DevOps Contract Job Trends in Middlesex

DevOps
South East > Middlesex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Middlesex requiring DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 7 2
Rank change year-on-year -11 -5 -
Contract jobs citing DevOps 10 2 11
As % of all contract jobs in Middlesex 11.76% 12.50% 61.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.05% 12.50% 64.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 10
10th Percentile - - £595
25th Percentile - £555 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £560 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -10.40% -
75th Percentile - £565 £650
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £593
% change year-on-year +5.00% -15.61% -1.25%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Middlesex

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 Middlesex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 83 16 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Middlesex 97.65% 100.00% 94.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 13
10th Percentile £352 £521 £177
25th Percentile £515 £573 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £743 £625
Median % change year-on-year -23.23% +18.80% +9.65%
75th Percentile £598 £850 £650
90th Percentile £625 - -
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -1.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £26.68
South East median hourly rate £52.43 £22.29 £57.35
% change year-on-year +135.25% -61.14% +9.24%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Middlesex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Middlesex.

DevOps job vacancy trend in Middlesex

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Middlesex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Middlesex citing DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Middlesex citing DevOps

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Middlesex 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
1 10 (100.00%) SaaS
2 8 (80.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 8 (80.00%) Azure
2 8 (80.00%) Azure Monitor
2 8 (80.00%) Datadog
2 8 (80.00%) GitHub
3 2 (20.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
General
1 8 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (80.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Service Owner
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Service Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 10 (100.00%) CMDB
2 8 (80.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) AI
1 10 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 10 (100.00%) ITIL
1 10 (100.00%) ITSM
1 10 (100.00%) Observability
1 10 (100.00%) Service Design
2 8 (80.00%) Agile
2 8 (80.00%) AIOps
2 8 (80.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 8 (80.00%) Collaborative Working
2 8 (80.00%) Decision-Making
2 8 (80.00%) Event Correlation
2 8 (80.00%) Machine Learning
2 8 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (80.00%) Process Improvement
2 8 (80.00%) Roadmaps
2 8 (80.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 8 (80.00%) Technical Architecture
2 8 (80.00%) Use Case
2 8 (80.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (80.00%) QA
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) IAG
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) Ansible
1 8 (80.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) ServiceNow
2 8 (80.00%) Dynatrace
2 8 (80.00%) Nexthink
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle