DevOps Contracts

DevOps
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 14 13
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 -6
Contract jobs citing DevOps 3,313 4,160 6,299
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 10.40% 9.61% 11.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.47% 11.26% 12.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,372 2,835 4,581
10th Percentile £363 £400 £415
25th Percentile £425 £458 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -1.71%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £680
90th Percentile £738 £735 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 123 105
10th Percentile £33.58 £56.30 £53.00
25th Percentile £51.25 £61.43 £60.91
Median hourly rate £66.25 £70.00 £65.61
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% +6.70% +0.93%
75th Percentile £87.50 £74.44 £76.00
90th Percentile £89.88 £85.65 £83.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 £70.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year +8.57% +6.87% +0.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 28,883 36,949 50,825
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.68% 85.32% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,181 23,576 35,000
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,432 2,509 1,726
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £12.28
25th Percentile £17.42 £16.12 £16.85
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £38.18
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -1.77% +46.83%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.59
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +66.67%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps.

Daily rate trend for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 6 July 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
England -1 2,672 £525 -4.55% 8,964
London -3 1,554 £550 -1.79% 4,465
UK excluding London -2 1,247 £500 -4.76% 5,084
Work from Home 0 1,204 £523 -4.86% 4,670
North of England -1 374 £492 -1.91% 1,450
South East 0 295 £500 -13.04% 1,203
Scotland +3 200 £475 +2.70% 328
Midlands +8 196 £500 -4.76% 707
North West -1 190 £475 -9.52% 868
Yorkshire 0 170 £500 +5.26% 468
West Midlands +9 139 £512 -2.48% 424
South West -13 109 £550 - 611
East Midlands +11 57 £450 - 281
East of England -6 48 £500 -6.37% 526
Wales +11 30 £305 -37.34% 179
North East -8 17 £523 -0.48% 115
Northern Ireland -17 9 £425 -26.09% 126

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 169 (5.10%) Confluence
2 105 (3.17%) Apache
3 87 (2.63%) Apache Spark
4 65 (1.96%) SharePoint
5 49 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
6 30 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
7 29 (0.88%) JBoss
8 25 (0.75%) CMS
9 19 (0.57%) nginx
10 17 (0.51%) WebSphere
11 16 (0.48%) IIS
12 15 (0.45%) Camunda
12 15 (0.45%) Tomcat
12 15 (0.45%) WebLogic
13 14 (0.42%) CICS
13 14 (0.42%) WordPress
14 13 (0.39%) Oracle Coherence
15 12 (0.36%) Anypoint
16 11 (0.33%) OpenStack
17 10 (0.30%) GemFire
Applications
1 33 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (0.75%) MS Visio
3 23 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
4 19 (0.57%) Trello
5 10 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.060%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 2 (0.060%) Notion
8 1 (0.030%) InVision
8 1 (0.030%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 38 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.63%) Oracle BPM
3 19 (0.57%) Endur
4 14 (0.42%) FLEXCUBE
5 10 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
6 9 (0.27%) Maximo
7 7 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
7 7 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
8 6 (0.18%) Aladdin
8 6 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.15%) NetSuite
10 4 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
10 4 (0.12%) SAP PM
10 4 (0.12%) Shopify
11 3 (0.091%) Fidessa
11 3 (0.091%) SAP FSCM
11 3 (0.091%) Temenos T24
11 3 (0.091%) VisionPLUS
11 3 (0.091%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,586 (47.87%) Azure
2 1,239 (37.40%) AWS
3 902 (27.23%) Azure DevOps
4 365 (11.02%) GCP
5 360 (10.87%) GitHub
6 353 (10.65%) Serverless
7 211 (6.37%) Power Platform
8 203 (6.13%) Amazon S3
9 200 (6.04%) AWS Lambda
10 177 (5.34%) GitHub Actions
11 161 (4.86%) AWS CloudFormation
12 142 (4.29%) Amazon EC2
13 131 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 121 (3.65%) SaaS
15 120 (3.62%) OpenShift
16 119 (3.59%) Amazon EKS
16 119 (3.59%) PaaS
