Windows DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends

DevOps Engineer - Windows
UK

The median DevOps Engineer - Windows daily rate in the UK is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 580 - 599
Rank change year-on-year - - +190
Contract jobs requiring a Windows DevOps Engineer 6 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.016% - 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% - 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £555 - -
25th Percentile - - £670
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £740
Median % change year-on-year - - +48.00%
75th Percentile - - £810
90th Percentile £660 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 33,430 31,506 40,926
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.01% 92.78% 93.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,135 19,373 27,542
10th Percentile £291 £300 £285
25th Percentile £404 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £640
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,981 981 1,444
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.53 £15.04
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.05 £19.11
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.79% -26.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.71 £72.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -22.62% -29.16% +83.52%

Windows DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Windows DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Windows DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Windows DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Windows DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Windows DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Windows DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows DevOps Engineer in the UK

Windows DevOps Engineer
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows DevOps Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 21 December 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 - 5 £600 - 1
South East - 3 £600 - 1
UK excluding London - 3 £600 - 1
London - 2 £625 -
Work from Home - 2 £550 -

Windows DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 21 December 2025, Windows DevOps Engineer 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 featuring Windows DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Ansible
3 3 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (50.00%) Project Management
3 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (50.00%) Windows 10
4 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
4 2 (33.33%) Azure
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) CyberArk
4 2 (33.33%) Git
4 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (16.67%) ARM Templates
5 1 (16.67%) AWS
5 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 1 (16.67%) DNS
5 1 (16.67%) Docker
5 1 (16.67%) GitHub
5 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (16.67%) High Availability
5 1 (16.67%) IIS
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (16.67%) Jenkins

Windows DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 1 (16.67%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
1 1 (16.67%) International Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Project Management
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 1 (16.67%) High Availability
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
5 1 (16.67%) Scrum
5 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) vRealize
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) CyberArk
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft