DevOps Consultant Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Development Operations Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Development Operations Consultant daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 March 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 338 393
Rank change year-on-year -77 +55 +75
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Consultant 9 5 8
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.043% 0.038% 0.038%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.048% 0.041% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 8
10th Percentile £441 £481 £465
25th Percentile £481 £489 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £606 £625
Median % change year-on-year -17.53% -3.00% +20.13%
75th Percentile £600 £725 £750
90th Percentile £625 - -
UK median daily rate £585 £625 £563
% change year-on-year -6.40% +11.11% -6.25%

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,930 12,245 19,548
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.40% 92.31% 92.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,333 7,597 12,194
10th Percentile £238 £210 £213
25th Percentile £385 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% -2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £592
90th Percentile £675 £675 £681
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,035 667 2,019
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.27 £12.82
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £15.95
Median hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £71.98
UK median hourly rate £33.50 £34.06 £34.53
% change year-on-year -1.63% -1.38% -13.68%

DevOps Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'DevOps Consultant' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

DevOps Consultant job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

DevOps Consultant
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Consultant job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Consultant job vacancies in the UK excluding London

DevOps Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Consultant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Consultant in the UK excluding London

DevOps Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for DevOps Consultant job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for DevOps Consultant job vacancies in the UK excluding London

DevOps Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Consultant within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
South East -33 3 - - 2
Scotland +14 2 £600 +20.00%
Midlands -50 2 £456 -34.82%
North of England -58 2 £500 - 3
Yorkshire - 2 £500 - 1
East Midlands -25 1 £413 -41.07%
West Midlands - 1 £500 -
DevOps Consultant
UK

DevOps Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 March 2026, DevOps Consultant 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 UK excluding London region featuring DevOps Consultant in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 4 (44.44%) Azure
4 3 (33.33%) Bash
4 3 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
4 3 (33.33%) Python
5 2 (22.22%) Ansible
5 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (22.22%) CloudBees
5 2 (22.22%) Commvault
5 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
5 2 (22.22%) Confluence
5 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
5 2 (22.22%) Databricks
5 2 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (22.22%) GitHub
5 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
5 2 (22.22%) JIRA
5 2 (22.22%) NetBackup
5 2 (22.22%) OpenShift
5 2 (22.22%) Puppet
5 2 (22.22%) Red Hat
5 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
5 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
5 2 (22.22%) SQL
5 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
5 2 (22.22%) Veritas
6 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
6 1 (11.11%) ADO
6 1 (11.11%) Agile

DevOps Consultant Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (22.22%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) CloudBees
2 2 (22.22%) GitHub
2 2 (22.22%) OpenShift
3 1 (11.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 2 (22.22%) Banking
1 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Electronics
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
2 1 (11.11%) Marketing
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) ADO
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Blueprints
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
4 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
4 2 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
5 1 (11.11%) Agile
5 1 (11.11%) Analytics
5 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps
5 1 (11.11%) Digital Marketing
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (11.11%) ITIL
5 1 (11.11%) Log Analytics
5 1 (11.11%) Programme Management
5 1 (11.11%) RBAC
5 1 (11.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Bash
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (11.11%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Ansible
1 2 (22.22%) NetBackup
1 2 (22.22%) Puppet
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Commvault
1 2 (22.22%) Databricks
1 2 (22.22%) Red Hat
1 2 (22.22%) Veritas
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) SAP
2 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow