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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 19 12
Rank change year-on-year -1 -7 +2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 1,079 1,549 2,361
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.39% 7.52% 10.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.25% 8.99% 11.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 792 1,073 1,737
10th Percentile £358 £381 £413
25th Percentile £413 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £577 £625 £650
90th Percentile £638 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £588
% change year-on-year -4.55% -6.38% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 106 88
10th Percentile £30.25 £56.58 £53.75
25th Percentile £66.25 £61.34 £60.91
Median hourly rate £73.23 £65.25 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.22% -0.38% +0.77%
75th Percentile £82.48 £77.50 £70.30
90th Percentile £92.50 £87.23 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £73.23 £65.25 £65.50
% change year-on-year +12.22% -0.38% +2.99%

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 11,664 17,222 20,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.66% 83.58% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,264 10,282 14,009
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 845 2,110 1,238
10th Percentile £13.83 £12.40 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.22
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.63 £61.30 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £36.13
% change year-on-year -24.66% +1.04% +40.67%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 0 328 £500 -2.91% 676
South East -5 234 £500 -11.89% 888
Scotland +1 181 £475 - 155
North West -3 171 £500 -4.76% 432
Midlands +8 158 £500 -4.31% 283
Yorkshire +2 140 £500 +1.01% 189
West Midlands +13 113 £523 -0.48% 193
South West -8 106 £550 - 264
East of England -7 46 £500 -6.37% 172
East Midlands +10 45 £463 +2.78% 74
Wales +7 23 £305 -43.17% 69
North East -1 20 £525 - 56
Northern Ireland -8 16 £418 -27.39% 71
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 61 (5.65%) Confluence
2 22 (2.04%) Apache
2 22 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (1.85%) Apache Spark
4 19 (1.76%) SharePoint
5 15 (1.39%) JBoss
6 9 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.83%) nginx
6 9 (0.83%) WebSphere
7 8 (0.74%) Tomcat
8 6 (0.56%) Anypoint
8 6 (0.56%) Camunda
8 6 (0.56%) CMS
8 6 (0.56%) IIS
8 6 (0.56%) WebLogic
9 5 (0.46%) WebSphere Application Server
10 4 (0.37%) CICS
10 4 (0.37%) Oracle Service Bus
10 4 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 15 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.74%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.19%) Trello
6 1 (0.093%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.093%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.093%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.46%) Maximo
4 3 (0.28%) Oracle BPM
4 3 (0.28%) SAP PM
5 2 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
5 2 (0.19%) VisionPLUS
6 1 (0.093%) BusinessWorks
6 1 (0.093%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.093%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.093%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.093%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.093%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.093%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.093%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.093%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.093%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 495 (45.88%) Azure
2 329 (30.49%) AWS
3 288 (26.69%) Azure DevOps
4 114 (10.57%) GitHub
5 97 (8.99%) Serverless
6 88 (8.16%) GCP
7 70 (6.49%) Power Platform
8 66 (6.12%) Amazon S3
9 59 (5.47%) OpenShift
10 56 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
11 41 (3.80%) AWS CloudFormation
12 40 (3.71%) GitHub Actions
13 38 (3.52%) IaaS
13 38 (3.52%) PaaS
14 37 (3.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 35 (3.24%) SaaS
16 34 (3.15%) PowerApps
17 31 (2.87%) Amazon EC2
18 28 (2.59%) Azure Data Factory
18 28 (2.59%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 72 (6.67%) Firewall
2 55 (5.10%) DNS
3 39 (3.61%) DHCP
4 30 (2.78%) TCP/IP
5 19 (1.76%) VPN
6 16 (1.48%) SAN
7 13 (1.20%) Network Security
8 11 (1.02%) HTTP
8 11 (1.02%) SSL
9 10 (0.93%) SMTP
10 9 (0.83%) Intrusion Detection
11 8 (0.74%) WAN
12 7 (0.65%) LAN
13 5 (0.46%) Fibre Channel
13 5 (0.46%) Radio Access Network
14 4 (0.37%) 4G
14 4 (0.37%) BGP
14 4 (0.37%) NAS
14 4 (0.37%) OSPF
14 4 (0.37%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (6.39%) PostgreSQL
2 65 (6.02%) SQL Server
3 56 (5.19%) NoSQL
3 56 (5.19%) Relational Database
4 53 (4.91%) MongoDB
5 41 (3.80%) Amazon RDS
6 35 (3.24%) Power BI
7 34 (3.15%) Azure SQL Database
7 34 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
8 30 (2.78%) RDBMS
9 27 (2.50%) MySQL
10 25 (2.32%) DynamoDB
11 23 (2.13%) Amazon Aurora
11 23 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
12 21 (1.95%) Big Data
13 19 (1.76%) Oracle Database
14 17 (1.58%) Data Lake
15 12 (1.11%) GIS
16 11 (1.02%) DB2
16 11 (1.02%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 212 (19.65%) Jenkins
2 183 (16.96%) Git
3 161 (14.92%) JIRA
4 117 (10.84%) GitLab
5 68 (6.30%) Selenium
6 42 (3.89%) SonarQube
7 41 (3.80%) JUnit
8 37 (3.43%) Maven
9 31 (2.87%) Cucumber
10 30 (2.78%) Mockito
11 29 (2.69%) Postman
12 28 (2.59%) Cypress.io
13 24 (2.22%) Bitbucket
14 21 (1.95%) Sonatype Nexus
15 19 (1.76%) Bitbucket Server
15 19 (1.76%) TeamCity
16 18 (1.67%) Gradle
17 17 (1.58%) REST Assured
18 15 (1.39%) JMeter
19 14 (1.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 288 (26.69%) Social Skills
2 186 (17.24%) Finance
3 169 (15.66%) Public Sector
4 146 (13.53%) Analytical Skills
5 67 (6.21%) Banking
6 39 (3.61%) Telecoms
7 30 (2.78%) Manufacturing
7 30 (2.78%) Retail
8 24 (2.22%) Marketing
9 23 (2.13%) Electronics
10 18 (1.67%) Military
11 16 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
12 15 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 13 (1.20%) Investment Banking
14 12 (1.11%) Law
15 11 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
16 10 (0.93%) Back Office
17 8 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
18 7 (0.65%) Front Office
18 7 (0.65%) Legal
Job Titles
1 220 (20.39%) Developer
2 205 (19.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 112 (10.38%) Architect
4 99 (9.18%) Senior
5 97 (8.99%) Lead
6 58 (5.38%) AWS Engineer
7 56 (5.19%) Analyst
8 52 (4.82%) Azure Engineer
9 45 (4.17%) Java Developer
10 43 (3.99%) AWS DevOps
11 42 (3.89%) Software Engineer
12 36 (3.34%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 33 (3.06%) Cloud Engineer
14 32 (2.97%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 32 (2.97%) Senior Developer
15 31 (2.87%) Solutions Architect
16 29 (2.69%) .NET Developer
17 28 (2.59%) Data Engineer
18 25 (2.32%) Business Analyst
19 24 (2.22%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (9.82%) .NET
2 74 (6.86%) REST
3 69 (6.39%) Spring Boot
4 67 (6.21%) React
5 64 (5.93%) Kafka
6 60 (5.56%) RESTful
7 53 (4.91%) Spring
8 41 (3.80%) JSON
9 38 (3.52%) AngularJS
10 36 (3.34%) Node.js
11 35 (3.24%) Web Services
12 33 (3.06%) Elastic Stack
12 33 (3.06%) HTML
12 33 (3.06%) SOAP
13 32 (2.97%) CSS
14 31 (2.87%) XML
15 30 (2.78%) ARM Templates
16 29 (2.69%) ADO
17 25 (2.32%) YAML
18 24 (2.22%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 70 (6.49%) Product Ownership
2 47 (4.36%) Cloud Native
3 24 (2.22%) Data Centre
3 24 (2.22%) Onboarding
4 19 (1.76%) Mobile App
4 19 (1.76%) Public Cloud
5 18 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (1.58%) PKI
6 17 (1.58%) Replication
7 16 (1.48%) Mainframe
8 13 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
8 13 (1.20%) NHS
9 12 (1.11%) IoT
9 12 (1.11%) Management Information System
9 12 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (1.11%) Virtual Team
10 11 (1.02%) Clustering
11 10 (0.93%) Data Structures
11 10 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 169 (15.66%) Linux
2 126 (11.68%) Windows
3 53 (4.91%) Windows Server
4 48 (4.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (2.22%) Unix
6 13 (1.20%) VMS
7 12 (1.11%) Ubuntu
8 11 (1.02%) Android
8 11 (1.02%) Solaris
9 8 (0.74%) CentOS
10 6 (0.56%) HPUX
11 4 (0.37%) AIX
