Senior DevOps Contract Job Trends in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations daily rate in England is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 January 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 447 345 461
Rank change year-on-year -102 +116 +32
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 102 135 82
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.32% 0.51% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.55% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 98 60
10th Percentile £421 £504 £463
25th Percentile £494 £563 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £703 £750 £650
90th Percentile £739 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £566 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -13.00% +8.33% -4.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £74.04 -
25th Percentile £72.50 £74.11 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £74.22 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% - -
75th Percentile £77.50 £74.33 -
90th Percentile - £74.40 -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £74.22 -
% change year-on-year +1.05% - -

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 29,574 24,600 35,001
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.64% 93.00% 92.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,859 15,166 23,647
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,840 745 1,921
10th Percentile £14.82 £16.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.64
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £63.56 £64.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £28.88 £32.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -11.14% -13.33% +8.49%

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 26 January 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 26 January 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 -41 50 £633 -2.69% 13
North of England -56 22 £535 -11.20% 5
Midlands -32 14 £892 +137.87% 2
Yorkshire -46 14 £892 +45.04% 1
West Midlands -26 13 £892 +137.87% 1
South East -23 11 £425 -39.29% 13
North West -21 8 £525 -20.75% 3
East of England -8 5 £581 +32.86% 3
South West -30 5 £650 -3.70% 8
East Midlands - 1 £525 - 1
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 January 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.

1 102 (100.00%) DevOps
2 70 (68.63%) CI/CD
3 60 (58.82%) Terraform
4 58 (56.86%) AWS
5 46 (45.10%) Infrastructure as Code
5 46 (45.10%) Python
6 45 (44.12%) Jenkins
7 39 (38.24%) Azure
8 38 (37.25%) Kubernetes
9 37 (36.27%) Ansible
10 36 (35.29%) Docker
10 36 (35.29%) Security Cleared
11 35 (34.31%) GitLab
12 29 (28.43%) Agile
13 25 (24.51%) GitHub
14 23 (22.55%) SC Cleared
15 22 (21.57%) Containerisation
16 21 (20.59%) Linux
17 20 (19.61%) Git
17 20 (19.61%) High Availability
18 18 (17.65%) Amazon EC2
18 18 (17.65%) Amazon S3
18 18 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
18 18 (17.65%) Bash
18 18 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
18 18 (17.65%) Infrastructure Automation
19 16 (15.69%) DevSecOps
19 16 (15.69%) GCP
19 16 (15.69%) Mentoring
19 16 (15.69%) Virtual Private Cloud

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 (4.90%) Apache
2 4 (3.92%) IIS
3 3 (2.94%) Confluence
3 3 (2.94%) iPlanet
3 3 (2.94%) JBoss
3 3 (2.94%) WebSphere
3 3 (2.94%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (1.96%) CMS
5 1 (0.98%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.98%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.98%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 58 (56.86%) AWS
2 39 (38.24%) Azure
3 25 (24.51%) GitHub
4 18 (17.65%) Amazon EC2
4 18 (17.65%) Amazon S3
4 18 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
5 16 (15.69%) GCP
5 16 (15.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 15 (14.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 13 (12.75%) Serverless
8 12 (11.76%) Amazon ELB
9 8 (7.84%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (4.90%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (4.90%) Azure AKS
11 4 (3.92%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (3.92%) Azure API Management
11 4 (3.92%) Azure Functions
11 4 (3.92%) Azure Key Vault
11 4 (3.92%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 15 (14.71%) Firewall
2 14 (13.73%) TCP/IP
3 13 (12.75%) DNS
4 12 (11.76%) SSL
4 12 (11.76%) VPN
5 9 (8.82%) Network Security
6 3 (2.94%) Kerberos
7 2 (1.96%) Multicast
8 1 (0.98%) DHCP
8 1 (0.98%) HTTP
8 1 (0.98%) Internet
8 1 (0.98%) VLAN
8 1 (0.98%) VoIP
8 1 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (3.92%) MongoDB
2 4 (3.92%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.94%) Oracle Database
3 3 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.96%) KDB
4 2 (1.96%) MySQL
5 1 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.98%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.98%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.98%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 45 (44.12%) Jenkins
2 35 (34.31%) GitLab
3 20 (19.61%) Git
4 7 (6.86%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (5.88%) TeamCity
6 4 (3.92%) JIRA
6 4 (3.92%) Liquibase
6 4 (3.92%) SonarQube
7 3 (2.94%) Artifactory
7 3 (2.94%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.94%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (2.94%) CA Release Automation
7 3 (2.94%) RStudio
8 2 (1.96%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.96%) Gradle
9 1 (0.98%) Maven
General
1 18 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 16 (15.69%) Banking
3 14 (13.73%) Public Sector
4 12 (11.76%) Finance
5 6 (5.88%) Military
6 4 (3.92%) Financial Institution
6 4 (3.92%) Social Science
7 3 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.94%) Billing
7 3 (2.94%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.96%) Front Office
8 2 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.96%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.96%) Retail
8 2 (1.96%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.98%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.80%) .NET
1 10 (9.80%) Elastic Stack
1 10 (9.80%) REST
2 7 (6.86%) .NET Core
3 5 (4.90%) OAuth
3 5 (4.90%) OpenID
3 5 (4.90%) RESTful
3 5 (4.90%) SAML
4 4 (3.92%) GraphQL
4 4 (3.92%) React
5 3 (2.94%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.94%) Kafka
5 3 (2.94%) LDAP
5 3 (2.94%) Web Services
6 2 (1.96%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (1.96%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.96%) AWS CDK
6 2 (1.96%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (1.96%) Lambda Expressions
6 2 (1.96%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.80%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.84%) Public Cloud
3 4 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.92%) Legacy Applications
3 4 (3.92%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.94%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.96%) Derivative
5 2 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.96%) Replication
6 1 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.98%) Clustering
6 1 (0.98%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (0.98%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.98%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.98%) IBM XIV
6 1 (0.98%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.98%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 21 (20.59%) Linux
2 8 (7.84%) Windows
3 5 (4.90%) Unix
4 3 (2.94%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (100.00%) DevOps
2 70 (68.63%) CI/CD
3 46 (45.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (28.43%) Agile
5 22 (21.57%) Containerisation
6 20 (19.61%) High Availability
7 18 (17.65%) Infrastructure Automation
8 16 (15.69%) DevSecOps
8 16 (15.69%) Mentoring
9 15 (14.71%) Root Cause Analysis
10 14 (13.73%) Observability
11 13 (12.75%) Incident Response
12 11 (10.78%) Continuous Integration
12 11 (10.78%) Migration
12 11 (10.78%) Platform Engineering
12 11 (10.78%) Software Engineering
13 10 (9.80%) Continuous Delivery
13 10 (9.80%) Microservices
14 7 (6.86%) Continuous Improvement
14 7 (6.86%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 46 (45.10%) Python
2 18 (17.65%) Bash
3 12 (11.76%) PowerShell
4 9 (8.82%) Java
5 8 (7.84%) JavaScript
5 8 (7.84%) SQL
6 7 (6.86%) C#
6 7 (6.86%) Go
7 6 (5.88%) Shell Script
8 4 (3.92%) PHP
9 3 (2.94%) Groovy
9 3 (2.94%) Rust
9 3 (2.94%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.96%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 36 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 23 (22.55%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.90%) Azure Certification
3 5 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (4.90%) Degree
4 4 (3.92%) AWS Certification
4 4 (3.92%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.96%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (1.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.96%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.98%) IIBA
7 1 (0.98%) ISEB
7 1 (0.98%) OCP
7 1 (0.98%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.96%) Data Quality
1 2 (1.96%) EMIR
1 2 (1.96%) MiFID
1 2 (1.96%) QA
2 1 (0.98%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (35.29%) Docker
2 6 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (4.90%) Active Directory
4 4 (3.92%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (2.94%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 1 (0.98%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 60 (58.82%) Terraform
2 38 (37.25%) Kubernetes
3 37 (36.27%) Ansible
4 10 (9.80%) Grafana
5 9 (8.82%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.92%) Istio
6 4 (3.92%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.94%) CA Single Sign-On
7 3 (2.94%) CA Wily
7 3 (2.94%) Rancher
7 3 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (2.94%) Tivoli
8 2 (1.96%) Argo
8 2 (1.96%) Kibana
8 2 (1.96%) Puppet
8 2 (1.96%) Thomson Reuters DACS
9 1 (0.98%) CASB
9 1 (0.98%) Packer
9 1 (0.98%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (11.76%) CheckPoint
1 12 (11.76%) F5
1 12 (11.76%) Microsoft
1 12 (11.76%) Palo Alto
2 11 (10.78%) Splunk
3 10 (9.80%) VMware
4 4 (3.92%) Databricks
4 4 (3.92%) Dynatrace
4 4 (3.92%) Google
4 4 (3.92%) IBM
4 4 (3.92%) Oracle
5 3 (2.94%) AppDynamics
5 3 (2.94%) Broadcom
5 3 (2.94%) Red Hat
5 3 (2.94%) Zscaler
6 2 (1.96%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.96%) NYFIX
6 2 (1.96%) Refinitiv
7 1 (0.98%) Citrix
7 1 (0.98%) Sitecore