DevOps Contracts in the UK excluding London

DevOps
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 19 12
Rank change year-on-year -2 -7 +2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 1,057 1,507 2,578
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.28% 7.26% 10.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.16% 8.56% 11.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 777 1,022 1,927
10th Percentile £363 £375 £413
25th Percentile £423 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.43% -2.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £644
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £578
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.76% +0.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 100 93
10th Percentile £32.85 £56.48 £52.10
25th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £60.91
Median hourly rate £68.75 £65.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -0.76% +21.30%
75th Percentile £79.35 £84.55 £70.30
90th Percentile £82.86 £87.46 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £71.61 £65.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year +10.17% -0.76% +24.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the UK excluding London

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for DevOps in the UK excluding London

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the UK excluding London

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in the UK excluding London

DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps in the UK excluding London

DevOps
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North of England -1 310 £520 -1.00% 635
South East -3 261 £550 -4.35% 772
Scotland +4 175 £473 -0.42% 137
North West -1 168 £500 -6.37% 402
Midlands +12 140 £500 +5.26% 325
Yorkshire +3 120 £520 +9.42% 170
South West -5 109 £573 +4.09% 244
West Midlands +12 99 £523 +10.00% 204
East Midlands +14 41 £469 +4.17% 99
East of England -15 37 £515 -1.90% 214
North East +5 24 £550 +4.76% 69
Wales -5 19 £305 -46.87% 51
Northern Ireland +4 16 £418 -24.09% 40
DevOps
UK