17 115 (3.47%) Azure AKS
18 111 (3.35%) IaaS
19 103 (3.11%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 167 (5.04%) Firewall
2 129 (3.89%) DNS
3 62 (1.87%) TCP/IP
4 59 (1.78%) VPN
5 58 (1.75%) HTTP
6 51 (1.54%) DHCP
7 42 (1.27%) Network Security
8 39 (1.18%) SSL
9 32 (0.97%) SMTP
10 19 (0.57%) WAN
11 18 (0.54%) SAN
12 16 (0.48%) LAN
13 14 (0.42%) FTP
14 13 (0.39%) HTTPS
14 13 (0.39%) Intrusion Detection
15 12 (0.36%) Kerberos
15 12 (0.36%) SSH
16 10 (0.30%) BGP
17 9 (0.27%) Internet
17 9 (0.27%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 212 (6.40%) PostgreSQL
2 187 (5.64%) SQL Server
3 151 (4.56%) NoSQL
3 151 (4.56%) Relational Database
4 129 (3.89%) MongoDB
5 127 (3.83%) Amazon RDS
6 125 (3.77%) Power BI
7 78 (2.35%) Big Data
8 76 (2.29%) Azure SQL Database
8 76 (2.29%) MySQL
9 74 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
10 67 (2.02%) Data Lake
11 63 (1.90%) DynamoDB
12 54 (1.63%) Oracle Database
13 52 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
14 46 (1.39%) Redis
15 45 (1.36%) Amazon Athena
16 42 (1.27%) Amazon Aurora
16 42 (1.27%) RDBMS
17 31 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 586 (17.69%) Jenkins
2 468 (14.13%) Git
3 402 (12.13%) JIRA
4 335 (10.11%) GitLab
5 106 (3.20%) Selenium
6 104 (3.14%) JUnit
7 96 (2.90%) Bitbucket
8 93 (2.81%) SonarQube
9 74 (2.23%) Postman
10 72 (2.17%) Maven
11 67 (2.02%) Mockito
12 64 (1.93%) Gradle
13 61 (1.84%) Cypress.io
14 59 (1.78%) Sonatype Nexus
15 58 (1.75%) TeamCity
16 50 (1.51%) Cucumber
17 47 (1.42%) Liquibase
18 46 (1.39%) JMeter
19 37 (1.12%) Visual Studio
20 36 (1.09%) Artifactory
General
1 927 (27.98%) Social Skills
2 686 (20.71%) Finance
3 401 (12.10%) Analytical Skills
4 377 (11.38%) Public Sector
5 285 (8.60%) Banking
6 109 (3.29%) Investment Banking
7 79 (2.38%) Telecoms
8 72 (2.17%) Retail
9 67 (2.02%) Marketing
10 64 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
11 57 (1.72%) Front Office
12 51 (1.54%) Manufacturing
13 47 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
14 41 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 37 (1.12%) Military
16 36 (1.09%) Electronics
17 35 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
18 34 (1.03%) Law
19 32 (0.97%) Back Office
20 27 (0.81%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 730 (22.03%) Developer
2 652 (19.68%) DevOps Engineer
3 378 (11.41%) Senior
4 352 (10.62%) Architect
5 283 (8.54%) Lead
6 206 (6.22%) AWS Engineer
7 181 (5.46%) Azure Engineer
8 166 (5.01%) Analyst
9 162 (4.89%) AWS DevOps
10 151 (4.56%) Java Developer
11 141 (4.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 123 (3.71%) Data Engineer
13 120 (3.62%) Cloud Engineer
14 119 (3.59%) Senior Developer
15 99 (2.99%) Software Engineer
16 97 (2.93%) Solutions Architect
17 93 (2.81%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 93 (2.81%) Consultant
18 86 (2.60%) .NET Developer
19 82 (2.48%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 346 (10.44%) .NET
2 262 (7.91%) Kafka
3 250 (7.55%) React
4 232 (7.00%) REST
5 187 (5.64%) RESTful
6 174 (5.25%) Spring Boot
7 170 (5.13%) Spring
8 140 (4.23%) Node.js
9 131 (3.95%) HTML
10 122 (3.68%) AngularJS
11 115 (3.47%) CSS
12 111 (3.35%) SOAP
13 108 (3.26%) OAuth
14 105 (3.17%) JSON
15 101 (3.05%) Elastic Stack
16 98 (2.96%) Web Services
17 97 (2.93%) .NET Core
18 86 (2.60%) ARM Templates
19 76 (2.29%) Swagger
20 73 (2.20%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 256 (7.73%) Cloud Native
2 162 (4.89%) Product Ownership
3 92 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
4 87 (2.63%) Onboarding
5 71 (2.14%) Public Cloud
6 67 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
7 59 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 56 (1.69%) Data Centre
9 52 (1.57%) Management Information System
10 49 (1.48%) Mobile App
11 47 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
12 46 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
13 45 (1.36%) PKI
14 42 (1.27%) Replication
15 41 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
16 40 (1.21%) Virtual Team
17 38 (1.15%) Algorithms
18 34 (1.03%) Data Structures
18 34 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
18 34 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 438 (13.22%) Linux
2 254 (7.67%) Windows
3 96 (2.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 84 (2.54%) Windows Server
5 81 (2.44%) Unix
6 42 (1.27%) Android
7 31 (0.94%) VMS
8 29 (0.88%) Apple iOS
9 26 (0.78%) CentOS
10 19 (0.57%) Solaris
11 18 (0.54%) Ubuntu
12 11 (0.33%) Amazon Linux