11 4 (0.37%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.37%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.37%) zOS
12 3 (0.28%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2003
13 2 (0.19%) Debian
13 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 482 (44.67%) CI/CD
2 481 (44.58%) Agile
3 230 (21.32%) Problem-Solving
4 185 (17.15%) Test Automation
5 176 (16.31%) Infrastructure as Code
6 139 (12.88%) Microservices
7 136 (12.60%) Containerisation
8 127 (11.77%) Scrum
9 115 (10.66%) Migration
10 111 (10.29%) Software Engineering
11 100 (9.27%) Continuous Integration
12 87 (8.06%) Configuration Management
12 87 (8.06%) Continuous Improvement
13 83 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
14 81 (7.51%) Analytics
15 80 (7.41%) Mentoring
16 78 (7.23%) TDD
17 67 (6.21%) Decision-Making
18 66 (6.12%) Roadmaps
19 65 (6.02%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 273 (25.30%) Python
2 227 (21.04%) SQL
3 181 (16.77%) Java
4 115 (10.66%) PowerShell
5 101 (9.36%) C#
6 96 (8.90%) JavaScript
7 84 (7.78%) Bash
8 53 (4.91%) TypeScript
9 33 (3.06%) Shell Script
10 26 (2.41%) Bicep
11 19 (1.76%) Perl
12 16 (1.48%) Kotlin
13 15 (1.39%) Go
13 15 (1.39%) PL/SQL
14 9 (0.83%) Apex Code
14 9 (0.83%) C++
14 9 (0.83%) JCL
14 9 (0.83%) Scala
15 8 (0.74%) PHP
16 7 (0.65%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 227 (21.04%) Security Cleared
2 154 (14.27%) SC Cleared
3 75 (6.95%) Degree
4 62 (5.75%) DV Cleared
5 35 (3.24%) AWS Certification
6 32 (2.97%) Azure Certification
6 32 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (1.48%) ISTQB
7 16 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (1.30%) Master's Degree
9 12 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 9 (0.83%) CISSP
12 8 (0.74%) Oracle Certification
13 7 (0.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 6 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 6 (0.56%) CCNP
14 6 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
14 6 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (8.06%) QA
2 19 (1.76%) Data Quality
2 19 (1.76%) GDPR
3 17 (1.58%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.20%) NIST
5 10 (0.93%) Disclosure Scotland
5 10 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (0.93%) SLA
6 8 (0.74%) PMO
7 6 (0.56%) WCAG
8 5 (0.46%) NCSC
9 4 (0.37%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.28%) HL7
10 3 (0.28%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.28%) PERC
10 3 (0.28%) SEPA
10 3 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
11 2 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 208 (19.28%) Docker
2 57 (5.28%) Active Directory
3 44 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (1.20%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.83%) vSphere
7 8 (0.74%) BitLocker
7 8 (0.74%) Microsoft App-V
7 8 (0.74%) Postfix
7 8 (0.74%) Terminal Services
7 8 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.56%) DFS Replication
9 5 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.37%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 4 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.19%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.19%) Ceph
11 2 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.093%) KVM
12 1 (0.093%) LXC
Systems Management
1 251 (23.26%) Kubernetes
2 247 (22.89%) Terraform
3 164 (15.20%) Ansible
4 64 (5.93%) Grafana
5 53 (4.91%) Prometheus
6 44 (4.08%) Puppet
7 28 (2.59%) Progress Chef
8 17 (1.58%) Kibana
9 13 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
10 12 (1.11%) Docker Swarm
10 12 (1.11%) Nagios
10 12 (1.11%) Podman
11 11 (1.02%) vCenter Server
12 10 (0.93%) WSUS
13 8 (0.74%) Istio
13 8 (0.74%) vMotion
14 7 (0.65%) MIIS
14 7 (0.65%) SCCM
14 7 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
15 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 182 (16.87%) Microsoft
2 77 (7.14%) Oracle
3 68 (6.30%) VMware
4 43 (3.99%) Splunk
5 39 (3.61%) Red Hat
6 36 (3.34%) Databricks
6 36 (3.34%) Google
7 34 (3.15%) SAP
8 29 (2.69%) ServiceNow
9 24 (2.22%) IBM
10 22 (2.04%) AppDynamics
11 20 (1.85%) MuleSoft
12 18 (1.67%) Salesforce
13 17 (1.58%) Cisco
14 16 (1.48%) Atlassian
15 15 (1.39%) HP
16 12 (1.11%) Dynatrace
17 11 (1.02%) Citrix
17 11 (1.02%) Symantec
18 9 (0.83%) Fortinet