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 51 (4.82%) Confluence
2 29 (2.74%) SharePoint
3 25 (2.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (1.89%) Apache Spark
4 20 (1.89%) nginx
5 14 (1.32%) Apache
6 13 (1.23%) JBoss
7 8 (0.76%) Tomcat
8 7 (0.66%) Traefik
9 6 (0.57%) Anypoint
9 6 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
10 5 (0.47%) WebLogic
11 4 (0.38%) Camunda
11 4 (0.38%) CMS
11 4 (0.38%) WebSphere
11 4 (0.38%) WordPress
12 3 (0.28%) OpenROAD
12 3 (0.28%) Umbraco
12 3 (0.28%) WebSphere Application Server
13 2 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 23 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.76%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.095%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.095%) Simulink
5 1 (0.095%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.19%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.095%) BusinessWorks
4 1 (0.095%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.095%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.095%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.095%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.095%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.095%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.095%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.095%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.095%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.095%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.095%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.095%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.095%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 512 (48.44%) Azure
2 321 (30.37%) AWS
3 289 (27.34%) Azure DevOps
4 98 (9.27%) Serverless
5 93 (8.80%) GitHub
6 80 (7.57%) Power Platform
7 77 (7.28%) GCP
8 54 (5.11%) Amazon S3
8 54 (5.11%) OpenShift
9 48 (4.54%) AWS CloudFormation
10 46 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
11 42 (3.97%) Entra ID
12 40 (3.78%) IaaS
12 40 (3.78%) PaaS
12 40 (3.78%) PowerApps
13 38 (3.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 36 (3.41%) Azure Data Factory
15 35 (3.31%) Dynamics 365
16 34 (3.22%) SaaS
17 33 (3.12%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 61 (5.77%) DNS
2 50 (4.73%) Firewall
3 41 (3.88%) DHCP
4 26 (2.46%) TCP/IP
5 16 (1.51%) SAN
6 14 (1.32%) VPN
7 13 (1.23%) SSL
8 12 (1.14%) Network Security
9 9 (0.85%) SMTP
10 8 (0.76%) HTTP
11 6 (0.57%) Intrusion Detection
12 5 (0.47%) Fibre Channel
12 5 (0.47%) NAS
12 5 (0.47%) Radio Access Network
13 4 (0.38%) 4G
13 4 (0.38%) 5G
13 4 (0.38%) LAN
13 4 (0.38%) SNA
13 4 (0.38%) WAN
14 3 (0.28%) 5G NR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (6.34%) PostgreSQL
2 59 (5.58%) SQL Server
3 51 (4.82%) MongoDB
3 51 (4.82%) Relational Database
4 48 (4.54%) NoSQL
5 35 (3.31%) Power BI
6 34 (3.22%) Data Warehouse
7 32 (3.03%) RDBMS
8 28 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
8 28 (2.65%) Big Data
9 25 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
9 25 (2.37%) MySQL
10 24 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
11 23 (2.18%) Oracle Database
12 20 (1.89%) DynamoDB
13 19 (1.80%) Data Lake
14 14 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
14 14 (1.32%) Oracle Reports
15 9 (0.85%) Metadata
16 7 (0.66%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 184 (17.41%) Jenkins
2 164 (15.52%) Git
3 149 (14.10%) JIRA
4 130 (12.30%) GitLab
5 75 (7.10%) Selenium
6 34 (3.22%) SonarQube
7 32 (3.03%) JUnit
8 31 (2.93%) Cucumber
9 26 (2.46%) Maven
10 22 (2.08%) Bitbucket
10 22 (2.08%) Cypress.io
11 21 (1.99%) Mockito
12 20 (1.89%) Postman
13 18 (1.70%) TeamCity
14 17 (1.61%) JMeter
15 16 (1.51%) REST Assured
16 15 (1.42%) Bitbucket Server
16 15 (1.42%) Gradle
16 15 (1.42%) Sonatype Nexus
17 14 (1.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 255 (24.12%) Social Skills
2 189 (17.88%) Public Sector
3 172 (16.27%) Finance
4 141 (13.34%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (5.49%) Banking
6 40 (3.78%) Telecoms
7 33 (3.12%) Manufacturing
8 31 (2.93%) Marketing
9 30 (2.84%) Electronics
10 26 (2.46%) Retail
11 19 (1.80%) Military
12 15 (1.42%) Back Office
12 15 (1.42%) Investment Banking
13 13 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
14 12 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 12 (1.14%) Law
15 11 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
16 8 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
17 7 (0.66%) Front Office
17 7 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 213 (20.15%) DevOps Engineer
2 204 (19.30%) Developer
3 115 (10.88%) Architect
4 106 (10.03%) Senior
5 82 (7.76%) Lead
6 62 (5.87%) Azure Engineer
7 54 (5.11%) Analyst
8 47 (4.45%) AWS Engineer
9 46 (4.35%) Software Engineer
10 35 (3.31%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 34 (3.22%) AWS DevOps
11 34 (3.22%) Java Developer
12 33 (3.12%) Senior DevOps
12 33 (3.12%) Solutions Architect
13 32 (3.03%) Data Engineer
14 29 (2.74%) Full-Stack Developer
15 28 (2.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 28 (2.65%) Senior Developer
16 27 (2.55%) Cloud Engineer
16 27 (2.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (8.80%) .NET
2 66 (6.24%) REST
3 61 (5.77%) Kafka
4 60 (5.68%) React
5 57 (5.39%) Spring Boot