12 11 (0.33%) zOS
13 10 (0.30%) Mac OS
14 8 (0.24%) SUSE
15 7 (0.21%) Rocky
16 6 (0.18%) HPUX
17 5 (0.15%) Debian
17 5 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
18 4 (0.12%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,600 (48.29%) CI/CD
2 1,358 (40.99%) Agile
3 672 (20.28%) Problem-Solving
4 667 (20.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 501 (15.12%) Microservices
6 500 (15.09%) Containerisation
7 472 (14.25%) Test Automation
8 369 (11.14%) Scrum
9 358 (10.81%) Migration
10 352 (10.62%) Software Engineering
11 272 (8.21%) Analytics
12 259 (7.82%) Continuous Integration
12 259 (7.82%) TDD
13 258 (7.79%) Mentoring
14 255 (7.70%) Continuous Improvement
15 252 (7.61%) Stakeholder Management
16 231 (6.97%) SDLC
17 226 (6.82%) Configuration Management
18 221 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence
19 209 (6.31%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 989 (29.85%) Python
2 651 (19.65%) SQL
3 642 (19.38%) Java
4 398 (12.01%) C#
5 357 (10.78%) JavaScript
6 332 (10.02%) PowerShell
7 292 (8.81%) Bash
8 223 (6.73%) TypeScript
9 119 (3.59%) Go
10 102 (3.08%) Bicep
11 72 (2.17%) Shell Script
12 60 (1.81%) Perl
13 54 (1.63%) Scala
14 48 (1.45%) C++
15 46 (1.39%) PL/SQL
16 39 (1.18%) PHP
17 35 (1.06%) Groovy
18 33 (1.00%) Ruby
19 30 (0.91%) Kotlin
20 19 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 697 (21.04%) Security Cleared
2 555 (16.75%) SC Cleared
3 276 (8.33%) Degree
4 118 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 117 (3.53%) AWS Certification
6 116 (3.50%) DV Cleared
7 108 (3.26%) Azure Certification
8 41 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
9 40 (1.21%) Master's Degree
10 38 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 38 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
11 31 (0.94%) CISSP
12 28 (0.85%) ISTQB
12 28 (0.85%) Numerate Degree
13 26 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
14 21 (0.63%) PMI Certification
14 21 (0.63%) PMP
15 17 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
15 17 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
16 16 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 248 (7.49%) QA
2 101 (3.05%) GDPR
3 82 (2.48%) Accessibility
4 69 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 68 (2.05%) Data Quality
6 57 (1.72%) NIST
7 30 (0.91%) PCI DSS
8 23 (0.69%) SOC 2
9 21 (0.63%) HIPAA
9 21 (0.63%) SLA
10 15 (0.45%) PMO
10 15 (0.45%) WCAG
11 13 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.27%) MiFID
12 9 (0.27%) NCSC
13 8 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
13 8 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 6 (0.18%) EMIR
15 5 (0.15%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 661 (19.95%) Docker
2 164 (4.95%) Active Directory
3 67 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 53 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (0.57%) vSphere
6 18 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.42%) Hyper-V
8 13 (0.39%) DFS Replication
9 11 (0.33%) Postfix
10 9 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 9 (0.27%) BitLocker
10 9 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
10 9 (0.27%) Terminal Services
11 8 (0.24%) GridGain
11 8 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
12 7 (0.21%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 5 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
13 5 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.12%) Firmware
15 3 (0.091%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 958 (28.92%) Terraform
2 908 (27.41%) Kubernetes
3 448 (13.52%) Ansible
4 189 (5.70%) Grafana
5 181 (5.46%) Prometheus
6 107 (3.23%) Puppet
7 78 (2.35%) Progress Chef
8 56 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
9 44 (1.33%) Kibana
10 41 (1.24%) Argo
11 29 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
12 28 (0.85%) Istio
13 26 (0.78%) Packer
14 21 (0.63%) Podman
15 19 (0.57%) HP ALM
16 18 (0.54%) Nagios
17 16 (0.48%) ITRS Geneos
18 14 (0.42%) vCenter Server
19 13 (0.39%) Docker Swarm
19 13 (0.39%) logstash
Vendors
1 534 (16.12%) Microsoft
2 247 (7.46%) Oracle
3 138 (4.17%) Databricks
4 136 (4.11%) Google
5 129 (3.89%) Splunk
6 115 (3.47%) SAP
7 102 (3.08%) ServiceNow
7 102 (3.08%) VMware
8 88 (2.66%) Red Hat
9 74 (2.23%) Salesforce
10 49 (1.48%) IBM
11 45 (1.36%) MuleSoft
12 40 (1.21%) Cisco
13 38 (1.15%) Dynatrace
14 36 (1.09%) HP
15 34 (1.03%) Atlassian
16 30 (0.91%) AppDynamics
17 23 (0.69%) Citrix
17 23 (0.69%) Cloudera
18 17 (0.51%) Fortinet