibase
5 4 (3.67%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (2.75%) Artifactory
6 3 (2.75%) JIRA
6 3 (2.75%) RStudio
7 2 (1.83%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.83%) Gradle
7 2 (1.83%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.92%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.92%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (0.92%) CA Release Automation
General
1 17 (15.60%) Banking
1 17 (15.60%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.76%) Finance
3 14 (12.84%) Public Sector
4 4 (3.67%) Social Science
5 3 (2.75%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.75%) Billing
5 3 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.75%) Military
6 2 (1.83%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.83%) Front Office
6 2 (1.83%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.83%) Retail
6 2 (1.83%) Retail Banking
6 2 (1.83%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.92%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.93%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (10.09%) .NET
3 10 (9.17%) REST
4 7 (6.42%) .NET Core
5 4 (3.67%) GraphQL
5 4 (3.67%) OAuth
5 4 (3.67%) React
6 3 (2.75%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.75%) Kafka
6 3 (2.75%) OAuth2
6 3 (2.75%) OpenID
6 3 (2.75%) RESTful
6 3 (2.75%) SAML
7 2 (1.83%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (1.83%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.83%) AWS CDK
7 2 (1.83%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (1.83%) Lambda Expressions
7 2 (1.83%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (1.83%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.84%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.34%) Public Cloud
3 4 (3.67%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.67%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.75%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.75%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.83%) Derivative
5 2 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.92%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.92%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (0.92%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.92%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (0.92%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.92%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.92%) Replication
6 1 (0.92%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 28 (25.69%) Linux
2 7 (6.42%) Windows
3 3 (2.75%) Unix
4 1 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (100.00%) DevOps
2 60 (55.05%) CI/CD
3 44 (40.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (23.85%) Agile
5 23 (21.10%) Containerisation
6 17 (15.60%) Observability
7 14 (12.84%) Infrastructure Automation
8 12 (11.01%) Mentoring
8 12 (11.01%) Migration
8 12 (11.01%) Software Engineering
9 11 (10.09%) DevSecOps
10 10 (9.17%) Platform Engineering
11 9 (8.26%) Continuous Delivery
11 9 (8.26%) Test Automation
12 8 (7.34%) AI
12 8 (7.34%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (7.34%) Continuous Integration
12 8 (7.34%) Cost Optimisation
12 8 (7.34%) High Availability
12 8 (7.34%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 44 (40.37%) Python
2 16 (14.68%) Bash
3 15 (13.76%) PowerShell
4 11 (10.09%) Go
5 8 (7.34%) C#
5 8 (7.34%) SQL
6 7 (6.42%) JavaScript
7 6 (5.50%) Bicep
8 5 (4.59%) Java
9 4 (3.67%) PHP
9 4 (3.67%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.75%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.83%) Rust
12 1 (0.92%) Groovy
12 1 (0.92%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 34 (31.19%) Security Cleared
2 25 (22.94%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.26%) Azure Certification
4 6 (5.50%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.75%) Degree
7 2 (1.83%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.83%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.92%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.92%) IIBA
8 1 (0.92%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.83%) Data Quality
1 2 (1.83%) EMIR
1 2 (1.83%) MiFID
1 2 (1.83%) QA
2 1 (0.92%) GDPR
System Software
1 36 (33.03%) Docker
2 6 (5.50%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.83%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.92%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 58 (53.21%) Terraform
2 46 (42.20%) Kubernetes
3 30 (27.52%) Ansible
4 14 (12.84%) Grafana
5 13 (11.93%) Prometheus
6 7 (6.42%) Argo
7 6 (5.50%) Istio
8 5 (4.59%) Packer
9 3 (2.75%) Rancher
10 2 (1.83%) Kibana
10 2 (1.83%) linkerd
10 2 (1.83%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.83%) Puppet
10 2 (1.83%) Thomson Reuters DACS
11 1 (0.92%) CA Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.92%) CA Wily
11 1 (0.92%) CASB
11 1 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.92%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 14 (12.84%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.17%) Splunk
3 9 (8.26%) VMware
4 5 (4.59%) Dynatrace
4 5 (4.59%) Google
5 3 (2.75%) CheckPoint
5 3 (2.75%) Databricks
5 3 (2.75%) F5
5 3 (2.75%) Oracle
5 3 (2.75%) Palo Alto
5 3 (2.75%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.83%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.83%) NYFIX
6 2 (1.83%) Refinitiv
7 1 (0.92%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.92%) Broadcom
7 1 (0.92%) IBM
7 1 (0.92%) SAP
7 1 (0.92%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.92%) Sitecore
42 Senior DevOps jobs in England