6 45 (4.26%) RESTful
7 40 (3.78%) CSS
7 40 (3.78%) Spring
8 38 (3.60%) HTML
8 38 (3.60%) JSON
9 37 (3.50%) AngularJS
10 31 (2.93%) Node.js
11 30 (2.84%) ADO
12 29 (2.74%) Elastic Stack
13 28 (2.65%) YAML
14 26 (2.46%) ARM Templates
15 25 (2.37%) XML
16 22 (2.08%) AWS CDK
16 22 (2.08%) SOAP
17 21 (1.99%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 58 (5.49%) Product Ownership
2 32 (3.03%) Cloud Native
3 27 (2.55%) Onboarding
4 24 (2.27%) Data Centre
4 24 (2.27%) PKI
5 23 (2.18%) Public Cloud
6 19 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
8 15 (1.42%) Mobile App
8 15 (1.42%) Replication
9 14 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
9 14 (1.32%) IoT
9 14 (1.32%) Mainframe
9 14 (1.32%) Private Cloud
9 14 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
10 13 (1.23%) Management Information System
10 13 (1.23%) NHS
10 13 (1.23%) Virtual Team
11 10 (0.95%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 187 (17.69%) Linux
2 132 (12.49%) Windows
3 65 (6.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 56 (5.30%) Windows Server
5 37 (3.50%) Unix
6 23 (2.18%) CentOS
7 13 (1.23%) VMS
8 12 (1.14%) Ubuntu
9 8 (0.76%) Solaris
10 7 (0.66%) Android
11 6 (0.57%) HPUX
12 4 (0.38%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.38%) zOS
13 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2003
14 2 (0.19%) Apple iOS
14 2 (0.19%) Debian
14 2 (0.19%) VxWorks
15 1 (0.095%) AIX
15 1 (0.095%) Data ONTAP
15 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 455 (43.05%) Agile
2 450 (42.57%) CI/CD
3 222 (21.00%) Problem-Solving
4 184 (17.41%) Test Automation
5 178 (16.84%) Infrastructure as Code
6 134 (12.68%) Containerisation
7 131 (12.39%) Microservices
8 119 (11.26%) Software Engineering
9 115 (10.88%) Migration
10 110 (10.41%) Continuous Integration
11 99 (9.37%) Scrum
12 80 (7.57%) Analytics
13 77 (7.28%) Configuration Management
14 71 (6.72%) Continuous Improvement
15 69 (6.53%) Stakeholder Management
16 66 (6.24%) TDD
17 64 (6.05%) Mentoring
18 63 (5.96%) Roadmaps
19 62 (5.87%) Business Intelligence
20 60 (5.68%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 277 (26.21%) Python
2 217 (20.53%) SQL
3 151 (14.29%) Java
4 117 (11.07%) PowerShell
5 98 (9.27%) C#
6 91 (8.61%) Bash
7 89 (8.42%) JavaScript
8 56 (5.30%) TypeScript
9 32 (3.03%) Go
10 30 (2.84%) Shell Script
11 23 (2.18%) PL/SQL
12 20 (1.89%) Bicep
13 18 (1.70%) Perl
14 12 (1.14%) C++
15 11 (1.04%) Kotlin
16 10 (0.95%) VBScript
17 7 (0.66%) Apex Code
18 6 (0.57%) Groovy
18 6 (0.57%) PHP
18 6 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 247 (23.37%) Security Cleared
2 173 (16.37%) SC Cleared
3 81 (7.66%) Degree
4 63 (5.96%) DV Cleared
5 34 (3.22%) AWS Certification
5 34 (3.22%) Azure Certification
6 30 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
8 18 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (1.61%) CISSP
10 15 (1.42%) ISTQB
11 13 (1.23%) CEH
11 13 (1.23%) Master's Degree
12 12 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
13 11 (1.04%) CISM
14 10 (0.95%) CCNP
15 8 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 8 (0.76%) CCSP
15 8 (0.76%) Oracle Certification
15 8 (0.76%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (7.38%) QA
2 22 (2.08%) NIST
3 20 (1.89%) Accessibility
4 19 (1.80%) NCSC
5 15 (1.42%) GDPR
6 14 (1.32%) Data Quality
6 14 (1.32%) PMO
7 13 (1.23%) Disclosure Scotland
8 11 (1.04%) PCI DSS
9 9 (0.85%) COBIT
10 8 (0.76%) SLA
11 6 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 4 (0.38%) WCAG
13 3 (0.28%) PERC
13 3 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
14 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.19%) ISO 26262
15 1 (0.095%) DO-178B
15 1 (0.095%) HL7
System Software
1 195 (18.45%) Docker
2 64 (6.05%) Active Directory
3 35 (3.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (1.32%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.76%) BitLocker
6 8 (0.76%) Microsoft App-V
6 8 (0.76%) Terminal Services
6 8 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.57%) vSphere
8 5 (0.47%) DFS Replication
8 5 (0.47%) Postfix
8 5 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.19%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.19%) Ceph
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.095%) Apache Flume
11 1 (0.095%) KVM
11 1 (0.095%) LXC
Systems Management
1 244 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 237 (22.42%) Terraform
3 138 (13.06%) Ansible
4 64 (6.05%) Grafana
5 58 (5.49%) Prometheus
6 36 (3.41%) Puppet
7 28 (2.65%) Progress Chef
8 23 (2.18%) Packer
9 20 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
10 17 (1.61%) Kibana
11 15 (1.42%) Istio
12 13 (1.23%) WSUS
13 12 (1.14%) Consul
13 12 (1.14%) Docker Swarm
13 12 (1.14%) HAProxy
14 11 (1.04%) Nagios
14 11 (1.04%) Podman
14 11 (1.04%) Rancher
14 11 (1.04%) vCenter Server
15 10 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 164 (15.52%) Microsoft
2 82 (7.76%) Oracle
3 65 (6.15%) VMware
4 40 (3.78%) Splunk
5 39 (3.69%) Databricks
6 38 (3.60%) SAP
7 34 (3.22%) Google
8 32 (3.03%) Red Hat
9 25 (2.37%) ServiceNow
10 17 (1.61%) IBM
11 16 (1.51%) AppDynamics
12 12 (1.14%) Salesforce
13 11 (1.04%) Atlassian
13 11 (1.04%) Cisco
13 11 (1.04%) Citrix
13 11 (1.04%) HP
13 11 (1.04%) MuleSoft
13 11 (1.04%) Okta
13 11 (1.04%) Symantec
14 8 (0.76%) Dynatrace